Dre Wapenaar // Canvas-, Steel-, and Woodprojects // TVR. Pausa cromática – forest shadow. Forest Shadow, (Mount Rokko, rokko meets art) Kobe – Japan (2011). Arquitectura, Tomohior Hata architects y Takashi Manda . Fotografías, hata-archi.com La instalación temporal “Bosque de sombras” formo parte de una exposición al aire libre organizada por “Rokko meets art“, una iniciativa destinada a incrementar la oferta turistico-cultural del parque botánico del monte Rokko. La incorporación de una sencilla estructura de barras de acero que sujetan un techo textil, semi-cúbico, construido con lona de poliéster blanca translúcida, situada sobre una roca preexistente, introduce una pausa cromática disonante en el contexto del bosque, sentado en la roca la mirada del visitante se sumerge en una compasión dinámica de luces y sombran, de blancos teñido por infinitos tonos grises, la percepción del lugar se matizada y dispersa entre los susurros de la brisa.
Más información: Entre bambalinas – “el ranchito” artist work spaces. “El Ranchito” Artist Work Spaces (Nave 16 del Matadero de Madrid) Madrid – Sp (2011). Arquitectura, C+arquitectos. Fotografías, Miguel de Guzmán. El proyecto resuelve la adecuación de la nave 16 del centro de creación contemporánea del “Matadero de Madrid” para acoger las actividades realizadas en el marco del proyecto de investigación y creación “El Ranchito” con el que se persigue el objetivo de explorar alternativas a los formatos convencionales de exhibición y busca nuevos modelos de organización dentro de las instituciones culturales. En este contexto la intervención subdivide el recinto diáfano de la nave, con cortinas de pvc transparente, que delimitan las diferentes áreas de trabajo, ocupadas por los artistas o colectivos “residentes” y que a su vez funcionan como ámbitos de exposición, a las que se suma un área de uso común destinada reuniones, debates, talleres, etc.
Más información: + “El Ranchito” Artist Work Spaces – El Ranchito (blog del proyecto) Magma Architecture — Ppod Mobile Theatre. Photo: Daniel Hopkinson © All rights reserved. www.danielhopkinson.com Courtesy by magma architecture © Magma Architecture . Published on May 14, 2007. The miniature theatre is the new home of a travelling theatre group from Horse & Bamboo Theatre, Manchester. An audience of 35 people and 3 actors fit into the mobile tent structure. Invoked by the idea of kaleidoscope the form of the theatre rotates around an imaginary axis.
Two overlapping skins merge to give an elusive presence and an unexpected experience of the event. Renault Twizy - Matadero Madrid - Escala 1:1. Comunicación Interpretación Automática. Swimming Cities of Serenissima: Equal parts Burning Man, Kon Tiki and Mad Max. Imagine if Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters had reenacted "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. " That’s roughly what Tianna Kennedy and her crew pulled off when they led a flotilla of floating scrap sculptures from the coast of Slovenia to the heart of Venice. In a talk last Friday at the Conflux Festival in New York, Kennedy described the trip, an art and design project known as the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, as “making and riding beautiful junk from Koper to Venice with many dirty people, putting on a show, and then taking it all apart again.” Fortunately for Kennedy, she’d already had some experience converting squat house culture into a functioning fleet. Last year she worked in the production crew for an experimental film, The Flood, based on the artist Swoon’s trip down the Hudson River with artists and performers on seven intricately crafted rafts made from garbage and other scavenged material.
The group staged performances in towns along the way. [Photos by Tod Seelie] BLDGBLOG: Room and Billboard. [Image: The Billboard House by Apostrophy]. A project featured on designboom a few weeks ago explored the architectural possibilities of billboards: the Billboard House by Apostrophy is a "residential prototype that combines the concept of outdoor media with housing. " As such, it recalls earlier projects, such as Single Hauz, squeezing domestic space into an unlikely structural situation. Apostrophy's house was installed and debuted at a fair in Bangkok, serving as a demonstration project, or proof of concept; it is transportable by truck, so, in theory, it can move between urban sites, being reattached to different masts in whole other neighborhoods and cities, while one of its facades remains operational as a revenue-generator for residents, displaying ads or other media content (it could also be a kind of live-in outdoor cinema for traffic jams).
