Encore Tower

PARK

urban

cathedral parador plaza

schooltower

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The Tourmonastery D'encore The VErtical Maze Pia Grung hostel/auberge Olivier Bouvais Dan Dorocic

culturalcenter

PROCESS

frame!

tower !

Site

labyrinth

cut

October

Novembe

er

vertical labyrinth

tube!

hostel

Bath

december

tower !

October

Novembe

labyrinth !

October

Novembe

tube!

October

Novemb

er

december

er

december

ber

december

Riga Bergen

london stuttgart Vigo

santiago

Barcelona

leon

Lecture at the University of Vigo Location: Rua Oporto 1, Vigo, Spain Date of Constuction: 1999-2003

istanbul

Structure

Istanbul, Turkey Completed 2007

Meydan shopping square The Ground-Shed

Park Diagonal Mar Location: Barcelona, Spain Date of Constuction: 1997- 2000

Silahtara Bigli Powerplant

by Han T端mertekin Location: Istanbul, Turkey Date of Constuction: 2002- 2007

Program The gate as transition We propose to create a physical transition between the urban and the green landscape and a conceptual transition between the camino world and the real world. The traditional citygate is an inspiration for the project. In the existing site there is a number of layers progressing from the urban public space (the street, the park), the private(the house), into the semiprivate(the backyard) and finally into the semipublic(the square).

This creates a new ”citywall” that cuts off the outer periphery where the camino runs from the countryside to the city. As there already exists an opening into the city adjacent ot our site, we hope to create more of a doorway, an alternative ”labyrinthine” connection with the urban fabric.

The labyrinth as camino The maze which sits immediately in front of our site is a symbol of not just the fabric of the city of Santiago, but also a microcosm of the topography and circulation in the immediate context of our site. The labyrinth is an ancient symbol that is connected with the pagan galician mythology as well as with cristian symbolism as well as the camino as the universal labirynthine spiral. The camino is a place to be lost and found spiritually, although you always see the signs of the route, just as in a labirynth you see the walls, without knowing exactly where you are. In this way, the labyrinth is used both in social group rituals and in individual meditation. We want our albergue to play along the rules of the labirynth, not to get lost but to extend the experience of moving between its functions.

Our intent is to do this vertically in the form of staircases.

“Some books (guidebooks in particular) suggest that mazes on cathedral floors originated in the medieval period as alternatives to pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the earliest attested use of the phrase "chemin de Jerusalem" (path to Jerusalem) dates to the late 18th century when it was used to describe mazes at Reims and Saint-Omer.[30] The accompanying ritual, depicted in Romantic illustrations as involving pilgrims following the maze on their knees while praying, may have been practiced at Chartres during the 17th century. [30] ” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth

the approach from the camino labyrinth

the site

- Conclusion - Overview- elucidation- preparation for departure -

We want to use our intervention to introduce the user to Santiago, to both make her reflect on the journey, to slowly wind her through her experiences from the walk there and to open up a possibility for her to stay longer in Santiago de Compostela.

Introducing her to the cityscape will increase the qualities of the experience in Santiago and the number of nights spent in the adjacent hostels.

Overview/ eLucidation

camino labyrinth city labyrinth

walled labyrinth

Garden labyrinth

going up

the site

city labyrinth

labyrinth of walls

the views

cathedral parador plaza

Garden labyrinth

schooltower

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monastery

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

behind the monastery : the eisenman cultural center

monastery + alberge park

SITE

monastery + alberge park Scale 1.500

The Cathedral:

final stop of the camino

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REALISE PAR UN PRODUIT AUTODESK A BUT EDUCATIF

Scale 1.1000

the school

the Cathedral

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SITE

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Tour D'Encore The concept for the vertical maze is not the design of a building but of an intervention that is in itself an event.

The views on offer become stops, the void space becomes event.

Views

Exposed WALK

cathedral Orientation

Orientation cathedral

schooltower cathedral School

schooltower

cathedral

N

N

paradpr plaza

paradpr plaza

monastery

monastery

hostel/auberge

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

culturalcenter

Monastery Darkbox

walkway

Orientation cathedral

Orientation schooltower

cathedral

N

paradpr plaza

schooltower

monastery

monastery

N

paradpr plaza

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

monastery

park hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

Labyrinth motif

Facade

cathedral

N

schooltower

cathedral

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

W

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

S

11/15/12

One version of the path through a "Cretan" type of labyrinth

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upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Cretan-labyrinth-square-path.svg

1/1

S

W

E

E

growing

starting small

to

not block the view

what happened to the bath and the hostel?

growing up why grow?

reroute camino activate park

to show the view attract + SHOW

magnet

first tower / traditional iteration plan view

elevation s

Section

elevation n

TOp

how to you finish the top?

