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Space and Technique

Space is less complex than Place. It has physical aspects, in architecture, they are defined by technical means. Place has to have more – a meaning – the matter for memory and emotions. Technique is less complex than Technology. It represents the set of skills and procedures to achieve a predetermined goal. Technology is purposeful assemblage of different techniques. We will speak about practice of articulating Space using Techniques in designing the building that does not belong to a recognized type. This building is representing articulation problems occurring in absence of the established pattern, known model and examples. It is pars pro toto for big class of emerging new sorts of edifices. In our case: a very big restaurant, seating thirteen hundred guests, three times a day, in an all- inclusive seaside summer resort Thousand questions open: How to fit a megastructure in pristine pine forest? How to design efficient kitchen and swift food distribution? How to formulate covered terrace for thousand guests? Could it be oversized mediterannean porch, or isn’t it silly to go vernacular? How protect terrace from sun and rain? Can open space be mechanically cooled? What atmosphere, what ambiance to envision? Is it possible to find an image, an idea of such space: in paintings, in memory, in literature? How to achieve financial and temporal constraints? Less than four million euros for five thousand square meters - to be build, furnished, equipped and fully functional in seven months, from October till May. How to balance design methods discipline with ad hoc ideas? How to enable client to participate but not to overstep and trespass? How to run and not loose breath? Will frustration overcome efficiency? What is realistic ambition: to do functional space and appropriate construction? Or to achieve meaningful Place through new complex Technology?

space and place ; techniques and technology ; ambition and frustration

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