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oposed
rial
site
luxury
overview
healthspa
with
accommodation
t a l a s s o t e r a p i e ( a ) ( b ) ( c )
p r o p o s e d p r o p o s e d p r o p o s e d
,
g r o u n d
f l o o r
p l a n
t h e r m a l b a t h i n g / f i t n e s s c e n t r e m i c r o a l g a e p a c k a g i n g / d i s t r i b u t i o n m a c r o a l g a e s t e a m d r y - o u t f a c i l i t y
KEY 1 Pedestrian Site Access 2 Terrace 3 Accommodation Suite (Accessible) 4 Accommodation Suites (x3 accessible) 5 Meditation/Reflexology Suite (+ breakout space) 6 Memorial chapel 7 Indoor Aqua gym (additional sauna/shower) 8 Talasso Therapy (seaweed based treatments) 9 Aromatherapy Suite 10 Store 11 Outdoor Mineral Pool 12 Massage Suite 13 Manicure/Pedicure Suite 14 Main Plant Room/Algal product storage 15 Deliveries entrance/egress
g r o u n d
f l o o r
p l a n
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Talasso Therapy Suite (with breakout space) Apodayrium (Changing/Shower facilities) Massage Suite Acupuncture Suite Water feature (5mm standing water) Covered Terrace Shower facilities (+ accessible WC) Poolside Bar (seating 8) Reflexology Suite Physiotherapy Suite (+breakout space) Outdoor Natatio (talasso) Pool Memorial Promenade Decked access routes Ramp/Stair access to beach Micro Algal photo-bioreactor hubs
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The idea of a boundary implies a social order, yet conversely the role of no boundaries also implies a form of order. The actual space which one would need ‘to function in’ is within or with-out one of boundaries. The non-boundaries. The ‘non’ that remains is that which controls. In relation to the formation of barriers, it becomes clear that one is looking at the functioning of the ‘disembodied’. To superimpose structure onto a space, to dismember it to a ‘non’, there has to be a non-dialectic, a form of ‘no functioning’ — a non-functioning — only then within the space, between the boundaries, the function functions; a non-functioning function, a signified, abstract notion whereby physicality is suppressed in favour of inquisition.
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The view that stems from the above is one of a controlling agent. In the case of traumatic neurosis, a neurosis brought on by an event, Freud cites the rise of patients from the end of world war two. The events incurred revolve around themselves in the unconscious from the point of the experience. One remembers to forget, a repression of the subjected memory. The memory incurs and stems from the memory, the repressed stays in the unconscious a defensive system. With the use of this, what remains of a barrier is what does not remain. What remains apart from the remaining? The idea of the ‘non’, the boundaries which are in place, is not in place. The ‘non-functioning boundaries’. Physicality, topography, typology can be removed. Does this reveal what is there or what is not there? Is there not both the seen and the unseen? Boundaries can masquerade as such in a realm of a non-functioning boundary. The viewer has a view of the unseen. Furthermore, if a boundary functions as such but repels the viewer elsewhere how does this impact upon a viewer? There is a boundary crossed and an unknown reaction to the condition occurs. The reaction functions empty, a signifier. The plan is formed on boundaries that never meet, constricting elements (derived from axial routes from Colonia) that curate restricted views in their essence. The pinnacle of the constriction, conversely, opens up to a panoramic view. The idea of the crossed. The functioning of the non-functioning. In opening up one thing there is always a closure of the other. The idea of the empty house. The idea of the reaction, involuntary or otherwise, to the condition.
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colonia
fara
From primary research it was discovered, as mentioned in the Site Analysis, that certain forms of macro and micro algae had invaded the coastal waters along Chiavari in 2005 leading to a number of illnesses for tourists and residents. The invasive macro algae (more commonly known as seaweed) in connection with the illnesses was Caulerpa Taxifera with an additional micro algae (more commonly referred to in conventional terms as algae) Ostreopsis Ovata.
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In order to remove these living organisms, some of the fastest growing organisms on the planet, a seaweed farm is proposed in the immediate off-shore locale, some 40metres from shoreline. This also requires a docking station to provide a place to store and harvest the seaweed prior to processing. There are 24 bays of farming allotments which would service a total income â‚Ź45,000 per annum for each farmer, of which there would be 48 farming positions made available.
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The sequential diagram (opposite left) highlights the schematic movement of the production process up until the micro algae is to be harvested in the Algae Photo-bioreactors. This area will be discussed on the following sheet.
