Project 04: MeantimeXinzhou Jiang(1208957)IAD 2

The town of Margate is a seaside town which was once a popular resort. Due to its particular geographic position, Margate successfully attracted visitors from London from the 18th century onwards. However, the seaside town faced an economic decline due to the visitor numbers reducing in favour of foreign holidays. It’s renowned amusement park ‘Dreamland’ was threatened with closure due to the town’s decline. By developing a ‘meanwhile’ project in the Dreamland cinema, this project aims to find a way to support Dreamland’s regeneration.

This project was focused on the ground floor and basement of the two-storey block directly on Marine Terrace, which was built in 1934 as a frontage to the cinema complex. The ground floor has a long, deep block-shape space which was divided into two parts by the columns along the middle line. The facade of site faces the seafront, a beautiful seaside view can be seen from inside of the ground floor. The project is to create a performance space in the site as well as a refreshment space to provide visitors with food and drink.

Start: the Site1:1250 Site Plan

1. View from the Site2. Dreamland from Light Tower3. Dreamland fromTurner Con-temporary Gallery4. Dreamland from King’s Steps5. Dreamland from Train Station

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Ground Floor Plan 1:100

Basement Floor Plan 1:100

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Context: Dreamland1:50 Site Model

Made by Xinzhou Jiang, Sara-OG, Sophia Clunies-Ross, She Wei, Sin Chan, Kehan Dong

1. Beam with original decorative plasterwork2. Concrete blockwork3. Steel Beam4. Timber cladding5. Original decorative plasterwork6. Steel column7. Bricks encasing the column8. Mirror9. Metallic cladding (photo taken by Emma Bush)10. Concrete floor Slab

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Context: DreamlandAnalysis Existing Material

Context InvestigationAbout Dreamland in Margate and 1960s Optical Art

1920: Dreamland Hall

1960: Dreamland Ballroom, which had been built as the building we see.

1970: Bali-Hai Bar

2008: A fire happened in Scenic Railway, by that time Dreamlands had already run down.

““Optical art is a method of painting concerning the inter-action between illusion and picture plane, between under-standing and seeing.”[2] Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.”

The optical art was popular in 1960s, the influence of this art can be seen in the pattern of the site’s ceiling.

Left: Mrina Apollonio, Circular Dynamics, 1968Left top: Unknown Optical artwork.

Content InvestigationSpectacle

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Precedents:1. Laser Lighting Artwork2. Insense Dragon3. “Impossible House”

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Content InvestigationDining Events

Content InvestigationPublic Interior

The Public Interior:

In recent decades the amount and proportion of public space within urban buildings has increased. We shop in malls and move along covered walkways. Although interior public space has become an important part of the contemporary city and our urban experience it is rarely designed as such.

Definition of Public Interior:

‘The totality of spaces in which civil society can be seen to operate’

- Department of Architecture Tu Delft

Key Characteristics:

The public interior provides places of sociability, entertainment, transport, leisure and commerce, as well as culture in the broad-est sense.

Types of Public Interiors:

Education

-Libraries

Refreshments

-Bar/Pub-Cafe

Performance

-Theatre

Transport

-Airport Terminal-Train Station

Shopping-Mall

The Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona(CCCB)

is one of the most visited exhibition and arts centres in the city of Barcelona, Spain.It is also a public consortium for exhibitions, debates, festivals, concerts, film seasons,etc. It offer the public access to part of its holdings, a manifestation of its activities in the form of a multimedia archive comprising materials created by the Centre during its years of activity.

Riggs Library located inside Georgetown University’s Healy Hall

King’s Cross Station, London

Content InvestigationMapping: Public Interior in Margate Train Station, Library and Gallery

Theatre

Bars

Content InvestigationProgrammatic Area Study 1:50

1. Changing Room 2. Stage3. Staff Room4, 5 and 6:Control Room7. Sitting Area8. Lighting Control9. Sound Control10. Kitchen11. Bar12, 13: Toilets( Including diasable toilets)14.Seating Area15. Reception

It is important that visitors would see the view from outside

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1 and 2: Felice Varini, “Orangerie du chateau de Versailles,” 2006 (Photo by André Morin)3: Felice Varini, “Encerclement à dix,” Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc/Centre d’Art Contemporain, Thouars, France, 1999 (Photo courtesy varini.org)

Concept InvestigationPrespective Illusion: Escaping from Everyday Life

ConceptMediating Facade Study

1. Sea2. Light Tower

3. Turner Contemporary Gallery4. Train Station

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Carlos Arroyo, Academie MWD in Belgium

From certain angles this performance centre in Belgium has a colourful stripy facade, but from others it appears

camouflaged amongst the surrounding trees (+ slideshow).

