working session 11/1/2010

Project Description

Option 1: A Public Library

This project will consist of designing a public library for the town of Jounieh, composed of the following functions:

A multi-purpose hall/theater for 30-40 persons
Reading areas
Stacks
Computer zone
Children library
Café
in addition to the required service areas [lobby areas, restrooms, storage, circulation etc.]

Option 2: School of Dance

This project will involve designing a School of Dance including a performance theater, in the city of Jounieh. The building should include:

A multi-purpose hall/theater for 80 persons
Café/Lobby
Dance practice areas
in addition to the required service areas [lobby, restrooms, showers, storage, circulation etc.]

Common Directives

The Main objective is to develop a space that is inviting, functional and interesting yet contextual [respecting the areas around it in terms of scale and patterns].
Every student is required to do his/her research on examples that could be useful in the elaboration of the project [Aalto, Siza, Koolhaas, Holl etc.] and in developing their program with these examples in mind.

Purpose of this blog

The purpose of this blog is to document each student's work. Starting with their first proposals up until the final proposals along with the concepts.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Aline's Dance School











The concept behind the dance school is to bring back the pedestrian as well as the community life to the street. It should bring back the elaborate expressive movement of the past era by being the site of multiple meetings. Placing a dance school will bring movement to the street, acheived through some transparencies in the facade. Neighboorhood life is a crucial quality that needs to be amplified with the help of the dance school. The program as well as the form of the building will effect the communication between the new space and the old one. Spaces for meeting and lingering are created to unify the dance school and its context. There is a constant visual continuity which sets the stage for an ongoing preformance of the dancers delivered to the watchers or passers.

My design was inspired by the bodies and the movement of the dancers. I wanted to borrow their lightness and elegance and integrate into the form of the building. This is because above all this building had to represent its own character not just settle into the context. In my first design I tried to portray the movements of the dancers by creating light forms that shows a play in volume and give the feeling of movement.

There are many aspects of dancing that I thought of, one of them was partnership, when dancers get together as a couple they become two bodies working together. The first step I did was to experiment with the idea of the two bodies by actually seperating the dance school into two buildings that were connected by extruding and intruding forms. At this point it was too literal as a design.

So for my new design I combined both the idea of the lightness of movements and the shape of the dancers with the ides of the two bodies moving in harmony. Insteadof having complete seperate bodies, I differentiated between spaces by playing on qualities as well as form. On the ground floor there are two rectangles sliding in opposite direction. On the first floor there is a difference in transparencies, and on the last floor there are two distinct volumes.


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