House for DAD by Anish Rai

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- HOUSE FOR DAD by Anish Ray, Boróka Bán, Madeline Seymour, Narges Fakhari

CHANGING IDENTITIES

- HOUSE FOR DAD by Anish Ray, Boróka Bán, Madeline Seymour, Narges Fakhari

CHANGING IDENTITIES

- HOUSE FOR DAD by Anish Ray, Boróka Bán, Madeline Seymour, Narges Fakhari

CHANGING IDENTITIES

- HOUSE FOR DAD by Anish Ray, Boróka Bán, Madeline Seymour, Narges Fakhari

Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Transient Movement of DAD around Dover

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Permeability and Potential Public Benefit of the Site

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Giving Identity and Meaning to the Site whilst Allowing for Permeability and Connectivity

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Gateway into Dover

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A New Public Realm

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Exploded View SHowing Accending Platforms for Evolving Uses

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Section through the Proposed Building

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Demonstration of the flexible use of the future home for DAD

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Demonstration of the flexible use of the future home for DAD

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Demonstration of the flexible use of the future home for DAD

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Demonstration of the flexible use of the future home for DAD

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Demonstration of the flexible use of the future home for DAD

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Demonstration of the flexible use of the future home for DAD

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A Home for DAD in the Public Realm

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A Showcase of Dover

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Design Diary

Our early analysis of the functions and role of DAD within Dover revealed a transient movement of activities across a broad scale of art disciplines, which take place throughout the local area with a sense of temporality, much like the entropic shift of people and cultures within Dover. DAD reveals itself as a moving entity with the notion of the Urban Room at its core. The Urban Room simultaneously is all of the activities that DAD may engage with, and also remains as its own entity when no other activities are live. A home for DAD, we believe, should allow for the flexibility required for the spectrum of activities and activities which will take place in DAD’s future, whilst also acting as a clearly identifiable and inviting location for the Urban Room, and encourage public engagement. The site presents a unique opportunity to connect the two sides of Dover; the inward community facing, and the outward, continental facing. Should the site be opened up as public realm, the two sides of Dover could become connected due to the permeable nature of the site. Opening the site up to public use would also allow the existing buildings which frame the site to be interacted with at a more intimate scale from within the site, as opposed to the street which is somewhat dominated by the vehicular underpass entrance. Leaving the site empty and open could have valuable community benefits, however, without agenda this could lead to misuse of the site, and therefore decay of public land. Our aim is to propose an intervention that would not compromise the benefits of the site when open, whilst also giving the site purpose and identity, through the addition of a home for DAD. The location of the proposed home for DAD sits within the centre of the site, and allows both ends of the site to be opened space, as an invitation for the public to enter the home of DAD, and therefore the Urban Room. An open passageway through the ground floor allows the home for DAD, and the Urban Room, to act as a gateway between the international and local community sides of the site. The plan has evolved from a desire to provide flexibility of use whilst controlling the scale of space as not to create a home that is unfeasible, which was coupled with a desire to sit lightly on the site, being mindful of the historical monument below, as well as the desire to invite the public in through a sense of openness across the site. The narrow footprint meant that a traditional would consume much of the plan, so a podium like ascent was introduced through the building, giving each floor several levels and a sense of flexibility and permeability throughout. This allows the building to be used in different ways, such as; a shop, an intimate workshop, studios, screening, informal stages for performance and exhibitions. The building can be one space or many spaces, and at all times an Urban Room. To allow the building to present itself without barriers, it is considered that some supplementary functions will take place in the currently vacant neighbouring building, which also provides further regeneration to the site. The neighbouring buildings, where the facade will contribute to the new courtyard, is imagined as hosting a hospitality space on the ground floor, which can be incorporated into the hosting of DAD events, with the upper floors providing short term accommodation for artists in residence. The theme of flexibility is a key concept to the project, which was derived from the early analysis of the movement of activities which make up DAD. The proposal allows activities to be hosted and travel within the building, in the same way that DAD engages with the local community, whilst at the same time providing an identifiable home for the Urban Room. The site is a part of a scheduled monument and a building on the site should sit lightly as not to affect the Crypt below. Predominately giving the site over as open space not only allows for landscaping, and activities to take place outside, but it also ensures that access to the Crypt is maintained. The structure should also be lightweight as a home for DAD ought to have a strong relationship with the realm of Dover beyond, and it is this entropic relationship between the community, the urban realm, and DAD, that is the identity of the institution, and a permeable home is to act as a symbol of this.

