Selfportrait

Public Space in UT #2

I'm looking for "second skin". I'm still wondering about tha scale of my project and very geometrical form. I have a lot of question marks right now. At my last presentation on Minor Public Space I had a really nice and helpful conversation with Marcel Smienk. It creates a fresh view of my works. And makes a lot of new questions. Now it is the time to finally make a step further, maybe come back to the beggining of main idea.

OffMess.

Synopsis magazine. Typo in topo.

Facade for office building

Facade of the office building inspired by Amsterdamse School style of architecture. Still in progress.

Elevation concept

public space in UT

The idea behind all the project was to create a place in the public space of University of Twente. Place which would be generally available to all persons on campus. I didn't found a place where people would like to spend time after classes or during the breaks. Therefore, I decided to create a space which could improve communication between individuals, which could make a transmission of information and be a place, where people can take a rest.

IDEA #1 A huge open space in the centre of UT Campus... Nothing is happening there.
People are cycling, walking, running in this place. Probably they want to stop for a moment but there is no possibility to sit. Besides sit on a ground, grass. I decided to blow up the grass, to create a big public sit. Place, where people can stop. Place which could give them a possibility to communicate with each other.

IDEA #2 In the same open space. With the same purposes. I changed a flat ground into a curve surface. Suddenly, this flat space changed into an interesting field, where people just would like to come. I didn't change a lot because this natural area really don't need it.

IDEA #3 One day, I saw an isolated group of trees in the open space. In the middle of those trees was a dustbin and a bench. If it is a public space why is there only one bench? Why nobody is in there? This place was supposed to be really sad and beauty in the same time. I wanted to make something to invite people in there. I played with the lines- symbol of communication. Lines created a forms where people can sit, climb on a trees, read a book, take a rest, talk with friends in the natural environment.