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02NOV 2012

Dance school / MAG LAB

Posted in Architecture - Cultural by * FORMAKERS

The proposal was announced for the 3rd prize in the competition that was organized by Architriumph in London the last September. The project sits on a built area of 4000sqm and includes Class rooms, Rehearsal halls, exhibition halls, library, café, teaching theatre, Administrations, conference center and mixed-use areas.

More details about the project comes from the architect after the jump. Rio de Janeiro has been to us always as a city of the famous Carnival.

This unique festival has been expressed through the design concept, designing a carefully conceived, shared, central, garden courtyard. The building arranged as a continuous circulation on Möbius Strip, as the result of interlocking structures: the perfect circle and the public spiral, where the skin, which changes from wall to roof as the strips develops.

The building itself is a complicated juxtaposition of Möbius Strip twisting and rotating around, Because of the warping and twisting of the exterior, some parts of the building receive more light than others. By taking that information, we were able to create a geometric pattern from the Mobius strip arriving to “ecological ornament” to regulate the solar impact.

The Mobius strip forms a spiraling circle around a strong vertical core that allows visitors to move between floors. Since the school’s curves form a möbius strip, so the interior becomes the exterior and back again; likewise the walls become the roof and the roof transforms back into the walls. The interior corridors are naturally daylight through geometric openings in the exterior kinetic strips, creating beautifully lit ornamented spaces.

Since Outside a park showcases the native plants and geology of the country, our main input was to save the exist trees in the site and create our project around it and interlocked with it through the Mobius strip where the Visitors will be able to experience various trees, plants, from all over the area, so they can see how diverse their native landscape is. In addition to the main function as dance school, some of the project facilities such as the auditorium was designed with the intention to host some of the festival facilities and the visitors coming to admire the world’s famous carnival.

The famous festival influenced the concept and fluid shape of the buildings and its facades. The circulation promotes the sense of wondering while providing a sensual picturesque experience for visitors, the dynamic facades allowing them to see different views and shapes of dancing styles.

The main design intent was to embody the carnival theme “The famous Rio de Janeiro festival” and transform it into a multi-layered architectural experience. The carnival agenda embedded into the building through the biomimetic approach of the kinetic facade. The dynamic strips intended to integrate the structure into the environment while utilizing passive strategies to minimize the amount of light entering the building in the summer and increasing winter lighting, Continuous strips twists while at same time creating dancing facades with a dynamic transition in a vertical way from shape to another with different views making the visitors wonder.

Beside the strips function to control light conditions, the moving strips “printed with the dancing abstract shapes “create animated patterns on the facade. The choreography will span from subtle local movements to overall waves affecting the whole length of the building.

The design hopes to reconnect visitors to function. In addition, the public space extends to the roof of the building in form of a landscape.

By reason of our analysis we recognized, that the project areas programmatically and structurally divided, which also effects their night and daytime activity. The Sweeping form create a potential new coastal landmark for Rio de Janeiro, draws its generation from pedestrian movement patterns, latent local relationships existent upon the site and from the building’s relation to the urban scale.

City:
rio de janeiro

Design team:
Design: MAGLAB “Materials – Advanced Architecture – Generative Laboratory”

Project Supervised and directed by:
M.Arch.Aref Maksoud
MAGLAB Director, Authorized Training Center of McNeel (Robert McNeel & Associates– United States) in Middle East,
Visitor professor of architecture, College of architecture, fine arts and design
AIU "Arab International University", Syria
Assistant professor of Biodigital Master and PHD program, EsArq - UiC (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya), Spain

Design team:
MAGLAB Trainees / Summer 2012
Ahmad Kattan AIU "Arab International University",

Hassan Youssef AIU "Arab International University",

Majd Murad AIU "Arab International University",

Radwan Malakani AIU "Arab International University",

Rama Shehade AIU "Arab International University",

Status:
Completed

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