UIA Info Point

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"Flow and Collection" - Torino, IT 2008 : UIA Info Point for the XXIII World Congress of Architecture - Design Competition for a structure for display, gathering, and media

Jason Vigneri-Beane <jcvb@splitstudio.com>

Project Statement

This proposal seeks to promote a continuous experience from the piazza to the interior of the Info Point and back to the piazza. This building is essentially the materialization of two intersecting corridors. One corridor allows circulation flows to stream through the building and is lined with display surfaces for exhibitions. The other corridor collects flows into programmatic areas such as outdoor seating, the press area, the meeting point for the UIA radio, and an area for internet access. (Support spaces such as the storage room and restroom are nested between two internet banks. The restroom is housed within a pouch in the interior lining but is accessed from outside the building.) Interior programs are only loosely distinguished from each other by the differential curvature of the building's surfaces in order to sponsor both the separation and mixture of different populations that would access the building for both formal and informal uses.