Interiorized Facades by Adrian Lo

Thesis by Adrian LO 2011

Thesis by

Adrian LO

2011 May

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supervisor: Anderson Lee Special Thanks to: Nicky Wong Vincci Sum Tank Lo Apple Chan Helen Wong Jamie Yue Calvin Law Crystal Cheung

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Architecture and urban design III This final year course conclude the curriculum by means of a written thesis or a design thesis where a report and a special study are required. Candidates choosing to do a design thesis are required to demonstrate a mature understanding of their chosen topics during an oral examination. The requirements for written thesis are those normally required in a Master's programme; an oral examination is also required. The course is supplemented by sketch designs the purpose of which is the same as those in the previous year.

a thesis on interiorised facades by Adrian, Yee Cheung LO master of architecture

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the univeristy of hong kong, 2011 submitted to the department of architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master in architecture at the univeristy of hong kong June 2011 c 2011 adrian lo. all rights reserved

signature of author: Adrian, Yee Cheung LO master of architecture the univeristy of hong kong, 2011

certified by: mr. anderson lee l.c. associate professors department of architecture the univeristy of hong kong

Interiorized Facades Interiorization of space has dramatically challenged the conceptual understanding of city and architecture. Examining the phenomenon in Galleria in Milano and the Venetian Casino in Macau, the fundamental distinction between interior and exterior has to be redefined. Building faĂ§ade is no longer being read as the external envelope and userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perception on an architecture is no longer from the outside formal expression. This paradigm shift changes the way we read and theorized interior and exterior in the discourse of architecture.

內在化的建築表面內化空間大大挑戰我們對城市與建築空間的理解。以米蘭廣場和澳門威尼斯賭場作例，內部和外部之間最根本的區別必須重新定義。建築表面不再被理解為外圍結構，用戶也不再是從建築外在的形式表述對建築作出感知和理解。這種模式的轉變令我們在建築學上對室外和室內的閱讀和理論化作出了重大的改變。

thesis statement Interiorization of space has dramatically challenged the conceptual understanding of city and architecture. Examining the phenomenon in Galleria in Milano and the Venetian Casino in Macau, the fundamental distinction between interior and exterior has to be redefined. Building façade is no longer being read as the external envelope and user’s perception on an architecture is no longer from the outside formal expression. This paradigm shift changes the way we read and theorized interior and exterior in the discourse of architecture. 內化空間大大挑戰我們對城市與建築空間的理解。以米蘭廣場和澳門威尼斯賭場作例，內部和外部之間最根本的區別必須重新定義。建築表面不再被理解為外圍結構，用戶也不再是從建築外在的形式表述對建築作出感知和理解。這種模式的轉變令我們在建築學上對室外和室內的閱讀和理論化作出了重大的改變。

This thesis adopts an experimental approach to demonstrate the powerful architectural effects of interiorized facade. It epitomized the perception of an interior space highly described by the interior façade, where its exterior envelope has lost relationship with what it is contained. It enacts an anti-paradigm to existing boundary conditions by redefining with the division line between exterior/interior, place/location and object/surface. It triggers rethinking of the notion of built interior spaces, through executing the architectural play of interiorized facades. 本論文以實驗方式去論證內在化建築立面對空間的強大影響。它體現了室內牆面對內部空間的高度描述，而建築形式外觀與內部空間以失去了一定的關係。通過重新定義現有的邊界條:外部/室內，地方/地點，和物體/表面，這論文觸發我們對內在化立面與內部空間的再次思考。

thesis statement

Background: A common urban observation in the City of Hong Kong is the extensive abundant of podium interior shopping experience. Casinos, in both Las Vegas and Macau, demonstrate the continuous deep space that your whole experience will be with in architecture with Venetian-style fake building façade and canal-mimicking water feature is installed to convey the exteriority and planceness. These spaces has set a ground for experimenting how artificially a space can be alter through the architectural design of façade surfaces within this deep built from. Perception shift Rem said junk space cannot be remembered, No, this deep internalized space is exactly what we remembered. People loved this setting of spaces, the public proudly embrace it. The Google image search for the Venetian Casino show over 60% of interior view, people’s perception of architecture has shifted from exterior expression to interior views. In the case of Aquamundo – Center Parcs Moselle, Paris, people enjoys the tropical palm tree and sandy beach with warm fresh water. All these artificially mimicking landscapes are held within the building. Bringing people from France to tropical islands in an instant, the real location is no longer important.

