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Terry Pawson Architects 2001 - 2008

Contents | Inhalt
7 9 Terry Pawson | by Edwin Heathcote Reflections on a developing architecture by Terry Pawson Projects | Projekte 14 24 34 44 50 60 70 74 Vernon Street Offices London, UK St Marys Garden Hall Wimbledon, UK The Tall House London, UK Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum Cheltenham, UK VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art Carlow, Republic of Ireland Opera House | Neues Musiktheater Linz, Austria Twin Houses Kingston upon Thames, UK American Church London, UK Competitions | Wettbewerbe 78 86 Concert Hall, Library & Art Gallery Lule, Sweden German National Maritime Museum Bremerhaven, Germany Terry Pawson Biography | Biographie Projects and competitions 2001-2008 Projekte und Wettbewerbe TPA Staff 2001-2008 | TPA Mitarbeiter

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Terry Pawson | by Edwin Heathcote

There is a kind of modernism that can seem rather un-British. An architecture of clarity, of sculptural massing and of a sophisticated, almost painterly abstraction in plan and elevation. The architecture of Terry Pawson seems to me to slot smoothly and entirely into that category. Existing on a plane above the bland and predictable tropes of contemporary commercial architecture and the indulgence of the self-conscious icon, Pawsons work exudes a calm thoughtfulness and a concern with qualities of space, site and light. Three small buildings in London collectively describe an approach which builds a kind of complexity through the subtle composition of a series of simple, geometric elements. St Marys Garden Hall in Wimbledon explores a language of the unrealised potential of emergent modernism in a simple composition of pure white solid, expansive clear and translucent glass, a tripartite vocabulary set upon a plinth of stone which draws much of its power through its striking setting against the bucolic churchyard with its sculptural monumental fragments and the robust Victorian structure. It carries surprising echoes of the sublime yet unpretentious contemporary language of the Porto School, a building at once deeply embedded in and yet sharply defined against a historic context, a building concerned with making and meaning. In the nearby Tall House, designed for Pawson and his family, the same paradox of appropriateness and striking juxtaposition occurs in a building which plays with that most English of typologies, the suburban house whilst placing itself firmly in opposition to a traditional language of the English idyll. Here stucco, timber and glass appear to chime with the half-timbered setting yet place themselves firmly in an international tectonic context. The section reveals a far greater complexity than the tall narrow frontage would indicate. Three interlocking forms, tower, box and attenuated vault make the transition from public, opaque front to private, transparent rear. It is an interior in which the route and sequence of spaces are every bit as codified and hierarchical as that of a major public building yet which retains a clear narrative and a series of simple, superb spaces. In Vernon Street, an exquisite office development in a typically London street of brick terraces, oddly butted up against the Deco monolith of Olympia, Pawson inserts a striking structure which is in proportion with and formally related to its urban site yet harshly different in its clear geometry and clean lines and materials. Organsied around a series of small courtyards, this building also deals with a set of awkward urban conditions, yet manages to carve out a dignified, quiet realm in which work is set against landscape and garden. It is a building which one might expect to see in Basel but is surprised and delighted to glimpse in a London back street. I have seen few better commercial buildings in a city which has almost entirely rebuilt its office stock with shockingly poor results. In each of Pawsons buildings their size belies their spatial complexity, the careful, considered sequences of public, semi-public and private space. Courts, gardens and yards segue smoothly into lobbies, halls and living rooms, each a natural extension of the other. Private or public the buildings are treated as sophisticated and enticing extensions of the civic realm, each imbued with the spirit of the Nolli diagram which enhances the public realm through intrigue and complexity even though that interior space may be entirely private or only visually accessible.

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Reflections on a developing architecture by Terry Pawson

It is natural then that the enormous leap to the next scale, the major public commissions in Austria and Ireland, constitute a seamless transition from an intimate typology of metropolitan and suburban intervention to one on a scale of major public urbanism. Both schemes, the Linz Opera House and the Carlow Art Centre aim to reposition provincial towns in small nations onto the world cultural stage. Both projects were won in competition and the success of both perhaps underline the profoundly European nature of Pawsons work. The Carlow Art Centre appears as an almost neo-classical structure. Its scale, massing, its formality and its relationship to the landscape recall a European tradition of enlightenment classicism encompassing Schinkel to Mies. The building revolves around a central art gallery, one of the biggest in the country and one with the capacity to receive art works which are capable of radically changing the nature of the space. In accommodating the unpredictability of future display, the architects have made this a simple but urbane space which acts as a kind of town square around which the buildings other elements - the George Bernard Shaw Theatre and the surrounding galleries spiral into smaller structures. Thus the building sets up a kind of internalised language of skyline which communicates the hierarchy of spaces. The result is a set of interlocking volumes wrapped in a cladding of translucent glass which subtly changes its expression as it folds around to embrace the different internal functions. Set in a quadrangle formed by the cathedral and the college this is a collegiate urbanism, but one which looks to the public realm rather than the enclosed world of the traditional college court. It is a building which, in its massing, expression and will is determinedly urban, a structure around which to build an expanding city centre. The plans for the Opera House in Linz similarly confront a situation of a small city attempting to redefine itself as a cultural destination. Linz, once a Central European hub long surpassed by Vienna and Prague has successfully engineered a position as a music capital, centred around the Brucknerhaus by Finnish architects Heikki and Kaija Siren. The opera house, an ambitious scheme won by Pawson in international competition has been conceived as the building which terminates the city, the last cultural stop with a series of awkward edgeland conditions. It marks a departure in its form from earlier projects, a willingness to smoothly follow the boundaries of an awkwardly-shaped site backing onto busy rail and road conditions. Rather than the familiar accumulations of interlocking forms, in Linz the architects wrap a sheath around the internal functions, a coherent single curtain-like wall which then opens out towards the parkland outside and the city beyond in a vast covered outdoor plaza, a memory of the classical porte-cochere. It is a space which invites the activity of the city into the building, embracing it. The continuous wall, expressed as a system of vertical fins beyond which the functions, the windows, the changing nature of the building within appear as if through a gauze. It is a stage set device for a theatrical structure which needs to accommodate everything from the bourgeois urbane requirements of reception and gathering, of appearance and social manifestation to the semi-industrial spaces of a theatres backstage facilities, its workshops and changing rooms. Realised and as yet unrealised schemes show shifts in language but a consistency of interests; the interlocking sculptural forms of the American Church in London with its sculptural tower; the powerful, post-industrial roof forms of the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum and the Bremerhaven Ship Museum, each asserting itself against a set of existing buildings of civic presence and scale. The sketches included here are critical. Everything is there - the concept, regardless how complex, is instantly readable. Both Tony Fretton and Alvaro Siza seem to me to work through the same kind of drawings, slightly scruffy, reductivist, typological and always clear. Pawson has developed an architecture which is profoundly responsive to its cultural, physical and material setting yet which remains completely engaged with a language of modernism which has, after a century, itself become an engrained cultural tradition. Almost paradoxically it is an architecture which has the power to surprise yet to appear completely comfortable in its surroundings, as if this were the most obvious response. Pawsons success in Europe seems an indication that the tradition within which he works remains, unfortunately marginal in Britain, albeit perhaps one which is gathering momentum. His is not an architecture of dogmatism but of careful response within a tradition. It is the quiet, serious and thoughtful architecture of an architect who himself displays all those characteristics. Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura said that when an architect designs he should not speak by barging past those who are talking and if he succeeds in making himself heard it will be solely on his own merits and not because he has forced his way past others. I think it is that success towards which Pawson has been quietly edging. Simplicity and scale Over the past seven years, there seems to have been a certain inevitability to the upward progression in the scale of work that the practice has undertaken. In addition to this straightforward progression in size, the architectural aspirations have become more ambitious and the product more refined through a process of constant design exploration enabled by the range and complexity of the design challenges we are undertaking. Rather than generate ever more complex architectural solutions, they have instead led to a search for simplicity and clarity perhaps with an occasional twist of the unexpected. The larger and more complex the building, the more important it becomes to unite the disparate elements within a unifying architectural concept. Equally, using a restricted range of materials, able to span the many pragmatic and aesthetic requirements of the programme, also helps to unify and control the end result. The first completed building, the Tall House, which was finished in 2002, fragmented a rather modest structure and expressed each functional element of the brief into a distinct entity: the timber tower contained all of the bedrooms: the main hallway and stair were expressed as a brick box, and the living areas were identified by the vaulted roof that faced onto the garden. Whilst this breakdown into elements was an appropriate response for the scale of a domestic brief, other buildings designed for public use in this manner seem to be less apt. Through a number of projects and competition entries, we have explored the idea of having a simple overarching concept that creates a structure of refined civic scale. One of the projects used as a stepping stone between the architecture of the house and the later commissions, is the church hall at St Marys. This project took a modestly scaled building and, using a simple combination of rough and smooth stone, produced a simple building form that abstracts scale in such a way that the building can feel both large and small at the same time. Also crucial to how we have approached all of the design tasks over the past few years has been the search for an appropriate way to deal with context and how to root the building within its broader environment. In this sense, context is not just about the immediate physical surroundings but includes the wider geographical location as well as the historical and ideological framework that defines the building. Our competition proposal for the concert hall at Grafenegg Concert Castle, which lies about an hour drive west of Vienna, takes the constructional and programmatic constraints and uses them as the basis for developing a pragmatic architectural response. The brief required a high quality concert venue to be built within a period of only 18 months, connected to a series of historically protected farm buildings located around Grafenegg Castle. In order to address the issues of time and practicality, we proposed to relocate the building away from the constraints of the listed buildings into the adjacent field of strawberries; with a remote entrance and access underground from the historic buildings that would simplify both design and construction.

