Master's Architecture Portfolio 2018

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LOUIS-CHRISTOPHE BIGRAS PORTFOLIO / 2018

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RADI+SHED

The project proposes and tests the possibilities of introducing hydroponic agriculture practices in Greenland as a response to increasing quotas on hunting in Greenland.

Set in the eastern Queqqata Kommune of Greenland, in the small hamlet of Kangerlussuaq, the device takes the form of a deployable shelter to assess how hydroponic systems that use perlite [a natural insulant]as a growing medium for plants, can create comfortable indoor temperatures for shelter, but also for a potential indoor wall system applicable to larger [...]

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RAPID BILHARZIA PREVENTION

Found most dominantly in children likely to bathe and play in the infested water and in women who do daily chores such as laundry and dishes in these water bodies, 95% of the total Tanzanian population is at risk of contracting Schistosomiasis [Bilharzia], with 50% being infected.

The installation proposed allows locals to interact with infested water without fear of becoming directly in contact with it. As a floating platform, water is pumped by stepping action. Walking on the modules pumps water up into a filtration chamber that uses [...]

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COOP HIMMELB(L)AU SELECTED WORKS

For 6 months I interned at the Viennese Architecture office Coop Himmelb[l]au in Austria, where I worked on two large residential housing towers for a period of 4 and 2 months respectively. For the first project, located in Vienna, I was tasked with drafting facade detailing and helped for the floor plans.

Time was also put towards a large physical model.

For the second project, in Bulgaria, I worked on renderings and the facade,using wind simulations in grasshopper for balcony placement and form-generation.

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The new Kangerlussuaq terminal aims to respond to both increasing tourism pressures in Greenland and the lack of suitable gathering spaces for locals in Kangerlussuaq by rebuilding a new social airport in the center of the hamlet.

To counteract the eminent construction of a new international airport in the capital, Nuuk, and the economic repercussions it might have on Kangerlussuaq, the terminal also houses aeroponic food production infrastructure for the creation of a new workforce and local economy. By reconfiguring and mixing both [...]

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UWANJA WA FISI UNDERTAKING AUTONOMY

Located on the Tanzanian east coast, the city of Dar es Salaam is booming with new development and investment from the east. Confounded between new infrastructural potential and a plethora of possible development agendas for the city, local government ignores the struggle of sex workers within its slums.

Through an architectural camouflage of intentions, the project therefore addresses the plight of the 200 commercial sex workers of Hyena Square in Dar es Salaam by fostering illegal activities within its boundary. By re-framing [...]

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FREELANCE / NORDIC ARCH. & HENNING LARSEN

Working on a short contract for the Nordic Architecture office, three classmates and myself worked on a large scale physical model of a masterplan project of a new residential area near Sisimuit, Greenland.

We organized and assembled a 350 layer thick foam model into six A1 sized sections, for the model to be shipped to Greenland for a presentation to the local planning council.

At Henning Larsen Architects I made a total of three competition renders for a competition on a tight deadline; the project being an outdoor public park in Sweden.

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HYDROPONIC TEST SHELTER The project proposes and tests the possibilities of introducing hydroponic agriculture practices in Greenland as a response to increasing quotas on hunting in Greenland.

Set in the eastern Queqqata Kommune of Greenland, in the small hamlet of Kangerlussuaq, the device takes the form of a deployable shelter to assess how hydroponic systems that use perlite [a natural insulant]as a growing medium for plants, can create comfortable indoor temperatures for shelter, but also for a potential indoor wall system applicable to larger architectures. A dual-application of this greenhouse effect might then have applications in the built arctic world.

The device is built to be autonomous and self-regulating, and was used, in this case, to germinate radish seeds, as an alternative source of food for harder to reach communities and towns.

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The mandate of the device is to design and built a prototype with architectural potential that is to be implemented in the field. The location of said implementation was in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, where I spent 3 weeks testing and analyzing the potential of hydroponic practices as spacial insulation for shelter.

Greenland is very much in an ideological conundrum, confounded between its preservation of traditional ways and its willingness to reach out to a larger international market. On one hand, its economic dependence from Denmark; on the other, sustainable practice, tradition, hunting, & an abundance of revealed resources due to global warming.

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A lot of uproar within the local hunting communities is felt with the increasing quotas and limits enforced to preserve local animal populations.

Alternatively, agriculture is beginning to make its way into local culture especially on the southern portion of the country, which, with its lower latitude, is much warmer than the rest of Greenland.

