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Exposure and Envelopment [space in non-space]

Part 1 Project 2006
Daniel Pedley
Salam El Jamal
 University of Lincoln Lincoln | UK
Modern cities are punctuated by underused spaces designated merely as points of transition. These spaces, voids and access routes provide the setting for hundreds of daily rituals.

Digital media has been used as a method of extracting and mapping these events. A pedestrian intersection providing the location in which the urban landscape shapes the movement of people and vehicles, setting the rules of exchange.

Collating and analysing the relationships within this dynamic, defined the formal solution for this restrictive site; space to indulge the pace of the surroundings or dwell on its flow against the backdrop of the city.



The author eloquently translates the potential of a hitherto disregarded space within the city into a dynamic, transitional
event-space.
Daniel’s insightful approach developed through his understanding and acknowledgement of, and his necessary dissociation from, an everyday activity that is known and familiar.
The actions and interactions of people using a city underpass were revealed as events of unique and irregular beauty.
These revelations underpin the project.
The building is a container that provides a solution for the punctuated urban landscape and the punctuated urban experience.
It accommodates, gives meaning to and celebrates, the fleeting, the beautiful and the mundane.

Tutor(s)
2006
A central space within the city of Lincoln placed aside a major road junction and a rail crossing. An underpass entrance shaping pedestrian movement and influencing its interaction with vehicular traffic.
Language mapping - Setting up a viewpoint in which all of the complex movements across the site can be absorbed without interference allowed the collation of data using digital media.
Language extraction - From the collected data a method of extraction took place to define and assimilate the rules of personal engagement within the space.
Interpretation and creation of form - From the rules and movements taken from the site a method of transferral took place, first breaking down these arcs and paths to their basic levels and then reinstating the intricacies of the space.
Manipulation of form within site boundaries - Due to the spatial restrictions placed on the site, and the underpass running as part of the structure, manipulation within defined boundaries allowed for the programmatic and spatial to be evolved as one.
Placement of form within context - The formal decisions created a specific solution to be tested back on site, and considered at a material and visual level allowing placement of the form atop the underpass and tying in its access requirements.
Ground floor plan 1:200 - The restaurant and courtyard created between the form and the cut-away car park structure create a space both central and detached from the roadway. The lower level of the form is as existing ramped access.
First floor plan 1:200 - A linear shop area designed overlooking the road. This space preserving the dynamic nature of the site, built to connect with the speed of the vehicular traffic and instil this within its interior.
Second floor plan 1:200 - A coffee / sandwich bar designed reflecting the more enclosed meandering pedestrian forms. They provide a more static element for recuperation, whilst engaging a more detached view of the cityscape.
Structure in extended urban environment - The site is placed on a main road and rail crossing but is also placed at what is currently a filtration point between the Brayford area and the Highstreet. Extension of the form remedies this.
Construction section A-A - The level access of the site is more clearly seen in section with entry to the existing ramped structure preserved within the building. User paces slowing towards its upper level entwining the dynamic and static.
External views from Wigford Way and Highstreet - Showing its connection to the roadway and its entry points to the underground portion of the structure.
Coffee bar and linear shop interiors - The coffee bars softer feel encloses the inhabitants whilst allowing the city to be viewed at a distance. The linear shop however containing deeper connections to the speed of surroundings.
Restaurant interior and western courtyard - The restaurant space and courtyards provide central escape from the roadway and allow for a meeting place to be created focusing the heart of the city.
Eastern exterior space and western courtyard [afterdark] - At night the space retains its liveliness becoming a central hub of activity and providing the space with the life that it currently lacks.
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