Considering the construction of the site, the eastern part of the ground floor is designed to be removed and a wall along the columns will be built to enclose the rest of ground floor space, which is to be the refreshment space. The refreshment space would be installed with several vertical block-shaped lights, hanging with new beams and some seating areas to provide different levels of privacy for visitors. Those lights with the tables in the seating area will form an optical perspective illusion when visitors stand in front of the bar. This illusion device is to provide a different experience of the sea view and bring a sense of “escape from everyday life”.

In the performance space, there are two stages, one is a vertical stage and the other is a horizontal stage. The vertical stage will be formed by several black frames. The seating would be arranged surrounding the stages at basement level as well as on the walkway on the ground level.

A public interior will share a big window to the performance space. The view from the window to look at the perfor-mance space will have a similar perspective illusion. The aim of the project is to attract visitors and offer people in Margate a place of communication. Also, the reflective facade will reflect the view of sea to the people coming from train station, and also to the people standing on the Light Tower, Turner contemporary , and King’s Steps

ConceptKey Design Moves

1. Remove the eastern part of ground floor 2. Building the performance stage and seating area on basement, and also building the walkway on ground floor which lead visitors to the lift and stairs. Also the box office and control room are designed to built on the walkway.

3. Building the illusion lighting and table, as well as bar and privacy seating area.The front door would be built on the frist groundi lighting structure.

4. Building the public interior space at the eastern front of space

5. Building the reflective facade

ConceptProgrammatic Diagram

Refreshment Space

Performance Space

Public Interior

Proposal: Refreshment AreaFramed View

Proposal: Refreshment AreaDevelopment

Concept: Refreshment AreaPerspective Illusion and Ergonomic 1:50

Proposal: Refreshment AreaFramed View: 1:20 Prototype

8 People share a table 3 People share a table Only allow two people standing next to each other Bar and Kitchen: Staff OnlyIndividual seat and space

Walking way in Refreshment Area

Concept: Refreshment AreaPrivacy and Seatings Arrangement

Concept: Refreshment AreaLight and Dark

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Concept: Refreshment SpaceFinal Model

Concept: Performance SpaceDouble Hight Stage

Arcola Theatre, London

Concept: Performance SpaceDevelopment

Concept: Preformance SpaceFinal Model

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Concept: Public InteriorSpace for Learning and Share

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1. Public Interior 2. Vertical Stage3.Dressing Room4. Props Storage5. Control Room6. Kitchen7. Bar8. Seating Area9. Box Office

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Ground Floor Plan with Proposal1:50

1. Stage2. Auditorium3.Dressing Room4. Toilet

Basement Plan with Proposal1:50

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Final Proposal: Interior ViewRefreshment Area

Final Proposal: Interior ViewPreformance Area

Final Proposal: Interior ViewPoblic Interior and Facade

Material and TechnologyMaterial

Steel polished by Black NIckel

Nickel can be polished on any metal surface, for the design require black colour and also high reflective materiial, there-fore nickel is ideal material for the illusion device.

Jet Black Matt Plywood

The polish surface has nice and asthetic, suitable for table surface which need black colour and low reflective light.It is also good for using the stage surface.

Jet Black Glass

The visual effect that this surface bring is suitable for the bar’s surface

Material and TechnologyTechnologic Precedent

Left and middle: light steel frame seating. OMA, Imaginarium, London

Right: Temporary device hanging with ceiling by tensile cable, and also using the tensile cable fixing for support. Grafton Architects, Sensing Space, London

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1. Rope Screwfix2. Timber3. Steel Channel4: Tensile Steel Cable5: Steel Cable Fixing6: Lighting Reflextor7. Light Bulb8. Aluminium Sheet polished by black nickel, with Strip LED light(0.3mm)9. Plywood10. 12mm Plywood11. Main Steel Frame12: Support Steel Structure13: Black Polished Surface14. Softwood Structure 15. Steel Channel

DetailVertical Illusion Device 1:5

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1. Black aluminum sheet 2. 0.3mm strips LED light3. L shaped bracket4: Aluminum sheets polished with black nickel5: 12mm pole wtih base and cross shaped support

DetailFacade 1:5

1. To fix upper brick facade, using existing holes where signage has been remove of to fix the brickwork2. Lightweight timber structure3. Polished aluminum sheet

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