The Wave: Public Performance Space | The Scarcity and Creativity Studio

The Wave: Public Performance Space, Designed by The Scarcity and Creativity Studio, Sitio Eriazo, our client, is a collective whose aim is to recover empty, abandoned, urban spaces in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, which are currently rubbish dumps and attract vermin and delinquents. The members of the group are recent graduates from theater, art and architecture schools. The activities of the group rely on self-motivation, mutual support, and a non-hierarchical organization; they work to recover and make available to the community the urban patrimony of the city of Valparaiso which was declared UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003.“The colonial city of Valparaíso presents an excellent example of late 19th-century urban and architectural development in Latin America. In its natural amphitheater-like setting, the city is characterized by a vernacular urban fabric that clings to the hillsides that are dotted with a great variety of church spires. It contrasts with the geometrical layout of the sea-side plain. The city has well preserved its interesting early industrial infrastructures, such as the numerous ‘elevators’ on the steep hillsides.”Sitio Eriazo begins its activities in 2012 by recovering an abandoned urban site in Escalera Becker, a site which was converted into a space for the diffusion of arts & crafts and which facilitates activities such as urban agriculture, theater, carpentry, and other self-sustaining undertakings. In 2014 Sitio Eriazo obtains legal status as an organization and move to an empty site in Ecuador 428 which it is currently developing. Sitio Eriazo recycles the wastes produced by society in order to generate tools of resistance, transformed into architecture, theatre, music, circus, painting, crafts and orchards, to help build alternative modes of working and learning which will alter our relationship to the environment. The objectives of Sitio Eriazo can be summed up as follows:To recover Valparaiso’s heritage and make it available to the community.
To promote arts and crafts as tools for work and learning.
Generate meeting and reflection spaces for the neighborhood.
To promote art and cultural activities through open workshops.
Develop self-sustaining construction techniques through recycling.
Develop self-awareness of the local identity of places together with the community.Sitio Eriazo invited the Scarcity and Creativity Studio to help it to consolidate its activities in the Ecuador 428 site. Before the project begun, Sitio Eriazo had cleared the site of all rubbish, had secured it by building provisional closures in its four points of access from the street and had built provisional facilities to enable it to carry out its activities. The activities which Sitio Eriazo requirements for the site are:A flexible events space, to accommodate theater, circus, and music performances. At present, up to 100 people attend Sitio Eriazo’s performances. Cooking facilities to prepare and serve food to those attending the organized events. The events which Sitio Eriazo organizes are free, but they do charge for food. At present they have built an adobe pizza oven and BBQ grill which they use for all the cooking. Space for workshops, which will be the places where arts and crafts are taught and where the community can come to realize their projects. Toilets for those attending the events. A vegetable garden, where Sitio Eriazo can plant vegetables and herbs to be used in the kitchen.Project Info:
Architects: The Scarcity and Creativity Studio
Location: Ecuador 428, Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Región de Valparaíso, Chile
Staff: Christian Hermansen Cordua and Solveig Sandness
Students: Anna Gran Berild, Eva De Meersman, Truls Glesne, Timothy Hancock, Morten Jakobsen, Hauk Jonathan Lien, Paul-Antoine Lucas, Carolina Martins, Malen Sønvisen Moe, Ida Gjerde Nordstrøm, Ragnhild E. Osbak, Fu Tung Sze, Silje Træen, Clara Trivino Massó, Vilde Vanberg, Yinan Zhang.
Manufacturers: Deceuninck
Project Name: The Wave: Public Performance Space
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Music Pavilion Bad Ischl | Two in a Box Architekten

Designed by Two in a Box Architekten, Having won a competition in 2013 and following a brief, intense planning phase, the Music Pavilion Bad Ischl was erected in the summer of 2014 on the premises of the Spa Gardens (Kurpark) in the imperial city. For years both general managers Christian Stummer and Andreas Fiereder have been dealing with aspects of modern timber construction and all the efforts have paid off resulting in this extraordinary project.
Indisputable is the aspects quality of life and sustainability when using wood for construction. “Smaller construction projects made from renewable wood require exceptionally intense studies of detail design”, says Andreas Fiereder. “It doesn’t always have to be only glass and concrete.

