Baumschlager & Eberle: multifunctional building, Rohner Port, Austria.This is the third stage in a three-phase process that is seeing the gradual transformation of a former gravel pit Noun 1. gravel pit - a quarry for gravel stone pit, quarry, pit - a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" on the coast of Lake Constance Noun 1. Lake Constance - a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River Bodensee, Constance Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany . Completed in 2000, an eight metre cantilevered concrete tube contains the port office, with elevated lakeside views. The second stage, completed in 2004, comprised the harbour itself, with a shore wall constructed in local stone that provides a sustainable habitat A sustainable habitat is an ecosystem that produces food and shelter for people and other organisms, without resource depletion and in such a way that no external waste is produced. Thus the habitat can continue into future time without external infusions of resource. for animals, plants and other waterborne organisms. The third stage, illustrated here, provides the port with a multifunctional building that sits at the head of the harbour, containing a boat garage at low level and a function room above. The 14m high structure, that appears to rise directly out of the water, adopts an abstracted silhouette of surrounding trees that gives the 8.8m high clubroom club·room n. A room used for meetings or activities of a club. Noun 1. clubroom - a room used for the activities of a club a unique quality of dappled dap·pled adj. Spotted; mottled. [Middle English, probably from Old Norse depill, spot, splash, diminutive of dapi, pool. light. Externally the concrete superstructure is covered in what the architects describe as a glaze, which when struck by light appears to glisten in the changing daylight conditions. R.G. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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