非常感谢

Isaie Bloch

&

Gilles Retsin

，

Appreciation towards

Isaie Bloch

&

Gilles Retsin

for providing the following description:

Isaie Bloch和他的朋友Eragatory, Gilles Retsin参加 Latvia西南重镇Karosta一座公建的设计竞赛并夺得第二名。建筑基础场地开阔，业主期望在这建起一个独特的建筑。建筑师保留了现有的一些建筑，将新的功能区（公共餐区，日托中心等）放置在一个绕轴翘立的炫目立方体。这个立方体主要材料是预制混凝土板，从厚到薄，直到空的地方，由黄铜涂层的钢架过渡，这些钢架成为建筑的表面肌理，延其上，限定窗户，折入室内影响内部空间，并成为建筑表面的装饰。

This is a 2nd price winning architectural competition entry for the homemade dessert & Liepaja city council competition which asks for a public building in Karosta, a former military town in the south-west of Latvia. Karosta`s urban space is defined as a vast open terrain with unique objects or artefacts. The proposal adds a new object to this space, with a strong social agency. Despite the competition brief asking to redevelop the complete site and add a big cultural centre, the project deliberately maintains the existing fabric of garages and storage spaces located on the site.The new building is a relatively small volume, programmed with civic commonplace amenities including a canteen, a daycare centre, and a workshop located into neighbouring garage boxes / storage units.

The new object is a simple cube, rotated around its centre axis. The volume is composed of custom made prefabricated concrete panels mounted on a steel frame which transitions into a fibrous yet highly striated and rectilinear structure of thin, yellow copper coated rebar. The rebar manifests itself at times as surface, volume and strands, defining fenestration, folding into the interior space to form columns and generating ornamental features on the concrete shell.