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Half-A-Block

STUDIO NASADIL - DUBA // WINTER 2017/18

SINAN BIRSEL / AD 3

BRIEF

TERRAIN VAGUE ZĂĄtory, Prague 7, Czech Republic

Vacant places in urban periphery, incomplete blocks, brownfield gap spaces, inner courtyards, programatically and physically undefined spaces - that’s terrain vague.

Space with hidden potential and rich surrounding context, waiting for smart interventions that would repair lost and undiscovered relationships, enhance and add value to the city. We would like to encourage design process based on complex understanding of the city through rigorous analysis. The semester will be structured into three parts analysis, masterplaning and finally presentation of both the proposals and knowledge gained through research. The aim is not to develop solely through building design, but to define characteristics, atmosphere, discover the potential, unlock the possibilities through urban design.

For this task we chose areas and spaces in Holesovice bounded by railway and main roads passing through the Prague 7 district. The task will be to analyze particular problems of these spaces and reframe them in a way that would be beneficial for the city, particularly on the typology of cohousing, coworking and structured public space.

P. Nasadil, M. Duba, 09/2017

DESIGN STATEMENT

Half-A-Block Looking at the site it is partitioned into two, the lower built part - filled with multi-functional spaces and social gathering areas created by the people is considered to be one of the best functioning courtyards in Prague - and the upper undevelopped part.

Situed inside the upper end of the site, the “half-a-block� proposal consists on defining spaces and interspatial relationships within the area and act as a transition block from the unbuilt environment to the built one. The project relies on not as much as creating blocks but more as defining them and the surrounding spaces created by them.

The area is mostly residential, has high property value and tremendous acces to public transport, moreover there is an upcoming masterplan to densify the middle of the district, nevertheless, the area - and in general the lower Holesovice - lacks public gathering places and social spaces. These come together in the best form as parcs which have proven themselves to be loved and seeked by the people.

The concept of this project is to create a space where new communities can emerge and gather, an Agora. To accomplish this, two new massings are created in order to enclose and define the empty space in the center. The new massings are built in the optimal way to ensure light, to protect from wind, to allow acces to transportation, to have vision over the agora with minimal restriction possible of the existing massings and to create attractivness.

Proceeding onwards, you will learn more about the site and city context, the design proccess and the new functions associated with the area.

S.Birsel, 01/2018

FUTURE DEVELOPPMENT

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CITY CONTEXT

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ANALYSIS

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TRANSPORTATION ACCESS

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ANALYSIS

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SKETCHES

Two new massings on each side of the agora are gradually getting taller the more distance increases between them, making it look like a reverse pyramid was extracted which gives a sense a wider and less suffocating space.

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CONCEPT

PARAMETRIC BLOCK BUILD-OUT

Listening to the existing building the shape is formed

Then extruded half way

After partitioning it, empiric association into couples

The mass substracted from a unit in a couple is added to the complementary unit of the couple

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DIAGRAMS

: New Massing

: Public

: Residential

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EXISTING SITE PLAN

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PROPOSED SITE PLAN

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PROPOSED SITE TRAFFIC

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: Regular Traffic Zone

: Slow Drive Zone

: Traffic Free Zone

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SITE GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Apartment 5

Apartment 4 Coworking Space

Apartment 1 Multipurpose Room 1 Multipurpose Room 2 Apartment 3

Apartment 2

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INTERSPATIAL RELATIONS The ground floor of the new massing works as a whole within itself and partially with the old massing.

An Agora and two blocks are created, a small one and a big one.

The small block consists of two residential buildings and a coworking space with an horizontal common working area and a vertical office area - which acts as a continious part of the existing building with a dead facade - and a courtyard used for parking.

The small block has a simple structure, however the big block is a bit more diverse in its functions. It is made of six structures, half of them are residential, but the other half are distributed on each street and grants direct acces to inside of the block.

On the inside the area is enclosed to form two multipurpose rooms that has the proper necessities to be used as an Auditorium for public speach and lectures, an Amphitheatre for theatrical pieces and movies, a Concert Hall for musical performances and also for exhibitions.

