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The Urban Zoo
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[ANALYZING THE EXPECTED - FACADE CLICHES AS
CONCEPTIONAL REDISCOVERY]
The project is seen as a psychoanalytic
adventure. By analyzing, dissecting and rewriting of a manual, cliche
architecture is produced as a study of empirical research. Cliches about
facades are researched and then recreated in a serious of zoo pavillions,
requiring a specific answer per cliche and animal. By the speed of almost
unconscious production accidents are created and analyzed for potential. The
project is set up as an experimental, yet „scientific“ series of alternating
designs and structural evaluation to find the one interesting potential
discovery among the reproduction of cliches.
[EXTRACTING A METHOD - DISTILLING RULES AND
BENDING THEM]
With the device of theoretical extraction
of rules and the practical application to the design process a method is
produced to create multiple designs with limited variations. By distilling the
essence of each cliche and making it the main focus of each pavillion the
variables included are limited, therebey controlled. This control minimizes
chaos, yet still allows for the creation of exciting „accidents“, which
reinforce the cliche while uncovering a different layer.
[APPLYING THE METHOD - CLASH THE RULES WITH
THE PROGRAM OF THE ZOO]
After the production of the matrix with 45
iterations, the series is reevaluated by the introduction of a new sorting
device: the cliche about the zoo. By re-ordering the pavillions along a string
of experience and the animal-visitor relationships found in a zoo, the
priorities in judgement are being shifted. By introducing the new objective,
the facade cliche becomes operative, not passive.
[CREATING THE UNEXPECTED - DESIGN WITH THE
FACADE FROM THE INSIDE OUT]
After creating a string of experiences
throughout the history of animal-visitor encounters, the cliches about the
facade are the starting point of the design, rather than the late application
of a skin. The urban zoo is a complex of stacked animal cages along a road of
experience spiralling up in the core of the building. The placement of the zoo
near Grand Central Station enhances the clash between urban anxiety and animal „nature“.
Taking the facade not as an enclosure or a decoration, but as a device to
create space, to define borders and to eliminate them at the same time, the
facade becomes a multi-layered spatial construct defining the building rather
than hiding it. The facade moves from being the image of a bulding to being its
inner core - its conceptual approach to space.
CONCEPTIONAL REDISCOVERY]
The project is seen as a psychoanalytic
adventure. By analyzing, dissecting and rewriting of a manual, cliche
architecture is produced as a study of empirical research. Cliches about
facades are researched and then recreated in a serious of zoo pavillions,
requiring a specific answer per cliche and animal. By the speed of almost
unconscious production accidents are created and analyzed for potential. The
project is set up as an experimental, yet „scientific“ series of alternating
designs and structural evaluation to find the one interesting potential
discovery among the reproduction of cliches.
[EXTRACTING A METHOD - DISTILLING RULES AND
BENDING THEM]
With the device of theoretical extraction
of rules and the practical application to the design process a method is
produced to create multiple designs with limited variations. By distilling the
essence of each cliche and making it the main focus of each pavillion the
variables included are limited, therebey controlled. This control minimizes
chaos, yet still allows for the creation of exciting „accidents“, which
reinforce the cliche while uncovering a different layer.
[APPLYING THE METHOD - CLASH THE RULES WITH
THE PROGRAM OF THE ZOO]
After the production of the matrix with 45
iterations, the series is reevaluated by the introduction of a new sorting
device: the cliche about the zoo. By re-ordering the pavillions along a string
of experience and the animal-visitor relationships found in a zoo, the
priorities in judgement are being shifted. By introducing the new objective,
the facade cliche becomes operative, not passive.
[CREATING THE UNEXPECTED - DESIGN WITH THE
FACADE FROM THE INSIDE OUT]
After creating a string of experiences
throughout the history of animal-visitor encounters, the cliches about the
facade are the starting point of the design, rather than the late application
of a skin. The urban zoo is a complex of stacked animal cages along a road of
experience spiralling up in the core of the building. The placement of the zoo
near Grand Central Station enhances the clash between urban anxiety and animal „nature“.
Taking the facade not as an enclosure or a decoration, but as a device to
create space, to define borders and to eliminate them at the same time, the
facade becomes a multi-layered spatial construct defining the building rather
than hiding it. The facade moves from being the image of a bulding to being its
inner core - its conceptual approach to space.
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