The Architecture ofARKAN ZEYTINOGLU

GEOMETRY OF LIGHT

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Dwelling for the Light

Dwelling for the lightgoing invisible filling up the spacewhere it staysrestlessdisappearing in my mind

not looking but seeingwhen I close my eyesand just listen to the colorstill it gets so darkbeing mean

54 I CONDENSED CITY

CONDENSED CITY I Studies on the Typology of the City, Vienna, Austria 1992

The Void

left page The Void, 1992pencil on sketching paper, 60 x 41.5 cm

right page Ring of Vienna, 1992pencil on sketching paper, 65 x 41.5 cm

“Condensed City” analyzes Vienna’s structure of concentric rings in six steps: inner city/Ringstraße (ring-road)/inner urban districts/Gürtel (outer ring-road)/outer urban districts/suburbs (as far as the Vienna Woods). The development, density, traffic routes and empty spaces of the individual parts are reconstructed and interpreted in a metaphoric plan. The studies on topological densification and void are themselves condensed in a “building.” “Condensed City” compresses “the city” in one of its in-between spaces.

76 I CONDENSED CITY

right page Chronology of the Forms, 1992pencil on sketching paper, 110 x 90 cm

left page, aboveSection - Floor Plan, 1992pencil on sketching paper, 110 x 50 cm

left page, belowFloor Plan-Section-Elevation-The Grid, 1992pencil on sketching paper, 110 x 70 cm

The cross-section ofVienna from the coreto the fringe isprogrammaticallycompressed into theemptiness to theRing.

98 I EXPO 2010 SHANGHAI

THE AUSTRIAN PAVILION AT THE EXPO 2010 I Shanghai, China 2008 – 2010with SPAN Architecture & Design

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Bent Geometry

Music and architecture have long been engaged in a stimu-lating relationship with each other. For the Austrian Pavilion in Shanghai the “sound” was the driving force that reflects the harmonious continuity of music in the form of the architectural volume. The basic conflict of the weightiness and rigidity of archi-tecture seems to be dispelled – outside and inside flow together and the seamless transitions between the individual sequenc-es of space allow a flow of movement to develop that leads the visitor from the entrance area through the exhibition site to the exit. The resonance room forms the centre of the pavilion, in which Austria’s musical legacy from classical to the present day is presented by means of audio-visual stimulation. The complex curved surfaces could be pre-cisely calculated and produced only by means of topology, a branch of mathematics. Spatial vaulting as rhythmical movement within a body of sound.

ROOFTOP MH1 I Vienna, Austria 2004 – 2008