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THESIS REPORT Architecture, Landscape and The Ecosophic Object Integrated Pathway MArch 2011-2013 ESALA

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Agency Tourism and the Olbian Everyday

PARAsituation (SET) Gigantic Gateway and Productive Pieces

Thesis Title [DIS]Playing the Field

Incorporeal species (situation) Proportion and Exchange Play and Display

Corporeal species (program) Highrise Hotel and Series of Craftworks

Thesis Abstract This thesis considers issues of play and display, and exchange and proportion, to set up an unprecedented conversation between the port and the city: to provide the Olbian everyday with a presence on Isola Bianca, while allowing Isola Bianca to engage directly with the rest of the city. The conversation becomes sociopolitical, programmatic, economic and architectonic.

Olbia is a city of two identities: a gigantic port for 4,000,000 passengers each year (Isola Bianca), and a massive sprawling suburbia resulting from it, for 50,000 permanent residents. Each of these conditions has defined the other – both geographically and socio-economically – but their co-operation has also resulted in their disconnection from each other.

As the city has expanded in size, it has become thinner: the city centre becoming increasingly derelict as it proves more economically viable to build new outside the city than to restore properties within it. This increasing thinness presents a missed opportunity for Olbia’s civic and industrial everyday to tap into the flow of Tourism, as represented by the gateway port Isola Bianca.

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Thesis Abstract

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Synopsis

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Content

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Navigation

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navigation page of the Core Chapters

Chronology

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Interleaf

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In parallel, my colleague Scott Wallace has carried out research in the development and language of the craft work in

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considering the facets such as the socio-political development of the city. His projects horizontally scattered in the Olbia

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This thesis considers issues of play and display, and exchange and proportion, to set up an unprecedented conversation between the port and the city: to provide the Olbian everyday with a presence on Isola Bianca, while allowing Isola Bianca to engage directly with the rest of the city. The conversation becomes socio-political, programmatic, economic and architectonic.

landscape and work co-opertaly with the tower in testing the exchange between the tourism economy and the Olbian everyday. The co-operated outcomes and the individual works of him that are included in this report have been indicated.

As significant supplementary and procedure articulation, the report includes some of the most illuminating studies, experiments and process works that have influenced the further development of the thesis. Since the works of different semesters are highly mixed up in scales and stages due to the to-and-fro movement in developing the thesis, I chose to not follow the chronological

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timeline but to re-organize the works based on the content.

Designing the Exhibiton

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The core chapters concern four scales and the exchange between the vertical and the horizontal city. Thus these chapters

AMPL Concerns

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are organized almost under the content of city - city and architecture - architecture. In parallel with the chapters, there

Architectural Management, Practice and Law

are also three columns indicate the properties of the individual process. In particular, most of the inspiring experiments

Epilogue

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Selected Bibliography, Articles and Web

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have been concluded in the column of "concept/strategy", while the final outcomes and the most relevant process works are categorized as "testing".

CONTENT

SYNOPSIS

Table of Thesis Satatement

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER I

measuring the city

measuring the city with the tower

CHAPTER III

[dis]playing the city within the tower

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CONCEPT/STRATEGY

Section 1

intimacy & integrality

Study of the Piazza Margherita Section 1

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the need and the poem of the everyday

Tectonics study of ship and boat

Data Collection and the Field Trip

reduction and enlargement bridging the scales

scale, constant expansion, disconnection

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Section 3

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Concept of the urban strategy

The Performance and the Exposition

exchange & proportion

play & display

Conceptual Drawings of Architecture the metaphor of a ship the compact city

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Section 2

TESTING

INDEX OF THE CORE CHAPTERS

NAVIGATION

RESEARCH/STUDY

Case Study_Lloyd's Building

The City Palimpsest reading the Olbian landscape

General Arrangement the package of technological information of the tower

the series of enzymatic territories the conversation between the Gigantic Gateway and the Productive Pieces

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The Schedule of the Series of Insertions/Interventions

the presentation of the specific components and interfaces

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The Specification

the technical specification of details

EXHIBITON

designing the exhibiton

Thesis Initiation The principle themes are architecture, landscape and ecology.

