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TEAM_2 "cultural center"
What is the potential of this place and its surroundings? What was it, and what is it now? How do people of Bratislava see it? How do we see it? These were our first questions. It is not hard to see the problems with this building: it is very big, central, but also very closed. It is a pity, because the military barracks are in a nice location, and could be a great passage place, but now, there is no interaction of the building with its surroundings. Another problem is that it actually stands in the middle of a street, Dobrovského, coming from the Danube, which could be a beautiful major street if the barracks did not literally 'stonewall' it.
Our solution is pretty simple: Open up the building, then make an easy circulation for the newly created passage and let the remaining parts of the building be fossilized, making it a monument for the barracks as it used to be. Opening up the building by removing some parts creates a great link with its surroundings and opens the courtyard inside the barracks for the Bratislava people. The circulation can be made easy by suggesting it with a path, made from goo that covers the courtyard and parts of the remaining building. People can walk on it and under as they like. It seems to stick everything together and to surrounding area. And finally, we think that military buildings are extinct. This is why the remaining building should be a souvenir of the old barracks, but then again, it should be nothing like it. So we simply cover it up in concrete, close all windows and doors to make what is left of the original building even more closed. In this way, it will provide perfect exhibition halls for the public and the students, and it will be a fossil of an extinct building.
Our solution is pretty simple: Open up the building, then make an easy circulation for the newly created passage and let the remaining parts of the building be fossilized, making it a monument for the barracks as it used to be. Opening up the building by removing some parts creates a great link with its surroundings and opens the courtyard inside the barracks for the Bratislava people. The circulation can be made easy by suggesting it with a path, made from goo that covers the courtyard and parts of the remaining building. People can walk on it and under as they like. It seems to stick everything together and to surrounding area. And finally, we think that military buildings are extinct. This is why the remaining building should be a souvenir of the old barracks, but then again, it should be nothing like it. So we simply cover it up in concrete, close all windows and doors to make what is left of the original building even more closed. In this way, it will provide perfect exhibition halls for the public and the students, and it will be a fossil of an extinct building.
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