Photography: Simon Bauer

The Music Pavilion shows us the compatibility between individuality, design, and ecology. This is demonstrated by the use of approx. 70m3 domestic renewable wood. In this project, importance was attached to combining design and architecture and we succeeded in doing so due to the very precise detail execution performed by a local building firm.”
Architectural details on the Music Pavilion: The basic elliptical shape of the pavilion results from the urban planning situation of the Spa Gardens and blends in harmoniously with the surroundings. The artist’s entrance consists of a second ellipse connected tangentially to the main ellipse. In order to achieve the most favorable sound propagation conditions, a roof shape that inclines to the rear was selected for the main roof which further underscores the dynamic shape of the construction.

Site Plan

The organic shape required a very puristic approach with regard to materials and construction. Taking into account the surrounding environment, the Music Pavilion was finally designed as a wooden construction made from silver fir placed on a virtually invisible concrete base. The base practically disappears in the shadow of the wooden construction and thereby allows the pavilion to float above the gravel enhancing the airy appearance of the design.

Photography: Simon Bauer

Project Info:
Architects: Two in a Box Architekten
Location: 4820 Bad Ischl, Austria
Architects in Charge: Christian Stummer, Andreas Fiereder
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Simon Bauer
Project Name: Music Pavilion Bad Ischl

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Shanghai Children’s Art Theater Renovation | Wujie Rong

Shanghai Children’s Art Theater Renovation designed by Wujie Rong, SAIC-GM Pavilion (abbreviated GM Pavilion) is one of the enterprise Pavilions during Shanghai World Expo 2010 Shanghai, Providing high-tech means to shows people the future vision for the urban mobility systems. The concept of GM Pavilion was inspired by the shape of auto parts with a spiral-shaped curve symbolizing the bright future of the automotive industry. Aluminum is the most common material in the automobile manufacturing and more than 4,000 irregular pieces of aluminum sheets which were positioned by BIM and 3D laser scanning technology during construction process composed the curved surface.  SAIC-GM Pavilion was originally built as a temporary building, so some components such as the steel beams and LED screens can be technically recycled. Instead of using an all-welded structure, a “bolt” plus “spot welding” technology was applied to ensure the comprehensive utilization of the recyclable building materials.

Photography: Shao Feng

After the World Expo, the Shanghai municipal government finally decided to transform SAIC-GM Pavilion into Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre which included a 1088 seat auditorium, a 300 seat theater, a children’s training center and other facilities. Coincidentally，this temporary building was renovated into a permanent one with new function requirements by the same design team. Part of the open space at the first floor was enclosed for a small theater and a children’s activity center.

Sketch

By taking advantage of the original interlayer of the first floor for a juvenile’s training center and expanding office space on the top floor, the original space has been more fully explored and relocated. Converting the main exhibition area into the central theater was the hardest part of the whole renovation. The circular 484 seat exhibition area was replaced by a 270-degree central island stage to provide 1088 seats and the original adjustable screens were removed. In order to add bridleways and ancillary areas, the original diameter of the main exhibition area had been reduced from 55m to 35m.

Photography: Shao Feng

A vivid orange canopy was added to break the cool silver surface and more curved elements had also been used for interior decoration to meet the topic of children. Many effective measures including structural strengthening and reinstalling the metal curtain wall were taken to ensure the security of the renovated building. After several months’ renovations, SAIC-GM Pavilion had been transformed into an advanced public art facility for children which is also a successful example for utilization of the ” Post Expo” building.

Photography: Shao Feng

Project Info:
Architects: Wujie Rong
Location: 800 Miao Jiang Lu, Huangpu Qu, Shanghai Shi, China
Area: 6000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Shao Feng
Project Name: Shanghai Children’s Art Theater Renovation

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