Perspective from the park traditional iteration

the tower dominates the park the locals aren't happy

what if .... ?

Couldn't it be less overbearing?

Couldn't it be less of an eyesore?

Couldn't it be more sculptural?

Couldn't it be more of a vertical labyrinth?

STRUCTURE + SKIN

Circulation 'maze'

Circulational Narrative

The program is nested in the walls of the building which are perforated with a labyrinthine motif, openings to let in light to invite inside, to create qualities in to the inside of the circulation.

The building is the camino frozen in time and suspended in space.

Route 2

Circulational Narrative

ROUTE 1

ROUTE 1

PLAn

PLAn experience

experience CITY

PATH ‘CLOSES’

VIEW ONTO CITY CENTER (NW) WALKING ON THE ROOF

CITY

PATH ‘CLOSES’

VIEW ONTO CITY CENTER VIEW (NW)OF THE CATHEDRAL

WALKING ON THE ROOF

VIEW ONTO PARK (SE)

PARK OPENS !!!

VIEW OF THE REFLECTION CATHEDRAL ROOM

VIEW ONTO PARK (SE)

PARK

route1 Route 2 1 ROUTE

OPENS !!!

REFLECTION ROOM

PLAn

articulation in the context TOUR D’ENCORE The tower becomes the camino as embodied experience. The TOWER/TOUR becomes a vertical camino experience of reflection on the walk passed. It is both memory and present. Both reflection of the past and the reflection of the present surroundings.

This experience/ event does not offer fullCLOSURE but attests to its impossibility.

ENCORE - insistent enjoyment that is never fully satisfied- always AGAIN. The Tour Encore subverts the traditional view of the tower as monumnetal/ monolithic/ totalizing edifice. The labyrinthine kink and disorienting circulation rather make it a manifestation of a walk in the sky.

The Encore Tour as tower, and tour as a second tour.

Why is the tower the dominating structure in the site?

Sun Study

Sunrise

Morning

Noon

Evening

Sunset

conclusion

frame !!

transparent iteration

transparent iteration

close tor open transparent iteration

See the cathedral

see the cultural center

see the camino

see the school tower

walking on the roof

connection to the plaza

main entry Plaza

the Boxes

vertical strata

sky strata

cathedral strata

tower strata

Roof strata frame Boxes Neighbouring Wall Interior mazes

street strata

park strata

throwing away the frame

cathedral

Orientation cathedral

schooltower

cathedral

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

Exposed WALK Orientation schooltower cathedral School

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

Monastery Darkbox Orientation cathedral

schooltower

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

monastery

hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

walkway Orientation cathedral

schooltower

N

paradpr plaza

monastery

park hostel/auberge

culturalcenter

keeping the viewpoints

Searching for the right stacking Principle s

a

double height

b

single height

antimonumental tower Finally the Tour Encore subverts the traditional view of the tower as monumnetal/ monolithic/ totalizing edifice. Rather, the labyrinthine kink and disorienting circulation make it a manifestation of a walk in the sky.

modules

easy stair

a

end panel

D

hard stair

b

c traverse

material

perforated steel

facade expression

easy transportation

prefab possibility

3 modules easily fit on a truck

construction process

modules

modularity = flexibility

sculpture in the park

load distribution

inside the circulation

under the circulation

inside the sculpture

View up from the center of the structure

The entrance onto the vertical maze is from the park and and into a network of steel tubes, which make up the DNA- the structure of the intervention. A steel lattice system with perforated metal plates is filled with stairs and ramps to articulate the circulation. The space is a squiggle in the landcape that creates a bridge from the park to the city. From the camino to the finale. It engage the user to transform her walk from the horizontal to the vertical. One does not just pass through, but rather one comes in one end, re-experiences the camino and comes out on the other side transformed.

SECTION 1.200 REALISE PAR UN PRODUIT AUTODESK A BUT EDUCATIF

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tour d'encore iterationv

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negotiated item/ material

perspective

The entrance onto the vertical maze is from the park and and into a network of steel tubes, which make up the DNA- the structure of the intervention. A steel lattice system with perforated metal plates is filled with stairs and ramps to articulate the circulation. The space is a squiggle in the landcape that creates a bridge from the park to the city. From the camino to the finale. It engage the user to transform her walk from the horizontal to the vertical. One does not just pass through, but rather one comes in one end, re-experiences the camino and comes out on the other side transformed.