tag:www.potentialarchitecture.net,2007-11-12:/projects/20071112124050723 2012-05-18T17:51:31+02:00 Alliance Arkitekter http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/377 2012-05-17T23:54:36+02:00

Konkurransebidrag i samarbeid med Veidekke. Idrettsanlegg lokalisert på Rud i Bærum Kommune. Anlegget planlagt med tre idrettshaller (friidretts-, fotball- og flerbrukshall) med tilhørende utøver- og publikumsarealer. Bidraget løst utifra konkurranseprogram og situasjon på tomten. Avvist av konkurransejury pga. orientering av hovedinngang mot sørvest.

Alliance Arkitekter http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/376 2012-05-17T23:54:38+02:00

Konkurransebidrag i samarbeid med Veidekke. Idrettsanlegg lokalisert på Rud i Bærum Kommune. Anlegget planlagt med tre idrettshaller (friidretts-, fotball- og flerbrukshall) med tilhørende utøver- og publikumsarealer. Bidraget løst utifra konkurranseprogram og situasjon på tomten. Avvist av konkurransejury pga. orientering av hovedinngang mot sørvest.

SPACEBLOCK http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/375 2012-05-17T23:54:41+02:00

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Metropolitan Workshop http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/374 2012-05-17T23:54:43+02:00

Lux Hotel A new destination in Bergen Context The context of the site is its virtue but also its challenge. The accessibility of the site is virtually unparalleled within the city and makes the hotel prominent in ‘its’ both location and ‘its’ height. Visitors will be able to access the site quickly and easily and then be cocooned by its architecture and encouraged to stay. The swept lines of the transport arteries that surround the site are key in influencing the smooth and receptive forms of the buildings. Like a piece of weathered stone or curved driftwood - the building has been worn smooth by the motion of the city providing a form that is omni-directional and that responds to the 360 degree views of the city. The team’s vision is to provide an exemplar hotel project that matches or exceeds the experience of any other hotel in Norway. A unique experience within a unique city setting – enhances and resolves the many attributes and challenges the site presents. The site for this new city hotel in close proximity to city, regional and national transport networks enables the project to fulfill its potential as a major tourist destination for the city and the region. Positioned on the key threshold to the city from the E39 the building will become one of the first and last buildings that many visitors travelling by car, bus and tram will encounter. The horizontal division of the buildings into two distinct architectural characters responds to the immediate and wider contexts of the site. The lower ‘closed’ facades protect the hotel facilities from the noise and close Quarter. views of the roads and traffic while the upper floors are more open in order to take in the longer distance views. Bergen’s is a unique place set among the seven mountains which provide a dramatic backdrop to this historic City. The rooftop terraces of the hotel will provide spectacular views over the city of Bergen far above the movement of the city. These fluid spaces frame views to the mountains and beyond, providing guests with a unique vantage point and a sense of being elevated into the rooftops. On the top floor a skybar provides a unique angle on the city allowing views to the fjords. invited competition submission – 2nd place

Metropolitan Workshop http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/373 2012-05-17T23:54:46+02:00

The Royal Pavilion building is the first point of entry to the Royal Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for VIP’s and therefore must embody the spirit, cultures and uniqueness of the country. It must represent the future of the country as a contemporary culture whilst echoing its unique heritage, history and traditions. The building must be original and forward looking. The building will often be the site of important and sometimes fleeting visits from foreign representatives and so the experience of this building must be a summary experience of the country. Its contemporary architecture must evoke the original qualities of the society and landscape of Jordan and provide a memorable backdrop to visits of the highest importance and significance.

Metropolitan Workshop http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/372 2012-05-17T23:54:49+02:00

Buried Treasure This winning entry was designed for a high-profile building within a highly sensitive historic setting in the south east of England. The building creates a new threshold to a major visitor destination. By working with the natural contours of the site, the bulk and impact of the building is substantially reduced. The building was conceived as a cut in the ground. It combines a large archive facility with a visitor centre. It has to handle large visitor numbers at peak times, while providing a quiet setting for archive visitors and readers. Competition: 1st Prize awarded – 2004 invited Status: Project on hold Design Team: David Prichard, Neil Deely & Tomas Stokke @ MJP

Metropolitan Workshop http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/371 2012-05-17T23:54:50+02:00

