STUDIO X
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VILLA , AS A LIVING ALIFE PLACE
AUTHOR______STUD_ ALEXANDRA VIRLAN /// TUTORS______ PROF_CHRISTOS PASSAS / TEACHING ASSISTANT_ALEXANDER KALACHEV
1. CLIENT DESCRIPTION
2. SITE
3. CONCEPT THE INTELIGENCE OF THE VILLA THE METHABOLISM OF THE VILLA
4. OUTPUT
CLIENT: NAME ___ YOSRI FOUDA CAREER ___ EDITOR AND PRESENTER// LAST WORD // ONTV ////// FORMER INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AT AL JAZEERA ////// CO AUTHOR FOR MASTERMINDS OF TERROR. CHARACTER ___ ACTS AS A NEUTRAL ACTOR, DELIVERING THE REALITY HE INVESTIGATES. HE IS ALSO A TEACHER AND A POET. LIFE FILOSOPHY ___”EVERYTHING IS RITHM” - “ARABIC CULTURE IS AN ORAL ONE” // “YOU KILL A MESSAGE IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO TRANSMIT IT” ___ “NEVER BELIEVE IN REGRET” ___ “NO MATTER HOW DARK IT IS, ALWAYS EXISTS HOPE” ___ “ALWAYS INNER MOTIVATED, NOT OUTER MOTIVATED, NOT PLEASE THE EXPECTATION S OF EVERYBODY ELSE BECAUSE YOU LIVE ONCE” VILLA VERSUS PROFESSION : DOESN’T LIKE TO OPEN TV AT HOME BUT HE IS GETTING INSPIRATION (”GREAT IDEAS, LINKS, PHOTOS”) IN HIS LIVING ROOM ON HIS IPAD, FROM TWITTER AND FACEBOOK FAN SUGGESTIONS : “ IT SEEMS HAVING 72 000 NEWS CHANELS”
CLIENT PROFESSIONAL LIFE
SUSTAIN AND PARTICIPATE IN THE PROPOSED-
Bachelor - Mass Communication Cairo University
Master Degree AUC
SUSTAIN MEDIA RIGHTS
ON TV
TV Production Diploma
High Sch.
Primary
DEMOCRATIC MEDIA STATION
EDUCATION
Last word
PHD Documentary Glasgow University
CAREER
Kuttab
‘Masterminds of Terror’ BOOK
Al-Jazeera Channel Associated Press
Al Qaeda Interview
B.B.C. Roving Journalist Bosnian War
TOP SECRET
‘A HUMAN BEING’
CLIENT PERSONAL DESCRIPTION
3 WORDS PERSONAL DESCRIPTION
‘TOLERANCE’ ‘BORN IN A VILLAGE’
‘CHARM’
‘LOVES AND BELIEVES IN GOOD IN LIFE’
5 THINGS HE LIKES ABOUT MIDDLE EAST
‘TRADITIONAL FOOD’
‘KINDNESS’
‘RICH HISTORY’
‘IPOCRIZY’
‘OPPRESSION’ 5 THINGS HE DOESN’T LIKE ABOUT MIDDLE EAST
‘FORGETTING THE ESSENCE ’
‘FORGETING THE BEATIFUL VALUE OF WORK’ ‘LYING’
CLIENT PERSONAL ATTITUDE
POETRY
‘72 000 CHANELLES’
SINAI QUIETER, LESS CROWDED PLACES
MUSIC
READING
SINGLE
DRIVING
HOBBY
TRAVEL BY CAR IN LAND
72 000 FOLLOWERS TWITTER 4,110 talking about this
ALEXANDRIA FRIENDS
FACEBOOK & TWITTER
SPORTS FOOTBALL & SKI
62,676 FANS SOCIAL / PERSONAL LIFE
NOT WATCHING TV AT HOME
ATTITUDE
WORK
‘TRUST TILL PROVE THE OPPOSITE’ ‘DISTRUST TILL PROVE THE OPPOSITE’
‘DON’T DO IT IF IT IS NOT NECESSARY’
SITE ZOOM-OUT HE INVESTIGATES DIFFRENT POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. PREVIOUSLY, AT AL JAZEERA HE WAS DOING 4 REPORTAGEAS A YEAR. CURRENTLY IS WORKING TO CREATE A DEMOCRATIC TV STATION.
