CC 2012 Final

The Tour D'encore PARK

urban

cathedral parador plaza

schooltower

N

monastery

The VErtical Maze Pia Grung hostel/auberge Olivier Bouvais Dan Dorocic

culturalcenter

PROCESS

frame!

vertical labyrinth

tower !

tube!

Site

labyrinth

cut

October

hostel

November

Bath

december

tower !

October

November

december

November

december

labyrinth !

October tube!

October

November

december

component development

Negotiated item

Upping the scale 1:1000

1:200

1:100

1:50

Structure

Riga Bergen

london

Istanbul, Turkey Completed 2007

stuttgart Vigo

santiago

Meydan shopping square The Ground-Shed

Barcelona

leon

Lecture at the University of Vigo Location: Rua Oporto 1, Vigo, Spain Date of Constuction: 1999-2003

istanbul

Park Diagonal Mar Location: Barcelona, Spain Date of Constuction: 1997- 2000

Silahtara Bigli Powerplant

by Han T端mertekin Location: Istanbul, Turkey Date of Constuction: 2002- 2007

Istanbul, Turkey Completed 2007 The Ground-Shed Meydan shopping square

Running through the Trees

public space

roof

interior

situational plan

Meydan is more than a commercial property. Its transparent structure, and its adaptation to the topography create an artificial landscape where it is a pleasure to be. The center of this ensemble of shops, cafes, restaurants and movie theater complex is like the piazza of a central European town that has grown over centuries.The roof of the complex is extensively covered with vegetation, and some parts can even be walked on, creating a small park. In the middle of the square is a water feature that has a fountain in summer, and can be used as an attractive skating rink in winter.

Meydan is Turkish for a market place or meeting place. Since the “Meydan” opened in Istanbul in late summer, as the first ever “shopping square,” it heralds a new generation of shopping centers. It is the green center and the soul of a newly created district of the city on the Bosporus.The square can also be used for other sporting events like beach volleyball or inline skating, and maybe even for Turkish weddings. The bright terracotta-red of the floor slabs reflects the natural color of the red loam earth in this area.The edges of the square are vertically bordered by a continuous glass skin, behind which the store operators can show their wares towards the square. Daylight floods into the shops through the extensive glass areas, and the shops are visually open to the square. The highest point of the shopping center is the movie theater complex; its perforated brick façade can be seen as a landmark from afar and is also lit up at night.

Lecture at the University of Vigo The project focuses on the configuration of the entrance to the campus of the University of Vigo. The project has transformed the place into unified constructed landscape. One of the access ways to this landscape is by way of the sports area and this includes a wide sweeping reforestation of the terrain as well as an installation of a series of ponds. The visitors go through the complex by way of a woodland, and the students can exercise among the trees. The area also consists of a commercial area and resident halls that conflate with the topography. The blending is partially accomplished by penetrating the open plaza with a metallic mesh canopy held up by columns and roofed in tropical wood. The opaque facades of the different buildings are covered in concrete faced in granite. The many roofs, also concrete, serve as home for the restaurant, accessed by the central staircase of the assembly.

Location: Rua Oporto 1, Vigo, Spain Date of Constuction: 1999-2003

Text accessed from developer, Metro Group Asset Management

To transform the site into a constructed landscape.

section

The geological materiality of the site in Vigo peers through the structural members. The new complex is ‘submerged’ into the rocky landscape. In this way the architecture frames the topography and lithography. In plan, one can see the building and the curvilinear roof closely follow the contour lines of the rolling hill it is situated on. This happens in the interiors of the building as well, as in the large underground stair.

Lecture at the University of Vigo

Meydan shopping square

Program

- Conclusion - Overview- elucidation- preparation for departure -

The gate as transition We propose to create a physical transition between the urban and the green landscape and a conceptual transition between the camino world and the real world. The traditional cityvgate is an inspiration for the project. In the existing site there is a number of layers progressing from the urban public space (the street, the park), the private(the house), into the semiprivate(the backyard) and finally into the semipublic(the square).

We want to use our intervention to introduce the user to Santiago, to both make her reflect on the journey, to slowly wind her through her experiences from the walk there and to open up a possibility for her to stay longer in Santiago de Compostela or to experience the landscape from a new perspective.

Introducing her to the cityscape will increase the qualities of the experience in Santiago and the number of nights spent in the adjacent hostels.

This creates a new ”citywall” that cuts off the outer periphery where the camino runs from the countryside to the city. As there already exists an opening into the city adjacent to our site, we hope to create more of a doorway, an alternative ”labyrinthine” connection with the urban fabric.

Overview/ eLucidation

The labyrinth as camino The maze which sits immediately in front of our site is a symbol of not just the fabric of the city of Santiago, but also a microcosm of the topography and circulation in the immediate context of our site. The labyrinth is an ancient symbol that is connected with the pagan Galician mythology as well as with Christian symbolism as well as the camino as the universal labyrinthine spiral. The camino is a place to be lost and found spiritually, although you always see the signs of the route, just as in a labyrinth you see the walls, without knowing exactly where you are. In this way, the labyrinth is used both in social group rituals and in individual meditation. We want our intervention to play along the rules of the labyrinth, not to get lost but to extend the experience of moving between its functions.

