Concept Notation
Concept Notation
The design starts from the city perspective with urban data analysis. Hence, city’s configuration and human behaviors are unfolded. Finally, a sport and culture center which can match the behavior of urban residents and possess the urban open space is built.
Site Context
Attempt: Architectural Typology meets Data in 21 century
In The Architecture of the City, Aldo Rossi once said: ‘ The city itself is the collective memory of its people. And like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory’. In 2018, 62 years after Rossi’s publication, I believe that his architectural type in the city is the configuration among all those single objects which can be interpreted somehow.
Paradox: Monumentally Anti-monumental Architecture
The government planed to construct a sport and culture center in a urban open green land with a big volume. Koolhaas believes that the needle marks the location while the globe has capacity to absorb objects, people, etc, while Rossi said that the two main permanences in the city are housing and monuments. So as the volume is giant, how to create a ‘monument’ which not just marks the place like a needle but absorb people like a globe? This is the paradox of my design.
Reasoning
Reasoning
Axon
Rendering
Main Entrance
Perspective
Elevation
South Elevation
East Elevation