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- Talungeni Playground \ Volunteer Studio
- Gosta Serlachius Museum \ Matteo Cainer Architects
- Museum of Vine and Wine \ AH Asociados
- Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes \ AH Asociados
| Talungeni Playground \ Volunteer Studio Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:43 AM PST
Playground completed in segregated Roma settlement This Autumn Volunteer Studio completed the construction of a children's playground in the Roma settlement of Tarlungeni, Brasov County, Romania. The project, lead by University of Sheffield graduates Huan Rimington and Hannah Martin, was built by a team of 34 students.  Image courtesy Volunteer Studio  Image courtesy Volunteer Studio The ground breaking project supported the Roma community's leadership of the playgrounds development. The design was the product of discussions, collages and modelling with children and parents.  Image courtesy Volunteer Studio The scheme creates a highly stimulating, but safe space for children who are far more independent and adventurous than their British counterparts. The playground's composition reflects the community's preference for distinct forms over more abstract structures.    The playground's creation was a high risk; it was feared it was not possible for a communal facility to exist in a Roma village. However our experience highlights the potential of engaging with an otherwise excluded group; the playground has become part of the settlement and a cornerstone for a growing sense of pride and hope.    + AboutThe playground is the culmination of Tarlungeni Open Space Project, an initiative working with residents to lead settlement improvements. Huan and Hannah founded the project and charity Volunteer Studio as an alternative to ‘year in practice’ placements. The team worked in collaboration with Romania charity FAST (www.fastcharity.ro), secured over £24000 in grant funding and recruited volunteers from Sheffield, Manchester, Brighton, Nottingham and Middlesex Universities. + Visit http://tarlungeni.tumblr.com/ for more images.         |
| Gosta Serlachius Museum \ Matteo Cainer Architects Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:03 AM PST
The project for the expansion of the Serlachius Museum Gösta, presents an opportunity to explore a creative relationship between the existing museum and the surrounding landscape. Through a new and distinctive poetic architectural language, where the interior unfolds as a sequence of spaces, the project develops a harmonious ensemble that blurs the boundaries between existing and new.  Gosta Serlachius Museum, render courtesy Matteo Cainer Architects The proposed extension will allow the museum to develop a unique cultural environment, integrating the aesthetic, functional, and economic goals of a larger and more varied institution through an extended programme of activities. Importantly, it will introduce a new informality through a series of fluid volumes that establish an exciting relationship between the house, the existing grounds and the landscape beyond. The project will provides an entrance and orientation space, the "heart" of the extended museum, that will lead to a series of dramatically lit flexible spaces for exhibitions, conferences, educational activities and other public events.  Gosta Serlachius Museum, render courtesy Matteo Cainer Architects Gösta Serlachius' extensive business interests in wood and paper processing supported his life-long passion and support of the arts; it is therefore through a reinterpretation of these two elements that the proposed extension expresses the pivotal role and influence of the Serlachius family. The form of the Serlachius house, especially the roof, is the template for the new building. The geometry of the roof planes are folded and cut in the manner of paper ori-gami “folding-paper" and kirigami "folded and cut shapes", to develop a complex sequence of architectural spaces that slowly unfold to create a new layered experience. As in origami, the number of basic folds is small, but the evolving geometry results in a series of intricate shapes of surprising complexity. The nature of these is far removed from the walls and roof elements of a traditional building.  Gosta Serlachius Museum, render courtesy Matteo Cainer Architects Timber is the language of the proposed extension, not only as an expression in the Nordic tradition, but representing the bold angular beauty that defines the landscape, where invisible forces can theatricality shape both the interior and exterior. The structure and building envelope are expressed as a single component that can be manufactured from a variety of wood products to meet the geometrical tolerances of the structure and the capacity for snow loads. This integrated approach results in day lit column-free spaces that express a variety of unusual forms and volumes internally. Clad in bitumen-coated weatherboarding, the extension is punctuated by a series of external glazed fins that allow controlled daylight to illuminate internal surfaces, generating surprising and inspiring effects that changes through the seasons. Selected views of the landscape, the island and the lake are framed through openings in the new restaurant.  Gosta Serlachius Museum, render courtesy Matteo Cainer Architects Interpreting the transition from land to water, the architecture will respond to each season through elements that transform to create new spaces. In the summer months the lakeshore deck is used for water-side activities. In the winter, it transforms into a transitional space for the sauna strategically placed in the lake.  Gosta Serlachius Museum, render courtesy Matteo Cainer Architects  Gosta Serlachius Museum, render courtesy Matteo Cainer Architects The museum will nourish the mind and the body, providing stimulation for the intellectually curious and those seeking tranquillity or recreation. As in the complex folds of origami there is a rare and underlying simplicity in the spaces, reflecting the program that shaped them. The experience for visitors reveals itself in the linked spaces where the geometry also provides the unexpected.  Gosta Serlachius Museum, diagram courtesy Matteo Cainer Architects + Project factsArchitect: Matteo Cainer Architects Ltd      |
