2018
Fourth Academic Year, semester 7
Erasmus Exchange at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark
In collaboration with Tommy Vince
Fourth Academic Year, semester 7
Erasmus Exchange at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark
In collaboration with Tommy Vince
Site + project model
In 2018 I was on an exchange semester in Aarhus, Denmark, where our task was to design a Folk High School. We proposed an institution for the future generation where the digital and nature can co-exist in a social and environmentally durable way, where focus was on learning to appreciate and harvest from nature. The given site was the national park Thy, which has very extreme weather conditions. However, instead of sheltering from the harsh winds, this school utilized it. The facilities are built upon a server hall that are cooled off by the wind, and the excess heat produced by the servers are, in their turn, heating the school.
Plans of common areas
MANIFESTO
The democracy of the next human species and its dual
interplay of hyper-individualism and the big common
interplay of hyper-individualism and the big common
The future cyborg must learn how to manage its resources. An advanced understanding of economic flows connected to offer and demand is necessary for its survival. Here, the factor of time becomes essential. One must learn to see these flows and orchestrate them. We imagine a contemporary school, where human, nature and the digital co-exist, a new form of liberation of these elements. A linear platform, connecting the city of Hanstholm with Thy in an all public way, allowing a non-hierarchical base for the school to happen. Below, we place data storage. With the concern of strong winds, the main buildings facing the National Park, will function as shelter for the other volumes behind, while performing beautifully as a cooler for the data storage spaces. We took the opportunity of having the common space cantilevered over the edge, benefiting from the winds cooling the server halls.
We explored how to create courtyards and pocket-spaces, and how to fragment the volumes so that you are constantly reminded about the climate on site, and also enable common outdoor spaces where spontaneous activities and informal classes can take place. A transition zone between the public and the private.
We organized things in vertical, by putting the data in one level and the individual units on another. The two main components, the digital and the physical separated and in parallel with one another. This is enhancing their independence, speaking of them as two separate systems, on separate timelines yet still in strong connection with each other, in a constant relationship.
This manifesto stresses the need to explore, educate and practice the very essence of humans survival and existence. To live with the smallest possible footprint and learn to live self-sustainably with ones land. Let us celebrate the unlimited opportunities of hyper-individualism in correspondence with the collective big data. Let digital tools be tools, and humans be humans, together and independent in a parallel organized world where the dual existence of them two will show us what we really are capable of achieving!
Housing unit models and site model
We specialized in constructing pre-fabricated elements of CLT, insulated with ISO-timber. The two types of housing units are easily mounted, dismantled and moved. The heat from the servers are distributed through an underground channel that runs under the buildings.
Double module section
Double module long section
Double module plan
Twin module section
