Description:
 

The interdisciplinary design of the academic session 2018-19, where groups of two architects had to produce a design proposal in collaboration with civil engineers and the quantity surveyor. The task was to develop a proposal for a footbridge with a visitor centre in Gauja National Park, Latvia, celebrating its 45th anniversary.

 

The design approach we tried to pursue is similar to the one, I used in The Terminus. The building envelope was generated through a series of geometric transformations of Sigulda castle, a medieval Livonian castle, that serves as one of the park’s major curiosities. Exploration of its cultural meaning to the park, as well as the relation of all other structures, located in the park, on the site, we explored and managed to apply the deconstructive transformation of a finished architectural form (castle) as a more complicated variation of a syntax method and produce a piece, responsive both to location (history, landscape, climate and activities taking place) and formal regulations implemented by school jury and Latvian law.

 

Project Group Members: Jatiphak Boonmun & Mstislav Kochkin