The project therefore investigates the agricultural possibilities of hydroponic practices in Greenland as it could provide another means of acquiring food, help local economy, reduce dependence on the importation of produce and still somewhat resonate with the hunter-gatherer traditional culture of local populations.

The growing medium used for the germination of the radish seeds is perlite; one of the few plant growing mediums used in hydroponic systems that has a dual application in building insulation. It is inexpensive and provides an alternative to cultivatable land due to permafrost/ However its greatest potential lies in its ability to provide additional thermal insulation to spaces, to benefit both plants and people within. In all, this could provide an alternative to the increased food imports while capitalizing on the local raising temperatures and melt-water runoff of glaciers.

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The aluminum frame was built with rota-table joints to test different angles of water distribution with the polyethylene film built in two layers. Small pockets of perlite and radish seed were sown in between the layers where water could trickle down from the top “stem” before being pumped back up. At all moment of the data collection, temperature, humidity and water flow were registered within the space, with and without human heat.

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Built in 4 parts, the entire system is comprised of an aluminum frame,a sonic welded polyethylene growing film, a Tyvek wrap jacket, and a control box for water distribution and data collection.

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welded together over pockets of expanded perlite with two seeds per pocket. Once germinated the seed less promising would be removed for plants not to compete with each other.

Each pocket housed two tablespoons of perlite, giving a very low, but noticeable quantity of insulation.

The water would then be pumped to the top of he structure only to trickle down and guided back into the reservoir for the cycle to repeat. for the water to enter the film, aquarium piping was used to split the initial water current in 16 smaller streams.

Temperature and humidity levels were calculated and analyzed within the device structure, and thermal images of the growing pockets were taken. What was discovered was that the pockets had a very high thermal capacity. This heat storage capability was even further enhanced when influenced by local conditions like

This layer was built using two polyethylene plastic films sonic

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a heat source. The device performed at its best when a person would stay inside the structure, allowing the pockets to harvest the individual’s heat release. The pockets would trap the heat create a rich growing environment for plants while passively increasing interior temperatures.

It is then easy to imagine and stipulate that this hydroponic system would perform well as a temperature regulating device especially in public spaces and interior environments with a lot of human activity.

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The device was designed to assure a even distribution of water to all plants. To this effect a grid like sheet made of hexagonal pockets distribute water from top to bottom through openings in the sonic welding.

This allows water to flow properly,and for roots to grow but stops.

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LOUIS-CHRISTOPHE BIGRAS PORTFOLIO / 2018 This project responds to three problematics observed in the settlement of Kangerlussuaq in Greenland.

Currently, this hamlet built around an airport, is faced with increasing tourism pressures & it has a absence of suitable gathering spaces for locals. In addition, settlements like that of Kangerlussuaq have very limited access to fresh, yearly available, agricultural produce.

In response to these observations, the project considers the possibility of rebuilding the current airport terminal of Kangerlussuaq into a new “social” airport. Through the introduction of new agricultural technologies and the creation of multi-functional cultural gathering spaces within this traffic heavy terminal,exchange between locals and travelers are favored and common.

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Community housing is located on the eastern side of the newly built hotel

Each hotel room has permanent aeroponic modules that produce vegetables and fruits all ye a r, eve n w h e n o c c u p i e d

When hotel rooms are vacant, additionnal aeroponic production walls are installed temporarily into the room and connected to the permanent system

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Spread mostly around the hotel, but also partly around the building are grow walls for produce which is sold within the airport. These walls follow-up on the investigations of the previous device and make full use of perlite to insulate spaces.

The hotel uses vacant rooms to grow produce, keeping the water systems from freezing, even in times of low-tourism in winter.

The roof of the airport is adorned with skylight chimneys.that guide light to specific program areas, revealing and changing space.

These skylights cater to their underlying program in terms of timeof-day and daily use, but also with strong consideration of plant life, sunlight hours and orientation.

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The local community does not recycle building materials. Waste is burned at the local landfill twice a week, and building materials are gathered in other sections of said landfill, never to be used again.

To mitigate the amount of waste and limit the high import costs for the new construction, the new airport terminal attempts to rebuild using as much of the current building as possible without compromising the final design. The airport’s design reflects this approach through a structural floor plan that does not differ much from the current terminal. Most new construction is located in the terminal’s hotel, an addition in its own right.

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POST-INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS After the security check area is closed, the post-security area is open for all travelers and locals. The catwalk is unlocked and offers views towards the atrium areas.