The driving theoretical strand concerns the "ecosphic object". The "ecosophic object" is the tactical focus of how ecology will be approached through this study, but also then of the relations between architecture and landscape.

It approaches ecology from a deep philosophical understanding of the interrelation between the environment, social practices

THE EVOLUTION OF THE THESIS BRIEF

CHRONOLOGY

and human subjectivity ("the three ecologies" - Guattari, 2000). Therefore, rather than accepting a dialectical separation , the study will look as much into how the city is an effect of landscape as the landscape is an effect of the urban. It tackles head-on the various crises and threats brought to bear on local value systems by Global markets.

However, the purpose of the research-led design practice is to find positive means by which the "incorporeal species" of creative production (e.g. going for a walk or swim on a sunny day or drawing the effects on social practice of hydrography in wet or dry places) re-evaluate existing whilst developing the potential of new "existential territeries" (e.g. houses, shops, social clubs, hospitals and other constructions of social practice).

The study will focus on the Island of SARDINIA in the Mediterranean, in particular the city in the North East of the Island, of Olbia.

Design Studio C

Design Studio D

Olbia is remarkable for having a radical disposition of beautiful landscape and the continuously changed culture. The thesis may not become clear at this stage, but we aim to find not only the right agencies, but also the appropriate way to rearticulate the city.

The work of this period should produce eight main pieces of work necessary to developing and framing theses for Architecture, Landscape and The Ecosophic Object: 1. The Archive.

2. 1:100 Model of Agency/Laboratory as developed previously (and all associated drawings).

3. 1:500 Model of Agency/Laboratory and immediate context (and all associated drawings).

4. Appropriately scaled drawings of the Metropolitan Landscape. These should be developed alongside the archive.

Therefore, the archive will include an index specific to these drawings.

5. A city scale Plan of Action (PoA). The archive will also include an index specific to these drawings 6. A programme and briefing document, which should include a schedule of accommodation, for all agencies to be developed through the PoA, with a specific section of the document focusing particularly on the area of the PoA to be modeled under item 7.

7. 1:500 model of part of the PoA (and all associated drawings).

8. A collective presentation of all the work.

The concept of Para-situation is introduced and developed specifically for this project. Rather than doing planning or design work which follows rigid logic, adopts particular theory or aims to solve problems, the studio uses a studyoriented methodology. The city is being uncovered layer by layer as agency being evolved and developed. Therefore the thesis is not written in advance, it is being situated gradually and relatviely.

Agents are required to work through scales, from body to building to city to region to global. Every scale will be able to reveal one facet of the thesis so that finally they could tell an integral story.

Design Studio A Summer Project:

Studio A:

Through Semester 3 (S1 of Year 2), Professor B asks us to elaborate and develop the theses through detailed experimentation and understanding of how structure and construction technology works with the environment of PARA-situation (Olbia). In short, the work of S3 is to elaborate and present the specific designs for PARA-situation (Olbia) by being explicit about the environmental and technological aspects of the design.

This does not mean ignoring all other aspects of the theses. It simply means that by the end of the S3 we should be able to present the theses by prioritizing the explication of technology.

From Figure And Ground To Field and Figure: Beyond The Dialectic Of Figurative Spatial Practice and Towards the Ecosophic Object.

Architecture is challenged by the rise of Urban Design as an autonomous practice (which has gained a very powerful legislative dimension in many countries since 1918 and 1945). Urban Designers frequently see themselves as having necessarily different skills from architects.

Task 1: Re-Presentation of PARA-situation (Olbia) at all Scales in Studio 4 Task 2: Tectonic Experiment at 4 scales in restricted format

LO1 – The ability to develop and act on a productive conceptual framework both individually and in teams for an architectural project or proposition, based on a critical analysis of relevant issues.