Turkey
Lebanon
Tunisia Morocco
Iran
Iraq
Afghanistan
Jordan Libya
Western Sahara
Syria
Israel
Algeria
Pakistan Egypt Saudi Arabia
Mauritania
Oman
Yemen Sudan
Djibouti
Somalia
IN A FURTHER DEVELOPMENT , THE PROJECT WILL SPECULATE THE POSSIBILITY TO BE EASLY TRANSFERE AND ADAPT THE VILLA TO A DIFFRENT SITE.
SITE DESCRIPTION EGYPT - CAIRO // IMPORTANT POLITICAL INTEREST PLACE THE CLIENT IS LIVING AND WORKING CURRENTLY IN CAIRO. HE IS INTERESTED TO BRING DEMOCRATY IN EGYPT.
DESERT
CITY
DELTA
ORGANIZED FABRIC ISLANDS
ANCIENT HERITAGE MODERN EUROPEAN
NEW & LUXURY SLUMS
SITE ZOOM-IN EGYPT - CAIRO
EARLY PROJECT INPUTS
1. VILLA TO REACT TO THE EXTERIOR INPUT AND INFLUENCE THE RITHM WHEN THE EXTERIOR IS ‘DARK’ 2. TO PROVIDE SPECIFIC SPACE FOR THE ‘72 000 CHANELS’ 3. TO BE ALIFE ORGANISM - NEURONAL SYSTEM AND METHABOLISM + A SPECIFIC ATMOSPHERE 4. TO TRIGGER THE FIRST REACTION IN WICH YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL AND YOU ARE NOT BEING CONTROLLED 5. TO LOOK FOR ‘THE ESENCE’ OF THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT ACORDING TO CLIENT LIFE STYLE AND CULTURE
THE INTELIGENCE OF THE HOUSE
MOLECULES INTERACTION PATTERNS
MOLECULES
EQUAL RITHM
GRADIENTS OF RITHM
PEOPLE IN TWITTER AR NOT JUST FOLLOWERS, THEY ARE RECEIVERS OF INFORMATION WHICH INFLUENCE THEIR DECISSIONS (’BEHAVIOR’). THE DIFFRENT WAY TO RECEIVE THE INFORMATION IS ALSO CREATING DIFFRENT MEANS OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THEM. INFORMATIONAL STRUCTURE - ‘GENERATES REACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS, CONFIGURED BY MEANS OF INTERACTION OF PEOPLE, OBJECTS, SPACES, BOUNDARIES, NETWORKS, INTERFACES AND CONTENTS’. The motion of molecules in a gas, and bacteria in a liquid, and photons in the Sun, are described by random walks.
MOLECULES INTERACTION PATTERNS
REACTION OF MOLECULES TO ‘IMPULSES’ , DIFFERENT WAYS OF ORGANISATION Correlations, response, and dissipation of energy Phase separation from high temperatures to zero temperature . The model quickly separates into local blobs of up- and down-spins, which grow and merge, creating a larger blob sizes .
INTELIGENCE OF MOLECULS AS MATERIALS Materials that are held are allowed to retain their identity as discrete elements, and can be released at any time. When materials are fixed to one another, they become part of a composite structure, from which they can be freed only through the expenditure of great amounts of energy. The actual materials are, in a sense, irrelevant: it is the manner in which they are joined together that defines the essence of a structure. - material energies as physical boundaries that construct architecture - ‘atmosphere’, ‘effect’ or ‘sensation’ to explore and define conditions of interest affords few physical means or notions as to how to quantify, measure and control them - rearticulate implications as we look to material energies and the spatial typologies they create and provide - strategies we use to divide space simultaneously play a role in how we as inhabitants are brought back together, and points to the implications this has on our spatial and social organisations - effects, atmospheres and sensations rely on the constructed surface to produce them - physiological interaction of the body with transient thermal behaviors
THE METHABOLIC SYSTEM OF THE HOUSE
HOUSE MEDIATION ROLE The human body is but a passive component, an ancillary element whose energy exchanges are wholly determined by the superposed active envelope. These fundamental energy exchanges are residing in the envelope, and as such ‘envelope’ becomes coincident with ‘boundary’ which then becomes implicitly coincident with ‘mediation.’