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INTERNATIONAL POST-SECURITY AREA OPENED TO PUBLIC Extruded skylights are used to direct additional light to plants. They prove especially helpful in darker winter months, where a few more meters in height can add a few hours of sunlight due to the sun

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Found most dominantly in children likely to bathe and play in the infested water and in women who do daily chores such as laundry and dishes in these water bodies, 95% of the total Tanzanian population is at risk of contracting Schistosomiasis [Bilharzia], with 50% being infected.

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The installation proposed allows locals to interact with infested water without fear of becoming directly in contact with it. As a floating platform, water is pumped by stepping action.

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Floating on thick rubber inner tubes, the device is amphibious and can MODULE RECONFIGURATIONS filter from both smaller water basins shallower ones. The entire system Having each module as an individual unit with a reconfigurable joint system allows the bridge to change to and a platform and RECONFIGURATIO MODULE vice-versa. This also allows the whole system to be deployed at multiple scales and in different water isbodies modular and can be reconfigured and Zanzibar Having each into module as different an individual unit with a reconfigurable joint system all RECONFIGURATIONS MODULE reshaped organizations vice-versa. This also allows the whole system to be deployed at multiple depending on the water body and use.

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TANZANIA Cheif Town City Summit STEPPING MODULE

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The device is assembled with three different modules and can be reconfigured many ways. The basic module lies on the inner tube of a scooter, greatly found in eastern Africa, and joins other modules at three parts. The pumping module has a hand-held siphoning pump mechanism on the underside of the stretched fabric to pump water from below, up to a filtration bubble on the single filter module.

The filter itself was made using locally available coconut agricultural waste. The husk of the coconut (a carbon based element) was used to make activated coconut charcoal, proven to have great filtration and purification properties. In addition a nylon 25 micron mesh, could essentially remove the cercariae pathogen while still allowing good water flow.

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Pumping Module; Step-on Pumping System

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When analyzing the water both before and after filtration for salinity, dissolved solids, conductivity and pH I realized that the filter works to some extent. The filter greatly improved the smell and color of water samples, and always seems to bring samples closer to neutral pH, placing every sample within both the WHO and the Tanzanian bureau of standards guidelines. The cercariae worms were also removed by the mesh.

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The device was deployed at five locations on the eastern coast of Tanzania to test the activated coconut filter and the local population’s reception of design. Three of these test sites which were along the Msimbazi river; a shallow but thoroughly infested waterway running through the city of Dar es Salaam.

BOTTOM + Joint System

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University of Dar es Salaam Presentation & Open Discussion

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Located on the Tanzanian east coast, the city of Dar es Salaam is booming with new development and investment from the east. Confounded between new infrastructural potential and a plethora of possible development agendas for the city, local government ignores the struggle of sex workers within its slums.

MANZESE WARD UWANJA WA FISI

Through an architectural camouflage of intentions, the project therefore addresses the plight of the 200 commercial sex workers of Hyena Square in Dar es Salaam by fostering illegal activities within its boundary.

By re-framing commercial sex work practices through the introduction of increased sanitation stations and a reblocking housing strategy, the proposal relinquishes the financial autonomy the sex workers came seeking at the square, yet all under the guise of gentrification for the more conservative regimes of power in place.

CITY CENTER

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TUTORS:

David Garcia & Jakob Knudsen

Uwanja wa Fisi is an active and bustling area both night and day, but environmental elements seem quite stable all throughout the year.

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During the day, commercial sex workers of the area stay around their homes, under the employment of regular clients.

They spend their time at home, or around, chatting with other girls, and look after their children. They also take the time to perform some chores for the household.

MANZESE WARD UBUNGO DISTRICT

UWANJA WA SIFA CHURCH

ERASMI SHOP

MPOLAMPOLA BAR JOJETA GUEST HOUSE

At night, local men gather around bars and taverns at the square. Girls usually frequent the bars in search of potential costumers and bring them back to their residences if they have a place to stay. Children are at home and are often only separated by a curtain, while their mother is at work in the other room.

Wakubebwa Video Show Point Pub & Guest House Alex Video Library 8-k Barber Shop Assassination Video Show

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Solar Radiation / Typologies

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Anchor Point 1 is located in the north-western part of the site, at a crossing of four paths. One of these connects directly to the center square and bars.

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Anchor Point 4 is located in the eartsen part of the site, in between the park and one of the landfills. it is surrounded by housing on all sides.

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Anchor Point 6 is located in the south-eastern part of the site, surrounded by housing.