LO2 – The ability to develop an architectural, spatial and material language that is carefully considered at an experiential level and that is in clear dialogue with conceptual and contextual concerns.

LO3 – A critical understanding of, and the development of skills in using, differing forms of representation (eg. verbal, drawing, modelling, photography, film, computer and workshop techniques), especially in relation to individual and group work

LO1 – The ability to develop and act on a productive conceptual framework both individually and in teams for an architectural project or proposition, based on a critical analysis of relevant issues.

LO2 – The ability to develop an architectural, spatial and material language that is carefully considered at an experiential level and that is in clear dialogue with conceptual and contextual concerns.

LO3 – The ability to investigate, appraise and develope clear strategies for technological and environmental decisions in an architectural design project.

LO4 – A critical understanding of the effects of, and the development of skills in using, differing forms of representation (eg. verbal, drawing, modelling, photography, film, computer and workshop techniques), to explain a design project.

Design Studio H

LO1 – The ability to develop and act on a productive conceptual framework both individually and in teams for an architectural project or proposition, based on a critical analysis of relevant issues.

LO2 – The ability to develop an architectural, spatial and material language that is carefully considered at an experiential level and that is in clear dialogue with conceptual and contextual concerns.

LO3 – A critical understanding of, and the development of skills in using, differing forms of representation (eg. verbal, drawing, modelling, photography, film, computer and workshop techniques), especially in relation to individual and group work.

Methodology 1 The Ecosophic Object Methodology 2 Elaboration Through Technology and Environment Methodology 3 Notice to Consultants Methodology 4 Reviews

LO1 – A sophisticated approach to the programmatic organization, arrangement and structuring of a complex architectural assemblage in a loaded contextual situation (eg. the built, social, historical, technological, urban and environmental contexts) LO2 – A knowledge of how to develop the structural, constructional, material, environmental and legislative aspects of a complex building to a high degree of resolution, with reference to discussions with a team of specialised consultants.

LO3 – An understanding of issues relating to the questions of sustainability, and its concomitant architectural, technological, environmental and urban strategies.

LO4 – A critical understanding of, and ability to present complex design proposals through appropriate forms of representation (eg. verbal, drawing, modelling, photography, film, computer, installation, performance and workshop techniques).

THESIS CLOSURE AND PRESENTATION A NEW URBAN DESIGN PROCESS FOR OLBIA: The SET (Series of Enzymatic Territories) SCALE Professor B would like to remind us that Branzi’s paradigm of the enzymatic territory promotes environmental integration. She would also like to remind us that Guattari urges us to see ecosophy as the coalescence of the three ecologies: the environment, social relations, and human subjectivity. Branzi suggests great transformations can come about through the appreciation and harnessing of “microstructures” – from flowers in vases to personal computers (“every 20 square metres”). He responds to contemporary ecological concerns not by underpinning the old arrangement between city and landscape with “monuments, traditional neighbourhoods, parks, squares, and other open spaces, water bodies (lakes, rivers, wetlands and the sea shore), nature reserves, and carefully preserved rural areas.” Branzi promotes “the co-habitation of half-agricultural and halfurban territories” as micro-structural, experientially attuned, hybrid and fluid territories. The residents of such territories are as technologically savvy as the builders of these selfreforming societies. They may be, they are, the very same people. The scales of enzymatic operations have four proprtionalities: body, building, territory and metropolitan landscape.

Methodology 1 The Ecosophic Object as a SET (Series of Enzymatic Territories) Methodology 2 Prepare a Design Report*.

Prepare the Academic Portfolio 2* Methodology 3 Revisit Brief 5 (see below) and be sure that all points have been covered. Incorporate this work as appropriate into Methodology 2.

