credits:

concept, design, 3d modelling, general coordination
Mirko Daneluzzo

visualizations
telegram 71 – www.telegram71.com

drawings
Mihaela Dumitru, JureHerceg, Alessandro Storari, Jan Markus Ludwig, Susanna Ernst, Siim Tuksam, Verena Lihl, Baptiste Jacob Bernard, Niya Syarova, Karl Breinesberger, Stefan Ritter, Bika Sibila Rebek

phisical models
coordination
Joseph Hofmacher
milling machine
Miljan Radojevic, Emanuel Tornquist, Katarina Barunica, Igor Szuba
assembling
Ioana Petkova, Peter Paller, Csenge Lanszki, Philipp Hatzl, François Gandon, Jurgen Strohmayer, Rangel Karaivanov, Harry Spraiter

3d print models managment
Martina Lesjak

general support
Michele Daneluzzo, Gilberto Paron

THE FLESH: mixture of resin (hard and transparend) and silicon (soft and opaque)

Glossy is the finishing of perfectly smooth, shiny, lustrous surfaces.
Glossy is artificial, aseptic, aligned to the idea of a research of perfection.
Glossy reflects the context therefore, the context is denied (the glossy object is like an alien for the context).

Matte is the finishing of dull and flat, without a shine surfaces.
Matte stores the time’s patina, it absorbs the context, it becomes the context.

AFFECTION
The body (the substance and the form) of the building becomes the tool to be affected and to affect. Its cavities are connections between you and the building, sensitive parts of the building.

Context:PLACE
The place gives you something to build the SCRIPT to design something unique.

WRINCKLE – time, memory
matter (molding character) > geometry (set of rules) > form

drawings: assembly of components

renderings: new components

This project is based on a real need of Toronto’s government to redevelop the harbourfront. According to the attitude of the city to be sensitive regarding contemporary IT issues, I propose for the site a contemporary music center composed by three institutions that togheter can provide a wide vision about music and shared experiences.
The aim of this project is to define a viscous morphology (continuous flux of matter,) that embodies all the technical equipments and structures in its thickness. while is wrapping void functional spaces. The aesthetic research its characterized by “wrinckle surfaces“ able to create special atmosphere and functional specific uses.

THE MATTER OF THE CITY
perceivable characters of the city

Physical connections
In the Postmodern age the new concept of space is strongly connected to communication networks. Toronto is a real meeting point for the culture of this transformation.
Toronto extends itself as a strip along Lake Ontario, which is great as a sea. The Harbourfront has been processed and recovered in recent years, with the former power station converted into a gallery of art, but that still retains all the memories of when Toronto was a port. Union Station is the major inter-city rail station and a major commuter rail hub in Toronto, and It is at the centre of the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, the busiest inter-city rail service area in the nation (marketed as the Corridor).
A metropolis artfully constructed according to a rational communication system. There is an idea of feeling
besieged by nature, which justifi es the city’s development as a technological device and how instrumental
rationality.

Aggressive nature
Toronto has a semi-continental climate, with a warm, humid summer and a cold winter.
Toronto’s climate is modifi ed by its location on the shores of Lake Ontario. The water in the lake ensures Toronto is warmer
in winter and cooler in summer than it would otherwise be. The Great Lakes location is also the source of Toronto’s summer humidity, which many people fi nd uncomfortable. Although Toronto is one of Canada’s warmer cities in winter, winters are still severe (also -30°), with snow on the ground most days between mid- December and mid-March.
Toronto incorporates and responds to the climate: the Canada Life Building observes the time, with its lighthouse showing the forecast for the day.

URBAN ROOMS
Because of the severe winter, the city (above all the downtown area) is provided of an intricated subterranean interlacement of public spaces, directly connected with the buildings and the public transportation (Subway-Raylway-Streetcar). ”PATH is
downtown Toronto’s underground walkway linking 27 kilometres of shopping, services and entertainment.
Follow PATH and you’ll reach your downtown destination easily in weatherproof comfort. PATH provides an important contribution to the economic viability of the city’s downtown core. The system facilitates pedestrian linkages to public transit,
accommodating more than 100,000 daily commuters, and thousands of additional tourists and residents on route to sports and cultural events. Its underground location provides pedestrians with a safe haven from the winter cold and snow, and the
summer heat.” – www.toronto.ca

OFFICIAL PLANNING
“One vision, one city, one plan” City of Toronto 1999. With this motto, the city of Toronto embarked on the project to create
the new city.
This is sketched out in a proposed urban structure that views the city through three “lenses”: areas suitable for largescale, intense development; areas suitable for substantial change and development, though not as much as in the “bigchange”
areas; and other areas where change would be very modest and gradual.
There are fi ve “big-change” areas in Toronto:
- downtown + waterfront (where so many hopes of building an image of a dynamic world city are pinned) and four subcentres or “mini-downtowns”
- Yonge-Eglinton;
- Etobicoke Centre;
- North York Centre;
- Scarborough Centre.
These roads are generally lined with low-rise buidings (one to three storeys) and parking lots and are designated “Avenues”.

WATERFRONT: Canada Malting Silos