Breakthrough: techniques on working

BREAKTHROUGH A n d re a G o n z รก l e z P a l o s

Andrea González Palos ETH Zürich FS2015 Breakthrough: Techniques of Working Professor Heinrich Wolff Assistants: Thireshen Govender, César Besada

SITE Victoria & Albert Waterfront Cape Town, South Africa

BERNARD TSCHUMI Manhattan Transcripts Relating spaces to experiences and feelings

S I T E A N A LY S I S Subjective Appreciation of: Main activities Enviornment

ELEGANT MONOTONOUS

SHOPPING

REPETITIVE RELAXING ADVENTUROUS CELEBRATORY

LOUD

LONELY EXCITING

SMELLS CLAUSTROPHOBIC

EXHILERATING

INTENTION COLLAGES Blending of Enviornments: Waterfront+Townships Tourism+Local Community Commercial program+proposed program

VOLUMETRIC COLLAGES Abstractions of desired architectural effects

URBAN INTENTIONS Create a loop around the main area of the Waterfront by placing a new set of programs along the unused pier.

ARCHITECTURAL INTENTIONS Create a light and flexible structure that can hold different activities. It should act like a bridge and provide interaction between programs and with the site.

BRIDGE THE GAP

PROJECT INTENTIONS

The Cape Town Waterfront, as one of the most visited places in South Africa, accommodates different programs, mostly dedicated to leisure. Even with its great diversity in the area it covers, there are some parts of the Waterfront that are not interconnected with each other.

The “Waterfront Bridge� attempts to literally close the gap and generate a continuous circulation around the main commercial area. It not only works as a crossing point, but also provides an open and flexible structure to be occupied depending on the needs of the city. The project aims to add an extra possibility of use to the waterfront, to increase the variety of activities that take place in it and to provide the residents and visitors of Cape Town a new point of view of its landscape and city life.

PROJECT BRIEF

Initially the “Waterfront Bridge� is a structure composed of platforms at different levels that connects the main commercial area of the Water Front with the docks around it. Its main function is to provide a way of crossing from one side to the other, creating a continuous commercial corridor. However, in order to cross, the user must go through a series of ramps, and discover at different levels, several activities that can occur in the platforms. There are open spaces for markets, performances, games or just observation and closed volumes for workshops, conferences, offices, etc. Since the platforms have a half level difference between each other, one can be in one platform and simultaneously observe what is occurring in another. This creates a diversity of environments and makes the experience of the space even richer.

BRIDGE THE GAP The “Waterfront Bridge� attempts to literally close the gap between to areas and generate a continuous circulation around the main commercial area. It not only works as a crossing point, but also provides an open and flexible structure to be occupied depending on the needs of the city.

BEFORE

The project aims to add an extra possibility of use to the waterfront, to increase the variety of activities that take place in it and to provide the residents and visitors of Cape Town a new point of view of its landscape and city life.

AFTER

PROJECT

Project

Platforms and Programatic Volumes

1 Platforms and Programatic Volumes

2 Ramps that creat

Spatial Experiences

Ramps That Create Circulation And Access To Volumes

2 Ramps that create circulation

3 Habitable Bridge

1 Relationship to water at different levels

Habitable Bridge with multiple Experiences 3 Habitable Bridge 2

2 Visual relationshi

3

S PAT I A L E X P E R I E N C E S

Spatial Experiences

2 Ramps that create circulation

Relationship to Water at Different Levels 1 Relationship to water at different levels

3 Habitable Bridge

2 Visual relationships be

3 Habitable Bridge

Visual Relationship Between Spaces 2 Visual relationships between spaces

Open Entrance and Continuous Path Through Project 3 Open entrance and continuous path through the project

3 Open entrance and c

SEMESTER WORK

MAKOKO S I T E A N A LY S I S

CITY OF LIGHT

NICK HESS TA P E M U R A L

P R O J E C T I T E R AT I O N S

Conceptual Conceptual SectionSection 1:10001:1000

Conceptual Conceptual Plan 1:1000 Plan 1:1000

Atmospheres Atmospheres / Enviornments / Enviornments

Concept Conc