Spatializing the emptiness - the resistance of intelligent territories. Architects should re-define their social role, accepting the relative truths of the vulnerable sectors, to understand unknown realities that are immersed in the oblivion of the emptiness. space is our raw material, but it is always conjugated with the human beings; and if they fall into the void of oblivion, we must appeal to our raw material to save them, even if it means the construction of the no-space, spatializing the emptiness. as a socio-political tool, architecture allows the insertion of our ideas and concepts for a ignored group of people. architecture must lead to the re-construction of the industry and production with the re-strengthening of the education to enhance the socio-economical forces to prevent culture to fall. the acceptance of cultural, physical, psychological and emotional elements of the people as the essence of the personal development, but mostly for the collective growth. in the beginning of the XXI Century, 70% of the world’s population lives in urban zones.
EL MUSEO NÓMADA, de Shigeru Ban. "Al explorar el lenguaje y la sensibilidad poética compartida por todos estos animales, trabajo hacia el redescubrimiento del ámbito común que una vez existió cuando la gente vivía en armonía con los animales. Espero que el efecto final sea una experiencia de asombro y contemplación, de serenidad y esperanza. " Gregory Colbert, fotógrafo. Fue a finales del 2003 cuando Shigeru Ban, el arquitecto japonés popular por sus construcciones con tubos de cartón, recibió un encargo increíble: el de imaginar un museo móvil.
El museo debía viajar alrededor del mundo para mostrar las imágenes que el fotógrafo canadiense Gregory Colbert ha tomado a lo largo de treinta y tres expediciones por lugares insólitos del mundo. El arquitecto calculó que necesitarían ciento cincuenta y dos contenedores para crear una estructura que cerraría los 4.180 m2 que ocupa el Museo Nómada.
Pie de fotos:a. Branner Fellowship Summary: Favela Chic - Archinect. On the Metro Cable (cable car system), Santo Domingo Savio, Medellín (Colombia) The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship, awarded each year to three masters of architecture students in their final year at the University of California, Berkeley, gives recipients the opportunity to travel the world for twelve months in pursuit of architectural inquiries that will later inform their theses. This fellowship represents one of the most extensive pre-thesis travel research grants awarded to master level students in the United States. The 2010 Branner Fellows, Adriana Navarro-Sertich, Eleanor Pries, and Melissa Smith have just returned from their travel and are in the midst of thesis production.
Panoramic, Parque Biblioteca (Library Park) España in Santo Domingo Savio, Medellín (Colombia) Social and cultural responsibility is returning to the forefront of contemporary architecture. Favela Chic Tools Section sketches of urban conditions in Rocinha Favela, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Nightly Built. WALLS OF CHANGE. (above) The Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989. Walls are meant to separate, that is true. After all, it is an essential mission of the architect to ‘define space’, which means to construct limits, edges, boundaries that carve out particular pieces of undifferentiated space for human purposes.
Walls of many different shapes and materials are prime means at the architect’s disposal, and we are used to thinking of them as dividers between one side and another. Most often these two sides are different, even opposing—cold/warm, dark/light, noisy/quiet, public/private—and the separating walls secure people or things on one side from people or things on the other. (above) Street in La Habana Vieja, December 25, 1994. Clearly visible is the wooden bracing intended to prevent the collapse of deteriorating buildings. In Havana, some years ago, it was proposed that a series of walls be constructed within and around the old city, La Habana Vieja. A final note. Brazilian National Shooting Center / BCMF Arquitetos.
