GENOVA CULTURAL HUB

Through the design of a cultural hub for the Foce District in Genova, Italy, the immediate representation of harmony, lightness, and an international connection is exposed. Harmony represented through the simultaneous arrangement of rectilinear and curvilinear forms integrated together seamlessly through context on varying levels. The rectilinear elements at the contextual height of Luigi Daneri's three buildings surrounding the Piazza Rossetti place the cultural hub gently into the site while the southern curvilnear buildings sweep across the lower half in a dialogue with the Mediterranean Sea. Lightness in architecture is expressed through the design's elevated footprint in the Piazza giving back the ground plane to the public. Finally, the international presence that Genova's ports has is finally taken advantage of through a combination of dominant axes revealing and accentuating the main theater space as well as a heightened focus on passing ships.

SPRING 2022 Group Partners: Eric Downing, Kendall Copeland

Mr. Palomar, a visionary, experiences thoughts and beliefs that veer from normality. He notices details, feelings, emotions, and has inspired our team to incorporate not only these, but more importantly his ideology of thinking from a radical perspective. through the reading of his wide array of experiences, we were able to pull and highlight certain concepts that impacted us and then worked to represent them graphically. He has beeen a great inspiration for our project architectually as well as ourselves personally.

The three primary structures utilize particular design strategies to provide protection form the elements. A double facde is used for the theater creating a transition of opaque to transparency. The southern portion of the site, both buildingsuse either overhangs are a green roof for the use of shade or decrease the absorption of heat.

Our proposal has the northern site raised in the air to preserve the historical Piazza Rossetti as well as to keep the piazza open to the public. This design aslo allows us to have a light footprint.

Preserve Split Lift Optimize Program

The shaping of the facade for the theater came from the idea of a front of the hull of boat. The site has an open view of the path for all the cruiselines that enter the port of Genova. This acknowledges the feature that feeds into the the city's culture. The facade design also recognizes the amount of sunlight that it will recieve. In reaction, the southern side of the facade has smaller openings, and as the material progresses to the North side, the openings become larger to let let in more indirect sunlight. As the theater may be used at anytime of the day, the interior lights will glow onto the piazza at night to also create a safer space.

Utilizing a locator to determine position of larger openings Create a triangulated paneling system along surface Using the curve to shift and pull the larger openings to its location. Attracting and shaping the larger panels to the northern side of the theater