The town of Margate is a seaside town which was once a popular resort. Due to its particular geographic position, Margate successfully attracted visitors from London from the 18th century onwards. However, the seaside town faced an economic decline due to the visitor numbers reducing in favour of foreign holidays. It’s renowned amusement park ‘Dreamland’ was threatened with closure due to the town’s decline. By developing a ‘meanwhile’ project in the Dreamland cinema, this project aims to find a way to support Dreamland’s regeneration.
Project 04: Meantime Xinzhou Jiang(1208957) IAD 2
This project was focused on the ground floor and basement of the two-storey block directly on Marine Terrace, which was built in 1934 as a frontage to the cinema complex. The ground floor has a long, deep block-shape space which was divided into two parts by the columns along the middle line. The facade of site faces the seafront, a beautiful seaside view can be seen from inside of the ground floor. The project is to create a performance space in the site as well as a refreshment space to provide visitors with food and drink.
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1. View from the Site 2. Dreamland from Light Tower 3. Dreamland fromTurner Contemporary Gallery 4. Dreamland from King’s Steps 5. Dreamland from Train Station
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Start: the Site 1:1250 Site Plan
Ground Floor Plan 1:100
Basement Floor Plan 1:100
Section 1:100
Elevation 1:100
Made by Xinzhou Jiang, Sara-OG, Sophia Clunies-Ross, She Wei, Sin Chan, Kehan Dong
Context: Dreamland 1:50 Site Model
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1. Beam with original decorative plasterwork 2. Concrete blockwork 3. Steel Beam 4. Timber cladding 5. Original decorative plasterwork 6. Steel column 7. Bricks encasing the column 8. Mirror 9. Metallic cladding (photo taken by Emma Bush) 10. Concrete floor Slab
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Context: Dreamland Analysis Existing Material
1920: Dreamland Hall
1960: Dreamland Ballroom, which had been built as the building we see.
1970: Bali-Hai Bar ““Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing.”[2] Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.” The optical art was popular in 1960s, the influence of this art can be seen in the pattern of the site’s ceiling.
2008: A fire happened in Scenic Railway, by that time Dreamlands had already run down.
Context Investigation
About Dreamland in Margate and 1960s Optical Art
Left: Mrina Apollonio, Circular Dynamics, 1968 Left top: Unknown Optical artwork.
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Precedents: 1. Laser Lighting Artwork 2. Insense Dragon 3. “Impossible House”
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Content Investigation Spectacle
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Ergonomic 1:20
Content Investigation Dining Events
The Public Interior: In recent decades the amount and proportion of public space within urban buildings has increased. We shop in malls and move along covered walkways. Although interior public space has become an important part of the contemporary city and our urban experience it is rarely designed as such.
Definition of Public Interior: ‘The totality of spaces in which civil society can be seen to operate’
- Department of Architecture Tu Delft Key Characteristics: The public interior provides places of sociability, entertainment, transport, leisure and commerce, as well as culture in the broadest sense.
Types of Public Interiors: Education -Libraries Refreshments -Bar/Pub -Cafe Performance
Riggs Library located inside Georgetown University’s Healy Hall
-Theatre Transport -Airport Terminal -Train Station Shopping -Mall
The Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona(CCCB) is one of the most visited exhibition and arts centres in the city of Barcelona, Spain.It is also a public consortium for exhibitions, debates, festivals, concerts, film seasons,etc. It offer the public access to part of its holdings, a manifestation of its activities in the form of a multimedia archive comprising materials created by the Centre during its years of activity.
