IDEAS AND CONCEPTS

NEW YEAR S DAY

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JANUARY
SOCIAL CLUB OUTDOORS MUSEUM MARKET

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ramsau beach

EPIPHANY

06/01

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ICE SCULPTUR COMPETITION

15/01 22/01

31 01

FEBRUARY

KULM'S SNOW BATTLE

05/02

CARNIVAL

12/02 16/02 15

28 01

MARCH

how the story begun...

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FILM FESTIVAL

18/03 30/03

EASTER

01/04 05/04

31 01

APRIL

motion unit
15

seclusion unit
DAY OF THE BOOK BOOK FAIR
23/04 - 29/04

23/04

NATIONAL HOLIDAY

01/05

30 01

MAI

ASCENSION DAY

13/05

15

WHITSUN

23/05

use of modules

OPENING SEASON DAYS

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JUNE

PANORAMA INAUGURATION 10/06

15

culture unit

JOURNEYS TO AGRICULTURAL WORK

16/06 20/06

30 01

JULY
possible elevation of modules

AGROTOURISM DAYS

02/07 06/07

HEALTH CARE WEEK

11/07 17/07

15

JAZZ FESTIVAL GUEST: AHMAD JAMAL

20/08 24/08

possible plant of modules

...seeking the unfamiliar and ultimately transcending it

31 01 AUGUST An expendable aesthetic requires no flexibility in artefact but must include time as an absolute factor. Planned obsolescence is the order within such a discipline shoes, motor car, magazines. The validity of such an aesthetic is only achieved if replacement is a factor of the overall design process. The mobile home presupposes a continuance of production of such units. (The last manned war-plane has been designed.) In all such cases the artefact at any one time is complete in itself and overall design problem requires a solution to the organisation of such units flowers in a bowl, caravans on a site.

PSYCHEDELIC TRIP FESTIVAL

02/07 06/07

STYRIAN MILK PARTY REGIONAL SHOW

12/08 14/08 15 15/08 21/08

mechanism of aperture

In allowing for change-flexibility, it is essential that the variation provided does not impose a discipline which may only be valid at the time of design. It is easier to allow for individual flexibility than organisational change the expandable house, the multi-use of fixed volumenes, the transportable controlled environment. The massing of living units in single complexes presupposes the continuance of physically linked activity complexes. Cedric Price. The Square Book. Wiley-Academy. p. 28

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SEPTEMBER

MARKET OF REGIONAL PRODUCTS

04/09 14/09

APPEARANCE OF MODULES

15

30 01

OCTOBER

MIRROR

TRANSPARENT

TRANSLUCENT

AGROBUSINESS CONFERENCES SPORTS CONFERENCES

05/10 15/10

15

AUSTRIA S NATIONAL DAY INAUGURATION DAYS ALL SAINTS DAY

26/10 31 01/11 01 02/11 NOVEMBER

15

30 01

DECEMBER

SAINT MARY S HOLIDAY

23/05

axonometric view of a possible module configuration

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MODULE COMPETITION CHRISTMAS WORKSHOP

16/12 20/12

23/12 30/12
work models

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OVERALL DESIGN

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ARRIVE AND LEAVE by train, bus, mono-rail, hovercraft, tube, car or on foot at any time you want to or just have a look at it as you pass. The information screens will show you what s happening. No need to look for an entrance just walk in anywhere. No doors, foyers, queues or commissionaires: it's up to you how you use it. Look around - take a lift, a ramp, an escalator If it s too wet, the roof will stop the rain but not the light

museum

CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO - or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what s happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting or just lie back and stare at the sky. WHAT TIME IS IT? Any time of day or night, winter or summer - it really doesn t matter. If it s too wet that roof will stop the rain but not the light. The artificial cloud will keep you cool or make rainbows for you. Your feet will be warm as you watch the stars the atmosphere clear as you join in the chorus. Why not have your favourite meal high up where you can watch the thunderstorm? 3 WHY ALL THIS LOT? If any nation is to be lost or saved by the character of its great cities, our own is that nation. Robert Vaughan 1843 We are building, a short term plaything in which all of us can realise the possibilities and delights that the 20th century environment owes us. It must last no longer than we need it. David Allfor, The Creative Iconoclast, Cedric Price: Works II (AA), p. 7

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MARKET

market

roof of the market- 1:500

social club

plant of the market - winter season - 1:500

plant of the market - sommer season - 1:500

transversal section of the market - 1:500

longitudinal section of the social club - 1:500

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cable car station

main street of ramsau

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we dig to create a quiet area

The museum is located at the bifurcation of the main Ramsau road and another secondary road. All the traffic flowing on the road fronts the building from the south and east direction. It welcomes the visitor to the village of Kulm, forming an attractive signal for the curious and marking an important point of the place. Surrounded by the spectacular landscape of the Dachstein mountain and the environment, the cultural museum emerges like a transparent spaceship between the mountains. Situated in the proximity of the cable car station, the building is preceeded by a public place that link the museum to the existing buildings of Kulm. Also that public space contitutes the nexus between the museum and the rest of the buildings added in the intervention, shaping a park that unifies the activity of the different pieces. On another hand, the museum offers its own public space, just down of it, isolated from the noise of the car s traffic and in a visual relation with the environment. This place, a big hole grabbed into the earth, supposes a meeting point for all kind of people: youth, elderly people, farmers, workers and tourists...a place where contact with culture is direct and gatherings happen. Except the exposition programs, these are not defined. Uncertainty plays an important role in the project, depending on the year season and wishes of the users. There are infinite forms of organizing the levels as well as the programs. The user has the possibility to customize the spaces suitable to the desired activity moving, removing, adding panel modules to the existing spaces. By this way, the spaces within the museum are not defined. They get defined during the different activities of the users. A closed space destinied to cinema in winter can be converted into an open-air space designed to keep the plants of the neighbours or just to enjoy the awesome view from the heights. From the interior compartments to the exterior enclosures, each element is susceptible to change whenever it s required.

roof garden with wind turbine

removable double skin of glass panels

mobile ground

longitudinal section of the museum_1:500

transversal section of the museum - winter season - 1:500

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light structure removable pieces

wind generator vertical axis

water captation

possible programs

stacking

transversal section of the museum - sommer season - 1:200

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