Description of Project: Chinese Dissident Art Center 中國流亡藝術中心 Site: Maison de Verre, Pierre Chareau, 1928-1931 “In the Maison de Verre one is confronted with a work which delis any accepted form of classification.” Kenneth Frampton The Yale Architectural Journal, no. 12, 1969 It has always be questioned whether it is an interior design project, Exterior facade renovation or a piece of furniture? With the unique interiorized spatial quality of the urban fabric, which either side of the facades can be read as exterior or interior. Plus the richness of the site both politically and historically, it formulated a perfect test ground for my thesis to explore the power of interiorized façade to define interior or exterior. Seamlessly, this echoes with the program as an Art Center for Chinese dissident artists, whom identity is always on the border line as an insider or an outsider.

1. The main entrance – questioning the Haussmannian urban boundary, then creating a offset semi-urban space 2. The painting gallery – redefining an exterior space to be a interior, through façade alteration and detailing. 3. The passage corridor – the deceived formal perception of a object 4. The play performance stage – demonstration of dislocation of place 5. The sculpture show room - a juxtaposition of France interior and Chinese exterior space 6. The refreshment café – rethinking whether a façade is a partition

research written materials

reading: The Yale Architectural Journal, no. 12

reading: galleria-vittorio-emanuele-ii

2011/1/14 Source: http://en.tixik.com/galleria-vittorio-emanuele-ii-2364894.htm Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a shopping mall in the center of the Italian city Milan . Originated the proposal of the Italian architect Giuseppe Mengoni. Its construction was completed in 1877 and lasted 12 years. 496,386 floor plan consists of a cross. In one sense the passage entering two small streets in the other direction two squares. All 4 parts are under the umbrella of glazed steel skeleton. In the place where the cross passage is roofed octagonal glass dome, whose top reaches a height of 40 m. 496,386 has 4 floors with more than 1,200 rooms. The ground floor are facilities for luxury shops, showrooms, cafes and restaurants. In the first and second floor are also various shops and clubhouse. On the third floor are steel balconies. In the fourth floor of the flats. 496,386 among the objectives sought tourists in Milan .

reading: bigness

2011/1/14 Source: Bigness, SMLXL, Rem Beyond critical mass, no one architect can design all, parts become autonomy. Elevators mechanical connection, art of architecture no longer useful Façade no longer reflect what happens inside Impact independent of quality No longer part of any urban tissue, it exist, at most it coexist. Fuck context. - ve Entity at the price of identity Programmatic hybridization - montage Disappearance - simulation, virtuality No theory on bigness Dissociation with ideology Least architectural – autonomy Surrender to engineer, technology, politics, etc At most coexist with city No longer need a city

+ ve Enforce coexistence - symbosis Allow new relationship through contamination Artificiality Complexity New programmatic event Most architectural – enormity Realignment with neutrality Can exist anywhere It is itself urban

precedent: Cumbernauld town centre

Cumbernauld town centre is the main shopping centre for the New town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. It is widely accepted as the UK's first shopping mall and was the world's first multi-level covered town centre 350,000 square feet (33,000 m2) of retail space. Solution to the country's chronic housing problem. Britain's most concrete example of a modernist utopian town. Chief Architect Hugh Wilson The original Plan for Cumbernauld envisaged a single multi-purpose town centre surrounded by high-density neighbourhoods. The neighbourhoods would not have their own retail centres (as in other New Towns), but would instead be connected to the main centre by pedestrian footpaths. Residents would be able to walk safely to and from the centre without ever coming across a car: a Britain's most concrete example of a modernist utopian town. catered for those who wanted to drive through the town or to the centre. This revolutionary concept was designed with the safety of pedestrians But Cumbernauld was not anti-car: on the contrary, the huge, wide roads made driving easy, and the town's residential areas were planned with 100% car ownership in mind: garages were everywhere.

precedent: aquamundo, france

2011/1/14 Source: http://www.archdaily.com/92368/aquamundo-center-parcsmoselle-artur-architectes-mandataire/ AQUAMUNDO, water, earth, air and light: the great Aquamundo hall hosts 5,000m² worth of water games and submersed beaches in a dense tropical vegetation. The project’s main challenge consists in inserting, within the landscape, the large superstructures that are necessary to the trees’ growth. Deep Space Three vaults, spanning 35 metres and varying in height from 13 to 16 metres, shape this building Inside-Out THE GREENHOUSE: it is first and foremost the resort’s winter garden. Its concept stems from the site’s history and from the inside-outside space status and tropical feel of the greenhouse. Energy Efficient This resort is a pilot project for the partnership with WWF-France and applies the official THPE (Very High Energy Efficiency) certification standards.

