Kakolanmaki Competition Sketches
These sketches are the result of a series of dialogues from the Kakolanmaki competition as we worked at solving questions related to site, existing buildings which were not to be removed, and the rather stringent requirements of the project brief. Increasingly, our explorations and discussions led us to move underground, beneath the datum of the earth’s surface and to place our new programmatic elements, large, open spaces which could not be held within the limits of the existing buildings, nor placed on the site in new containers, beneath the surface of the existing Kakola and remand plazas. Lit from above through translucent plaza floors, these spaces, along with the new addition of the hub, soon became the heart of the project.
The site concept sketches deal with ideas which emerged from a reading of Micrea Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane, in which the author discusses the emergence of society as pockets of order within a larger chaos. The prison, then, is an attempt to remove dangerous disorderly elements from within society at large to a place where they may be contained: chaos within order. Sketches: Vanessa Keith, Marsh Kriplen, Carlos Soubie.
Container and contained, buildings, plazas, ring and path
Chaos and cosmos, ordering systems
Container and Contained, concept ideograms
Path elevations and grade changes
Underpinning the rock for construction below
Structural support for existing buildings at plaza level
Bracing through rock and shifting the structural grid
Site conditions and relationship to the ground
Site Conditions
Above and below ground
Kakola plaza study
Hub ground floor
Remand lower level sketch
Ring path tunnel with gallery
View adjacent to perimeter wall
Plan and section of the first concept sketch
View into ring path tunnel
Kakola plaza study