CASE STUDY 1 Guangzhou Velodrome Xtreme Sports Centre

CASE STUDY 1 : Guangzhou Velodrome X-treme Sports Centre Project details 120. 000 sqm site area incl. Velodrome, Game -Management centre, Extreme Sport Center and Sport Park for Asian Games with Rollerskating rink, BMX track, Mountain biking, Rock climbing and volunteer centre. Total gross floor area 33, 300 sqm

The Competition - Selected as one of three winners in invited international competition for the Guangzhou Cycling, Roller Skating and Extreme Sport Center The complex consists of a 15. 200 sqm Velodrome and Rollerskating arena, an 11. 500 sqm extreme sport Center, a 6. 600 sqm Office building for the Game management of the Asian Games. Furthermore are there facilities planned for BMX, rock climbing and mountainbiking and a volunteer and academic exchange center. Total land area : 152, 992 sqm Competition is ongoing. Client: Guangzhou Key Public Projects Construction Administration Office & Guangzhou Sports Bureau .

Concept The concept is a porous monolithic 160 m single span shell that integrates the esthetic, structural, spatial and lighting requirements into one simple but complex solution This project is a perfect example of our office objective to come to a kind of bio-intelligenge. An intelligence inherent in biological evolution. One could call our methodology: Anti-design. A methodology that stands perpendicular to the unsustainable Modernist strategies of hacking things to bits, and splitting problems up, while in the process loosing the coherence and many characteristic qualities. Quite the opposite, we attempt to create design that searches for coherence and tries to integrate information into one singular simple but complex solution. This is a much more efficient, sustainable and value generating process.

Guangzhou Velodrome X-treme Sports Centre

Guangzhou Velodrome X-treme Sports Centre

Guangzhou Velodrome X-treme Sports Centre

CASE STUDY 2 : Dzintari Forest Park Project details Location: Jurmala, Latvia Type of Project: Reconstruction of Forest Park Project Architects: Arnis Dimins, Brigita Barbale Design Team: Guna Priede, Krisjanis Leitis, Ieva Dimante, Rihards Vietrins Client: Jurmala City Council Main contractor: TADERS Park area: 131, 108 sqm (13, 1 ha) Gross internal floor area: 541 sqm Total cost: 4, 1 M € Project year: 2003 -2005 Construction year: 20072009

Concept Dzintari forest park is unique due to its location. Its 13 ha territory of nature base is located in the very centre of Jurmala city. Due to intensive development of public and residential objects around this nature base territory, the idea to include it into the overall system of the city’s infrastructure objects and to adapt this territory to regular public visits became topical. A 200 -year-old pine-tree growth and the protected biotops of bilberry bush are the greatest treasures of Dzintari forest park. The new infrastructure is created as a singular mechanism that controls park visitors’ relationships with nature .

Dzintari Forest Park

Dzintari Forest Park

Dzintari Forest Park

Dzintari Forest Park Bathrooms plan

Dzintari Forest Park cafe ground floor plan

Dzintari Forest Park cafe second floor plan

CASE STUDY 3 : The Ramp house Project details Location: Athens, Greece Design Team: Athanasia Psaraki Project Year: 2006 Construction Year: 2007 Constructed Area: 80 sqm

Concept The ramp house is a project which tries to reconsider and redefine the living space. The client requested a “skatable habitat”. The result was a curved form interior, which set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life, into motion. In that space, which actually was a roof addition to an existing three- stored building, I tried first of all to achieve a balanced co-existence between the old and the new. The dominant material was the wood and so I used a wooden pergola and wooden horizontal louvers, which wrap up the whole new structure, ergo connecting the old with the new in a harmonious way. As a result the new volume obtained independence while still remaining an inseparable part of the whole.

The Ramp house

The Ramp house

The Ramp house

The Ramp house

The Ramp house