FILM ARCHIVE
Doppleganger From the start of the project in groups we were given a task to replicate a library interior room only from a single photograph. By understanding and analysing the photograph, it gives a better knowledge of space. We understood the space in such way by trying to get as much closer to the original
Fragmentation In a group project I was involved in urban study on Salford. By analysing the artifacts,Salford’s history and architecture we have established the thesis of fragmentation that caused Salford to lose its identity.
Artifacts Along on Chapel street there are numerous important permanances which form Salford’s core. According to Unger ‘‘artifacts form the city scape and act as monuments which stay over time , influencing the city’’.
Restored identity
Memory
Salford has history that need to be shown. Currently Salford is lost and such area becomes fragmented. Architecture relies on history,heritage and memory. Understanding the artifacts is understanding Salford. Building a new artifact in Salford means we need to know its past.
Film Archive Understanding the lack of identity and the neglectance of history only the preservation is the salvation of Salford’s historic and central core. Not only by books but after the beginning of the 20th century film footages preserve the history and they are treated same as books as heritage. By archiving we preserve Salford.
Spaces
Heritage
Dark vs Light At the very start I was interested in fragmentation and how by different programmes can be linked. The diagrams below show the process of forming the spaces into one composition. The goal is to achive a new public room in Salford where it will be the main core of my building.
Unit
Fragment
Void
Different test models, experimenting with mass on site
Programme
Jewish Museum-Precedent, fragmented building
City grid convept Since the last concept buildings were chaotic, it needed a land grid to place them in order. As a concept of a city in a building, recreating a city, the best example are the city grids. How they form and what circulation theyhave. Upon that new concept the buildings got rearranged.
New York grid is the simpliest grid and within a block a building exists. Other Grids such as Rome which are older they do not tend to have any logical grid unlike New York’s grid which was planned at that time.
Envelop concept Creating and enclosed environment.
River Irwell After studying different typologies, creating the programme of my building and the massing, I undertook a study on the river Irwell where it s my site. The site if located on the edge of the river, between a parking lot. It is a site which has urban theatres as well as landscape. The tranquility of the site gives harmony and silence which is perfect of a library.
Site Model 1 500 Site model of Salford 1 200 Site model of the river site
Chapel Street In our group work project we had to undertake a photographic pinhole study. The idea of this study is to understand and cover the light, material and texture. A different atmosphere to the urban analysis.
Existing site plan 1:200 The site is on the border of the urban world and the natural landscape. the site is long and narrowed, which contains a slope which goes 5 meters down from the parking lot ( ground level) towrds the river edge.
Proposal roof plan 1:200 In the images down left below it shows how the building fills out the space and settles nicely.
City Room In our group projects we had to analyse three different squares from Manchester and Salford and compare their qualities. Each square has its own values and negativies as well. The idea of the public square is to create a social place for interaction,, a central space.
Square study
Public realm By analysing different typologies, have decided to turn my public space facing the river, providing a new different look. The fragmented parts form an enclosed space which is open to valley. Social spaces have been very common ever since Renaissance.
Proposal Ground Floor 1:100
Occupation Floor plans 1:200
Structural character After forming the shape of the building and I undertook different constructional studies, facade studies and looked at some precedents similar to my building.
Structural model 1;100
Constructional stages
Construction During my facade studies i researched the Quaterhouse building because of its transparency. Since a library should have more daylight and more openings I looked at its curtain walls and more closely its aluminium transparent facade. The panels are prefacricated which are transported to site. They are attached by spesicif connections to the wall. The panels have little openings for light to penetrate inside.
Detail Section 1:50
Detail Section 1:50
Facade During my facade studies i researched the Quaterhouse building because of its transparency. Since a library should have more daylight and more openings I looked at its curtain walls and more closely its aluminium transparent facade. The panels are prefacricated which are transported to site. They are attached by spesicif connections to the wall. The panels have little openings for light to penetrate inside.
Detail 1:20 facade inspired by the Quater house Performance bulding, i have decided create a more light facade. It’s aluminium panels which are perforated give let more light inside space and as well as it provides privacy
Transparent
Light-Openings On both twin building light is crucial. Studying spaces and offices requre as much az many natural daylight during the day and less artificial. For a library building creating roof top opening ( nortern lights) disperse the light around the space and provides better quality. Activities like studying,reading and working on computers require sufficient amount of light
Detail Roof 1:10 Inspired by Nottingham gallery I have designed roof opening which provide more light. Because my spaces in my building are designed accoring to light, top spaces are crucial to be more opened.
Nottingham Gallery interior
Materials
Detail 1:20 One of the main features of the building is the staircase which link floor levels. Those staircase are multifuncioanl and quite flexible.
Facade Assembly An axonometric drawing showing the construction of the prefabricated aluminium panels and how they attached to the construction of the building. Similar to the Quaterhouse building, the panels are attached through special connections drilled to the construction of the building.
Circulation The starcases give movement of the building. Since it is half underground and above, the circulation will be vertical. The middle building is the main transition ( entrance ). the diagram below explain the main circulation in plan
South Section 1:100 The staircases in each of the building are both social and transitional.
Publicness
Atmospheric character The different programmes not only provide different functions and services but also character, emotion and aroma
West Section 1:100 The diagramme on the right show that different spaces in the building are organized based on dark and light inside the building. That determins also the materials and the quality of spaces.
Atmosphere Comparision between the public square and the private study spaces. Materials, quality and occupation.
Cinema theatre Creating a 1;20 interior cinema room.
Archive
One of the darkest spaces in the building which requires less light. The space transfer that atmosphere of a cinema space.
Ground floor
The staircase plays important roles in the building. It acts as a public space and private in the same time.
Reading space Staircase on two speeds, inspired by the Cultural House in Arnthem.
Study space
The top level of the buildings provide studio spaces and learning spaces.
Office space
The river A new public realm in Salford with a diifferent perspective facing the river Irwell.
North Elevation 1:50 Sectional cut through the public square.
North Elevation 1:100
West Elevation 1:100
West Elevation 1:100
ADRIAN DIMOV