Awards:
2018 : Leading Culture Destination of the Year
2018: Museum of the Year
2017 : Fulton Award: Innovation in Concrete
2015: Safety awards
- South Africa’s contemporary art museum, Zeitz MOCAA, has been named ‘Leading Culture Destination of the Year’ at the 2018 Leading Culture Destinations Awards.
Dubbed as ‘The Oscars for Museums’, the awards shine a light on the world’s cultural hotspots, with cities and organisations honoured for effectively engaging in culture and tourism.
- The International Architecture Awards is the oldest, annual public celebration of global architecture organised by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. This year’s awards celebrates over 100 new buildings from 31 nations.
- Maintaining the existing structures whilst combining it with innovatively placed new concrete substructures, selective demolition work and recycling make this building a celebration of concrete both as a historical and as a new, innovative building material.
Innovative and complex concrete placement and formwork techniques together with a variety of the latest laser-guided concrete-cutting and removal techniques were used. Newly cut and angled edges were polished to expose the original aggregate and steel reinforcement to great effect. This enabled open spaces in which the old and the new stabilising concrete work remain in contrast yet harmoniously fit together. In continuing the theme of paying homage to the silo’s industrial past, the original concrete both externally and internally was cleaned and has been retained as its most visible finish.
This unique project is a deserved joint winner of the Fulton Award in the “Innovation in Concrete” Category.
- Safety awards for V&A Waterfront’s Silo District development
2 500 000 man hours without a loss of time incident reached in recent weeks
Construction at the V&A Waterfront’s Silo District reached some impressive milestones in recent weeks: 2 500 000 man hours without a loss of time incident (LTI), and four construction safety awards for the work underway in the district.
#South_Africa , #museum , #hotel , #silo , #interior_design , #industrial , #public_space , #lighting , #structure , #concrete , #award , #stair
@revitalization
2018 : Leading Culture Destination of the Year
2018: Museum of the Year
2017 : Fulton Award: Innovation in Concrete
2015: Safety awards
- South Africa’s contemporary art museum, Zeitz MOCAA, has been named ‘Leading Culture Destination of the Year’ at the 2018 Leading Culture Destinations Awards.
Dubbed as ‘The Oscars for Museums’, the awards shine a light on the world’s cultural hotspots, with cities and organisations honoured for effectively engaging in culture and tourism.
- The International Architecture Awards is the oldest, annual public celebration of global architecture organised by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. This year’s awards celebrates over 100 new buildings from 31 nations.
- Maintaining the existing structures whilst combining it with innovatively placed new concrete substructures, selective demolition work and recycling make this building a celebration of concrete both as a historical and as a new, innovative building material.
Innovative and complex concrete placement and formwork techniques together with a variety of the latest laser-guided concrete-cutting and removal techniques were used. Newly cut and angled edges were polished to expose the original aggregate and steel reinforcement to great effect. This enabled open spaces in which the old and the new stabilising concrete work remain in contrast yet harmoniously fit together. In continuing the theme of paying homage to the silo’s industrial past, the original concrete both externally and internally was cleaned and has been retained as its most visible finish.
This unique project is a deserved joint winner of the Fulton Award in the “Innovation in Concrete” Category.
- Safety awards for V&A Waterfront’s Silo District development
2 500 000 man hours without a loss of time incident reached in recent weeks
Construction at the V&A Waterfront’s Silo District reached some impressive milestones in recent weeks: 2 500 000 man hours without a loss of time incident (LTI), and four construction safety awards for the work underway in the district.
#South_Africa , #museum , #hotel , #silo , #interior_design , #industrial , #public_space , #lighting , #structure , #concrete , #award , #stair
@revitalization
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
@revitalization
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
@revitalization
The house has been built around two main spaces in double and triple-height, visually con-nected to each other in all their diagonals and in constant relationship with the outside. Inside them the program associated with the day is developed, such as eating, cooking, meeting, working, playing, socializing, relaxing, etc. The bedrooms are located in the integrated volume placed in the west zone, in a more private area. Finally, in the adjacent volume on the north-east, an additional bedroom has been situated, which is independent of the main house.
To connect the vertical spaces, the original stairs have been conserved, with steps formed by large stones that offload their weight onto the ground. As an antagonist, a new metal sheet staircase has been designed that seems to levitate on the wooden floor.
