Archive for September, 2008

 

intimate museum 1.0

Sep 30, 2008 in Personal projects

Di Luca Diffuse con Daniel Egnéus, Mariella Tesse. Un tipo di edificio capace di accogliere nuovi comportamenti e desideri delle persone, offrendoli come riflessioni progettuali. E’ una tipologia che coincide con l’aspirazione ad una architettura capace di parlare con semplicità alle persone, partendo dalle loro esigenze.
La corrente mancanza di attenzione alle persone nella ricerca architettonica trova anche conferme visive in quello strano oggetto claudicante cui è stato ormai ridotto il rendering, dove personaggi male ritagliati e sempre uguali si affannano in tentativi un po’ tristi di patinare immagini ripetitive e di poca tecnica. Il senso di estraneità (unica specialità comunicativa del settore architettura) inizia proprio da queste modelle ammiccanti e fuori luogo, inizia dalla prospettiva incerta e veloce cui sono costretti i soliti passanti meccanici, casuali e spesso semitrasparenti.
Strano, ma appare ormai ingenua la possibilità di una architettura che nasca dall’idea stessa di essere abitata e percorsa ed immagini di realizzare un palcoscenico adeguato a ciò che le persone desiderano essere anche provvisoriamente. Sembrerebbe possibile invece arrivare alle persone così come ci riescono la grafica, il design, la moda, le pubblicità. Più che condizionare, questi meccanismi offrono possibilità di accesso alla bellezza. Certo in un panorama culturale modificato e più lieve. Ma la bellezza passa attraverso queste modalità di produzione e comunicazione che non possono fare a meno di essere vicini alla vita delle persone, che sanno come le persone desiderano costruire esibizioni e comportamenti veloci e soddisfacenti nello spazio urbano. Ed il nostro edificio ha imparato qualcosa dai flagship buildings attraverso cui i marchi portano la loro idea di bellezza (certo anche i loro prodotti) nella vita e nelle aspirazioni delle persone. Gucci Ginza, Prada Minami Aoyama, Dior Omotesando.
Questa aspirazione verso la bellezza ha dovuto subire un ulteriore filtro prima di poter essere applicata: quello della sensibilità delle ragazze. “Devo dire che non ho particolare gusto per la moda femminile. Però guardo molto al modo in cui le ragazze si vestono. Il vestire femminile è a mio avviso il luogo in cui la sensibilità moderna raggiunge la sua attenzione assoluta.” (A. Barrie, R. Choochuey, S. Mirti: Toyo Ito. Istruzioni per l’uso, Postmedia Books, Milano, 2004).
Ecco allora un museo dove le ragazze possono registrare i propri comportamenti privati, la loro vita di tutti i giorni. Un museo intimo. Una architettura che possiede una capacità femminile naturale e profonda di dialogare con la bellezza, è questo il format che ci interessa. Un edificio dal palinsesto provvisorio e mutevole pensato sui comportamenti delle ragazze e sulla idea di bellezza che hanno in un breve momento.

GREEN ARCHITECTURE maison morocco marrakech architect guilhem eustache CONTEMPORARY maroc

Sep 30, 2008 in architecture's documents

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tour vivante vertical farm living tower www.eco-tower.fr

Sep 30, 2008 in Personal projects

www.eco-tower.fr Le grand projet urbain et architectural durable. La Tour Vivante, une tour ecologique autonome. Une “vertical Farm” HQE a energie passive conçue par l’agence d’architecture soa architectes : www.ateliersoa.fr. Immeuble de grande hauteur HQE “green tower”. Animation video numerique.

green Architect Rob Paulus. 2/2 Interview

Sep 29, 2008 in architecture's documents

Architect / Developer Rob Paulus, AIA, elaborates on; recycling material from his Ice House Lofts project to his Barrio Metalico housing, developing on railroad tracks, the term he coined “responsible density,” rainwater harvesting, HardiPlank Fiber Cement Siding and pre-aged galvanized siding.

Paulus also discusses interstitial space between buildings, precedents which have influenced his work, his design sequencing/criteria and process hierarchy as well as his upcoming projects. We also see inside an Ice House and IndigoMODERN unit. Rob Paulus holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Arizona.

Be sure to pass by http://www.ArchitectureFilms.com to see the ultra high resolution version of this film, view construction costs, a list of consultants, names of project team members, and other cool details regarding these 3 influential projects.

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Robo Corviale Neighbors

Sep 29, 2008 in Personal projects

A fun little project I did for an architecture class. My project was a science fiction story I created to describe the housing struggle in the modern metropolis.

