Plac e 1:
Plac e
-Non
According to Marc Auge, we are living in a world with excess of time, space and individualization. A super modern world that turns individuals back on themselves, making them more like witnesses than actors in life. What Marc Auge defines as a non-place, is a space with unrootedness, one that human beings do not recognize themselves in it and are not recognized by others. This assignment aimed to make us understand what is place and its perceived opposite, non-place, through analyzing this terms based on the readings. After that we had to find an example of place, and on of a non-place in Manchester.
Proje ct 0
NON-PLACE
PLACE
The exchange square in the centre of Manchester is defined as a place for me. In contrast with the market street and the Arndale centre, where everyone is distracted by shops, cafes and colours and act as individuals, here people have relationships with each other. They suddenly stop from the madness of this consuming era, and they interact with the people next to them. They are relaxing, chatting, having beers and eating together and they understand one another. It is a meeting point, a PLACE for a break from the non-places surrounding it.
'..the same place can be looked upon as a place by some people and a non place by others..' Marc Auge
What comes to my mind when I hear the term 'non-place' is Spinningfields. For many it can be perceived as a place, since it is always full of people, it has restaurants, gardens and shops. But for me it is not. To my eyes, it seems like a square of glass boxes, DISPLACED in the middle of Manchester and more specifically, next to the Victorian Gothic building, the John Ryland's Library. But even the people that you see there do not really make any difference. They are all the same, wearing suites, individuals not talking to each other, always in a hurry to complete their tasks. No one is rooted to that place. There is a mixing and the end of genres, with everyone waiting to get out of the 'uniform' and go to a place where they recognize themselves and are recognized by others. All these turn Spinningfields into a non-place that could be placed or displaced anywhere.
DIALECTIC PRO JEC T0 2:
DIA LEC TIC The aim of this project was to broaden our understanding of the critical thought process when analyzing a context in terms of Form, Scale, Proportion, Negative Space, Massing, Structure, Enclosure, Materiality, Site conditions etc. The first part of the assignment was to research about piazza della Vittoria in Genova and then create an outline of the information. We had to analyze the site in a broader way than the usual and not just take the obvious issues into consideration. We analyzed it as a whole and then deconstructed it to its parts in order to define its existing conditions 'THESIS' and our perceived opposite 'ANTITHESIS'. THESIS and ANTITHESIS created a scale and one became the reference to the other. This is a dialectic form of logic.
ng ampi IA' c TOR 'VIT CONCRETE
NO BENCHES
PEOPLE CAMPING
SOIL
TENTS
RIA
NO PEDESTRIANS
TO
TREES EVERYWHERE
ANTITHESIS
ATHLETES RUNNING
VIT
CARS AROUND THE PIAZZA
NO LIFE
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My second synthesis was its transformation into a stadium. It is an unwelcoming piazza surrounded by cars and my antithesis was the surrounding of it with track lanes,full of athletes and different actions, spectators and change its dull colours to green and red.
EXCAVATED
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My first synthesis was the excavation of the piazza and its transformation into a camping space. People always move around they piazza but they never stop. My perceived opposite was to have tents where people would stay overnight. Cars are replaced by trees and the concrete floor by soil.
FLAT GROUND PLANE
THESIS
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The second part of this project was to create thoughtprovoking images. A synthesis of our deconstructed parts and our perceived opposites, which would drastically change the existing condition of the Piazza. We did that by randomly combining our ANTITHESIS.`
ANTITHESIS
Sta
THESIS
CAR LANES
TRACK LANES
COLD GREY
WARM RED
PEOPLE PASSING
RECTANGULAR PLAN
SPECTATORS
CIRCULAR PLAN
MEDITERRANEAN WEATHER
TROPICAL WEATHER
FOGGY
LIQUID SURFACE
FLO
HARD SURFACE
ODE
DP
IAZZ
SUNNY
ANTITHESIS
A
THESIS
CARS
MEDITERRANEAN TREES
BOAT
PINE TREES
Piazza della Vittoria is usually sunny because it is in a Mediterranean city. My perceived opposites on this synthesis were the tropical storm and the disappearance of the hard surface. Also another antithesis was the boat into the piazza and waves taking over the monument's thesis as the tallest point of the piazza.
