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154110 Seconds Sociability | AA&U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism

European Architectural Competition for the Redevelopment of Former Football Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus

Project Team : Socratis Stratis(Dr. architect, urbanist, assistant professor)

Collaborators : Riccardo Urbano(architect), Anastasia Angelidou(architect)

Support : Rui Santos(architect), Stavri Giannakou(architect), Savas Anastasiou(student of architecture), Filippo Gur(student of architecture)

CONVENTIONAL PARKING PLACE (FANEROMENI) FOR 200 CARS - ENTRY BY CAR

The double chapter of the car

Urban Activating Urban Discontinuing

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ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION FOR THE REDESIGN OF THE OLD “GSP” AREA, NICOSIA

The aim of this proposal has a double take. Firstly, it is to create frameworks for sociability in public space for the 1500 cars' motorists of the underground garage. In other words, to turn a rather passive practice of parking one's car within a massive underground parking, into an active practice of sociability on the grounds of the public space. The second take refers to the notion of reversibility. It is proposed that the proposal contains possible afterlives. This challenge becomes pertinent regarding the fact that a current policy about private cars in the city could be challenged in the next 10 or 20 years. Consequently, a former decision about concentrating 1500 cars at one spot, useful for current planning priorities, could become gradually obsolete. Containing possible afterlives could decrease investment risk. Both of the objectives want to enrich the debate around sustainability. For this aim a major decision has been taken. To keep the parking users on the public space grounds by organizing the parking garage around 12 automatic parking units grouped in six blocks. Half of them are accessed from the “GSP” level (street) and the rest from the “Garden” level, (-6.00m). The latter is created by a big gesture at the south edge of the site by pushing the ground of the city to a lower level. The “Garden Level” is connected to the street level by a terraced garden and large inclined planes, supported by public program, vegetation and natural light.

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Creating “Gates” for alternative access to the square

Generating a multiple sequence of shared spaces by the elevated running track, the Gates and the Sociability Booster Points

Pulling the city with a terraced garden to a lower level

Inserting “Sociability Booster Points” (S.B.P) around the car elevators

Extending the Theater entry level to an elevated running track

1.THEATRE LEVEL

1.1 Pedestrian wooden platform1.2 Running track1.3 Podium – seating area for open-air events1.4 Roof garden1.5 Roof terrace of the building1.6 Old clock1.7 Giant screen/s with audiovisual system for holding of events1.8 Elevator

PLAN OF THE THEATRE LEVEL SCALE 1:500

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POSSIBLE PARK & RIDE110" SOCIABILITY

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GSP

Diagram of the car access

Access to the Garden Level

Access to the GSP Level

GSP Level

Theater level

Garden Level

Parking unit

HIP-HOP LEVEL SCALE 1:500

(TYPICAL PLAN FOR THE HIGHER PARKING BLOCKS)

TYPICAL PARKING LEVELSCALE 1:500

Parking units

Parking units - car entry from the garden Level

Parking units - car entry from the GSP Level

Perspective of a parking unit

Perspective of a parking unit

Allowing reversibility

It is crucial to emphasize the gains regarding the reversibility issue by inserting the 12 units of automatic car park in six “cages”. Within these “cages” the metal automatic-parking industrial system is inserted. When and if the current priority of car park density is altered in the future, the metal structures could be dismantled and rebuilt, for example at Park & Ride points around the city periphery. Consequently, some of the cages would be gradually emptied and could house public uses because of their very flexible container like size and independent accesses from the former car elevator points.

4.1 Gym4.2 Club4.3 Mechanical room4.4 Water reservoir4.5 Car park

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Case 1

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110" Sociability practice

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Culture of waiting Short duration program as the threshold

Sitting eye level higher than the car

Conventional parking practice

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WEEK ONE

How are you today?

Have anice day!Hi

DAY TWO

Nice to see youhere again

Hello

DAY ONE

Hi

Hi

Goodmorning

YEAR 1

Greetings to your family!

MONTH 1

Nice to see youhere again

WEEK 3

Me too! :)

it’s cool here!

I prefer this car park tower!

I prefer the coffee of mr. Giorgos

the espresso indeed

I'm going for a drink are you coming?

