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Water and Senses
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Architectural approach to encourage social inclusion Ostseebad Boltenhagen, Germany Architectural design
Body & Skins
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Headquarter of textile industry Münster Loddenheide, Germany Artistic design
klappt
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„doubleyousee – the architectural language of waiting and coming >a dialogical structure as plastic performance<“1 Workshop
Copy, Paste and Scale
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Sandviken waterfront extra[s] Bergen, Norway Constructive design
Boat and Boathouse Boathouse for a canoe club Liblarer See, Germany
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Water and Senses . Architectural approach to encourage social inclusion Ostseebad Boltenhagen, Germany Master thesis at m端nster school of architecture, 2015
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ABSTRACT As an example for a place to encourage social inclusion, a swimming pool at the German Baltic Sea was created. The idea aa
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for the project was developed by researching the topic of social inclusion in context with „UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities“ and the German house regulations for swimming pools.
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In short, the Convention suggests certain rights from areas of
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life such as accessibility, personal mobility, health, education, activity, rehabilitation, sharing in political life, equality, and
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nondiscrimination with the objective of participation. In contrast, the house regulations of swimming pools comprises
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that persons who can not move properly by themselves, are only allowed to enter a public swimming pool accompanied by a carer. As an important subgroup of hereby excluded people, this project is focused on blind and visually impaired people.
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Layout plan and sections in scale 1:1000
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Platform
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Heated pools
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Brine bath
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Entrance
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Baltic pool
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Wellness area
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Changing rooms
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Swimming pool
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Restaurant baths
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Showers
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Children‘s area
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Restaurant public
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CONCEPT What kind of architectural properties should a swimming pool for blind and visually impaired people exhibit to serve as a place for social inclusion?
The main concept is to create orientation with a view to enhance the pursuit of independence of blind and visually impaired people. The volume, which is half-sunken in the Baltic Sea, is hollowed by a subtractive concept. By doing this, the interior rooms get wall projections, which indicate an entrance at the opposite site. Together with the linear array of the functionalty, the interior rooms themselves take the visitors through the building. Spotlights as roof lights and huge openings in the external walls support the guidance system by marking both Indicators at the wall are acting as handrails and wall projections are indicating an entrance at the opposite site
entrances and important points. Visually impaired people get a high contrast impression of the interior. Blind people notice this contrast because of different temperations. On top of that, the usual concept of indicators for directing blind people, which are normally placed on the floor, is now transferred to the walls and acts as a tactile guidance system. If the system changes from the vertical to the horizontal, there is an entrance at the opposite site â&#x20AC;&#x201C; similar to principle of the wall projections.
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Body & Skins Headquarter of textile industry
M端nster Loddenheide, Germany Architectural design at m端nster school of architecutre, 2014
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ABSTRACT Before starting to create an architectural design of a headquarter of textile industy, three different types of skin have been analyzed. The first one is the physiological skin of a creature, the second one are clothes, and finally the architecture acts as the skin of a building. This course was a groupwork with the view to learn from each member, particularly during the analysis of the first steps. The design of the headquarter was done by a group of two.
This top is done by cutting rings from garden hoses with different radiuses. Afterwards the rings are connected by a nylon thread.
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Site plan in scale 1:10 000 Layout plan, sections and facades in scale 1:1000
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Conference room
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Chief office
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Seminar room
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Kitchen
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CONCEPT The architecture of the headquarter of textile industry is designed similar to a piece of cloth which is weaved by warp and weft. Strong slices of concrete generate the weft, which is than weaved by the orthogonally running weak slices out of glas. In that process, five volumes are formed which are separated by green yards and enable natural light inside the offices and serve as living zones. Because of that concept, the building gets an open and inwards orientation. The open axis offers a view from the site of the street with the big conference room to the last one of the five volumes. In the other direction the building is insulated from the neighbourhood and generates a private working atmosphere.
