24.10.2008
EuroCity Siska
The EuroCity proposal mediates between urban design and architecture. It is a large-scale, 12-story building, volumetrically defined as a hybrid of established architectural typologies, arranged with shifts and slides one above the other in the vertical direction.
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Instead of proposing a dispersed urban composition of autonomous buildings with public ground floors and single-program floors stacked on top, or a compact shopping mall typology with an atrium, the project is an amalgam of both.
Horizontally separated, pure program anchors work as compact solids with a soft and fluid tissue of «plankton» in-between. Containing small commercial programs, the «plankton slabs» serve as intermediate zones between pure program floors. The interior becomes a spacious central indoor canyon rising in irregular section through the whole volume. The horizontal program disposition is clearly visible from the outside in the skin treatment of the individual layers. Generally, the composition expresses a pronounced horizontality; weightless masses floating one above the other with a public open space of interaction, activity and spectacle communicating with the city through its transparent membrane.