혐오시설에 대한 또다른 시각은 이번 프로젝트를 시작하는 원동력으로 장소에 대한 정의를 재정립, 주변을 아우르는 거대한 이정표 구축을 위해 시작된다. 독일 건축가 Erick van Egeraat가 지향하는 건축환경은 기존 쓰레기 소각장 및 화력발전소의 네거티브한 이미지를 쇄신하는 포지티브 디자인으로 화력발전소의 거대한 불꽃을 건축적 어휘로 재구성한 픽셀 패턴 파사드로 재현한다. 먼저 레벨따라 단으로 접혀진 형상과 공장을 연상시키는 지붕형태는 주위에 위치한 산업환경 셋팅과 도시의 역사적 상징인 성당의 재해석을 연속하며 도시를 대표하는 랜드마크로 디자인된다. 여기에 갈색톤의 알루미늄 판넬에 서로 다른 크기로 펀칭된 패턴은 레벨이 상승할 수록 밀도를 달리하며 상징적인 이미지를 배가시킨다. 무엇보다 기존 장소에 대한 기억의 리부팅, 재정립은 도시와 건축의 관계를 밀착시켜 장소성을 확고히 한다.
reviewed by SJ,오사
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed a waste incinerator and power plant in the Danish city of Roskilde with a spotty perforated facade that lights up at night as if there's a fire burning within
Erick van Egeraat, the architect behind the underground Drents Museum, won an international competition in 2008 to design a plant to incinerate waste, turning it into heat and electricity for Roskilde and the surrounding region.
The scale of the building – known as the Incineration Line – means it can become an instant landmark against the backdrop of the small city and the flat Danish landscape. The design aims to express its function and the cutting-edge sustainable technology used inside to convert waste into energy.
Photography is by Tim van de Velde.
The stepped and angled lower portion of the building evokes the rooftops of the factories that surround the structure in its industrial setting.
A 97-metre spire towers above the landscape and wraps around the plant's chimney, creating a contemporary counterpoint to the steeples of the city's historic cathedral.
"Although almost 1,000 years apart, the cathedral's twin towers made of warmly coloured stone and brick, and the new iconic glowing incinerator, have now together become the novel guardians of the city's otherwise modest presence in the Skagerrag landscape," said Van Egeraat, whose past projects also include a mixed-use block with a corner that opens like a pair of curtains.
The plant's functional core is enveloped in a climatic barrier that is surrounded by a more expressive faceted skin made from umber-coloured aluminium plates.
A pattern of differently sized and spaced circular holes was laser cut into the panels and increases in density as it reaches the spire.
Lighting concealed behind this layer filters through the holes at night and the light sources can be individually programmed to create shifting patterns of colour.
"At night the backlit perforated facade transforms the incinerator into a gently glowing beacon – a symbol of the plant's energy production," said the architect.
"Several times an hour a spark of light will gradually grow into a burning flame that lights up the entire building. When the metaphorical fire ceases, the building falls back into a state of burning embers."
To ensure the light sources themselves are hidden, they are fixed to the outer skin and the light is reflected from the inner surface so it glows evenly through the perforated facade.
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