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Schindler Award 2008 Project plansThird Prize: Rough Sketch

School: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava (Slovakia)

Student: Krisztian Csemy

Professor: Prof. Jan Bahna


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perimeter west section A

perimeter east section B

Reference person working mother with infants

Mrs. Franoise-Hlne Jourda

I believe that the quality of an architectural piece

can affect its users in both advantageous and

disadvantegous ways. A building today has to

satisfy the needs and desires of everyone: those

who are in a hurry to their work but also those

who just visit and wander around; those who have a

good day and those who do not, those who are

healthy and those who are disabled.

The idea shown in my design at first glance

represents a complex form within the urban

structure. Originally, however, my plan was to

create this form with simplicity and profoundly

chiselled details. At the time of the designing

process I was also deeply involved with studying the

urban design and circumstances of the given locale.

I marked out a rough sketch on the map of this area

that could serve as the floor plan of the building.

This process had to respect the given conditions,

including the road system, subway lines and it it had

to fulfill the expectations. Onto this rough sketch I

drew section lines, which where numbered 1-14.

These fourteen places point out the sections of the

building. In this part, I put strong emphasis on

taking into consideration every small relation with

the surrounding neighborhood. For example, the

bridge designed by Otto Wagner became a central

monument in my design, and I respected its

importance throughout the process. This is clearly

seen on the sections that deal with this part of the

project. My structure grows thinner under the

bridge, it almost disappers, marking the dominant

forms of Wagner. My strategy worked out

successfully in this multi-layered location, because I

was always precisely able to correlate to the

existant buildings, to the Vienna river, to the

aforementioned bridge or the street network.

Afterwards, all these sections were connected toone another by a continuous surface. The

advantages of such surface reside in the tender

formal possibilities. In reality, these appear as

small-inclination ramps or pedestrian precincts. This

solution allows everyone to use the whole roof

structure unrestrictedly, for both passers-by and

wheelchair-users. Such bended surfaces enable the

growth and quality of public spaces, they offer an

opportunity for spontenaous functions. For example

these include the auditoriums necessary for

outdoor performances or sporting events. They are

placed on either the Community Centre or the Public

Common. Also, a resting area/sundeck can be

developed on the riverfront, or playgrounds of

interesting shapes and surfaces.

By changing the traffic circulation and

implementing the bulding structure into the city

landscape, a pleasent area will become along

Dunklergasse, free of noise, traffic and danger.

This island of safety I crave with the following

images in mind: elderly people, mothers with small

children everyone who needs peace and relaxation.

Unlike the energetic playgrounds and sportsfields

here serenity and tranquility would be of most

importance.

The calling for tender deeply engages in

the scale of the allotted functions. I have tried to

respect this expectation and place these functions

the most useful way. The outdoor fields and

playground are easily reachable from the

neighbouring streets and the subway stations. I

created a bridge that stretches out from t he

intersection of Linke Wienzeile and Stiegerbrucke.

You can either walk on the upper surface it or inside

it. The meeting clubs, skills, arts and crafts

area outside of the community building can be

safely reached by pedestrians, or bikers.

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situation with section linesM 1:1000


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public common handicraft workshop skateboard & bmx park beach volley childrens playground meeting clubs, skills cafe & administration

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Reference person impaired vision

Mr. Wolfgang Kremser

I would like to explain my idea of this urban structure to you and everyone who is

sight-impaired through the experiences I went through the process of bulding up the

physical model. For weeks, I was touching and paddling my models during the whole day, in

order to gain the maximum amount of information about them and perfect my knowledge on

them. I created a city model in scale 1:500, where I left the bulding site empty. I kept onstudying, as I mentioned sometimes with my fingers, the surrounding houses, the Wagner

bridge, the complicated road network and the relation between the river and the site. A

significant part of this course was the generating procedure according to the top view

sketches and the local solutional sections.These sectioned solved a lot of problems due to

their position. The interesting phase of my work was the next step: when I connected these

sections with a coherent surface. The original sections were built up from an angulat

line so we would have ended up in touching acute and obtuse angles. On the other hand ,

the contra-direction, namely the sections linked with the surface form a soft, fluid shape.

This idea was was realized in a three-dimensional print I am talking about this now. This is

the way this building works out from the inside as well. The interior spaces are sharp and

angular from one side, but they remind the visitor of a fluid, tender aggregate from the

other direction. If we created a small-scale model, you would we able to touch and

experience the space both from inside and outside. Touching the model would give you the

same impression every time: you would feel the soft shapes in the length of the structure,

and the other direction would consist of the usual, well-knows urban blocks. Accordingly,

there are no negative surprises within the area, there are no rough surface transitions

between the levels only subtly ascending ramps.

childrens playground public passage business & residential

Photos of the models

public common community centre shops public bridgegas stationbusiness & residential public commonfast food day care centre

public common cafe, public passage meeting clubs, skillscafe & administration, public passagechildrens playground meeting clubs, childrens playground meeting clubs, childrens playground



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business & residential community centre public space

Reference person impaired mobility

Mr. Joe Manser

The space and volume of the building allows the

tender, almost fluid fomal structure. This leads to

the advantage of easily approachable spaces inc. the

indoor areas, the surfaces and naturally, the

transition between the levels. Its use is

comfortable for the phisically-disabled people as

well. The most prominent direction in the structure

is the southwest-northeastern route. This direction

enables to create and form small-inclinational

ramps, thus the surface of the bulding enhanced

with functions is comfortably viable. Although this

structure is relatively narrow, making a U-turn with

the wheelchair is still doable. The only surface

designed with a stairway leading to it is the facade

above the petrol station and the fast food

restaurant.

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community centre

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