Suspended Animation At the heart of Drammen’s transformation is the waterfont regeneration and the development of Grønland. The new footbridge is a catalyst for its success. Our proposal was inspired by skipping stones (fiske-sprett). The effortless movement across the water makes natural trajectories, each movement clearly defined by its physical constraints. This bridge was to reconcile the physical and practical constraints with the conceptual notion of a dynamic moment frozen in time. The plan form of the bridge was generated to create a sequence of views and pausing places, while ensuring that the gradient would provide full disabled access and the necessary clearances for river traffic. The structure consists of two intertwining steel ribbons that, together with the structural steel deck, act as one structure, creating a sinuous and efficient bridge. The deck is broken into a series of small spans, thus ensuring a slim profile, with minimal visual obstruction. The bridge connects the existing park to the new basin, complementing rather than disrupting the existing landscaping schemes. At night the bridge would reveal another, more mysterious character, created by the underwater floodlights. A light in the handrail washes the footway, while the glass windshield is softly lit. The movement of people and cyclists crossing the bridge would activate pulses of light moving across the bridge. Suspended Animation is a dynamic and expressive bridge that intended to put Drammen on the map locally, nationally and internationally. 2nd Place in invited International competition 2005 Client: Drammen City Council & Union Sindou Team: Structural Engineer : Adams Kara Taylor, Lighting: Speirs & Major, Landscape: Gross.Max, Sustainability: Sweco Grøner, Squint/Opera, Team: Marcus Brett, Neil Deely, Andy Meira, Tomas Stokke

Metropolitan Workshop http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/370 2012-05-17T23:54:54+02:00

Development Framework The town of Larvik in southern Norway has lost its historic connection with its Fjord. In 2008 Metropolitan Workshop took part in an international urban design competition to regenerate and reconnect the waterfront to the town. Currently the water’s edge is cut off from the town by a busy road, railway lines and a ferry terminal. The ferry terminal is to be moved out of the town centre and so the opportunity to stitch the town back together exists. Although the problems are complex, our mantra throughout the project was that complex problems are often solved with simple solutions. Our proposal began with an analysis of the existing barriers and how they could be reorganized and consolidated to allow permeability and vehicular access through the site. We propose a new park, a green carpet, between the main street and the waterfront which acts as an attractor and stitches the town back together. A sustainable mix of uses is proposed along the waterfront, some which contribute culturally to Larvik such as restaurants, education, leisure and cultural facilities. Other uses, such as waterside apartments and a hotel, generate the income required to realize the project. As well as developing an exciting new place, the team concentrated on how the project could be realized in terms of phasing, financing, working with the existing fabric and understanding what the town of Larvik specifically requires. The team suggests a number of “quick wins” which could be set up quickly and cheaply and which would initiate activity to allow Larvik’s new waterfront to develop from sustainable beginnings. Client: Status: 2nd Place (purchased) open international competition Landscape: Studio Engleback MW Team: Neil Deely, Emmet O’Sullivan Ida, Ruth Mathisen, Kristina Madsen Richard Roberts, Marcus Brett, Sigrid Bylander and Håkon Follesø

Metropolitan Workshop http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/369 2012-05-17T23:54:55+02:00

Cultural Icon The building as not only a new Konserthus but also as people’s palace representing and celebrating the achievements of the people of Stavanger. The building is a powerful metaphor for Stavanger’s heritage of culture, music, engineering and pioneering spirit. It both focuses on and reinterprets the extraordinary maritime setting of the city. This building not only has to perform, it has to tell a story, so that it belongs to the city and is appropriated by its citizens. The intention was to create an internationally recognisable venue surrounded by public places where non-ticketed events, exhibitions and attractions take place. Concert goers would not feel exclusive as they mingle in foyers with other recreational and celebratory events. Open International Competition Stavanger, Norway, 2003 Published AJ 15 January 2004 Exhibited in Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004 Structures: Adams Kara Taylor Landscape: Gross Max Acoustics: Arup Environmental: Arup Group 6 Design Team: Neil Deely, Tomas Stokke, Marko Neskovic @ MJP

Metropolitan Workshop http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/368 2012-05-17T23:54:58+02:00

