Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen

Name student/ professor/ studio: karen De Roeck/ Christian Kieckens en Georg Schmidthals /  A&C_MA

This project is located on the site of the former 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. It consist in an assemblage of all kind of urban functions connecting passages from a new U-Bahn station to all intended commercial and sport facilities.

The expression of the whole building block refers to history (fascination) as to a new formal definitions (hybrid structures) by which a program is a motive for the creation of new spaces. This way the sport activities coincide with retail, giving some 'aha-Erlebniz' to the most beautiful spaces situated into the public zone.

The project want to requestion the situation of the Third Reich system, its grandeur and mystification by giving it a mirror face in which all situations are just placed in a displaced way.

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