Site: MACBA, CCCB AND BCSF COMPLEX
Assignment: CONNECTIONS, ALIGNMENTS, CENTERS, EDGES
You will visit the cultural complex of buildings and spaces at and surrounding Pl. Angeles. Please locate the following structures:
THE FACULTY of COMMUNICATIONS SCIENCES (1996)
Blanguerna Communications Sciences Faculty
Architect: Estudi Viaplana/Piñón Arqs. Ricardo Mercadé Ass.
THE MACBA (1995)
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Architect: Richard Meier, Thomas Phifer
THE CCCB (1993)
Center de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
Architect: Estudi Viaplana/Piñón Arqs. Ricardo Mercadé Ass.
In your skectbook draw an urban plan of this area removing the above buildings. Accuracy and precision is imperative. Analyse the plan making notations in your sketchbook of the connections, alignments, centers and edges that existed before the intervention of MACBA, CCCB and BCFS structures.
Your drawing may want to include context that extends as far as the Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya, Lluis Sert Hospital, or anything else you find relevant.
Once you have completed your urban plan with notations, you will re-introduce the 3 buildings rendered different graphically from the existing context (shaded, dotted, hatched). For each building, please diagram centers, edges, connections and alignments that it either introduces or reinforces in the existing context.
After you have fully analyzed the site, you will propose a transformation by moving one element or structure in the complex. You will communicate your design move through a small plan diagram and a perspective of the space as proposed. Please be clear as to how your move establishes new centers, edges, connections and alignments.
