NO.99.
New Access to Gironella's Historic Center / Carles Enrich
URBAN DESIGN, INFRASTRUCTURE
•
GIRONELLA, SPAIN
• Architects: Carles Enrich
• Year:2015
• Collaborators: Adriana Campmany, Àngel Rosales, Ada Sánchez
• Structure: MA+SAad
• Budget: Jaume Morro
• Project Promoter: Servei de Patrimoni Arquitectònic Local. Diputació de Barcelona.
• Constructor: Solà Cardona
Text description provided by the architects. Gironella is a municipality that has grown, during the last decades, divided by the river Llobregat. Its historic centre is located on top of a 20 metres high hill on the right bank of the river, where the medieval castle, whose wall is declared a BCIN, was set.
Edging
The modern part of Gironella is placed on the other side of the river, next to the road linking Barcelona with Berga, favoured by a more flat topography, which has allowed an expanding urban growth.
Urban discontinuity.
The 20 metres vertical break between the old and new parts of the town has generated a social fracture. Over the years, the historic centre has been depopulated due to difficulties in accessibility. The narrow stepped streets that lead to the Vila Square represent a huge effort to the elderly and the little ones.
The proposal involves the insertion of a new access to the historic centre to enhance the urban connectivity between the two parts of the town, boosting the use of the old town and avoiding social exclusion.
Cal Metre path recovery.
Gironella’s river facade is formed by a series of medieval remains that mean an architectural and historic heritage for the town, just as so are the industrial colonies of the early twentieth century along the river.
Our proposal seeks to be integrated respectfully as a new layer in the historical memory of the place. We suggest the location of an elevator in a strategic point of Cal Metre path, through where people used to get to the textile industries.
The elevator will improve the accessibility to the old town but it will also be a trigger to recover the use of this ancient river passage offering new urban continuity with the Vila Square public space.
Materiality.
Our intention is to dialog with all these pre-existences, enhancing a relation with the textile industries and recognizing the green stratum as a public space.
To this end we solve the case of the elevator with 3 materials: steel, ceramic and glass.
Structure.
The steel structure is done entirely in a local workshop and it is moved to the work area in 4 tranches that are definitely placed in 4 different days. It consists of 80.8 tubular columns and 80.8 tubular rings placed every 1.5 metres. Some L 100 profiles welded to the rings allow holding the ceramic lattice sections.
Porosity.
A ceramic lattice made by holed bricks placed on their side faces covers the 16 upper metres.
The choice of this enclosure material responds, on the one hand, to its role as a solar filter offering at the same time porosity, light entrance and ventilation to the elevator case. On the other hand, it dematerializes the case by letting the light go across it provoking an appearance of lightness that contrasts with the opacity that it is shown in a farther point of view.
Visual contact.
The lattice closes three of the four sides of the structure. The inner face is left open allowing a visual relation with the stone wall during the entire journey.
The lower 8 metres of the case have a glazed enclosure. Its transparency ensures a close relation with Cal Metre river path and its trees, which create a magnificent shadow area that changes with the seasons.
To favour the relationship between the elevator and the activities that take place in the square, the elevators façade towards it is made of glass.
#Spain , #public_space , #landmark, #structure , #urban_design , #infrastructure , #elevator , #accessibility
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New Access to Gironella's Historic Center / Carles Enrich
URBAN DESIGN, INFRASTRUCTURE
•
GIRONELLA, SPAIN
• Architects: Carles Enrich
• Year:2015
• Collaborators: Adriana Campmany, Àngel Rosales, Ada Sánchez
• Structure: MA+SAad
• Budget: Jaume Morro
• Project Promoter: Servei de Patrimoni Arquitectònic Local. Diputació de Barcelona.
• Constructor: Solà Cardona
Text description provided by the architects. Gironella is a municipality that has grown, during the last decades, divided by the river Llobregat. Its historic centre is located on top of a 20 metres high hill on the right bank of the river, where the medieval castle, whose wall is declared a BCIN, was set.
Edging
The modern part of Gironella is placed on the other side of the river, next to the road linking Barcelona with Berga, favoured by a more flat topography, which has allowed an expanding urban growth.
Urban discontinuity.
The 20 metres vertical break between the old and new parts of the town has generated a social fracture. Over the years, the historic centre has been depopulated due to difficulties in accessibility. The narrow stepped streets that lead to the Vila Square represent a huge effort to the elderly and the little ones.
