Changing things here required an appropriate artistic conclusion and an open architectural competition.“ [google translation] 5/5 https://t.co/e5sDkK0LVt
— Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph) (@SouthCaucasus) January 18, 2024
Day: January 17, 2024
thus closing the space and limiting the perception of the building. The Philharmonic is a monument, and it includes the square in front of it, both are designed as one and one whole. The law provides for its immutability and the principles of visual protection. 4/5
— Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph) (@SouthCaucasus) January 18, 2024
Now the first floor is no longer visible from the side of the sidewalk and the building is not perceived as one. If something could be changed here, it would be to arrange the open stairs and ramps on the side of the sidewalk as terraces, and not to add more to the low wall, 3/5 pic.twitter.com/CFtug3XmEv
— Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph) (@SouthCaucasus) January 18, 2024
The building was placed in the depth of the territory and an open square was left in front of it, which was needed as a space to visually perceive the shape and lightness of the entire building. 2/5 pic.twitter.com/IAENTTogfd
— Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph) (@SouthCaucasus) January 18, 2024
Irakli Zhvania: „This is why it was necessary to build these concrete sarcophagi in front of the Philharmonic and who thought of this ignorance? Open and unenclosed space was one of the important principles in the modernist architecture of that period. 1/5 pic.twitter.com/1epixD2JUB
— Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph) (@SouthCaucasus) January 18, 2024
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