Sunday, February 8, 2009

CASE STUDY: PARC DE LA VILLETTE, OMA (competition entry)

The park has to major elements of circulation:

Boulevard: (For the purpose of destination, high-speed route by comparison)

  • Runs north-south, systematically intersecting all the bands at right angles.
  • Directly connects the major architectural components for the park (museum/baths in north, City of Music/Great Hall in the south).
  • This is corridor is the 24-hour part of the program as it hosts the all-night facilities located on or along it. Distances itself spatially but stays visually connected to the busy public life along the perimeter.
  • Width: 25 meters wide, 5 of which are covered.

Promenade: (For the purpose of discovery through meander, low-speed winding route)

  • “Journey along the promenade will represent a fragmented visit to them all”
  • Generated through the identification and demarcation (through plazas) of certain significant cross sections as they are fortuitously created through the interaction of the bands.
  • Creates access to small sites within the site- small destinations at each plaza (chess tables, small amphitheatres, greenhouses, etc.)
  • Entrances coincide with (and control) the opening of the park itself.

The two paths are joined by a riverside ambulatory, so that the circulation system forms a figure 8. To meander on the promenade, one will be recycled back into the larger path in order to reinvigorate his pace.



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