{"id":32928,"date":"2016-10-04T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T10:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/dreamdune\/"},"modified":"2016-10-04T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:16:07","slug":"dreamdune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/dreamdune\/","title":{"rendered":"DreamDune"},"content":{"rendered":"

DreamDune\u00a0was a workshop held in Nida, Lithuania in the summer of 2016 – part of the 36th European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA 2016).\u00a0Nida is located in the Curonian Spit,\u00a0a 98\u00a0km long, thin, curved sand-dune spit\u00a0that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea coast,\u00a0a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared by\u00a0Russia and Lithuania.\u00a0The Curonian Spit is home to the highest moving (drifting) sand dunes in Europe. Their average height is 35 meters, but some attain a height of 60 meters.<\/p>\n

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photo by Alexandra Kononchenko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nida is a meeting of Sands and Forests. Just like the millions of grains in the sand dunes, each strand of timber is one in a million.\u00a0Arrayed to allow, (or not allow) the passage of light & air through the structure and into the voids created beneath its surface, this cross laminated timber structure is an abstraction of the formation of a sand dune over time.\u00a0The form pays homage to Nida\u2019s unique environment – where the symbiosis of forest and sand defines, shelters and physically shapes Nida. The forests of the Curonian Spit (which so critically hold the very dunes protecting Nida in place) are here translated into a more fluid form and allowed to dissolve into the dunes.\u00a0DreamDune provides a series of social gathering space divided between the positive and negative dimensions of the structure. Capturing a route through the sand dunes, the external positive face acts as a timber amphitheatre to sit, play and gaze at the surrounding trees & stars. Underneath, in the negative plane, two seating booths sit diagonally opposed within the form, providing a more private social function and capturing two distinct views across the dunes.\u00a0The installation is for public use and is\u00a0useable to beachgoers\u00a0throughout the year.<\/p>\n

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photo by Alexandra Kononchenko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Team<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Tutors:<\/p>\n

Eoin McCooey \/ Ireland
\nRoibe\u00e1rd \u00d3 M\u00e1in\u00edn \/ Ireland
\nDobrin Petkov \/ Bulgaria<\/p>\n

Partecipanti:
\nAnastasiya Hancharyk \/ Belarus
\nChlo\u00eb Reyda \/ Belgium
\nDennis Tran \/ Netherlands
\nDorien Tulp \/ Netherlands
\nElena Dzinovic \/ Serbia
\nElias Grip \/ Sweden
\nFausta Dir\u017eyt\u0117 \/ Lithuania
\nJulia Eliasson \/ Sweden
\nKarolina Kru\u010delyt\u0117 \/ Lithuania
\nMartina Callus \/ Malta
\nMatic Kocjan \/ Slovenia
\nNatalia Malejka \/ Scotland
\nP\u00e9n\u00e9lope Mandlalle \/ France
\nRasita Art \/ England
\nSamanta Lua \/ Italy
\nYulea Moskalets \/ Moldova<\/p>\n