Cross tracks
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
Program
Architecture and urban design (MPARC), MSc
Publicerad
2023
Författare
Juusela, Erkka
Modellbyggare
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Sammanfattning
When looking at the current management structures surrounding large
scale temporary events we see that
they are often in the hands of few organizers (Olympic committee, FIFA,
FIS) yet the actual impact is often felt
by the local community and biodiversity. After the impact continues
when often these areas fall derelict or
at least are underused. This can be
seen when looking at Beijing Olympic 2022, FIFA World Cup 2022 and
possibly Fis Planica 2023. There is
an evident need for restructuring the
management and building process of
these events.
This project discusses event architecture and how structures can be
built to support the event as well as
the local community further on. The
purpose is to examine the current
building process and to illustrate an
alternative to a permanent building
process by using temporary and
mobile structures that reflect their
program and local identities in their
visual form.
The project started from a personal fondness towards cross country
skiing and uses one of these events
as a case study to illustrate the larger
topic of creating event spaces with
its problems and opportunities at a
manageable scale. Some facets of
the project aim to be more universal
such as the discussion between added flexibility and local identity as well
as implementing plasticity to the surrounding permanent building stock
whereas some are specific to the
local case study namely the chosen
structures, material use, location and
apperance of the structures. These
facets were studied and discussed at
different points during the project.
In the thesis the normative and
usually top down process of building
permanent event structures for temporal use is mapped. The concept
of temoparlity is later investigated
through the case study of the cross
country ski world cup event in Falun.
This is done by exploring how small
scale structures that are permanent
in material use, temporary in placement and arrangement and mobile in
their nature. The case study brings
together short term and long term
needs for both the event and community
in five structures that all influence different topics (social, cultura,
commercial, public and private) in
the area and have different apperances based on their programmatic
needs and physical context whilst still
remaining felxible enough to support
changes in use or placement.
Beskrivning
Ämne/nyckelord
Temporary/Mobile Architecture, local community, event architecture, Falun