harboring infrastructure
Indeed,
two major architectural design methods today —figuration and computational
design, do not put materials and fabrication concerns at the center of the
design process. On the one hand, the computational approach has been too often delivering
surface architectures without thicknesses and serious engagement in materiality
and tectonics. On the other hand, figuration uses architectural/urban narrative
as its drive, focusing on storytelling, process, scale and enclosure, leaving material
considerations to the last phase of design.
The
task of the studio is to re-couple design and fabrication in confronting materiality
to other criteria (context, program, structure, environmental performance,
spatiality…) at all times of the design process.
Project
The rapid development of the Lebanese Coast over the past
several years has driven an increased need for public transport serving this
linear region, and for public access to privatized harbors.
The studio’s mission is to design a serie of ferry
terminals on the Coast. The proposed terminals
will be nodes of a new water transportation network; necessary for commuting
efficiently between coastal cities, in addition to becoming cultural infrastructures
that relink people to the waterfront.
Three keys sites have been selected in the harbors of major
coastal cities: Beirut, Jounieh and Tripoli. The
architectural interventions on the different sites shall transform them into a
gate /venue for their respective cities.
Themes
The design of the Ferry
Terminal should be innovative and forward thinking in its address of the needs
of contemporary commuters, who may wish to shop, eat, attend a cultural event, use
wireless connection while waiting in the terminal or its surrounding waterfront
landscape...
The commute by ferry
boat, unlike any other form of public transportation, offers to the public
unprecedented opportunities to experience the natural phenomena of the
waterfront: the play of light, access to vistas and the horizon, and the unique
physical situation of being on the edge where land and water meet.
The design of the terminal building and its landscape
context should allow commuters to engage in dynamic and ephemeral experiences,
which will fluctuate according to time of day, weather and season.
Material and immaterial flows, kinetic and static space, geography, light
and wind, flexibility will be subjects to investigate, abstract, codify and explore
architecturally. Urban strategies dealing
with infrastructure and public space will also be explored.
The
Ferry Terminal shall comprise a waterfront park and a terminal building with a mixture of cultural and commercial functions, overlapping cultural events with
transportation facilities, and rethinking architecture’s civic presence.
Program
The program offers a variety of scales and
intensities.
While the program includes certain private
components, the public mission of the site should be foregrounded in designing
a threshold between the water and ground, whether interior or exterior.
The terminal building will consist of a 3500-m2 indoor
space that includes:
Terminal [1000 m2]
Entrance, Outdoor Loggia,
Info Point, Ticket Sales, Shops, Café, Viewing Space, Lounge, Exhibition Space
Public Toilets [100m2]
Men’s , Women’s
Public Lockers, [100m2]
Bikes Rental [50 m2]
Lodging [500 m2]
Lobby, 10 Small Rooms [20 m2 each], 5 Large Rooms [30 m2 each],
Kitchen, Dining, Laundry
Restaurant [400 m2]
Waiting, Dining, Kitchen
Convention Center [1000 m2]
Foyer, Convention Hall, WC,
Coats
Cultural Funtion of your
choice [200 m2]
Technical Space [200 m2]
Infrastructure [as needed]
Bus Stop ,Parking [15 cars], Drop-off
Loop
Ferry Dock
Roof Deck
Waterfront Park
Organization
In the first half of the semester,
the studio will start with the analysis and reinterpretation of context and
program. Recorded observation will lead to the development of architectural
attitudes.
Students
will conduct personal research on structural and construction methods, which
must inform their tectonic and
spatial reconfigurations, and inspire innovative architectural solutions.
In
parallel, they will explore
nonlinear relationships of narrative, form, structure, program, environmental
performance and material components, in search for integrated
site/program/architectural strategies.
The second half of the semester will be dedicated to
the development of the building from the point of view of its construction
system, materiality, and its details.
To this end, spatial or typological arrangements will
be fixed and the focus will be to generate a building system based on material
performance, its means and methods of assembly, and joinery as a prerequisite
for its morphological and organizational development.
The definition of a system- with rules and anomalies,
that adapts to different scales; is as a prerequisite for this second phase of
the studio.
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