Intervention to Gum Department Store
_Glamour in Moscow through different geometries (classicism, suprematism, voronoi) 1. Classicism
2. Suprematism
Gum
Red Square
St.Basil’s Cathedral
Kremlin
_Gum interior views
3. Voronoi Subdivision
_Red Square Panorama Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_Gum History 1890-93, market, 1,200 stores
post 1917, Soviet Union Institutions
1953, reopening as market
2005, luxury goods, 200 stores
trade malls that were demilished fot GUM to be built, 1815
military parade in 1917
refurbishment in 1953
exterior view of current GUM
GUM in construction, 1890-93
Painting of Stalin’s military meeting in GUM
operating in 1960
Gum is prospering
Upper Trading Rows (later named GUM) in early 1900s
military parade
re-opening as a market place, 1966
GUM in its present state
GUM operating as a market place, 1893
military parade
anniversal military parade
Emporio Armani fasion show in Gum
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_Glamour and Social Contradictions
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ Gum Analysis 22
343 m
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Section diagram
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123 m
326 m
1st floor circulation diagram
Natural light diagram
Visual connections diagram
2nd floor circulation diagram
Conclusions • linear movements on a grid • both linear and vertical visual connections KEY building entrance vertical circulation services horizontal circulation store entrance
• natural light from above, related with visual connections • Clear interchanging pattern between light (atriums) and dark (stores) spaces
3rd floor circulation diagram
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_New Geometries, Different Spatial Experiences. (from Classicism to Suprematism) _GUM intervention: from Static to Dynamic 1.
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4.
Gravity forces - Newton’s Law Orthonomal grid based architecture
Tetris like movement
Shifting patterns of movement
Challenge of the grid Classical Architecture’s response to Newton’s law
Challenge of Gravity
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Shifting patterns of light
Altering visual connections
Lenin Tribune by El Lissitzky, 1920 Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_Glamour Is
It is by nature deceiving.
It is an escape, an illusion, an ideal, a dream. It is not quite real.
It is accessible, while it remains distant.
\Gla�mour\. Originally a magical - occult spell cast on somebody to make them believe that something or somebody is attractive
Its grace makes the difficult seem achievable, attainable to all.
It is transcendant to an ideal, non-existent, better world.
It has to maintain a sense of effortlessness.
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_Two Faces of Glamour Elegance
Accesible but Distant
Scalessness Transcedant
Aesthetic excess
Seductive
Ornament
Luxury
Seductive
Opulence
Illusion
Spectacle
Extravagant
Drama
Sensual delight
Transcedant
Mystery Aesthetic excess
Escape
Deceiving Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism
Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) was the pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of Suprematism movement
Suprematism art will lead to “supremacy of pure feeling or perception in the pictorial arts”
Self-potrait, 1908
The square, which Malevich called, “the face of new art”, represented the birth of his new movement Black Square, 1915
Suprematism expressed the concept of non-euclidian geometry, depicting forms in movement or through time Suprematism, 1916
Malevich, Supremus xx, 1915
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_3D Malevich Invades the Gum restaurant / bar: restaurant 300 sqm, bar 190 sqm, services/ kitchen 250 sqm
gallery: 750 sqm gallery space, 250 sqm services/storage
blackbox / performance space: 520 sqm
kids playground: playground 400 sqm, services 200 sqm
circulation core
Axonometric of 3d interpretation of Malevich
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
VIRAL MUTATION DIAGRAM INPUT DATA
_ Transformation of 3D Malevich through Voronoi subdivison _3D voronoi
_mutations according to programme VIRAL MUTATION DIAGRAM MUTATIONS INPUT DATA
Circulation Core LINEAR
ASSYMETRIC
FLUID
BACTERIA
BUBBLES
VIRAL MUTATION DIAGRAM PROGRESSION
MUTATIONS
INPUT DATA
Restaurant / Bar LINEAR
Boundary & Point Cloud
Voronoi Cells
Subtract Cells
ASSYMETRIC
FLUID
VIRAL MUTATION D
Subtract Holes
PROGRESSION
MUTATIONS
BACTERIA
INPUT DATA
_Viral mutation diagram
Performance Space
VIRAL MUTATION DIAGRAM
INPUT DATA LINEAR
ASSYMETRIC
FLUID
BACTERIA
BUBBLES
VIRAL MUTATION DIAGRAM PROGRESSION
MUTATIONS
INPUT DATA MUTATIONS
Gallery LINEAR LINEAR
PROGRESSION
ASSYMETRIC
FLUID
BACTERIA
ASSYMETRIC
BUBBLES
PROGRESSION
MUTATIONS
Kids Playground LINEAR
PROGRESSION
ASSYMETRIC
FLUID
BACTERIA
BUBBLES
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
FLUID
_ Voronoi vs Malevich _translating malevich’s painting into 3d
_OcTrees space subdivision
_3d Voronoi space subdivision
_OcTrees space subdivision (melted)
_3d Voronoi space subdivision (melted)
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ Vertical Circulation Research 1.
2.
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4.
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ Vertical Circulation Diagrams
Vertical circulation diagram plan
Vertical circulation 1st floor view
Vertical circulation 2nd floor view
Vertical circulation 3d floor view
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ drawings
Storage
Info Point
Children Area
Gallery
Circulation Core
Elevator Core
Black Box / Peformance Area
Secondary CIrculation
W.C
Office
Storage
1:500 site plan
1:400 section
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ drawings
Storage
Info Point
Bar
Children Area
Children Area
Storage
Gallery Cloak room
Circulation Core
Circulation Core
Elevator Core
Black Box / Peformance Area
1:250 Plan at Gallery Level
W.C
Secondary CIrculation
Secondary CIrculation
W.C
W.C
Kitchen
Office
W.C
Storage
Restaurant
1:250 Plan at Restaurant Level
1:250 Section Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ Volumetric Illustrations (Addition out of Context)
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ Contextual Illustrations
west general view
east general view
aerial view
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ Contextual Illustrations
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster
_ Interior Illustrations
Athanasios Korras, Design Studio 10, 1st year Diploma in Architecure, University of Westminster