Project Description

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TOWN CENTRE

PEDESTRIAN ZONE

DISCOVERY CENTRE DOVER MUSEUM MARKET SQUARE

• CLOSE TO THE TOWN CENTRE • OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE IN CULTURAL & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES • LOW TRAFFIC • ENDS WITH AN UNDERPASS

SEAFRONT PROMENADE EASTERN DOCKS ST. JAMES RETAIL & LEISURE PARK DOVER CASTLE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER

DOVER PRIORY STATION WESTERN DOCKS WESTERN HEIGHTS

VEHICLE TRAFFIC • USED BY TRUCKS/BUSES/ CARS • MAIN ROAD ALONG THE COST • HEAVY TRAFFIC

VEHICLE TRAFFIC • USED BY TRUCKS/BUSES/CARS • MAIN ROAD FROM THE DIRECTION OF STATION TO THE DOCKS/SEAFRONT PORMENADE

(Week 1): Location and Traffic

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POSSIBLY APPROACH OF THE HOUSE + ENGAGEMENT WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD + CONNECTION WITH THE TOWN CENTRE + FIT THE SCALE OF THE CITY

POSSIBLY APPROACH OF THE HOUSE + MORE RESPRESENTATIVE ENTRANCE - CAN ALSO BE SEEN FROM CARS + TRASITION BETWEEN PUBLIC SPACE/GARDEN AND THE ENTRANCE +JANUS GATE (JANUS IS THE TWO FACED ROMAN GOD OF GATES AND DOORS) THE HOUSE HAS TWO DIFFERENT ENTRANCES

MINUS ONE LEVEL - CONNECTION WITH UNDERPASS + TERACCES? + WEDGE-LIKE LOCATION - FILL IN OR NOT?

(Week 1): Location and Traffic

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Fluid ‘thermodynamic’ movement of people in and out of Dover and the entropic mix of cultures

Fluid movement of DAD around Dover - events, exhibitions, and walking trails move fluidly throughout Dover changing the location of DAD throughout time

(Week 1): Temorality and Fluid Movements of Dover and DAD

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A static home for DAD? How can this be a signpost of DAD within the community without constraining the natural movement and regualar evolution of DAD and the culture and people of Dover?

Public

Exhibition space Communal Garden Training spaces Cafe/Pub

Private

Artists Shared studio Artists Individual studios Live/Work units Kitchen Inner garden

Transitional Workshop Urban room Lobby

(Week 1): Functions (1th Alternative) Considering the main concept of sharing and connecting to the community, the “Urban room can be counted as the centre of the house. A place were the art family and the society come together. As any home, every space in the house of DAD fits into one of the public, private and transitional realms. However the flexible structure allows each of them to flow into different realms at any required time. In order to great a productive relationship with the community and at the same time grant funding for the house, the “communal garden”, “Pub/Cafe”, “Training spaces” and so on, will be some of linking point to Dover.

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Public

Gallery Communal Garden

Private

Artists Shared studio Artists Individual studios Live/Work units Kitchen Back of house

Transitional

Urban room Workshop Training spaces Conceptual hospitality spaces

(Week 1): Functions (2th Alternative)

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ENTRANCE- WHICH FIT TO DOVER’S SCALE/FREQUETLY USED ENTRANCE

REPREZENTATIVE ENTRANCE- TRANSITION TO THE HOUSE

OTHER BUILDING UNITS- STUDIOS, OTHER BUILDING UNITS- STUDIOS, WORK UNITS, COMMUNAL AREAS, ADMIN AND SERVICE SPACES INNER GARDEN- OUTDOOR WORKING AREA/ PUBLIC SPACE FOR THE DAD ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

WORK UNITS, COMMUNAL AREAS, ADMIN AND SERVICE SPACES

INNER GARDEN- OUT-

DOOR WORKING AREA/ PUBLIC SPACE FOR THE DAD ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

