Sede da Companhia Dom [Dom Company Headquarters], Cologne, Germany (1980)

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People:

Alvaro Siza (archive creator)
Alvaro Siza (architect)

Title:

Sede da Companhia Dom [Dom Company Headquarters], Cologne, Germany (1980)

Date:

1980-1981

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

243 drawings (including 150 reprographic copies)
59 photographic materials
0.03 linear metres of textual records

Scope and content:
This project series document the Sede da Companhia Dom in Cologne, Germany. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 1/80. The office assigned the date 1980 to this project.

The project files document Siza's design for DOM company headquarter's architectural competition. Fifty architects were selected by a jury to propose a design. The client underlined the importance of having a striking visual impact while also putting emphasis on precision, security, protection and technological advancement. Requirements for the building included enough space for 250 employees and a covered parking lot for 50 vehicles. Siza's proposed design was a cylindrical inclined building with a cylindrical hole through the center. A circulation system with elevators, stairs and ramps inside and outside the office spaces was designed to create a " complex promenade architecturale"[1] . Siza's entry was not selected.

Documenting this project are sketches, studies, design development drawings and competition drawings. Textual materials include competiton documentation. Of particular interest in this project series are the first computer drawings and coordinates used by Siza' office.

[1] : Peter Testa "Álvaro Siza, " Birkhäuser Verlag, 1996.

Reference number:

AP178.S1.1980.PR01

Arrangement:
Material in this series was arranged by Álvaro Siza’s office and has been kept in this order.

Location:

Cologne Germany

Credit line:
When citing the collection as a whole, use the citation: Álvaro Siza fonds, Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. When citing specific collection material, please refer to the object’s specific credit line.

Related units of description:

Sketches for the Sede da Companhia Dom are also included in Siza's sketchbooks found in Series AP178.S2 of this fonds. Of note are sketchbooks 060 and 324.

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