Elaboration Through Technology and Environment Methodology 4 7 X CARTOGRAPHIES THAT CONSTITUTE THE PLAN Methodology 5 Make a 2 minute film of your thesis Methodology 6 Reviews

LO1 – The ability to develop a research inquiry which is clearly and logically argued, has awareness of disciplinary and interdisciplinary modes of research, draws from specifically defined subject knowledge, and is relevant to current architectural issues.

LO2 – The ability to test hypotheses and speculations in architectural design, which may be informed through materials, processes and techniques of building, the design and development of cities, histories and theories of architecture and the related arts, or management, practice and regulatory frameworks.

LO3 – A critical understanding of, and ability to present complex design proposals in the context of a research inquiry through appropriate forms of representation (eg. verbal, drawing, modeling, photography, film, computer, installation, performance and workshop techniques).

Above: Shadow of the Structure in Yacht Service Centre, Ground Floor of the Tower

SECTION 1

MEASURING THE CITY

CHAPTER I

Data Collection and the Field Trip scale, constant expansion, disconnection

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Compare to the air lines, Olbia much more relies on the marine transportation. The number of tourists passes through the port Isola Bianca is about 3253,000 a year, while the passengers that arrive at or depart from the air port are only 1,741,120.

As one of the main tourist resorts of Italy, Sardinia gets its economy robust highly relates to tourism industry.

The drawing on the right shows how the marine routes and main roads help transfer people, goods and capital within the island territory. As a consequence, these cities trigger the development of the cities along side the urban infrastructure.

Administrative Region of Olbia CHAPTER I_MEASURING THE CITY

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Flash of Tourism and Distribution of Main Cities PARAsituation: Sardinia

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City

planning

containing

is

all

consideration and

powerful

aspects

in

into

instructing a

highly rational future scheme.

However, a planning scheme usually has an inherent defficiency as it overlooks the scales that are smaller than a district in order to draw a decisive conclusion. This defficiency sometimes misleads the authority

The Expansion History of Olbia

perform within an isolated political black hole and therefore lose the sensitivity about both physical and ideological territories.

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Municipal Development Plan (2004)

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Field trip in collaboration with So Ling Ho, Neil Cunning & Jamie Kinghorn

Screenshot of a three-scene vedio made during the field trip in Olbia, which records the surface of floor, the facade of main street and the details along side the walking route from city centre to the end of Roman Port.

The work of our group focus on the study of the port Isola Bianca, which sits

in

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centre

of

Olbia

and

geographically dominant from the top view.

In the beginning, the records and the studies are more focused on smaller scale. These endeavors built up our sensibility and cast a light over the two-year constant experiment about the thesis project.

The constant expansion of port Isola Bianca

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Photographed by Neil Cunning & Jamie Kinghorn

Water running on the surface of the pavement

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Water running on the surface of the pavement

Blur, ink, mirror

Sketches of the facade

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the PARA-site, port Isola Bianca, gateway of Olbia photographed from the south bay area

The rigid/artificial coastline

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Essay for Contextual Study, Architectural Technology Research

Scale Study of the Port of Olbia As a small city sites in the Northeast of Sardinia, Olbia is famous for its significance of being an international port of Italy. It is not exaggerated to say that Olbia is a city that incentivized by marine elements. This essay focuses on the most influential element of the city of Olbia --the ports, tries to explore both the basic characters and the implicit features of the ports by gradually deepened studies from city scale, building scale and body scale. The body of this essay will has three main sections. The first and second sections will respectively narrate the worldwide comparison of Olbia and several other cities and the inner-Sardinian comparison between Olbia and Alghero. The third section will then analyze the current situation of the ports of Olbia by comparing the artificial and natural port structures from diverse facets. In the end, the last part of the essay will try to conclude the characteristics of nowadays ports system of Olbia, analyze the reasonable causes, with the aim of indicating the possible solutions of future improving.

History background: Just like some other harbor cities, Olbia has a long history of harbor evolution, and to some extent, also the history of city development. The pace of the development has kept steady during centuries.

