2003-12-21
School at Morella
By Enric Miralles and Carmen PinosParadoxical Perimeter
In the school at Morella, it is more or less about the ambiguity, between the buildings itself and the existing landscape and topography; between inner and outer space. On the other hand, the connection between the past and the present; the physical movement and the visual experience are also building up the intact architectural value for the building.
Interwoven topography
It is believed that blending the artificial building into the existing landscape and topography is one of the ambition has been attempted to achieve by the architects.
It is not hard to see the tangible strategy adopted in order to blur the boundary between the landscape and the work of architecture. A case in point is, the similarity in shape and form arranged in the site plan and the ramp that connects classroom to dormitory. In other words, the zigzag perimeter of the ramp echoes the arrangement of classroom building in plan, and they both have soften the boundary between landscape and the building in both site plan scale and physical human movement scale.
Inner and outer space
There is also an ambiguity between inner and outer space. According to Berrizbeitia and Pollak (1999), the strategies that has been adopted to establish the inner and outer space are aiming the goal of setting a environment that when people is being in, they has the sense of being “out”; when people is out, they has the sense of being “out”.
According to Berrizbeitia and Pollak, for inside, the visual experience is akin to that outside and therefore there are no opaque walls to interrupt vision. Consequently, people may have the sense of escaping in all direction. Furthermore, for outside, light comes in from all direction, which is supplemented by additional artificial light when needed to further emphasize a sense of exterior inside. (Berrizbeitia and Pollak 1999)
Past and Present
Same as many others, letting the building recalls the past history is always been a good strategy to suit the existing pattern of the region. According to Alexander, patterns are connected, and a language that will be spoken and shared by the people within the society it is what so-called culture.
So, the architects followed the pattern which are existing on the site when they designed the building, fig 3 showing a view from ramp ( the one as fig 2), and attempt to show the similarities in form, scale of the façade of the dorm building and the topographical characteristics of the hill town.
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Endnote
Anita Berrizbeitia and Linda Pollak, Inside and outside, Rockport Publishers, Inc, 1999
Christopher Alexander, A pattern language, Oxford University Press
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