DIS
For this synthesis, I displaced the Piazza on the Niagara falls. I replace the concrete with rocks and created layers instead of the flat surface it was on before. Cars no more have a place in the piazza and the only way out are the waterfalls.
PL AC ED IN NIA GA RA THESIS
FLAT SURFACE
CONCRETE
PLACED IN ITALY
ACCESSIBLE BY CAR
ROADS
ANTITHESIS
DIFFERENT LAYERS
ROCKS
DISPLACED IN NIAGARA
ACCESSIBLE BY FOOT OR HELICOPTER
WATERFALLS
R ATE ERW GREY
NO PEDESTRIANS
CONCRETE GROUND
VISIBLE TO THE SURROUNDING
UGLY
UNDERWATER
BLUE
PLENTY OF FISH
REEFS
SUNKEN
BEAUTIFUL
DRY ENVIRONMENT
WET ENVIRONMENT
LINEAR PAVEMENTS
PATTERNS
OVA
UND FLAT OVERGROUND
ANTITHESIS
GEN
THESIS
PL AC E/ NO NPL AC EG EN OV A
'locality is a form of belonging to a place. The place which is ours, belongs to us and we belong to it' In November, we visited Genova in Italy. Out tutor's intention was to make us feel displaced but it did not work for me since I am a Mediterranean and I felt more like home. Our first project in Genova was to find a place and a non-place there. It was quite difficult because Genova has a unique character that creates confusion between places and non-places. These rail lines give the notion of a non-place. There is not even a station there that one could argue that it is a place for people that work there. It is just a passing point of industrial trains. But once the view clears, it turns into a place. All the layers of Genovese houses appear and then the Italian culture and its characteristics are visible. Just outside Genova, there is a small village called Camogli. Once you get out of the maze the buildings create, imaginary scenery appears in front of you. The beautiful endless sea, mixed with the sky's colour and the bay's ends disappearing in the water. Even the building's colours match in a beautiful way with the surroundings. People relaxed, with their children all over, strengthening their relationships between them. This exactly defines what I perceive as a 'place'. However, after 7pm everything shuts down, the sun disappears and the people leave. It turns into a nonplace no matter how beautiful it still looks.
Franco La Cecla
DISPLACED IN GENOVA
Camogli is a small village outside Genova. It is a micrograph of heaven. It most probably does not have the elements that would define it as a 'must see' for an architect, but the metaphysical qualities of this place and the feeling it gives, are worth analysing to find the secret of this synthesis.
How many hours can someone spend in a museum? Seven hours are definitely not enough. Whilst in Genova, we visited the 'Galata- Museo Del Mare'. We spent a lot of time analysing Renzo Piano's master plan for Genova that he did in 2004, when it was the European Capital of Culture. It was really crucial in order to understand Genova and its port area more specifically since it is where our project site is this year.
Is a cemetery always a non-place? Not the Staglieno Cemetery and definitely not on the All Saints day. It is the third largest cemetery in the world. It is renowned for its sculptures. 'It is a city of the dead with its sunken graves laid out like the grid of cities from the Roman Empire, a majestic chapel, pavilions of above grade tombs, and palazzo-like family mausoleums on its hillsides, a mini version of the Castelletto.' George Epolito
Whilst in Genova we visited Renzo Piano's foundation. It was really nice to see how a famous architect works and the beautiful models that are made for every project. Especially one's that deals with his projects in the same way our unit does. We got the chance to see projects that are in progress at the moment and the drawings of their current phase. What was impressive was that on the side of the building, there was a courtyard where they exhibit all the 1:1 structural detail models and some installations.
'..how to become modern and return to sources..'
Paul Ricoeur
Who could think a brick factory could be interesting? The Brick Factory in Torino, is much more than just a factory. It is hosting 'MUNLAB' an eco museum. It runs clay workshops, art festivals and plays with ex-workers telling the history of the factory. They have also created public parkland with manmade lakes where they let locals grow their crops.
Silos Granario - Calata S. Limbania Maritime Station Genova This is our site in Genova. Part of it is this silos building which was completed in 1901. The building is 250 meters long, but most of the interior space is used as a storage granary with a large central tower for the elevation, processing and storage of the loaded material. It was in operation until 1990 but now is in a state of disrepair.
what in this age brings a woman to kill someone?
THE
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Barbara Baraldi
At the beginning of the semester, we chose one Italian crime novel to read, in order to find issues in the Italian society that are reflected in the book. Later this will inform our project''s program.