THERMAL AQUEOUS ATHMOSFERIC LUMINOUS SONIC WORLD OF OBJECTS SPATIO-GRAVITATIONAL
METABOLIC MECHANISM PERCEPTUAL SYSTEMS VISUAL AUDITORY TACTILE OLFACTORY GUSTATORY PROPRIOCEPTIVE
SKELETAL-MUSCULAR SYSTEM
HOUSE MEDIATION ROLE___ VILLA ORGANISATION IN ARABIC WORLD IN TERMS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLICNESS
VILLA PERIMETER PRIVATE AREA WITHIN VILLA SHARED SPACE WITHIN VILLA NARROW PUBLIC AREA
IN A TRADITIONAL CONFIGURATION, THERE ARE DIFFRENT LAYERS OF PUBLICNESS AND PRIVATE SPACES. THE STREETS ARE NARROW CHANNELS TO CREATE SHADOW AND AIR COOLING. THE INTERIOR ACCESS IS FILTERED IN ORDER TO CREATE PRIAVCY. THE INNER COURTYARD, CONSIDERED THE MAIN ACTIVITY HUB OF THE HOUSE, SERVES MANY PURPOSES, MAINLY : CLIMATE ADJUSTEMENT, TRANQUILITY AND PRIVACY. USUALLY THE PLAN IS LIKE A PATCHWORK IN ORDER TO CREATE SUN PROTECTION. WITHIN THE VILLA EXISTS MULTIPLE LAYERS OF PRIVACY AND PUBLICNESS, A GRADIENT OF SHADOWS, AIR FLOW AND TEMPERATURES.
HOUSE MEDIATION ROLE___ VENTILATION, COOLING AND LIGHTING IN A TRADITIONAL EGYPTIAN HOUSE NIGHT
DAY
DESIGN OF A TRADITIONAL HOUSE ACORDING TO CLIMAT CONDITIONS DURING THE DAY AND NIGHT
HOUSE MEDIATION ROLE ___ VERNACULAR PASSIVE COOLING METHODS
Cooling can be achieved by the evaporation of water. The dryer the air, the greater is the cooling potential. A courtyard house with a dry, hot yard and a cool yard with vegetation and a pool represents a good example of such a ventilation concept. A draft which passes through an evaporative cooler before entering the main rooms is created by the two yards.
Moist matting An open weave matting of vegetable fibre (straw) is stretched on a wooden frame and is kept moist. The matting should be as fine as possible, placed in front of windows and in the path of the natural airflow. The natural airflow should not be reduced and can also be supported by a fan. The damp matting humidifies and cools the air as well as filters out the dust.
Wet charcoal and water pools In wind catchers, beds of wet charcoal over which the air passes before entering the room, are sometimes used. The same principle can be applied by channelling breezes over pools or water sprays before they enter buildings. A spray pond is more effective than a still pool of the same size and has the additional advantage that the air is not only cooled, but also cleaned by binding the dust particles.
VERNACULAR METHOD TO COOL AND HUMIDIFY INTERIOR ENVIRONMENT
Air cooling and humidification or simple air conditioning devices are important means of internal cooling. Warm and dry air passing over water is cooled by evaporating the water.
HOUSE MEDIATION ROLE ___ EVAPORATIVE COOLING IN DETAIL INTERIOR COOLING A simple system which entails the use of large, porous earthenware pots filled with water which seeps through the walls of the pot moistening the outside and, as it evaporates, cools the passing air.
