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SUMMARY:Tackle the type: FILLING STATION - Final Review / EAST
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DESCRIPTION:Cédric Albert\, Chef de servite Morges\nUlrike Dix\, AFF arch
 itects Berlin\nCharlotte Malterre-Barthes\, RIOT EPFL\nLeonard Lassagde\, 
 DATA Architectes Paris\nAdrien Verschuere\, BAUKUNST EPFL & the students o
 f the Spring Semester 2023.\n\n\nJoin us for the final review of student p
 rojects exploring the architectural typology of filling stations and envis
 ioning the future of these structures. We're excited to showcase the creat
 ive endeavors and thought-provoking ideas of our talented students as the 
 semester comes to a close.\n\nOur event will be graced by esteemed guest c
 ritics whose expertise and insight will enhance the depth and quality of t
 he final review. We're pleased to announce the participation of the follow
 ing distinguished critics:\n\n\n\nCédric Albert\, Chef de servite Morges\
 nUlrike Dix\, AFF architects Berlin\nCharlotte Malterre-Barthes\, RIOT EPF
 L\nLeonard Lassagde\, DATA Architectes Paris\nAdrien Verschuere\, BAUKUNST
  EPFL\n\nDuring this final review\, our students will present their divers
 e projects that delve into the intricate world of filling stations\, aimin
 g to comprehend their position within the urban fabric while reimagining t
 heir potential uses and adaptations. This semester's focus has been to enc
 ourage the exploration of innovative design solutions that challenge the c
 onventional notions associated with filling stations.\n\nWe look forward t
 o welcoming You.\n\nBest\,\nEAST Laboratory\n\n___________________________
 __________________\nOn the semesters' topic:\n\nNext Station\nThe filling 
 station\, classified as a station [1]\, serves as a transitory point rathe
 r than a destination for lingering. It functions as a way station that may
  unify multiple spaces within a single location\, comparable to Michel Fou
 cault's notion of "Heterotopia" [2]. For regular commuters\, it provides a
  second home with recurring patterns and operators\, thereby transforming 
 every foreign stop into a familiar space. For others the filling station i
 s just an anonymous place to satisfy the pressing need of the moment\, oft
 en perceived as nameless and uncommon. Similar to international chains suc
 h as McDonald's and Starbucks\, filling stations are a reflection of an in
 dustrialised identity through branding. Alternatively\, smaller providers 
 may showcase their unique identities by selling local products and service
 s\, establishing a loyal clientele.\n"Movement shapes the image of reality
  of modern man. Whether in technology\, science\, or art: modern reality r
 esists the rigid gaze [traditional kind of observation]\, it requires perc
 eption in motion."\, writes Sokratis Georgiadis in his essay "The Attacked
  Body - Siegfried Giedion and Mechanization\, in 1998. Considering the dev
 elopment of architecture as a discipline of a more static and permanent re
 ality\, the question arises as to how the reality of buildings should appe
 ar in a modern society?\nThe creation of the Filling Station building type
  is inseparably linked to the idea of the internal combustion engine and i
 ts application to movement. In contrast to Giedion's "Mechanization Takes 
 Command"\, the Filling Station is not influenced by increasing mechanizati
 on. It does not emerge from a sequence of spaces that are changed by autom
 ation\, such as the "evolution" of stairs that become escalators or kitche
 ns that turn into an optimized apparatus of programmed workflows with the 
 aim of producing food easier and faster in the sense of Margarete Schütt
 e-Lihotzky “Frankfurter Küche”. The Filling Station is one of the bu
 ilding types that mechanization itself brought forth.\nAs the automobile i
 ndustry grew and the demand for gasoline increased\, larger and more speci
 alized retail companies emerged. The mere technical object of the gas pump
  began its path towards an independent building typology. Companies establ
 ished gas station networks that offered customers a convenient and standar
 dized source of gasoline and other automotive products. Over time\, Fillin
 g Stations advanced into service centers\, offering a wide range of produc
 ts and services\, from fuel and vehicle maintenance to food\, beverages\, 
 and other daily necessities.\nLooking at the development of the Filling St
 ation\, we can observe a variety of connections to society\, the environme
 nt as well as architectural and industrial building history.\nIf we highli
 ght only two of these connections\, one is the potential of the Filling st
 ation to be adaptive for hybrid combinations with varying programs and bui
 lding forms. Either in a symbiotic manner or as a parasitic appendix. Rema
 rkable is the moment when the Filling station unifies all services under o
 ne big roof as an umbrella. The over-proportional building element quickly
  becomes a recognizable trademark\, even in arrangements where the Filling