MURDERED
NIGHT
The book I have read is 'The girl with the Crystal Eyes' by Barbara Baraldi. It is written in a postmodern style because of the continuous change of chapters and characters. She uses temporal distortion with fragmentation and non-linear narratives. The book is about the role of woman in the society. Barbara Baraldi tells the story of two disrespected women and how men are underestimating their power. It is a dark, black fairytale and it gives a message against sexual violence towards women.
HUNTED
'A perverse game of life and death unfolds between the hunter and the hunted, murderer and detective, night and day..'
DAY
a feminine bloody approach
DETECTIVE
pro jec t3 :C
ULT URE SH AD
claustrophobic..
OW
lost in the maze..
exaggeration of fears...
This project was a design of two artifacts/devices that create shadow patterns. One is based on Culture and the other on Nature. They should reflect upon readings, films and our recent trip to Genova. This is my Culture model. It is based on the film Genova(2008) and the trip there. The maze created in between the parts of my device, represents the feeling of getting lost, and I was inspired from the part in the film, where the little girl gets lost in the narrow streets of Genova. Everything seems so similar and she does not know whether she is going on the right direction. She is enclosed between the tall buildings and the dangerous immigrants and it feels so claustrophobic. If she turns left is it going to lead her to the right street or get her even deeper the scary maze? My model also represents the shadows that when you are scared exaggerate your fears and seem very dangerous.
is there really a way out?
Perceptions are constructed by complex brain processes that piece together fleeting fragmentary scraps of both immediate sensual data and data drawn from memory
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My second artifact is the Nature one. It is based on the reading 'Ceci tuera Cela: education of the architect in Hyperspace' by Eugenia Victoria Ellis. It represents the immediate sensual data and the data drawn from memory that come together in our brains and construct perceptions. How information of different scale and importance come together and fit in our brains. I used the circle packing system in order to figure out the circles and the way that the most data could fit in the space. The second set of pictures is what how the different kind of data is combined together in the world in order to give us ready images for the mind to perceive.
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Eugenia Victoria Ellis
RE-CATEGORIZE
RE-CATEGORIZE
RIVIERA DI FIORI, ITALY
The region of Liguria is also known as the Riviera di Fiori. It is separated into the Riviera di Ponente and the Riviera di Levante. The flower industry is bery developed in this area with various events happening through the Liguria during the year and it is also a big part of its economy. The area of Liguria stretching from the French border to Genoa is known as the Riviera di Ponente. It is this area that is known for its vast production of flowers especially roses. A modern road that follows the ancient via Aurelia hugs the beautiful coastline and connects many of the small fishing villages and resort towns that are must-visits. San Remo is the most famous of the resort towns along the Riviera and is home to a famous Casino, a charming medieval center, elegant old hotels and a popular music festival. Imperia is actually two separate towns: the touristy but very charming Porto Maurizio and the more industrial Oneglia. The coast of Liguria from Genoa to the La Spezia is the more and less developed and more dramatic Riviera di Levante. Home to sheltered coves, cliff hanging terraces, natural harbors and a few beaches, the Riviera di Levante is no longer as isolated as it once was and is now well known to travelers. The area holds a little of everything: Quaint fishing towns like Bonassola, medieval hill towns like San Salvatore, artist and celebrity Meccas like Portofino, pleasant resort towns like Rapallo, even the major port of La Spezia has a beautiful harbor and sights worth visiting. The gem of the Riviera di Levante is the no longer secret Cinque Terre - five formerly isolated villages, four of them perched upon the rocky coast. The coastal path connecting the villages, once the only way to reach the Cinque Terre takes hikers through steep terraced cliffs full of vines and olive trees on the way to breathtaking vistas of the Ligurian coast.
