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Wertig // Neuhausl Summer, 2018

Gaia Delepine AD4

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Brief

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Preliminary Researches

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Site Studies

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Critical Essay

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Concept

Design

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Brief

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“To be continued... Hope in empty spaces” Although the brief for the semester was designing an element of your previous masterplan, this project started with me looking around Holesovice’s empty spaces.

What is an empty space?

A corner?

An unfunctional river side?

A working metro station?

But most importantly What will happen in the empty space...

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1. Nadrazi Holesovice Holesovice’s biggest transport hub.

Trains, metros, trams, buses, people.

What will the people do when they gather in the mess of the station?

How to connect the connection?

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3. Marina Huge developments.

Little pitoresque The boats are left alone before the huge blocks.

What will happen to the boats?

How much is Marina connected to its water?

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2. U Papirny The city within the city.

This place has its own independant aroma.

The industry. The village. Courtyards.

Genius loci Where is human presence? Hidden How to make it come out?

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Site p la n w ith p ro p o s a l

U papirny

Out of the three selected sites, U papirny’s had the strongest effect on me.

Its courtyard, its inert tranquility, its origin as a village. The influence of industry.

Its

inconsistent

anatomy.

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Preliminary Research

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Ho les o vic e w ith in

Pra g u e To

each

Looking at notice how Holesovice by history.

capital

their

unique

its variety of landmarks, it is hard industrial the ones located in Prague is one of Perhaps still

district. not to 7 are.

those unique districts.

Marked in Time, but moving in Place.

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3.

Interestingly, we are also able to understand the district as a city itself - the city within the city -, from many standpoints.

Geographically, it is limited by the river - Holesovice is a peninsula - and Stromovka. Its transport system ressembles a bypass, always circumventing, never penetrating, but radiating.

Physically, we can distinguih 3 drastically different block anatomies within the same district.

Each

tell

1.

a

story.

1. Letna 2. Nove Holesovice 3. Stare Holesovice

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Site Studies

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Sketches

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Site a n a lys is This area of Holesovice is well connected to the rest of the city. From the plot, 3 trams stops and 1 metro station can be accessed within 10 minutes walking.

Multiple schools are with many S.R.Os

also using

to the

be found, residential

along spaces.

However, we notice a strong lack in the fields of recreational activites and restauration. To be noted is also the absence of commodity stores and small businesses: no stores, no bakery, no market, no butcher, no bistros.

Yet, these small businesses give life to a residential area. They are a source of income and human relations: I am not wondering anymore why the area feels like an industrial memorial.

1. Parking 2. Residential 3. Education 4. Restauration 5. Workshop 6. Cultural

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His to ric a l p ic tu res Dated 1908-1944 The new quarter was because of its ‘eccentric’

called “Prague location and its

V

objeti

Bosnia” in jest ‘wild’ conditions.”

Vltavy

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C u rren t s itu a tio n 2018 The area of Old Holesovice (Zatory) remained isolated from the modern world, preserving a provincial and almost village character.�

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objeti

Vltavy

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In c o mp lete C o u rtya rd s 2018 “Constrained by will look into

the puzzling the other side

dead of the

facades I city block.�

My plot is the corner of a city block: it gives way to two roads which grant it its cuspidate shape, as does the current, while still allowing my building to be in contact with the inner block: the courtyard.

“The from

courtyard within

is

a and

place from

to

dream, above.�

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On the other side of the city block’s body evolves an ecosystem that seems to have developed its own set of natural laws. The courtyard.

Sometimes inhabited by residents, sometimes by dumpsters, what are we truly looking at when facing the shared space of multiple apartment buildings, an oasis or a wasteland?

Unlike the streets, where pedestrians are exposed to sensory overload, those spaces “in between” are shelters to the outside world.

The Eixample’s utopian vision for city blocks in Barcelona, the Hofjes’ strict spiritual organisation in Amsterdam, the Mezzogiorno’s intimate openair backrooms offer the possibility of public relations through the active sharing of space.

Prague’s immense multi-stories residences enclose in their formation visibly underused awkward exterior shared spaces.

What is their purpose?

Are they solely a consequence of the blocks’ design?

Are they exclusively the result of the need to bring light into the unlucky apartments that could not face the street?

Or are they a missed opportunity of transformation from design constraints into community enhancing instruments?

And if so, why?

With the occurrence of industrialisation and urbanisation, the cities’ rapid increase in population could not be supported by the traditional density of housing. Soon came a new type of housing accommodating the newcomers, the apartment block, and with it the forced cohabitation of people in reduced areas. One expression characterises this type of housing: lack of privacy.

Humans that once looked for community are now looking for seclusion.

Isolationism.

Had the courtyards been designed to propose a public space, they allowed separation. A no man’s land tenants would not approach.

So how public are those spaces in the present day?

The Praguois courtyards evolved from living spaces to almost transparent, agonising tissues.

The constrictor muscles of the block’s body had swallowed the gangrenous pleural cavities. The alleys pumping the human flow into the interior courtyards are now despised by the residents.

Fear activated the mechanism that closed them and obstructed the bygone valves.

