THROUGH CHANGING SPACE DESIGN FOR AN URBAN DANCE CENTRE < BARCELONA
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SITE Barcelona is a city of spaces. Urban squares. Wide boulevards. Narrow side streets. City parks. Intersections. Courtyards.
Spaces of diffferent shapes and sizes permeate the city, creating openings and cracks in the urban fabric, as if pushing apart the urban enclo-
The contrast between consecutive spaces can be vast; large light spaces leadsure which creates them.
ing into dark and narrow alleys; noisy, busy horizon-bound boulevards opening into quiet leafy squares.
The Placa de les Camarelles is an urban square in the cultural district in the old town of the city. It is a large open square in the midst of old narrow streets, a breath of fresh air from the noise of the Ciutat Vella. With its surrounding squares the Placa forms a
series of changing urban spaces.
PLACA DE LES CAMARELLES ESALA
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Barcelona's spaces become
spaces for
performance , urban theatres used by artists, dancers, musicians, skateboarders and others to display their skills. La Rambla in particular is a hub for street perď&#x20AC; formers.
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PERFORMANCE | MAKE-UP ARTIST AND PAINTER ON LA RAMBLA
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STUDY OF SPACES IN BARCELONA
Rectilinear, spacious, repeated, structured, predictable.
NEW TOWN
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Twisting, narrow, changing, chaotic, unpredictable.
Plentiful, varied, widespread, dictated by urban space
OLD TOWN
GREEN SPACE
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LIGHT STUDIES OF BARCLONA SPACES
LIGHT STUDIES OF CITY SPACES (Hamish Jack) ESALA
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PLACA DE LES CAMARELLES Ciutat Vella, Barcelona The square is a quiet retreat from the chaos of the old town, locals relax and children play in the sun.
Ciutat Vella, Barcelona
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CCCB SQUARE Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture
MACBA SQUARE Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Art
"Placa de les Camarelles and its surrounding squares form a series of changing urban spaces"
PLACA DE LES CAMARELLES
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ROUTE THROUGH THE SQUARES ESALA
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CCCB Square Archway to CCCB Square behind MacBa Gap through MacBa Building MacBa Square In car park underground Placa de les Camarelles Entrance to Placa de les Camarelles
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SPATIAL COMPRESSION STUDY ESALA
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Placa de les Camarelles
Car park
The size of square represents the feeling of compression in that space.
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ROUTE SECTION
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MacBa Square
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CCCB Square
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PARTI development
OVERLAPPING SPACES: looking from one space into another ESALA ESALA
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Overlapping spaces sketches ESALA
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DANCE MOVEMENT .CONNECTION. LIGHT. Dance is about the connection between people, visually, physically and emotionally, it is about the poetry of a movement drifting through a space, about how the light defines the dancer's body and how shadow captures the expression upon their face.
Movement- The building is a series of spaces
- much like the city itself - and moving through it one moves on an architectural progression through courtyards, passageways, between inside and outside.
Connection- Spaces are visually connected, people can communicate between levels, across voids, through screens. Light- Filtered through screens, the play of light in
the building is like a dance in itself.
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:200 ESALA
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Arrival Courtyard Entrance courtyard/reception Secondary Dance Studio Changing facilities Staff Room Staff Courtyard Cafe kitchen Cafe External Courtyards
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1:200 ESALA
Warm-up Space Primary Dance Studio Viewing Platform Informal Performance Social Space
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Diagram spaces, show courtyards, external, internal, semi private, uses and their implications etc.
Placa de les Camarelles
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Architectural Progression
Public
Private
Spaces become increasingly private as proď&#x20AC; gression is made through the building.
FIirst
First Floor Ground floor
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Second
Circulation space. Circulation space.
Third
Informal Performance, viewing platforms. Changing Rooms, staff room, secondary dance studio.
Fourth
Primary dance studio. Staff courtyard.
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Section B 1:100 ESALA
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Hot air rises from within courtyard.
Cool air is naturally sucked through dance studio and cafe to replace the rising air, ventilating the space. VENTILATION
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Main Dance Studio 1:50 Section
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PERSPECTIVE ESALA
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The steel screen- a device for creating privacy and filtering light.
COINCIDING OF OPENINGS Both of the building's skins contain openings, however openings in the steel screen and those in the concrete walls do not always coincide. Sometimes only the concrete opens and the steel screen stays intact, allowing light to filter through the screen into the space. Sometimes they do coincide and a view is framed.
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VIEWS
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Entrance Courtyard. Into square.
FIRST FLOOR Informal Performance. Into square, entrance courtyard, main dance studio.
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Changing Rooms.
Secondary Dance Studio.
Staff space and cafe.
No external views.
Into private external courtyard.
Into square, private external courtyard.
Social Courtyard. Into secondary studio.
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Corridor. Into many other internal spaces.
Primary Dance Studio.
Into square, entrance courtyard, informal performance.
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SITE | THEORY | DANCE CENTRE Unfolded plan showing compression
along direct route.
The building's circulation allow two routes to the primary dance studio, one
direct and the other much more exploraď&#x20AC; tory, allowing the visitor to either get straight to the dance class or to wander around and experience the varying compressions of the building.
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Unfolded plan showing compression ESALA
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Model photos
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