I am really tired today :/

110" SOCIABILITY

“Parking the car trip”

“Picking the car trip”

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ACCESSED FROM GSP LEVEL

ACCESSED FROM GARDEN LEVEL

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GARDEN LEVEL UNITS

G1 G2Car No:

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G3 G4Car No:

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G5 G6Car No:

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GSP 1 GSP 2 GSP 3 GSP 4 GSP 5 GSP 6

GSP LEVEL UNITS

Car No:162

Car No:114

Car No:162

Car No:114

Car No:150

Car No:114

Car No:816

Car No:114

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Diagrams of the parking units - levels of access

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Assisting multiplicity of eventsThe organization of the public space is done in such a way as to accommodate a multiplicity of events at a small and at a very large scale, from 200 to 2000 people, (image 9). Some of the events could take place at the same time, a sort of events “en fillade”. It is suggested that events beyond 2000 people should be avoided because of possible car flow congestion of the car-park and streets. The “choreography” of events is not limited to the organized by the city activities, but in fact extends into the everydayness of the square through the 110“ sociability strategy. The mixing of viewed and being viewed spatial practice is reinforced by the insertion of the running-track canopy at Theater level.

From a single spectacle to a multiplicity of events

The site is organised in parallel flows of movements and activities that interfere with each other creating all sorts of shared spaces

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Hello

Me too! :)

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TRANSVERSAL SECTION C-C’ SCALE 1:200

FIRST FLOOR OF (CAR ELEVATOR) SOCIABILITY BOOSTER POINTS 2 AND 3 SCALE 1:200

ELEVATIONS 1:200

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ELEVATIONS 1:500

2. GSP LEVEL

2.1 Square and Green Spaces 2.2 Seating areas 2.3 Giant screen/s with audiovisual system for holding of events 2.4 Water surfaces 2.5 Old clock 2.6 Light shelters enabling the space to be used in all weathers

2.7a .Children's Playground for children >3 of years old2.7b. Children's Playground for children <3 of years old2.8 Pedestrian walks/paved areas2.9 Running track2.10 Spaces for open-air events, such as concerts and performances of plays2.11 Two-storey buildings with functions in support of the square2.12 Bus stop

2.13 Theater cafeteria canopy2.14 Cafes/Bars 2.15 Restaurants/Taverns 2.16 Shops 2.17 Galleries / Exhibition Rooms

22.18 Services for outdoor events (100 m ) 2.19 Slab cut outs [glass blocks or metal grate] for natural light into the car cage2.20 Garden level car access2.21 Garden level car exit2.22 GSP car access2.23 GSP car exit2.24 Sociability booster point 2.24a GSP car elevator2.24b IN/OUT car area2.24c Short duration people waiting area2.24d Long duration people waiting area2.25 Control room

PLAN OF THE GSP LEVEL SCALE 1:200

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Nice to see youhere again

I prefer the coffee of mr. Giorgos

the espresso indeed

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION B-B’SCALE: 1:200 392241

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PASSING-THROUGH GATES

The rest of the program is organized around “Gates”, through which the users could pass in order to enter into the square, (image 8). The old-clock is located next to one of them, maintaining its former role. The edge of the square along Evagorou avenue acts as a registry for programmatic activities which then are directed towards “GSP”, “Garden” and “hip-hop” levels, (located between the car-park “cages”).

GARDEN LEVEL _ View from gate’s clusters. GARDEN LEVEL _ Arrival from south ramp.GSP LEVEL _ View from running track facing southwest.

Axonometric section facing terrassed garden

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3. GARDEN LEVEL

3.1 Car park 3.2 Guard/Watchman's Room 3.3 Automatic Car wash3.3a Office3.3b Waiting Room3.3c Store Room3.3d Machine Room3.4. Store rooms 3.5 Sociability booster point 3.5a GARDEN LEVEL car elevator3.5b IN/OUT car area3.5c Short duration people waiting area3.5d Long duration people waiting area3.6 Park and bike center3.7 30' minutes car park 3.8a Men's Lavatories 3.8b Women's Lavatories 3.8c Storeroom3.10 Cafes/Bars 3.11 Garden space3.12 Access to gym3.13 Access to club3.14 Seating area

PLAN OF THE GARDEN LEVEL SCALE 1:200

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The linear spaces between the concrete structured cages are ideal for uses such as gallery spaces, gym, and night-club. The view into the car-cages on both sides of the linear space gives a very unique character to those spaces. The automatic car parking process is viewed as a performance. During day time, natural light would filter through the car-cages by openings on their roofs.

LONGITUDINAL SECTION A-A’SCALE: 1:200 392241

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Garden Level View looking towards Evagorou avenue from waiting area