Design Studio 2011
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Interactive City - Redefining the Basemap - Sant
Abstract Current collaborative mapping projects using locative media technologies have often overlooked the conventions of the base map as a site for reinvention. Although these projects are ambitious in their aim to propose alternative organizations of urban space through the way it is digitally mapped, they remain bounded by datasets that reinforce a Cartesian and static notion of urban space. This paper questions the methodology of the base map as it is utilized in these projects, and proposes alternative approaches for mapping the city.
e7.1 Essay - Mapping Non-Conformity: Post-Bubble Urban Strategies
In this essay, architect Teddy Cruz analyzes what he calls "critical thresholds" in the Americas, which include border zones and also the sectors of conflict generated by discriminatory politics of zoning and economic development. Cruz faults urban planning and development institutions for their incapacity to mediate the multiple forces that shape the politics of the territory or to resolve the tensions between the top-down urban strategies of official development and the bottom-up tactics of community activism. In response, Cruz visualizes new critical maps that attempt to capture movement and migration of peoples and goods across the border, along with the "micro-heterotopias" and "stealth urbanism" that characterize the contemporary San Diego/Tijuana border zone. 1.
Bennetts Associates ' award-winning Potterrow development has created an innovative learning environment for Edinburgh University, transforming the site previously used as a car park into a state of the art School of Informatics and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences Sciences as well as the University Visitor Centre and an exhibition space. Creating a communal, vibrant working environment that stimulated academic research was integral to Bennetts' design process. The 16,000m2 scheme, set within the university's major new masterplan for the George Square, responds to the latest developments in educational research, creating areas that aid formal and informal interaction, which has been found to significantly improve the quality of research. The floorplates have been laid out to ensure that usurers circulate around the building, engaging with a range of spaces and people.
Bennetts Associates' Potterrow Building: an Innovative Educational and Office Building
On The Move-CPG
In addition to the award given for the Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media that was featured in the previous issue, CPG Consultants is honoured to be awarded another three USA DesignShare awards in recognition for distinctive and well-designed school buildings globally. The USA DesignShare Award program challenges traditional standards, committing to learner-centred, cost-efficient and sustainable learning environments. Extending well beyond the architecture itself, it focuses first on learning, then on the learners and lastly, on how the built or natural environment provides rich learning opportunities. Yu Neng Primary School , which has a rich history that dates back to 1935 as a village school, had its buildings deliberately segmented into smaller clusters of indoor and outdoor learning and play areas to capture the nostalgia of a village concept.The project essentially consists of walls and a ceiling with a variable section; these elements create a sequence of compressed and decompressed spaces. The changes in section are determined by use (corridor, classroom access and bathrooms, classroom, porch-outside covered corridor, garden, exterior covered playground) but also by the movement of the sun and the longitudinal slope of the plot. The compression-decompression game works for both longitudinal and transversal space sequences: corridor – classroom and access to the bathrooms – class¬room – porch – garden – outside covered playground as well as classroom – bedroom – classroom. The orientation creates a tension that is expressed through the system of apertures. The spaces opening towards the North and the courtyard get large window panels, while towards the south and the public, light is admitted only through glazed “cracks”.
Educational Centre in El Chaparral / Alejandro Muñoz Miranda | ArchDaily
Innovative Learning Environments Expo 1 - Leading Practice and Design - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
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The word itself, which most people associate with "brutal" rather than brut as in beton , does no great service to the style. Nor do the many terrible buildings thrown up in its name, especially those by heavy-handed urban renewalists. Nor do its ongoing associations in popular culture with dystopian cityscapes (think A Clockwork Orange 's tour of concrete London). Nor do the cracks, spalls and stains one sees embedded in facades from decades of neglect. It takes a committed eye to find beauty in those chunky folds of concrete, those unapologetic masses bullying their way into the cityscape. Among these out-of-favor works are those by Paul Rudolph.