Edwin Heathcote is an Architectural critic, Author and Architectural correspondent for the London Financial Times.

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Understanding and consciously avoiding the seductive temptation of designing solely for an iconic photograph, we continue to strive to develop buildings that are refined, calm and understated. Our Architecture is designed to appeal to the user by virtue of its internal three-dimensional quality and the subtle use of light, colour and texture. In addition to addressing the problems of location and brief, architecture, like art, should also stir the spirit and create a sense of engagement with space and time as the American writer John Updike once stated What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. In Praise of Shadows I must first acknowledge my gratitude for this title to the Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki and his delightful book written in 1933, In Praise of Shadows. This book contains an inspirational and poetic text about the benefits that come from a considered respect for the more natural condition, whether this is the aforementioned shadow, or the complex patina acquired through the aging of a pewter bowel. As in Tanizakis book, there has been within the last few years, a reaction against the total acceptance of modernity and technology being applied to every aspect of architectural development. It is no longer seen as the only way in which to reflect our current social attitudes; for architectural progress to be simply about making things appear ever more streamlined as a demonstration of our technological mastery over nature. The main hall was a simple concrete box covered with a random pattern of bronze strips and the foyer a bronze bar running down one side. The formal simplicity and scale of the structure would refer to the agricultural nature of the setting and give a robust sense of materiality appropriate to the broad sweep of the farming landscape. On a smaller scale, the proposal to connect two separate listed museum buildings that face onto the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin looked to unite the buildings with the garden, rather than with each other. The brief required the creation of a covered link at ground level between the Berggruen Gallery and the adjacent building. The garden was also to become a sculpture court. Our design was conceived as an extension to the garden railings that were proposed to enclose the garden space. This amalgamation between garden element and building element served to diffuse the perception of the built connection and allowed both buildings to read as discrete structures linked by the garden rather than another building. Time and Narrative Architects often quote the idea of narrative in architecture. To me the idea of narrative seems to be at its most potent when it is about a progression or timeline that involves moving through a building. Thus, the sequence of spaces, their order, scale, material and quality begins to tell an emotional story that may have a beginning, a middle, and an end. However, an architectural narrative in this sense must be able to work whilst not starting at the beginning as buildings are rarely a sequence that can be experienced in only one direction. Parallels that might be drawn between architecture and the narrative in a film or a book, can only be circumstantial, as these have a linear progression that is set by the author. In particular a film, like time itself, has a fundamental rhythm and pace that structures the complete picture the experience of architecture (rather than architecture itself), is more random and subject to how and at what pace the individual wishes to engage with the space. Designing structures that form a meaningful sequence and at the same time can also surprise and delight, is something that influences our architecture and our preferred building typologies. Whilst living in Rome in the early 80s, a number of buildings particularly struck me as creating an intense spatial narrative: The church of Il Jes (by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola), and the Villa Lante (by architects including Vignola, Bartolomeo Ammanati, Giorgio Vasari, and Michelangelo), both relate fascinating and endlessly surprising sequences of spaces and relationships that are only revealed through movement and time. From amongst current architects, the buildings of Alvaro Siza and Tadao Ando seem to particularly understand the importance to the individual of being inside a rich and complex structure, where the forces that have influenced the interior organisation have engaged with and influenced the external envelope to find an overall resolution in the building form. I find that a building is rather disappointing when designed as an object influenced principally by its exterior shape. Indeed, if a client asks me whether we would also design the interior of the building, the question represents a significant misunderstanding of how we perceive design and begins to subvert the very substance of what architecture can be. The inside and the outside of a building are two seamless faces of the same thing and cannot be separated without losing the essence of architectural experience. With the proliferation of visual media being so pervasive, architecture tends to be known only by its exterior form captured and marketed as selected images. Indeed, even for architects, more buildings are inevitably experienced through the lens of a photographer than by visiting them and thereby understanding the more complex qualities that can only be appreciated by being there - context, smell, temperature, tactile qualities and the experience of time spent moving through the space are all lost to pages of a magazine or book.

This change in attitude from the optimistic outlook of the 1950s and 60s seems to stem from our less certain attitude that science and technology provides a failsafe answer to our problems. Society at large seems to have recognised that life is to complex to put only into the hands of science and that the scientific failures and unexpected side affects of what appeared to be answers have left many with a sense of scepticism about so called clean solutions. In architecture, the cultural uncertainty in looking for a purely technological solution can also be seen in the renewed interest in using materials where the process of weathering is accepted as a benefit rather than as a sign of degradation. The use of timber and brick, of weathering steel and as struck in-situ concrete, are all becoming accepted as part of the current language of public buildings. This change of focus is not however a result of a technological contest between the materials but seems to result from a more subconscious desire to identify with a softer and less aggressive approach. The use of these alternative materials in buildings such as art galleries, museums, theatres, concert halls and libraries is highly significant, as these buildings both inform and reflect our cultural aspirations. None of this is to imply that modern architecture should take a step backward toward some idyllic past, indeed I fervently believe that architecture is an art that must go forward and work with emerging technology. However, I also believe it should be recognised that architecture is a creative process full of choices. There are no absolute answers and there is always another way of considering each issue nevertheless, it is important that choices are made and that these choices are informed by a process of creative exploration and informed debate.