However, this steadiness ceased from the modern time, when industry and tourism developments hugely stimulate the local economy (in Olbia, the most flourishing fields were aquaculture, granite processing industry and seashore resorts exploitation), and simultaneously the demand of import and export volume increased as a consequence. The expansion of harbor area was inevitable.

Before Isola Bianca was constructed, some small isles were distributed in that area. They then became the foundation of the new port, and simultaneously being bridged with the land.) As an artificial infrastructure, Isola Bianca’s history began at about 1951. After that, it has kept on expanding till now. Nowadays, in a more rapid pace, it expands from the very first structure to wider The change in scale, from city centre to the port

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surrounding sea area. This can be observed clearly from the evolution of the north part of the port

Modules: Body, Urban and Building Le Corbusier

from 2005 to 2011.

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MArch Integrated Pathway­ | ESALA | University of Edinburgh | 2011-2013 Comparison with Ports All around the World The

ports

of

distinctive

Olbia

have

several

characteristics

when

comparing with some renowned ports all around

the world.

The distinctions are first

reflected in the scales. Unlike the industrialized ports, i.e. Amsterdam,

Rotterdam and Southampton, the ports of Olbia has relatively smaller scale.

For instance, the everyday leave and arrival number of ships of Amsterdam is Cover of the Contextual Study Essay

about

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whilst

the

total

capacity of the Olbia ports is about 700 ships (summarized by adding the capacities of bigger ports and mooring areas, figure 2). Nevertheless, the

waterfront districts of Olbia differ from the intimate ports of France

city G and another Sardinian city

Alghero, either. In fact, the probable

reason for the difference in scale

The waterfront zone of Alghero is

the second distinction--- typological

by a 7.5-metre wide footpath, a public

may also be the reason that leads to characteristics.

In general, ports have two most common types – extending from the coastline

as an integrated structure or adhering

alongside the edge of the inner sea.

The first type is represented by

Reykjavik, Iceland and Alghero, Italy; while the second type can be revealed

from the examples of Lyttelton, New Zealand and Shenzhen, China. Except for

these two types, the port of Venice is just like the city itself, which floating on the sea, and therefore all of its fringes face the water. Besides,

the ports system of Rotterdam spreads

from the seashore into the deeplyinland valley of the Maas River.

Comparison between Two Sardinian Cities

designed into human scale. Cushioned

successfully fulfill the aim of ruling the flow lines.

leisure band is next to the harbor. It

Comparison inside Olbia

and transfers into a popular zone at

Bianca. It was established just in the

appears to be placid in the daytime night because of both local social activities and tourism. The nearby streets are just wide enough for dual lane, and facing to them are a series

of restaurants which have outdoor dining sittings. To be contrast, the

cross section of Isola Bianca has a very similar street scale. However,

from a human being’s perspective, the

streets there are lack of vitality.

On the one hand, it is because the

absence of some functional structures of a normal urban area (i.e. diet,

accommodation and entertainment). On the other hand, the nowhere fences and boundaries largely reduce some most

active interactions, despite they have

The biggest port of Olbia is Isola La middle of the mouth of the inner sea

of the Olbia City, with a shape as a huge finger outstretching from the city centre. This finger is designed

purely for functions and flow lines of a transport terminal. In other words,

it is not as complex as other maturely developed

multifunctional

ports.

However, it is possible to view from a wider perspective. If we coherently

conclude the spontaneous mooring areas extended

from

the

industrial

and

residential districts as well, we will

get an integrated vista of an “along-

coastline system” which embodies both the artificial port of Isola la Bianca and the spontaneous mooring areas.