On the Agora an old car parking container building is renovated and recomissioned to become a Bistro and a new Tower is built that will operate under the same ownership as the bistro (more detail on page 25).

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SECTIONS 1 & 2

SOCIAL SPACE: THE AGORA The Agora inhibits a Bistro and a Tower but also a modular pole system and a sloped ground on its entry.

Metal poles of 5 different predetermined sizes are used to create a multifunctional interactive effect.

Apart being a guide for the Agora leading to the inside of the big block, it can be used for hanging artworks and partitioning spaces for outdoor exhibitons, forming a closed area with a tent on top, hanging a screen for projection from the bistro for movie nights, or just simple things like using it to hang swings, imagination is the limit.

The sloped ground is an interactive ground that can be used as a playground for children and adults but also walking, cycling and skating on it, its purpose is to create interaction with other people which emphasises the agora concept.

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SECTION 3

Apartment 5

Coworking Space

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Bistro

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Apartment 1

Tower

Apartment 3

Multipurpose Room 1

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MASTERPLAN DETAIL: CHIMNEY

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CHIMNEY ? TOWER ? VIEW POINT ?

The purpose of this structure is to create a ruling object of the Agora - as in ancient Greece - that has a harmonious shape with the site.

Analising the surroundings, the area showed itself to have a massive range and quantity of old industrial brick chimneys.

The chimney’s narrow, circular, vertical/conoidical structure makes a perfect contrast to the cubical low rise buildings from the new and old massings of the site.

To cleanse it from its usual association to industrialism and pollution, the ground floor is fully glazed and transparent which gives a cozy hut effect.

The chimney has an elevator shaft in the center with a continious flight of wide stairs that take you to the top which is a view point - being just taller than the surrounding buildings in the area. It has a view over the river, roofscapes and espacially other chimneys which will pop-out over the roofs at that level of view.

A Coffee Shop was integrated on the bottom floor so that people can take their beverages to the vantage point to admire the view or to sit on the wide stairs to read their books with different natural light effects - depending on the time of the day - generating from the tall narrow windows, In any case people will always have a view over the Agora.

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SITE VISUALISATION

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RENDER

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AGORA VISUALISATION

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RENDERS

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AGORA VISUALISATION

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RENDERS

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STREET VISUALISATION

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RENDER

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CV

Sinan Birsel 24/06/1998 Istanbul, Turkey sinan.birsel.arch@gmail.com Czech Republic: +420 773 218 816 Turkey: +90 (530) 770 83 85 Letohradska 681/09, Praha 7 Praha 170 00 Czech Republic Defterdar yok. Saray apt. 44/11, Cihangir Istanbul 34 433 Turkey

NON-LOAD BEARING STRUCTURES - CONTENT OF SUBJECT WEEK 1 25.9. - 1.10.

LECTURE/SEMINAR

CONTENT

27.9.

L S

Introduction, Functional requirements on structures, Discussion about semetra preparation of TASK 1

4.10

L S

Principles of thermal insulation, insulating materials Task1: Small presentation (in group prefarably, not necassary) about requireme

2 2.10. - 8.10.

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Education: 9.10. - 15.10.

11.10.

L Principles of building protection against water and damp Secondary School (2009-2013): Ecole Française de Pierre Loti S Student presentation - thermal insulated material - Engjell High School (2013-2016): Lycée Française de Pierre Loti (Scientific Diploma) Student presentation - water and damp insulating materials - Sinan University (2016-2019): Architectural Institute in Prague 4 Languages: -Turkish (Native) -French (C2) -English (C1) -Spanish (B2) Graphic Software Knowledge: -AutoCAD 2014-2017 -SketchUp 2014-2018 -Lumion -Adobe Photoshop CC -Adobe InDesign CC -Adobe Lightroom

16.10 - 22.10.

18.10.

L S

25.10.

T S

Accoustic requirements on buildings, related materials and solutions Joel Student presentation + instruction to essay

5 23.10. - 29.10.

MIDTERM TEST