EUROFLORA EVENTS AROUND GENOVA
Euroflora brings the whole of the nursery gardening productions into competition: 5,779 technical and aesthetic competitions have been held since 1966. Euroflora is universally considered the greatest means for nursery gardening promotion Italy has ever had. Originally the show was primarily addressed to the producers of cut flowers and indoor plants, and was then extended to the sector of outdoor nursery. It was the latter which gradually developed, gaining more and more ground, and becoming a very important component of Euroflora. Outdoor nursery is the major attraction in the outdoor areas of the fair ground, besides representing the main item in Italy's floricultural exports. More than 800 floriculturists representing 19 Italian regions and 16 foreign countries (among which Belgium was the guest of honour) took part in 500 technical and aesthetic contests assessed by 255 experts. eVERY 4 YEARS
THESIS
SILO BUILDING ABANDONED
ANTITHESIS
WHOLE PLACE ABANDONED
GREY
GREEN
NO PEDESTRIANS
LIONS
EMPTY
NEXT TO THE WATER
SITE ANALYSIS: THESIS-ANTITHESIS-SYNTHESIS
MOTHER NATURE TAKE OVER
NO WATER- DRIED PORT
THESIS
ANTITHESIS
ABOVE WATER LEVEL
UNDERWATER
GREY
BLUE-GREEN
NO PEDESTRIANS
SHEEPS
CONCRETE WALLS
TREES
VISIBLE TO THE SURROUNDING
SUNKEN
SITE ANALYSIS: THE SILO BUILDING
Granary silos "Hennebique" - Santa Calata Limbania | Genoa (1898-1907) *The former granary silos Hennebique, named after the brilliant French builder of a business intuition to marry lime and iron bars. The first building constructed using reinforced concrete in Italy (the same patent Hennebique, was then applied to the Lingotto in Turin). *Built in the late '800 (1898) for the storage and bagging grain, so called by the name of 'inventor of reinforced concrete, Hennebique Francois, who patented the new Structural Engineering in 1892. *The silo opened in 1901, for the collection of grain. The Hennebique is still an immense artifact of over two hundred and ten feet long, 33 wide and 44 high, a volume of about 295 000 square meters and 38 thousand square meters of indoor area spread over six floors. Imposing industrial building consists of a main building along nearly 250 meters in the longitudinal direction on trunk Limbania, 6 floors with windows on the facade, but most of the interior space used as a storage granary, with a large central tower for the elevation, processing and storage of the loaded material. *A typical “ industrial building". A brick facade decorated with concrete soberly classical motifs. (The classic architectural motifs on the walls made of concrete: the fake tan in relief, the lintels and arches, actually conceal and cover a complex system of portals monolithic reinforced concrete, already experienced in Europe as "patent Hennebique", and here realized for the first time in Italy.) It is a short walk from the pier of arrival of large cruise ships (in 2010 total nearly 3 ½ million passengers passed through the port of Genoa). *Expanded in 1907 with the addition of 126 cells, carrying capacity' value from 23000 to 50000 tons. *In operation until about 1990, is now in a state of disrepair.
SITE ANALYSIS: THE SILO BUILDING
The book "The list of works executed in reinforced concrete - Hennebique System, from 1895 to the entire 1910 ", acquired in recent days by the authority, is in fact much more than a sequence of works, is a key, original, a country that gets through the new industrial buildings. A clear example of the genius Francois Hennebique, an apprentice bricklayer who first joined the French concrete steel bars, in a particular way, had the insight to build a real business empire. Genoa, at the end of the nineteenth century was bewitched from the "System Hennebique", with works to date and still intact in their blood on cement and steel: the museum of natural history at the Grand Hotel Miramare, the Church of Boxing Day at Eastern Market, the stock room to the gallery Pammatone, through houses and buildings of great value. A trademark that has never gone out of fashion, in a city, which was accustomed to burn quickly, its fundamental pillars.
THE GIRL WITH THE CRYSTAL EYES VS POISON IVY
BETRAYED BY A MAN / WAS TURNED INTO POISON IVY BY HIM
BETRAYED BY A MAN
BETRAYED BY A MAN / WAS RAPED AND HURT
FIRST SEDUCES VICTIMS KILLS MEN
REVENGE TO ALL MEN POISON IVY
NO REGRETS • Breathes CO2 • Requires sunlight to survive • Vegetable toxins +Chlorophyll in her skin(permanently green) • Ability to control her appearance and to restore herself to human facade
USES HER APPEARANCE TO ATTRACT VICTIMS
• Her body produces phermones- To mind control other people • She specializes in hybrids and can create the most potently powerful floral toxins • Toxins through poisonous kiss • False love or affection with victim • Mind controlling drugs - Instantly fatal toxins. • Ability to build tunnels(escaped from prison) • Vines on her costume- she communicates with plants- They act as weaponry, defensive/grabbing appendages • Special lipstic poisoned with toxins from a plant • Can not have children • Exhale mind controlling spores in the form of a blown kiss
USES HER KISS AND PERFUME TO ATTRACT VICTIMS
PROGRAMME ANALYSIS
PERFUME PROCESS
In the manufacture of perfumes, natural ingredients like flowers, grasses, spices, fruit, wood, roots, resins, balsams, leaves, gums, and animal secretions, as well as resources like alcohol, petrochemicals, coal, and coal tars are used. In fact, only about 2,000 of the 250,000 known flowering plant species contain these essential oils.
