notes taken from a slide and audio presentation by richard maccormac:
- 1960's office block was a symbol of the failure of architecture and urbanism.
- cities are mechanisms which reconcile public and private interest.
- palladio's tietro olympico stage set, city street. italian audience saw the city as the proper place for life to be played out.
- foreign transactions - functions which occur inside buildings which don't relate to the locality. i.e. banking, churches, offices, factories
- local transactions - functions which occur inside and in-
between buildings which do relate to the locality. i.e. street markets, shops, housing, pubs, small businesses.
- example: goom store, moscow
- how can we reconcile foreign transactions with local transactions?
- colloseum theatre, london, 19th century
- theatee buried within the block as the activity is an introverted one, with shops on the street edge and housing above.
spitalfields
- high density block (4or5 to 1)
- corresponding scale on either side of the street, reconcilable activities (local transactions).
- galleria within is a hinterland of other functions like banking, offices (foreign transactions).
- larger activities have a primary effect on the ec
onomy of the area.
- mixture of foreign and local transac
tions already existing around the site.
- treating the market [site] as an old rug and the architect was to weave together the area/strands, re-creating the patch.
- height constraints given by local planning authority.
- constraints determined the volumetric disposition of the development.
- fringe of the site mediates between the surrounding area and the core of the development.
- experience walking through the site would be one of continuity and there would be degrees of change in scale, activity and atmosphere.
site use diagram
north - housing mixed with shops
east - theatre with shops
south - shops under small scale buildings and under the larger office core
west - station
- try to reconcile scale and use through using buildings as mediating elements.
typical floor plans
- accommodate large office floor plates .
- to decompose large floor plates as they rise above 15m a series of setbacks were introduced to transform large floor plates in to towers.
- planning grid of 7.5m.
- gateway to reveal the institution within.
- intriduction of various architects to the overall scheme.
- designs will have to be reciprocal with one another, share the same intentions and same language.
- the scheme accepts capital investment and uses it to direct those forces to making places that people are going to enjoy.
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Image from AJ, April 1990 |
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