research: hausmannian facade

2011/3/7 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris Hausmann's efforts were not limited to new streets and utilities, but also dictated the facade of buildings. Street blocks are designed as homogeneous architectural wholes. Buildings are not treated as independent structures, but together must create â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on a block, if not the same street or even quarter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a unified urban landscape. The regulations and constraints imposed by the authorities favored a typology that brings the classical evolution of the Parisian building to its term in the faĂ§ade typical of the Haussmann era:

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reading: junk space

research: Liu-Xiaobo

5 years for the principle that the Chinese press should be able to question and criticise the omnipotent Communist Party Beijing Normal University teacher Liu Xiaobo calling for the release of imprisoned journalists and cyber-dissidents and posting articles on the Internet and in Hong Kong and diasporas newspapers. For all this he risks being re-arrested at any moment. On November 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament in Paris. The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". 11 years in jail, and at the moment jailed : inside?? Deprivation of political rights I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement Friday's ceremony was the first time in 74 years the award was not handed over. Liu wasn't able to collect the prestigious $1.4 million payout in Oslo on Friday because he is being held in a Chinese prison. China was infuriated when the 54-year-old literary critic won. China repeated its claim Saturday that the world is meddling in its affairs. The ceremony was censored in China, which has seen a clampdown on dissidents and some news websites blocked in recent days. Liu's apartment, where his wife is believed to be under house arrest. Authorities also tightened a clampdown on dissidents. (持不同政見者) In China, both CNN and BBC TV channels went black at 8 p.m. local time for nearly an hour, exactly when the Oslo ceremony took place. Security outside Liu's Beijing apartment was heavy and several dozen journalists were herded by police to a cordoned-off area. China also pressured foreign diplomats to stay away from the Nobel ceremony. China and 17 other countries declined to attend

reading: non-place The hypothesis advanced here is that supermodernity produces non-places, meaning spaces which are not themselves anthropological places and which, unlike Baudelairean modernity, do not integrate the earlier places: instead these are listed, classified, promoted to the status of ‘places of memory’, and ssigned to a circumscribed and specific position … As anthropological places create the organically social, so non-places create solitary contractuality.” (Marc Augé, Non-Places, p. 94) Reflection: Non-place – airport, supermarket, highway… Supermodernity > Non-place > artificial manipulation > place! (place -Venetian Casino)

Relate to non-place and the notion that these are environments designed to service the individual: “A paradox of non-place: a foreigner lost in a country he does not know (a ‘passing stranger’) can feel at home there only in the anonymity of motorways, service stations, big stores or hotel chains … among the supermarket shelves he falls with relief on sanitary, household or food products validated by multinational brand names.” (Augé, p. 106)

reading: megastructure, banham

2011/1/3 Source: http://parole.aporee.org/work/print.php?words_id=246 Banham, Reyner. Megastructure : urban futures of the recent past 224 p Indicates as megastructure the big containers of the extraurban peripheries: shopping centers, big sports centers, and the office centers large frame in which all the functions of a city many and diverse functions may be beneficially concentrated in one place offers a legitimate way to order massive grouped functions September 1960 issue of Japan Architect Tange presented a proposal for a mass human scale form that includes a megaform and discrete, rapidly changeable functional units which fit within the larger framework. Short-lived items are becoming more and more short-lived, and the cycle of change is shrinking at a corresponding rate. On the other hand, the accumulation of capital has made it possible to build in large-scale operations. The ideal is a kind of master form which can move into ever new states of equilibrium and yet maintain visual consistency and a sense of continuing order in the long run. Multifunctional structures. We have, thus far, taken it for granted that a building is designed to fulfill one specific purpose. Infrastructure as public investment. Substantial public investment can be made in infrastructures (the skeleton of megastructures) in order to guide and stimulate public structures around them. This strategy can be further extended to a new three-dimensional concept of land use where public agencies will maintain the ownership and upkeep for both horizontal and vertical circulation systems.ÂŹÂŹ