Steam Distillation
Expression
In steam distillation, steam is passed through plant material held in a still, whereby the essential oil turns to gas. This gas is then passed through tubes, cooled, and liquified. Oils can also be extracted by boiling plant substances like flower petals in water instead of steaming them.
Expression is the oldest and least complex method of extraction. By this process, now used in obtaining citrus oils from the rind, the fruit or plant is manually or mechanically pressed until all the oil is squeezed out.
In this building, flowers collected from all over the liguria will be used for the different processes of the perfume making.
Enfleurage
Solvent Extraction
During enfleurage, flowers are spread on glass sheets coated with grease. The glass sheets are placed between wooden frames in tiers. Then the flowers are removed by hand and changed until the grease has absorbed their fragrance.
Under solvent extraction, flowers are put into large rotating tanks or drums and benzene or a petroleum ether is poured over the flowers, extracting the essential oils. The flower parts dissolve in the solvents and leave a waxy material that contains the oil, which is then placed in ethyl alcohol. The oil dissolves in the alcohol and rises. Heat is used to evaporate the alcohol, which once fully burned off, leaves a higher concentration of the perfume oil on the bottom.
CONCEPTUAL MAP
DIAGRAMATIC PLANS 1:1000
DIAGRAMATIC LONG SECTIONS 1:1000
DIAGRAMATIC SHORT SECTIONS 1:1000
SECTION FF 1:100
THE SCREEN
X 10321 SUMMER The screen, that is on the south side of the building was designed like that in order to protect that side from the sun. During the summer, the holes of the screen will be filled with ivy leaves that will block the sun and during the winter, the branches that will be left, will let daylight through them to heat up and light the building. The design was inspired from my 'nature' model of the first semester. The spatial arrangement of the circles in the model is the same arrangement of the holes on the screen. Where more private spaces are in the building that do not require much sunlight, like the laboratories of the toxic substances, the pattern of the holes is less dense and where much sunlight is required like the lower floors, more holes are arranged to let the maximum daylight in.
WINTER
EXTERIOR VIEW
POISON IVY'S TUNNEL
SECRET TUNNELS
Visitors' tunnel Laboratories and flower delivery tunnels Poison Ivy's tunnel
Mafia's tunnel
Some parts of the building are only accessible through some tunnels. These tunnels have been built in some of the silos. There are six tunnels in the building. Two for the flower delivery to the fourth floor in the laboratories, one for poison ivy to access her own little kingdom, one for mafia members that access the second floor where the flower shop and the toxic laboratories are and the third floor where the spa and the perfume and lipstic shop is. The last two tunnels are for the guests of the botanical gardens and the euroflora event and they are connected on the fourth floor. They go through the building and guests have the opportunity to walk on the outside of the laboratories and have a look through the glass at some parts. The tunnels finish on the fifth floor where the botanical gardens are. No user of any tunnel is able to see what is going on on the other tunnels and they never meet although some tunnels might be next to each other.
DUTY FREE SHOP
MAFIA SHOP
X 10
A private perfume shop on the third floor only for the mafia men's wives. Here unique perfumes only available to them are exhibited. The shop is only accessible through the mafia's tunnel and no one else can get in or out apart from poison ivy and the users of the tunnel.
Unique perfumes especially made for the mafia's men wives and exhibited only in this space.
Some perfumes are surrounded by the plants that are made of. The plants take over the structure.
LABORATORIES In the laboratories on the fourth floor, a structure inspired from my shadow model is used and the spaces that are created between the panels become individual laboratories. They are the private ones where only a few people have access and is where the poisonous perfumes are created. Only the scientists and poison ivy know that. They can only be accessed at 7am in the morning when all the panels facing north are lifted and can only go out at 5 pm when the panes are lifted again. No one can see what is happening to the space next to him.