URBAN ROOM- BASE

URBAN ROOM- BASE THE MOST STATIC PART OF THE HOUSE. EXHIBITION SPACE SHOULD BE NEAR

REPREZENTATIVE ENTRANCE- TRANSITION TO THE HOUSE

PUBLIC GARDEN- OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC EVENTS

THE MOST ASTATIC PART OF THE HOUSE. EXHIBITION SPACE SHOULD BE NEAR

THE CRYPT CAFÉ- IF IT IS POSSIBLE OPEN COMMUNITY KITCHEN WITH REFERENCE TO REFUGES

PUBLIC GARDEN-

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC EVENTS

(Week 1): Functions (3th Alternative)

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(Week 1): Structure Case Study

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(Week 1): Case Study 1 Museum of the Moving Image Hospitality Pavilion, London The application of innovative technology in building design is relatively rare, perhaps because clients’ and contractors’ perceptions of the risks involved are high. Even if architects and engineers are aware of the possibilities that innovation affords, cost and time constraints frequently mitigate against experimentation in construction practice. Very few architectural firms have therefore made consistent efforts to introduce new technology to live projects and thereby test experimental architectural concepts. However, without such projects the possibilities provided by the use of new materials and techniques may never be realised.

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https://www.archdaily.com/777307/ad-classics-nomadic-museum-shigeru-ban-architects

(Week 1): Case Study 2 Bianimale Nomadic Museum (New York), 2005, Shigeru Ban This travelling museum houses the prints of the photographer Gregory Colber (his amin topic was the relationship between man and natural realm). Exterior walls consist of a checker-board stack of shipping containers, with the spaces between the containers occupied by sloping sections of white PVC. Metal and paper tube trusses create a classical pediment at the ends of the galleries, supporting the PVC membrane roof. Two rows of thirty-inch-diameter paper tube columns march down the center of the gallery, mirroring the columns of the Arsenale, and articulating the ‘nave’ of the cathedral-like space. A wide pathway of wooden planks (recycled from construction scaffolding) runs between the rows of columns and defines the circulation path, while the remainder of the floor is occupied by a bed river rock.

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(Week 1): Case Study 3&4 Winter Visual Arts Building / Steven Holl Architects

Gallery and Studio / Johnsen Schmaling Architects

The large diameter trees, the oldest elements of the Franklin & Marshall’s 52-acre arboretum campus, were the conceptual

The project pairs the painter’s own studio on the upper level with a street level art gallery. Sitting on a narrow sliver of vacant

generator of the building’s geometry. As a lightweight building, its main floor is lifted into the trees on a porous ground level

land at the end of a trapezoid city block shaped by two overlapping urban grids, the 3,250 sf. building caps the block of

open to the campus and the adjacent Buchanan Park. The reflections of the hovering building at night glowing in the water

historic brick structures and re-establishes the street edges along two important thoroughfares that connect Racine’s west-

of a large reflecting pool add to the special articulation of this place. (Strong concept and special spatial organization.)

ern neighborhoods with Lake Michigan. (The way as the upper level veers away from the building’s rectangular base and connection of the Racine’s western neighborhoods and Lake Michigan)

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(Week 1): Case Study 5&6 The Commune Collaborative Workspace

Co-working utopic_US Conde de Casal

The Commune is a collaborative work space designed to suit the needs of the creative community. The overall layout con-

It is an interior design project. They have designed a versatile equipment that can be moved to another location. They

sists of an ascending hierarchy of workspaces. A communal seating area and daily drop-in desks greet you upon entering.

have worked modifying and transforming industrial and contemporary furniture (beds into tables, bunk banks into Skype

Rentable dedicated work desks occupy the middle of the building and the private studio spaces are located at the rear.

rooms...) They have also introduced a lot of color employing different fabrics, ceramics, painted papers, etc. (mobile versa-

Large skylights and clerestory windows fill the space with ample but diffuse natural light. (sliding partition system.)

tile equipment.)

