(A)MASSING THE VOID
A large void, a body with no organs has been made within the historic city center. A new datum of the ground and sky. Enclosure/Disclosure become interchangeable. The surfaces that embrace the spaces to be hidden from public view become the ground that supports the dissemination of the work within. Their seam, the architectural corner, indulges in its construction: the tangency and intersection of a surface. This phenomenon constricts and expands the various organs of a body once empty. The institute is situated among five floors above ground. As a blackened vessel, the interior is organized around the illumination of its anatomy. The public
meeting areas are nested as volumes within the vastness of research, office, and display spaces. The (absence of) a circulation spine that joins the floors together is a wall of light that contains the distinct, yet visually continuous programs of each level. It is not until the body reaches the light shelf above the city that the use of direct light and views situates the body within the exterior context. This is where one is to be alone, to contemplate. As an extension of the formal expression of the architecture, the ambiguity of a connectome institute serves as a new cultural and economic compendium of the historic city center.
Centro de Investigaci贸n de la Connect贸mica Tudela, Navarre, Spain Net Square Footage: 1,500m2 Gross Square Footage: 1,950m2 Exterior public space: 840m2 Total Project Area: 1,405m2
Calle Portal, 1 31500 Tudela Navarra Spain
TEMPORARY INSTALLATION
PLASTER FORM STUDY
EXPLORATORY DRAWING REVISTING SITE AND CONTEXT IN TEMPORARY INSTALLATION
SHADOW BASIN
COLLAPSED PERSPECTIVE
TEMPORARY INSTALLATION IN SITE
INITIAL MASSING/SURFACE STUDY OF INSTITUTE
D(r)awn of anguish, a becoming From the bend in the horizon The absence breaks from its cyclical hold The halos that lent purpose linger to the wayside of the nine Anticipation, they move again The figures grow darker The trough that denied the earth light has joined the celebration Then darkness again A fallen divine radiance, a projective cast At the infinitismal nexus of this are our bodies Below ground yet consumed by sky All alone, together.
Midnight
INITIAL MASSING/SURFACE STUDY OF INSTITUTE
MIDTERM BOARD, 1
MIDTERM BOARD, 3
MIDTERM BOARD, 4
MIDTERM BOARD, 5
MIDTERM BOARD, 6
COLLAGED SECTION
ARTICULATED PUBLIC / ABSENT PRIVATE
PLAN-SECTION-PERSPECTIVE
SECTION PERSPECTIVE
SECTION PERSPECTIVE
(A)MASSING THE VOID
MATTHEW BOHNE Advanced Studio, Fall 2014 Connectomics Institute Tudela, Navarre, Spain Enrique Martinez, Senior Critic Final Review, December 11, 2014