Fan Gao

The project explores themes of architectural languages by proposing belvedere architectures within the context of Zluty Kopec in Brno. The experience of private accommodation, initially within the context of Edinburgh, is unfolded and reflected onto the Brno site as a series of belvedere fragments. Specific fragments are taken as initial moments through the making process. These are seen through the metaphor of words, forming vocabularies and gradually become phrases of a poem, reinventing and transforming themselves and ultimately, they constitute a complete spatial promenade.

The proposal is for a rehabilitation center which operates as a complement to the adjacent hospital. The architecture takes the existing views across the site as criteria, forming a belvedere building that links the interior and exterior spaces and echoes the language of the surrounding allotments and buildings. Intended to make these views a culmination of the building, a cluster of belvederes formed by certain architectural languages are situated on the hill, guiding and reinforcing the visitors emotional and physical response. As the memories unfold, the specific components formed by the fragments become the beginning of a spatial and tectonic experience, that gradually introduces the walkway, louvre, cantilever and canopy, which aspire to form a poetic architectural experience.