GO 887
BULLHORN – Cembrit Design Competition – Helsinki 2012

After the observations we did to the area, the first problematic that rose was disorientation and acupunctural location (sometimes even hidden) of the main stations.
With this project we tend to create a visual and functional connection of the main stops, through the new cover, realized by fiber cement tiles. The network created connects from the main stations: bicycle, bus, train, and partially car stop; to several pedestrian entrance points and future proposed stopping points. The future is no more a transit area, but a circular network, physically, visually and “eventfully” attached.
We developed a grid, which was laid in the entire area. This grid is taken as basic from where to develop interventions and programs. As it is explained on the map, besides intervening with new façades or new tiles cover, the pattern created is also a new pavement texture, green areas (mostly grass), urban furniture or small magazine shops/ information desk.
What is in contrast with itself is the cover, which goes from the bus station, bellow to the train station and circles around to the other side of it. This cover is more compact in the area where pedestrian fluxes are mostly located, train platform, and more transparent in the mirroring side, urban park zone.
The urban park zone is a recreational linear path, where bicycle path grow from the main bicycle station, urban furniture are spread around, facing the train station, and new green visual “lines” connect the two sides together. The structure covering this area is far more transparent than the one covering the main platform, seen mostly as a sustainable brisoleji that gathers and recycles rainwater, or snow.
Orientation signs are stamped in the ground and walls in correlation with the tiles pattern, such a way orientation is improved and attractiveness of the existing structures will grow higher.

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Narrative
Diagonal shift_ ledian bregasi, olesja lami, eranda janku

I was just above the train station, to that tiny panoramic plaza, when an entire canyon that is conquered by a light, transparent and minimal wave structure attracted my attention… was that the moment that I decided to take that adventure.
Step after step, after crossing the train station the structure rose in front of me… nothing was touching the existing natural organic wall, but instead  looked like it was protecting and preserving it.
I had two possibilities to undergo through that path, to enter inside a “transparent tunnel”, or even take the straight one on the outer part of the “wave”. Unconsciously I entered the tunnel.
First to notice was that the tunnel was really protecting something, the roots from where all that vegetation was growing. Two steps forward something strange happened. Light started to draw the stripes and intensified while getting closer to something hidden behind the wall. In that moment space exploded and I was in the middle of a Vertical Theatric Stage. That space installation was located in a former Nichie area. That experience brought me to a memory, a CUNTI of Paladini Spectacolo, but actors were acting like puppets.
Getting further the intensity of the sea sound was growing higher, I fasten my steps, and reached an echo amplifier, a real tunnel, a under passage that cuts the wall and reaches the sea side, a way out that canyon. I feel that the end of my journey is close; the final stop is the demolished house where the Traditional Food Fair is located. The smell was driving me toward my favorite food delicacy.
My senses were all activated and in the end, what was left from that quick journey was the felling of a Dream…

general issues:

1. inadequate local governance structure 2. informal urban sprawl 3. infrastructure depletion & lack of public transport 4. potential land for agriculture and green tourism 5. degradation of natural resources

governance solution: 

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group: Olesja, Nana Ama, Julian, Makopoi, Dominic, Alejandra

Interior Design Course

SOCIAL FILL IN_ Schönbrunn

Keiserschnitten Workshop TUWIEN_ Olesja Lami/ Rezart Struga/ Mamica Burda/ Lorin Çekrezi
Schönbrunn (Royal Castle) is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Vienna. During the year it is visited by 3000 tourists.

First impression_ Site Visit
Our area is located in front of Schönbrunn castle, including the metro station, the existing parking lot, some vast land and a pawed area in front of the royal complex’s entrance. This space is one of the most frequented areas while heading towards the castle. This is related directly with the number of the tourists, but beside the castle’s attraction we noticed a considerable amount of problems. To number the main one’s, what we choose to follow on making this projects are:
1. The first and most problematic fact was the absence of Vienna’s inhabitants
2. A vast and unused land plus a huge unorganized parking lot
3.The partial information that tourists get about Vienna’s character
4.Lack of facilities for tourists and inhabitants
5. Zero frequentation near the river side (Wiental)
After the first analysis we ended up on compiling a diagram about the usage of space by age groups (kids, teenagers, youth, middle age and old age). As we mentioned above the areas that gathered a hugger amount of people (mostly tourists) was the metro station, a path that leads to the castle and its main entrance, beside that there was also a natural park, on the other side of the river frequented by Vienna’s inhabitants. What was very evident was the absence of all groups of ages near the river side.