reading: mutation, rem

Source: Mutation – p186 - 195, Rem Koolhaas Deformation Control space deforms what used to be considered the urban. Not only have the traditional distinctions between public / private, inside / outside and near / far … … the three binaries have been surreptitiously mutated, topologically reconfigured, systematically coerced, while still (innocently) believing in their former authority. Control / Residue As space is increasingly treat as a resource to e exploited processed and manipulated, and as the forces of measurement become increasingly accelerated, non-geometric, and nonlocale場所based, so must space be discarded, abandoned, expend. In spatial terms, much of the city is generated by default rather than intent, creating a new cartography – a mutant form of figure / ground – comprised of control and residual spaces. The most visible and obvious manifestation of the spatial residuum殘渣is the generation of an unfamiliar urban landscape that, when viewed under more traditional criteria, is dissolute放縱的, attenuated細長的, entropic, amorphous無定形的– interrupted at times by moments of consumer saturation and activity. Gaps In exacerbating使惡化instabilities for its own benefit, in artificially accelerating the cycles of decline and obsolescence and in constantly shifting its focus from one domain to another, control space inevitably produces gaps, contradictions, perhaps even moments of freedom situated not no much outside but alongside and within control.

precedent: tropical islands, germany

2011/1/25 Source: http://tranquilityhq.com/tropical-island-dome-in-germany-thelargest-free-standing-hall-in-the-world/ Tropical Gardens has Germany’s highest water chute and the world’s largest indoor rainforest - in addition to Europe’s largest tropical spa and sauna. Other Attractions include: Rainforest, Tropical Village, Shopping Boulevard, Tropino Club for Kids, Water slide tower, Balloon Ride, Tropical Sea, Bali Lagoon and Indoor miniature golf. Stay Overnight “The Rainforest, the Tropical Sea, the Village, shows, entertainment, good food … chances are you’ll need to rest after an exciting day at Tropical Islands. We offer a wide range of options for staying the night at Europe’s largest tropical holiday world. In the Dome itself, you’ll find two indoor Rainforest Camps with tents of various sizes. Or how about trying out one of our comfortable Tropical Islands Lodges? You’ll find them next to the Angkor Wat Temple, right over the waterfall and in other exotic locations inside the Dome.” Tropical Islands hall dimensions: 360 metres long, 210 metres wide, and 107 metres high. Large enough to fit the Statue of Liberty in standing up, and the Eiffel Tower lying on its side! The Tropical Islands Dome covers an area of 66,000 m², the size of eight football fields. With a roof area of 70,000 m² it is high enough to fit in the whole of Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, with all its skyscrapers! The southern section of the dome sports a special foil roof that allows ultraviolet light to penetrate the interior, making it possible for a person to get a natural tan. The heating system is able to maintain a constant temperature of 25°C and 40 – 60% humidity in the over 5 million m3 of air – perfect conditions for plants from all over the world. There is also under-floor heating in the Lagoon and the Tropical Sea area, so that visitors don’t get cold feet.

precedent: las vegas

2011/1/14 Source: http://www.deconcrete.org/category/ersatz/

“In 1968 Venturi and Scott-Brown did for Las Vegas what Giambattista Nolli did for Rome in 1748: they revealed the essence of a city by mapping it in a new way.” Rustam Mehta and Thomas Moran have made a new reading of the mega-casino in their essay Casino City State for latest issue on Monu Magazine. Analyzing diverse visitors maps of Las Vegas gambling paradises, they suggest that mega-casino’s true ambition is to be rather a city than a big hotel. Providing blurred boundaries, omissions of clear main entrances, organic building perimeter, countless facilities & services, transport facilities, artificially controlled eco-system and weather…mega-casinos function as city-planners offering all kind of dreams that the conventional city does not provide.

reading: miscellaneous

2011/1/18 Source: http://wapedia.mobi/en/Underground_city Underground city he does not know (a ‘passing stranger’) can feel at home there only in the anonymity of motorways, service stations, big stores or hotel chains … among the supermarket shelves he falls with relief on sanitary, household or food products validated by multinational brand names.” (Augé, p. 106)