1. Spontaneous Mooring area extend from Residences

2. Mooring Place for Industrial Zone 3. Isola Bianca

4. Museum Area and Roman Port

5. Additional Two Smaller Ports

6. Spontaneous Mooring Area beneath the South Bridge

7. New Port in South

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Scale Study of the Port of Olbia

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SETION 2 scale, constant expansion, disconnection

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SECTION 2 The City Palimpsest reading the Olbian landscape

Overlapped City Palimpsest

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Land Use

Traditional

Ever-changing Coastline

Centre

Urban Texture

Layers of City Palimpsest

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Flooding Risk

Residence existed and in

Districts

Planning

Contents of the Layers

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PARAsituation: [cc, d]

Mapping the site palimpsest makes some invisible or latent elements of the city become visible. Some examples have been shown by the drawings in the former pages, and in these two pages, site drawings of three resolved sites juxtapose layers of information as landscape, historic traces and vehicle/human flowlines.

PARAsituation: [w, ib]

Layers of Site Palimpsest

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4. Capsules, Networks, Flows

5. Urban, Everyday, Public

Space of Flows

Public Space and the Geography of the

concepts of the "space of flows" and the

As what Goheen himself says, Sennett

In 1989 Manuel Castells raised the "space of places". The former means "the material and immaterial components

of global information networks used for

the

real-time,

long-distance

coordination of the economy.", while

the latter refers to more specific, or local, conditions of aspects of city life and urban spaces.

SECTION 3 Concept of The Urban Strategy exchange & proportion

The Eye of Power

Foucault believes that the idea that

power is in some sense consubstantial

Modern City believes

that

"beginning

in

the

18th century urban design was often

intended to create 'a conduit to get people out of the crowded condition'

of the city rather than to organize the congestion." If this is a right

understanding of Sennett's thoughts, then he must concentrates in finding a

more

appropriate

way

in

terms

of contemporary conditions, which undoubtedly has the positive meaning.

with the development of forces of

Spatial Practices _ Spatial Stories &

rather than acts as a superstructure.

1. Zoom-out and zoom-in

production and forms part of them, From this point of view, bourgeois, as the dominant class of this era, is

Walking in the City

2. Stories produce spaces

the main power which providing the

Related Studio Work

for the formation of the information

is one of the essential methodologies

economical and ideological foundation age.

The Capsular Civilization

As referred in the summary of this topic, Castells 's concept "non-place" as well as Foucault's "Heterotopias" could be related with Castells 's

Working with the changing of scales of our studio. From the very synoptic scope of Metropolitan Landscape to the

more detailed scale of human body, the

essence of these parallel concernsare similar to the principle of the two columns above.

"space of flows". Non-place refer to

places of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places".

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MArch Integrated Pathway足 | ESALA | University of Edinburgh | 2011-2013 Enzymatic Effect: Ship as the metaphor in setting up the communication

Author: Scott Wallace

between the port and the city

Grid of the Historical City Centre

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Extrapolation of the Grid

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The Coordinate of the Grid

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The Categories of the Grid

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Diagrammatic Drawing of the Series of Enzymatic Territories

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Course work with Scott Wallace photographed by Scott Wallace

1:1000 Building and Site Model the tower, the furniture workshop and the art school

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SECTION 1 Study Of The Piazza Margherita the need and the poem of the Olbian everyday

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photographs of piazza spaces The everyday life and the behaviors Piazza study Tracing the invisible everyday rhythm

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This page: Analyse everyday rhythms throughout the Olbian field (e.g. public space as the piazza). Excavate the potential for appropriation by participating with the context/territory.

Testing the borders between public and private.

Next page: Appropriate

the

test

result

in

generating a art school next to the territory that figured as the "node of graffiti". The palimpsest of the site also influence the strategy of design.

Visualize the invisible "architecturalize" the everyday life maquette scale: 1:500

Narratives a mean of excavating potential of the ordinary

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Appropriate the test result in generating an experimental art school on the territory which is titled the "node of graffiti". The site palimpsest also influences the design strategy (see next page).

The long walls above and under ground becomes

the

dominant

element

of

the

design, aims to provide graffiti artists an appropriate/legal drawing board. Since graffiti work used to be regarded as illegal protest on a rigid boundary wall. Following the concept of "ideological boundary" in the Piazza Study, the art school tries tracing, tearing, overlapping

to blur the prejudice of graffiti work by setting its entrance in the middle of a wall-enclosed walkway.

