70 Kurfurstemdamm, Berlin, Germany Mistur's Design Development Studio - Spring 2007 Clarke, China C. Cantilever construction Curved facades Suprematist Circulation spaces Office buildings The site is 70 Kurfurstemdamm Berlin, Germany. The size of the site has been the driver of the circulation. Zaha Hadid had the idea to cantilever the upper floors. The building hovers over the pedestrians that move along the sidewalk below. The façade curves in plan as if being pulled along the road by the force of the traffic movement. The façade pulls at the building, shifting the once orthogonal elements slightly out of plane. This shift has the benefit of adding structural stability to the building. It is also pulling the inhabitants towards the east edge of the building. The steel members that support the glass enclosure are highly specular and reflective so as to almost disappear. The façade is inhabitable, within its thickness you can circulate vertically within each office space. Once one is inside the façade 180° views of the city (both horizontally and vertically) are possible. Hadid takes visual compositional cues from Malevich and other Suprematist artists. I will follow these cues through the shifting of formal elements. This shifting will create dynamic spaces that are only understandable by moving thorough them. School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007) Images Digital Jpk2 2007 Spring semester Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
70 Kurfurstemdamm, Berlin, Germany
Mistur's Design Development Studio - Spring 2007
Clarke, China C.
Cantilever construction
Curved facades
Suprematist
Circulation spaces
Office buildings
The site is 70 Kurfurstemdamm Berlin, Germany. The size of the site has been the driver of the circulation. Zaha Hadid had the idea to cantilever the upper floors. The building hovers over the pedestrians that move along the sidewalk below. The façade curves in plan as if being pulled along the road by the force of the traffic movement. The façade pulls at the building, shifting the once orthogonal elements slightly out of plane. This shift has the benefit of adding structural stability to the building. It is also pulling the inhabitants towards the east edge of the building. The steel members that support the glass enclosure are highly specular and reflective so as to almost disappear. The façade is inhabitable, within its thickness you can circulate vertically within each office space. Once one is inside the façade 180° views of the city (both horizontally and vertically) are possible. Hadid takes visual compositional cues from Malevich and other Suprematist artists. I will follow these cues through the shifting of formal elements. This shifting will create dynamic spaces that are only understandable by moving thorough them.
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007)
Images
Digital
Jpk2
2007 Spring semester
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.