Memory of Alhambra

Project idea

The project focused on the exploration of ecological aesthetics that move architectural design beyond the disciplines ongoing nature – architecture dialogue. Rather than see the two as separate entities, students were tasked with developing architecture that purposefully displays and celebrates buildings enmeshment with their environments. The projects conceived architecture not as a static whole, fixed at the date of its initial construction, but as an assembly of matter constructed and reconstructed where its qualities and configurations are perpetually changing and being regenerated, part by part. In this way, building can possess both qualities of ‘dirtiness’ and pristineness simultaneously as different parts will display different levels of environmental enmeshment, thus avoid trending purely towards obsolescence and ruin.

Project description

The project is a design proposal for a ferry in Seville. It functions as a public building with piers, gallery, main hall, and shops.

Technical information

The project consists of steel and concrete blocks that mimic the texture of stone and are joined together in an interesting and designed assembly way. The stone surfaces will be weathered and eroded by wind and rain over time, and the erosion effect of the nature on the building was also considered as a consideration of this proposal.

Documentation

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