Evolver 17 / 10 / 2009 / Архитектура / На всемирно известном швейцарском курорте Церматт, рядом с озером Стелли на склоне горы Маттернхорн, вырос удивительный архитектурный артефакт. «Эвольвер» (Evolver) — творение рук двух студентов из «Alice», студии при архитектурной школе (ENAC/SAR/IA) Федерального политехнического института Лозанны (EPFL), которая была основана в октябре 2006 года и предлагает экспериментальный подход к обучению дизайна в архитектуре. Строение из 24 деревянных элементов, последовательно соединённых в спиралевидную конструкцию, представляет собой своеобразную смотровую площадку.
The Termite Pavilion at Pestival A solid timber pavilion inspired by Namibian termite mounds is installed outside the Royal Festval Hall in London as part of insect-inspired festival Pestival. The installation represents a 6m³ section of a termite mound, scaled up fifteen times. It features sound recordings from inside a termite mound and lighting that dims and brightens to represent breathing. Flockr Pavilion / SO-IL Get It Louder, an acclaimed biannual media and arts festival sponsored by Modern Media of China, features a series of lectures, screenings and exhibitions by over one hundred Chinese and foreign designers, artists, writers and filmmakers. Organized by an international team including Chinese curator and writer Ou Ning and design writer Aric Chen, this year’s theme “SHARISM” focuses on the relationship between public and private realms in the digital age. SO-IL was commissioned to design Get It Louder’s main pavilion, which serves as a central hub for the event and houses many of the festival’s activities. SO – IL conceived the “Flockr” pavilion as a structure that responds to its environment while also creating a sense of place through its basic form. Covered with thousands of tinted mirrored panels, the skin reflects its surroundings and makes the changing contexts of this temporary and mobile installation—the cityscapes of Beijing and Shanghai— an integral part of its expression.
archdaily The project transforms a picturesque urban pond from the 19th century into an ecological habitat buzzing with life. With the design’s improvements to water quality, hydrology, landscape, accessibility, and shelter, the site is able to function as an outdoor classroom in which the co-existence of natural and urban surroundings is demonstrated. Architect: Client: Project Area: B(h)uis / Hoogte Twee Architecten Netherlands-based Hoogte Twee Architecten shared with us their project B(h)uis, a small pavilion built with PVC tubes. More images and architect’s description after the break. “Through the centuries architects have used small construction works to experiment with spaces of limited form, scale and extent, but also to experiment with material and details. As there’s a lack of well-equipped research laboratories, the research of material by architects focuses on potentials of existing (construction-) products in which mainly is sought for possibilities of improper use of materials.
Playcloud / NAMELESS NAMELESS, a New York-based practice shared with us their project ‘Playcloud’, for which they won the 2010 BSA Unbuilt Architecture Awards for Art Pavilion. See more images and architect’s description after the break. Playcloud explores the narrative potential of a pneumatic and fabric structure. Prospect.1 Welcome Center / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Architects: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple Location: New Orleans, LA, USA Consultants: Canal Construction of Louisiana LLC – General Contractor Client: U.S. Biennial, Inc. Project Size: 300 sf Completion Date: 2008 Photography: Will Crocker Photography, Steve Dumez Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1], the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, 81 artists exhibited in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans for three months.
BOXEL / Students of Detmolder Schule The experimental pavilion BOXEL was designed and realized by students of the architecture department during the last summer semester on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences in Detmold. The expressive design by Henri Schweynoch, which succeeded in an impromptu competition, creates a generous spatial scenery for presentations, concerts, events and gatherings on the campus. More images and information after the break. Within the digital design course, led by Prof. Marco Hemmerling, the students were not only asked to design a summer pavilion but also to construct and realize the design as a mock-up in scale 1:1, using digital design and fabrication tools. Against this background the digital workflow including parameters of production, construction and material became key issues of the further process.
Art615, a pavilion by Aalborg University students More images, a video, and the students’ description after the break. Intense work of 43 students at the Department of Architecture & Design, Aalborg University (Denmark), creates the framework for the workshop ‘Social Technologies’. The workshop explores the basic exercise in the development of dynamic architectural concepts and computer-generated geometry. The vision was to challenge the complex programs of the urban field and to explore the inherent potentials of new digital tools. Working with two main focus areas, the workshop simultaneously aimed at developing advanced spatial systems for organizing and articulating new social complexities, and at utilizing and adapting different advanced digital design methods for exploring various principles of form generation and advanced production.
Woods of Net / Tezuka Architects During this last few months we have presented you several works by the japanese office Tezuka Architects. The houses have very strong concepts, tied to different ways of inhabiting these projects designed specifically for each client. Now we present you Woods of Net, a permanent pavilion for japanese net artist Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam, in collaboration with structural engineers TIS & PARTNERS. The pavilion is located at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, a unique open museum located in one of the most visited tourist spots in Japan. Woods of Net was added to the collection of art works as part of their 40th anniversary.
Burnham Pavilion / Zaha Hadid The figure of Daniel Burnham has been very important for the city of Chicago as we currently know it, as he was one of the authors of the Plan of Chicago, also known as the Burnham Plan, which reshaped Chicago’s central area starting in 1909. To celebrate the centennial of this plan several events have been held during this year, such as the Union Station 2020 competition and the Burnham Memorial competition. Also, two pavilions by UN Studio and Zaha Hadid have been temporally installed at the Millenium Park (read our previous article about this), hosting multimedia exhibits on the future of Chicago. The pavilions will be opened to the public until Oct 31st, 2009. Zaha Hadid Architects´s pavilion merges new formal concepts with the memory of Burnham’s bold, historic urban planning. Superimpositions of spatial structures with hidden traces of Burnham’s Plan are overlaid and inscribed within the structure to create a dynamic form.
0°01’ W Network in [e]motion / NOVAE Architecture Italy-based NOVAE Architecture shared with us their project “0°01’ W Network in [e]motion”, their proposal for a competition to design an adaptable floating gallery in London, UK. More images and architect’s description after the break. The challenge involves the design of a mobile architecture gallery built to contain and distribute – both metaphorically and literally – ideas for the city as whole. The installation travels along the River Thames, connecting in this way a number of artistic spaces, and picking up visitors along the riverbank, particularly at South Bank.
V-528 Multifunctional Activity Center / fabriK·B Architects: fabriK·B / Benjamin Scharf, Gonzalo Elizarraras Location: Hvar, Croatia Collaborator: E. Mussche Project Area: 1,200 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of fabriK·B The project is located on the island Hvar, Croatia in the Adriatic Sea. The concept was born to create a Multi Activity Centre inside the ruins of an old chapel and castle.
The London Festival of Architecture By Al Hilal on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 :: Filed Under: Uncategorized Foster+Partners had an idea to let the audience involving the architecture during the London Festival of Architecture. They built a conical structure, interwoven with fabric panels hand-printed by the public. Alistair Lenczner of Foster + Partners said: “The day was a lot of fun for all involved and a real success. The London Festival of Architecture is a great opportunity to bring architecture to a wide audience.