Wingender Hovenier Architecten - Projecten - Woonzorgcomplex de Korhoenders, Klein Driene Hengelo 2005-2010. Conference. Keynote Speakers (top left clockwise) – Matthias Kohler, Neri Oxman, Philip Beesley & Mark Burry FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Discussion on key themes will include: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities, the difficult gap that exists between digital modeling and its realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts.
Cloud 9 Architects – Enric Ruiz-Geli speaking on Day 2 of Fabricate. Architecture Competitions, Events & News. Architecture speak: An essay on the ridiculous way architects talk. - By Witold Rybczynski. Although Ted Mosby, the architect character in How I Met Your Mother, has suitably tousled hair and his (client-less) firm has a trendy name—Mosbuis Designs—he doesn't seem to have mastered the lingo of his trade, for architects, like all professionals, have their own jargon, while Ted speaks like an ordinary guy. A brief history is in order. Architecture is a relatively young profession—the American Institute of Architects was not founded until 1857. Seeking to distinguish themselves from lowly builders and carpenters, architects adopted a specialized vocabulary, often substituting complicated Latin-based words for their simpler Anglo-Saxon equivalents, for example, fenestration for window, entrance for door, chamber for room, trabeation for beam, planar for flat.
Then there were the mysteries of Ionic columns and egg-and-dart moldings. When Modernist architects revolutionized the art of building in the 1920s, they scrubbed classical decoration—and classical terms. A permanent state of insurrection. [Image: From Auto-Defense by Stéphane Malka]. In the second of two projects by architect Stéphane Malka that I want to look at here, the Arche de la Défense in Paris has been transformed into a honeycomb of subsidiary spaces: encrusted with modules that have been attached to the inside of the existing building's vast interior.
As writer and curator Maryse Quinton describes it, "this study imagines the hijacking of a building that is symbolic for its monumentality and its location: the Arche de la Défense. " A pocket of active resistance installs itself within the building in the form of a modular complex offering an alternative and militant lifestyle. The project bears with it a permanent insurrection and unites all malcontents, whether refugees, stateless persons, dissidents, outcasts or utopians.
Referring to the notion of concretion, its construction principle allows for expansion tailored to the effervescence of this spontaneous community. [Images: From Auto-Defense by Stéphane Malka]. Millermaranta.ch. Design + Robotics - PennDesign Immersive Kinematics.
Praktikk. Blogs. Artikler. Forelesninger. Kontorer. Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK) « Caruso St John Architects. 2004–2009Location: Nottingham, GBClient: Nottingham City CouncilProject Status: Built Caruso St John were selected to design Nottingham’s new Centre for Contemporary Art through an international competition in 2004.
The artistic ambition of the project, encompassing object based visual art and time based performance art, has its origins in the artist run spaces of down town New York in the late 1960s, and in the work of artists like Gordon Matta Clark and Trisha Brown, whose work was directly engaged with the spaces of the city. The site for the new building is in a part of central Nottingham called the Lace Market, whose history and built form has parallels with the cast iron district of New York, giving the Centre a loose cultural connection to its site. The exterior of the Centre takes its inspiration from the amazing 19th century buildings of Nottingham, and in particular, from the impressive façades of the Lace Market.
Zebra Imaging’s holographic sheets are mind blowing. Baan - photography. Clemens Vogel. Sergison Bates architects. Sveriges Arkitekter - Grimeton Skogsvaktarstuga ARKITEKTURs Debutantpris 2007. Fotograf: björn lofterud. Arkitekt: petra gipp, katarina lundeberg. Fotograf: strata arkitektur. Arkitekt: strataarkitektur. Fotograf: strata arkitektur. Fotograf: strata arkitektur petra gipp, katarina lundeberg. Grimetons naturreservat är en del av Åkulla bokskogsområde beläget ett par mil öster om Varberg: Det är en dramatisk natur som höjer sig över de flacka åkrarna längs kustbandet. Att bygga i ett naturreservat kräver ställningstaganden kring männsikans beboende av naturskogen, en ödmjukhet inför skogen trots det ingrepp det innebär att bygga. Skogsvaktarstugans arkitektoniska utformning har intentionen at representera en bostad och arbetsplats för kommande generationer Projektgrupp: Petra Gipp, Katarina Lundeberg, Veronica Carlsson.
