City LIVING Room
A Home away from Home. For Belfast. [Model Booklet]
Charlotte Marie Henrich
Table of Contents I. Precedent pp. 3-8 II. Models pp. 9-42 II.I II.II II.III
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Threshold Models Concept Models Sectional Models
Explanatory Notes
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I. Tokamachi
Week: 1-2 Scale: 1:20 Date: 25th January Time depicted: 11am, s
Tokamachi Community Centre: extending the public sidewalk deep into the plan, a flexible threshold hosting various activities such as pop-up markets. Picture depictung the depth of space with morning light filtering through. 3
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I. Tokamachi
Week: 1-2 Scale: 1:20 Date: 25th January Time depicted: 11am, s
The communiy centre consists of a seuqence of spaces all interlinked and interacting with the public street and sidewalk 5
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All spaces face each other and have a view over the extended sidewalk
Sitting in the private seminar room looking over to the gallery walk
Walking on the gallerywalk that separates the street from the centre 6
I. Japanese Street
Week: 3 Scale: 1:50 Date: 1st February Time depicted: 4pm
Situated within a snowy area, Tokamachi uses a langauge of canopies covering all sidewalks to prevent heavy snow from blocking the way for the pedestrians 7
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Ground textures to indicate public, private and guide blind people
A typical shop front: extending public sidewalk inside
Row of Shops, 117, Tokamachi, Japan: carved in streetscape 8
II. Initial Threshold Week: 4 Scale: 1:20 Date: 6th February Time depicted: 4pm
The “first finger”: A long threshold growing out of the Bank-Square-End of 2 Royal Avenue 9
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II. Initial Threshold Week: 4 Scale: 1:20 Date: 6th February Time depicted: 4pm
Old meets new: Initial adaptation of the first floor, turning the portico into an accessible balcony 11
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Incoporation of voids to increase permeability and interaction between spaces and people inhabiting them
The transition between inside and outside
Extending the threshold to the outside, covered by marquises 12
II. Line of Beauty
Week: 5 Scale: 1:20 Date: 15th February Time depicted: n/a
Spatial study of a room for the momemt after the arrival, the study of the line of beauty aided to configure the scale of the curve in relation to the human body
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II. Line of Beauty
Week: 5 Scale: 1:20 Date: 15th February Time depicted: n/a
Figure - Ground study: the sculptural staircase synthesizing with the existing fabric 15
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Added structural columns with integrated tables
The journey upstairs
Staircase spiraling around a deepend “pit” with seating for reading circles 16
II. Threshold Interventions Week: 4 Scale: 1:20 Date: 16th February Time depicted: 1pm
Spatial interventions of “fingers” of thresholds at an urban level 17
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All fingers connecting alleyways or streets with Bank Square turning the square into a theatre rather than back-of-house artefact
The transition through a threshold on Chapel Lane 18
II. Construction
Week: 6 Scale: 1:20 Date: 22nd February Time depicted: n/a
Detailing the structure using a dovetail connecting that brings bespoke CLT elements together like a jigsaw 19
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CLT structures as frame holding the curved plywood
Exposed plywood on the inside
Material study 20
II. Existing
Week: 7 Scale: 1:200 Date: 2nd March Time depicted: 10am
Existing facade of 2 Royal Avenue facing Royal Avenue 21
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The extend of the original Victorian part and the Tesco extension
Study of the roofscape: pitched roofs, dome, tower, pediment
North Elevation 22
II. Interventions
Week: 7 Scale: 1:200 Date: 2nd March Time depicted: n/a
The use of space: manipulation, reuse and adaptation
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II. Interventions
Week: 7 Scale: 1:200 Date: 2nd March Time depicted: n/a
Long section facing North: Structures nesting in the existing concrete frame of the Extension
Long section facing South: The incorporation of the sculptural staircase 25
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The long view: the long threshold enables one permeable route through the building
The nesting structures for possible reading or socialising spaces
The existing dome 26
II. Reading 1
Week: 8 Scale: 1:50 Date: 7th March Time depicted: n/a
Study of reading space interventions: light shafts nesting in the existing fabric 27
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Bespoke seats arranged to encourage various ways of interaction whilst havimg a level of privacy
Incorporation of seating spaces around the structures poking through the first floor
An individual space for the people 28
II. Cloakroom
Week: 9 Scale: 1:50 Date: 15th March Time depicted: n/a
Spatial study of interventions in the Victorian Building
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II. Cloakroom
Week: 9 Scale: 1:50 Date: 15th March Time depicted: n/a
Respecting the existing of the listed building, enabling unobstructed views of the Victorian columns
Cherishing the existing figurines and ornamented columns 31
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Standing within the structure: Provision of seating, mirrors with the reflection of the dome and locker space
Hugging the existing Victorian fabric for harmless disassemble
Section view 32
II. Reading 2
Week: 9 Scale: 1:50 Date: 15th March Time depicted: n/a
Refining the reading space: distinct orientation of the lightshaft now also functioning as a medium to enable a stack effect, increasing natural light and ventilation 33
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The interconnectivity between the reading space and the group space on the first floor
Window seats and integrated seating encourage interaction
The secluded reading seat surrounded by bookshelves lining the space 34
II. Holistic Model
Week: 11 Scale: 1:100 Date: 28th March Time depicted: varies
The process of dissassembling the model: long exposure time 35
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II. Holistic Model
Week: 11 Scale: 1:100 Date: 28th March Time depicted: varies
Lighting conditions: morning (left), midday (middle), afternoon (right)
Aerial view over Bank Square looking onto 2 Royal Avneue and Primark in the background 37
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Main entrance on Royal Avenue
Opened up front to Bank Square extending into square via the existing portico vestibule 38
II. Holistic Model
Week: 11 Scale: 1:100 Date: 28th March Time depicted: varies
First floor in Victorian Building accommodating meeting and seminar rooms, along with break out rooms to book for everyone, implementing a system of enfilade to facilitate circulation and access to the dome
Holistic overview of proposed interventions hosting different activities, creating a long threshold 39
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Overview of interventions in the Extension: group reading, meeting interactive spaces (top), crafting, story telling pit (middle), light vessels for secluded reading spaces (ground floor, bottom) with integrated seating units for open chatting, reading areas (first floor, bottom)
View across the pit to the secluded reading area on the ground floor and group reading space on teh first floor depicting the relationship between these areas
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II. Holistic Model
Week: 11 Scale: 1:100 Date: 28th March Time depicted: varies
View into the buidling from Royal Avnue showing the contrast between the Victorian facade and the new timber insertions
The pit hosting crafting and story-telling activities, gives opportunities for people to work also 41
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Timber insertions crowning the main entrance space accommodating the arrival of people and public wardrobes
View from the victorian Building to the Extension showing the timber lined walls and a glimpse of the crafting pit
Secluded reading spaces accommodated along the side pockets next to the pit with individual light vessels 42
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