HOT DRY AIR
WATER
COOL HUMID AIR
VAPORATION POROUS POT
FOOD COOLING
GLAZED LID
VAPORATION GLAZED INNER POT
WET SAND
VAPORATION
POROUS OUTER POT
This simple systems is similar to persperation, which is a natural evaporative cooling: the body secretes persperation in order to cool itself. ‘POT -IN- POT refrigerator’ is a system to keep food cold using the simple system of vaporation and basic materials.
ENVELOPE MEDIATION AND DETERMINATIONS The proposed villa envelope not only has role of the mediator of surrounding conditions, but it is the determinant of those conditions.
TASK OF ENVELOPE ___to work with tools of architecture invisible and light, producing places like free, open landscapes, a new geography with different kinds of meteorology, regarding the idea of form and use, sensation and phenomenon, physiological and atmosphere. ___architecture becomes a new atmosphere and a second meteorology, no longer the ‘subjective’ closed place of social and political relationships, but instead an ‘objective’ open place where new social and political relationships can be invented.
INSIDE – OUTSIDE Regarding the client and the political condition he is involved with, the architecture of the proposed villa will actively produce its external (environmental) conditions. The architecture implied here trigger his world and gives particular geographical concepts, patterns and sensations.
INSIDE
OUTSIDE
SPACE NEEDS
1 2 3 5
4
6
1 ->
SPACE TO ENJOY THE FOOD
4 ->
2->
PRIVATE ROOM
5 ->
PRIVATE SPACE
3 ->
SPACE TO SHARE WITH FRIENDS
6 ->
SPACE FOR BODY & MIND
SPACE TO SHARE ON TWITTER
THERMAL DIAGRAMS
MAX 24 C 24 C 23 C
B
22 C
E
21 C
D
20 C
A
19 C 18 C
C
17 C 16 C 15 C 14 C MIN 14 C
A ->
LIVING ROOM
B ->
BEDROOM
C ->
TOILET
D ->
KITCHEN
E ->
BATHROOM
THERMAL DIAGRAMS
MAX 24 C 24 C 23 C
B
22 C
E
21 C 20 C
D
19 C
A C
18 C 17 C 16 C 15 C 14 C MIN 14 C
B E D A C
A ->
LIVING ROOM
B ->
BEDROOM
C ->
TOILET
D ->
KITCHEN
E ->
BATHROOM
a place like geography, designing space like climate and atmosphere
-space based on the construction of meteorology // temperature -a plastic, climatically dynamic activation of forces and polarities that generate a landscape of heat
INTERNAL EXCHANGE TEMPERATURE INTERNAL TEMPERATURE
EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE
EXTERIOR OUTPUTS
EXTERNAL TERRITORY
Even though developments in analysing and simulating the interior environment have revealed the remarkable variability and transiency of that environment, we stubbornly cling to the belief that the envelope supersedes all – acting as a barrier to the exterior, container of the interior and determinant of all extant physical phenomena. Essentially, we privilege that which we know, that which we see, that which matches our image of a permanent and static architecture.
The proposed territory suggests a role for architecture as a strategy of tinkering versus one of accommodation with, or refusal of, an external techno-natural environment.
TASK OF VILLA
VILLA IS INFORMATIONAL STRUCTURE WHICH FEEDS ITS NEURONAL SYSTEM WITH RECEIVERS INFORMATION (TWITTER FOLLOWERS) AND ITS METABOLISM WITH NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BASIC ELEMENTS. 1. To ‘GENERATE REACTIVE ENVIRONMENT, CONFIGURED BY MEANS OF INTERACTION OF PEOPLE, SPACES, BOUNDARIES, NETWORKS, INTERFACES AND CONTENTS’. 2. to invent a new sort of plan, to formulate new sorts of typologies within the realms of meteorology and physics, articulating the movements of air, the transformation of water into vapour, the rates of renewal of a mass of air, sound pressures, temperature and respiration, perspiration and metabolism 3. to reinvent the qualities of light, scent and texture, and to choreograph the movement of objects and viewer, either consciously or unconsciously, the proposal attempts to trigger that first reaction in which we are not in control and are not being controlled
4. to reintroduce the invisible, the subconscious, the action-reaction: the sheer biology of things, using processes in a less obvious, visible way.