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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