Intervention for the Specific: An Architectural Dialogue With the Historical City of Visby

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Lisa Ekström

Handledare/ Elizabeth Hatz, Peter Lynch

Supervisor

Examinator/ Per Franson Examiner

Examensarbete inom arkitektur, avancerad nivå 30 hp Degree Project in Architecture, Second Level 30 credits

8 juni 2017

Intervention for the specific

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an architectural dialogue with the historical city of Visby

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intervention for the specific

- an architectural dialogue with the historical city of visby

Lisa Ekström studio 7

supervisors: Elizabeth Hatz, Peter Lynch

“A search – not of an ideal language but of a mode of architectural questioning that comes from the specificities of place and history”

– Giancarlo De Carlo

How can contemporary architecture approach an extremely specific and historical context?

Grounded in the site and its history, this question is investigated through the process of adding a literary theatre and housing in the city centre of Visby, Gotland.

“The study of the fabric of which it forms part is the beginning: this carries the architect on to the right way. The rest lies in the making of the building and its inventive inhabiting: all fed up by the mysterious underground river of style that My site chosen is a neglected spot, owned by the municipality of Visby, hidden in between a medieval church ruin, a night club , a daycare, residential buildings and the cellar ruin from a private medieval house.

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“The study of the fabric of which it forms part is the beginning: this carries the architect on to the right way. The rest lies in the making of the building and its inventive inhabiting: all fed by the mysterious underground river of style that wells-up

into all the processes along the way”

– Alison & Peter Smithson, Italian Thoughts

intervention for the specific - an architectural dialogue with the historcal city of visby

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Collection of City Spaces Collection of City Spaces Visual material layers of add-ons over time

As a result of the aging of materials - two bright colours are meeting.

A detail of the building following the ground

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The wall protects and gives privacy to the garden.

The tree, centered in front of the house protects the window on the second floor. One side of the garden is a fire wall.

Collection of City Spaces Collection of City Spaces

Two windows, alike but mirrored, placed next to eachother. There is one wet stain under each window. The metal door was tried to be hidden by being painted in

almost the same colour as the plaster wall.

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The set back entrance creates a semi private space between the street and the house.

The nisch protects people and the wooden door from rain, snow and wind.

The two houses are separated only by a tiny gap.

The street light is places centered, right in front of the gap.

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Collection of City Spaces Collection of City Spaces Two different wooden structures built on top of eachother.

The door is placed non-symmerical according to the rest of the facade,

The two houses are separated only by a tiny gap.

The street light is places centered, right in front of the gap.

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Newer pieces of limestone are supporting the older openings and new window glass are put in.

One former opening is now closed but still visible.

The two houses are overlapping eachother. The street light is placed centerid in front of the overlap.

The house to the right is set back and there is a little corner created in the street.

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The placing of the windows (two very high and two very low) gives the house a certain character.

The tree as a backdrop enhances the oddness in the composition.

Two windows next to eachother; one bind window which is painted white and one (real) glass window which is black. The windows are both matching the wall

below which is painted half white half black.

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The narrow street and the low sun make the reflections of the windows to the opposite wall look like real windows.

Two different window types treated the same way. The combination of materials gives the feeling of beeing somewhere else.

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A very tall and narrow main entrance next to a very low and wide second entrance. They both enhance eachother to the extreme.

A composition of a square within a circle.

Glass surrounded by plaster, meeting site casted concrete

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The newer house and the older. Neighbours, connected by a courtyard and a metal fence.

A monochrom colour- and material composition. All beige-grey but with different structures. materials and characteristics from different times.

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Collection of City Spaces Collection of City Spaces A composition of shapes and contrasting colours.

An entrance to underground is challenging the scale and the levels of the city.

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The space in front of the garage opens up the street and different kind of city square is created.

Stairs that are kept even though they no longer lead to anywhere.

What used to be a private spot is now public, but still treated a sprivate.

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Collection of City Spaces Collection of City Spaces A blind door as a main entrance door.

The flower pot is off-center the window.

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The cut-outs in the ground, centered under each window, helps to get light into the cellar windows below. The grid on top of the cut-outs prevents from people falling

down into the holes.

Meeting of different geometrical shapes. The shape of the wall is also found in the flower bed and in the layering of the stones on the ground.

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Collection of City Spaces Collection of City Spaces The importance in the continuation of the walll.

The openings as punched holes in a continuos wall.

The windos are temporary replaced by osb-boards.

The temporary replacement is almost becoming permanent and the colours merge.

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A newer structure meeting a very old. The two structures form together a public open space which is an enclosed, intimate garden.

The two next door entrances share the same stair. But the stair is cut and the space in between emphasises the distance and the relation between the entrances and

the apartments in the house.

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The plywood board becomes a part of a whole together with the neglected house.

The composition has a certain tonality; monochrome in grey, brown, beige.

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gutekällaren - night club private home

private home private home apartments

church ruin

ruin

café

karma - nightclub fröet - kindergarten apartments

bageriet - bakery ica torgkassen - (loading deck)

grocery store office apartments apartments

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st Lars 7 elevation scale 1:100

Novisen 1 elevation scale 1:100

Muggen 2 elevation scale 1:100

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organisation of spaces

sketches

section functions today loading deck, ica torgkassen

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elevations visby

adding of another volume on site 16.02.22

vattenavrinning reference

facade, sergison bates

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adding of new city stages - the framed theatre - the framed public space city stages

- the square - the playground

program the existing cellar ruin and a new volume

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2017.03.22 using of space, movement, program

2017.03.24 program, movement, church before ruin

2017.03.18 levels

2017.03.14 church ruin as theatre

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2017.03.18 indoor space relating to outdoor space 2017.03.16

theatre in church ruin

2017.03.24 plan 2

2017.03.24 plan 1 (or -1)

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2017.04.12 plan 1

2017.04.012 plan 4 (takplan) + sektion tak

2017.04.12 plan 2

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private courtyard by a medieval church ruin

- the city as a stage set for everyday life -

night club entrance

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a square, entrance to the kindergarten

entrance to a nightclub

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gap between existing church ruin and new addition - the city as a stage set for everyday life -

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elevation study - new opening in ruin connecting to additional building - the city as a stage set for everyday life -

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2017.03.22

view from inside the church ruint towards the entrance of the new additnion - the city as a stage set for everyday life -

2017.03.21

view from inside the church ruint towards the entrance of the new additnion - the city as a stage set for everyday life -

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2017.03.30 plan -1

2017.04.04 p lan 0

2017.03.24 plan 3

2017.04.05 plan 0

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2017.04.11 plan 0

2017.04.10 plan 1

2017.04.10 plan 3

2017.04.10 plan 2

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2017.04.12 south elevation scale 1:200

2017.04.13 section a-a scale 1:200

2017.04.13 north elevation scale 1:200

2017.04.17 plan 1 scale 1:100

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vertical cut

rough plaster

door frame - painted steel (same colour as plaster)

door - painted steel (same colour as door frame + plaster)

door handle - painted steel floor - limestone paving - limestone

outside inside

door blade - painted steel (same colour as door frame + plaster)

vertical cut

outside inside

floor - limestone

door handle - painted wood door blade - pine wood

door frame - pine wood paving - limestone

door frame - pine wood plaster

door - pine wood

plaster

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plaster (rough)

vertical cut

horisontal cut window frame - painted wood

(same colour as plaster) rough plaster

window frame - painted wood, (same colour as plaster)

window board - pine wood water drainage

outside inside

inside

outside

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east entrance - small city square private garden - church ruin and west facade

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south facing benches, church ruin and east facade east entrance