Concert Hall Grafenegg, Austria Competition 2004

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Vernon Street Offices London, UK 2001 - 2006

Building commissions often come from unexpected sources, and the approach by the owner of an international soft-toy company to design his London headquarters was no exception. The new building would be set within a west London conservation area amongst predominantly two storey brick-built housing and adds a substantial independent extension to the 1913 grade II listed former Magistrates Courthouse designed by the Edwardian architect, John Dixon Butler.

Bauauftrge entspringen oft unerwarteten Quellen, und so bildete die Anfrage eines internationalen Herstellers von Plschtieren, seinen Londoner Hauptsitz zu entwerfen, keine Ausnahme. Der Neubau sollte in einem denkmalgeschtzten Bereich des Londoner Westens inmitten berwiegend zweistckiger Backsteinhuser entstehen, und zwar als eine wesentliche und unabhngige Erweiterung zu dem denkmalgeschtzten (Grade II listed) Magistrates Courthouse (Amtsgericht) von 1913, das von John Dixon Butler, dem fhrenden Architekten zur Zeit Edwards VII, entworfen wurde.

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Working within such a sensitive context required a confident architectural approach that would respect the existing environment and would also produce a building that had its own identity. The finished building is made from white cast stone, and the sculptural form of the new building makes a strikingly modern composition at the end of the Edwardian terrace. However, as the design evolved from the tectonic form of the old courthouse, the prevailing urban scale and rhythm of the street has been maintained. The faade directly facing the street has been designed with flush translucent glass and is further accentuated with an asymmetrical arrangement of deep openings that accentuates the impression of building mass. On the western aspect, an external sunscreen is made from bronzed steel, whilst cubic roof-lights in translucent structural glass make a direct reference to the earlier Edwardian leaded lanterns on the Old Magistrates Court. Working closely with the owner, each of the office spaces were designed as discrete rooms relating to one of the three, planted courtyards that punctuate the plan creating an introspective, private working landscape. The spatial fluidity between internal and external spaces gives the internal organisation of the building a scale and specificity more usual in domestic architecture than that of the usual modern office space. As part of the same building contract, the former Magistrates Court was carefully adapted and restored to work as a separate office building. In addition to the main courtrooms and offices, and as a poignant reminder of the buildings history, six of the Courts original cells were retained and integrated into the layout of the new construction, complete with their heavy iron doors, locks and rather colourful inmates graffiti.

Die Arbeit in einem derart sensiblen Kontext erforderte einen sicheren architektonischen Ansatz, der dem vorhandenen Umfeld Respekt zollen, dabei jedoch ein Gebude eigener Identitt hervorbringen wrde. Der Bau besteht aus weiem Kunststein, sein skulpturaler Charakter schliet die Edwardische Huserzeile mit einer berraschend modernen Komposition ab. Dabei wurde aus der tektonischen Form des alten Gerichtsgebudes ein Entwurf entwickelt, der den bestehenden urbanen Mastab und Rhythmus der Strae bewahrt. Die zur Strasse gelegenen ffnungen wurden flchenbndig mit opakem Glas gestaltet. Zustzlich wird die Baumasse durch die asymmetrische Anordnung tiefliegender ffnungen und Einschnitte betont. Auf der Westseite befindet sich ein externer Sonnenschutz aus bronziertem Stahl, whrend Lichtkuben aus opakem Glas einen direkten Bezug zu den frhen Edwardschen Bleiglaslaternen des Alten Magistrates Court herstellen. In enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Auftraggeber wurden alle Broflchen als diskrete Einzelrume gestaltet, die jeweils auf einen der drei begrnten Innenhfe ausgerichtet sind. So entsteht ein introvertiertes, privates Arbeitsumfeld. Das Ineinanderflieen von Innen- und Auenrumen gibt dem Gebude eine Dimension und Prgung, die eher aus der Wohnarchitektur herrhrt als aus dem herkmmlichen modernen Brobau. Als Teil desselben Bauauftrags wurde der frhere Magistrates Court sorgfltig, seiner Funktion als separates Brogebude entsprechend adaptiert und restauriert. Zustzlich zu den Haupt-Gerichtsslen und Bros und als einprgsame Erinnerung an die geschichtliche Bestimmung des Gebudes wurden sechs der ursprnglichen Gerichtszellen mit ihren schweren Eisentren, Schlssern und den recht ausdrucksstarken Graffiti der Insassen erhalten und in das Konzept des neuen Gebudes integriert.

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1 frameless structural glazing | Rahmenlose selbsttragende Verglasung 2 roof construction | Dachaufbau 3 structural glazed rooflight | selbsttragende Oberlichtverglasung 4 reconstituted stone parapet block | Kunststein Attika Block 5 reconstituted ashlar stone | Kunststeinfassade 6 stainless steel cavity wall support | Edelstahlaufhngung fr Kunststeinfassade 7 reconstituted stone soffit panel | Kunststein Fenstersturz Panel 8 reconstituted stone cill panel | Kunststein Fensterbank Panel 9 basement construction | Kellerwandaufbau

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St Marys Garden Hall Wimbledon, UK 2001 - 2003

Wimbledon Village is no longer the isolated and idyllic English countryside location it once was, but now resides firmly within the intensely developed and wealthy suburban outskirts of London. In this milieu of conservative English architecture lies the Grade II listed Church of St Marys where we were asked to design a new public hall for use by the local community. The present church was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1843, and completes a continuous line of ecclesiastical buildings that have occupied this site since 1086. As with many village churchs, the surrounding land contains a fascinating concentration of local history including a disused artesian well that has been converted into a house and the stone tomb of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, engineer of the London sewer system. The new hall is a rare but significant contemporary addition to this preserved village-like context.

Wimbledon ist nicht mehr das abgelegene und idyllische englische Landrtchen von damals. Das Dorf ist inzwischen Kernstck der dicht besiedelten und wohlhabenden Londoner Randbezirke. In diesem Milieu konservativer englischer Architektur liegt die denkmalgeschtzte Kirche St. Mary, fr welche ein neues Gemeindezentrum entworfen werden sollte. Die bestehende Kirche wurde 1843 von Sir George Gilbert Scott als letztes einer Reihe von Gotteshusern entworfen, die an diesem Ort seit 1086 erbaut wurden. Wie bei vielen Dorfkirchen konzentriert sich um sie in faszinierender Weise die lokale Geschichte. Im Falle von St. Mary gehrt dazu auch ein stillgelegter artesischer Brunnen, der zu einem Haus und zu einem steinernen Grabmal fr Sir Joseph Bazalgette, dem Baumeister des Londoner Abwassersystems, umfunktioniert wurde. Diese neue Halle ist eine der seltenen, aber visuell prgenden zeitgenssischen Ergnzungen dieses denkmalgeschtzten drflichen Kontexts.

