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Reprogrammed / Unprogrammed Damian Sobol Turina | Industrial Past&Future Masterstudio | TU/Eindhoven
Architecture should harbour life, in all its
floor in order to provide better lightning
varieties and extremes. It is expression of
conditions. Vertical communications are
freedom and ability to shape life around
wide as well as permeable, and, instead
your needs as well as ambitions. It is a
of being just a mere connector in the
tool from people to people for providing
section, they serve as a tool for creation
better life (conditions).
of new grounds. By superimposing the
V&D department store is located in the
structure, shaft and stairs, numerous
dense urban tissue of central Tilburg.
different but not predetermined ambients
Orthodox modernist piece is currently
are created which can fit all kinds of
undergoing demolition because of the
program. A non-definable space suitable
unfitness for the new use. For the most
for change, porous both in plan and
of the past century we have been praising
section. In a basement and ground
functional architecture overlooking one
level, programme which can use little
important thing: functional architecture
light and lot of publicity is placed. This
can exist as long as there is a clear and
includes gallery, shops, café and venue
distinctive function. And what is that
hall. On those levels, while exploiting
today? This is proposal for alternative
economic
type of future which preserves the
acts as a passage linking main square
building as architectural and socio-
– Pieter Vreedesplein and Heuvelstraat,
economical asset, but also retrofits it for
Tilburg’s mains shopping street. Upper
ever-changing purposes of today (and
floors hosts more quiet and private
tomorrow). For a successful renewal, one
activities as offices, restaurant, park,
must realize a need for programmatic
hostel, dwellings etc. Each use finds the
revival,
not
architectural
advantages,
building
also
makeover.
most suitable surrounding by organizing
Mixture of uses, conditions, elements,
according to light, structure and vertical
relations… is the key for liveable and
communications.
reusable buildings, which forms our
Architectural interventions are clear and
cities. Proposal strives for a certain dose
contemporary: light, flexible and efficient.
of, what Charles Jencks called - adhocism,
Clear dialogue between old and new is
in order to shape environment towards
present. Channel glass is used for the
desired needs of the current user.
façade and shaft openings, emphasizing
Hosting
different
different
spatial
programs
requires
the existing brick finish and providing
New
dispersed non-glare lightning conditions.
programs like nightclubs, art gallery
On the inside, flexible containers are
and studios, lecture halls, shops, offices,
made from movable curtain walls and
restaurants,
dwellings
contrasting
ambients
conditions.
etc.
requires
channelled glass. Cuts in the original
and
different
building are visible and emphasized,
degrees of accessibility, privacy, light
providing legibility for the proposal.
and usability. In a generic and enclosed
Given the building’s generic structure
existing structure, a proposal introduces
and boxy interior, building is defined by
two organizing elements: light shafts and
a façade, which is her most valuable part.
vertical communications. Light shafts
Proposal aims to emphasize and preserve
are penetrating the building throughout
the existing façade, while recycling the
the section in 5 essential (dark) spots,
building as a whole for the new use.
creating
light.
Given its location, V&D building aims
Instead of being consistent in form,
for the future as a Tilburg’s central hub:
they are growing and shrinking on each
urban,fluid, flexible, exemplary, efficient…
secondary
source
of
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Additions and incisions
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Original structure Additions
Basement floor 1:400 HOUSING
HOSTEL SHOPS
SHOPS
PARK
GARDEN
CAFFE
OFFICES
SHOPS SHOPPING
PARK
OFFICES
OFFICES
SHOPS
SHOPS
AUDITORIUM
PASSAGE
ART GALLERY
NIGHTCLUB
HOUSING
CAFFE
OFFICES
CINEMA
RESTAURANT
SHOPS
CAFFE
STUDIOS
Program / Requirements scheme - a clear vision of programmatic revival, not architectural makeover.
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AA
Ground floor 1:400 Light
Economy Housing
Hostel
Housing
Hostel Restaurant / Caffe
Night
Day
Shopping passage
Restaurant / Caffe Shopping passage Shops
Cinema / Venue hall
Cinema / Venue hall
Art center
n Floor
Ground floor
Shops
Gallery Art center
Night club Gallery
Night club
Diversity
Dark
Diverse program requires contrasting ambients.
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Second floor 1:400
Section AA 1:400
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Roof park / dwellings plan 1:400
Section BB 1:400
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Living faรงade
Housing units
Roof park Light shafts
Programmable spaces
Exploded axonometric view - programmable spaces + light shafts
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Dwelling units
Channeled glass glazing
Living faรงade / wintergarden
Double floor for instalations
Existing faรงade - brick
Refurbished openings channeled glass
Offices, retail, restaurants
Passage
Vertical communications: not just a connector but a tool for creating new grounds Passage art gallery
Facade 1:50
Facade detail section 1:50
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Ground floor passage
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Existing vs. reprogrammed: breathing life into Pieter Vreedeplein square
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