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| − | The scheme is named "The Fifth Season" - an entertainment center of 2200 meter sq. coverage aiming to complete the RDM campus ecosystem, where local people and visitors will find it enjoyable and relaxing, far away from normal working seasons. As a combination of a maritime museum and an auditorium. The museum of the Fifth Season houses a permanent collection of RDM-site as a former shipyard, while the auditorium hosts various events ranging from concerts to orchestras.
| + | Today’s magic as tomorrow’s innovation ? |
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| | + | A somewhat forgotten, carelessly positioned ship anchor at the dock, suggests a deep significance for the site. It almost says everything that needs to be said about the people, objects and buildings; their history, transformation and future potential/direction. |
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| − | Both the interior and exterior spaces are designed to be a mix of contemporary and convention, so satisfying both first time and frequent visitors. For instance, the auditorium ceiling is alternately arrayed with PV-cells and double-sided LCD panels, so it functions as a huge LCD screen facing either outwards or inwards, self-powered by solar radiation collected during the day.
| + | It's existence is testimony to the fact that this was historically a hub of intense economic activity, employment and growth. The fact that it now lays rusting, shows that ship-building/docking is abandoned/steadily-coming-to-an-end here and the nature of the 'economic' activity must change, both to 'merely sustain' the area; and obviously offer chances for growth. |
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| | + | The RDM campus fills in with a most befitting business plan - Research/Design/Manufacture through industry-education partnerships. But in mere magnitude, it needs to expand; have more institutions and companies get involved, add start-ups, offer more space for them to take off once they're on their own. The anchor, metaphorically still retains its relevance, for such an enterprise will always need extensive transport. |
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| | + | Within this context of a research oriented, technology driven, ‘futuristic’ set-up, one pushes its boundaries to the extreme to start looking at the parallel sciences (BioGeometry, Radiesthesia, Tarot, Acupuncture, Reiki, numerology, Parapsychology, Pyravastu, Music Therapy, Color Therapy, Witchcraft) as technology, science and innovation. This resonates deeply with Fritjof Capra’s writings on the parallels between mysticism (primarily eastern) and modern physics, and with some of my own intuitive beliefs on how everything in animate or inanimate nature; in material and immaterial existence can be explained on the basis of mathematical rules and physical principles. |
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| | + | Because "what cannot be measured, is a limitation in our measurement" ! |
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| | + | Such a project, since will always provoke a strong reaction, negative or positive and never remain unacknowledged, may be a great stimulant for the site's redevelopment. |
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| − | The Fifth Season is fully embedded into the RDM network: from the sustainable park to land of RDM-campus straight though a public passage inside the building, and from Lusthof to SEPAC through dedicated bridges and public landscapes(a total of 4000 meter sq. coverage). The Fifth Season, together with SEPAC and a fully accessible network, completes the active and passive entertainment circle, right in the water center of RDM campus.
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Water Morphs
author(s):Mallika Arora
Summary
Today’s magic as tomorrow’s innovation ?
A somewhat forgotten, carelessly positioned ship anchor at the dock, suggests a deep significance for the site. It almost says everything that needs to be said about the people, objects and buildings; their history, transformation and future potential/direction.
It's existence is testimony to the fact that this was historically a hub of intense economic activity, employment and growth. The fact that it now lays rusting, shows that ship-building/docking is abandoned/steadily-coming-to-an-end here and the nature of the 'economic' activity must change, both to 'merely sustain' the area; and obviously offer chances for growth.
The RDM campus fills in with a most befitting business plan - Research/Design/Manufacture through industry-education partnerships. But in mere magnitude, it needs to expand; have more institutions and companies get involved, add start-ups, offer more space for them to take off once they're on their own. The anchor, metaphorically still retains its relevance, for such an enterprise will always need extensive transport.
Within this context of a research oriented, technology driven, ‘futuristic’ set-up, one pushes its boundaries to the extreme to start looking at the parallel sciences (BioGeometry, Radiesthesia, Tarot, Acupuncture, Reiki, numerology, Parapsychology, Pyravastu, Music Therapy, Color Therapy, Witchcraft) as technology, science and innovation. This resonates deeply with Fritjof Capra’s writings on the parallels between mysticism (primarily eastern) and modern physics, and with some of my own intuitive beliefs on how everything in animate or inanimate nature; in material and immaterial existence can be explained on the basis of mathematical rules and physical principles.
Because "what cannot be measured, is a limitation in our measurement" !
Such a project, since will always provoke a strong reaction, negative or positive and never remain unacknowledged, may be a great stimulant for the site's redevelopment.
Connections
Babel Tower
