RETHINKING BAUHAUS by arch.ast

This project was submited to the Bauhaus Campus 2021 competition with Registration ID #1857
arch.ast
Angeliki Tsamouridou
Technical University of Crete
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Selena-Eleni Tsoukala
Technical University of Crete
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RETHINK BAUHAUS #1857

Dessau is a city that has a fragmented urban structure consisting of a wide collection of typologies and changing densities. The city could be read as a mosaic of different historic layers, which seem to be unrelated, creating an incoherent cityscape with massive undefined public spaces. The project site is located in a central place on the fringes of the city’s train tracks, which split the city in half. Taking all of these into consideration the proposal aims to create an urban “magnetic field” that stands as a cultural meeting point, where people learn and socialize in a flexible complex of buildings dedicated to architectural expression. The starting point of the designing process is set by two different circles that define the influence that the important buildings of Dessau have on the project site. The inner circle is identified as the influence of the adjacent surroundings, whereas the outer circle indicates the influence that distant important buildings have on the project site. So by having different groups of lines we begin to design a new system that aims to create new urban flows and connections that unite the separated sides of the city.

 

School of Architecture_ unique spaces that create a chain of unique experience.

A main corridor that distributes students to spaces of different activities.

  1. A flexible workshop space where students get their hands dirty. There they work on their architecture models and their work of arts.
  2. A staircase library that doesn’t stand as a traditional quiet library, but a space either for chilling while reading or a place to hold lectures.
  3. Α “roundabout” of classes separated by curtains in order to create softer boundaries and stronger bonds between students that learn and work together.
  4. The interior auditorium where lectures and projections take place.
  5. Café/working spaces_ Some days students seem to be bored so they use this space to reboot. They work outside and their ideas get refreshed.
  6. This is a flexible area where students spend their free time or take a break from work while drinking coffee from the cafeteria.
  7. A bridge that stands as an urban exhibition.

 

A school dedicated to familiarize students with the basic elements of architecture such as scale, public-private. A school that provides working collectively and gives the chance to students to understand standard relations of architecture through experiencing the space and being active members of a group.

Dorms_ living alone//living together// living “semi-alone semi-together”

Chilling areas_ the way back home stands as a chilling road where students can play and spend their free time

 

The project aims to recreate one of the standard typologies of Dessau TYPOLOGY 2 (analysis map). In the recreation of this typology the central space becomes meaningful and acquires its own existence. This space becomes the Central Auditorium.

The central auditorium_ This is actually not a traditional auditorium this a “come together” space. Students are welcome to use this space as they want. It is a flexible space, others chill there, others study there or work, others eat. It is such a flexible space that could turn spontaneously from a working area to a public fiesta.

In this case, form doesn’t follow function.

 

The new Bauhaus is based on creativity and self expression. Students are encouraged to explore any aspect of architecture they wish using any kind of method they want from analog means to new means of technology. Others wish to explore architecture meant to be built in Mars while others wish to learn all about history and theory of architecture, having the ambition to promote new architectural theories of the future.

 

ATLAS / elements of architecture

01./ s t a i r s _

Ascent-descent

Articulation

Vertical connection two sites or more

Resting point – spot

Different perspectives and points of view

Creating space underneath

Theatrical

Step-levels

 

02./ w i n d o w _

eyes of the building

Framing horizon _ portrait

Connection between two realms

Point of view

Ventilation & light

Creating indoor façades

Interaction between the inside and the outside world

In-between inside-outside boundaries

 

03./ d o o r _

Access

Entrance – Exit

Privacy-safety / Freedom-transparency

Threshold & Transition

04./ c o r r i d o r – p a s s a g e _

movement

Connecting spaces/uses and other passages

Discovery

Spreading – distribution of movements

In-between space/zone

 

05./ w a l l _

defines an area

Divides or encloses

Carries a load

Provides security/shelter

Creates a border/boundary

 

06./ c e i l i n g _

creates spaces underneath and above / 2 in 1

Indirect lighting

07./ c o l u m n –  p i l l a r s _

levitation – pilotis

Supportive or decorative use

Raise the architectural volume

 

08./ c u r t a i n _

smooth, blurred, ephemeral, obscure boundaries between private and public spaces

Shading

Creating smaller spaces

Transformation

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