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The clubMinistry of sound is a global entertainment establishment comprising recorded music at live events around Europe with digital media and most significantly their own nightclub located in central London with an estimate of over 250,000 people attending a year.
Cultural fitThe Annual is a series of compilation albums currently published annually by London-based electronic dance music brand Ministry of Sound. The club had been releasing DJ mix albums since 1993, their third year of business as a nightclub.
The courtyardMinistry of Sound’s courtyard contains a 400 capacity courtyard. It is a unique addition to the venue. The space offers a heated canopy, outside bar and kitchen, interchanging lighting and is the perfect canvas for innovative branding opportunities. Perfect for a summer party or hired simply as an extra space to accommodate and welcome guests.
DayVSNightMinistry of Sound, entails not only the nightclub but the venue shelters many day events,with a wide range of audiences and as well the headquarters of the company. The atmosphere changes completely from day to night with the different uses of the site.
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Ministry of Sound is located in103 Gaunt St, London, SE1 6DP. within a triangular form, created by the sorrounding main roads that connect to neighbouring areas. The venue has a very convinient location according to transport as it can be observed in the map
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distopian future aesthetics
Escaravox_AndrĂŠs Jaque_resignifying structures
SUPERFLEX!_interactive installation
ARCHITECTURE _ PERFORMANCE lebbeus woods _tommy lee
The main objective of the design is to create an interactive installation by means of low tech structural solutions, which will improve the experience of the clubbers and give a response to the immediate needs of the site. Tommy Lee’s precedences motivates a reflection about the relation between architecture and performance as his performance are taken to a complete different level by means of the usage of this kind of roaller coaster structures. The reflection , within a context which can easily shelter the performative dimension as Ministry of Sound is, focuses on the capability of the performative elements to create architecture and have an influence on the space display and the behaviour of the users.
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The chosen aesthetics to represent the project have the scanning visualisation systems as reference using a twocoloured palette with red and blue. The intention highlighting the distopian references, the atmosphere and depths in which the project is envisaged.
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Canopies The proposed sheltering system focuses on the standing area and both its two possible displays and the provisioning container and its queuers.
Food and drinks Next to the standing space, the area devoted to the provisioning container allows the separation into two queues, as stablished in the given scheme.
Seating area Divided into the swings and the table space allowing and promoting the activities and the usual energy of the clubbers. Both parts hang from the parasite structure and are able to keep fixed or movable.
Stage As well as being a space organizer element, the stage is the main performative and interactive attraction of the installation. The stage is abke to spin and move allong the structure.
Standing area The intervention proposes a changing standing area able to adapt to the needs of the event and the desired used of the courtyard. The stage is the organizing element.
Queue system Divided into a fast and a slow track,allows the adaptation to the needs of every moment of the night . The space is provided with screens for advertisers and important information for the clubbers.
Requirements and needs Given floorplan specifying the location and display of the elements needed in the intervention: queue system, seating and standing area and container for food and drinks.
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_track level_ the tracks colonise most of the courtyard space in different planes according to its typology
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the new structure embraces the existing building and the different levels deploy from there the new seating space is placed under the covered porch hanging from the new structure
the interactive stage spins and moves allowing the interaction of the users and the configuration of different displays according to the needs of the event
_canopies_ the canopy design serves the different displays of the courtyard as well as guiding the users’ actions in it
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The tracks colonise most of the courtyard space in different planes according to its typology. The planes refere to existing important features of the space with structural, guidance, highlighting or connection purposes. See movement floorplan to check typologies.
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The queue system gives response to the needs of every moment of the night. It is divided into a slow and a fast track that can be used to give preference to a certain type of user. The tickets are scanned at the first control point and the users are distributed along the control area according to the data based . Guidance and separation in between the tracks is carried out by menas of thermal infrared lights.
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