PROGRAMATIC LAYOUT AND INTERRALTIONS

1. ∅ 200mm concrete rainwater drain

2. 300mm reinforced concrete slab and supporting wall.

3. Linear floor heater + 360/30mm grating

4. Protective layer + seal + 2*120mm PUR insulation, vapour barrier

5. Maintenance catwalk 360/30mm grating

6. 50mm thk wood based-board

7. 5mm thk carpet tiles

8. Galvanized steel fork connector

9. 400*95mm stainless steel curtain wall spine

10. Tensioned tiebar ∅ 12mm

11. Laminated safety glass, 2*12mm toughened glass sheet + bolted point fixtures

12. Automatic roller textile sunshades

13. Adjustable slab support pads

14. Carpet tiles + 50mm thk wood basedboard with cavity for ventilation and cables.

15. 400*300mm HSS rectangular beam

16. 285mm wide galvanized steel gutter + mesh screen + 360/30mm grating

17. Gravel, protective layer, seal, 2*120mm insulation, vapour barrier

18. Square clamp for glass + stainless steel glass spine system

19. 1100mm galvanized steel railing

20. Aluminium coping + square clamp for glass

University of Ljubljana, 2020

Teacher Paul O Robinson Individual work

01. Within the Castle ruins, an extrusion that sits as solid mass refering to the massivness of the castle. The semantic of power and superiority is here used as the volume is the largest within the village’s walls. In front, the vast meadow act as a scenic place where the confrontation between the isolated world of the castle could wrestle against the life of the villagers.

02. Vertical ascencion, the volume is elevated from the ground as a way of asserting its superiority and power over the village. Views open up onto the landscape and now the tower is no longer an excentric element within the village. The volume gently slices the thick ruin walls, as a new puzzle piece within the village. Finally, part of the volume overhang outside of the fortified wall, increasing the impression of control over the surrounding lands.

03. Angled to the sky, the volume branches at several places and these branches follow a new orientation by pointing to the sky. It gives the architecture a singular holy charachter which refers to the tight bounds nurtured by the catholic church for the past centuries. Sky represent purety, and by refusiing the views upon the land, the architecture can elevate one toward a superior intellect.

04. Parasitic, As a way for the architecture to further influence the well established and static context, branches lower to the ground take root within key areas for the village (i.e, main entrance). The aim is to makes its presence felt within almost any part of the village despite graciously hiding within the ruins. Parasitic renewal can be seen as a reptile that serpentate along the fortified walls.

DISORDER & PARASITIC BEHAVIOURS

The artefact investigates the connexion to the surrounding landscape by proposing to focus on the skies, seen as an everchanging element due to local winds and the absence of pollution.

It proposes a series of 5 housing unit that point in a 30° angle toward the sky, thus the spaces are to be discovered through a vertical ascension toward the sky. It has been a way of introducing a holy character to the project, which is located within an history of catholic protected land and sheltering village for travellers.

Finally, the project expends beyond and pierce the fortified wall of the city : it aims at bridging and creating links to the outside, both physically and within its programming.