2nd year architecture portfolio - through changing space

THROUGH CHANGING SPACE

DESIGN FOR AN URBAN DANCE CENTRE < BARCELONA

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO | YEAR 2 SEMESTER 2 | ANY PLACE

LEWIS THOMAS KELLY

SITE | THEORY | DANCE CENTRE SITE

LEWIS KELLYESALA LEWIS KELLY

Barcelona is a city of spaces.

Urban squares. Wide boulevards. Narrow side streets. City parks. Intersections. Courtyards.

Spaces of diffferent shapes and sizes permeate the city, creating openings and cracks in the urban fabric, as if pushing apart the urban enclo-

sure which creates them. The contrast between consecutive spaces can be vast; large light spaces lead-ing into dark and narrow alleys; noisy, busy horizon-bound boulevards opening into quiet leafy squares.

The Placa de les Camarelles is an urban square in the cultural district in the old town of the city. It is a large open square in the midst of old nar-row streets, a breath of fresh air from the noise of the Ciutat Vella. With its surrounding squares

the Placa forms a series of changing urban spaces.

SITE

PLACA DE LES CAMARELLES

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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA PERFORMANCE | MAKE-UP ARTIST AND PAINTER ON LA RAMBLA

Barcelona's spaces become spaces for performance, urban theatres used by artists, dancers, musicians, skateboarders and others to display their skills. La Rambla in particular is a hub for street performers.



NEW TOWN

STUDY OF SPACES IN BARCELONA

OLD TOWN GREEN SPACE

Rectilinear, spacious, repeated, structured, predictable. Twisting, narrow, changing, chaotic, unpredictable. Plentiful, varied, widespread, dictated by urban space

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LIGHT STUDIES OF BARCLONA SPACES

LIGHT STUDIES OF CITY SPACES (Hamish Jack)

SITE | THEORY | DANCE CENTRE



Ciutat Vella, Barcelona

PLACA DE LES CAMARELLESCiutat Vella, Barcelona

SITE PHOTOGRAPHS 0m 100m 200m 300m

The square is a quiet retreat from the chaos of the old town, locals relax and children play in the sun.

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Ciutat Vella, BarcelonaCCCB SQUARE

MACBA SQUARE

PLACA DE LES CAMARELLES

"Placa de les Camarelles and its surrounding squares form a series of changing urban spaces"

La Rambla

Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture

Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Art

MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS



ROUTE THROUGH THE SQUARES

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SPATIAL COMPRESSION STUDY

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CCCB SquareArchway to CCCBSquare behind MacBaGap through MacBa BuildingMacBa SquareIn car park undergroundPlaca de les CamarellesEntrance to Placa de les Camarelles

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Placa de les Camarelles Car park

ROUTE SECTION

The size of square represents the feeling of compression in that space.

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MacBa Square CCCB Square

SITE | THEORY | DANCE CENTRE DANCE CENTRE


THEORY SITE DANCE CENTRE DANCE CENTRE

PARTI development

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OVERLAPPING SPACES: looking from one space into another

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Overlapping spaces sketches

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DANCE

MOVEMENT .CONNECTION. LIGHT.

Dance is about the connection between people, visually, physically and emotionally, it is about the poetry of a movement drifting through a space, about how the light defines the dancer's body and how shadow captures the expression upon their face.

Movement- The building is a series of spaces - much like the city itself - and moving through it one moves on an architectural progression through courtyards, passageways, between inside and outside.

Connection- Spaces are visually connected, people can communicate between levels, across voids, through screens.

Light- Filtered through screens, the play of light in the building is like a dance in itself.

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LEWIS KELLY LEWIS KELLYESALA Perspective Section AA 1:100

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:200

1 Arrival Courtyard2 Entrance courtyard/reception3 Secondary Dance Studio4 Changing facilities5 Staff Room6 Staff Courtyard7 Cafe kitchen8 Cafe9 External Courtyards

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1:200

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Diagram spaces, show court-yards, external, internal, semi private, uses and their implica-tions etc.

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SITE PLAN 1:500

Placa de les Camarelles

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Ground floor

First Floor Circulation space.

Spaces become increasingly private as progression is made through the building.

Circulation space.Informal Performance, viewing platforms. Primary dance studio.

Staff courtyard.Changing Rooms, staff room, secondary dance studio.

Architectural Progression

Public Private



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Hot air rises from within courtyard.

Cool air is naturally sucked through dance studio and cafe to replace the ris-ing air, ventilating the space.

THERMAL MASS

VENTILATION

NIGHTDAY

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Main Dance Studio 1:50 Section



PERSPECTIVE

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Outer Steel Skin

Inner Concrete Skin

Inner Steel Screens

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC 1:200

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The steel screen- a device for creating privacy and filtering light.

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COINCIDING OF OPENINGS

Both of the building's skins contain openings, however openings in the steel screen and those in the concrete walls do not always coincide. Sometimes only the concrete opens and the steel screen stays intact, allowing light to filter through the screen into the space. Sometimes they do coincide and a view is framed.

SITE | THEORY | DANCE CENDANCE CENTRE



Into square.

Into square, entrance courtyard, main dance studio.

Entrance Courtyard.

Informal Performance.FIRST FLOOR

GROUND FLOORVIEWS


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Into private external courtyard. Into square, private external courtyard.

Into secondary studio. Into many other internal spaces. Into square, entrance courtyard, informal performance.

No external views.

Social Courtyard. Corridor. Primary Dance Studio.

Changing Rooms. Secondary Dance Studio. Staff space and cafe.



Unfolded plan showing compression along direct route.

The building's circulation allow two routes to

the primary dance studio, one direct and the other much more exploratory, allowing the visitor to either get straight to the dance class or to wander around and experience the varying compressions of the building.

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Unfolded plan showing compression along indirect route.


LEWIS KELLYESALAStudio Model photos

SITE | THEORY | DANCE CENDANCE CENTRE

2nd year architecture portfolio - through changing space

Documents

city of spaces

anotherlewis kellysite

urban squares

ramblabarcelonas spaces

consecutive spaces

urban theatres

urban fabric

spaces of diffferent