Repenser l'étalement urbain au-delà du fatalisme Urbanisme Étalements Urbains. Critique sociale d'une fatalité spatiale Éditeur : L'Harmattan Discours, constructions sociales et étalements urbains La démarche d’Emmanuel Amougou s’attache, dans un premier temps, à nous montrer les étalements urbains sous le prisme des discours développés par les acteurs locaux, discours insufflés et portés par l’État. De l’étude de ces discours, l’auteur nous montre avant tout la vision consensuelle de l’étalement urbain comme une fatalité. Et c’est là où l’ouvrage d’Emmanuel Amougou est particulièrement intéressant : il révèle la pensée des élites qui, se voulant "humanistes", véhiculent une vision technocratique et quasi totalitaire de l’urbanisme. En réalité, l’habitant n’est responsable en rien : peut-on reprocher à quelqu’un de vouloir s’installer dans une maison individuelle pour bénéficier d’un meilleur cadre de vie ? L’auteur nous fait remarquer à juste titre qu’on parle aujourd’hui de périurbanisation, et non plus de rurbanisation.
Urban Gardens | Unlimited Thinking For Limited Spaces ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE | FOA: John Lewis words William Wiles “It’s the place you go to buy a bedspread,” says Foreign Office Architects partner Farshid Moussavi, explaining why this John Lewis department store in Leicester is wrapped in patterned fabric. The decorative facade, which is a double layer of glass with a mirrored frit, acts like a net curtain. This transparency was not needed for the second element of the scheme, a multiplex cinema. Thin sheets of steel were used so that they would buckle slightly, creating a quilted effect. In the original masterplan, this pedestrianised street was covered in glass to unite the development with the new Highcross shopping centre, which developers Hammerson and Hermes meant John Lewis to anchor. This was FOA’s first department store and has whetted its appetite for more. images Hélène Binet top image The facade of the department store combines mirrored frit with a double layer of glass The thin steel that clads the cinema buckles slightly, creating a quilted effect
::think:: | design:converge:learn | Interior Design in the Digital Age: the impact of social media and digital resources on interaction in public spaces In the past, each time a new form of communication technology comes about, we adapt to the new possibilities and a new social sphere evolves, as the book Communication in History illustrates. In the late fifteenth century when the Gutenberg printing press was invented, literacy was no longer an exclusive right for the privileged. (Crowley, Heyer 78). In the late 1800’s, the telephone gave users the ability to communicate across distances, as cumbersome as the early phones were. (119-24). The television era beginning in the 1940’s had critics, journalists and politicians discussing the transformation of their careers and the mass media platform, which used to be the radio. In the home, housewives were hearing the promise of a renewed togetherness in the family, brought by the inclusion of the television in the family room. But some critics saw the television as a potential problem as it was desensitizing viewer’s emotions, particularly young impressionable individuals.
t e r r a . f l u x u s Architecture, urbanism, design and behaviour: a brief review | Design with Intent by Dan Lockton Continuing the meta-auto-behaviour-change effort started here, I’m publishing a few extracts from my PhD thesis as I write it up (mostly from the literature review, and before any rigorous editing) as blog posts over the next few months. The idea of how architecture can be used to influence behaviour was central to this blog when it started, and so it’s pleasing to revisit it, even if makes me realise how little I still know. “There is no doubt whatever about the influence of architecture and structure upon human character and action. We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.”Winston Churchill, addressing the English Architectural Association, 1924 In designing and constructing environments in which people live and work, architects and planners are necessarily involved in influencing human behaviour. Two examples of pattern 53? Table 1. Layout of physical elements Emergence, desire lines and predicting behaviour References
Landscape Invocation Ravensbourne College by Foreign Office Architects Foreign Office Architects have completed the new tile-covered campus for Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, located on the Greenwich Peninsula in London. The façade is composed of 28,000 anodised aluminium tiles in three different shapes and colours. Above photographs are copyright Morley von Sternberg The tiled façade is perforated with round windows of varying sizes, with two rows of windows per floor to provide views of the surrounding city. The pattern of the tiles is determined by the size and positioning of window openings, while the size of windows depends on the corresponding interior function. Perforations on the north side are larger and more frequent than those in the south side to regulate light levels. The college has an area of 17,000m2 and will house 1,400 students in inter-disciplinary, open-plan work spaces over four interconnected storeys. The ground floor incorporates 1,700m2 of public retail space. Here's some text from the Architects: Ravensbourne, London UK
Cabinet of Curiosities | This write life By Mary Jo Gibson Today I am highlighting one particular item in my Cabinet of Curiosities, called a Kabinettschrank (display cabinet in German), also known as a Kunstkammers/Cabinet of Wonders. This beautiful piece of antique artisanship was shared with me by the Getty Museum; the accompanying video opens the compartments for the closest scrutiny possible, giving a glimpse of the riches found in a nobleman’s private chamber. Conceived to store items of artistic, natural and intellectual interest for the aristocracy and customized according to the interest of its intended, but now unknown, owner. Created around 1630, this example from Augsburg, Germany, might be from the workshop of merchant/collector Philipp Hainhofer. This artisan studied law at the Universities of Siena and Padua, later traveling extensively through Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, acquiring knowledge of art and several languages. Prominently displayed on the ceiling are instruments of Christ’s passion. Blogs: Books:
L'immeuble du futur : un écosystème au service de l'homme Depuis l'antique Rome, les humains ont utilisé la superposition des habitations pour concentrer en un même lieu les citadins. L'immeuble n'a été jusqu'ici que cette simple superposition. A l'avenir, l'immeuble devra avoir des fonctionnalités plus variées. Il deviendra un véritable écosystème complexe pour le confort de ses habitants. Quelques précisions préalables: Dans cet article, nous ne nous intéresserons pas aux constructions neuves, qui répondent à d'autres objectifs, qui sont laissées à la créativité des architectes et qui, surtout, seront limitées par la densité actuelle des agglomérations. Nous nous interrogerons plutôt sur la transformation des immeubles existants qui devront répondre à des exigences et à des contraintes nouvelles à cause des nouveaux enjeux économiques et écologiques. Phase 1 de la transformation, la surélévation: Dans un premier temps, il s'agira de surélever l'immeuble de un à trois étages supplémentaires. Quels sont les objectifs de cette surélévation?
Landscape+Urbanism Landscape urbanism Landscape Urbanism is a theory of urban planning arguing that the best way to organize cities is through the design of the city's landscape, rather than the design of its buildings. The phrase 'Landscape Urbanism' first appeared in the mid 1990s. Since this time, the phrase 'Landscape Urbanism' has taken on many different uses, but is most often cited as a Postmodernist or Post-postmodernist response to the failings of New Urbanism and the shift away from the comprehensive visions, and demands, for Modern architecture and Urban planning. The phrase 'Landscape Urbanism' first appeared in the work of Peter Connolly, a Masters of Urban Design student from RMIT Melbourne. In 1994, Connolly used the phrase in the title for his Masters of Urban Design proposal at RMIT Melbourne. Here, he suggested that 'a language of "landscape urbanism" barely exists and needs articulating', and that 'existing urbanisms [...] are limited in the exploration of the landscape'. History[edit] Themes[edit]
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