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SELF - CANCELLING

ISLANDS

REALISATION OF ALDO ROSSI’S HOTEL IL PALAZZO AT CITY SCALE WITH SELF CANCELLATION METHOD NAKITA TSZ YAN CHAN 825555

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STUDIO 22 CAPRICCO FOLLY CITY LEAD BY KIM VO & JIN RICHEN

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

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CONTENTS PROLOGUE /

FUKUOKA / IL PALAZZO / NAKASU - ISLAND ALDO ROSSI / MINIATURE CITY - TYPOLOGY

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REFLECTION / / SELF CANCELLING ISLANDS / / STAGE 1 - MACRO SCALE - CITY COMPOSITION 1 - FACADE 2 - COLUMN VS AXIS 3 - PIAZZA VS STREET STAGE 2 - MESO SCALE - METHODOLOGY OF SELF CANCELLATION ON ARCHITECTURE ANALYSIS OF THE TYPOLOGY OF HOTEL IL PALAZZO DEVELOPING THE METHODOLOGY OF SELF CANCELLATION APPLIACTION AT ARCHITECTURAL SCALE STAGE 3 - MICRO SCALE - APPLICATION TO THE CITY ANALYSIS OF THE TYPOLOGY OF NAKASU CENTRAL STREET APPLICATION AT CITY SCALE EXAMINATION OF RESULT

EPILOGUE / APPENDIX 1: CAPRICCIO + FOLLY / / CAPPRICCIO 1 / ALDO ROSSI CAPPRICCIO 2 / ROBERT VENTURI & SCOTT BROWN FOLLY 1 / KALEIDOSCOPE LOVE - PERPETUATION OF REASONING & FAILING FOLLY 2 / SELF - CANCELLATION REKYU GREY / KISHO KUROKAWA FOLLY 3 / TO BE COMPLETED. A CONVERSATION WITH MISHIMA, KEITH MITNICK & ALDO ROSSI APPENDIX 2: DIARY / /

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PROLOGUE

STAGES OF PROJECT – SCALE: 1. Urban Scale: City Composition (APPLICATION OF TYPOLOGY IN A LARGER SENSE OF SCALE AND MORE LITERAL APPROACH) 2. Architectural Scale: Dissecting Hotel Il Palazzo and recompose the fragments of typology to regenerate the original typology. (METHOD DEVELOPMENT) 3. Urban Scale: Actual application to part of the central strip of Nakasu (APPLICATION)

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Self-cancelling Islands – Studies on Rossi’s Hotel Il Palazzo & realisation at Urban Scale with self-cancellation methodology OBJECTIVE: The objective of this project is to analyse Hotel Il Palazzo’s typology by studying the underlying pattern/ language of the type, then apply this model to the Island of Nakasu at different scale with the method of self-cancellation and examine if typology can be regenerated with the self-cancellated fragments.

TYPOLOGY: In this project, typology is understood as an object that generates a particular feeling or collective memory and cannot be imitated or copied. It is the essence of a space, of architecture. Form is a pure container of a type. Function of a space is not reflected in the form and is totally detached from the type, which gives architecture a time transcending quality. The function of a space can changes over time, but the type is always constant and act as an apparatus of time measurement.

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CITY REFLECTION

Reflection upon Island city: “When history ends, memory begins.” ---Aldo Rossi Memory is an escape from reality, it is never depicted as the moment we experienced the original event, and it is never translated in the exact form when one tries to convey. Hence, memory is entirely subjective, it is purely imaginary.

How much of the architecture does a typology need for it to be relevant for a particular collective memory? What will architecture become if the space is grown from the projection of the orthogonal types? Is that realising imagination or destroying reality? What is reality and what happens to architecture when subjective reality overlays collective imagination?

Firstly, collective memory is a subjective object that coincides at one point of multiple individuals’ timeline. When implementing our first person perspective of a memory by articulating a (vague) description of emotions and feelings we experienced, the actual memory itself is never translated exactly as what we experienced. Hence, collective memory is indefinite, the language of the experience is lost in translation, yet there are distinctive joints of collision of imagination marking the collectiveness that it reveals.

When understanding the idea of architectural typology, it is inevitable to ask the question, how much? The “amount” of architecture is difficult to define. Again, it is a subjective variable. An empty room with a concrete bench might suffice. Yet, a 100 metres long street façade is also a typology.

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SITE/CONTEXT: Hotel Il Palazzo is located at Fukuoka in South-west Japan. Fukuoka has a rich historical background, which this city is often known as the cradle of Japanese culture and the gateway to Asia. Due to the geographical importance as a trading port, the city is painted in the colour of heavy entertainment-oriented culture. The specific site of the hotel is located at the waterfront facing the Naka river, looking over the island of Nakasu, which is the largest red light district in western Japan. In such similar context, the Island becomes the perfect site for manifesting the endeavours of Hotel Il Palazzo being the miniature ideal city of Fukuoka.

1. URBAN SCALE: CITY COMPOSITION Analysis on the composition of Hotel Il Palazzo: 1.

Façade – Imaginary space behind the orthogonal projection -No opening façade as pure monumental object – façade along bypass 2.

Column & Axis -Hotel Il Palazzo column to map a central visual axis intersecting at one single locus vs multiple axes extending from multiple locus and focus on the framed surrounding and not seeing your destination 3.

Piazza & Street -Piazza: center of life, where people meet and socialise -Japanese context: social activities happen along the streetside Hotel Il Palazzo: Piazza is including the waterfront, to realise this, it is important to connect the two sides of the river into one “piazza” that all streets lead to.

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Hotel Il Palazzo was built in the late 80s, it is Rossi’s only built project in Japan, and it is visioned as the miniature model of an ideal Fukuoka, which focus on the communal experience of people, and a city that people might just visit “for no other reason than that it is beautiful”.

ANAYLSIS ON HOTEL IL PALAZZO: Concept of islands – the hotel is an Island, the bars are islands, Nakasu is an Island.

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METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLANATION METHODOLOGY – SELF CANCELLATION in Orthogonal drawing: What makes a typology a typology? What generates this feeling or memory? How much of the architecture is needed to create this particular typology to generate that feeling or memory?

SELF-CANCELLATION: RIKYU GREY – “ELEMENT CANCEL EACH OTHER OUT, THUS ACHIEVING COEXISTENCE & CONTINUITY” 1.

Analyse and impose a grid on the type Analysis on the typology of Hotel Il Palazzo: 2.

Dissecting type into fragments 3.

Recompose fragments into a typology and examine whether it regenerates the original typology

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3. URBAN SCALE: APPLICATION TO THE CITY PROJECTION – Imaginary space from elevation 1.

Analyse and impose a grid on the type Analysis on the typology of Nakasu: Study on façade and form 2.

Dissecting type into fragments 3.

Recompose fragments into a typology and examine whether it regenerates the original typology

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METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

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METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

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NAKASU FREE INFORMATION

METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

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APPENDIX 1

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CAP 1

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CAP 2

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FOLLY 1

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FOLLY 2

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FOLLY 3

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APPENDIX 2

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