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In order to emphasise the status of the new building within its context, our design deliberately uses an abstraction of scale to create a powerful architectonic presence, reminiscent of the exaggerated architectural language of Bazalgettes mausoleum. The quality and substance of the materials used in the construction was one of the most significant influences for the final design, involving the re-interpretation of materials used in the existing church. White limestone ashlar with a contrasting rough, blue/ brown dry-stone wall on the street elevation defines the main enclosure, whilst a translucent glazed roof light or light-bar provides a glowing counterpoint to the more massive stonework. Overall, the building has fitted sympathetically into its context, creating a valuable community resource as well as reinforcing the presence of the church to the community.

Um den Status des neuen Baus innerhalb dieses Umfelds hervorzuheben, bedient sich der Entwurf einer Abstraktion der Mastblichkeit, um eine ausdrckliche architektonische Prsenz auch ohne Verwendung reiner Baumasse zu schaffen, und knpft damit an die berhhte Archtitektursprache des Bazalgette-Mausoleums an. Weie Kalksteinquader, die mit einer rauen, blau/braunen, der Strasse folgenden Trockensteinmauer kontrastieren, definieren den Hauptkomplex, whrend ein opak verglastes Oberlicht einen leuchtenden Kontrast zum massiven Mauerwerk schafft. Insgesamt konnte das Gebude als eigenstndiges Element in seinen Kontext eingebettet werden und wird damit zu einem wertvollen Gemeinschaftsgut, das gleichzeitig die Reprsentanz der Kirche verstrkt.

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The Tall House London, UK 2001 - 2002

Set on a narrow sloping site overlooking the leafy suburbs of South-West London, the house is a measured reaction to the traditional and conservative suburban context, whilst its internal organisation is inspired by the spatial intricacy and architectural density of the house in Lincolns Inn Fields by the architect Sir John Soane. Built adjacent to a mature oak tree, the house is made predominantly of timber and brick, deliberately reflecting the traditional materials of the area. However, the way in which these materials are used within the building creates a new architectural language that is contemporary and does not resort to pastiche in order to parody the other near-by houses. Dieses Privathaus, gebaut auf einem sehr engen, am Hang gelegenen Grundstck, bietet eine fantastische Aussicht ber die grnen Vororte in Londons Sdwesten. Seine Gliederung ist inspiriert von der komplexen Raumstruktur und architektonischen Dichte des Lincoln Inn Fields Hauses, welches vom englischen Architekt Sir John Soane geplant wurde. Das Tall House ist vorwiegend aus Holz und Ziegeln gebaut und reflektiert bewusst die traditionell verwendeten Baustoffe der Gegend. Allerdings entsteht durch die Art, wie die Materialien eingesetzt werden, eine neue zeitgeme Architektursprache, die sich nicht damit behilft, die umgebenden Huser zu parodieren.

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stainless steel angle built into brickwork Brickwork head detail to permit differential movement of brickwork and timber stud

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150mm thick in-situ RC spine wall to stairs

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The main organizing element of the house is the principal stair that sits centrally in the plan, becoming both conduit and separator between the living spaces that face the garden and the more private bedroom spaces that are contained in the oak clad tower. Internally, the simplicity of the plan combined with an interlocking three-dimensional geometry, has produced a rich internal spatial sequence where sunlight penetrates into every corner of the building. Unexpected vistas, hidden voids and the use of two staircases, create a route through that gives a sense of surprise and delight. Places have been carefully designed for sculpture and paintings to be displayed without the whole feeling like an art gallery; the house resolutely remains a private domestic space.
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Wesentliches Strukturelement des Hauses ist die Haupttreppe. Sie nimmt die Mitte des Grundrisses ein und dient gleichzeitig als Verbindung und Trennung zwischen den auf den Garten ausgerichteten Wohnbereichen und den eher privaten Schlafrumen im Eichenholzverschalten Turm. Im Inneren ergibt sich durch die Einfachheit des Grundrisses eine weitlufige Raumsequenz, in der das Sonnenlicht jeden Winkel erreicht. berraschende Ausblicke und versteckte Freirume lassen beim Durchqueren des Hauses unterschiedliche berraschende Momente und Situationen entstehen. Die Standorte fr Skulpturen und Bilder wurden sorgfltig gestaltet, damit nicht die Atmosphre einer Kunstgalerie aufkommt. Das Haus bleibt nachdrcklich ein privater Wohnort.

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In 2002, as part of the ongoing national Lottery funded program of arts investment, Cheltenham Borough Council planned to enlarge the existing Art Gallery and accommodate the expanding Arts and Crafts collection of the Museum. The scheme we developed looked to improve the otherwise labyrinthine circulation of the existing agglomeration of buildings, first inaugurated as a gallery in 1899 and subsequently added to and adapted in a piecemeal fashion over the next 100 years. Partly in recognition of its nationally important collection, and partly as a response to the substantial architecture of the adjoining listed building; the spirit of Arts and Crafts became a theme for the architectural development, with the expressive use of natural materials proposed for the new building revealing the process and craft of the construction. The facade and roof are in Corten steel and the concrete structure is expressed internally with exposed coffered ceilings and smooth cast concrete walls.

2002 plante der Stadtrat von Cheltenham einen Teil der Mittel aus dem durch die nationale Lotterie finanzierten laufenden Kunstfrderungsprogramm, zur Erweiterung der bestehenden Kunstgalerie zu verwenden, in der die stetig wachsenden Kunstund Kunsthandwerk-Sammlungen des Museums untergebracht werden konnte. Der von uns entwickelte Ansatz bemht sich um eine Verbesserung der labyrinthartigen Besucherfhrung in der derzeit bestehenden Gebude-Agglomeration, die 1899 als Galerie erffnet und in den folgenden 100 Jahren immer wieder stckweise erweitert und angepasst wurde. In Wrdigung der Sammlung von nationaler Bedeutung einerseits und als Antwort auf die substantielle Architektur des benachbarten denkmalgeschtzten Bauwerks andererseits wurde der Geist dieses Museums fr Kunst und Kunsthandwerk zum Gestaltungsthema. So wurden fr den Neubau ausdruckstarke natrliche Materialien vorgeschlagen, die den Vorgang und das Handwerk des Erbauens sichtbar machen. Fassade und Dach sind in Corten Stahl ausgefhrt. Im Inneren ist die Betonkonstruktion in Form der offenen Kassettendecken und den Wnden aus glattem Gussbeton sichtbar.

Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum Cheltenham, UK 2001 - 2002

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second floor | 2.Obergeschoss

model photograph of front elevation | Modellfoto der Vorderansicht first floor | 1.Obergeschoss

In order to rationalize the public route through the building, the connection between the entrance and the main gallery level on the top floor is clarified by introducing a wide stair that rises up within a full height volume. The stair and the entrance lobby are lit from above by a series of tall north-lights that also span across the full width of the main gallery. At the head of the stair is a five-meter high window that faces across the churchyard toward St Marys, the medieval Grade I listed parish church of Cheltenham, and an apposite reference to local context.

Um den Besucherstrom im Gebude sinnvoll zu lenken, wird die Verbindung zwischen Eingang und der Hauptebene der Galerie im oberen Stockwerk durch eine grozgige Treppenhalle verdeutlicht. Das Licht fr Treppe und Eingangsbereich fllt durch eine Reihe groer Nord-Oberlichter ein, die die volle Breite der Hauptgalerie einnehmen. Am Treppenkopf gibt ein fnf Meter hohes Fenster den Blick ber den Kirchhof auf die mittelalterliche Pfarrkirche von Cheltenham frei, wodurch ein angemessener Bezug zum lokalen Kontext geschaffen wird.

