Interventions in the Landscape - PRORA

INTERVENTIONS in the LANDSCAPE Christopher Sejer Fischlein & Mathias Skafte Andersen

xx THE MODEL

The following tests have been conducted on a 1:2000 model of an exerpt of the island of Rügen - specifically the context surrounding the two northern blocks of the PRORA complex. The tests concern the proposal’s relationship with it’s surroundings as well as the making of strategies regarding the approach.

01 FORREST ENTRANCE

A corridor cuts through the landscape from the forrest nearest to the building and into the groundfloor. The visual experiencce of the building is limited to a far view filtrated through the forrest until the interior is reached. The corridor intersects with both vegetation and paths thus forcing the visitor to stray from the parallel axis of the structure.

02 MULTIPLE OBSTRUCTIONS

A corridor runs on top of the landscape, through forrests and across paths and the railway, beginning in the western hills and ending at the building. It becomes an obstructing object in the context, equal in size to the existing structure, thus magnifying the slicing of the landscape that has already been created by the structure and the parallel paths.

It redirects the flow of visitors in a new, perpendicular axis through ribbons of vegetation.

03 TO THE SEA

A corridor begins in the forrested hills and runs through the landscape, perforating the building and continuing into the sea. It has the potential to create a line of sight that breaks the south-northern axis, creating a binocular perspective that intersects the natural as well as the manmade ribbons of the context.

04 PROSTHESIS

A vast corridor intersects with the building as a prosthesis, giving it the ability to grasp the near zones of vegetation in the context - also intersecting with paths that are obstructed by the precense of the itnervention.

05 MIMICKING TOPOGRAPHY

A corridor stretches from the building, across paths and into the western forrests. The corridor mimickzvs perfectly the landscape it is places upon, translating every difference in height into the built. The visitor is deprived of visual connections with both the building and the landscape, but experiences a heigtened sensibility to the topography under his feet.

06 IN THE AIR

From a high point in the topography, a corridor floats above the landscape until it intersects with the top of the building, obstructing only upward views but not the flow of wildlife and visitors. It enables existing infrastructure to function as always, and at the same time it creates points of interest tucked away between the trees.

07 IMPASSIVE INTERSECTIONS

Unconcerned with the topography the corridor hovers above the landscape. It creates an immidiate connection between the far context and the deep sea, obstructed only by the built structure. It suggests points of interest both in the landscape and in the building.

08 ZOOM

A corridor stretches from the path behind the first ribbon of forrest and ends inside a courtyard, depriving the visitor of a total perspective and allowing only a detailed experience of the scale of the structure. The connection created between the landscape and the structure becomes more intimate.

09 THE ELEVATOR

Elevatorshafts are placed on the western and eastern side of the building - one directly in front of the western facade and one on the beach. The visitor will get an experience of the scale and rythm of the building, then be submerged into the ground, resurface on the seaside and have to rediscover the structure through the ribbons of forrrest that lies in front.

10 ABOVE

A corridor hovers above the landscape, the roads, the paths and the building itself. It touches the ground only where it is necessary, but provides no obstructions in the context. It directs attention to a forgotten axis, experienced both from the ground and from an entrance to the roof of the structure.