Paris 2024: A cyclist's reinterpretation of movement at the Olympic Games
E.C. Avrămiea (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Henriette Bier – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
F. Adema – Mentor (TU Delft - Architectural Technology)
S. Aşut – Mentor (TU Delft - Design Informatics)
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Abstract
The current project represents the creation of space for a new paradigm in Olympic sports: the introduction of virtual cycling, enabled through the latest technologies in indoor cycling and offering the capacity to connect athletes from all over the world. On an architectural level, it challenges the white elephant phenomena, concept used to coin large Olympic stadiums that remain unused post-event due to lack of repurposing or difficulty of re-scaling. Through a small intervention on the side of the river Seine, well integrated in the Olympic Masterplan and the urban fabric of Paris, the venue will continue to be a training hub for cyclists around the city also post-Olympics.
Similar to the way an athlete trains for a competition, improving gradually each aspects of their performance, "A cyclist’s reinterpretation of movement at the Olympic Games" aims at the gradual optimization of a computational design process when confronted with the architectural program, through continuous feedback loops. The final configuration with its specific formal language, based on Voronoi diagrams, is the result of trainings, or iterations in computational design terms.