Arundel Great Court is sensitively situated in the heart of the Stand in London’s Embankment. Crucial events in the history of the site were the formation of the Embankment and the construction of the Aldwych in 1913 at the South end of Kingsway, prior to which the site had been backlands, river wharves and river related industry. Currently, Government, institutional and commercial buildings which confront the Thames from Westminster to the City generate a context which includes the Shell Mex, Whitehall Court and most recently, Embankment Place. The site is part of the street scene of the Strand. The Strand elevation is composed of friezes of stone clad fins of varying heights. The heights of these components are derived directly from the columns in the facades of neighbouring buildings on the Aldwych. This ‘taxonomy’ of columns restores the vertical aesthetic and proportion to the site that is so characteristics of the existing buildings in the area. The proposed building acts to record and reflect its own context like a mirror. Viewed from the south bank, the buildings along the river create a ‘superstructure’ of architectural events appearing above the picturesque tree-lined landscape of Embankment Place to create one of the worlds most famous skylines. Somerset House and Shell Mex form part of this skyline and an argument has been made for the skyline of the riverfront of this site to be broken by the residential buildings designed by HCL Architects. Such a consent would mask the sight of the offices from the river. Notwithstanding the sight lines identified by Richard Coleman’s visual analysis, we believed there to be score in the central area of the site for additional volume. The model was selected for inclusion in the 2009 Royal Academy Summer exhibition.

Espinosa http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/367 2012-05-17T23:55:00+02:00

A tattered sand-dune environment—filled with rich physical and ephemeral qualities—involves topical conditions in the discussion of ‘man and nature.’ The project attempts to clarify ideas of time, object, and location by utilizing Jarry’s (1896) ‘science of exceptions’ to interrogate an empirical understanding in the fabrication and construction of architecture. Artistically, data gaps may be translated into a real-world context through the use of narrative in order to reassess traditional goals in construction, and one’s response to evolving ecologies. Moray Firth’s Culbin Forest—located in Northern Scotland—is a rich, geotechnical environment which is used as a device to translate between a real-world landscape, and the imaginary thematic landscape set forth in Sir Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1593). Its primary tactic for assimilating disparate elements is Nicod’s (1930) geometric exercise in logic which discusses spatio-temporal resemblance as a normative measure of bridging sensory perception. One attempts to construct a set of conditions to deal with issues of: site, narrative, technology, mathematics, and largely, one’s response to local ecologies. These ecologies are reconstructed as interdependent, virtual topologies or deformation cages which reassemble Culbin’s Arcadia into a rich ecological matrix of architecture, within a trans-objective site. Language is seen as an essential tool for projecting the virtual context of Culbin’s Arcadia into an actualized, computer-landscape topography.

Hackett Hall Mc Knight http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/366 2012-05-17T23:55:03+02:00

The UIA-run competition attracted over 200 entries from all over the world. The proposal, for the Causeway Coast World Heritage Site is within an environment of extreme heritage and scientific interest governed by a wide range of planning considerations, legislation and guidance. Our proposal was to make a simple strata-like form on the site - a single storey timber plateau characterised as an abstract wooden terrain raised above a stone base. Acting as a portal to the site, it is possible to pass under the woodland through the stone plinth where a number of choices are presented as to how one may access the site. All of the key amenities are located in relation to the courtyard encountered under the upper timber structure where the exhibition and cafe are located to benefit from elevated views of the surrounding landscape through the 'woodland' of timber columns. The cafe provides access to an external terrace from which a path to the stones may be accessed. The cafe and exhibition spaces are experienced as clearings within a wood; an idea with clear resonance to an ancient Irish landscape. The functional amenities are removed from these elements of the scheme.

Gort Scott http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/365 2012-05-17T23:55:05+02:00

With fairly minimal intervention, the vast forgotten spaces of the reservoirs of Walthamstow can be celebrated and made more accessible to a much wider range of users. Our proposal respects the working infrastructure of the reservoirs, and their quiet monumentality, proposing a series of interventions that allow local people, groups of school children and daytrippers to connect with the sublime location in the middle of the Lee Valley. The interventions are dominated by two over-scaled, low-lidded, clay-tiled roofs. Redolent of local arts and crafts man William Morris, with their gold tiled exterior pattern and carefully painted interior battens, they hover over steel-constructed platforms. This project was the winning entry in an open ideas competition.

Gollifer Langston Architects http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/364 2012-05-17T23:55:07+02:00

The proposal is a children’s play centre maximising the amount of outdoor play area by utilising the building’s roof space. Elevating the play area provides the children and young people an increase in available space as well as a vantage point over Fortune Green. The accommodation forms a protective court for the building from which the landscape gently rises up. Existing trees continue to grow within the court, punctuating the building and its entrance - merging building and landscape.

Gollifer Langston Architects http://www.potentialarchitecture.net/projects/view/363 2012-05-17T23:55:09+02:00

The visitor centre draws inspiration from the nature reserve and its inhabitants. The Moorhens nests perched at the waters edge informs the structure and the inclined columns, which elevate the building, mirror the reeded landscape below. The design provides an environmentally sustainable visitor centre with spectacular views for observing wildlife.