GRADUATION SUMMER 2020
Reinvigorating emotional and intimate architecture by employing digital thinking
Studio 2B: Computational Building Development and Transformation
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Architecture should bring people together, open up the opportunity for a smile, a funny comment, an odd observation because that is the moment that starts deleting the stranger.
Spaces should spark fascination, bringing surprise, and create wonder. The feeling of entering a space there can give that little spark of excitement because the feeling of your senses getting tickled. These conditions should be more of our everyday life. Our spaces need to affect us because they are what shapes us. The act of experiences together can become more.
The original intention of this thesis was to create a space of wonder, where people could create a connection between generations, communities, and create an area where the building was designed to forcing people into interactions with each other
The project took a 180 and changed focus from forcing people together to forcing people away from one another.
The work came to a full stop with the arrival of the Corona. This thesis started on the basics of emotional connection, how we use our senses, and how they can become part of what brings us together: How we experience and understand. This changed with the new restriction to interaction.
For this thesis, it meant that everything changed; The planned work suddenly did not relate to the reality of how people move, relate, or experience.
This thesis is still about bringing smiles to people’s faces, just not between people. This, by bringing the act of fun into what else would be a straight and ordinary experience and using wonder and playfulness to creating a moment that would intrigue curiosity.
The case studies are a study of how to evoke the senses. Each case study has different effects or unique combinations on how to enhance and provoke the senses. The selected case studies are mainly a series of temporary installations, where the intent of the experience comes across very clearly because of the high force of the senses. From finding a connection between the cases, and where they stand out by difference. From blurring, monochrome, or light. Furthermore, after that cross parallel.
The senses form the cases get interpreted into a 20x20x20 cm box, where the experience of the senses gets amplified. The visitor’s experience of movement and senses are afterward interpreted into a line drawing.
THE DAILY TRAVELER knows the train station. They know where to go, which way is the fastest and move with a target purpose. They do not spend time in front of the departure screens.
THE BIG TRAVELER has an extreme Hight in the spaces and changing speed into what almost would be a scary drop giving the traveler time for being still and wonder.
THE GROUP TRAVELER has the longest and widest strides of the routes to slow down the traveler giving air to look around.
THE DAILY : This line is created, so it has the most possibilities in its movement. The daily traveler will experience the act of speed by creating a one-way route with turns to enhance the pace but then forcing the traveler to create queues when getting to the downward spirals before entering the train.
THE BIG TRAVELER; has an extreme Hight in the spaces and changing speed into what almost would be a scary drop giving the traveler time for being still and wonder.
THE GROUP TRAVELER has the longest and widest strides of the routes to slow down the traveler giving air to look around.
Corona did not only change everything about this project, but it also became a big part of what was placed along the lines. The necessity of disinfection became a factor in the project.
A toilet area and hidden coffee shop are placed on THE DAILY line. THE BIG line is the busiest in the program with wash halls, big toilet Area. And multiply nooks to stop and take a breather. Where on THE GROUP line is the program collected into the tower of circulation. There’s a coffee shop on the top floor because the group traveler has the most athleisure time at the station. But also, a selection of the toilets on the way up to the café.
Corona did not only change everything about this project, but it also became a big part of what was placed along the lines. The necessity of disinfection became a factor in the project.
A toilet area and hidden coffee shop are placed on THE DAILY line. THE BIG line is the busiest in the program with wash halls, big toilet Area. And multiply nooks to stop and take a breather. Where on THE GROUP line is the program collected into the tower of circulation. There’s a coffee shop on the top floor because the group traveler has the most athleisure time at the station. But also, a selection of the toilets on the way up to the café.
THE BIG line is busiest. It contains multiply layers of experiences. First, we have the curved escalator, there slow down the traveler to a full stop while moving over a peek. It creates the wonder of what over the edge. Whereafter the traveler will experience a series of flickering light because of how the halls open and closes or going through a series of spotlights. Bouncing in and out of light, closing the view, or as a shocking moment there expose the traveler to the rest of the system. My favorite spot on the big line is when one line appears to another line here when the floor becomes see-through, and suddenly people are walking in layers. Or when the different lines create connections
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When talking about the daily traveler, it’s all about speed. I wanted people to feel the movement around them and not always get confronted with a full person. The holes in the shells. When moving between horizontal plans, will break the movement, and slow down the traveler by exposing him/her, just for a moment to notice more of the whole movement, than just the road ahead—creating space to help to decide the next turn on the bases of people and convenient.
The group traveler movement starts with the tower of circulation followed by these huge curved windows toward the sky, giving the traveler the feeling of walking in the air but at the same time are the bands around the shell working as an anchor. The surface of this is in a high polish mirror finish to reflect the sky, but at night, will the sky bridge space change and reflect the traveler and hide the night Skye. A dramatic turn, when you can’t see the end of it and the only thing pulling you is the curiosity of the curve, in this one, the traveler will get reflected around and make the feeling of being close to someone even though it just the traveler’s reflection. Going into a fragmented window view preparing for the entrance to the “cave” (full enclosure) where the windows disappear, and the route gets lit up by the bands, which before acted as an anchor now has become direction source before leading onto the platform.
On the other side of the bridge in the arrival, the area is where people are getting off the trains and starts moving up. In the tunnel of the disinfection unit, will people go through a mist there disinfect them from what they could have brought with them from other cities? At the same time, when the platforms are emptying, a crew will get lowered onto the platform from the disinfection unit. Here will they clean the train on the inside before the trains go into the departure hall.
Even in the arrival area have the case studies influenced the experience, the mist, and fog surrounding the traveler shows first when a train arrives and forces people to get cleansed if they want to enter the city. And give a feeling of security, in the same way as a bottle of sanitizer before the supermarket.
Kristian Knorr Jensen 