The proposal involves the insertion of a new access to the historic centre to enhance the urban connectivity between the two parts of the town, boosting the use of the old town and avoiding social exclusion.
Cal Metre path recovery.
Gironella’s river facade is formed by a series of medieval remains that mean an architectural and historic heritage for the town, just as so are the industrial colonies of the early twentieth century along the river.
Our proposal seeks to be integrated respectfully as a new layer in the historical memory of the place. We suggest the location of an elevator in a strategic point of Cal Metre path, through where people used to get to the textile industries.
The elevator will improve the accessibility to the old town but it will also be a trigger to recover the use of this ancient river passage offering new urban continuity with the Vila Square public space.
Materiality.
Our intention is to dialog with all these pre-existences, enhancing a relation with the textile industries and recognizing the green stratum as a public space.
To this end we solve the case of the elevator with 3 materials: steel, ceramic and glass.
Structure.
The steel structure is done entirely in a local workshop and it is moved to the work area in 4 tranches that are definitely placed in 4 different days. It consists of 80.8 tubular columns and 80.8 tubular rings placed every 1.5 metres. Some L 100 profiles welded to the rings allow holding the ceramic lattice sections.
Porosity.
A ceramic lattice made by holed bricks placed on their side faces covers the 16 upper metres.
The choice of this enclosure material responds, on the one hand, to its role as a solar filter offering at the same time porosity, light entrance and ventilation to the elevator case. On the other hand, it dematerializes the case by letting the light go across it provoking an appearance of lightness that contrasts with the opacity that it is shown in a farther point of view.
Visual contact.
The lattice closes three of the four sides of the structure. The inner face is left open allowing a visual relation with the stone wall during the entire journey.
The lower 8 metres of the case have a glazed enclosure. Its transparency ensures a close relation with Cal Metre river path and its trees, which create a magnificent shadow area that changes with the seasons.
To favour the relationship between the elevator and the activities that take place in the square, the elevators façade towards it is made of glass.
#Spain , #public_space , #landmark, #structure , #urban_design , #infrastructure , #elevator , #accessibility
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NO.100.
Ptuj Performance Center / ENOTA
MONASTERY, PTUJ, SLOVENIA
• Architects: ENOTA
• project Renovation of former Dominican Monastery to Performance Center
• type commercial
• year 2010
• status completed 2015
• size 3.527 m2
• budget 4.400.000 EUR
• client Ptuj Municipality
• location Ptuj, Slovenija
• coordinate 46°27'38"N 15°6'56"E
• project team Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Polona Ruparčič, Andrej Oblak, Maruša Zupančič, Alja Černe, Tjaž Bauer, Petra Ostanek, Nuša Završnik Šilec, Nebojša Vertovšek
• collaborators Elea iC (structural engineering), Nom biro (mechanical services), Elsing (electrical planning)
• AWARDS
• East Centric Arhitext Awards, Regeneration, finalist Bucharest, Romania, 2016
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award, nomination Barcelona, Spain, 2015
• Piranesi Award, nomination Piran, Slovenia, 2014
• Golden Pencil Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014
• Interior of the Year Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014
• LEAF Awards, Refurbishment of the Year, shortlisted Dusseldorf, Germany, 2014
• Plečnik Medal Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014
• Architizer A+ Awards, Architecture + Preservation, jury winner New York, USA, 2014
• Architizer A+ Awards, Architecture + Preservation, popular choice winner New York, USA, 2014
• Architizer A+ Awards, Theatres & Performing Arts Centers, finalist New York, USA, 2014
• AIT Award, Public Building Education, special mention Frankfurt, Germany, 2014
Ptuj Performance Center has been designed by ENOTA, transforming an 800-year-old Dominican monastery in Ptuj, Slovenia into a congress and cultural centre. The conservation and restoration work was taken in steps by the designers due to the extensive painted surfaces which were only partially uncovered and restored.
The new intervention is limited to the surfaces where no new archaeological finds were expected: the floor. Installing heating, ventilation, lighting and sound in the floor allowed the designers to contain the technology needed within the floor space while the walls remained intact. These walls will be restored once the building is already in use due to the demanding time needed to fully and accurately reinstate the surfaces.
Connecting spaces from a variety of historical periods was a challenge for ENOTA and so chose to connect the individual spaces with black concrete paving which is neutral enough as to not detract from the beauty of the restoration, yet contrasting enough to focus the eye on the parts of the building awaiting completion.
