Plasencia Auditorium and Conference Center, Plascencia, Spain Design Development Studio, Spring 2008 Palitsch, Jeff Willoughby, Rachel Student projects Student drawings Auditoriums Convention centers Ramps Circulation spaces This Design Development proposal continued the schematic work of Selgascano Architects to construct an auditorium and conference center in the Spanish Extremadura outside of the medieval walled city of Plasencia. The exterior shell references the rugged landscape below in its geometric organization as well as how it sits like a ship at port treating the Extremadura as the sea beneath. This skin serves to protect the simple concrete volume inside which contains the building's program and is wrapped in an intertwining system of circulatory ramps. These ramps provide the impetus to treat the building as a stage for movement, as visitors engage with the circulation and the program their movements are recorded and projected onto the polycarbonate light boxes beneath each ramp. Thus the building begins to operate on the macro, meso, and micro scale. During the day it sits like a sign alongside the highway adjacent to Plasencia while at night it becomes a lamp, broadcasting the activity of the interior. As one moves closer to the space the organization of the skin becomes clear, referencing the area in which it sits and pushing its logic inside the atrium through a boolean operation, a clear puncture through the center. Finally the detailing of the white concrete panels cladding the building's core becomes visible and referential to the organization of the circulation, subtly emphasizing the movements a visitor makes as they participate in the act. School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008) Parsons, Peter. Faculty advisor Krueger, Ted. Faculty advisor Nishimura, Jake. Faculty advisor 2008 Digital images JPEG2000 21st century Malpartida de Plasencia, Spain Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Plasencia Auditorium and Conference Center, Plascencia, Spain
Design Development Studio, Spring 2008
Palitsch, Jeff
Willoughby, Rachel
Student projects
Student drawings
Auditoriums
Convention centers
Ramps
Circulation spaces
This Design Development proposal continued the schematic work of Selgascano Architects to construct an auditorium and conference center in the Spanish Extremadura outside of the medieval walled city of Plasencia. The exterior shell references the rugged landscape below in its geometric organization as well as how it sits like a ship at port treating the Extremadura as the sea beneath. This skin serves to protect the simple concrete volume inside which contains the building's program and is wrapped in an intertwining system of circulatory ramps. These ramps provide the impetus to treat the building as a stage for movement, as visitors engage with the circulation and the program their movements are recorded and projected onto the polycarbonate light boxes beneath each ramp. Thus the building begins to operate on the macro, meso, and micro scale. During the day it sits like a sign alongside the highway adjacent to Plasencia while at night it becomes a lamp, broadcasting the activity of the interior. As one moves closer to the space the organization of the skin becomes clear, referencing the area in which it sits and pushing its logic inside the atrium through a boolean operation, a clear puncture through the center. Finally the detailing of the white concrete panels cladding the building's core becomes visible and referential to the organization of the circulation, subtly emphasizing the movements a visitor makes as they participate in the act.
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008)
Parsons, Peter. Faculty advisor
Krueger, Ted. Faculty advisor
Nishimura, Jake. Faculty advisor
2008
Digital images
JPEG2000
21st century
Malpartida de Plasencia, Spain
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY