2nd year architecture portfolio - through changing space
DESCRIPTION
Designing a centre for dance, in the old town of Barcelona.TRANSCRIPT
THROUGH CHANGING SPACE
DESIGN FOR AN URBAN DANCE CENTRE < BARCELONA
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO | YEAR 2 SEMESTER 2 | ANY PLACE
LEWIS THOMAS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLYESALA LEWIS KELLY
Barcelona is a city of spaces.
Urban squares. Wide boulevards. Narrow side streets. City parks. Intersections. Courtyards.
Spaces of diffferent shapes and sizes permeate the city, creating openings and cracks in the urban fabric, as if pushing apart the urban enclo-
sure which creates them. The contrast between consecutive spaces can be vast; large light spaces lead-ing into dark and narrow alleys; noisy, busy horizon-bound boulevards opening into quiet leafy squares.
The Placa de les Camarelles is an urban square in the cultural district in the old town of the city. It is a large open square in the midst of old nar-row streets, a breath of fresh air from the noise of the Ciutat Vella. With its surrounding squares
the Placa forms a series of changing urban spaces.
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PLACA DE LES CAMARELLES
LEWIS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA PERFORMANCE | MAKE-UP ARTIST AND PAINTER ON LA RAMBLA
Barcelona's spaces become spaces for performance, urban theatres used by artists, dancers, musicians, skateboarders and others to display their skills. La Rambla in particular is a hub for street performers.
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LEWIS KELLYESALA LEWIS KELLY
NEW TOWN
STUDY OF SPACES IN BARCELONA
OLD TOWN GREEN SPACE
Rectilinear, spacious, repeated, structured, predictable. Twisting, narrow, changing, chaotic, unpredictable. Plentiful, varied, widespread, dictated by urban space
LEWIS KELLY
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LIGHT STUDIES OF BARCLONA SPACES
LIGHT STUDIES OF CITY SPACES (Hamish Jack)
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LEWIS KELLYESALA LEWIS KELLY
Ciutat Vella, Barcelona
PLACA DE LES CAMARELLESCiutat Vella, Barcelona
SITE PHOTOGRAPHS 0m 100m 200m 300m
The square is a quiet retreat from the chaos of the old town, locals relax and children play in the sun.
LEWIS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA
Ciutat Vella, BarcelonaCCCB SQUARE
MACBA SQUARE
PLACA DE LES CAMARELLES
"Placa de les Camarelles and its surrounding squares form a series of changing urban spaces"
La Rambla
Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture
Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Art
MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS
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ROUTE THROUGH THE SQUARES
LEWIS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA
SPATIAL COMPRESSION STUDY
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CCCB SquareArchway to CCCBSquare behind MacBaGap through MacBa BuildingMacBa SquareIn car park undergroundPlaca de les CamarellesEntrance to Placa de les Camarelles
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Placa de les Camarelles Car park
ROUTE SECTION
The size of square represents the feeling of compression in that space.
LEWIS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA
MacBa Square CCCB Square
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THEORY SITE DANCE CENTRE DANCE CENTRE
PARTI development
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OVERLAPPING SPACES: looking from one space into another
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Overlapping spaces sketches
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DANCE
MOVEMENT .CONNECTION. LIGHT.
Dance is about the connection between people, visually, physically and emotionally, it is about the poetry of a movement drifting through a space, about how the light defines the dancer's body and how shadow captures the expression upon their face.
Movement- The building is a series of spaces - much like the city itself - and moving through it one moves on an architectural progression through courtyards, passageways, between inside and outside.
Connection- Spaces are visually connected, people can communicate between levels, across voids, through screens.
Light- Filtered through screens, the play of light in the building is like a dance in itself.
LEWIS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA Perspective Section AA 1:100
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:200
1 Arrival Courtyard2 Entrance courtyard/reception3 Secondary Dance Studio4 Changing facilities5 Staff Room6 Staff Courtyard7 Cafe kitchen8 Cafe9 External Courtyards
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1:200
1 Warm-up Space
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2 Primary Dance Studio3 Viewing Platform4 Informal Performance5 Social Space
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Diagram spaces, show court-yards, external, internal, semi private, uses and their implica-tions etc.
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SITE PLAN 1:500
Placa de les Camarelles
LEWIS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA
SecondFIirst Third Fourth
Ground floor
First Floor Circulation space.
Spaces become increasingly private as progression is made through the building.
Circulation space.Informal Performance, viewing platforms. Primary dance studio.
Staff courtyard.Changing Rooms, staff room, secondary dance studio.
Architectural Progression
Public Private
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Section B 1:100
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Hot air rises from within courtyard.
Cool air is naturally sucked through dance studio and cafe to replace the ris-ing air, ventilating the space.
THERMAL MASS
VENTILATION
NIGHTDAY
LEWIS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA
Main Dance Studio 1:50 Section
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PERSPECTIVE
LEWIS KELLY
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Outer Steel Skin
Inner Concrete Skin
Inner Steel Screens
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC 1:200
LEWIS KELLY
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The steel screen- a device for creating privacy and filtering light.
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COINCIDING OF OPENINGS
Both of the building's skins contain openings, however openings in the steel screen and those in the concrete walls do not always coincide. Sometimes only the concrete opens and the steel screen stays intact, allowing light to filter through the screen into the space. Sometimes they do coincide and a view is framed.
SITE | THEORY | DANCE CENDANCE CENTRE
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Into square.
Into square, entrance courtyard, main dance studio.
Entrance Courtyard.
Informal Performance.FIRST FLOOR
GROUND FLOORVIEWS
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LEWIS KELLY
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Into private external courtyard. Into square, private external courtyard.
Into secondary studio. Into many other internal spaces. Into square, entrance courtyard, informal performance.
No external views.
Social Courtyard. Corridor. Primary Dance Studio.
Changing Rooms. Secondary Dance Studio. Staff space and cafe.
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Unfolded plan showing compression along direct route.
The building's circulation allow two routes to
the primary dance studio, one direct and the other much more exploratory, allowing the visitor to either get straight to the dance class or to wander around and experience the varying compressions of the building.
LEWIS KELLY
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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA
Unfolded plan showing compression along indirect route.
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LEWIS KELLYESALAStudio Model photos
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