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schematic
tower
diagram:
algae
1. The bays are made from a rubber composite which will require maintenance and replacement with an additional netting to help in the proliferation of the macro-algae. Tawling nets will collect micro-algae; 2. Every three weeks a fresh batch of macro algae can be harvested. This is to be done manually to reduce the effects on both local waters, its inhabitants and also the users of the beach. The harvested sea-crop is collated on the docking station before being transferred to the shore; 3. The beach at Chiavari runs to a point where the local sewage point, with neighbouring campsite, takes precedent. It is at this point that the mooring station will be located, this is to provide limited impact on the local residents and also to prevent useable beach being taken up by the mooring; 4. The manually transition of algae will be on foot along this route. This requires a heavy duty hardstand being applied so to cater for the human and mechanical traffic; 5. The algae will be stored in the lower wings of the Ground and First floors of Colonia Fara so to not interfere with the centrally located steam based drying out facility. The micro algae is processed in the east wing, ready for its transition to the algal processing photo-bioreactor chambers; 6. Photo-bioreactor chamber.
processing section
c--c
at
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north
floor
plans
at
1:500
location
ground
floor
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internal image on seventh floor
first
floor
upper
sectional renders n.t.s
plan
floors
generic
plan
arrangement
It must be stipulated that the Colonia Fara proposal is based on estimation which requires specification and engineering. Throughout the research stage, Valcent Productions were consulted and assurance was sought for the spatial requirements for mechanical and electrical considerations, alongside storage/distribution factors. If the project was to be implemented then a company, such as Valcent or Alga, who specializes in this field would be brought in on a consultation basis to ensure the effective implementation of the scheme proposal.
s t a g e use
of
t w o :
m i c r o
existing
building
a l g a e :
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p r o c e s s i n g former
cinema
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The design centres on the harvesting and production of seaweed and algae as a result of research into the coastal town of Chiavari, which suggested that certain forms of macro and micro algae were invading the seawater causing much disturbance to residents and tourists. The southerly orientation lends itself to the algal photosynthesising process. The photo-bioreactors are situated above the existing and proposed buildings and are twisted and contorted so to maximise solar gain throughout daylight hours and seasonal fluctuations. Once the micro algae has been harvested at the seaweed farm, transferred to shore, stored in the Colonia Fara tower it is ready for the photosynthetic process in the photo-bioreactors. It is first processed in the algal pump house chamber 6, the compression pumps release CO2, oxygen, nutrients and other minerals required for the process to be successful at point 7 - the horizontally arranged photo-bioreactors, the point at which the solar energy is harnessed for photosynthesis. The culmination of both Stage 1 and Stage 2 is at point 8, where the algal product is processed, packaged and distributed as a fuel source for electrical and mechanical energy at the Helathspa site or as talasso therapy products.
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Tre a
Breakdown
Legislation:
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Touris and Mark
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Approved Document L2a (Conservation of Fuel and Power)
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In order to comply to the conservation of fuel the design must ensure that heat gain and loss is limited; and, provide and commission energy efficient services with effective controls.
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Approved Document J (Combustion Appliances and Fuel Storage Systems)
schematic
diagram:
algae
Given that the photo-bioreactor algal processing must run in compliance with Building Regulations 2000 App Doc J in its (J1) Air Supply, (J3) Protection of Building, (J5) Protection of Liquid Fuel Storage Systems.
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Elevation f
Not only does the algae photo-bioreactor have a solid environmental reasoning that benefits the site in maintaining a more efficient sustainability, it also reflects a sociological importance. It addresses the issue of invasive algae into the coastal waters and also makes use of the Colonia Fara tower under a nonfunctioning functionality. By the local community making secondary use of the building, they are not at first glance making use of it at all. Programmatically it is difficult to assimilate a use for a building with such a dogma attached. So in order to conceal the overt usage of the building, the tower becomes an ancillary space, assisting in the cleansing of the waters and also produces talasso therapy products for the healthspa. The original idea for the net - to conceal the tower’s facade, was abstracted to become the horizontal, glazed frame with internal steel structure. It mimics the tower in its horizontality.
solar geometry: axial positioning of the sun - august
Stage 3: Algal bacteria has nutrients and carbon dioxide pumped through at it’s inception (2) and it’s compression point (3).