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model photograph of rear elevation | Modellfoto der Rckansicht

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VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art Carlow, Republic of Ireland 2004 - 2008

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first floor | 1. Obergeschoss

visualisation | Visualisierung

Won as the result of an open architectural design competition, the Arts Centre is set within the grounds of St Patricks College in the centre of Carlow. Together with the existing College and the City Cathedral, they front onto a generous lawned quadrangle that opens out toward the City centre. The building contains a series of galleries, including a large twelve meter high space that will enable the display of large contemporary artworks, not currently able to be shown anywhere else in Ireland. In addition to the gallery, the building also has a restaurant and a 350-seat end-on, proscenium theatre. The architectural language of the building has been developed as an intersecting assembly of opaque glass volumes that transforms subtly throughout the day as light passing through the building skin reflects within the deep wall zone in a ever changing ways. As the evening comes and the daylight fades, the building also mutates between the more contemplative and introspective daytime use as an Art Gallery, to the more exuberant night time activity of theatre and performance space.

Mit diesem Entwurf gewannen wir einen internationalen offenen Wettbewerb fr ein neues Kunstzentrum, das auf dem Gelnde des St Patricks College im Zentrum von Carlow errichtet werden sollte. Der gesamte Komplex mit dem College und der Kathedrale von Carlow orientiert sich hin zu einem grozgigen Rasenplatz, der sich zum Stadtzentrum hin ffnet. Das Gebude besteht aus mehreren Galerien und gliedert sich um einen grozgigen zwlf Meter hohen Innenraum, der erlaubt, groformatige, zeitgenssische Kunstwerke auszustellen. Neben den Galerien bietet das neue Kulturzentrum auch ein Restaurant und ein klassisches Proszeniumtheater mit 350 Sitzen. Das Gebude wird von sich kreuzenden opaken Oberlichtern durchzogen, die im Laufe des Tages die Atmosphre im Inneren des Gebudes durch das einfallende Licht immer wieder verwandeln. Mit dem Schwinden des Tageslichts wechselt das Gebude aus seiner eher kontemplativen und introvertierten Rolle als Kunstgalerie in die abendliche Festlichkeit eines Theater- und Auffhrungsortes.

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Engaging art | by Robert Payne

Carlow Town and the county to which it gives its name are situated in a part of Ireland that has been urbanised since the Norman invasion of the 12th century. Here the towns are more elaborate than elsewhere in the country. Rather than following the model of the sraidbhaile, the street-town, located on an ancient trade route and widened where necessary into a rough rectangle or triangle to form a market place, the towns of south-east Ireland display more complex patterns of organisation, reminiscent of those on the European mainland, though this is not to say they are exact facsimiles.
visualisation | Visualisierung

While streets may be laid out as crossroads and in grid patterns, the shapes made are approximate; while there may be defined routes and public squares, these urban gestures are executed modestly rather than grandly. So an axis may be laid out with buildings aligned on one side only, or be focused on a church or courthouse or the house of the local grandee with a centralised porch or door case but asymmetrical wings; or a public square will be trapezoidal in plan, or will have only three sides, the fourth perhaps consisting of a line of trees or a river bank. Such economy in plan is often paralleled by a restrained palette of materials in elevation. In Carlow the beautiful, pale grey, hard local limestone is everywhere: not just as cut blocks but also ground into cement for renders, which historically were then washed with the same lime in whites and pinks. The inherent austerity of these approaches, which speaks to a frugality in the Irish character that foreigners often miss, is mitigated by the picturesque effects that arise when these are overlaid on differing topographies, sometimes natural but often man-made. Carlow Town exhibits these features in abundance, and it is in this context that Terry Pawson Architects Visual Arts Centre and George Bernard Shaw Theatre must sit. Pawson won the commission in competition in 2005, and construction recently started. But the project occupies a larger footprint than the practices original proposal, owing to the dropping of a stipulation within the competition brief that a ruined stone wall should be retained. The site is right in the centre of town on one side of a green space dominated by a large 19th century seminary, and is overlooked by the side of Carlows miniature Roman Catholic cathedral. It was occupied by a group of agricultural sheds painted green. The urban context of the projects displays the characteristic mixture of formally loose planning and topographically picturesque composition.

Terry Pawson Architects has observed this context with an accurate eye and responded to it with subtlety and skill. The main gallery is a simple rectangular box which asserts itself externally as the tallest form in the composition, and is entered centrally on its long axis. This straightforward gesture ties the new building not only to its forceful neighbours but also to a dominant aspect of the town plan. The other major spaces of the building the theatre and the lesser galleries spiral around the main room, descending and ascending as the topography, partly natural and partly manmade, dictates. Again, a striking characteristic of the town is recalled in miniature. Acute observations continue around the main entrance a feature of the design that enjoyed significant elaboration once the site was expanded. An elongated limestone wall echoes those in the town and speaks boundary to a local mind familiar with such structures, while also providing a tidy way to organise the inevitable clutter of signage that public buildings attract. This wall signals the start of a switchback sequence of entry that is deeply reminiscent of Irish public buildings where the pomposity of entering on axis is immediately deflated into a sociable swirling movement. The evocation of the memorable and the familiar also informs the palette of materials in the interior. The combination of stone, concrete and wood in the entrance hall reminds the visitor of the strategy often used in Ireland when restoring ruined medieval buildings; the simple plastered walls of the galleries make these rooms recede politely so that the art contained within them can dominate. Outside, the hierarchy of the interior spaces is reflected in the topographical massing of their volumes. They are clad in a greenish glass, which nods towards the green-painted agricultural sheds that formerly occupied the site. Terry Pawson Architects is to be commended for avoiding the contemporary temptation to offer Carlow an iconic building. Its considered engagement with the existing urban context, which requires study to uncover, will make a building that embeds itself in the town from the start. This is not to argue that the practice has proposed something timid and self-effacing. On the contrary, its manipulation of the interior volumes and its restrained proposals for construction, particularly in the gallery that can accept large art works, will provide a vital springboard for art of the future, most certainly in Ireland, and probably also in the wider world. The opening of this building in December will be signature enough.

elevation | Ansicht

This article was originally published in BD on 11 January 2008 and reproduced with their kind permission.

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cast face to link gallery wall | Sichtbetonwand der Foyergalerie

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Opera House | Neues Musiktheater - Linz, Austria 2006 - 2012

The City of Linz sits on the banks of the Danube, some 250 kilometres west of Vienna and our winning proposal for the new Opera House is the result of the open international design competition I 2006. Construction of the building is scheduled to run from 2009, the year in which Linz shares the status of European Capital of Culture with Vilnius, through to 2012 when the Opera House is scheduled to open for public for performances. Our design has a major influence on the character of the city and has required moving a busy inner city duel carriageway in order to allow the building to sit as a solitaire building on the corner of the Volksgarden, or Peoples Park. Together with the park, the building creates a cultural focus at the end of the main avenue through the City linking to the Hauptplatz and the River Danube.

