Entwerfen.

Entwerfen.

This series of posts contains some initial considerations and ideas regarding how Le Touquet could be transformed in terms of a wider master plan; which engages with the town and surrounding landscape as a whole.

Some initial proposals involve:

The re-connection of the various, currently separated, areas within the town and landscape; primarily focusing on providing a series of physical and visual links between the town and the sea edge.

Providing a series of focal points at the end of these routes, that either draw elements of the town out onto the sea edge such as hotels, a conference centre, leisure facilities and observation towers as well as a reengagement with the nature landscape through open spaces and piers.

Breaking up the barrier between the sea and the town, which currently is in the form of the concrete expanse of the promenade and road system, instead providing pedestrian based, natural spaces and integrating a new tram link.

Developing a bold but contextually based design language that defines new interventions as part of a whole.

Peterskirche.

Sketchbook 08.

Sketchbook 07.

Renassiance Vienna .

The centre of Vienna, originally surrounded by defensive walls built in the Italian style was updated according to the prevailing contemporary fashion, from medieval gothic, to classical renaissance and finally Baroque. Of course buildings have been added to the city subsequently, but the overall character of the city is Baroque. Major building works during the C19th were executed on the site of the renaissance city walls which were demolished in the early part of the same century, this meant that attention was focused away from the historic centre, thus preserving many buildings that may have otherwise been removed or upgraded.

These arcaded stables and court in the center of Vienna, date from the C16th Renaissance; the upper stories would have originally been open to the elements as loggias or covered walkways. Hidden, internal courtyards are common in Vienna but this example, executed in the Tuscan order, is one of the few surviving examples from its period as most properties in central Vienna were updated to conform to Baroque tastes during the C17th and C18th.

Entwerfen.

Le Touquet as both a natural (left) and man-made landscape.