51N4E . Point Supreme Architects . photos: © Sepideh Farvardin
The C-Mine masterplan preserves the generosity of the current open landscape and proposes a series of principles for enrichment, experimentation and flexible future growth. It concentrates hard activities on the edges and places soft interventions in the center that act as ‘markers’; these articulate intersecting paths. The new C-Mine Atelier building complex is positioned on the main footpath that crosses the site, in proximity with the existing row houses. It hosts workshops, ateliers, an exhibition space and artists’ residences. It consists of two main buildings, the kunsthal and the workshop, and two defined outdoor spaces with annexes; a public square and an enclosed garden.
These two diagonally positioned public spaces are complimentary in character; the square is urban in character, hosting the main entrances of both the kunsthal and workshop, as well as a café, a greenhouse and mobile forest. The enclosed garden is a wild, dense piece of nature in the middle of the field, an outdoor room, unique and mysterious thanks to the tall, surrounding wall made of red bricks.
Artists’ residences are attached on one side of the garden wall and function as an intermediate space between the enclosed garden and the residential neighbourhood at the north side. The complex is a pilot project that acts on multiple scales, a place where art, history, neighbourhood and landscape meet and reinforce each other. It is part of a group of strategic developments and aims to become a hub for activity and new dynamics for the whole site.
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