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BUILDING FOR BOUWKUNDE: Float Lab
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BUILDING FOR BOUWKUNDE: Float Lab
SIZE
1,000,000 +
BUDGET
$50M - 100M
If, as Freud once said the water represents the subconscious mind, what happens when you change its level?
Irony
is the discordance of perceived reality versus the actual. Here a
solidly built building designed to teach among other things life safety
goes up in flames. The foundations have been shaken: trust in linear
building traditions of the international style has been broken and it’s
time to rediscover the strengths of Dutch ingenuity.
Shifting Planes The
Dutch throughout the centuries have capitalized on the there/ not there
nature of their ground plane and built a resilient nation. Planar
manipulation methods used include reclaiming lands through dredging,
flooding, canals, dykes and lock systems.
Program The
solid bar of administration provides the framework, the starting off
point for the architectural journey undertaken by staff, students and
visitors. Framed by a fixed matrix of circulation the program is
distributed rationally among levels-that change! Surprising
combinations of ever-shifting planes of classrooms, studios, cafes
program emerge as the faculty adjusts their local “ground” plane, ala
“Dada.” Below, post-fire salvaged stuff is sealed in the vault of the
original footprint like buried treasure- a literal and poetic basis for
the future of TU Delft.
Large public gatherings can happen
when all levels are aligned (football, anyone? :) a celebratory melding
with the design community. Green
Rainwater is
captured on the grassy roof (cows graze here) and stored in the water
tower. Gravity assisted, this water activates the lock system by
filling in chambers between the corridors. Here it stores thermal
energy and gathers grey water from the building’s systems. This process
water then filters throughout the wetlands, breaking down toxins and
completing the hydraulic loop. Vision Didactic
history is presented to the city through a cross section framed in
glass: cows on a shifting ground plane, above a studio, on water, and
over the archive level of machinery and built-up treasures of the past.
All this is under sea level.
Just as an
architectural journey begins with a notion and is buoyed by the effects
of the environment, community, and government regulations, this
building too responds dynamically to change: the power of an IDEA is felt.
Irony
is the discordance of perceived reality versus the actual. Here a
solidly built building designed to teach among other things life safety
goes up in flames. The foundations have been shaken: trust in linear
building traditions of the international style has been broken and it’s
time to rediscover the strengths of Dutch ingenuity.
Shifting Planes The
Dutch throughout the centuries have capitalized on the there/ not there
nature of their ground plane and built a resilient nation. Planar
manipulation methods used include reclaiming lands through dredging,
flooding, canals, dykes and lock systems.
Program The
solid bar of administration provides the framework, the starting off
point for the architectural journey undertaken by staff, students and
visitors. Framed by a fixed matrix of circulation the program is
distributed rationally among levels-that change! Surprising
combinations of ever-shifting planes of classrooms, studios, cafes
program emerge as the faculty adjusts their local “ground” plane, ala
“Dada.” Below, post-fire salvaged stuff is sealed in the vault of the
original footprint like buried treasure- a literal and poetic basis for
the future of TU Delft.
Large public gatherings can happen
when all levels are aligned (football, anyone? :) a celebratory melding
with the design community. Green
Rainwater is
captured on the grassy roof (cows graze here) and stored in the water
tower. Gravity assisted, this water activates the lock system by
filling in chambers between the corridors. Here it stores thermal
energy and gathers grey water from the building’s systems. This process
water then filters throughout the wetlands, breaking down toxins and
completing the hydraulic loop. Vision Didactic
history is presented to the city through a cross section framed in
glass: cows on a shifting ground plane, above a studio, on water, and
over the archive level of machinery and built-up treasures of the past.
All this is under sea level.
Just as an
architectural journey begins with a notion and is buoyed by the effects
of the environment, community, and government regulations, this
building too responds dynamically to change: the power of an IDEA is felt.
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