ROC | RETHINKING OF CULTURE
Architectural Association AADRL
Tutor: Theodore Spyropoulos
Year: 2017 - 2018
Introduction
ROC is a research project that speculates the future of culture through the investigation of a building-as-curator. A type of environment where there is no useless space and adaptability is a key. It questions if a building, its contents, and its occupants could all be active participants - having the ability to navigate through a dynamic infrastructure of decision making and organisation.
As a studio brief, Constructive agency is to be understood the strength and potential of the age architecture striven in, by aiming at foreseeing the architecture of the future. The frame of the discipline and its positive and negative effects will be discussed within the framework of culture and architecture and transformation by associating today’s architecture expressions by understanding interaction level of each participants in the whole systems.
The Pompidou Centre as a fundamental context to studio is to be observed as an instrument to alter and impact on social, cultural and environmental assets. R.O.C. project is to be considered as not only a way of understanding the museum as a form and space but also investigating the re-identification of architecture of culture as a set of systems progressing towards future.
The system can address the complexity of the urban and programmatic condition and the brief of the Pompidou. It addresses the program, the flow of people and it does it through our core of thesis of transformational building.
What People Are Saying
‘‘Fantastic… incredible poetic!… You made a favour for all artists!… Stunning!’’
— David Green - Archigram
“Very very powerful... It is 21st century Pompidou… Incredible manner of work! Not a trivial project! Real peace of architecture!”
— Patrik Schumacher
“You took a very simple idea… with a lot of constrains… and made a really good job.”
— Theodore Spyropoulos
Studio Brief
As a studio brief, Constructive agency is to be understood the strength and potential of the age architecture striven in, by aiming at foreseeing the architecture of the future. The frame of the discipline and its positive and negative effects will be discussed within the framework of culture and architecture and transformation by associating today’s architecture expressions by understanding interaction level of each participants in the whole systems. The Pompidou Centre as a fundamental context to studio is to be observed as an instrument to alter and impact on social, cultural and environmental assets.
R.O.C. project is to be considered as not only a way of understanding the museum as a form and space but also investigating the re-identification of architecture of culture as a set of systems progressing towards future. The system can address the complexity of the urban and programmatic condition and the brief of the Pompidou. It addresses the program, the flow of people and it does it through our core of thesis of transformational building.
Unit
In order to provide enough flexibility, we created our unit with the ability to be mobile, transform within itself and system and interact with its neighbours. Through the scenario it is possible to see the possibility of the system, different scales of spaces it can provide, its adaptability to the environment, pieces of art and human interaction.
mobility
transformation
reorganisation
functionality
Spatial organisation (external)
Spatial organisation (internal)
Changes in the system affect the movement of people inside. In this example, the transformation divides a large, spacious room into 6 smaller rooms and a central corridor. Through the corridor people can move and go into the rooms in which the artefacts are located. Such a system can independently create facilities for the circulation of people inside, depending on the density of the flow and the purpose.
Scale
Light strategies
As the surface responding the frame behavior based on predefined or instant transformation rules and decisions of the system, the frame also can respond and accompany the surface related to circulatory principles as it is seen in the figure.
In spite of being separate systems, frame and surface are to perform similar transformation logics to reach the fittest logic of units’ composition. So the mobility of the surface which can be shared between different frames can provide different elevation systems such as lift and ramp.
Scenario
Scenario is the way to see the possibility of the system, different scales of spaces it can provide, its adaptability to the environment, pieces of art and human interaction. Within the grid matrix, surface, being mobile, is to re-organise the space and object location on both horizontal axis and vertical axis. As a principle, before the reallocation of objects, system is to change the free standing floor-assigned surface to create available network for the surfaces which are to carry objects. After organising the required network systems, objects movement is to be started system as it is ordered. Once the object reaches the aimed location, the surfaces without any form of object is to take their newly-assigned places in the system.