Visualize the invisible testing the language in designing the art school maquette scale: 1:500

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SECTION 2 The Performance and The Exposition play & display

playing with the site, palimpsest and program

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Tracing the Yacht Service

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Coding the Position

Juxtaposing and Corresponding with Programs

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Olbia as the Gateway of Sardinia

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territories. They were called this because they belonged to a programme.

However, we also understood programme as a programmatic impulse, an enzyme, a biological metaphor, that carries an affectivity that triggers an urgency to develop the territory it occupies and those with which it is in rapport."

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>> Aerial Theatre

>> Auditorium & Art Gallery

>> Seafood Restaurant & Mussel Processing Room

>> Yacht Service Centre

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The Scattered Architectural Interventions as Enzymes

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MArch Integrated Pathway足 | ESALA | University of Edinburgh | 2011-2013 This drawing overlapped the sections of the Tower and the two resolved architectural interventions (furniture workshop and experimental art school) in the city centre and the drawing of the territories.

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As a testing, these two interventions and the correlated parts in the tower reveal the productive exchange between the city and the port: the furniture workshop and the art school respectively supply furniture and art works to the tower as commodity and exhibit. The tower, in return attracts tourists as an apealing hotel and itself becomes an impressive advertisement for the local specificities, providing an opportunity for the people to know Olbia (or know it better) before and during their engagement with the urban landscape.

Further examples might be a water quality monitoring lab, a recycling centre, a water front outdoor theatre, etc.

In addition, for the architectural and tectonic aspects, the vertical and horizontal interventions share some common language and details inspired by the study about everyday and craftwork.

Gigantic Gateway Tower and the Productive Species

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the Irregularity and the Scattered

Programmatic Correlation; Play and Display

Seasonal light change in Olbia Field and the Tower

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Material, Components

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Lloyd's Building Facade

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Traditional roman ship, Olbia history & the relevant tectonics This brochure aims to collecting the information about ship/ yacht/boat and the relevant industry and tectonics which are instructive in developing thesis and design.

Tracing the history of Olbia,

Current Yacht & Yacht Building/Service Industry

the three sections spans from the traditional Roman ship to modern cruise ship, and then to the current popular luxury yacht. The involved technique/ tectonics industrial

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Section Drawing in fine line original scale: 1:200

-15m Underground parking

0m Ground floor entrance Yacht service centre

21.5m Aerial entrance hall

42m Mussel processing centre Restaurant Chapel

82m Art Workshop Art Gallery

92.5m Auditorium

144.5m Theatre Sea view lounge Cafe

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Three samples of the Territories Palimpsest

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Section of the art gallery specificity of craft original scale 1:200

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The Specification the technical specification of details

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Design Report & Exhibition May, 2013

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EXHIBITION

The objectives are to: 1. Critically appraise and argue the rationale of a design proposal using text and image in the context of a printed report.

2. Demonstrate an ability to analytically and logically synthesise documentation which encompasses a range of architectural issues, research and design development undertaken, individual study progress and key project representations.

3. Develop skills in the communication of architectural design proposals, through sophisticated visual and textual synthesis and consideration of reception.

Author for studio layout: Neil Cunning

The aims are to: 1. Construct a design report as a designed object that effectively and eloquently introduces an architectural design project or design thesis undertaken during the M.Arch Programme.

2. Appropriately structure and present a comprehensive design report which documents and presents in detail an architectural design project or design thesis, a fully referenced academic document which fully demonstrates integrated understanding of a range of architectural issues of culture, technology, professional practice, value, theory and design.

On completion of this module, the student is expected to demonstrate: LO1 – The ability to communicate, critically appraise and argue the rationale of a design proposal using text and image in the context of a printed report.

LO2 – The ability to produce documentation and reports that are clear, analytical and logical, covering a range of architectural issues of culture, technology, history, professional practice, value, theory and design.