Helen & Hard. 2010 - lesfillesplaisirsculinaires : lhoas & lhoas architectes. BLDGBLOG. Archdaily. A year after the completion of Therme Vals [1996], renowned minimalist architect, Peter Zumthor completed the design of Kunsthaus Bregenz [1997]. The Kunsthaus museum in Bregenz, Austria is always in a constant state of flux always changing its exhibition spaces to accommodate international contemporary art. Zumthor’s minimalist design adapts its spaces to the art that is showcased in its exhibits creating a coexisting and redefining relationship between art and architecture.
The Kunsthaus Bregenz has two main principles to their permanent collection: archives of art architecture and a collection of Contemporary art, which complements the changing exhibition spaces. The museum strives to be the intersection of art and architecture that opens itself to culture and international influence. More on the Kunsthaus Bregenz after the break. “The art museum stands in the light of Lake Constance. The interior of the museum complements the exterior simplicity and minimalist aesthetic. Hunsett Mill / ACME. Architects: ACME (Friedrich Ludewig, Stefano Dal Piva) with Karoline Markus, Nerea Calvillo, Chris Yoo Location: Hunsett Mill, Chapel Field Road, Stalham, Norfolk, England Contractor: Willow Builders Structural Engineering: Adams Kara Taylor Sustainability: Hoare Lea Client: Catriona and John Dodsworth, Joanna and Jon Emery Project Area: 213 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Cristobal Palma The Norfolk Broads are an artificial landscape of outstanding natural beauty, a man made wetland sustained through human intervention of water pumping mills, dykes and canals.
After hundreds of years of indus- trial use of the natural landscape, the recent decades have seen increasing emphasis on conservation and a managed retreat back to nature. Project Background Hunsett Mill is a remote water pumping mill located in the historic Norfolk Broads National Park, situated beside the River Ant, upstream from the Sutton Broads. Building History The new extension Design. ‘Sauna tonttu’ by Lassila Hirvilammi Architects (FI. 'Sauna tonttu' by Lassila Hirilammi Architects, photo by Mikko Auerniitty Lassila Hirvilammi Architects recently completed this sauna based on a nineteenth century barn. The building was not used for 50 years and fell into decay before it was converted and modernised by the Finnish architectural practice. Here is what the architects explain: “The sauna is located on top of a rock which rises 200 meters above sea level.
You reach the sauna along a little path through a cornfield, which leads to a sheltered terrace. The walk up to the sauna is part of the purification process.” “In the renovations, rotten logs were repaired and the cladding replaced where necessary. Project partners: Builders: tmi Petri Piipponen to the Lassila Hirvilammi profile @ Architonic. Petra gipp arkitektur AB. Welcome to the official BILL VIOLA website. Sveriges Arkitekter - Sök arkitekt, inredningsarkitekt, landskapsarkitekt, planeringsarkitekt. Arkitekturens År. Theo Jansen's Strandbeests - Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention Episode 1 Preview - BBC One. Kivik Art Centre. Lebbeuswoods.net.
Guastavino.net. The four arches are two bricks thick while the dome is only one brick. Plaster of Paris is the only binding agent. "interior" view of the vault stringently-controlled load testing revealed that the dome easily carried a distributed load of 1,200 lbs. methods were derived from Guastavino's own means of load-testing under construction underside underside, again CONSTRUCTION OF A VAULT Even though no english language manuals of timbrel vault construction exist, MIT student Michael Ramage spent a weekend building a small vault of his own.Michael's vault spans six feet by six feet and though it was his first attempt to build a masonry vault, he finished it in only one weekend.
Quicktime Movie of Vault Construction (Quicktime 1.5M) Construction of a Catalan Vault Process (pdf) Construction of a Catalan Vault Text (pdf) Digital model of vault (dxf) For more information you may contact Michael directly (mramage@mit.edu).
Olafur Eliasson Space Is Process (2010.