portfolio PATRĪCIJA HELĒNA DZĒRVE
Contents 4 Project 1
TOWER AND PAVILION: A POET’S HOUSE
10 Project 2A
COLLECTING ISLANDS: IN SEARCH OF AN ARCHIPELAGO
16 Project 2B
COLLECTING ISLANDS: IN SEARCH OF AN ARCHIPELAGO
30 Project 3
MERGING TRAJECTORIES: UNCOVERING A CONTEXT
42 Project 3
URBAN ISLANDS: ISLAND BUILDINGS
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waterlands - project 1 TOWER AND PAVILION: A POET’S HOUSE
Rathlin Island. As a foreigner who hasn’t experienced the relationship between a human beeing and an island it was a great journey to get unexpectedly deep in “charting” its landscape, ruins, and coastline. To identify the island through different types of drawings was something new to me but unforeseen natural. It seems that it is the right way to work with an island. Adding the vertical and horizontal conditions of the tower and pavilion gave this project a desired outcome.
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“There is something compulsive in one’s relationship to an island. A mainland area with its ambiguous or arbitrary boundaries doesn’t constrain attention in the same way. With an island, it is as if the surrounding ocean like a magnifying glass directs and intensified vision onto the narrow field of view. A little piece is cut out of the world…already a little abstracted from reality, already half-concept, it holds out the delusion of a comprehensible totality.”
Tim Robinson Islands and Images 1996
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COLLECTING ISLANDS: IN SEARCH OF AN ARCHIPELAGO
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Innishmurray. After
exploring
conditions
of
the the
vertical tower
and
and
horizontal
pavilion,
the
next project shifted to the X and Y axis of the cartographer. 3 individual drawings were made by recognizing the island through different types of investigation and marking it on the paper. This time I shifted from an island with 75 inhabitans to an island without its bygone habitants but holds an important possesion of the old days Innishmurray. I asked myself - What is the reason to hold on on the lonliest island in the sea? Cut off, one may say, from so-called civilisiation, yet they preserve their outlook at once poetic and philosophic, as said by Michael Mclaverty, writer for The Irish Monthly who visited the island in 1933.
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project 2B
COLLECTING ISLANDS: IN SEARCH OF AN ARCHIPELAGO Innishmurray. The three individual drawings of Innishmurray are now brought together, while exploring different aspects of scales, contrasting sides of the island are combined - the edges of the islands, the inner island and the fragment - symbols of the bygone habitants, sacred ruins and their walking paths. Composite drawing is made together with other students. My “island” is placed in relation to other islands in a new geography, and as a part of a collective archipelago. “Island” is identified as a place where how the people live is known only for themselves. It is a sealed island in the middle of a shared archipelago.
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layering of the 3 individual drawings
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layering of the 3 individual drawings
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composite drawing together with other students
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project 3 MERGING TRAJECTORIES: UNCOVERING A CONTEXT
site notes
The 3rd project’s focus is on an island called
My thoughts say that it is less an island, more an
Enniskillen. It is a new start with fresh eyes. The
addition to the coastline.
task is to look at Enniskillen’s wider urban and
“An island is a body of land surrounded by water,
landscape environment, to explore and research
above water at high tide, and smaller than a
it physically, historically and imagiatively. New
contintent” - the geographer Stephen Royle
ways to explore, research and consider this landscape and town are made. The main question
Or is it the second definition found in the dictionary
for this task - What are the key places and aspects
“Something resembling an island especially in
of Enniskillen?
its isolated or surrounded position: such as a: a usually raised area within thoroughfere, parking
Feelings
gathered
through
the
research
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Enniskillen is the only island town. But is it actually?
lot, or driveway used especially to seperate or direct traffic.”
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“While exploring the island more I noticed the top part of the island. It was the half-island that intrigued me the most. I wanted to see it, to go around it. I felt it will finally change my mind about Enniskillen not being an island. But there I was interupted. All my ideas about this idillic path were shatered with a wall, not only a wall, but also an fence and many security cameras. Does this closed police station help Enniskillen to maintain its islands statuss? Is it helping to feel safe and welcomed in the island? “ Waterlands IV
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site plan 19 century
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site plan 21 century
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first sketches of “the lighthouse“
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first sketches of “the lighthouse“
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sketches of the site
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sketches of the site
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working model M 1:100
working model M 1:100
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“the lighthouse”
URBAN ISLANDS: ISLAND BUILDINGS
From the most unwelcoming place to the most
island that you can be eexperienced as one piece.
welcoming.
The greenery and viewpoints around the city should
My building - “the lighthouse” is a contrast to the
be connected to each other - the coastline should
former hostile police station standing in the most
be linked for its inhabitans to have the benefit of it.
scenic location of Enniskilen. The former police station stands as a reminder of the hateful past,
“The lighthouse” is a simple warehouse which could
but at the same time it is also a point where two
be used for exhibition preperations, performances,
rivers meet, where locals used to tie up the boats
workshops and other activities of the island’s locals
for morning fishery, where many postcards were
and visitors. Cafe is integrated in the courtyard and
made and sent to friends outside the city. The
is placed underground as an adition to the whole
question is - what is the future of this beautiful
complex of barracks. Exhibition halls are located
but forgoten place, the past of hate or the past
in the upper floors in different shaped pathaways
before the hate?
which makes you look at the building, surroundings and river from different perspectives. Vertical
The form of “the lighthouse ” is derived from the
communications are placed in the outbuilding
surrounding buildings. It makes it a complete circle.
which is located on the other side of the historic
It makes this location closed but also approachable
barrack wall. Outbuilding gives the visitors the
from all sides.. The building is made from glass and
oportunity to go over the wall or enter it straight
polycarbonate sheets for people who walk around
through the building’s core (the gateway). Building
it to have the oportunity to sneak and peek at the
is made from transparent materials to accentuate
activities happening inside. If you’re not ready to
the historic wall but also to bring light during
enter this site, you are able to look at it from the
the night or darker days, for people to feel more
outside.
intrigued about what is happening behind “that ‘’ wall.
With my project I adressed the problem of Enniskillen not feeling like it is an Island. It is a city, but is it an island? I would like to imagine Enniskillen as an
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site plan
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visualisation - first sketches with the construction and the materials
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visualisation - first sketches exploring the materiality
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final visualisations
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final visualisations
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model M 1:100
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model M 1:100
model M 1:100
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visualisation - front facade
groundfloor M 1:100
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masterplan M 1:500
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underground plan M 1:500
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detail - plan M 1:100
detail -section M 1:100
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