[Images: The Billboard House by Apostrophy]. More images and diagrams can be seen over at designboom. Red Bull Music Academy. Matadero Madrid. Langarita Navarro Arquitectos | Revista de arquitectura. Red Bull Music Academy, LNA, 2011. Fotografía de Luis Díaz. El espacio de creación Matadero Madrid acogió entre los meses de septiembre y noviembre de 2011 la Red Bull Music Academy, un evento musical itinerante que incluyó conciertos, instalaciones audiovisuales y talleres. El estudio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos fue el encargado de transformar la Nave 15, un espacio diáfano de estructura metálica y fachada de hormigón, en una infraestructura capaz de ofrecer escenarios imprevistos para la creación y la investigación sonora. Estudios para músicos, Red Bull Music Academy, LNA, 2011. La Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) es un evento anual itinerante que cada año acoge 60 participantes internacionales (desde músicos a productores consolidados) que establecen un debate en torno a la música.
Estudios para músicos, Red Bull Music Academy, LNA, 2011. Vista interior de estudio para músicos, Red Bull Music Academy, LNA, 2011. Imagen general de la nave, Red Bull Music Academy, LNA, 2011. Project H at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Posted by core jr | 16 Nov 2011 | Comments (0) Chicktopia Chicken Coop, Studio H We're longtime fans of Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller of Project H Design and looks like we're not the only ones! Tomorrow, November 17th, the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon is opening a solo exhibition showcasing some of the artifacts of their high school design/build program, Studio H. The show will follow the whole year of Studio H in Bertie County, North Carolina, from start to finish, and include examples of student work including a chicken coop, images of the farmers market pavilion that was designed and built by students, drawings and models from the studio. As Pilloton explained to Core77, "We wanted to replicate the "magical chaos" of design within our classroom.
" Chicken Coop Models Additionally, on Friday, December 2 at 6PM, Pilloton will be giving a talk at the Ziba Auditorium, 810 NW Marshall. Studio H: Design. Students building the Farmer's Market they designed. Three-dimensional Fence / Salli Architekten. The steel, cocoon-like structure represents a parametrically altered design of a typical fence. What is supposed to function primarily as a demarcation tool is developed into an element that accentuates the 3-dimensionality of space. It is fragmentized, as if under the influence of powerful tectonic forces, pulling the initially linear structure in different directions.
Not only does it frame the views of the surroundings, it creates an awareness of space that reveals its true potentials. The garden is transformed into a versatile environment, partly covered, withdrawn and protected, with a canopy sheltering a pool and a seating area. Seen from afar, it has a sculptural quality of a biomorphic structure that mimics the existing organic patterns of its surroundings. To commemorate the 9th Annual Skyscraper Competition, eVolo is publishing the Limited Edition Book "eVolo Skyscrapers 2" which is the follow-up to its highly acclaimed book “eVolo Skyscrapers”. “La Fabrique Sonore” Acoustically Amplifies the Sound of Champagne Bubbles. The project is installed at “Pommery” champagne factory in France, part of the largest underground systems of corridors and caves in the area. It combines computational design techniques with ancient paper folding techniques, resulting in a 345 cubic-meter suspended structure which acoustically amplifies sound.
The Sound Factory project was designed in cooperation between artists Ali Monemi and Robin Meier and architect Hyoung-Gul Kook. The structure is made of 285 flat sheets of aluminium/polyethylene composite. The idea of modulation and systems for actual construction was developed into combinations of basic geometry, with a specific visual and acoustic impact on the immediate surroundings. The form itself was inspired by mathematician and origami expert Taketoshi Nojima, especially his work reproducing organic forms from folded paper. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. ///// An Augmented Ecology of Wildlife & Industry : _Wen Ying Teh. RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2009 - Archifield [阿奇菲爾德] 建築論壇. # Meat and 2 Veg by Ali Qureshi & Muhammad Zulfiker Enayet. Meat and 2 Veg is a pretty peculiar project designed by Ali Qureshi & Muhammad Zulfiker Enayet in the University of Greenwich in London. In fact, this project proposes a very poetic re-interpretation of the Cyprus conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Bullets trajectories are replaced by food trajectories and space ends up serving a big banquet for both sides.The project itself is a sort of slaughterhouse (which is not without recalling Martin Byrne's to some extent). whose main characters are the reconverted US Army "big dogs". Here is the text Ali and Muhammad wrote in order to explain their approach:Our ‘theatrical landscape’ is situated in the Buffer Zone, in Nicosia, Cyprus. The site (and the city) is currently divided between Greek Cyprus to the south and the Turkish Occupied Territory to the North.The theatre of war has delineated that which is Turkish from that which is Greek in the Green Line, a ceasefire line within the city limits. Dehumanisation of the others.
