Sunila New Center
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Master European Architecture Workshop 1 - Sunila Duration: 03.10.2016 - 11.11.2016 Location: Finland/Estonia Professor: Emil Urbel and Esa Laaksonen Student:
Joachim Daetz
Title:
Sunila - New Center
Sunila New Center
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Sitevisit............................................................................................... 07 Analysis............................................................................................. 13 References.......................................................................................... 21 Project Idea....................................................................................... 23 Step Back........................................................................................... 27 Proposal. .......................................................................................... 31 Drawings........................................................................................... 37
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Sitevisit
The favourable position of Sunila, at the end of a log-floating route and next to Kotka harbour, made it attractive to industry. The Sunila company was founded in 1928 jointly by five major firms in the wood processing industry. The company bought the sawmill and surrounding land and closed down the old mill. The property was kept in reserve during the recession at the turn of the decade. The mid-thirties saw an economical boom, and this time the most expansive sector was the pulp and paper industry. Thus, in 1936, it was decided to build a sulphate cellulose mill on the island of Pyötinen in Sunila. Matters progressed swiftly, and that same year construction of the road, railroad and bridge connections to the island began. The construction of the workers‘ residential area began in 1937 and pulp production started in 1938. As a result of all this, the contrast between Sunila, as a world-famous work of Alvar Aalto, and its local reputation has become rather marked. Concern about the situation has led in recent years to counter measures to stem the decline: In 1997 a neighbourhood clubhouse was established, which provides inhabitants with a meeting place, activities and social services. · Pro Sunila, a neighbourhood association founded in 2000, tries, together with other local activity groups, to find a new identity for the area based on its architectural and environmental qualities and its interesting history. · Residential buildings have been modernised to present-day standards with regard to basic amenities. · The Sunilan Sisu sports club has started the restoration of the socially and historically important Pirtti community hall. · The long disused Valliniemi sauna and laundry building is back in use, under new ownership, as a hostel and office building. The „Sunila lentoon“ [Sunila takes off] project 2005-2007 concentrates on questions concerned with the protection, restoration and development of the landscape and the buildings: The town plan of Sunila is being revised to contain more specific regulations for the protection of the architectural heritage. The town plan will be supplemented by detailed guidelines for restoration and development. Inhabitants and property owners participate in the process through discussions and neighbourhood walks. A system for recycling disused building parts is being developed on a regional basis. (source: http://kuvakotka.blogspot.fi/2009/07/alvar-aaltos-sunila-
Sitevisit
alvar-aallon-sunila.html)
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Analysis
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Sunila with Factory
Sunila Residential Area
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Firedepartment
Concept Idea
Supermarket and Tourist Information
Hotel Restaurant and Multiple Use Concert and Theater Space
Conference Center
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Fire Department Original Plans
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Bamboo basket: Shop by Kengo Kuma
Muru & Pere
Logistikzentrums - LPH 1-9 HOAI
Hotel Lobby & Nishi Grand Stair Interior
- 4semester
Pavilion in New York
References
prattarchives
Focus on the old Firedepartment, to create new a center!
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Project Idea
Visual Connection between my main focus (the old Firedepartment), the old Sauna Building and the Garage Building. Idea is to create a working and flowing new center point. The Hotel with the Conferencecenter would be the main attraction for Buisinesses to send their employees to an isolated and concentrated area to have workshops and conferences there. In the evening the employees would want to eat out and enjoy some music or theater. It is a short walk from the Hotel (Garage) to the main Center sqaure (old Firedepartment). The Supermarket in the old Sauna Builading is mainly for local people but tourists can also buy some souveniers their or in the Touristinformation point.
Idea
New Center
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Step Back
Meaning of the Site? History? Build in 1936, during the war to create a place where the workers can stay. Why is it there? Due to the Paperfactory an entire new suburb was created. What is the situation at the moment? Alot of empty houses, spaces are too small for families. Basically no life outside. Exiting & Entering the site? What do you feel? Like Aalto i would like to create invisible boarders between the inside and the outside. There are alot of trees around which still gives you security you need. Entrance itself? What does it look like? The main entrances are located at the middle of the square. The rest of the entranes are faced away from the centre, to not grab imidiate attention. The main entrance to the Theater should be situated at a comfortable angle from the entrance of the Restaurant. Views inside to outside? The Theater is facing the Paperfactory in a long distance and should therefore remind one of the history that once happend there. The Glasfassade behind the stage enables you to have a look into the forest which allows you to vaguely guess the outlines of the factory. Lights? The Lights of the Building should be different during the day then at night! And should vary between its main usages.
Step Back
Space experience? Inside/outisde? There should almost be no solid and massiv boarders between inside and outside while facing the trees.
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Materiality? Wood, Glas and Concrete Structure, Fassade? The Fassades should remind us of the floating woods on the river tunneling into the mashines. Alot of small pieces combined into one big beautiful structure. What will it look like at night? At its main usage time? At night, due to the small slots in the wooden Fassade it could have lights that vary colour and intensity to remind us of a campfire.
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Music Hall Proposal
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European Architecture 11 Workshops at 6 Universities +1 Master’s Thesis The two-year training is structured around a series of 8 project workshops + 1 reflective workshops at 6 different higher education institutions: Urban planning as well as architectural and artistic issues – open questions virulent to the cities & regions of the participating universities – will be examined at all scales; multidimensional planning processes, design and communication strategies constitute integral parts of a democratic culture of building to transform existing buildings and urban quarters with regard to ecological sustainability. Problems will be resolved in the context of cultural heritage and pre-existing structures. The postgraduate programme is a unique and innovative approach to international architectural education: it combines the idea of the classical artist journey with the intensive, interdisciplinary and project-oriented workshop tradition and teamwork, focusing on acute topics generating architectural knowledge and dialogue across greater Europe between cities as Tallinn, Lisbon, Helsinki, Dessau, Ljubljana, Innsbruck and Haifa.