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section 1:200 algal processing photo-bioreactor and distribution chambers
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Note: the design of each of the three photo-bioreactors (illustrated below) are designed on a contortion by positioning itself at the maximum solar gain position of each day, so to create greater efficiency in the photosynthesising process. The diagram below shows the sun rise to sunset in the summer period. latitude: 44° 25’ 0 N, longitude: 8° 56’ 60 E 06:00h
Harvesting / Cultivation
sm keting
Research and Education
Algal Processing (photosynthesis)
eatment, Distribution and Transportation
Processing and Production 09:00h
n of Algae production methodology
12:00h
from the Seaweed Farm Docking Station (Point 2, Stage 1)
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18:00h
pl a n
key:
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Post-photobioreactor fermentation chambers
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transferral ducting from external photo-bioreactors, subterranean piping to carry processed algae.
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boiler / waste disposal area
21:00h
2
7
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photobioreactor
hub
plan
at
[Academic use only]
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1:100
t h e
r e u n i f i c a t i o n
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o f
accommodation
l a n d
suites
/
a n d
s e a
meditation
suites
a
10
12
floor
plan
13
3
3
second
3
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[Academic use only]
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6 6
floor
plan
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3
first
3
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floor
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ocation
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Entrance terrace Accommodation Block 1 Entrance Stair Core (Stair Lift) Accessible Accommodation Luxury Suite Accommodation Block 2 Entrance Accessible Single Accommodation Suite Solarium Entrance Meditation Suite Meditation Suite Entrance Luxury Accommodation Suite Reflexology Suite Accommodation Block 2 Terrace Solarium
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building
2
t h e
j u x t a p o s i t i o n
o f
t i m e
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section
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seaweed
farm
seaweed [Academic use only]
to
roadside
farm
a n d
m e m o r y
Throughout the BArch I have experimented with metaphysics, an aspect that is conjuring more relevance in my work. The college manifesto (see Introductory page of this portfolio), states that the proposals should reflect the works of Giorgio de Chirico and Mario Sironi, two notorious metaphysical artists of the War periods. Sironi was the artistic figurehead of the Futurist movement and was heavily linked to Fascism, focused on an art of massive, immobile forms. In paintings such as La Lampada (1919), mannequins substitute for figures. Sironi strived to create contained, geometric forms, with a sombre and dramatic vision, characterized by block forms, stark oppositions of light and shadow, and a generally pessimistic air. De Chirico is akin to Sironi, not in political persuasion but artistic style. In 1911 he spent a few days in Turin on his way to Paris and was profoundly moved by what he called the ‘metaphysical aspect’ of Turin: the architecture of its archways and piazzas. It was the city of Nietzsche. Through 1909-1919, De Chirico painted in his ‘metaphysical period; and is most memorable for the haunted, brooding moods evoked by their images. His subjects were still cityscapes inspired by the bright daylight of Mediterranean cities, sometimes inhabited by mannequin-like hybrid figures. In autumn 1919 De Chirico published an article in Valori Plastici entitled “The Return of Craftsmanship”, in which he advocated a return to traditional methods and iconography. In order to capture the essence of this metaphysical nature, I decided to compose the images of the Healthspa design in a De Chirico/Sironi style. In order to highlight the link between female partigiane (Resistance fighters), it was decided that the images should be staged at the period immediately after April 25th 1945. A period of intense freedom and new found innocence. This period also saw the onset of an influx of Italian female movie stars in Hollywood (Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Alida Valli, Elsa Martinelli), this may have not been possible had it not been for the Resistance movement. In order to juxtapose the spatio-temporal essence of the images, 1950’s Italian filmstars were used as the mannequins. This gave an incongruity to the images. It suggests that the building is a return to an age through image or is a memory in itself, even though the building is a contemporary proposal. This fluctuation is magnified by the fact that partigiane imagery is used on the memorial slabs that are systematically scattered throughout the site. The female in the image (opposite left) is resting on one of the more human scale memorials, but the more monolithic memorials can also be seen, tapering towards the former factory/proposed thermal bathing area. The image attempts to portray a strange impression of looking at this scene for the first time but simultaneously looking at a wholly familiar situation, the composition tries to capture that metaphysical moment. However, the moment is an inexplicable enigma. In keeping with De Chirico the image depicts an idealized, melancholy landscape, ordinary figures and objects are removed from their familiar contexts to reveal inner life and meaning. Buildings, sunglasses, mannequins and Resistance imagery are juxtaposed in bizarre associations. Even ordinary objects become imbued with ‘invisible’ meaning. “Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est?” (“What shall I love if not the enigma?”).
