Diploma Project ; January 2009
What interested me was the urban development of parts in cities that are in the process of cultural evolution. As a consequence of such evolution, society and city structures start to transform. This process operates with unexploited city parts and revitalizes them, so that they become new
attractors (acupuncture urbanism) for cultural development.
My thesis project is a performing art center fort the city of Guimaraes,
which is a town of 160.000 inhabitants in Portugal.The main focus was on generating an outdoor public space, an outdoor ballroom, with an interior atmosphere. It is designed as a continuous
space that branches out and inserts itself between the volumes.
The program is structured into four volumes that are distributed on the site. The volumes are echoing the scale of the surrounding. This first system follows the perimeter of the site and creates a continuous decisive edge. From the street the building appears as one entity.
The central space - the exterior ball room - is a performance space but at the same time it is a covered outdoor lobby for the theatre, the auditorium and exhibition space. The educational part consists out of dance studios and music spaces which are stacked onto two floors. Both systems share the same structural principle of a steel egg-crate, but the structure is more expressed in the second system. The outside surface is claded with ceramic panels. In the passage area I use the same materials but with different shades of white ( white to gray). The main atmospheric effect will be the way light and shadow interacts with this surfaces.
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with Nora Graw & Martina Lesjak ; summer 2008
The concept for the boat factory is based on exploration of the sectional relationship between inside and outside. The massing, with its orientation, reacts on the city and coast condition and creates a diverse set of momentums along the “s” axis. The volumes are nested in the landscape which changes from topography to a high-tech artificial ground. The building as a sequence deals with interweaving of the two major components: plenum and shell. The designed pattern for the structural plenum is reacting on the sun angles with its depth and the way it is tilted. That creates not only a visual effect on the façade but different light conditions and shadings in the building.
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with Anna Edthofer ; winter 2007
This project was developed from the plan figure as a successful massing strategy for a carproduction, design and presentation facility. The concept for the space is based on the process orerosion and is working with accumulation and aggregation of circles and ellipses in order toarchive spatial continuity.The plan of this architecture is determined from quite simple and relative rules. We were only to draw circles and ellipses according to the requested functions and floor areas, and choose the one that is not decisively contradictory from the viewpoint of the mutual relationships of the circles among the accumulation patterns. The façade and spaces are made out of intersections of cylinders and cones, which create special surface creases.The relation between poche and void flips through the plan. There are no hallways, the user is walking along space flows.Void is used as a separating tool as well as for detailing the façade.
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with Sarah Schneider; summer 2006
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There is a new typology of architecture emerging from the music industry, tourism, leisure real estate and communications. Athletic fields, farmlands and industrial sites are being financially supported, at a low return on their value, by 3-5 day music festivals.The Polo Grounds at Coachella have allowed themusic festivals to attract thousends of music fans.The project is channeling the aesthetic culture of robots into an architecture of literal and phenomenal movement. It is designed to perform as a flexible music festival facility able to adjust in size and arrangement, since it unfolds on water.
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This project is about the correlation between a load bearing system analysis and a topological geometry. The architectural design is an underground network of the Dominion Center in Toronto. The whole architecture is packed mostly underground, but at the same time expressing its diversity and complexity, linking and connecting the bottom with the events above. The goal was to create an organisational archetype, that should define the projects formal appearance in different scales at the same time. The hybrid is an all-purpose system of links andconnections through 1.000.000 m² usage diversity. The design strategy is based on piercing programs, continuously expanding volumes and the creation of spatial layers which re-associate and create a spatial network of circulations and subdivisions. Those surfaces were connected with each other through funnels and they interact with and inside each other. The users are experiencing piercings and fusions of surfaces and programms while circulating through the interface.
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