Die Stadt Linz liegt an den Ufern der Donau etwa 250 Kilometer westlich von Wien. Mit unserem Vorschlag fr das neue Opernhaus sind wir 2006 als Gewinner eines internationalen offenen Wettbewerbs hervorgegangen. Mit dem Bau des neuen Hauses soll 2009 begonnen werden, dem Jahr, in dem Linz zusammen mit Vilnius Europische Kulturhauptstadt sein wird. Bis 2012 soll die Oper fertig gestellt und erffnet werden. Der Neubau wird groen Einfluss auf den Charakter der Stadt nehmen, indem eine stark befahrene vierspurige Innenstadtstrae verlegt wird, damit das Gebude als Einzelbauwerk den geplanten Standort an der Ecke des Volksgartens einnehmen kann. Zusammen mit dem Park bildet der Bau einen kulturellen Brennpunkt an der Mndung der Hauptdurchgangsstrae der Stadt Linz, die zum Hauptplatz und zur Donau fhrt.

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The faade is formed from deeply modulated weathering steel, introducing a consistent vertical element that wraps the building like a curtain, the curtain then being drawn open as it faces the park. The strong vertical rhythm unifies the faade and echoes the idea of an enfilade of classical columns, making reference to both the traditional grandeur of Viennese theatres such as the Burgtheater and the Staatsoper in Vienna as well as the modernism of rationalist architects such as Terragni and Moretti. This theme is developed further in the interior, with vertical screens of ever increasing fineness being used to define and unify the public areas, and leading ultimately to the main performance space that is wrapped in a veil from slender timber louvres. The building plan organises the complex programme of an opera house into a simple diagram. Public spaces are organised next to the park, with workshops and ancillary service spaces pushed to the rear. Along the north side of the building are placed the dressing rooms and practice areas, set along an internal street which is punctuated by a series of light wells, each one dedicated to the separate disciplines of Ballet, Orchestra, and Choir.

Die Fassade wird durch stark modulierten Verwitterungsstahl gebildet. Es wird ein durchgehendes vertikales Element geschaffen, das das Gebude wie ein Vorhang umhllt ein Vorhang allerdings, der auf der Seite aufgezogen wird, auf der sich der Bau zum Park hinwendet. Der starke vertikale Rhythmus vereinheitlicht die Fassade und lsst die Vorstellung einer klassischen Sulenflucht erkennen, wodurch ein Bezug sowohl zum traditionellen Glanz der Wiener Theater, wie dem Burgtheater und der Staatsoper, als auch zum Modernismus der rationalistischen Architektur etwa von Terragni und Moretti entsteht. Im Innenraum werden vertikale Holzlamellen eingesetzt um die ffentlichen Bereiche zu definieren. Der Hauptauffhrungssaal ist in einen Schleier filigraner Naturholzjalousien gehllt. Der Bauplan ordnet das komplexe Programm eines Opernhauses in einem einfachen Diagramm an. Die ffentlichen Rume befinden sich in der Nhe des Parks, die Werksttten und Servicebereiche in dem vom Park abgewandten Gebudeteil. Auf der Nordseite liegen die Garderoben und bungsrume quasi entlang einer innen liegenden Strae, die durch eine Reihe von Lichthfen unterteilt wird, wobei jeder dieser Abschnitte den einzelnen Disziplinen, dem Ballet, dem Orchester und dem Chor, zugeordnet ist.

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Twin Houses - Kingston upon Thames, UK 2007 - 2009

These two large family houses designed in white stone are located on a quiet suburban road on the outskirts of London. One house has been designed for the owner of the site and the other is for sale and will be built at the same time. The houses are handed and displaced in plan, but are otherwise identical. This displacement makes a positive visual separation between the two structures, which is then further reinforced by making the single storey walls enclosing the courtyards appear to be merely garden walls with no apparent fenestration. Each house is arranged over three floors and organised around a central courtyard that connects through to the main garden and brings daylight into the basement level. From the street, the buildings appear to be on only two floors, but the sunken courtyard creates an opportunity to make viable quality living space in the basement as well as developing a more interesting spatial arrangement. Diese beiden groen Einfamilienhuser befinden sich in einer ruhigen Vorortstrae eines Londoner Auenbezirks. Eines der Huser wurde fr den Auftraggeber selbst entworfen, das andere soll verkauft werden. Die Huser werden unterschiedlich ausgerichtet und versetzt angeordnet, sind jedoch ansonsten identisch. Durch die Versetzung wird der Effekt einer visuellen Trennung der beiden Bauten erzielt. Dieser Effekt wird verstrkt durch die Erdgeschossmauern, die die Innenhfe umgeben, jedoch nach auen wirken, als seien sie bloe Gartenmauern, ohne jede sichtbare Fensterffnung. Beide Huser sind ber drei Stockwerke um einen zentralen Innenhof angeordnet. Von diesem Innenhof aus erreicht man den Hauptgarten. Von der Strae erscheinen die Gebude lediglich zweistckig. Durch direkten Tageslichteinfall ber den abgesenkten Innenhof lsst sich im Souterrain hochqualitativer Wohnraum schaffen und darber hinaus eine interessante Raumanordnung gestalten.

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Occupying a simply detailed 1950s brick building, the American Church sits next to a small urban park and faces Tottenham Court Road, one of Londons busiest West End streets. The current building was built on the site of a much larger Victorian church that was destroyed during the final days of the Second World War.

American Church London, UK 2001 - 2007

The current Church has its Sanctuary and Narthex on the first floor and this creates problems of access for the old and disabled that, together with the lack of space for other church activities, was the pragmatic motivation behind the planned changes. However, of equal importance was the churchs need to increase its presence on the street, as views of the existing building are all but obscured by a line of mature London Plane trees that run along this section of Tottenham Court Road. Using tectonic elements that are common to many London churches, our scheme extends and rationalises the internal space and adds to the composition of the existing symmetrical building in order to create a balanced and coherent architectural syntax. The proposed design places a single storey extension to the south of the church, filling in the light-well formed by the large crypt of the previous building, and steps forward through the canopy of trees toward the main street with a slender stone tower. At the bottom of the tower and next to the new entrance, is a tiny street chapel, with an articulated masonry wall that springs from the top of the existing crypt wall, helps to re-define an appropriate boundary to the public park.

Der schlicht gestaltete Ziegelbau der Amerikanischen Kirche aus den 1950er Jahren befindet sich unmittelbar neben einem kleinen stdtischen Platz. Die Front des Gebudes schaut auf die Tottenham Court Road, eine der belebtesten Straen des Londoner West End. An der Stelle des jetzigen Baus stand frher eine wesentlich grere viktorianische Kirche, die in den letzten Tagen des Zweiten Weltkriegs zerstrt wurde. Gebetsraum und Vorhalle der heutigen Kirche liegen erhht, was den Zugang fr ltere und behinderte Menschen problematisch macht. Dies sowie der Mangel an Platz fr andere kirchliche Aktivitten waren die Motivation fr die geplanten Vernderungen. Von gleichrangiger Bedeutung war jedoch die Notwendigkeit, die Prsenz der Kirche zu strken, da der Blick auf den Kirchenbau fast vllig durch hohe Platanen versperrt ist, welche diesen Abschnitt der Tottenham Court Road sumen. Der Entwurf ist sowohl eine Erweiterung des Innenraums als auch eine Bereicherung der Komposition des bestehenden symmetrischen Gebudes, um eine ausgewogene und logisch zusammenhngende architektonische Struktur zu schaffen. Der Entwurf sieht auf der Sdseite der Kirche eine einstckige Erweiterung vor, die den Lichtschacht einnimmt, der von der groen Krypta des frheren Gebudes gebildet wird, und tritt zur Hauptstrae hin mit einem schlanken Steinturm aus dem Bltterbaldachin der Bume heraus. Am Sockel des Turms und neben dem neuen Eingang befindet sich eine winzige Straenkapelle mit einer gegliederten Steinmauer, die dem oberen Teil der bestehenden Mauer der Krypta entspringt und dazu beitrgt, die Grenze zum ffentlichen Platz neu und angemessen zu definieren.

