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Rank’s Silo in The 21st Century DoCoMoMo Architecture Ideas Competition For Limerick of Culture 2014: First Place
Sponsors: DoCoMoMo Ireland
Area: Limerick, Ireland
Copyright: 2014 , BESH Studio
Team: Eva M. Hierzer & Stephan Brugger
Graz, Austria
IRISH NATIONAL SEED VAULT
Embrace the past. Appreciate the present. Enable the future.
Rank's Silo signifies Limerick's agricultural and industrial heritage. No other architectural typology of classic functional modernism could fit this significance into ones structural shell. But how could a symbol like this be preserved and strengthened in its meaning as a landmark without costume or pretending as such while being reused as something else?
As the very core of the silo's typological character the function of „storing“ should be embraced, appreciated and enabled for a future equal kind like use. There are many things that should be stored for the future. Books, criminal records, privacy, historical artefacts or documents. But nothing seems as important in the face of climate, economical and social change, as saving the seeds of Ireland's agricultural and natural heritage for its future. So why don't reuse a silo that used to store agricultural products into a seed vault?
Our concept for the silo’s and its neighbouring surroundings revitalisation implies: The adaptation of the storage bins into climatised archive bins for Ireland's seeds. A public accessed open space on the ground floor level used as entrance, information point, gallery, venue or simply as a window into the silo's inner. A public accessed observation deck on the existing roof. A topped up research and preservation laboratory with the access to the two floors lower located and adapted „filling floor“. And a public park connecting the silo with the new pavilion available for concerts, hosting talks, events, conferences and other possible uses.
The main idea behind this proposal is to make as minimal interventions within the building and its urban context as possible but enabling at the same time a wide range of future possibilities for extension and adaptation. This reuse markes a possible point of transition. Starting with the transformation of an agricultural characterized landscape into an industrialized harbour, which now anticipates a postindustrial era that embraces its past instead of making tabula rasa.
We want not only to store but plant small seeds with this kind of „Noah's Ark“ within the docklands to facilitate any future development. It doesn't matter If the harbour either stays what it is or if it's going to be closed down. Rank's Silo could stay an Ark within an industrialized harbour or it could open up to its surroundings by spreading the park into the docklands or use the vacant buildings as an expansion for a science or cultural hub.
… „In the context of a continued life for the existing silo building, this winning scheme clearly stood out.The silo’s proposed purpose and intent for seed storage is both highly pragmatic and ingenious in an overall reasonable way. “ ... -Ranks-Silo-Press-Release-and-Jury-Citations
Rank’s Silo in The 21st Century DoCoMoMo Architecture Ideas Competition For Limerick of Culture 2014: First Place
Sponsors: DoCoMoMo Ireland
Area: Limerick, Ireland
Copyright: 2014 , BESH Studio
Team: Eva M. Hierzer & Stephan Brugger
Graz, Austria
IRISH NATIONAL SEED VAULT
Embrace the past. Appreciate the present. Enable the future.
Rank's Silo signifies Limerick's agricultural and industrial heritage. No other architectural typology of classic functional modernism could fit this significance into ones structural shell. But how could a symbol like this be preserved and strengthened in its meaning as a landmark without costume or pretending as such while being reused as something else?
As the very core of the silo's typological character the function of „storing“ should be embraced, appreciated and enabled for a future equal kind like use. There are many things that should be stored for the future. Books, criminal records, privacy, historical artefacts or documents. But nothing seems as important in the face of climate, economical and social change, as saving the seeds of Ireland's agricultural and natural heritage for its future. So why don't reuse a silo that used to store agricultural products into a seed vault?
Our concept for the silo’s and its neighbouring surroundings revitalisation implies: The adaptation of the storage bins into climatised archive bins for Ireland's seeds. A public accessed open space on the ground floor level used as entrance, information point, gallery, venue or simply as a window into the silo's inner. A public accessed observation deck on the existing roof. A topped up research and preservation laboratory with the access to the two floors lower located and adapted „filling floor“. And a public park connecting the silo with the new pavilion available for concerts, hosting talks, events, conferences and other possible uses.
The main idea behind this proposal is to make as minimal interventions within the building and its urban context as possible but enabling at the same time a wide range of future possibilities for extension and adaptation. This reuse markes a possible point of transition. Starting with the transformation of an agricultural characterized landscape into an industrialized harbour, which now anticipates a postindustrial era that embraces its past instead of making tabula rasa.
We want not only to store but plant small seeds with this kind of „Noah's Ark“ within the docklands to facilitate any future development. It doesn't matter If the harbour either stays what it is or if it's going to be closed down. Rank's Silo could stay an Ark within an industrialized harbour or it could open up to its surroundings by spreading the park into the docklands or use the vacant buildings as an expansion for a science or cultural hub.
… „In the context of a continued life for the existing silo building, this winning scheme clearly stood out.The silo’s proposed purpose and intent for seed storage is both highly pragmatic and ingenious in an overall reasonable way. “ ... -Ranks-Silo-Press-Release-and-Jury-Citations
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