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Gold Coast Cultural Precinct
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Other Projects by Studio CACHOUA TORRES CAMILLETTI
Gold Coast Cultural Precinct
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
In early 2013, the Council of the City of Gold Coast, Australia called for an international competition involving 75 architectural offices. Participants included Pritzker Prize winners Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners Rem Koolhaas and OMA. Studio Cachoua Torres Camilletti was the only Mexican firm that qualified as semifinalists, among just ten other firms.
The project was located in a park surrounded by channels of Gold Coast. It should contain a main building containing a museum, cinema, theater, workshops, library, shops, among other uses. Studio CTC designed the main building as a mound of grass in the park center and proposed to split the park in two by a main artificial channel that would feature a pedestrian walkway to access to all activities. Within the park, Studio CTC proposed to place large screens that have the function of "digital portals": the users could see on the screen both announcements of exhibitions or projections concert and also to communicate and display (with the help of microphones and HD cameras) spaces in other parts of the world in real time. There were structures throughout the park made, from specific nodes of a mesh based on Thiessen polygons or Voronoi diagrams, that were name "generators” that function as spaces to accommodate basic sustainability requirements required by the program, such as dumpsters, recycling areas, battery containers, bathrooms ecological park program, Wi-Fi emitters, among others. The project was well received by the judges, and is said to take a seat at the table of the semifinalists from reputable companies; thereby ascending a small step into seeking to transcend the architecture of our times.
Connections are a key point in architecture, whether they are urban, transport, visual, structural or physical, they all play a fundamental role in architecture. Today’s globalization is the seed of new paradigms, both in the economic sphere as well as human thought, not forget to give thanks to the globalization that fragmented postmodern conceptualization of the world, is staggering.
For it’s part, appropriation can be defined as the maximum degree of success in an architectural or urban project, and is a project that is not approved by the user, because if its not appropriated by the user, then any formal or theoretical effort has been in vain. A public space can and should be taken as their own by the users, which essentially means that the right “connections” between users and the project have been established.
Therefore, our proposal aims to create a network that comes from connecting elements that serve as basic guidelines for urban design. The conceptual connectors in our proposal are called “nodes” that bind the entire venue together. This will generate a group of cells that accommodate different uses, which in turn will foster appropriation of the entire space.
In organizing the urban space and locations of the “nodes” a grid must be defined. Instead of using a Cartesian or some other regular grid that would force the setting of the location of buildings in an arbitrary and perhaps undesirable location, we decided setting up a grid of raised connectors that emerged from a study of the areas and the program itself, in order to correctly hierarchize the different areas that were thought suitable for the performance of certain activities.
Not to be equidistant from each other, the network could not be hexagonal or circular because it would generate many meaningless juxtaposed spaces without a clear utility. Studio CTC sought a way as natural as possible to create this network of independent cells that would respond to the “pressure” of their uses and the “pressure” of the neighboring uses, which is why it was proposed to use Thiessen polygons or Voronoi diagrams to arrange the urban space.
Studio CTC also proposed to generate a new channel, which integrates the water route to the project, placing it in a spot that avoids surrounding the precinct, also designing a shortcut that creates traffic at the center of the project and allows for livelier and an interesting interaction from the water.
Small channels arise to extend the water experience for much of the urban project. This is intended to become a part of the usual route of those who travel by boat, creating another kind of appropriation. The connections are multilevel for pedestrians, cyclists and water vessels, consciously decided to keep automobiles away from the experience by limiting it to a parking lot located in the access.
The central building functions as a bridge and a clip that connects the two main parts of the property.
The project was located in a park surrounded by channels of Gold Coast. It should contain a main building containing a museum, cinema, theater, workshops, library, shops, among other uses. Studio CTC designed the main building as a mound of grass in the park center and proposed to split the park in two by a main artificial channel that would feature a pedestrian walkway to access to all activities. Within the park, Studio CTC proposed to place large screens that have the function of "digital portals": the users could see on the screen both announcements of exhibitions or projections concert and also to communicate and display (with the help of microphones and HD cameras) spaces in other parts of the world in real time. There were structures throughout the park made, from specific nodes of a mesh based on Thiessen polygons or Voronoi diagrams, that were name "generators” that function as spaces to accommodate basic sustainability requirements required by the program, such as dumpsters, recycling areas, battery containers, bathrooms ecological park program, Wi-Fi emitters, among others. The project was well received by the judges, and is said to take a seat at the table of the semifinalists from reputable companies; thereby ascending a small step into seeking to transcend the architecture of our times.
Connections are a key point in architecture, whether they are urban, transport, visual, structural or physical, they all play a fundamental role in architecture. Today’s globalization is the seed of new paradigms, both in the economic sphere as well as human thought, not forget to give thanks to the globalization that fragmented postmodern conceptualization of the world, is staggering.
For it’s part, appropriation can be defined as the maximum degree of success in an architectural or urban project, and is a project that is not approved by the user, because if its not appropriated by the user, then any formal or theoretical effort has been in vain. A public space can and should be taken as their own by the users, which essentially means that the right “connections” between users and the project have been established.
Therefore, our proposal aims to create a network that comes from connecting elements that serve as basic guidelines for urban design. The conceptual connectors in our proposal are called “nodes” that bind the entire venue together. This will generate a group of cells that accommodate different uses, which in turn will foster appropriation of the entire space.
In organizing the urban space and locations of the “nodes” a grid must be defined. Instead of using a Cartesian or some other regular grid that would force the setting of the location of buildings in an arbitrary and perhaps undesirable location, we decided setting up a grid of raised connectors that emerged from a study of the areas and the program itself, in order to correctly hierarchize the different areas that were thought suitable for the performance of certain activities.
Not to be equidistant from each other, the network could not be hexagonal or circular because it would generate many meaningless juxtaposed spaces without a clear utility. Studio CTC sought a way as natural as possible to create this network of independent cells that would respond to the “pressure” of their uses and the “pressure” of the neighboring uses, which is why it was proposed to use Thiessen polygons or Voronoi diagrams to arrange the urban space.
Studio CTC also proposed to generate a new channel, which integrates the water route to the project, placing it in a spot that avoids surrounding the precinct, also designing a shortcut that creates traffic at the center of the project and allows for livelier and an interesting interaction from the water.
Small channels arise to extend the water experience for much of the urban project. This is intended to become a part of the usual route of those who travel by boat, creating another kind of appropriation. The connections are multilevel for pedestrians, cyclists and water vessels, consciously decided to keep automobiles away from the experience by limiting it to a parking lot located in the access.
The central building functions as a bridge and a clip that connects the two main parts of the property.
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