Architects: BCMF Arquitetos / Bruno Campos (Architect in Charge), Marcelo Fontes and Silvio Todeschi Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Project Team: Cláudio Parreiras Reis, Luciana Maciel, Lisiane Melo, Leonardo Fávero, Cristiano Monte-Mór, Ana Kawakami, Fabiana Fortes e Antônio Valadares Program: Shooting, Equestrian, Hockey, Archery and Modern Pentathlon venues Project management and General Coordination: Engesolo Engenharia Ltda Structure: Helio Chumbinho (Misa Engenharia)/ Lino Nunes de Castro (Globsteel) Sports Consultant: Aqualar (Swimming Pool), Forbex (Grass Hockey) and Eduardo Castro Mello Lighting: Godoy Associados Contractor: Construções e Comércio Camargo Corrêa (CCCC) Budget: 40.000.000 EURO (US $53.5 millions) Project year: 2005-2007 Constructed Area: 92,900 sqmPhotographs: Bruno Carvalho, Kaká Ramalho, Bruno Campos, Marcelo Fontes, Silvio Todeschi The Shooting Center. Galeria de Imagens - Concurso Morar Carioca.
Urbanism « CIUDAD EVOLUTIVA. Adjkm identidad para la sucursal del cielo, caracas adjkm.tumblr.com - adjkm.com adjkm is a collective of architects founded in 2010 by Alejandro Méndez (Caracas, 1982), Daniel Otero (Caracas, 1981), Jean-Marc Rio (Paris, 1976), Khristian Ceballos (Caracas, 1977) and Mawarí Núñez (Caracas, 1982). The group operates between Caracas and Paris. The creation of the collective resulted from the participation in the CIASMSB competition, in which their proposal was awarded the first place. The collective’s work is based on the interaction of different activities such as research, communication, experimentation and synergy with other disciplines within the architectural project.
Adjkm es un colectivo de arquitectos fundado en el año 2010, está conformado por Alejandro Méndez (Caracas, 1982), Daniel Otero (Caracas, 1981), Jean-Marc Rio (Paris, 1976), Khristian Ceballos (Caracas, 1977) y Mawarí Núñez (Caracas, 1982). Entrevista y articulo en el diario Panorama, Venezuela Una ciudad en MOVIMIENTO. Urban-Think Tank. LINA, LE CORBU, FLAVIO, BERNARDES, MATTA, VALPARAISO, AT 'DESVIOS DE LA DERIVA' CURATED BY LISETTE LAGNADO AND MARIA BERRIOS AT REINA SOFIA, MADRID. Le Corbusier, Plan for the Development of Rio de Janeiro, 1929 Le Corbusier, Sketches done during Conference in Rio, 1936 Roberto Matta, 'Snail's Trace', 1937 Roberto Matta, 'The Red Sun', 1938 Roberto Matta, 'Morphology', 1937 Roberto Matta, 'Star, Flower, Personagge, and Stone', 1938 Flavio de Carvalho, Hacienda Capuava, 1939 Flavio de Carvalho, 'Experience No. 3: New Look, Suit for the New Man of the Tropics', 1956 (moving display by Dominique Gonzalez Foerster) Lina Bo Bardi, Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Burle Marx exhibition, 1947 Lina Bo Bardi, Museum next to the Ocean, 1951 (unrealized) Lina Bo Bardi, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, 1957-1968 Lina Bo Bardi, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, studies for exhibition displays, and exhibition display, 1957-1968 Lina Bo Bardi, Sesc Pompeia, 1977 Lina Bo Bardi, studies for the cafeteria of Sesc Pompeia, 1977 Sergio Bernardes, 'Rio do Futuro', 1963, city of leisure, bridges and helicoidal towers over Rio de Janeiro exhibition rooms and exhibition guardians.
This Big City — Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement. This post is also available in: Chinese (Traditional) Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement – currently running at the Museum of Modern Art in New York – presents eleven architectural projects that explore how the social responsibility of architecture can be realized. All projects are aimed at communities underserved by architecture and design, and they all are small physical solutions that seek broader social, political and economical effects in those communities. The selection of projects includes primarily housing, but it also explores the impact of cultural projects and public transport. Here we present a brief look into the projects in the exhibition. Quinta Monroy Housing in Iquique, Chile consists of low-cost customizable row houses that can double its size when owners decide to build expansions: Inner-City Arts is a center that provides art classes to impoverished kids in Los Angeles.
One very noteworthy project is the Metrocable in Caracas. Small Scale, Big Change | Project Index. Urban-Think Tank - Interdisciplinary Design Studio.