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Concert Hall, Library & Art Gallery Lule, Sweden 2004

Our competition proposal for a new cultural centre sits in front of the main body of the town on a key site overlooking the natural harbour. The proposed building uses this unique location to respond to the scale of the landscape and the grand sweep of the Bay. The remote town of Lule is located on the Northern edge of the Baltic Sea, just outside the Arctic Circle. The town feels like an isolated outpost of civilization, with an atmosphere dominated by endless swathes of pine forest and an environment, which in summer provides twenty-four hours of daylight and in winter, deep snow with only a brief period of daily twilight.

Unser Wettbewerbsentwurf platziert das neue Kulturzentrum vor dem eigentlichen Stadtkrper an einen Schlsselstandort mit Blick ber die nahe gelegene Bucht. Das geplante Gebude korrespondiert in dieser einzigartigen Lage mit der Dimension und der Kontur der grandiosen Landschaft. Die entlegene Stadt Lule liegt am Nordrand des Bottnischen Meerbusens knapp unter dem Polarkreis. Eingetaucht in endlose Nadelwlder vermittelt die Stadt den Eindruck eines isolierten Auenpostens der Zivilisation in einer Gegend, in der es im Sommer 24 Stunden taghell ist und die im Winter tiefen Schnee und nur kurze Dmmerlichtphasen zu bieten hat.

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long section | Lngsschnitt

short section | Querschnitt

Vertical timber slats on the outside of the faade make an allusion to the abstract pattern of light and shade in the forest; rather like looking through a dense stand of trees. The untreated timber louvres will weather naturally with age turning silver grey, and the double skinned main faade is tied together by a steel substructure with timber both internally and externally. The new Culture Centre is conceived as a building with its functions layered vertically. The Library and Art Gallery are located on the ground and first floor. These levels also contain foyer spaces and a caf, ensuring a pluralistic and lively mix of uses on the entry level. The upper levels are dedicated to the main Concert Hall and the smaller flat floored Congress Hall. The cultural density of the proposed project, together with its prominent location in the town, give this building immense significance for the remote Arctic town of Lule.

Vertikale Holzplanken an der Auenfassade spielen mit dem abstrakten Motiv von Licht und Schatten in den Wldern. Das unbehandelte Holz wird sich mit den Jahren durch den natrlichen Verwitterungsprozess silbergrau frben. Die Innen- und Auenverkleidung der doppelschaligen Hauptfassade sind durch eine Stahl-Unterkonstruktion hinterlegt. Das neue Kulturzentrum ist als Gebude konzipiert, dessen Funktionsbereiche vertikal geschichtet sind. Bibliothek und Kunstgalerie befinden sich im Erdgeschoss und im ersten Stock. Auf diesen Ebenen finden sich auch Foyer-Bereiche und ein Caf. So ist ein vielseitiger und lebhafter Nutzungsmix in Nhe des Eingangsbereichs gewhrleistet. In den oberen Geschossen sind die Konzerthalle und die kleinere Kongresshalle vorgesehen. Aufgrund der Dichte des kulturellen Angebots des Projekts und seines herausragenden Standorts kommt diesem Bau eine immense Bedeutung fr die Stadt Lule zu.

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third floor | 3. Obergeschoss

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German National Maritime Museum Bremerhaven, Germany 2008

Our competition proposal to extend the Museum focused on a desire to see the existing Museum become connected to the water and the historic boats that form an important part of the collection. The Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, (German National Maritime Museum), was founded in the German port of Bremerhaven in 1971 as a replacement for the Museum of Marine Science in Berlin, which had been destroyed during World War II. The building designed by Hans Scharoun was first opened to the public in 1975. Constructed from light coloured brick and with his characteristically fragmented roofline, the Scharoun building was extended in 2000 by Dietrich Bangert. The two existing linked buildings sit within the heart of the old dock area; pressed between, yet somehow remote from the historic stone dock basin and the grass banked sea defences that line the mouth of the River Weser. This lack of engagement between the existing buildings and the historic dock seems at odds with the obvious practical connection and seems to undermine its role as a centre for Maritime research and conservation.

Bestimmend fr unseren Wettbewerbsentwurf zur Erweiterung des Museums ist der Wunsch, eine Verbindung zwischen dem bestehenden Museumskomplex und dem Hafenbecken zu schaffen, dessen historische Schiffe wichtige Ausstellungsstcke sind. Das Deutsche Schiffahrtsmuseum wurde 1971 in der norddeutschen Hafenstadt Bremerhaven gegrndet und sollte das im II. Weltkrieg zerstrte Berliner Museum fr Meereskunde ersetzen. Das von Hans Scharoun entworfene Museumsgebude ffnete 1975 seine Tore fr die ffentlichkeit. Der Scharoun-Bau mit seiner hellen Ziegelfassade und der charakteristischen, gebrochenen Dachlinie wurde im Jahr 2000 von Dietrich Bangert erweitert. Das bestehende Gebudeensemble befindet sich im Herzen der alten Hafenanlagen. Eingekeilt zwischen dem historischen steinernen Hafenbecken und dem grasbewachsenen Weserdeich, scheint es dennoch davon entfernt zu liegen. Diese fehlende Bezugnahme zwischen den bestehenden Bauten und dem alten Hafengelnde steht im Konflikt mit der Offensichtlichkeit der Verbindung und der Rolle des Museums als Zentrum fr maritime Forschung und der Konservierung bedeutsamer Exponate.

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entrance level | Eingangsebene

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entrance hall | Eingangshalle

elevation | Ansicht

Organised as a series of three buildings, the proposed extension is linked by a new timber boardwalk running along the edge of the historic dock. An entrance pavilion sits between the old and the new, and is entered by wide ramps that descend like slipways into the building from the northern and southern approaches. This new entrance level connects all elements of the Museum and leads directly to the waters edge in the dock basin with its floating pontoon for the historic boats. Other key public functions of the Museum are accessed directly from the entrance hall; the caf and the temporary exhibition hall both sit alongside the dock and the workshops are on the corner of the basin. A public route is maintained through the site by the boardwalk, linking the southern parts of the City with the new commercial centres to the north. In addition, the architectonic references within the new architecture to the form, scale and materiality of a boatyard are both conscious and overt thus simultaneously identifying the extension as being different to the existing listed buildings, whilst also making a new physical and conceptual link between the existing structures and the maritime tradition inherent within the site.

