Research part A

Santiago Calatrava
Lyon-Satolas TGV Station
Lyon, France

Renzo Piano 

Zentrum Paul Klee

Bern, Switzerland

Zaha Hadid

Vitra Fire Station

Weil am Rhein, Germany 

Factory environment constructed by the theory of defining space rather than occupying space.

The building is a long, narrow building alongside the street which marks the edge of the factory site, and which also functions as a screening device against the bordering buildings.

The space-defining and screening functions of the building were the point of departure for the development of the architectural concept: a linear, layered series of walls. The building is hermetic from a frontal reading, revealing the interiors only from a perpendicular viewpoint.

The entire building is freezing motion. 

This expresses the tension of being on the alert, and the potential to explode into action at any time. 

The walls seem to glide past each other, while large sliding doors are literally a moving wall.

The partition is minimized, articulating the spaces with three longitudinal stainless steel cabinets that separate the transparent area of the service area.

Structure

Blades or wedges are concrete walls and roof pitch in new directions give a strong sense of the dynamism of this reinforced concrete structure was created based on walls, in spaces arise.

Materials

The whole building is constructed with reinforced concrete in situ in the light, avoiding any added that distort the simplicity of its prismatic form and the abstract quality of the architectural concept, paying particular attention to the sharpness of the edges.

The lack of detail was also applied on the inside, rough opening frames, polished aluminum sliding planes that close the garage area, guard rails or lighting design, maintaining a consistent language that gives meaning to the whole.