name: common ruins. year:2019. client: young architects competition. situation:3rd place

There is a charm in the ruins that is a reference to architecture dissolved in time and an introduction to the superiority of nature over architecture. A magical moment when architecture gives way to ruins. Mote Chandeniris Castle is a complete ruin. Lost like an enchanted mirage on a calm lake surrounded by dense vegetation in the French countryside, these ruins have been seen by the Institut d’Artagnans, a fund for the protection of international artistic heritage thanks to more than thirty thousand shareholders. This institute, through the platform of the international competition of young architects, and judged by ten architects and artists, including Aldo Kibic, Rudy Ricoto, Anish Kapoor, Eduard Trosoldi, Romain Delam, Julien Marcos, Marco Amoso, Luca Dolmeta, Degar Egretson, Alfonso Femia and Oliver Chabot from Young designers are invited to compete with each other to highlight the natural charms of this castle and revive it and turn this ruin into contemporary tourist accommodation.

Our main focus in revitalizing the 13th century castle is the importance of living at different levels and different layers of time. That the audience is free to find their narrative through the invisible borders of history, memory and memory and to remember this distinction at will or to recreate it. A narrative that plays both the past and the present and recreates it. In this way, it dissolves in time among the glass boxes, suspended paths, eastern garden and water reflection and creates its own dream.

Past, present, future. The past that has shaped the history of the castle, from the 13th century until now, the memories of the castle remain in it, but memories that are never the same as the moment it happened. Memories are vague and vague and do not give any clear picture of the past, but they create a picture of the future in the form of shadows from the past with the lived experience of the present.

The main concept of this project is not to separate the times from each other but rather to distort the times together. The image that each one put on the other. Memories are timeless and blend together like dreams. It is no longer a building of the existing body, but an image of the existing body, and contemporary man is also an image of himself and nature.

The main axis of the space has been preserved and strengthened as a connecting line in the space, and the suspended paths inside the castle, on the water and in the garden connect the spaces to each other. In order to use the potential of the entire project site, the castle, the garden and the moat have been used together, and by designing suspended paths between the castle and the extension, the designed garden has turned into a pleasant space and regained its use.

The strategy used to achieve the desired concept was to integrate open, semi-open, and closed places and to create shadows by development transparency inside the space and reflection of water in the area of the project.

Suspended paths inside the castle, on the water, and in the garden connect the spaces to each other.

The nature inside the walls of the castle is kept as a symbol of history and time, and the maintenance of the humidity of the walls is done with the help of a metal grid along with plants with high water absorption, which are placed on the walls of the castle, and this factor is the idea of maintaining The walls are made with the help of nature.

The idea of the project is to cultivate the imagination of the visitors of the castle. For this purpose, the half-ruined castle is rebuilt only to the extent that it preserves it and with the help of the half-ruined walls and the nature born inside it due to this deterioration, as well as the cloudy and dreamy sky of the area, which has become the roof of the spaces.

It has created a dreamy and dreamy atmosphere.

Due to the thought of eliminating private property in the castle, the night rest area has been moved to the annexed part of the project located at the end of the site and in the main axis, it has been designed as a space derived from the proportions of the castle in the water. In this way, the extension section, inspired by the historical castle on the water, creates a contemporary atmosphere inside the water and, due to its location at the end of the ox site, introduces the guests to various views of the castle along the way.

These glass boxes are a reflection of the history of the castle and the contemporary man, and the fluid movement of people inside the spaces is possible with their help.

The public spaces of the project are designed inside the castle.