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Ballet go-round
Ballet
West: Fluid Adagio Installation(Design /Build) CompetitionAIA Utahhttp://www.aiautahyaf.org/
Fluid adagio an international competition in which architects and designers were invited to anonymously
to design a temporary installation (estimated to be 1 to 2 years) that will
occupy the future building site for Utah’s premiere ballet company, Ballet
West.
The goal of this temporary installation was to create a
unique spatial experience within the urban context of Salt Lake City. The
winning team was to respond to the program and tight budget, and would have
been involved in every aspect of the design, development, and construction of
the project.
Why we
deserve a second shot at glory;
The
ballet go-round was a subtle yet, effective effort to create an urban musical
instrument by capturing the circulating wind in the urban corridors.
The ballet
go-round
The project- The project is a series of oversized
Ballerina silhouettes that are placed on revolving bases (similar to marry go
rounds) and are equally spaced across the site.
Each silhouette would gradually rotate as the wind hits its surface and
would play a single music note every once in a while (using a mechanism similar
to a music box in its base). The intensity and the direction of wind, the
changing position of rotating silhouettes and the combination of the individual
music notes played by each silhouette would generate a dynamic urban
installation that has enough visual and acoustical presence to allure the bypassing
pedestrian into the site and signal the future emergence of the Utah’s premiere
ballet company.
The area at the north east corner of the site is left
untouched to be used as an outdoor gathering area for functions like small
performances, exhibitions and video projection on the west wall of the Capitol Theater.
The installations area on the south would act as a buffer zone to give spatial
definition and isolation to this portion of the site.
Fabrication and
installation- The
project is designed to have maximum off-site buildability. The whole project
will be made of prefabricated pieces operating on simple mechanisms to maximize
quality control and to minimize site preparation and installation time. The
silhouettes would be CNC-cut from half inch powder coated hot rolled steel. The
rotational mechanism at the base would be a ball-bearing sleeve connection with
a housing to incorporate the music box gear. In most pieces the revolving
mechanism would be disengaged by the weight of the person sitting on it which
would provide a fixed seating for the
visitors, while a few of the pieces would rotate even with people sitting on them and become a play structure, adding fun and
delight to the project.
The Adagio -The contrast between the emptiness of
the vacant lot and the intense urbanity around the site is the key condition that
the project tries to balance. The experience of the project would be a gradual
detachment from the everyday life on the perimeter of the site, a slow passage
through the dynamism of the rotating silhouettes and their melodies and finally
an emergence into the peace of north east enclave; a physical and mental
journey much similar to the ease experienced in Adagio.
Credits:
The
Lead Designer firm(s)/ Project Leader(s): Ja Architecture studio Inc
(http://jastudioinc.com/)
Collaborator(s):
Prototype Design Lab (http://www.pdlab.ca/pdlab.phtml )
Team
Members: Nima Javidi| OAA, March, LEED AP| Architect
Antonio Tadrissi|
BS, March| Architecture Designer
Behnaz Assadi| MLA,
BFA| Landscape Designer
Moon Joo Lee| March,
LEED AP| Architecture Designer
Brenda Petroff| March | Architecture Designer
West: Fluid Adagio Installation(Design /Build) CompetitionAIA Utahhttp://www.aiautahyaf.org/
Fluid adagio an international competition in which architects and designers were invited to anonymously
to design a temporary installation (estimated to be 1 to 2 years) that will
occupy the future building site for Utah’s premiere ballet company, Ballet
West.
The goal of this temporary installation was to create a
unique spatial experience within the urban context of Salt Lake City. The
winning team was to respond to the program and tight budget, and would have
been involved in every aspect of the design, development, and construction of
the project.
Why we
deserve a second shot at glory;
The
ballet go-round was a subtle yet, effective effort to create an urban musical
instrument by capturing the circulating wind in the urban corridors.
The ballet
go-round
The project- The project is a series of oversized
Ballerina silhouettes that are placed on revolving bases (similar to marry go
rounds) and are equally spaced across the site.
Each silhouette would gradually rotate as the wind hits its surface and
would play a single music note every once in a while (using a mechanism similar
to a music box in its base). The intensity and the direction of wind, the
changing position of rotating silhouettes and the combination of the individual
music notes played by each silhouette would generate a dynamic urban
installation that has enough visual and acoustical presence to allure the bypassing
pedestrian into the site and signal the future emergence of the Utah’s premiere
ballet company.
The area at the north east corner of the site is left
untouched to be used as an outdoor gathering area for functions like small
performances, exhibitions and video projection on the west wall of the Capitol Theater.
The installations area on the south would act as a buffer zone to give spatial
definition and isolation to this portion of the site.
Fabrication and
installation- The
project is designed to have maximum off-site buildability. The whole project
will be made of prefabricated pieces operating on simple mechanisms to maximize
quality control and to minimize site preparation and installation time. The
silhouettes would be CNC-cut from half inch powder coated hot rolled steel. The
rotational mechanism at the base would be a ball-bearing sleeve connection with
a housing to incorporate the music box gear. In most pieces the revolving
mechanism would be disengaged by the weight of the person sitting on it which
would provide a fixed seating for the
visitors, while a few of the pieces would rotate even with people sitting on them and become a play structure, adding fun and
delight to the project.
The Adagio -The contrast between the emptiness of
the vacant lot and the intense urbanity around the site is the key condition that
the project tries to balance. The experience of the project would be a gradual
detachment from the everyday life on the perimeter of the site, a slow passage
through the dynamism of the rotating silhouettes and their melodies and finally
an emergence into the peace of north east enclave; a physical and mental
journey much similar to the ease experienced in Adagio.
Credits:
The
Lead Designer firm(s)/ Project Leader(s): Ja Architecture studio Inc
(http://jastudioinc.com/)
Collaborator(s):
Prototype Design Lab (http://www.pdlab.ca/pdlab.phtml )
Team
Members: Nima Javidi| OAA, March, LEED AP| Architect
Antonio Tadrissi|
BS, March| Architecture Designer
Behnaz Assadi| MLA,
BFA| Landscape Designer
Moon Joo Lee| March,
LEED AP| Architecture Designer
Brenda Petroff| March | Architecture Designer
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