project08:Styling
SEPAC form is arranged around three "ribbons", which act as bridges connecting project The Fifth Season with land on the Eastern side. Some ribbons change their direction the after crossing each other and create the frames for SEPAC form. The building basically revolves around the ribbons.
The first ribbon connects the green area with the Pier and The Fifth Season. It intersects the second and third ribbon in the points, in which they start to create the roof of the SEPAC.
The second ribbon runs much lower and touch the surface of the water. There the small spaces are located on two levels. Walking on the first level the user can reach the entrance to the SEPAC. Also continuing on the second ribbon the entrance may be reached. The third way to reach the entrance is to walk down from the first ribbon and enter the SEPAC from the second entrance on second ribbon.
The third ribbon creates the roof of the buffet and later creates the arch above the first entrance to SEPAC. Later on it can be developed as a joining element to the rest of the Continuity project.
SEPAC address the local and external audience. The southern part is addressed mostly for the local community. Smaller spaces are used for cafeterias, local shops, small gym and acts as an urban fabric that host functions which are the reason why inhabitants travel now to Rotterdam. For now we agreed with Atrek that this part may be the part of the Continuity project.
The main solid hosts performance and exhibition complex. This consists of lobby, service, buffet, workshop area, administration and finally the scalable performance and exhibition area (internal and external). The main area can shrink and grow accordingly to the spatial needs of current activity. This is achieved through movable roof and one facade.
The movement is achieved through a translation along a surface of the terrace, rotation of the construction element of the facade along the fixed axis and angle change at the connection of the roof to the facade and the ribbon. This action can decrease the volume of the main space by 500 m3 and lower the height considerably. Together with the enlargement of the inner space, the area of the external area shrinks. This process is thought to continue indefinitely, adapting the space to the amount of the actors inside. However the geometrical deformation is not linear, neither managed centrally, so the amount of the internal and external area is an outcome of the amount of the people in both areas.
The dynamic roof and façade is limited geometrically by the solid, concrete wall at the border of the first ribbon from one side and the sharp, high form on the other. The vertical form hosts the administration, vertical communication and the technical facilities. The face that is turned towards the terrace acts as a media façade, which displays the content relevant to the cultural program of the SEPAC.
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