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memorial promenade
pool
talassoterapie suites
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south east elevation, from seaweed farm, at 1: 500
A place, in contemporary terms, can be read as a space of bodily interaction; a space to savour and remember positively; a space of flux, yet paradoxically, continual impasse. This would imply places are positively charged. The Talassoterapie proposal advocates that physicality should be subverted – intentionally – to create more experiential spaces. Spaces to reflect a philosophy of temporality in the face of architectural interventions permanence, the implementation of Existential virtue in architectural design. Architecture that is physically immanent. Architecture should be the signified not the signifier.
The image above highlights the relationship between existing form and proposed building with its interplay of the algae farm, the memorial promenade and the former factory/proposed fitness centre and thermal bathing and the beach/coast. What is most discernible is the restricted view concept. The proposed photo-bioreactor hub (housed in the former cinema building) can not be easily viewed given the fact that the memorial promenade comes to a perceived pinnacle (‘perceived’ as the constricting geometries never meet at a point, which from a distance is believed as occurring), therefore constricting the view. As one walks along the promenade towards the former factory, only segments can be viewed, the true form is never fully revealed. This instance is the most noticeable use of the nonfunctioning function when approaching the site from Colonia Fara. The memorial ‘slats’ provide views by not providing views. When looking at to sea from the cinema, snapshot views would be created. By denying a view a view is formed, albeit totally restricted. As part of the Resistance memorialisation (mentioned in greater detail later), apparently scattered memorial ‘fins’ are sporadically located and have a number of different treatments. The most visible ‘fin’ here depicts the logo of the Resistenza movement (original image, immediate lower right.) It is also noticeable from this image that there is an inherent relationship with site and coastline with the Talassoterapie slats crossing the site boundary by cantilevering across the memorial promenade and basing itself on the beach, thus integrating the proposal with its adjacency. There is also the subverted connection to the sea by the slats extending to the pinnacle of the seaweed farm which is not immediately decipherable.
The view from withing the outdoor mineral Natat sure in relation to its socio-historic context. The s that is burdened with such a chequered past aga implementing a programme that addressed the p past and thus denying its existence - under the n Camera Obscura work from earlier in this portfoli from the historical nuances of the site suggests a subvertedly addresses an immediate site concern
The surrounding Apennine mountain region, Colo creates a sense of enclosure to the Talassoterapie wards the sea by allowing the context to conceal
Views from the accommodation suites (notably ta the proposal) are exemplified by the low-level na dation suites are reasonably spaced, views in or the slats protect the privacy of the accommodatio
tio (swimming pool) shows the perverse nature of leisupplantation of such a programme onto a location ain plays on the function/nonfunctioning philosophy. By past immediately would by definition be saturating the notion of the replication of images saturates places (see io). To propose a programme that is entirely removed an incongruity which is in keeping with philosophy but n - the invasive algae in the coastal waters.
onia Fara and the monolithic external wall at via Preli e proposal. It intensifies the single aspect for views tol the site.
aller element in design, located at the via Preli side of ature of the spa design. As the slats for the accommoout are only fully realised when in elevation, otherwise on suite residents by restricting temporary views.
The overarching theme for the site is that the context should provide a seclusion for the spa user and also that the relationship to the sea should be paramount. In the scene above, the relationship of the beach to the site, as viewed from the coastline, is the most telling aspect. Chiavari is best known throughout Europe as one of the Italian Riviera’s most tourist driven resorts and as such the site must integrate with its temporary resident alongside catering for its more permanent resident or user. The ‘slats’ that are grounded at beach level do not only provide a visual link to the Talassoterapie proposal, it also takes forward the notion of the sun shade device from previous works. This concept was used for the algae photobioreactors as it restricted the view of the tower. In this instance, the use of the slats is more akin to the actual need for reducing solar glare. There is the potential for certain therapy treatments to be conducted under these elements which would in turn transcend the site boundary. What is palpable from the image above is that the built environment is one that limits the vertical impact on site. The Talassoterapie proposal does not aim to compete with the Colonia Fara tower or to visually compete with the former factory building. Instead it opts to create a low-level proposal which harnesses the contextual situation so to magnify the overbearing nature of the Apennine region and also the building height of Colonia. This reduces the impact, visually, on the beach user, resident or passer-by.
