Andrya Kohlmann Architetto, dottoranda presso l’Università Federale del Rio Grande do Sul (Brasile). andryakohlmann@gmail.com Rafael Lorentz Dottorando presso l’Università Iuav di Venezia e l’Università della Svizzera Italiana. rdclorentz@gmail.com
Margine come spazio di azione: l’ibridazione e il progetto per il Centro Danese di Architettura L’articolo investiga il ruolo del “margine” nella composizione del Centro Danese di Architettura, progetto dello studio OMA completato a Copenhagen nel 2018 e fortemente caratterizzato dalla coesistenza di funzioni diverse all’interno del volume generale. Esempio di quello che viene definito come “edificio ibrido contemporaneo”, il progetto per il DAC si basa sulla concezione del margine tra i differenti componenti come uno spazio di azione in grado di generare la dinamica interattiva necessaria per renderlo un promotore di trasformazione urbana.* ybridization is a term used to basically define the ambition to create an object able to condense the simultaneous existence of different or even opposite elements. The hybrid is a new context seeking the conditions for the emergence of a potential that such elements don’t hold when isolated and, as any synthesis, finds in mediation its fundamental gesture. In architecture, what differentiates the so-called hybrid building from the mere overlapping of functions, is the role that it tends
to assume in the city through scale (Fenton, 1985), overcoming the limits of action of a single artefact to become a wider ensemble in what could be described as an “urban fragment”. The urban event defined as the contemporary hybrid building, rises in the city defined by free market interests as a typology able to gather an answer, mainly through formal articulation, to the ways of living of globalized society and to the integrative challenges of the post-industrial city, in what Steven Holl calls “localized social condensers”1. Hybrid´s transformative potential is based on the efficient conception of an interactive dynamic, rendering permeable the boundaries
between different elements and transforming margins from dividing limits into spaces of action. A paradigmatic example of this typology can be found in the project by OMA for the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC), completed in Copenhagen in 2018 (img. 01). Built in the city’s central area, on a lot facing the harbour in the south edge of Slotsholmen island - where many important cultural and governmental organs are located - the building is defined as a structure at urban scale, containing the BloxHub – agent dedicated to the support of innovative companies - commercial spaces such as cafés, restaurant and gym, and also residential apartments (img. 02).
01. General view of the building from Christians Brygge. Andrya Kohlmann
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