ReGenesis: The Vault of Tomorrow

CIU

Project idea

The main idea of the project was to create a contemporary multifunctional public space while preserving the memory and form of the original farmhouse and its surrounding historic landscape.
Conceptual Focus: “The landscape is not a background, but a stage.”
Architecture becomes a medium for continuous movement, experience, and reinterpretation of the past. To revitalize the abandoned farmhouse through an architectural language that merges memory, movement, and modern usage, creating a cohesive public space.

Project description

ReGenesis symbolizes rebirth, renewal, and the transformation of an old, forgotten space into something new and meaningful.
Vault refers to the historic vaulted ceilings of the farmhouse and underground spaces. It also metaphorically suggests a safe space for culture, knowledge, and future growth.
Tomorrow implies a forward-looking vision—rethinking historical spaces for modern needs and future generations. To regenerate a historical architectural relic into a visionary cultural hub—where the past is not erased, but reinterpreted as the foundation for tomorrow

Technical information

Parametric architecture and biomimicry design
The interior of the project is directly influenced by parametric architecture based on algorithmic modeling and adaptive geometry capable of responding to context, gravitational loads and traffic flows. The use of perforations, curved surfaces and dynamic forms allowed the integration of light but strong columns, made according to the principle of structural optimization, into the existing volume of the arched hall. Such columns do not imitate the historical baroque decoration, but organically continue its rhythm - giving the space plasticity and airiness, while maintaining engineering logic. However, with such intervention, there is a need to strengthen the arch in the zone of the lowest bending moment - in the upper third (bracket) of the arch, closer to the keystone.
The arch in this geometry, with a uniform load, perceives loads mainly in compression. The bending moment is minimal in the area of the top of the arch, where the force is also the least, which opens up the possibility of making an opening or introducing lightweight structures in this part.
Structural reinforcement options
Foundation engineering challenges and solutions
1. Parametric Dome / Geodesic Support
It is proposed to introduce a geodesic dome structure (or parametric dome) located under the arch system and connected to it through points of uniform pressure. Such a structure transfers loads down the frame and relieves some of the pressure from the arch. It can also serve as a base for a double-height opening.
2.Parametric columns with force integration
Perforated columns made according to the biomimicry principle will accept local vertical and horizontal loads, further unloading the arch and redistributing forces. Their geometry is adjusted to bypass the lines of greatest stress.
3. The third option is a suspended reinforcement system
If a dome is not possible (due to cultural or spatial restrictions), a steel suspended reinforcement mesh can be used, fixed at the bottom of the arch, with fixation to the existing massif using chemical anchors. Such a system will strengthen the ceiling and can also become a decorative element.

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