The act of inhabitation is enriched by the potential to manipulate ways of observing place and landscape, by taking the existing city plan and flipping it to create a new vertical typology. School buildings follow the logic of sprawl, they are familiar, small scale, easily accessible buildings. Collective spaces create a sense of connection, improving the lives of the citizens. All spaces are gathered around a central square, utilising ‘urban voids’ that currently exist within the city's plan in an ‘appropriate’ response to place. “In the realm of social sustainability, the anonymous feeling of immense cities is challenged by interconnecting typically isolated diverse city zones.” It becomes a 'society building', a space of possible multiethnic exchange and comparison. The city will increase in density but reduce in scale, favouring the exchanging of knowledge, experience and socialisation and no longer suffering from an identity crisis. Cultural identity can evolve through a contemporary 'landscape of memory', and at times these are specifically framed views, at other times they are abstracted views. Encouraging the increased connection of social and cultural ties leads to the development of a sequence of platforms for observing the landscape. All the spaces face each other, with a distinct desire to hover above the ground, re-thinking how we perceive the typology of the city by reducing its environmental impact and creating places of knowledge preservation.
Green text: "Vertical typologies in Shanghai: Pinkcloud proposes vertical masterplan."
Blue text: “Heavy setting: Contemporary farmhouse touches the earth ‘heavily’?”
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10668&q=touch%20the%20earth%20lightlyPink text: “Learning through living: Sustainable, affordable school building sets example for children and community alike”
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=21694&q=schools
I derived my theory from the main ideas of these three articles, condensing the Mashup into:
Connecting the community through vertical meeting spaces in order to both observe and preserve the city landscape.
18 Sketch Perspectives
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36 Custom Textures
The Bridge and Folly
Plan used as basis of design:
Diller and Scofidio, Slow House
The following twisted forms were created by taking the simplified form of this plan, and merging the shape in both section and plan.
Cryengine image captures
Location: canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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| Boxes will be staff offices, looking out onto the view. |
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| The folly - a miniature floating city that can move from one end of the bridge to the other. |
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| The spaces will be able to face each other, to create a sense of connection within the school. |
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| The upper levels of the tubes will be the common areas, lecture theatre. The two middle portions will be the library, joined by a horizontal walkway. |
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