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URBAN ROOM EVENT SPACE FOR TALK & DISCUSSIONS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIS: FILMS, EDUCATION, SALONS

EXHIBITION SPACE

GALLERY FOR EXHIBITIONS

OUTDOOR SPACE

LIVE/WORK UNITS

ARTIST STUDIOS

WORKSHOP

INVIDUAL WORK-LIVE UNITS

10-15 STUDIO SHARED? OR INVIDUAL? WORKING MEDIA- REQUIREMENTS

COMMUNAL AREA SHARED TOOLS/EQUIPMNET/ FACILITIES

WORKING AREA COMMUNITY GARDEN

ADMIN & SERVICE SPACES OFFICE, KITCHEN, TOILETS

Diversify Funding Initial Streams

L.A/Heritage Opportunity

Generate Intermittant Mid-Scale Income

Community Opportunity

Open up the Crypt for restoration and viewing

Space for conceptual hospitality pop-ups

(Week 1): Units Of The House & Commercial Drivers

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Generate Regular Small-Scale Income

Artist Opportunity

Community Opportunity Workshops, equipment and teaching space

Print Office

Tea Point

Open Studio and Urban Room Space

Garden

Private Studio

Bar

Hospitality Space

Live Work Unit

DAD at Present - 1:200 0

Studio

Terrace

Open Studio Frosted Glass

Terrace Educational Workshop and Equipment

Terrace

Open Studio

Residential and Live Work Residential and Live Work

Short Term Tempoary Gallery Space

Print Office

Office

Tea Point

DAD for the Community FF - 1:200 0

Moveable low-level wall

DAD Tempoary Expansion FF - 1:200 Garden

Tea Point

Gallery Space

Screen

Garden

Urban Room

Private Studio

Bar

Roof Garden

Frosted Glass

Public Art Library/ Local Plans on Display

Hospitality Space

Gallery Space

Hospitality Space

Private Studio

DAD for the Community GF - 1:200 DAD Tempoary Expansion GF - 1:200 0

Residential and Live Work

DAD for the Community Rooftop - 1:200 0

DAD Tempoary Exapnsion SF - 1:200 0

(Week 2): First Design Alternative

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(Week 2): Second Design Alternative

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(Week 2): Third Design Alternative

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(Week 2): Third Design Alternative

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Open Studio

Studio

Frosted Glass

Terrace

Residential and Live Work

Short Term Tempoary Gallery Space

Residential and Live Work

DAD Event TF - 1:200 6

Terrace

Studio

Short Term Tempoary Gallery Space

DAD Event SF - 1:200 2

Terrace

Open Studio

Frosted Glass

Studio

Residential and Live Work

Studio

DAD for the Community SF - 1:200 6

Residential and Live Work

Studio

DAD for the Community TF - 1:200 10

Office

Office Tea Point

Tea Point

Local Information/ Community Art Library and Supplies Shop

Crypt Entrance

Moveable low-level wall

Crypt Entrance

Event Space

Garden

Urban Room

Gallery Space

Terrace

Garden

Moveable wall

Hospitality Space

Hospitality Space Gallery 02

Education Workshops Residential

Residential

Hospitality Space

Gallery Space

DAD Event GF - 1:200 0

DAD Event FF - 1:200 6

DAD for the Community GF - 1:200 6

Plans for the Community Events

DAD for the Community FF - 1:200 10

Plans for DAD Events

(Week 2): The Chosen Design Alternative for the Second Week

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The Function Exploded View

Exterior and Interior Views

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(Week 2): DAD Narretives

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(Week 3): Physical Model

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(Week 3): Exploded View

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Placement on the site

Ground Floor, First Floor, Second Floor Plans

(Week 3): Plans

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Third Floor Plans

(Week 3): Section

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(Week 3): Interior views (Ground Floor)

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(Week 3): Interior views (First Floor)

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(Week 3): Exterior view 1

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(Week 3): Exterior view 2

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Submitted Version: Structure Exploded View

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Submitted Version: Section

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Submitted Version: Interior views (Ground Floor)

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Submitted Version: Interior views (First Floor)

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Submitted Version: Interior views (Last Floor)

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Submitted Version: Exterior view 1

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Submitted Version: Exterior view 2

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First, Second and Third Floor 1:200 0

First, Second and Third Floor 1:200

Ground Floor - 1:200 0

Section - 1:200 0

Placement on the site

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Ground Floor, First Floor, Second Floor Plans

Final Version: Plan

Ground Floor - 1:200

Third Floor Plans

First, Second and Third Floor 1:200

4 0 Third Floor 2 econd and 1:200 2

Section - 1:200 Section - 1:200 0

Final Version: Section

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Final Version: Exterior view 2

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Third Floor

Second Floor SCALE

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