ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA DE DONOSTIA

CATEDRA DE PROYECTOS VII

PROJECTS for MONTAUBAN & ALBI

architectural design VII · GROUP 66

professor Iñigo de Viar

SCHOOL YEAR 2015-16 - 1st TERM PROGRAM

Previous presentation · foreword

Our aim this year is to work on the french Languedouc region: Montauban and  Albi in the first term, and in Toulouse in the second term. These cities are called the french villes roses, because of the pink color of the brick which constructs most of the buildings. Each student will have to choose (both terms) the area where to work on the different plots suggested.

1^st term/ A project for Montauban · A project for Albi

Montauban

Montauban is the so called Bastide (the type of city), is the origin of this kind of cities. The origin of the city is over the river Tarn, soon the faubougs were added (century XIII-XV). During the XVI century the diverse quartiers joined (Villebourbon, Villenouvelle, etc.) enclosed into the new fortifications. The quartiers maintain some original features still today. The city of Motauban has suffered many wars during past centuries, which destroyed  different parts of the city. Eventually, during the reign of Louis XIII and the Cardinal Richelieu (1629) starts the final reconstruction. The place principale (main square), the Cathedral and new convents were erected at these time.

Some thoughts about the project  plot in Motauban

In the area we find the Pont Vieux and the Château Renaud. The Château Renaud is, in origin, a “C” shape structure and after many changes, nowadays is the current the Ingres Museum. The present status of the square in front the Museum is due to an sventramento (slice and open the city; voiding) of the area in front the Church of Saint-Jaques. Into this urban reform the Library, the History Museum (former Stock Exchange Palace) and the new city hall were added to the square.

This is the plot to develop the exercises during this first term: the square besides de Ingres Museum (where the stairs and lift are) and the former Carmelite Convent. A new hall for temporary exhibitions connected with the museum Ingres-Bourdelle will be designed. During the Taller Integrado (workshop) the layout of the river park and a floating platform will be developed. The functional part of the project is simple, so the success of the design will be to find the right urban role of the volume, which will connect the river level and the upper city, erasing the traffic of the zone.

Albi

This kind of city is called Episcopal City, not only for the presence of the Saint Cecilia Cathedral but also because the Bishop was the Lord of the city (After the Albigensian Heresy to the French Revolution). The whole in composed by the Cathedral and the Berbis Palace (Episcopal palace until 1791), a great ensemble of cylinders made in brick over the river Tarn.

Albi, a humble gallic-roman village at the beginning, was converted into diocese around the 4th century. The crusade against the albigensians made by Innocentius III reinforced the power of the Bishop on his fight against the cathars (the catharus or “good men”). A symbol of this power was the construction of the cathedral and the Berbie palace, both made in brick (fast and cheap construction) during the years 1282 to 1390 into a late gothic style.

About the Cathedral: Is a one-bay structure with a ring of chapels which are cylindrical buttresses, shown at the exterior. Constructed by Dominique of Florence in 1400, in 1480 the tower was finished and the baldachin made in stone was added in 1515-35. Into the bay, in the middle, at the same time a stone chorus was made (a church into the church). The interior was painted with the fresco technique in blue background by italian painters (1509-12)

During the centuries XVII-XVII the palace Berbie was boosted and then refurbished. A rococo garden was added over the platform. Eventually the countess of Toulouse-Lautrec, mother of the artist, granted the Palace Barbie to be converted into a museum to contain the work of her son. From 1922 more than 2000 works from Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901, born in Albi) are exhibited there.

Four quarters grew around the core of the cathedral and palace; Castelviel at the bottom of the tower, Les Combes and the Pont-Vieux, at the river Tarn brink, Saint Salvi around the namesake collegiata church and the Place de la Pile, towards the Cathedral. Plenty of medieval and renaissance houses remain, as French style hotel (“U” shape houses) do.

Some thoughts about the project  plot in Albi

The plot to develop the project is the Place de la Pile, at the back of the Church apse. The church has never been on its own, the current situation is due to the sventramento or opening made in the area during the 19th century, targeting to isolate the building to find an ideal view. Before, the building was into a merge of alleys and houses, some of them attached to the Church. Our present proposal, once establish the current situation, is to rethink or amend the relation between the Place (old market square) and the apse of the cathedral. This new relation will be made by means of a new building, over a portico, to harbor temporary exhibitions of the close Toulouse-Lautrec Museum. The historic quarter, has been rightly paved and refurbished by the office of Bernard Huet, finishing in 2005.