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The proposal is set to mimic the relationship between women of the Resistenza and the unseen code system used in communications synonymous with that period; it should remain as a discontinuous fabric, an archipelago of varying functions. The sporadic nature of function is removed from the essence of memorialisation. Typology shifts under nonfunctioning mechanisms from that of one succinct building element to that of community. A collection of buildings rather than one unit. A collective identity. A systematic prescription of views. Contained vistas. Prescribed views. Distorted imagery. It was palpable from site studies that fragmentation belongs to the sites identity, both materially and also metaphorically. As Liebniz suggests, wholes have a borrowed reality from their parts. In order to celebrate and memorialise the women of the resistance, it was essential to make use of the parts rather than represent the past in its entirety. There had to be a symbolic exchange rather than a value exchange. Binary numbers became the forbearing element in the memorialisation, as a result. Behind every letter in encryption lies a number. A binary number. Every encrypted message in transmission between women in the resistance and the Allies concealed a host of binary numbers in its very encryption. The women of the resistance concealed their own identity in order to protect their existence. Behind each concealed identity lay a binary identity, a binary existence. Individually concealed for collective identity. Italians hold on to their own regional identity by holding onto their dialect. The creation of regional identity. When language is transferred into binary, its symbolic significance is disseminated, rendered useless. As Italy attempts to align itself with the global commercial community it takes on a global business language of English, a global identity. The constriction of global communities into a singular is palpable in architecture. Organic, biomorphic architecture blends urban fabric. A creative identity. The camera leads to a saturation of architecture, rendering unique design ubiquitous. A negation of identity. Culture, language, community is lost. Concealed? Or saturated? A polemical palimpsest is to be created with the use of binary numbers seemingly concealing true messages through code. Identity is concealed, yet, paradoxically, revealed simultaneously. A parallax. A simultaneous view. A restricted view. An overriding theme, a conceptual framework: A paradoxical tautology - to conceal, yet simultaneously, reveal identity.
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The fascist camps were places that concealed identity, blending young boys into one military fabric. The colonies then become mass tourist attractions, again concealing individuals in favour of the mass. The concealing nature of the women in the resistance is also paramount here. The women needed to use pseudonyms, coded radio transmissions and other ways of hiding identity or truth. In a bid to establish memorialisation, the past was to be incongruously laid out across the site in constricting pathways that seemingly taper to a point. The point never reveals itself as such as is in fact the bearer of a view. The fins are placed throughout the site to prevent or frame views and have varying treatments on each - texts, imagery, apertures. To reveal a history. A processional route from Chiavari, along the Talassoterapie site with its culmination at the Colonia Fara tower makes a direct reference to the struggle the women faced in transferring their messages and following their own route. At different points along the promenade there are interjections above ground with the slats that traject from site to beach level. They cast a shadow which leaves a trace along the promenade. This idea pertains to the notions used throughout the 5th year project and also acts as a sun shading device, relevant to an earlier 6th year project, previously mentioned. The fins create brief protection from the sun and also fluctuate in scale, ranging from the monolithic to the human scale. This results in an alteration of use. The monolithic fins are adorned with imagery and slogans from the movement, whereas the human scale fins are to be used as resting places. The culmination of the route occurs at point 3, illustrated here. In order to ascertain the emotions of the women of the movement who were constantly finding themselves in situations of apparent no return, there was indeed “light at the end of the tunnel”, so to speak. This idea was carried forward by making sure the pinnacle of the route did not finish as a point and was, instead, obtusely left open. Somewhat akin to the idea of constricting pathways was the subsequent concept of the restricted view. The monolithic outer wall running alongside via Preli is enforced so to create a single aspect nature to the site users. However, it also has “snapshot” views for passers-by to discover by their own virtue. Images 4 and 5 show a sample of these views. Image 4 is created to run in conjunction with the axial route on plan and concludes with a distant view of the thermal bathing facility. The slats lattice effect is noticeable in the foreground with the shadows cast onto the hardstand surface. Image 5 shows the view along from via Preli looking towards the seaweed farm in the distance. This creates a direct link between the street user and the site use. On first glance the site rejects any view of the sea, but with the incision of each of the restricted views, vistas are prescribed. In an attempt to highlight the confliction between the Colonia Fara site and the women of the Resistance, alongside the idea of memorialisation in conjunction with leisure, it was deemed necessary for the imagery of the design to reflect the apparent incompatibility so to emphasise the spatio-temporal juxtaposition of the past and present. The link between female partigiane (Resistance fighters) and a rejuvenated freedom in Italy following April 25th 1945 was curated using Italian female movie stars such as Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Alida Valli and Elsa Martinelli. This idea was symbolic, to represent, metaphorically, the female figure in a new age. The iconography and figures are at odds, seemingly incongruous. The transferral of present day setting to a bygone age amplifies the notion of functioning under a nonfunctioning system, the images should reference a form of meaning to create or nurture memory. So to represent partigiane struggle a witticism was formed: to replicate the power of image and photography in manifesting memory. But does this create a subversion of principles? A negation of reality? A reality that is filtered through the logic of exchange value and advertising. A hypersimulation of context. Hypersimulation means the real is replaced by the real, a hyperreality. Interpretation replaces interpretation, beauty replaces beauty, non-spatiotemporal reality replaces itself with itself. Can reality be conceived as nonmeaning [a resistance to meaning], can it take its viewer beyond hermeneutics, beyond the world of interpretable signifiers to that of the uninterpretable, the unsymbolizable real? True significance remains concealed until it is revealed by an interpretive act; and the notion of symptom embodies this assumption. Can there be no symptom without an interpretant? Or is the real internal to the symbolic? Is this then a resistance to meaning?
