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Over Your City Angels Will Fly
Project details
Student
Kaiyi (Kelvin) Zhang
Programme
Unit
UG3
Year
2
'Angels' is a post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment and care centre for children fleeing from war zones. The facility transmutes Vienna’s architectural legacy of conflict, informed by Nazi and Hapsburg fortifications, into a space of comfort and healing through the use of pneumatics informed by the book The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in '68 (1999) edited by Marc Dessauce. Over a period of 14 days, the building grows and inflates at the joy of its occupying children to reveal new spaces of therapy and views of the city’s own trauma.
Plan
The ground level is informed by the bastion forts that once occupied the site.
Plan
Alongside the children, the building also holds large amounts of helium and sulfur hexafluride to enable the architecture to rise, open and lower over a 14 day cycle.
Section
Following the movement of their occupation up the building, the descent of the children brings them closer to the city.
The End of the Cycle, Section
The children of the building are released into the park, this stage marking the end of the building’s 14 day cycle.
Pneumatic Study
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