The PARKPRAXIS started out with the intention of construction totally integrated to the landscape.
They worked on is surrounded by a public park which is in turn bounded on three sides by residential buildings, with agricultural fields on the other side of the street.
The architects decided to build a construction which would not separate the city park from the fields but help them integrated into one another.
Concept The overlapping of the practices’ orthogonal, rational room layout with the romantic and free arrangement of the old tree population on the floor plan leads to a geographical penetration between trees and building. The circular tree discs form indentations in the outer shell and round courtyards inside the building. Mirror façades create an additional interconnection between building and park. The park visually doubles in size with its mirror image. The duality between building and nature disappears; the building loses its independent presence and coalesces with its surroundings. This leads to an extension and new interpretation of the green space while at the same time the service infrastructure becomes denser and positively enlivens the community’s centre. Implementation
The outer façade of the solid single-storey building consists of a curtain wall made of synthetic aluminium composite panels with a reflective stainless steel surface. The building of PARKPRAXIS is entered via a circular indentation on the corner. Via the foyer, reception and waiting room, one reaches the circular inner development which runs around the larger courtyard. All of the practice’s rooms lead to the completely glazed gallery with its views and exits to the courtyard. From there, two smaller circular rooms (subcircle distributors) develop further rooms. Each one of PARKPRAXIS is exposed according to the concept of overlapping rectangular and round forms via circular shapes. A shady plane tree with three trunks was planted in the big inner courtyard; it being the tree under which Hippocrates had taught his pupils the art of medicine. A small European black pine was planted in the circular concrete entrance area with its swirl finish. The pine’s trunk metaphorically forms the stick around which the Aesculapian snake wiggles, the symbol of human medicine. The remaining tree discs with their gravel surface contrast with the surrounding greenness.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Enter PARKPRAXIS, Unique Medical House Architectures
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Unique Design Of Glazed Apartment
August 2, 2012 – 10:17 am
This Glazed Apartment wall has three large openings, which in turn split the apartment into two absolutely disparate living atmospheres, day and night, that create visual relationships and the path between the different parts of the program. The kitchen of Glazed Apartment is in charge of articulating the whole access area and turns into a functional furniture. The unique transparent glass doors glide along the wall drive transparency sets not only between the different rooms but also with the wall itself. The Glazed Apartment bathroom is no longer understood as closed in itself but as a space on the move which flows and can already be spotted from the dwelling access. This furniture used in Glazed Apartment is characterized by the volume suspended from the ceiling and contains all the essential cooking tools. The citric yellow creates, as the customer desired, a cold, almost icy atmosphere. The concrete floor amber tinted provides its warmth to the place. The Glazed Apartment reform, build above a 70 m2 located at Gracia neighborhood Barcelona, all the inside space elements turned around with central bricks wall that is the frame.
