Bowkunde Proposal / Sid Wichienkuer
On May 13, 2008, Bouwkunde, the faculty of architecture building at Delft University, was unexpectedly consumed by a devastating fire. Before the incident, the building had created a social and education environment where ideas and criticism were shared freely. The faculty saw this terrible loss as a positive opportunity to take a fresh and critical look at the education of the future. Thus, an open international ideas competition was organized in 2009 for the design of a new building. California-based architect Sid Wichienkuer‘s proposal for the new building aims to restore the creative atmosphere Bouwkunde offered its users.
More images and further project description after the break.
“The rebuilding of the architecture school is an outward expression of the philosophy of the school stating that architecture will be relevant, will be involved with other academic communities in solving problems, and will seek a new sense of civic leadership,” Wichienkuer remarks.
The project seeks to understand how section can foster productive architectural relationships. By using topographies as a driving force, the building is organzied around a central quad. As the building rises, the communal interior core grows so that each floor is centered around a gathering space. Due to the stacking of these communal spaces, the other programmatic elements such as offices, studios, and libraries, radiate outward to create a dense envelope that surrounds the users.
The ground level is extremely porous as to attract passerbyers to the space. A large auditorium can be configured to accommodate multiple size as a gesture toward bringing all into the dialogue of the building. The horizontal stepped pieces are spaced in such a way that allows students to climb up the building or use the space as outdoor seating.
For more about the architect. As seen on archiCentral.
Such a ‘cute’ resemblance with PLOT’s Stravanger Concert Hall, winner of 2004 Biennale of Venice… :)
http://www.archinect.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=0
California-based.. but from where? LA? SF? SD? Sac? Oak?
Interesting, but this buiding is perfect for a new type of “stair accident insurance”
a huge copy of a Big project.
Jajajajajaja….. what a COPY CAT…
WHAT A BIG COPY!!!………………………….shame on Sid.
big “big” copy….
*NOTE TO THE EDITOR OF AD.
Choose wisely don’t foster copycats.
The contradiction of this website is huge; I was just reading an article before this of “The 10 most creative people in architecture” then THIS!!! come on..
16:08:78, it´s not a contradiction :)
http://www.big.dk/projects/sta/sta.html
To those saying its a copy, it could just be a homage to the other project so chillax. :p
why is it a copy, just because they both use the idea of the stairs as the facade? the general form, program and construction are way different. try to design something yourself instead of trashing others, it’s so easy (I know I do it all the time:)
hj,
Yes. It´s like saying that no one else is allowed to use curves, since niemeyer or sanaa did it.
I worked on this competition too, and I have only one note. Floor area of the building suppose to be about 50 000 m3. I dont think the program will fit in this building. And the overal look of this “hill” is very flat inside…And making hills in Holland is realy funy. No surprise it didn’t win anything.
Late night design sessions could be broken with races to the roof.
It seems to be a very adaptive building internally which is useful in a school of Architecture. The quad is strong and will bring all together. Lots of spaces fro creativity.
This building has a lot of really great ideas. I think we can all get something from how they treated multi-use spaces. The unfortunate part is that it seems like it would be a bit dark and you would have to walk a bit too much to get anywhere.
Just a small correction: it’s “bouwkunde”.
“There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.”
I’m sorry, but am I the only one who sees this?
http://midwifemuse.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/bishopshoe1.jpg
very BIG copy! Great for car park! yeah!
1:42 PM Jun 12th
#architecture Bowkunde Proposal / Sid Wichienkuer:
On May 13, 2008, Bouwkunde, the faculty of arch.. http://bit.ly/2IXJS
1:22 PM Jun 15th
#architecture Bowkunde Proposal / Sid Wichienkuer (via Archdaily) http://bit.ly/K4WnL
7:53 PM Jun 16th
How fun it will be just to tumble down the steps from top to bottom like Homer Simpson. "D’oh! d’oh! d’oh! d’oh!!!" http://bit.ly/qLKU8
5:47 PM Jun 19th
Really nice architecture. A bit of Maya pyramids influence. http://bit.ly/10SlRu
10:27 PM Dec 16th
Bowkunde Proposal / Sid Wichienkuer #architecture http://t.co/JsFmAZT @archdaily