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highlighted area = memorial promenade
highlighted segments are the locations of the memorial fins
The axial plan definition to form constricting views and pathways; derived from the Colonia axis
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Double glazing: 10mm sun screen toughened safety glass externally, 10mm cavity lami nated safety glass internally (2 panes of 6mm toughened safety glass).
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Double glazing: 8mm solarcontrol toughened safety glass. 10mm cavity. 8mm toughened safety glass.
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32x300mm laminated safety glass column
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the ‘slat’ timber frame in its memorial promenade form
the glass box/timber frame construction used throughout the talassoterapie proposal
internal construction render building
synopsis:
An exclusive healthspa wellness centre and accommodation, accompanying an algal processing plant. Narrative: A discontinuous fabric, an archipelago of varying functions. The concepts sporadic nature is removed from the nature of the building of a wellness centre. Its typology shifts from that of one succinct building element to that of community. A collection of buildings rather than one unit. The building elements are removed from each other to create simultaneously oblique and transparent views. A systematic prescription of views. Distorted imagery, fragmented. Fragmentation belongs to the sites current and historic identity. The built form is essentially glass boxes that are constructed on a glass beam/column frame, connected to glazed facades; above which stands the oak stained timber frame, seemingly independent of the glass box. The form of the building is intended to by outwith of human scale by allowing the timber frame to function by not functioning under its actual visual depiction. contained
zistas
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prescribed
views
facade
study
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4 reference plan diagram a
section 1:50 (facade details as per bracc sheet 1: construction)
image c
image a
image d
image b
diagram c
construction process 1
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groundplane
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continuous pile foundation / concrete slab
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mechanical and electrical systems laid (ventilation / heating / lighting)
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primary structure (glazing beam/column frame)
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facade system (glazing facade / roof)
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timber frame (independent structure)
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external / internal floor linings and finishes
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diagram b
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diagram a (timber connection - beam/column): 1 2 3 4
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5mm steel rod connector - tension joint steel bearing/rubber connection fixing 32 x 300mm oak stained timber beam 32 x 300mm oak stained timber column
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2 diagram b (glazed roof/structure exploded axonometric): 1
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double glazing: 10mm sun screen toughened safety glass externally, 10mm cavity laminated safety glass internally (2 panes of 6mm toughened safety glass). silicone joint seal Double glazing: 8mm solar-control toughened safety glass. 10mm cavity. 8mm toughened safety glass. steel glazing fixing 5mm steel bearing 32x300mm laminated safety glass column 32x300mm laminated safety glass beam
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diagram c (isometric detail): connection of primary/secondary structure, facade system and foundations.
diagram d (axonometric detail): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
10mm toughened Cool-Lite glass Expanded foam backing Silicone weather seal 10mm air gap Two 6mm glass laminated together 32mm thick glass beam steel angle double glazing perspex packer steel shoe T-section to support glass columns between panels
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6 image a external view of treatment room/swimming pool envelope 6 7
image b external view of timber frame connection
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9 image c internal view of junction between glass beam and column with timber frame structure standing independently of the glazed structure. 10 image d internal view of glazed facade attached to glass structure with timber frame standing independently.
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diagram d
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s e c t i o n
1. i n t e r n a l
2. a l g a e
image
from
within
photobioreactors
colonia
conceal
fara
colonia
a - - a
a t
1 : 2 0 0
proposal
fara
image
[Academic use only]
colonia fara tower seaweed dry-out facilit y
photobioreactors
a a
location
photobioreactor hub
talassoterapie
suites
natatio
pool
fitness
centre
plan
1:5000
cafe/bar
3. i n t e r n a l
image
from
within
4. e x t e r n a l
image
looking
indoor
toward
swimming
thermal
pool
bathing
proposal
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