ANCHOR POINT 5

LATRINE, SHOWER AND SERVICES ACESS POINT

Five sanitation service sites, Camouflaging Commercial Sexare Work ancillary to the Water Tower, spread

the development. These sites Fivethroughout sanitation ancillary the Water Tower, front as service anchorsites, points ofto services but are spread throughout the development. front as anchor serve a larger purpose in These the sites evening for theofcommercial sexa larger workers without a home points services but serve purpose in the evening for the to practice within. commercial sex workers without a home to practice within.

Ground Floor as sites for laundry, showering Acting asActing sites for laundry, showering and latrines, these zones not and latrines, these zones not only increase onlythe increase the quality of life the residents but also a quality of life ofof the residents but proposes also proposes a potential practice potential vocationnal practice vocational from which the women offrom the area, women the area, can As learn as azones canwhich learn asthe a way out of of commercial sex work. sanitation way out of commercial sex work. As sanitation theyzones also double as commercial sex commercial work facilitating they also double as sex solicitation, work cleaning, escape authorities, but also a sense of ownership of facilitating solicitation, cleaning, escape First Floor from from but also a sense of ownership space andauthorities, security. of space SHOWER and LATRINEsecurity. x6

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This symbolical new temporary for the sex workers around This symbolical newhome temporary home for or the thesex square, enhances sense ofthe security and power to be exerted workers or aaround square, enhances a sense of security and to be exertedwith onto onto their customers.

They arepower two storey structures latrines customers.

They are two structures on their the ground floor, and showers on level the first, operated and with latrines on the ground floor, and showers maintained the women.

Welland lit and dignified, they become on the by first, operated maintained by the reminiscent bath-houses, are core to the emancipation of women. of Well lit andand dignified, they become bath-houses, thereminiscent commercial sexof workers of the area. and are core to the emancipation of the commercial sex workers of the area.

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Public Furniture Food Vendors Prebuilt-Concrete Elements Residental Foundation Plinths Phase 1 - Immediate Remediation 1 Main Path Network 2 Ancillary Sanition Sites 3 Water Tower Upgrade 4 Landfill Zone / Trash Deposit Phase 2 - Program Incorporation 5 Maintenance & Meeting Rooms 6 Grain Drying Platform 7 Community Clinic 8 Bars & Gambling Areas 9 Kindergarten Cooking & Drop-Off 10 Community Garden 11 Sport Field 12 Playground Phase 3 - Final Housing Development 13 Completed Housing Lots 14 Community Gym

Phase 2 - Program Incorporation 5 Maintenance & Meeting Rooms 6 Grain Drying Platform 7 Community Clinic 8 Bars & Gambling Areas 9 Kindergarten Cooking & Drop-Off 10 Community Garden 11 Sport Field 12 Playground

Community Clinic Bars & Gambling Areas Kindergarten Cooking & Drop-Off Community Garden Sport Field Playground

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Phase 3 - Final Housing Development 13 Completed Housing Lots 14 Community Gym

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The final phase of the development completes the last clusters of housing allotments, relinquishing to its residents the rest of the housing constructions.

The site then becomes in a perpetual states of development, changing with the needs of its residences and the migrations of the families within its borders.

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purposefully places to allow light to seep into all home and have space for vegetation.

between neighbors.

Rods can be slotted into the outer edge of the foundation to provide additional support.

Housing clusters create light wells when assembled following the planned foundations and allotments. These small 120 cm x 120 cm areas are purposefully places to allow light to seep into all home and have space for vegetation.

Corrugated roofspainted can be Pre-built, thick, slotted into available concrete walls have allotments, regardless been cast with deep of their built as notches thatstatus, allow for temporary tin roofs to shelters be slotted against rainfall, and also into. These notches additional coveredto channel rainwater courtyards to be shared drain perpendicularly to between neighbors. and the roof orientation Rods can be slotted onto neighbor roofs.into the outer edge of the foundation to provide additional support.

Housing clusters create light wells when assembled following the planned foundations and allotments. These small 120 cm x 120 cm areas are purposefully places to allow light to seep into all home and have space for vegetation.

Pre-built, thick, painted concrete walls have been cast with deep notches that allow for tin roofs to be slotted into. These LIGHTnotches WELL also channel rainwater to drain perpendicularly to the roof orientation and onto neighbor roofs.

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Pre-built, thick, painted concrete walls have been cast with deep notches that allow for tin roofs to be slotted into. These notches also channel rainwater to drain perpendicularly to the roof orientation and onto neighbor roofs.