2011/1/18 Source: http://wapedia.mobi/en/Shopping_mall Shopping malls http://www.disconnecting.org/space/lectures/nonplaces-junkspaces.pdf he does not know (a ‘passing stranger’) can feel at home there only in the anonymity of motorways, service stations, big stores or hotel chains … among the supermarket shelves he falls with relief on sanitary, household or food products validated by multinational brand names.” (Augé, p. 106) 2011/1/18 Source: http://www.translucency.com/frede/pps.html#lagc http://www.disconnecting.org/space/lectures/nonplaces-junkspaces.pdf he does not know (a ‘passing stranger’) can feel at home there only in the anonymity of motorways, service stations, big stores or hotel chains … among the supermarket shelves he falls with relief on sanitary, household or food products validated by multinational brand names.” (Augé, p. 106)

first review march 2011

first review Tabula rasa cities are needed to be created, due to urbanization in fast developing countries. To formulate world-class city that will draw people, total Interiorized Urbanism will be the solution. A city that does not require development, created instantly with no need of context, and it fits the metropolitan ideology. Once you get of the vehicle that takes you to this â&#x20AC;&#x153;black boxâ&#x20AC;? city, you are in a whole new deep and continuous world. (e.g. Town Center Cunbernauld)

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The deep interiorization of space has dramatically challenged the conceptual understanding of city and architecture. Urbanism can exist within interior space; due to its depth and bigness. Because of this, number of architectural phenomenon has to be redefined and new possibilities are being opened up. It induced a paradigm shift in how urbanism should be read and theorized because of the influential role of interiorization of space in architecture.

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maison de verre 2011/2/29 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_Verre http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904574244412496770796.html Book: Pierre Chareau, architect and craftsman 1883-1950 Kenneth Frampton Maison de Verre (House of Glass) -- 1928 to 1932 Pierre Chareau 1. 2. 3.

honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of home dĂŠcor

Owner Dr. Dalsace was a member of the French Communist Party who played a significant role in both anti-fascist and cultural affairs.( http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RWI6vHZcxgC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=Dr.+jean+Dalsace&source=bl&ots=4hO_V-FovD&sig=w5IhF3CCa5s1rx 3bGphCp-jdvRY&hl=zh-TW&ei=e9d8TaO1FcidcY_F2bkG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved= 0CDMQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=Dr.%20jean%20Dalsace&f=false) < Dalsace political writing

Originally they had imagined a free-standing modernist villa in the courtyard of a typical 18th-century Parisian hotel particulier Bricks like these had been used only for factory floors and for subways, and never vertically. industrial spotlights mounted on exterior steel ladders add man-made illumination As in traditional Japanese design, space is dynamic, not static. Panels as well as doors and windows open and close silently to change the use or the sense of the space.

programatic case study three precedent was selected to help formualting my design project: 1. nexus museum, david chipperfield 2. tate modern, london 3. punta della dogana, tadao ando

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final review may 2011

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observation The thesis started with an observation of the interiorized urban street created within the Venetian Complex, via the Venice house facades. This brings up a question whether this space should be read as a exterior space or an interior one.

perception shift From Google Image Search , A paradigm shift in perception of architecture towards interiorized facades, instead of exterior formal expression , has been observed in the Venetian.

site setting To put the hypothesis onto a test ground, I selected a site both urbanistically and architecturally inherited the crucial factors: A interiorized Situation and the architecture with the ambiguity of interior and exterior. this diagram shows that Paris Cite has a comparable interiorized condition like the Venetian Complex, with the Haussmanian Faรงade as a unified urban boundary.

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programme Programmatically, it is a Chinese Dissident Art center, echoing with the ambiguity of interior / exterior of the house, Chinese dissident artists, whom identity is always on the border line as an insider or an outsider.

To put the hypothesis onto a test ground, I selected a site both urbanistically and architecturally inherited the crucial factors: A interiorized Situation and the architecture with the ambiguity of interior and exterior.

Maison de Verre Pierre Chareau, 1928-1931

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Maison de Verre one is confronted with a work which delis any accepted form of classification.â&#x20AC;?

interior design / architecture / furniture? Kenneth Frampton The Yale Architectural Journal, no. 12, 1969

plan 1:00 the red line on the plan on the same page indicated the section cut line. with the five different exhibition area marked in numbers. the plan across the page shows the changes that i made to demonstrate the how in a interiorized situation, facades are no longer building envelope, but rather a deciding element of interiority and exteriority.