If the residential blocks of Prague once hosted in their intimacy

public life, they gradually closed themselves into more private spaces and eventually became segregated uncared for gardens.

Gates started appearing, cutting through the already limited land to form some kind of privatised estate.

And what for?

This law however does not apply to the children of the block, who do not find interest in this kind of limitations. Their social instinct is much stronger than that of adults, who favour spatial segregation.

This phenomenon is exposed in Marika Pecháčková’s short movie Vnitroblock (FAMU, 2013, 00:33:41) from an internal point of view: she interviews the residents of her block to understand their view on the alarming situation of decay of their shared space.

Some landlords clearly state they prefer to prohibit the access to the courtyard rather than putting down the fences occupying it.

What we are witnessing is excessive privatisation of the common good. Another work bringing attention to the question is the animated short movie Neighbours by Norman McLaren (ONFC,1952, 00:08:06) featuring two neighbours fighting over the possession of a plant located in between their houses.

Their argument escalates to the point where it affects the plant so negatively it dies.

It seems to be more comfortable and secure for the dumpsters placed there. That way, each neighbour will put their trash in their own garden.

The laws of the courtyard became simple: do not trespass your limit, which is given by the gate, which was obviously installed so that you would be freer of use of the courtyard.

The extreme desire of possession destroyed the object of lust.

I believe the true question is not where courtyards lie between semipublic or semi-private spaces, but rather why they shifted to such exclusive spaces that none of the 200 families facing the courtyard feel allowed to use them.

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Concept

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Education Youth

Sports

Res

Mobility

Courtyard

Community

Program analysis

Garden

Young families

stauration

Energy

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L’ESPOIR BLANC - YUKO NAGAYAMA // HYOGO

APARTMENT MAMM DESIGN // AMSTERDAM

YIN AND YANG HOUSE - PENDA // EDERTAL

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C o re s ys tems

The building is divided into three subparts (commercial block, residential block, vertical communication shaft) each following the same scheme : they are built around a technical core surrounded by the partitionned rooms / appartments.

The bakery surrounded by The staircase In in

is the

centered on the open space dedicated

Vertical shaft is and elevator, with a

baking to the

built patio

the same manner, the apprtements their centers the corridor and

space, tables.

around the and loggia. floors have bathrooms.

Concept : core

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Design

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Flo o r p la n s

The building is divided in 5 floors: Ground floor and first floor are dedicated to commercial use, followed by two floors of standard appartments, a floor composed of 2 appartments and a bookstore cafe linked to the garden, and on the last floor a terraced roof.

Ground Floor

First Floor

A bakery, providing inhabitants and visitors with the nice smell and feeling of a warm coffee dipped croissant.

The interior was planned for clients to easily come from the tram station and loop back.

Composed of rentable spaces ranging from 20 to 40sqm, along with a common kitchenette.

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Second Floor

Both floors are are suitable for

Third Floor

divided in appartments ranging from 40 to 70 sqm. They single young adults, students and young families with one kid

At this level starts the covered staircase: a space where light can penetrate despite the blocking facade of the neighbouring building. Connected to it a loggia, covered exterior space for the use of all residents.

Fourth Floor

Fifth Floor

2 appartments, a garden. On offer is made to the owners of the bakery to rent one of the two at a lower price, encouraging the growth of a locally owner business.

The garden overlooks the courtyard without intruding into the neighbours’ privacy.

A covered terrasse, for summer and winter use thanks to its veranda. It overlooks the surroundings and the garden.

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Ele v at i o n s The inner function of the building is reflected on the facade: the window rythm varies a c c o r d i n g l y.

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0. B a k er y

2. S t a i r c a s e

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4 . Ga r d en

5. Ter a s s e

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Ma teria lity facade windows A delicate ivory facade cladded by honed ceramic tiles , which allows breathing of the facade is enhanced by french windows carving small balconies in the external walls. The soft finish of the stone gives an elegant touch to the building and ensures harmony with the multiple pastel colors of the surrounding buildings.

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GAIA DELE PINE

CASA22 AD4 summer semester 17/18 Studio Wertig // Neuhausl Studio leader Ing. arch. Wertig Jarosla Ing. arch. David Neuhäusl

Co ntact :

gaia.delepine@gmail.com +352 661 289 970

Bi rth :

A d d r es s:

Ed uc at i on:

Wo r k exp er ien ce:

15-06-1999 Essey-les-Nancy, France

From September 2016 to June 2019 (expected)

Puskinovo namesti 2, 16000 Praha, Ceska Republika

November 2017-March 2018, “Claire is...”, PragueFS

Bachelor in Architecture Architectural Institute in Prague

Art director

From Septembre 2012 to June 2016

P2Gcreatives association Design, time management, budgeting, communication

European Bachaloreate in Arts and Sciences European School of Luxembourg II

October 2017, CityMakers Workshop II, IPR Praha

November 2014, Atelier A4 architects Internship

Languages: French: English: Italian: Spanish:

Computer skills:

Autocad Sketchup, Rhinoceros, Archicad Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel

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What is an empty space?

A corner?

An unfunctional river side?

A working metro station?

But most importantly Wh a t w ill h a p p en in th e emp ty s p a c e...