Wednesday, May 12, 2010

International VELUX Award 2010 for Students of Architecture


Bina + Cisco
Our design SHAPES, FORMS and USES natural daylight. We propose a way of working with light through a filter in constant movement and change to create a dynamic architectural space. Our tool to shaping light is using fresh clean water that is renewed with every tide of the ocean, creating a new, safe place for families to swim next to the fierce Pacific Ocean. When entering the space below ground level, light is all around, moving in different shapes, at different speeds and intensities. The water roof above is shaping the light below and humans are putting that water into motion. They are directly responsible for the changes in this space as daylight pours in from above. These forms of light seem random but are actually precisely manipulated by the slightest movement of the swimmers above. Their bodies seem to float in thin air, each of their movements causing a chain reaction that forms the light around you through the ripples in the water that they create. The ambient is constantly changing with sudden build-ups of high energy to slowly and gently calm into a relaxing space. Affecting all of the five senses we possess, it is a place of simple reflection upon the affects the natural world has on the way we live.

We propose a memorial in this public space, to remember people that died in tsunamis or that have been affected by them. The buildings ability to shape light illuminates and gives life to the area below. Experimental photographs of physical studies of light with controlled containers of water conclude that an infinite amount of light patterns can be formed and each of these can be reproduced to create a certain type of mood in the environment of the memorial. This control over light looks to manipulate the dynamic form of the interior of our proposal by the movements and forms generated by light passing through water. A more intense space has more movement, and less intense space has less movement. The light is converted into the proposal itself.


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