팜트리 옵저베이션은 예술작품인 동시에
도시공간의 중요한 노드점 역활을 수행합니다.
지면에서 시작하는 나선형램프는 야자수 주위를 돌아 올라가며
최상층에 위치한 전망대로 관람자들을 인도합니다.
이러한 연속적인 공간의 흐름 속에서 관람자는 도시를 360도 회전하며
바라보는 파노라마 뷰를 경험함과 동시에 도시식생의 다양한
군집을 시즌별로 감상할 수 있습니다.
설치물은 컴퓨터 모델링을 통하여 사전에 두께, 위치, 구조적 보강 방법을
결정함으로써 비선형 구축을 보다 합리적이며 손쉽게 진행 할 수 있었습니다.
-마치 롤러코스터의 지지대를 만든 것 같네요.-
reviewed by SJ
El Mirador de la Palmera by Joaquín Alvado Bañón
is a dual-purpose art installation that serves to not only provide
structural bracing for an important palm tree grove in the Spanish town
of Daya Vieja, but also provides visitors with a long ramp that wraps
around the palm trees, terminating in a lookout high above the old city.
As visitors circumambulate around the grove of palms, they are offered
panoramic views of the city, eventually rising to a height of 10 meters,
such that they can view beyond the city boundaries and peer at the
surrounding orchards and farmlands. Through this procession, viewers can
experience both the flora of the city and, over the course of the year,
experience the change in seasons as exemplified by that flora.
The designers utilized computer modeling to determine the thickness,
location, and density of the structural supports that brace the trees
and lookout alike. The structure is supported using round bars
of either two, four, or six centimeters in diameter that are arrayed
around the trees in a strategy similar to that utilized for the building
of roller coasters.
This project exemplifies a computer-driven, digitally-arrived
structural expression that addresses dual programmatic purposes through
the mapping of complex bearing points along the trunks of six palm
trees.
from evolo