BERLIN:
THE ORCHESTRATED CITY. Composing a New Urban Fabric. MARK JASON WARREN | tutor PHIL AYRES | THESIS PRESENTATION Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture | Dept. 2
BERLIN:
THE ORCHESTRATED CITY. Composing a New Urban Fabric.
“Berlin is the newest city I have come across.”1
1 Mark Twain, US writer, 1892.
BERLIN:
THE ORCHESTRATED CITY. Composing a New Urban Fabric.
“Berlin is the newest city I have come across.”1
1 Mark Twain, US writer, 1892.
“Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being.”2 2 Karl Scheffler, Art historian, 1910.
BERLIN:
“Berlin is the newest city I have come across.”1
THE ORCHESTRATED CITY.
1 Mark Twain, US writer, 1892.
Composing a New Urban Fabric.
3 Jack Lang, French former culture minister, 2001.
“Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being.”2 2 Karl Scheffler, Art historian, 1910.
“Paris is always Paris and Berlin is never Berlin!”3
AIM: The scheme explores and discusses issues of flexibility, scale and context. It challenges the general preconception that vertical cities are un-contextual by establishing new forms of contextual relation. By re-establishing a new centre[s] of Berlin, multiple urban issues must be addressed. The scheme aims to behave and express itself as a city while knitting itself into the existing urban grain of Berlin. Programmatic relationships within the tower happen in three dimensions over time, therefore allowing it to be in constant transform. The project itself is a series of iterations, each challenging different issues. What is seen as the ‘final’ scheme is merely the beginning of the next iteration.
programmatic dependencies
house for a priest stacked
added urban fabric
new urban values the lifted city
the stored city
church/cinema/market
exhibiting the statue of liberty
streetless berlin v2 streetless berlin v3
streetless berlin v1
absorbing program a big model
expressing the city
horizon the rules kindergarten/observatory
museum/hotel
expressing the inside
shadow context
mass
neues Berlin.
programmatic dependencies
house for a priest stacked
added urban fabric
new urban values the lifted city
the stored city
church/cinema/market
exhibiting the statue of liberty
streetless berlin v2 streetless berlin v3
streetless berlin v1
absorbing program a big model
expressing the city
horizon the rules kindergarten/observatory
museum/hotel
expressing the inside
shadow context
mass
neues Berlin.
study site: The Pallasseum
The Pallasseum, J端rgen Sawade, 1977.
programmatic hierarchy
the spree
CONTEXT
[Berlin’s development: a test ground for a transforming city]
preparation: Germania
re-programming through crisis
industrial revolution: boom
Adolf Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel, ‘eisenwalzwerk’. 1872-1875
city expansion
berlin wall: construction
berlin wall: re-unification
SITE [01]
the geographical centre of Berlin
centre and centre
centre 01: 52°30’5”N 13°24’9”E.
CITY BEHAVIOURS
expression. urban expansion. relating to the Berlins existing grain. relating to itself.
CITY BEHAVIOURS
“According to the plan, the building, across 220 stories, will have a hotel accommodating 1000 guests, a hospital, 5 schools and offices. Of the total space available, nearly 83% will be for residential purposes, housing up to 17,000 people. 5% will be for the hotel housing 1000, while 3% each will be dedicated to schools, hospitals, offices and shops.� wiki.
Sky City, China. Construction starts June 2013.
expression [ground level Berlin]
3 dimensional condition
a reduced city
the city vs. contemporary tower
FLEXIBILITY change in program. programmatic absorbtion. re-activating space.[dead space] different methods.
FLEXIBILITY
Torre David, Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner.
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church/market/cinema
kindergarten/observatory
museum/hotel
train/roller coaster
stadium/office
surface
Steven Holl, Storefront Gallery, 1993. NYC, USA.
church/market/cinema
re-purposing structure
Kamila Szejnoc: swing, 2008. Warsaw, Poland
kindergarten/observatory
un-packing
Convenience Store, Parker Street, London.
museum/hotel
SCALE relating to context. a vertical re-organisation of the city.
SCALE
Rem Koolhaas. S M L XL.
CONTEXT [URBAN] reacting to the immediate context. shadow/light.
CONTEXT [URBAN]
HORIZON three dimensionalising the horizon. programmatic hierarchy.
HORIZON
Christopher Nolan, Inception, 2010.
HYPER CONTEXT
[creation of permanent space]
reacting to Berlins existing urban grain. shadow/light. permanence/temporality. Berlins existing urban grain reacting to the tower.
HYPER CONTEXT
[creation of permanent space]
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0800am
0900am
1000am
1100am
1200pm
1300pm
1400pm
1500pm
1600pm
1700pm
nail houses
[future development on ground level Berlin is informed by the permanent structures of the tower.]
Edith Macefield’s House, Seattle, USA.
Luo Baogen House, Wenling, China. Demolished 2012.
A house in Washington D.C.
Gate Tower Building, Fukushima-ku, Japan
role reversal
PERMANENT | TEMPORAL
RULES
[of the temporal space]
orchestrating space
inhabiting the frame
a network. knitting it into the infrastructure of Berlin.
stadium/artgallery/hotel
a church and a church
horizon
programmatic dependencies
house for a priest stacked
added urban fabric
new urban values the stored city
church/cinema/market
exhibiting the statue of liberty
streetless berlin v2 streetless berlin v3
streetless berlin v1
the lifted city
absorbing program a big model
expressing the city
horizon the rules kindergarten/observatory
museum/hotel
expressing the inside
shadow context
mass
neues Berlin.