King’s Cross Station, London
Content Investigation Public Interior
Content Investigation Mapping: Public Interior in Margate
Train Station, Library and Gallery Theatre Bars
Content Investigation Programmatic Area Study 1:50
It is important that visitors would see the view from outside
1. Changing Room 2. Stage 3. Staff Room 4, 5 and 6:Control Room 7. Sitting Area 8. Lighting Control 9. Sound Control 10. Kitchen 11. Bar 12, 13: Toilets( Including diasable toilets) 14.Seating Area 15. Reception
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1 and 2: Felice Varini, “Orangerie du chateau de Versailles,” 2006 (Photo by André Morin) 3: Felice Varini, “Encerclement à dix,” Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc/Centre d’Art Contemporain, Thouars, France, 1999 (Photo courtesy varini.org) 3
Concept Investigation
Prespective Illusion: Escaping from Everyday Life
Carlos Arroyo, Academie MWD in Belgium From certain angles this performance centre in Belgium has a colourful stripy facade, but from others it appears camouflaged amongst the surrounding trees (+ slideshow). 1
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1. Sea 2. Light Tower 3. Turner Contemporary Gallery 4. Train Station
Concept
Mediating Facade Study
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Considering the construction of the site, the eastern part of the ground floor is designed to be removed and a wall along the columns will be built to enclose the rest of ground floor space, which is to be the refreshment space. The refreshment space would be installed with several vertical block-shaped lights, hanging with new beams and some seating areas to provide different levels of privacy for visitors. Those lights with the tables in the seating area will form an optical perspective illusion when visitors stand in front of the bar. This illusion device is to provide a different experience of the sea view and bring a sense of “escape from everyday life”. In the performance space, there are two stages, one is a vertical stage and the other is a horizontal stage. The vertical stage will be formed by several black frames. The seating would be arranged surrounding the stages at basement level as well as on the walkway on the ground level. A public interior will share a big window to the performance space. The view from the window to look at the performance space will have a similar perspective illusion. The aim of the project is to attract visitors and offer people in Margate a place of communication. Also, the reflective facade will reflect the view of sea to the people coming from train station, and also to the people standing on the Light Tower, Turner contemporary , and King’s Steps
1. Remove the eastern part of ground floor
Concept
Key Design Moves
2. Building the performance stage and seating area on basement, and also building the walkway on ground floor which lead visitors to the lift and stairs. Also the box office and control room are designed to built on the walkway.
3. Building the illusion lighting and table, as well as bar and privacy seating area.The front door would be built on the frist groundi lighting structure.
4. Building the public interior space at the eastern front of space
5. Building the reflective facade
Refreshment Space Performance Space Public Interior
Concept
Programmatic Diagram
Proposal: Refreshment Area Framed View
Proposal: Refreshment Area Development
Concept: Refreshment Area Perspective Illusion and Ergonomic 1:50
Proposal: Refreshment Area Framed View: 1:20 Prototype
8 People share a table
Walking way in Refreshment Area
Concept: Refreshment Area Privacy and Seatings Arrangement
3 People share a table
Only allow two people standing next to each other
Individual seat and space
Bar and Kitchen: Staff Only
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Concept: Refreshment Area Light and Dark
Concept: Refreshment Space Final Model
Arcola Theatre, London
Concept: Performance Space Double Hight Stage
Concept: Performance Space Development
Concept: Preformance Space Final Model
When Main Space open
When Main Space close
Concept: Public Interior Space for Learning and Share
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Ground Floor Plan with Proposal 1:50
1. Public Interior 2. Vertical Stage 3.Dressing Room 4. Props Storage 5. Control Room 6. Kitchen 7. Bar 8. Seating Area 9. Box Office
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1. Stage 2. Auditorium 3.Dressing Room 4. Toilet
Basement Plan with Proposal 1:50
Long Section 1:50
Short Section 1:50
Short Section 1:50
Final Proposal: Interior View Refreshment Area
Final Proposal: Interior View Preformance Area
Final Proposal: Interior View Poblic Interior and Facade
Steel polished by Black NIckel
Jet Black Matt Plywood
Jet Black Glass
Nickel can be polished on any metal surface, for the design require black colour and also high reflective materiial, therefore nickel is ideal material for the illusion device.
The polish surface has nice and asthetic, suitable for table surface which need black colour and low reflective light.It is also good for using the stage surface.
The visual effect that this surface bring is suitable for the bar’s surface
Material and Technology Material
Left and middle: light steel frame seating. OMA, Imaginarium, London Right: Temporary device hanging with ceiling by tensile cable, and also using the tensile cable fixing for support. Grafton Architects, Sensing Space, London
Material and Technology Technologic Precedent
1. Rope Screwfix 2. Timber 3. Steel Channel 4: Tensile Steel Cable 5: Steel Cable Fixing 6: Lighting Reflextor 7. Light Bulb 8. Aluminium Sheet polished by black nickel, with Strip LED light(0.3mm) 9. Plywood 10. 12mm Plywood 11. Main Steel Frame 12: Support Steel Structure 13: Black Polished Surface 14. Softwood Structure 15. Steel Channel
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Detail 1:20
1. Black aluminum sheet 2. 0.3mm strips LED light 3. L shaped bracket 4: Aluminum sheets polished with black nickel 5: 12mm pole wtih base and cross shaped support
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Detail Vertical Illusion Device 1:5
1. To fix upper brick facade, using existing holes where signage has been remove of to fix the brickwork 2. Lightweight timber structure 3. Polished aluminum sheet
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Detail Facade 1:5