Barcelona, ES / Shanghai, CN
We believe in a building that generates an event: a pole of cultural expression to become an international claim. A piece that relocates this place and the immense value of this civilization at the global level.
Our strategy: to design a unique piece, a jewel which on one hand is a complement to the ruins of Troy and on the other hand create value for itself. The value that had Troy in the past. The value conferred by the people, their desires, dreams and their power. We believe we have to recover with the maximum sensitivity the magnificence of that civilization; capable of creating in their best times the most beautiful objects, full of splendor and creativity.
It manifests as a mass that is finely modeled and acquires its identity, and create and build a new countryside. Perhaps it is a large and sophisticated cover that provides shade, a large shade structure under which the activity occurs.
His lines remind us of the geometry of Troy, strained her curves, drawings and intersections that cut suddenly, encounters between concave and convex, all that legacy is in the geometric shape of the helmets, armor of the Black Paintings, which is exquisitely reinterpreted by past century artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Tapies.
Refined paintings of women dancing, fighting warriors, like those found in the vessels, allowed us to discover that its art embodies the idea of movement, folds, cuts, curves with a straight cut stressed, talk about it. That led us to think of the artistic expressions that includes the idea of movement, such as the artist Duchamp experienced in his painting "Nude Descending a Staircase N2". Movement that can form part of our object surfaces. Areas where we can find some lessons from the artist Boccioni, as illustrated by the interaction of a moving object with the space around it, through the intuitive search for a single form that creates a continuous space.
Under an imposing wooden shade structure provides the building program. The interior space is a space of perception, dynamic and changing, a continuous open, fluid and democratic unimpeded extension of nature. A large open plaza outside as a receiver and distributor of activity, a pleasant and comfortable meeting point from which to start the itineraries.
The strong material expression is achieved by the use of a single material, wood. Material used in shipbuilding which we have chosen both for the structure and the skin of this building with its elegant and evocative texture, comfort, and because ultimately belongs to the nature and to the place.
Status: Competition Entry
Location: Troy, Turkey