INFORMATION to be downloaded

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Montauban:
. descarga de la cartografía histórica y actual (current plans)
. descarga de fotografías y láminas antiguas (antique images)
. descarga de documentación referente a los edificios del entorno (surroundings)
. descarga de la documentación del Château Ingres-Bordele (Château Ingres-Bordele)
. descarga del Dossier realizado por Sylvie Assassin y Barthelemy Dumons (Dossier)
Albi:
. descarga de la cartografía histórica y actual (current plans)
. descarga de fotografías y láminas antiguas (antique images)
. descarga de documentación referente a los edificios  (surroundings)
. descarga de las fotografías de la visita realizada por los profesores (professors photos)

OPTIONS

Each student have two options where to work. Albi or Montauban. The differents requirements and programs  are as follows.

OPTION 1: MONTAUBAN

MUSEUM INGRES-BOURDELLE EXTENSION

The area chosen to develop the project lies at the bottom of the Ingres-Bourdelle Museum, on the little square   between the East facade  of the Museum and the former wall of the Carmen Convent. Close to the Tarn river and the historical bridge at the entrance of the city. Bank of the river nowadays occupied by parking lots and a road. Many urban features occur at the place, which the student must understand and interpret.

• The Château-Museum Ingres-Bourdelle, typical french hôtel arrangement, is, based on the medieval plinth and massive brick construction a symbol of the city.
• The Ingres Museum itself in the Château; created due to the grant by the painter Jean-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) of many of his work to his own city. Later, an exhibition room dedicated to the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) was added.
• The containing wall between the city and the river.
• The river park of the Tarn at the south - with the tributary Tescou and the little island- and the antique bridge. Will be part of the Taller Integrado-workshop

In this area -around 1650 sqm- we propose the design of an extension of the museum, connected with the Château. This building must help to connect the river bank level and the city and will include the design of public areas and gardens. The construction will not take up more than 700 sqm. over the square.

The group (students)  will develop the programme of uses at the beginning.  A guide for the programme:

• Temporary exhibitions room/entrance hall                                    500 sqm
• Conference room for 200 people                                                 200 sqm
• Bookshop                                                                                 150 sqm
• coffee shop/restaurant                                                               350 sqm
• Restroom                                                                                      -
• Free exterior area                                                                           -
• Covered exterior area                                                                     -

                                                                                 Total     around  1200 sqm

                                                               Maximum ground floor area    700 sqm

OPTION 2: ALBI

MUSEUM TOULOUSE-LAUTREC EXTENSION

The area chosen for this second option is located between the apse of the Cathedral and the rear square. This square appeared because the 19th century sventramenti aiming to isolate the cathedral.

The exercise aims to create different squares, maybe two, by means of a new building constructed over a portico, containing in the piano nobile,  the extension of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum.

The area of around 5200 sqm must be rearranged, taking care of the different “faces” with the new building, the main temporary room.

The group (students)  will develop the programme of uses at the beginning.  A guide for the programme:

• Temporary exhibitions room/entrance hall                                      500 sqm
• Conference room for 100 people                                                   100 sqm
• Entrance hall                                                                               100 sqm
• Bookshop                                                                                     50 sqm
• coffee shop                                                                                   50 sqm
• Restroom                                                                                        -
• Free exterior area                                                                             -
• Covered exterior area                                                                       -

                                                                                        Total    around   800 sqm

                                                               Maximum ground floor area         - sqm

INTEGRATED WORKSHOP

1^st term integrated workshop development

The “integrated workshop/taller integrado” will be held one in three Wednesdays. The aim is to join different subjects under one design or architectural project. The architectural design will be developed until architectural draft project (anteproyecto) into Architectural Design VII, later will be developed in terms of structural, construction and building installations, together with the professors of other subjects.

A FLOATING RESTAURANT and a platform for boats or pier  on the Tarn river bank will be designed. The location is free, but may be interesting to choose a site near the park area of the Château-Museo Ingres-Bourdelle for those who work in Montauban and at the bottom of the garden of the palace Berbie-Museo Toulouse-Lautrec, for those who work in albi.

The next elements will be developed:

• Floating Platform minimum 250 sqm: 100/150 sqm for the restaurant for a little restaurant/pavilion and an extra area for embarquement, jetty and store room for boats.
• A bridge joining the platform and the river bank no less than 15/20 meters long.

The material and quantity of work to be delivered will be fixed during the development of the exercise.

more infomation to download (pdf):

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