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Fritz Weber (4th place): Theme: Discreet
Fascination by Means of Cultural Technology. The locality and
agenda of the ACI imply a number of interrelated responses to
an existing, preshaped situation which has determined the theme
of the design as a whole. The public core aims at the greatest
possible openness and harbors intense attractions, such as performers,
exhibitions...and media publicity. These functions amount to
a consciously chosen conciseness in the structural system and
the linear arrangement of rooms on the regular concrete construction.
There is an inclined glass screen on the side of the building
that faces the street which is meant as an element of optical
mannerism...encoded with moving people, groups communicating,
a transparency of interconnected relations.
Jury's comments: This scheme was valued
for the ingenious manner in which its twenty-story inclined glass
facade was canted toward Fifth Avenue, thereby giving it an unusual
inflection in respect to the street. While the optical screen
facade with its lighting, silk-screened images and built-in photo-sensitive
cells was appreciated for its representational elan, there was
some doubt expressed as to whether it would have been possible
to provide adequate light and view to the internal spaces. |