Our intent is to do this vertically in the form of staircases.

camino labyrinth

“Some books (guidebooks in particular) suggest that mazes on cathedral floors originated in the medieval period as alternatives to pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the earliest attested use of the phrase "chemin de Jerusalem" (path to Jerusalem) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.[30] The accompanying ritual, depicted in Romantic illustrations as involving pilgrims following the maze on their knees while praying, may have been practiced at Chartres during the 17th century. [30] ”

city labyrinth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth

the approach from the camino labyrinth

the site

Garden labyrinth

walled labyrinth

going up

the site

city labyrinth

labyrinth of walls Garden labyrinth

the views

cathedral parador plaza

schooltower

N

monastery

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

hostel/Auberge

behind the monastery : the eisenman cultural center

the Cathedral

monastery + alberge park

SITE

monastery + alberge park Scale 1.500

The Cathedral:

final stop of the camino

SITE

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Scale 1.1000

the school

Tour D'Encore

Labyrinth motif

The concept for the vertical maze is not the design of a building but of an intervention that is in itself an event.

The views on offer become stops, the void space becomes event.

Views

Exposed WALK

cathedral Orientation

Orientation cathedral

schooltower cathedral School

schooltower

cathedral

N

N

paradpr plaza

paradpr plaza

monastery

monastery

hostel/auberge

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

culturalcenter

Facade

cathedral

N

schooltower

cathedral

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

W

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

S

11/15/12

Monastery Darkbox

walkway

Orientation cathedral

Orientation schooltower

cathedral

N

paradpr plaza

schooltower

monastery

monastery

N

paradpr plaza

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

monastery

park hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

One version of the path through a "Cretan" type of labyrinth

N

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1/1

S

W

E

E

growing

starting small

to

not block the view

growing up why grow?

what happened to the bath and the hostel?

reroute camino activate park and neighbourhood

to show the view attract + SHOW

magnet

first tower / traditional iteration

TOp plan view

elevation n

elevation s

how to you finish the top?

Section

Perspective from the park traditional iteration

the tower dominates the park the locals aren't happy

what if .... ?

Couldn't it be less overbearing?

Couldn't it be less of an eyesore?

Couldn't it be more sculptural?

Couldn't it be more of a vertical labyrinth?

STRUCTURE + SKIN Circulation 'maze'

PLAn Circulational Narrative

Circulational Narrative

experience

CITY

PATH ‘CLOSES’

VIEW ONTO CITY CENTER (NW) WALKING ON THE ROOF

VIEW OF THE CATHEDRAL

The program is nested in the walls of the building which are perforated with a labyrinthine motif, openings to let in light to invite inside, to create qualities in to the inside of the circulation.

The building is the camino frozen in time and suspended in space.

VIEW ONTO PARK (SE)

PARK OPENS !!!

REFLECTION ROOM

ROUTE 1

Route 2

E1

route1 Route 2 ROUTE 1

PLAn

PLAn experience

PLAn

Sun Study

articulation in the context TOUR D’ENCORE

Sunrise

The tower becomes the camino as embodied experience. The TOWER/TOUR becomes a vertical camino experience of reflection on the walk passed. It is both memory and present. Both reflection of the past and the reflection of the present surroundings.

Morning This experience/ event does not offer fullCLOSURE but attests to its impossibility.

ENCORE - insistent enjoyment that is never fully satisfied- always AGAIN.

Noon

The Tour Encore subverts the traditional view of the tower as monumnetal/ monolithic/ totalizing edifice. The labyrinthine kink and disorienting circulation rather make it a manifestation of a walk in the sky.

Evening

The Encore Tour as tower, and tour as a second tour.

Sunset

conclusion

Why is the tower the dominating structure in the site?

frame !!

transparent iteration

transparent iteration

the Boxes

vertical strata

close tor open transparent iteration

sky strata

cathedral strata

See the cathedral

tower strata see the cultural center

see the camino

Roof strata

see the school tower

walking on the roof

frame Boxes Neighbouring Wall connection to the plaza

main entry

Interior mazes

street strata

park strata Plaza

cathedral

Monastery Darkbox Orientation cathedral

Orientation cathedral

schooltower

cathedral

N

N

paradpr plaza

schooltower

monastery

monastery

paradpr plaza

monastery

hostel/auberge

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

culturalcenter

throwing away the frame

keeping the viewpoints

cathedral

Orientation cathedral

schooltower

cathedral

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

Exposed WALK Orientation schooltower cathedral School

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

Monastery Darkbox Orientation cathedral

schooltower

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

monastery

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

walkway Orientation cathedral

schooltower

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

park hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

Searching for the right stacking Principle s Option 1

Option 1 Rules: Structural Circulation TOuch facade on black areas 3 kinds of circulation

a

Option 2

Option 2 Rules: Structural Circulation TOuch facade on some levels Aletrnate stops 3 kinds of circulation

double height

Option 4

b

single height

antimonumental tower

Option 3

Option 3 Rules: Structural Circulation TOuch facadeat points (in black) Aletrnate stops 2 kinds of circulation

Finally the Tour Encore subverts the traditional view of the tower as monumnetal/ monolithic/ totalizing edifice. Rather, the labyrinthine kink and disorienting circulation make it a manifestation of a walk in the sky.

modules

easy stair

a

end panel

D

hard stair

b

facade expression

c

easy transportation

traverse

prefab possibility

material

3 modules easily fit on a truck cladding possibilities: copper plates cement cladding panels perforated steel nickel panels

construction process

construction

interior frame

skin plates

steel frame

Openings /perforations

modules

modularity = flexibility

inside the circulation

load distribution

under the circulation

inside the sculpture sculpture in the park

View up from the center of the structure

The entrance onto the vertical maze is from the park and into a network of steel tubes, which make up the DNA- the structure of the intervention. A steel lattice system with perforated metal plates is filled with stairs and ramps to articulate the circulation. The space is a squiggle in the landcape that creates a bridge from the park to the city. From the camino to the finale. It engage the user to transform her walk from the horizontal to the vertical. One does not just pass through, but rather one comes in one end, re-experiences the camino and comes out on the other side transformed.

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tour d'encore iterationv

perspective

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The intervention becomes the camino frozen in time and suspended in space.

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