Der Entwurf sieht die Anordnung dreier nebeneinander stehender Gebude vor, welche von einem, der Wasserkante folgenden, Holzplankensteg verbunden werden. In zentraler Position befindet sich ein Eingangspavillon, der ber zwei weite, leicht abfallende Rampen betreten wird. Diese neue Eingangsebene verbindet alle bestehenden und neuen Gebudeteile des Museums und ffnet sich zum Hafenbecken und den Museumsschiffen. Von der Eingangshalle aus sind auch die weiteren Schlsselbereiche des Museums direkt zugnglich. Das Caf und die Halle fr Sonderausstellungen erstrecken sich beide entlang des Docks, die Werksttten befinden sich an der Ecke des Hafenbeckens. Durch das Holzdeck bleibt ein ffentlicher Verkehrsweg ber das Gelnde erhalten. Darber hinaus verweisen die neuen Baukrper durch architektonische Bezugnahme bewusst und offenkundig auf die Form, Dimensionen und Materialitt einer Schiffswerft. Es wird dadurch die Andersartigkeit des Erweiterungsbaus gegenber den bestehenden denkmalgeschtzten Bauten akzentuiert, whrend gleichzeitig eine neue physische und eine begriffliche Verbindung zwischen den bestehenden Strukturen und der maritimen Tradition hergestellt wird.

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Biography Terry Pawson | Biographie

Born 1957 Education: Kingston School of Architecture Registered Chartered Architect (ARB) Membership of RIBA Work experience as an Architect includes: Reconstruction projects in Southern Italy Terry Farrell Architects Established Pawson Williams Architects Established Terry Pawson Architects 1976 1982 1982 1982 1983 1984 1984 1986 1986 2000 2001 to date

Competitions include: 2006 - Linz Opera House, Austria (winner) 2005 - Kristiansand Performing Arts Centre (prize winner) 2004 - Centre for Contemporary Art & Theatre Carlow (winner) 2003 - Sligo Masterplan, Library and Museum (second prize) Architectural Assessor / advisor: RIBA nominated chief assessor for the following Architectural Competitions: Concert hall, Corpus Christi College, Oxford Wakefield Art Gallery Northern Architecture Centre in Newcastle Arts in Perpetuity Trust, Deptford Other: Orleans House Gallery, Richmond-upon-Thames (member of advisory board) Academic Teaching includes: Unit teacher at: University of East London Greenwich University Kingston University

1988 1991 1989 1991 1992 1996

Visiting critic and open lectures include: 2008 Dundee School of Architecture 2007 Open Lecture at Arch + Ing. Austria 2004 Open lecture at the Bauhaus School of Architecture, Germany 2003 Patterson Memorial Lecture, Cheltenham Professional Architect member of the external University course validation committee for the architectural degree and diploma courses at: Kingston University Kent Institute of Art & Design 2002 2004

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Projects and competitions 2001-2008 Projekte und Wettbewerbe

2001 Tall House, Private House Wimbledon, UK Commission (Built) Vernon Street Offices, Former West London Magistrates Court, London, UK Commission (Built) St Marys Garden Hall, Wimbledon, UK Commission (Built) Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, UK Commission (Unbuilt) Hessen Regional Parliament Building, Wiesbaden, Germany Invited competition The German National Literature Archive & Schiller Museum Invited competition Beulah Road Studios, Office Building, Wimbledon, UK Commission (Unbuilt) American Church in London, UK Commission (Unbuilt) Polka Theatre for Children, Wimbledon, UK Commission (Unbuilt) Hastings Castle Visitors Centre, Hastings, UK Commission (Unbuilt) 2002 National Museum of Switzerland, Zurich Invited competition New Gallery for the Brandhorst Collection, Munich, Germany Invited competition New Centre for Arts and Craft, Pocklington School, York Invited competition 2003 Kingstown Street, Private House Remodelling, London, UK Commission (Built) Sligo Library, Museum and Masterplan, Republic of Ireland Open competition (2nd prize) Performing Arts Centre, Lincoln, UK Invited competition St Josephs Church Hall, Kingston upon Thames Competition Winner (Unbuilt) 2004 New British Embassy, Algiers, Algeria Invited competition Admark House, Graphic Design Studio, Ewell, UK Commission (Built) Lule Culture Centre, Sweden Invited competition VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland Open competition (Winner) Rochester and Upnor Castles, Visitor Centres, Kent, UK Feasibility Study 2005 Home Park Road, 2 Private Houses, Wimbledon, UK Commission (Unbuilt) Limerick Arts Village, Republic of Ireland Open competition Cesis Castle Visitor Centre, Latvia Feasibility Study Folk Music Centre, Vstervik, Sweden Open competition Riverside Quarters, Restaurant & Bar, London, UK Commission Neubrandenburg Housing Masterplan, Germany Invited competition Folkestone Performing Arts Centre, UK Invited competition Art Gallery, Bremen, Germany Invited competition Library & Museum, Castleford, UK Invited competition Giants Causeway Visitors Centree, Northern Ireland Open competition Concert Hall, Grafenegg Castle, Austria Invited competition Lant Street, Residential Development, London, UK Scheme Design 2006 St Thomass Church Hall, London, UK Invited competition Runcorn Old Town, Housing Development, Runcorn, UK Invited competition KHM Wien, Museum Redevelopment, Vienna, Austria Open competition Northern Quarter, Department Store, Portsmouth, UK Invited competition Bombshelter Conversion, Sauna/Spa, Wimbledon, UK Commission (Built) Opera House, Linz, Austria Open competition (Winner) 2007 New British Embassy, Tbilisi, Georgia Invited competition Science Centre, Heilbronn, Germany Invited competition Leventis Art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus Invited competition Twin Houses, Private Houses, Kingston upon Thames, UK Commission 2008 Museum Berggruen, Gallery Redevelopment, Berlin, Germany Invited competition Opera House, Redevlopement, Cologne, Germany Invited competition German National Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, Germany Invited competition (Mention) Wickersley Road, Residential Development, London, UK Commission NOSPR Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland Invited competition

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TPA Staff 2001-2008 | TPA Mitarbeiter

Terry Pawson Jeremy Browne Gustav Ader Nick Fleming Ruth Edwards Gareth Hunter Gilly Pawson Antje Ulrich Nick McGough Raoul Kunz Tom Stemmer Asako Nishimura Natalie Galland Tina Baxter Andy Gowing Sebastian Reinehr Andy Summers Joanna Malitzki Nigel Bailey Chris Milan Maria Reinehr Bernadett Babus Tobias Stiller Stefan Ohler Pierre Thielen Edith Steiner Patrick Haymann Wolfgang Malzer Johanna Wiesinger Andreas Weber Justyna Pollak Kristian Foster

Acknowledgement | Danksagung Many people have contributed to this book, not least of which are all the staff members who through their commitment and hard work over the past seven years have helped to design the buildings. Photographs | Fotografien Vernon Street by Nick Guttridge except page 14/15 and 20 by Terry Pawson Architects St Marys Garden Hall by Tom Scott Tall House by Richard Bryant Cheltenham and Tall House models by Eamonn OMahony All other photographs, images and renderings by Terry Pawson Architects Models | Modelle Tall House and Cheltenham by Jackie Hands Linz facade by Gary Kugele of Abbit models Printing | Druck Paul Green Printing of Hackney Graphic design | Grafische Gestaltung Tobias Stiller

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