In this robotic high density housing unit, you can pay as much rent as you like and the size of your apartment would respond accordingly via the giant robot controlling your building. So if you paid less than your neighbors, the machine would literally squeeze your apartment into a tiny box proportionate to the amount you have the capacity to pay.
It would then reward the rich accordingly, and land, even other people’s land turns into the objects of bidding wars for the rich. The building thus turns into a system of capitalism and competition. (more) (less)

Häuserei

Sep 29, 2008 in Uncategorized

Haus, mehr Häuser , noch ein Haus

green Architect Rob Paulus. 1/2 Interview

Sep 28, 2008 in architecture's documents

Architect / Developer Rob Paulus, AIA, discusses the green architecture of three of his recent projects internationally published in DDN (Milan), iSh (Singapore), ???? (Shanghai), and Architecture + Design (New Delhi). On-site interview with the Architect and residents. Includes helicopter views as Paulus elaborates on his green, highly sustainable, energy conscious projects. We also visit a Barrio Metalico and Ice House unit.

Don’t miss Part 2 when Paulus gives insight into his sustainable philosophy and green design sequencing. Rob Paulus holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Arizona.

Be sure to pass by http://www.ArchitectureFilms.com to see the ultra high resolution version of this film, view construction costs, a list of consultants, names of project team members, and other cool details regarding these 3 influential projects.

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Architecture

Sep 28, 2008 in architecture's documents

zaha hadid, frank o. gehry and coop himmelblau

Tom Wiscombe - LA Forum for Architecture - Part 1

Sep 28, 2008 in architecture's documents, interview

Born in 1970 in La Jolla, California, Tom Wiscombe is an architectural designer based in Los Angeles. In 1999, he founded EMERGENT, a platform for researching issues of materiality, technology, and systems through built form. EMERGENT is particularily interested in destratifying space— in creating new architectures through the generation of coherent, operational relationships between buildings components and building systems. The work is positioned within the larger paradigm of systems theory, emergence science, and the philosophical discussion of part and whole.

EMERGENT recently won second place in the international competition for the Seoul Performing Arts Center. Their work was showcased in a solo show at the UCLA Architecture Gallery entitled ‘Notes on Micromultiplicity’ in early 2005. Other exhibitions include the MoMA San Francisco show ‘Glamour: Fabricating Affluence’ in 2004, ArchiLAB (Orléan) in 2003 and 2001, and MoMA Queens in 2003. Their work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC Centre (Paris) as well as of MoMA San Francisco and recently, MoMA New York. In 2003, EMERGENT won the competition for the reknowned P.S.1/ MoMA Urban Beach project, which opened to critical acclaim and won the New York Engineering Excellence Platinum Award for 2004. EMERGENT was also awarded the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Award for 2004.

The work of EMERGENT has been extensively published, notably in SURFACE*, VOGUE, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, PRAXIS, Metropolis, A+U, Perspecta, OZ, and The New York Times.

Wiscombe was Senior Designer and Project Partner at Coop Himmelb(l)au for over 10 years, right-hand to Principal Wolf Prix. He was in charge of various international projects, including the Dresden UFA Cinema Palace, completed in 1998, and the Lyon Musée des Confluences, the Akron Art Museum, and the BMW World, Munich, all of which are in their final stages of completion.

Educated at UCLA (M. Arch. I) and UC Berkeley, Wiscombe has taught design and technology at SCI_Arc, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He was the Esherick Chair of Architecture at UCB for 2005, and is currently teaching in the postgraduate program at SCI-Arc.

Tom Wiscombe - LA Forum for Architecture - Part 2

Sep 28, 2008 in Personal projects

Born in 1970 in La Jolla, California, Tom Wiscombe is an architectural designer based in Los Angeles. In 1999, he founded EMERGENT, a platform for researching issues of materiality, technology, and systems through built form. EMERGENT is particularily interested in destratifying space— in creating new architectures through the generation of coherent, operational relationships between buildings components and building systems. The work is positioned within the larger paradigm of systems theory, emergence science, and the philosophical discussion of part and whole.

EMERGENT recently won second place in the international competition for the Seoul Performing Arts Center. Their work was showcased in a solo show at the UCLA Architecture Gallery entitled ‘Notes on Micromultiplicity’ in early 2005. Other exhibitions include the MoMA San Francisco show ‘Glamour: Fabricating Affluence’ in 2004, ArchiLAB (Orléan) in 2003 and 2001, and MoMA Queens in 2003. Their work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC Centre (Paris) as well as of MoMA San Francisco and recently, MoMA New York. In 2003, EMERGENT won the competition for the reknowned P.S.1/ MoMA Urban Beach project, which opened to critical acclaim and won the New York Engineering Excellence Platinum Award for 2004. EMERGENT was also awarded the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Award for 2004.

The work of EMERGENT has been extensively published, notably in SURFACE*, VOGUE, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, PRAXIS, Metropolis, A+U, Perspecta, OZ, and The New York Times.

Wiscombe was Senior Designer and Project Partner at Coop Himmelb(l)au for over 10 years, right-hand to Principal Wolf Prix. He was in charge of various international projects, including the Dresden UFA Cinema Palace, completed in 1998, and the Lyon Musée des Confluences, the Akron Art Museum, and the BMW World, Munich, all of which are in their final stages of completion.

Educated at UCLA (M. Arch. I) and UC Berkeley, Wiscombe has taught design and technology at SCI_Arc, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He was the Esherick Chair of Architecture at UCB for 2005, and is currently teaching in the postgraduate program at SCI-Arc.