| Museum of Vine and Wine \ AH Asociados Posted: 21 Dec 2011 06:54 AM PST
The project recovers the historical building into a constructive and spacious building, carried out via dialogue with a new structural form, articulated through a central area of where tradition and modernity of viticulture and wine in Navarre meet. In the old part of the building is the welcome area, with historical reminders of the past. Parallel to this, modern day reference updates run hand in hand in the new structure. On the ground floor there is an independent area set aside for multiple usage linked, either transparently or opaquely, to the patio and to central area which is devoted to the exhibition and tasting of wines with guarantee of origin from Navarra.  Museum of Vine and Wine, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  Museum of Vine and Wine, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The patio is converted into an expanded area with possible exterior access and a grapevine cover which hides the current partition.  Museum of Vine and Wine, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas The building keeps up its image in the sphere of public elevations, with its stone walls and its wooden eaves complete with an up to date socket box, integrated along with the restored items into a unified whole. This section harks back to the historic originality of the palace, and highlights the dual nature of the exhibition, creating clear and flexible spaces, where architecture supports the study of museum pieces, and where there is a clear distinction between the exhibitions lay out trajectory, and the supporting areas, both of which can be managed jointly.  Museum of Vine and Wine, image courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas  Museum of Vine and Wine - Section, drawing courtesy AH Asociados It consists of a dihedron of antique stone which marries up with a new metal dihedron, like two intertwined hands which get close enough to hint at the magical space between them: like the space where the earth and human technology meet, a complete cultural history defined by the traditional wine producers term of ‘coupage’. + Project factsMuseum of Vine and Wine, Olite + All images and drawings courtesy AH Asociados | Photo by José Manuel Cutillas                  |
| Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes \ AH Asociados Posted: 21 Dec 2011 05:54 AM PST
The building is like an experimental deposit box, a music box where the architecture, as a spatial experience, takes place in time. It is born like from a proposition parting from it's position upon the site and through the search and protection of the spare directions it has. Starting from an excessive site development programme, it is considered like a game which leaves interstitial areas, and gaps through which a light penetrates, which brings life to a bound together group of isolated spaces.  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes, image courtesy AH Asociados  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes, image courtesy AH Asociados
The box must be opened so that the living being? may enter, and wisdom exits. It opens onto the north, in its most human face, towards the pedestrian walkway. An access which opens up but protects itself at the same time, which restricts but welcomes. It is the first step of a linked up succession of internal space. These are successively linked up spaces which are governed by light and shade, substantial lead players of form.  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes, image courtesy AH Asociados The hall is articulated by means of the interplay of compression and decompression of space which gives way to the vertical entrance hall which forms the backbone of the building, from which the main staircase ascends. This vestibule forms a large public space which articulates and binds all the floors and spaces together which encircle it all the way to the top point, which then opens out in all directions at the point where light enters to flood the space. The ground floor is kept for administration, general service areas and the library. These are more public spaces which require less control in terms of lighting and acoustics.  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes, image courtesy AH Asociados The basement contains trial rooms and the auditorium. It is a true blind box, illuminated by the atrium which comes down, from the sky, to the ground level.  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes, image courtesy AH Asociados  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes, image courtesy AH Asociados The first and second floor rooms are set aside for music and dance, which play hide and seek with light and shade with the torn breaks in the facades, minimized here to prevent the escape of musical sounds. Music and dance rooms, fluid yet logical, with light and shade, closed, yet open. A building which surrounds it all. It envelopes the light and catches it, to later permit it's escape. + Project factsProject: Music School of San Sebastián de los Reyes  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes - Floor plan, drawing courtesy AH Asociados  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes - Section, drawing courtesy AH Asociados  Music School of San Sebastian de los Reyes - Elevation, drawing courtesy AH Asociados
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