Lookout Nerja (Andalusia, Spain)
Academy of Architecture and Urbanism Tilburg 2012, course Body and Architecture
Academy of Architecture and Urbanism Tilburg 2012, course Body and Architecture
The course of body and architecture consisted research of one organ, tissue or celstructure in the human body. Researched knowledge of this specific body element is used as a form and space study. In my casestudy I researched the valves in bloodvessels, which are elastic and flexible. Experimenting with different models resulted in a form that consists of two identical forms that are intersecting each other with a difference in angle of 90 degrees. The created object is also different from every angle and shows a continuous flowing space. Keywords for my project were open and closed space plus circulating space. Objective for this design was to create a environment were space circulates around while the user is moving trough it. Weathering materials are used because materials have a life cycle which is a circulation of the material. Rusting metal strips around the objects blend the sun bleached silver wood and the metal over time into each other. The Spanish city Nerja with its Plaza Balcon Europa was chosen because of its unique location with different landscape views (Mediterranean sea and Nerja hills). Lookout Nerja frames these different views in its building mass and gives the user focus on the best landscapes Nerja has to offer.
Tutors: Lydia Fraaije and Sophie Valla
