Reimagining AA
WORKSPACE Student: Dominika Demlova Tutor: Fabrizio Ballabio Title: Dèja Vu
Synopsis: Through analyzing two specific workspaces in the AA, the bar and the back members’ room, I have discovered a spacial quality that became fundamental for my project “Dèja Vu”. A theme of a passage that goes through two interlocking rooms. Having a clearly defined theme allowed me to determine parameters that lead my project from a starting point of two interlocking square spaces to a design for a three storey building that constitutes of two, almost identical, rooms on each floor. I have questioned the role of the passage within the rooms and experimented with the interlocking on both horizontal and vertical level. After developing a design logic for my theme, I re-introduced the functions of the original rooms on a larger scale. Hence, the building becomes a gallery with bar/reception and seating areas on the ground floor. The passage leads the visitors through a loop of the individual rooms that all feel so much alike and yet different. Have they been in this room before? Dèja Vu.
Analogies
First iterations exploring the theme of a path and a room
Intersection of two rooms
Path within two rooms
Symmetry of proportion as a tool not aim
Equal intersection
Vertical intersection
One rooms steps in with the floor, the another bites in with her walls
Skylight to highlight the path
Possible intersection of the roofs
Ground floor with bar and reception, the two rooms on the floor are intersectiong while the top level of the rooms beneath them are on the sides. Windows on all levels are placed in the top level of the rooms. All rooms get equal lighting.
First floor, the path goes through uninterrupted, spaces under stairs become bathrooms
Top level with the two ‘horns’ of the room underneath.
In all rooms, the part that that does not contribute to the path becomes twice as tall and takes the sunlight from windows in this part.