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strong slices
fusion of slices
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VERTICAL SECTION Roof construction Gravel 100 mm Bitumen layer Thermal insulation to falls 200 mm Vapour barrier Reinforced concrete 250 mm
Facade construction Facade post, aluminium, anthracite Facade beam, aluminium, anthracite Double glazing Prefabriced unit: reinforced concrete Slide with motor for curtain Insect screen Solar blind curtain
Floor construction Screed, old white pigmented, rough polished, 20 mm Screed, reinforced with heating pipes 50 mm Barrier Thermal insulation 35 mm Reinforced concrete 250 mm Thermal insulation 200 mm Vapour barrier
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klappt Artistic design
Experiments of art performing space at münster school of architecture, 2014
topic | title, text: marc mer work | project and documentation: Gesa Keßel © archiv mer.msa & authors
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Topic in the course of Prof. Marc Mer
CONCEPT Similar to domino, the objects of the ‚Jakobsleiter’ are waiting for each other to generate a chain reaktion. The idea is to use the Jakobsleiter not vertical as usual, but horizontally placed between tracks. From the bottom side, the structure can be pulled together by four threads. In doing so, unforseeable and uncountable possibilities of choreograhies arise.
How a Jakobsleiter is normaly used - in the vertical direction
Possible choreograhies of a Jakobsleiter with eighteen elements
Possible choreograhies of a Jakobslieter with five elements
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Copy, Paste and Scale Sandviken waterfront extra[s] Bergen, Norway Workshop at Bergen School of Architecture, 2013
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ABSTRACT Sandviken is a traditional neighbourhood of Bergen in Norway. The city center of Sandviken is called ‚old Bergen’ which is nowadays used as a musuem. The workshop encompassed to analyze the history, structure and characteristic of Sandviken in cooparation with the students from the Bergen School of Architecture. The objective was to change Sandviken by adding extras such that it becomes an urban renewal.
CONCEPT To create a sustainable proposal for the area, all of the existing buildings have been saved. The shape of the places next to the waterfront has been redefined by turning existing houses, copy buildings from old Bergen, and paste them. A look-out at the landing stage will provide a nice view of old Bergen, the fjord, the mountains on the existing situation with ‚old Bergen‘ in the north
east site, and the new urban situation.
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well-framed yards and places
View to the new waterfront remodeled by houses from ‚old Bergen‘
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Boat and Boathouse Boathouse for a canoe club Liblarer See, Germany Constructive design at Cologne University of Applied Science, 2011
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ABSTRACT Before starting to design a boathouse for a canoe club, the previous exercise was to build a boat in a team of three. The boat was to be finished in one week and the only instruction for this challenge was: it should work. The main idea was to create a light construction by using cheap and easy manufacturing materials.
At first, the corrugated is cut out for construction. The rips are layered by at least seven pieces. The connection of the rips in the middle is massive and serves as a sit place.
To make the skeleton of the boat waterproof it is coated by several layers of plastic wrap. The last step is to test the boat in an indoor pool.
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CONCEPT The main construction of the boathouse is composed of timber framework, which is not only needed for the statics but also to serve as useful component to the interior. Since the boathouse is not used in winter, the entrance door and ramp can be closed to protect the house against snow and frost. In winter, the boats can hang from a pulley in the ceiling.
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Footbridge
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Workshop
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Ramp
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Dining area
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Kitchen unit
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Toilet
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Shower
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Deposit
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Terrace
VERTICAL SECTION
nitt C-C M 1:50
Ansicht Schnitt D-D M 1:5
Roof construction Timber shingle Panel 25 mm Board 180 mm
Planetdichtungen Rafter for ventilation 60/40 mm
werden bei Türen Schwellen verwendet, um eine Dichtigkeit gegen Luft, Thermal insulation 120 gewisse mm Schall und bei dem Boothaus im Vapour barrier Wasser Rafter of construction 100/250 mmvor allem gegen Feuchte zu erzeugen. Beim Schließen wird der Interior panelling, spruce 18 mm Planet aus der Nut im Türblatt auf den Boden gepresst. Dies geschieht infolge eines Federdrucks, der durch einen Riegel in der Türfalz ausgelöst wird. Roof beam 60/120 mm ohne with
Facade construction Exterior panelling 18 mm Counter panelling for ventilation 40/40 mm
Barrier uss vertikal M 1:5 Panel 18 mm
Timber construction 100/100 mm with Thermal insulation 100 mm Vapour barrier Interior panelling, spruce 18 mm
Floor construction Floor boards, spruce 18 mm Panelling 60/40 mm with Insulation 60 mm Panel 18 mm Timber beam 120/280 mm Forceps construction 80/280 mm
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