The old stable has thus become a house that is experienced as a natural topography. A cave inhabited by little savages in an unconventional way. As in the forest, in nature, on Mount Pin-do, one has to move to look at the ground, and upwards, alert, with caution. A sustainable house like village houses, without technological impostures.
“These days I am building a house in a village, the land of my ancestors, in the Celtic Olympus [1]. In fact, it is a rehabilitation of a small animal stable made of large, well-arranged, granite ashlars. Almost like occupying a cave. I will use only 7 cm thick Oregon pine planks to solve the floor slabs. You may wonder why from Oregon and not from my country. That’s a fight be-tween me and the moths. The moths suffer more from the stomach with a wood that is not na-tive and that, at least, is winning the first battle.
The slabs have to bridge a distance of 5.20 meters between supports. The loose planks with-out gluing or tongue will solve everything with the help of simple truck straps.
The carpenter who sold me the wood says that it won’t work, the structural engineer, an infalli-ble guy, has serious doubts, and I do nothing but appeal to common sense or, what is the same, remember that evasive phrase: «But if God works by traction»… We will soon know if, as old Oteiza wrote, «there is a God to the northwest» [2], or maybe not.” – Arturo Franco
[1] It refers to Mount Pindo in the municipality of Carnota in A Coruña.
[2] OTEIZA, Jorge: Existe dios al noroeste, Navarra: Pamiela, 1990.
“Now the old stable has become a house that is experienced as a natural topography. A cave inhabited by little savages in an unconventional way. As in the forest, in nature, on Mount Pin-do, one has to move looking at the ground, and upwards, alert, with caution. A sustainable house like village houses, without technological impostures. 70 / 80 cm stone walls, a triple ventilated roof made of fibre cement and wood, and a new window open to the west, to squeeze the afternoon sun, so needed in this land with no sun.”- Arturo Franco
#Spain, #house, #structure, #interior_design, #wood, #stone, #stable, #farmhouse
@revitalization
To connect the vertical spaces, the original stairs have been conserved, with steps formed by large stones that offload their weight onto the ground. As an antagonist, a new metal sheet staircase has been designed that seems to levitate on the wooden floor.
The old stable has thus become a house that is experienced as a natural topography. A cave inhabited by little savages in an unconventional way. As in the forest, in nature, on Mount Pin-do, one has to move to look at the ground, and upwards, alert, with caution. A sustainable house like village houses, without technological impostures.
“These days I am building a house in a village, the land of my ancestors, in the Celtic Olympus [1]. In fact, it is a rehabilitation of a small animal stable made of large, well-arranged, granite ashlars. Almost like occupying a cave. I will use only 7 cm thick Oregon pine planks to solve the floor slabs. You may wonder why from Oregon and not from my country. That’s a fight be-tween me and the moths. The moths suffer more from the stomach with a wood that is not na-tive and that, at least, is winning the first battle.
The slabs have to bridge a distance of 5.20 meters between supports. The loose planks with-out gluing or tongue will solve everything with the help of simple truck straps.
The carpenter who sold me the wood says that it won’t work, the structural engineer, an infalli-ble guy, has serious doubts, and I do nothing but appeal to common sense or, what is the same, remember that evasive phrase: «But if God works by traction»… We will soon know if, as old Oteiza wrote, «there is a God to the northwest» [2], or maybe not.” – Arturo Franco
[1] It refers to Mount Pindo in the municipality of Carnota in A Coruña.
[2] OTEIZA, Jorge: Existe dios al noroeste, Navarra: Pamiela, 1990.
“Now the old stable has become a house that is experienced as a natural topography. A cave inhabited by little savages in an unconventional way. As in the forest, in nature, on Mount Pin-do, one has to move looking at the ground, and upwards, alert, with caution. A sustainable house like village houses, without technological impostures. 70 / 80 cm stone walls, a triple ventilated roof made of fibre cement and wood, and a new window open to the west, to squeeze the afternoon sun, so needed in this land with no sun.”- Arturo Franco
#Spain, #house, #structure, #interior_design, #wood, #stone, #stable, #farmhouse
@revitalization
For the consolidation of the walls and the formalization of the stairs, lime concrete is used in masse to achieve the chromatic and material similarity with the existing one, and reinforced with fibers, to achieve the structural stability required for use. public of the building.
#Spain, #castle, #structure, #tower, #archeology, #ruin , #stair , #lighting
@revitalization
#Spain, #castle, #structure, #tower, #archeology, #ruin , #stair , #lighting
@revitalization