STATEMENT OF INTENT

PROPOSITIONS FOR THE SITE

choosing to keep the Rawson’s hotel and demoloshing the opposite two buildings creating all access public square cluster of buildings creating a pathway BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE SITE / The building would create a public space that accumulates peaople from all directions. Moreover, accomodating the FUSE gallery, during summer months the gap between buildings could create an outside gallery.

LEVELING THE BUILDINGS / Currently, the FUSE art gallery next to Rawson’s Hotel is lower than the hotel, therefore creating a gap between the buildings, thus to eliminate it, the future design must be 4 floors high.

‘In urban groupings, ‘...a field of objects would be seen as a unit when they are defined by some dissimilar means of organization, or when, vis some idiosyncrast of form, polarize themselves into a cogent grouping’.’

Thomas Schumacher from ‘Contextualism: Urban ideals and Deformations’, 1971