Entrance Hall Questioning the Haussmannian urban boundary, then creating a offset semi-urban space

entrance hall offset In the entrance Hall, part of the urban boundary element, Hussmanian faรงade is offset , creating a space neither urban or interior

entrance hall Questioning the Haussmannian urban boundary, then creating a offset semi-urban space. programmatically, it will be a exhibition hall introducing the sino-french relationship to the viewers and set a ground for them to read the art works when they continue their journey throung the museum.

painting gallery Aimed to redefine the exterior glass facade of Maison de Verre in to an internal piece, via equalization of surrounding surfaces.

painting gallery equalization The exterior faรงade of Maison de Verre is redefined as a interior art piece, via equalization of all the wall conditions and juxtaposition

painting gallery Aimed to redefine the exterior glass facade of Maison de Verre in to an internal piece, via equalization of surrounding surfaces.

play theater In interiorized Situation, Architecture formal perception have mainly dominated by the facade, this space is a demonstration of how via facade extension to create a deceived extension of space.

play theater extend The free standing glass Faรงade extension redefines the volumetric size of the house, creating an unofficial space for watching play performance in the inside.

sculpture room Echoing with Pierre Chareauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way of defining exterior, here a piece of interiorized facade is being redefine into an exterior facade via lighting and vision aperture control.

sculpture room light & view In echo to Perri Cheaureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea of vision of nature = a clue of outside, controlled vista glass panel to the courtyard and a natural light washed wall brings an exterior definition to this originally interior wall.

salon cafe The additional mirrored column grid added on the courtyard side of the glass facade, creating same spatial quality as interior of Maison de Verre, questioning whether the facade really has an external face.

salon cafe mirror Duplicating the permanent architectural element of Maison de Verre, the structure grid, forming the same spatial quality of interior on the courtyard side, to question where its back faรงade is a exterior envelope or just a partition

design model left page: perspective of entrance hall offset facade looking from street this page: the interior questionable space showing relationship between the offset facade and the originally facade

design model left page: overall perspective of the painting gallery (02) this page: showing the defocus of the maison de verre exterior facade being interiorized

design model left: overall model perspective of the play performance theather space (03) same page: view of seating area, an official outside viewing place unofficial space where you can watch the play fully

design model left page: overall perspective of the sculpture room (04) redefining the an interior wall into an exterior one this page: focused view the emphesis the architectural operation done: natural light washed wall and vista to nature

design model left page: overall design idea of salon cafe (05) show the undistingusihable â&#x20AC;&#x153;interiorâ&#x20AC;? spaces this page: top column grid

view

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view from inside maison de verre

site models left page: close up of area that i made alternations, focusing the five exhibition spaces this page: the site model shows how i read the site with only facades overall design site model including the surroundings

Precedent / Bibliography:

Le Corbusier, unite de habitation, Berlin Le Corbusier, Radiant City Eden Project, UK Buckminster Fuller, Canada Casinos, LA & Macau ARTUR Architectes, Aquamundo – Center Parcs Moselle, Paris Podium and MTR network, Hong Kong The true man show Beijing Forbidden City “Underground City” in Montreal Origins: the arcade in c19 Europe Metabolism , Japan Shinjuku Subnade (underground shopping mall) Tokyo Urban Ethic Design in the Contemporary City, By Eamonn Canniffe Junk Space, by Rem Koolhaas Bigness, SMLXL, by Rem Koolhaas Mutation, text: shopping, by Rem Koolhaas Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past, by Reyner Banham Infrastructural Urbanism, Stan Allen Airports: HKIA, Dallas, Logan International Airport, Boston Town Center Cumbernauld McMaster Center, Hamilton, Ontario – hospital

Westyard, NY, by Davis Peachtree Center, downtown Atlanta, by John Portman Tropical Islands, Allee 115910 Krausnick (http://www.tropical-islands.de/en/visitors.html) Battery Park City, NY Los Angeles's walled communities (http://www.translucency.com/frede/pps.html#moa ) Counter thesis: Josep Lluís Sert : the architect of urban design, 1953-1969 Crystal palace, UK House N, Oita, Japan, Sou Fujimoto Punta Delle Donganna Museum, Venice, Tadao Ando Tate Modern, London, Herzog de Moron Neues Museum, Berlin, David Chipperfield Kenneth Frampton on Maison de Verre Havard GSD Magazine, Sphere and Networks, Peter Sloterdijk Adolf Loos works Palladio works Bank of China, Hong Kong, I.M.Pei