Reading Rudolph: Places: Design Observer
Gwathmey Siegel Completes Yale Arts Complex - 2008-10-20 04:00:00 | Interior Design
Yale University arts complex, 2008. How often does an alumnus get the chance to reshape the educational institution that helped form his professional vision? Just ask Charles Gwathmey, who seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by designing a major new arts complex for Yale University , where he collected his Master of Architecture in 1962. Yale University, Robert B.
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En construisant une structure de grande capacité, le projet invente un dispositif capable de créer un ensemble de situations riches et diverses, intéressant l’Ecole d’Architecture, la Ville et le paysage. Trois planchers en béton, largement ouverts, à 9 m, 16 m et 22 m au-dessus du sol naturel, desservis par une rampe extérieure en pente douce, mettent progressivement en relation le sol de la Ville et son ciel. Une structure légère re-divise la hauteur de ces niveaux principaux.The Miami School of Architecture Building (also known as the Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture Building) was designed by Bernard Tschumi . It is a visually exciting building, and was one of the many highlights on a recent architectural pilgrimage that I made to Miami. This project is one of three must see buildings on the Florida International University campus, the other two structures are designed by Robert Stern and KPF, and if you can believe it the Robert Stern designed structure is the best of the three architectural gems hidden on the campus. There is also a building that was designed by HOK, which is worth a visit, because it is a great example how architects often miss great opportunities. The structure was completed in 2001, and is known by few.
Miami School of Architecture by Bernard Tschumi | A Critical Architecture Blog | Critique This!
School Building Architecture by Takeshi Hosaka in Yokohama-Japan - Architecture Directory
This is a perfect complex facility named Hongodai Christ Church School & Nursery which is designed by Takeshi Hosaka Architects and located in a green area of Yokohama, Japan. Operated by a protestant church, this high school building is surrounded by playgrounds, parks and small hills, to blend a place for children with the green forest. This school building is placed in the forest as a simple grid by wood frames, where the children spend time, steel frames in the five courts play a part in providing better earthquake resistance, in the wooden construction of transparent grid with wooden frames, wooden floors and wooden sashes. Sliding glass doors are the interfaces between the inside and outside. Sunshine filters through the trees into the building and the breeze wafting through the forest also wafts through the building.Peter Eisenman’s Aronoff Center for Design and Art at the U. of Cincinnati (U. of Cincinnati image) Thomas Fisher, dean of the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, has a few harsh things to say about the kinds of buildings that house architecture schools. In an essay for our Architecture Issue, Mr.
A Dean Discusses the Most-Disliked Architecture-School Buildings - Buildings & Grounds - The Chronicle of Higher Education
This is the interior design of Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant in Hamburg , Germany . The design is combined the nature and the modern city. There are three space separations to accommodate various guests with different characters. This Bio Food restaurant was designed by eins:eins architekten .
The Interior Design of Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant | Building, House and Architecture Design
The Building Design of Les Yeux Verts in France | Building, House and Architecture Design
Jacques Ferrier Architectures makes a special design for Les Yeux Verts construction. Les Yeux Verts is such a car park located in Soissons, France . Jacques Ferrier Architectures tried to develop former barracks into a modern business park. This multi-storey building car park can accommodate 600 cars. A clearly affirmed structure overlaid by a pleated openwork timber envelope that lightly and delicately clad the entire car park becomes a basic of the building style.Located in unique location by Umeå River in Umeå, Sweden , this building for School of Architecture was designed by Henning Larsen Architects . This building has the main function to provide the framework for inspiration and innovation as a growth centre for future architecture. The exterior of the building is a cubic expression with its larch facades and square windows. The windows are arranged in a vibrant, rhythmic sequence on all sides. The artistic expression of this academic building also enhanced by the interior landscape of open floor levels and sculpturally shaped stairs. Since creating a bright and open study environment becomes one of the key objectives, the architect designs the room separated by the split levels and glass walls of the teaching rooms.