After the construction of added floors had been torn down, archaeological work revealed rich findings in the central section of the former Gothic church. The sepulchres, reredos, and the remains of the steps and flooring made from Roman gravestones will be presented "in situ". Above this section, the new floor is consequently raised in space, forming tiered stands for the visitors at the same time, and acting as a spatial partition between the reconstructed Baroque church and the remains of the Gothic building.
The path along the staircase towards the visitors' seats is thus a sequence of different spatial experiences:the first landing offers a view of the floor plan of the Gothic building; on the second landing, one can take a close look at the newly discovered details of the Mediaeval architecture; while at the end, towards the top, the view of the entire splendour of the Baroque nave gradually opens.
The contrast between the new floor and the historical substance of the erstwhile monastery is deliberately greatest in the black-on-white appearance of the main hall, referencing the famous black and white habit of the Dominican Order where the white is symbolic of innocence and black of modesty.
#Slovenia , #monastery , #metal , #accessibility , #performance_centre , #stair , #archeology , #interior_design , #lighting , #public_space , #cultural_center
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Ptuj Performance Center / ENOTA
MONASTERY, PTUJ, SLOVENIA
• Architects: ENOTA
• project Renovation of former Dominican Monastery to Performance Center
• type commercial
• year 2010
• status completed 2015
• size 3.527 m2
• budget 4.400.000 EUR
• client Ptuj Municipality
• location Ptuj, Slovenija
• coordinate 46°27'38"N 15°6'56"E
• project team Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Polona Ruparčič, Andrej Oblak, Maruša Zupančič, Alja Černe, Tjaž Bauer, Petra Ostanek, Nuša Završnik Šilec, Nebojša Vertovšek
• collaborators Elea iC (structural engineering), Nom biro (mechanical services), Elsing (electrical planning)
• AWARDS
• East Centric Arhitext Awards, Regeneration, finalist Bucharest, Romania, 2016
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award, nomination Barcelona, Spain, 2015
• Piranesi Award, nomination Piran, Slovenia, 2014
• Golden Pencil Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014
• Interior of the Year Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014
• LEAF Awards, Refurbishment of the Year, shortlisted Dusseldorf, Germany, 2014
• Plečnik Medal Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014
• Architizer A+ Awards, Architecture + Preservation, jury winner New York, USA, 2014
• Architizer A+ Awards, Architecture + Preservation, popular choice winner New York, USA, 2014
• Architizer A+ Awards, Theatres & Performing Arts Centers, finalist New York, USA, 2014
• AIT Award, Public Building Education, special mention Frankfurt, Germany, 2014
Ptuj Performance Center has been designed by ENOTA, transforming an 800-year-old Dominican monastery in Ptuj, Slovenia into a congress and cultural centre. The conservation and restoration work was taken in steps by the designers due to the extensive painted surfaces which were only partially uncovered and restored.
The new intervention is limited to the surfaces where no new archaeological finds were expected: the floor. Installing heating, ventilation, lighting and sound in the floor allowed the designers to contain the technology needed within the floor space while the walls remained intact. These walls will be restored once the building is already in use due to the demanding time needed to fully and accurately reinstate the surfaces.
Connecting spaces from a variety of historical periods was a challenge for ENOTA and so chose to connect the individual spaces with black concrete paving which is neutral enough as to not detract from the beauty of the restoration, yet contrasting enough to focus the eye on the parts of the building awaiting completion.
After the construction of added floors had been torn down, archaeological work revealed rich findings in the central section of the former Gothic church. The sepulchres, reredos, and the remains of the steps and flooring made from Roman gravestones will be presented "in situ". Above this section, the new floor is consequently raised in space, forming tiered stands for the visitors at the same time, and acting as a spatial partition between the reconstructed Baroque church and the remains of the Gothic building.
The path along the staircase towards the visitors' seats is thus a sequence of different spatial experiences:the first landing offers a view of the floor plan of the Gothic building; on the second landing, one can take a close look at the newly discovered details of the Mediaeval architecture; while at the end, towards the top, the view of the entire splendour of the Baroque nave gradually opens.
The contrast between the new floor and the historical substance of the erstwhile monastery is deliberately greatest in the black-on-white appearance of the main hall, referencing the famous black and white habit of the Dominican Order where the white is symbolic of innocence and black of modesty.
#Slovenia , #monastery , #metal , #accessibility , #performance_centre , #stair , #archeology , #interior_design , #lighting , #public_space , #cultural_center
@revitalization