LO3 – Demonstration of integration of knowledge in architectural design, materials, processes and techniques of building, the design and development of cities, histories and theories of architecture and the related arts, management, practice and regulatory frameworks, within the report.

LO4 – The development of transferable skills and techniques through the preparation of a sophisticated graphic document.

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An overall view of the 1:200 model of the tower, which is able to be opened up in the middle through the court.

The floor slabs are quite similar but slightly different from the top to bottom because of the occasionaly

appeared

hollow

parts. The irregular insertions are the public spaces reflecting the horizontal urban landscape and testing the craft tectonics.

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This steel installment works as a holder for the process works during the exhibition. It presents the principal concept of the tower---the main body is repetitive and quite simple, while

it

accommodates

all

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a city performs.

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Adopting the Piazza Study to the Graffiti Site Printed on acetate paper EXHIBITION_DESIGN FOR THE EXHIBITION

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The construction of the floor The floor framing between exterior columns and core will be typical composite

slab

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composite slab metal deck on top of steel beams connected with

Architectural Management, Practice and Law

AMPL CONCERNS

shear studs. The typical floor system inside the staircases will be all concrete beam-slab framing in order to make the core floors to be sufficient for fire protection.

The Vertical Transportation

Structural Strategy

The tower could be accessed

Vertically, from top to bottom, each seven floors

through

main

of the tower be divided as a zone, with huge steel

entrance, or the aerial entrance

truss on both ends to keep each zone relatively

which connects the main road in

independent and strong. Horizontally, the tower

the height of 15 metres. Each

could be seen as a binded four-sector group of

of the four section has its own

smaller towers. The court runs through the core with

transportation system, includes

all the large structure around without breaking it.

the fire-escape stair , elevators

This organization enables each sector has different

and in some levels they share

height so that the tower becomes thinner at the top

the escalators stretching over

to ensure its stability.

ground

floor

the court.

The underground parking has two

The main structure floors are utilized as refuge

exits directly to the ground

spaces to save the wider levels be fully used as

floor.

hotel rooms.

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The tower is run through by a court from the top to the bottom part, just above the yacht service centre. The court connects with several hollow space which penetrate the tower occasionally in different levels. In fact they become a passway for natural ventilation and allow the tower exchange the inner heat with the outside cooler air during the Olbian hot summer.

The artificial ventilation, on the other hand, relies on a relatively isolated system throughout the hotel part.

Environmental Impact Build up a high-rise building is always be a challenge of the surrounding environment. Artificial methods must be used in providing an appripriate inner

environment

for

the

people

staying

or

working inside. Therefore the concern becomes how to decrease the unnecessary waste of energy. The strategy is to utilize passive ventilation, light and water as they are available in the site.

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MArch Integrated Pathway足 | ESALA | University of Edinburgh | 2011-2013 The Service Systems and Plant Rooms Above left: The overall organization, top view diagram As mentioned above, tower has been divided into six zones and they all works independently in both structural and environmental aspects. Whilst the plant rooms are

connected

vertically

by

large pipes, as the consequence, they are placed above each other in several lines as shown in the bottom left diagram.

Water System Since the tower has large area of surface, it is rationable to harvest the rainwater and reuse it for the sake of decreasing the total consumption of resources.

The folded shape of the aluminium/steel surface panel has been designed with grooves that are able to guide rainwater flowing into the horizontal channel, and then the water will be collected in each floor and procesed in the black water centre in each zone.

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I would like to regard the exhibition and the design report as the closure, but not the end of the THESIS inquiry. The advantage of the two-year integrated pathway is that it changes the way you are observing, thinking and behaving. Regard everything as design is what I have learned most during these two years.

Real knowledge and creation require

speculation of

insightful individuals and groups, and could only gained by hard working and hard thinking.

The great atmosphere throughout the studio and the wide exchange between students largely help me in enriching myself, and hopefully, I have done something that have contributed in flourishing the studio, too.

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