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the sanitation zone serve as escape hatches when authorities raid the area. In these cases, a manhole is located on the underside of installed furniture. When commercial sex work is performed on the second level, within the showering units, these nearby elements can be moved by the costumer - typically not fined by local police enforcement - to allow for the sex worker to escape on the lower level inconspicuously.

Latrine Strategy

purposefully places to allow light to support. seep into all home and have space SHOWERING & LATRINE UNIT / CAMOUFLAGED SEXUAL SERVICES & Showering ESCAPE for vegetation.

Pre-built, thick, units are a core element painted concrete walls have been of the “services” zones on site. cast with deep notches that allow Designed to facilitate commercial for tin roofs to be slotted into. sex work for the women of the area, These notches also channel rainwater smooth edges, places to sit, lay and to drain perpendicularly to the roof things to grab on are all integrated orientation and onto neighbor roofs. within the units and camouflaged as typical showering elements. Benches Corrugated roofs can be slotted can be re-arranged to create a long into available allotments, regardless surface to lay on while the general of their built status, as temporary design and intent of the showering shelters against rainfall, and units allow locals to quickly clean

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Showering units are a core element of the “services” zones on site. Designed to At times, latrines installed in the sanitation zone serve as escape hatches when facilitate commercial sex work for the women of the area, smooth edges, places to authorities raid the area. In these cases, a manhole is located on the underside of Housing clusters create light covered courtyards to beWhen commercial and rinse the area after services are sit, lay and things to grab on are all integrated within theadditional units and camouflaged installed furniture. sex work is performed on the second level, wells when assembled following the shared neighbors. can units, these performed. as typical showering elements.

Benches can be re-arranged to createbetween a long withinRods the showering nearby elements can be moved by the costumer to lay on whileand the general design nd intent of thebe showering units allow typically not fined planned surface foundations allotments. slotted into the outer edge of by local police enforcement - to allow for the sex worker to quickly the area after services are performed. inconspicously.

These small locals 120tocm x clean 120 and cmrinse areas are the foundation to provide additionalescape on the lower At level times, latrines installed in

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LOUIS-CHRISTOPHE BIGRAS PORTFOLIO / 2018 Supplementary program elements to further increase the quality of life of the square’s inhabitants, that also propose new ways of emerging out of sex work, through vocational training and support are implemented. These include a kindergarten, some bars and gambling zones, a park and some maintenance and training rooms adjacent to the stations.

The kindergarten, for example, plays a crucial role in the re-framed sex-trade around the square. A large portion of the sex workers have children, which become a problem when the women work out of their own homes. In this case, the kindergarten and public park serves two purposes: they add an actual physical place for the children to play outside, and second they offer an opportunity for the women to run the daycare; taking a break from sex work, allowing other women to work away from their children,and learning a potential new vocation into childcare.

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The housing development scheme stays sensitive to the qualities of the area observed during the expedition. Shared courtyards and possibilities for covered exterior cooking are built. Through this,the already present camaraderie felt between the women is enhanced and given public importance.

As is common with informal settlements such as these, the housing framework also permits for an add-hoc approach to building, understanding that family structures migrate and change rapidly while HOUSING / PLAN 1:50 also DEVELOPMENT catering to the present creative and crafty nature of its inhabitants.

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Bars are found all around the square, and mostly consist of kiosk beverage stands with outdoor seating areas. And it is between the buildings that these spaces for drinking and gambling are located.

The base of the water tower is opened up and becomes a gathering place for the women in the morning. They share experiences about bad clients they should stay away from. They delegate who will be operating the kindergarten today, and outline if any of the services ancillary sites requires maintenance.

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In the evening, a space between bars can be rearranged for gambling by using nearby food stalls that have been emptied in order to play kolokolo, a dice game of chance favored by locals.

The Water Tower become core to the women’s emancipation and potential transition out of commercial sex work, all the while guiding newcomers through the safe practices of sex work. At night, it becomes a place for monetary exchange and solicitation and is directly adjacent to one of the 6 services sites.

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Situated in a residential neighborhood near the train terminal of Vienna, Coop Himmelb(l)au was tasked with the design of a 19 storey residential building in partnership with Delugan Meissl Architects.

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Located in Sofiya, Bulgaria, Coop Himmelb(l)au was asked to propose a design for a residential tower with a multi-functional complex at its base.

The design was informed by local wind conditions and simulations. The wind velocities were directly translated into the balconies’ form.

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