How to bring Vienna’s inhabitants to the area in front of Schönbrunn?
The first thing we did was an analysis of successful plazas in Vienna. We picked up Naschmark, Stephanplatz, Museum Quartier, Kunsthale and Danube River Side. The aim was to make somehow a mirror effect of their Spacial Success, such a way creating a small scale city in Schönbrunn. We saw that success has to do with the way that space was fragmented, social interaction and clash of age groups.
To underline was the Naschmarkt success, where space was planned as a informal area, thought to bring people close to one-another and offer them facilities that make the Market specifics.
Analyzing this way all the plazas the result was a list of key words as follows: Fragmentation, Hybridization, Informal Formality, Small Scale City, Casual Interaction, Self-Organization, Culture Layering and Modules.

SPACE Proposal
To jump once again inside the project area, there is a vast void space that is located between the Schönbrunn complex and the Park behind the Wiental river. The solution was to treat this area as a transition from the castle toward the park, where events and facilities will be located. To reach this goal we implemented the Fragmentation that came out from the analysis. The area was covered with a grid where a program was overlaid. It would have function by implementing functional and spacial perceptions, amplifying the events and feelings according to the program.
Space would be fragmented permanently and temporarily. The permanent fragmentation would be the creation of platforms, big as much as the events that are planned to be located to happen there. Beside that is the temporarily intervention which will be achieved by using some modules.

MODULE’s Characteristics
The modules will be the temporal boxes that will change shape according to the program. They will be flexible (easy to merge with one-another), economic, dynamic (movable inside the area), multiple choices (functions, configurations), sustainable (recyclable materials).
The different modules configurations will create different perceptions. As it is seen in the diagram first the modules are grouped together, creating compositions from 1 to 3 couples together. After the first accompany they will gather with other groups such a way creating compositions of space (cross cut, gatherings, transit paths, linear continuity, inner plazas and final destinations). These space compositions are related directly with the perceptions mirrored by the Viennese plazas.

Project Proposal
To make the plan of the project, first of all was chosen a program, Museum Quartier Perception. There is quite evident the relationship between platforms and modules. These platforms do cross the river as bridges, and mostly lay over the river by making possible the exposing of the river toward the people. By being in a site of the World Heritage we chose to intervene on the river only visually, by projecting in the walls videos and images about Vienna. In the sections are seen as well some other interventions, having to do with the mobility, where we put below ground the motorway that now is crossing in front of Schönbrunn, and also the underground location of the new parking lot. Beside that are visible the platforms and the bridge that is hosting programs. The existing park still stands behind the river, but now connected through this “program” bridge.
The temporal solutions bring a diversity of space configurations, every time responding to different events and needs of the inhabitants and tourists. Beside that it gives the possibility of actually keeping the area untouched by permanent and harsh interventions and preserving the World Heritage objects by visual intrusions.

Maybe begun as an immediate solution, the “alternative gates” of Old Himara can be numbered among the long list of spontaneous architecture. The actors that brought to this solution can be grouped in two categories: Resolute factors and Ephemeral factors.

The element used as a garden gate is recycled metallic leftovers of garbage cans.

As resolution factors are: poverty (which brought to cheep, functional, quick and intelligent solution) and security (which brought to the need of having garden gates)

A transit factors from resolution to ephemeral is: Color (a personal solution mimetised with the surrounding)

As ephemeral factors: Time and Weather (those brings variations and different perceptions of this fragments of “architecture” which transmits various feelings)

The second image is a collage of Spontaneous Architecture found in fragments of organic, natural, livable and artificial formations.

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