# Another dance macabre by Martin Byrne. Another dance macabre is the project designed by Martin Byrne's (see previous post) project for Thomas Leeser's Final Graduate Studio at Pratt. This project investigates a way to reveal a program that has been kept out of sight for few decades now: slaughterhouses. In the same way that some Muslim countries develops in order to perpetuate the tradition's rules, Martin is proposing to set a local self-slaughter program linked to each subway station in Manhattan (!).
His designed, both influenced by Sigfried Giedeon's Mechanization takes Commands and Temple Grandin's diagrams, use an architectural vocabulary voluntarily provocative in its dirtiness which strikes in Midtown Manhattan's seamless.The condition of the "do it yourself" is also fundamental to this project which tries to confront people's habits with their responsibilities and consequences. 1972/73 HIJOS DE LA INSTANT CITY. Tras la aparición de los proyectos de Archigram denominados como IDEAS CIRCUS y más tarde su desencadenante o INSTANT CITY (en los que los recursos culturales se “movilizaban” e invadían a modo de espectáculo cirquense una serie de ciudades inglesas sin posibilidades de eventos estables vaticinando o alimentándose de los nuevos “grandes festivales de música”) , aparecieron una serie de “hijos” de éstos, en los que se generaban proyectos de teatros móviles o sucedáneos de los primeros archigrameros. 1968 Ideas Circus (Peter Cook) 1968 Instant City (Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron) 1972 Kasel Equipment Schedule (Archigram) Aquí dejo tres ejemplos de estos “hijos” de la Instant City publicados en la revista Architectural Design (uno de ellos hijo muy muy directo…) 1973 MOBILE Theatre (Peter Neele Roberts) Architectural Design Agosto 1973 1972 MOBILE Theatre (Javier Navarro Zuvillaga) Architectural Design Enero 1973 1972 MOBILE Theatre (Murchland + Ridout + Farrell)
Salvaged Layers; A Collaborative Site Specific Performance. Salvaged Layers; a Collaborative Site Specific Performance project was an interdisciplinary collaboration between two groups of students from separate Universities. The studio challenged students to explore issues of craft, making and place through a series of full scale built interventions in a historic Indianapolis theatre which had been gutted in anticipation of a planned renovation. The raw state of the theatre’s interior gave students a rich and evocative palette to engage while simultaneously liberating them from the conventional notions of stage and audience. By positioning this project as a cross disciplinary collaboration it gave students the opportunity to explore ways in which the different disciplines could creatively engage one another while simultaneously grounding their activities in the specific circumstance of the site. # The Bladders: A legacy project by Jonathan Walker. Another project from the 2010 President's Medals would be The Bladders by Jonathan Walker for the University of Westminster (one more !).
This project introduces an half organic, half industrial architecture supplying the City of London with a new series of water cistern that adapt their sizes to the amount of water contained inside of them. Here is the text written by Jonathan: The project is a model for the extension of London’s ailing water treatment cistern, and thus is a response to the classification of London as a city of ‘serious water stress’.
The proposal looks towards the date 2031 when London’s reservoir cistern is expected to be unable to meet demand and when projected shifts in our climate will bring hotter, drier summers.Inspired by natural membranes and tensile structures, the project envisages a municipal water treatment system located on the London Olympic Park. Tutors: Susanne Isa, Sasha Leong & Markus Seifermann General Arrangement Plan General Arrangement Section. The Emperor's Castle. [Image: Image 1, "Eternal Punishment," from The Emperor's Castle by Thomas Hillier].
For his student thesis project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive narrative world, complete with origami-filled hand-cut book pages and an elaborate model of the story's architectural landscape. Hillier's project was called The Emperor's Castle and it was inspired by the work of Japanese printmaker Hiroshige. The Emperor’s Castle originates from a mythical and ancient tale hidden within a woodblock landscape scene created by Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaker, Ando Hiroshige.
This tale charts the story of two star-crossed lovers, the weaving Princess and the Cowherd, who have been separated by the Princess’s father, the Emperor. The first two images, Hillier says, are taken from his "research storybook. " [Image: Image 2, "The Last Meeting," from The Emperor's Castle by Thomas Hillier]. As Hillier writes: From Hillier's project text: Image 3 (The Emperor’s Origami Lungs). Urban Theatre – Narrative Architecture based on Ando Hiroshige’s prints. Vancouver Circus School / Marianne Amodio Architecture Studio.