… „In the context of a continued life for the existing silo building, this winning scheme clearly stood out.The silo’s proposed purpose and intent for seed storage is both highly pragmatic and ingenious in an overall reasonable way. Rank's Silo could stay an Ark within an industrialized harbour or it could open up to its surroundings by spreading the park into the docklands or use the vacant buildings as an expansion for a science or cultural hub. It doesn't matter If the harbour either stays what it is or if it's going to be closed down. We want not only to store but plant small seeds with this kind of „Noah's Ark“ within the docklands to facilitate any future development. Starting with the transformation of an agricultural characterized landscape into an industrialized harbour, which now anticipates a postindustrial era that embraces its past instead of making tabula rasa. This reuse markes a possible point of transition. The main idea behind this proposal is to make as minimal interventions within the building and its urban context as possible but enabling at the same time a wide range of future possibilities for extension and adaptation. And a public park connecting the silo with the new pavilion available for concerts, hosting talks, events, conferences and other possible uses. A topped up research and preservation laboratory with the access to the two floors lower located and adapted „filling floor“. The purpose of the vault is to store duplicates of seed samples from the world’s crop collections and to keep these safe in the Arctic permafrost (Crop Trust 2017 ). A public accessed observation deck on the existing roof. Box 21.2 The Doomsday Vault In 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. A public accessed open space on the ground floor level used as entrance, information point, gallery, venue or simply as a window into the silo's inner. Our concept for the silo’s and its neighbouring surroundings revitalisation implies: The adaptation of the storage bins into climatised archive bins for Ireland's seeds. So why don't reuse a silo that used to store agricultural products into a seed vault? But nothing seems as important in the face of climate, economical and social change, as saving the seeds of Ireland's agricultural and natural heritage for its future. Books, criminal records, privacy, historical artefacts or documents. The Svalbard Seed Bank is meant as a sort of safety net, a reserve of last resort, and the vault functions like a genetic safety deposit box, storing duplicate specimens from genebanks worldwide. There are many things that should be stored for the future. But how could a symbol like this be preserved and strengthened in its meaning as a landmark without costume or pretending as such while being reused as something else?Īs the very core of the silo's typological character the function of „storing“ should be embraced, appreciated and enabled for a future equal kind like use. No other architectural typology of classic functional modernism could fit this significance into ones structural shell. Rank's Silo signifies Limerick's agricultural and industrial heritage. Rank’s Silo in The 21st Century DoCoMoMo Architecture Ideas Competition For Limerick of Culture 2014: First PlaceĮmbrace the past.
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