further design

The next step in my design will be changing the outer form from a cube to a transport container, to allow site changes of the building. So it enables the host to take it with him.

In order of this change the measures change from a 6 metres edge length cube to a IAAA ISO-Container

12,192m x 2,438m x 2,896m

design

My design is parasitical building hooking onto the Shakespeare Tower of the Barbican Towers.

Inside the rooms are created by multiple solid platforms on different layers

 

The outer mantle is formed by stretching cloth that creates closed spaces

The special ability of the building is to fold itself into a new more compact form

The final compact form is a cube. The folding technique guarantees that all platforms are fitting in without interfering each other

The building is meant to be a place to work for the client, so it contains several rooms for experimenting or gaining knowledge.

pre design

program

List of functions
- the house has to be the home of my client
- maybe it supports my client in a way of a tool
- its purpose is to store knowledge and experience
- offering shelter for my client
- hiding my witch while she is not collecting any experience
- storing all things to walk in disguise among people
- maybe the home itself draws power from its setting

Content
The Heart of the house will be its main function as library, being the biggest room. There the gains his power by collecting. Connected to that is the wardrobe containing all things necessary to disguise.
In the outer region of the house are entrance, bathroom and living room situated.

Architectural effects
- since the house should function as a advanced backpack for the client the design has to be compact and seem light
- it should to some extend reveal or mirror its inhabitant by its design that is kind of a supernatural look
- as an parasitical organism with a sinister appearance it abuses the setting by drawing power from its surroundings, in form of disintregration, but simultaneously integrates itself to the place in a way
- its mantle is a new form of skin-like material froming new shaped and adapting and reacting to the conditions from outside

device / line drawing

device manifested

My device is made of welded metal sticks forming a cube and a stretching cloth. Connected through stretching lines it enables a change in structure so that it isnt determined.

- my device is a more or less closed abstract kind of morphing structure
- vessel that’s unaccessible for normal people, no apparent entrance ( maybe in great height)
- has no defined size or proportions… more like adapting to the place where it actually stands 

- has no defined directions (like top, bottom or upside), can lay on the side to adapt

- integrates or adapts itself to its surroundings (living secretly)
- parasite hooking onto existing objects as well as hiding in wasteland standing alone
- has no defined place, moveable
- combines old look with modern appearing
- spirit of traveling, changes sites where its placed
- leaves conventional understandings of dimensions behind, seems irrational at first sight
- strong geometrics, abusing other structures for another purpose, maybe looking fragile or weird
- maybe changes colors to fit in

Inspirations

site / emotional mapping

site chosen

Barbican Towers



Barbican Towers
London, UK

HEIGHT: 123m x 3
FLOORS: 43/42/42 floors
COMPLETION: 1973/1974/1976
ARCHITECT: Chamberlin, Powell & Bon


- In a single night of incendiary bombing on 29th December 1940, every street from Moorgate to Aldersgate Street, covering 35-acres, was destroyed, and by the end of the war more land was cleared to create a huge site that would remain vacant for two decades.

- Numerous proposals for redevelopment were made throughout the 1940s and 1950s, until in 1954 the London County Council proposed a plan combining commercial and residential uses, connected by a system of raised footpaths.

- Chamberlin, Powell & Bon were commissioned to design the Barbican in 1954, and submitted their first proposals in 1955. Outline planning permission was granted in June 1958, and the final scheme was approved by the Court of Common Council on 11th November 1959.

- In total, the Barbican includes 2,014 dwellings, situated in two 43-storey towers, one 42-storey tower, seven 10-storey blocks and one 7-storey block. The complex also includes gardens, a church, two schools and the Barbican Centre, home of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

- The estate was given Grade II listing in 2001 and, residential use aside, is Europe's largest arts and conference venue.

- The buildings of the Barbican complex are treated with a bush-hammered finish.

- The complex was named after a fortified watchtower (or Barbican) which stood in the vacinity and was demolished in 1267.

client update

My client is a female witch that is not bound to a place, so she is traveling continuously.
While she wanders from place to place she adapts herself to the setting to a certain extent, that she doesn’t attract attention of the normal population. Seeking places with high population density, she doesn’t exactly fit in the role of a normal person and keeps emotional distance from other people so her appearance is perceived as weird.
She lives in different dimensions, where she can disappear or carry objects with her, like her housing, and has more possibilities to enter and exit things than through the door. Normal dimensional proportions don’t matter for her since she has no desire for space and forms everything how it is needed, no matter where.

However her power isn’t endless. To ensure a continuous flow of her power and abilities she has to recharge them by gaining more of it every day. Knowledge is power. She travels to extend and collect her experience and knowledge to a maximum to preserve her power and simultaneously retrieve new abilities in every section from sience to cultural studies etc. In this matter she disguises herself to wander undetected among normal people of every social class of today’s life.