Studio4 Assignment2 poster

basic information is this is a concert and meeting centre, the site is located at a harbor not far from Reykjavik city centre. the project as a culture centre is build for leading surrounding redeveloping. So as you can see from the site plan here, because it right at this corner,  is leading this linear area. So the building itself from exterior to interior enhance a lots of this linear relationship - gradually.

we can simplify the site plan two this L shape which represent the building on the angle of the square which stand for land

The L shape doing three important thing,

1  first is that from the side to nature elements is 2 flat surface, meanwhile the side face to city has 4 surface, two levels for each side which is more dynamic. for the skin, the side face to nature not only is more simple as 2 flat surface , the skin also is a 2 dimension flat skin which u can see from this section.

so the 3dimensioin-2dimension skin is doing two things. first is for view about the transparency control, to the city side is those cubes curtain which u can see through from outside because skin is not flat not 100 percent reflecting, so is kind of showing reachable. from sea side it is a strong whole shape because u cannot see through since the flat surface makes 100 percent reflecting. So is the building became a  strong element which can do a beautiful landscape or be a land mark.

the other is about dynamic changeable surface  which can reflect lots of different light and making different colors. there are 2 moving material from 2 sides -1.sea waving, 2 high way vehicle. So sea level is a flexible surface already. it can reflect changeful light to this surface, from this side, the people who watching is moving and because of the 3 dimensions surface, it also could reflect colorful light.

2  The other thing is the connection to context that leading by this L shape, we can see this main way will leading most visitors coming, so before you get into the building from this entrance , u are actually already surrounded by the structure, already get into this square, so this square here are doing the transition job between the urban context to the other main concert hall block. So u can see this pic, down here are lots house residential, to here , apartment block, kind of combination, then hotel and commercial place -- more public and then this opening plaza, a very public and big space, so Graduate from pieces to unity space. then u can see the first cube here, although there are two concert hall there, u still can see is there is lots of opening public space, which is linked to the outside, but also is kind of random, the small space make up these two big concert hall space. to the other cube is different , this big space is strong domain this cube, other space is serving this space. Also is a turning from pieces into a bigger space.

3  last one is circulation, when u getting into this building by this main entrance through this way, you already getting into the central part of this huge building composition. that benefits the inner circulation so well. u can going to either cube of the building. and from the section here u can c that cube1 more flexible link to city site --journey,cube2 strong stable link to sea level-for the main theatre.