  Station itself occupies a subordinate role.\nThe second development is th
 e filling station's dependence on industrial mass production and its inter
 linked economic chains. It emerged from it and will likely disappear with 
 a new mode of transportation that does not require stops on independent de
 pots of energy. However\, we ask ourselves what have we learned from it? W
 hat remains of it? What should we keep and want to keep from it? What can 
 persist in new types?\nUndoubtedly\, the Filling Station is still strongly
  intertwined in the trading network of fossil biomass. As an extended arm 
 of an industrial extraction and supply chain\, it sells a product that cul
 turally comes from a harvest that knows no sowing. Above all\, the petrol 
 station as a trading and storage place promised a seemingly endless supply
  of energy that we accepted without questioning our freedom and growth. Th
 inking about the consequences came late. Therefore\, many of its manifesta
 tions and designs are to be reevaluated also from its role as an interface
 . How much information did it ever give us about the number of liters in s
 tock or where they were stored? How much information about where it was ex
 tracted? However\, formative for this typology remains the digital display
  of the real-time price\, which still today gives the impression of being 
 directly linked to the global data of the stock exchange.\nEvery technical
  development of the automobile has had an impact on its territorial presen
 ce\, its ease of use\, and its design. Regine Schricker calls them "monume
 nts of motorisation". If we consider modernity as an effort to apply a mod
 el into the world with each design until a better model stands in our way\
 , then we are now facing the question of the model of the 22nd-century Fil
 ling Station.\nWithout wanting to predict the exact technological developm
 ent of transportation\, the question arises: Will the Filling Station surv
 ive this next modifying phase?\nWe want to comprehend the history of the p
 etrol station and analyze their design elements and forms in the context o
 f their respective eras and conventions. This will enable us to determine 
 which elements and forms are worth preserving for future tasks.\n\n[1]Webs
 ter dictionary \n: a stopping place: such as\na regular stopping place in
  a transportation route\nthe building connected with such a stopping place
 \none of the stations of the cross\n \nGerman Grimms Dictionary\nSTATION\
 , f. (pron. statsjṓn) haltestelle\, aufenthalt. \n1) a loanword from th
 e Latin “statio” of the same meaning\,\n2) station means\, first and m
 ost usually\, a short stop on a road and the place where this happens. Thi
 s meaning belongs initially to ecclesiastical usage and is based on mediae
 val Latin. Statio\,\n3) in the same sense\, 'place where a stop is made'\,
  station is generally used in modern language\, beyond this specific case\
 , and especially as an expression of traffic very widespread. Sometimes a 
 station refers not only to the stop\, but also to the distance between two
  stops\, the section of the road designated by it. \na) in the 18th-19th 
 century for post stop\, post station\, station\,... also the place where t
 he postmen get fresh horses. Sperander 679\; die station.'1. in the postal
  system\, a place where the horses are usually changed\; der postwechsel'.
 \n \n[2] In his article "Other Spaces"\, Foucault distinguishes between t
 wo types of ideally charged spaces: in addition to utopias\, which are unr
 eal and only virtual counter-designs or perfections of real social conditi
 ons\, there are heterotopias\, which he sees as "realised utopias"\, as co
 unter-worlds to the heterogeneous power structures of social reality. Hete
 rotopias are institutionally often closed and often spatially delimited pl
 aces in a society that are a scaled-down image or counter-image of society
  as a whole. They are subject to a clear order\, set against the disorder 
 of the surrounding world (or against its different\, mutually obstructive 
 or even mutually exclusive orders). Foucault's examples of heterotopias ar
 e rest homes\, psychiatric clinics\, prisons\, old people's homes\, cemete
 ries\, museums\, libraries\, colonies\, etc. Heterotopias often have their
  own everyday time\, which does not correspond to the social everyday time
 .\nThe discourse-analytical concept of heterotopias creates a set of instr
 uments for not only modelling institutional intrinsic realities as particu
 lar spaces of action in themselves\, but also for examining the ordering c
 riteria and values that make up the internal reality of heterotopian space
 s in relation to external reality\, so that the institutionality of the de
 picted world can be understood as an allegorical-semiotic reflection on th
 e power and ordering structures of the diegesis.\nLiteratur: Foucault\, Mi
 chel: Andere Räume [1967].In: Aisthesis. Wahrnehmung heute oder Perspekti
 ven einer anderen Ästhetik. Hrsg. v. Karlheinz Barck [...]. Leipzig: Recl
 am 1990\, S. 34-46.
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