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- House in Alfama / Matos Gameiro Architects
- Trucks Maintenance Centre / Raum
- 10th International Architecture Festival CANactions
- House in Tokushima / FujiwaraMuro Architects
- Deep House / poly.m.ur
- Competition Announced for New Concert Center in Kanaus, Lithuania
- Pavilion of the Origins / Hung Nguyen Architects
- Burt St / Keen Architecture
- Call for Entries: 2017 MAD Travel Fellowship
- Studio Gang to Construct "Hive" for the National Building Museum's Summer Block Party
- Nova Quest / MM18 Arquitetura
- Acolhúas House / SPRB arquitectos
- Kengo Kuma & Associates Unveils Stacked Timber Museum in Turkey
- ICD-ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17 / ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart
- The Surface Travel Awards: Call for Submissions
- Architecture Takes Center Stage With Google Earth Relaunch
- The Website Behind the "Post-Digital" Drawing Revolution
- Murteira School Refurbishment / NOZ Arquitectura
- 2017 American Architecture Award Winners Announced
- Spotlight: Jan Kaplický
| House in Alfama / Matos Gameiro Architects Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Daniel Malhão
 © Daniel Malhão From the architect. Up on Alfama, near the Monastery of St Vincent de Fora and the National Pantheon, there is a Little square, which marks a pause in the steep slope leading down to the river. This operation involves the rehabilitation of one of the buildings on the edge of the neighbourhood, a rare example of a medieval building in an area dominated by buildings raised since the earthquake of 1755. It was a simple residence, which had resulted from the break-up of a larger palace complex that still exists. Over the years, the occupation of this small building gradually led to the construction of new walls that defined interior subdivisions, resulting a house served by two courtyards. The house was extended and altered, and the courtyards were gradually occupied.  © Daniel Malhão  Diagram  © Daniel Malhão This intervention aims to clarify the internal argument of the complex, reinforcing its inner meaning. If the courtyards determine the organization, the spaces between them are what form the focus of the programme. The operation has resulted in four outdoor spaces, interspersed with narrow sheltered areas. The whole complex, with its unroofed appearance, gives the idea of a ruin; suggests contention, with the nature and parsimony of monastic cells; and also evokes pleasure, given the way the courtyards are available to be used as outdoor rooms, stripped of any immediate function. One of these outdoor rooms is filled with water, closing a cycle which, in the labyrinth of connections, is perpetuated. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Trucks Maintenance Centre / Raum Posted: 18 Apr 2017 07:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Courtesy of Raum
 Courtesy of Courtesy of Raum From the architect. The Trucks Maintenance Centreis an antenna of the Ile et Vilaine departmental equipment park (Britany, France). The project proposes to create a dialogue between the new building and the landscape bocage. The technical aspect of the program is accentuated by a great rationality into the organisation of its functions. This rationality allowed a one way traffic system, synonymous of safety in this constrained area. Two buildings serving different functions are gathered around a spacious courtyard  Courtesy of Courtesy of Raum  Ground Floor Plan  Courtesy of Courtesy of Raum - Activity building : gathered the administrative functions, supplies shop and motorway workshops - A covered and protected parking and storage building. All the devices set up to offer a real optimization of working conditions, in terms of team safety, spatiality, acoustic conditions, light qualities, materials and relationship with the close environment.  Courtesy of Courtesy of Raum  Courtesy of Courtesy of Raum This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 10th International Architecture Festival CANactions Posted: 18 Apr 2017 06:00 PM PDT  CANactions CANactions seeks to enhance the creation of places and communities in Ukraine where people love to live and work. CANactions integrates the most relevant world experience in the sphere of architecture and urbanism to educate and inspire responsibility active change makers. For this moment CANactions is a member of Future Architecture Platform. Since 2008 the International Architecture Festival CANactions has been running annually. Today the festival is the largest architectural event in Ukraine with a ten-year history. 2017 is the 10th time the Festival is about to be held. The topic of this year's festival is VALUES. With the lectures provided by well-known foreign and Ukrainian experts, current exhibitions, workshops and film screenings we aim to create the conditions for the ideas sharing and dialogue in the sphere of modern architecture. During the festival, the VALUES theme will be highlighted not only in the in the field of architecture, urbanism but also in life generally. The guest speakers include: The venue for the estival is the most popular in Ukraine state Art Institution - Art Arsenal ("Mystetskyi Arsenal"). For more information please visit the Festival web-site.
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| House in Tokushima / FujiwaraMuro Architects Posted: 18 Apr 2017 03:00 PM PDT  © Toshiyuki Yano
 © Toshiyuki Yano From the architect. The client requested a building for the married couple and their two children to live in, with a space for home office, at a site located in the suburb.  © Toshiyuki Yano There is a plan for a large-scale facility in the adjacent property; and an arterial road with high traffic runs on the south side of the client lot.  © Toshiyuki Yano Under such conditions, a spatial structure was considered to secure lighting and ventilation while assuring privacy throughout the future.  Section Line of sight and noise from the arterial road is blocked by soil banking built on the road side with surplus soil.  © Toshiyuki Yano Daylight from the south side is taken into each room on the second floor by projecting them out from the roof surface, providing excellent lighting and ventilation scheme while securing privacy.  © Toshiyuki Yano A living-dining space in a skip-floor configuration is provided at the central part of the interior space of this building.  1st Floor Plan This space connects to a bedroom, children's rooms, water sections, and a study room.  © Toshiyuki Yano This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2017 01:00 PM PDT .jpg?1492490994 "© Kyungsub Shin") © Kyungsub Shin
.jpg?1492491186 "© Kyungsub Shin") © Kyungsub Shin From the architect. This Recently completed Deep House (House with Deep Wall) is the culmination of 6-year-long pursuit and determination of its architect Homin Kim. Credit for successful completion of the daunting task goes to Kim's ambitious vision to situate a modern and practical residence in challenging landscape backed by unwavering support and trust of the client. Most striking feature of the Deep House is its roof, slanted at an angle, which streamlines flawless as walls as a single unit. By opting against conventional use of the concept of roof and eaves and adopting exterior stone louvers, volume of the Deep House is dispersed in shallow depth throughout. Hollow space created underneath the slanted roof and the vertical walls is designed to serve not only as a layer of insulation improving the energy efficiency but also extra storage space. .jpg?1492491040 "© Kyungsub Shin") © Kyungsub Shin Another noticeable feature of the Deep House is its use of corner windows. Once the layout of the rooms was confirmed, corners of the rooms were left exposed by installing box-type windows. Rooms and the size of corner windows were strategically laid out to allow maximum benefit of the spectacular scenery from inside while minimizing adverse impact of chilly winter draft. It also manifests the most important element of spatial concept: micro space. Corner windows are 'window space' but also creates 'room inside room' not separated by any physical boundary of walls. The room may appear as one space, but we can clearly perceive that an independent space exists there. Kim was aware of people's inclination to find corner space cozy and useful regardless of the size of their homes, and he wanted to utilize that instinct. Deep House project was a process of searching creative solutions to work around seemingly conflicting elements such as efficiency and style, function and form and necessity and redundancy. Factors that may seem irrelevant are assigned with critical functions in greater context. Kim highlighted that the Deep House project was his attempt to challenge the dogma of modernism that "Form follows Function" and propose creative alternatives. .jpg?1492491091 "© Kyungsub Shin") © Kyungsub Shin  Section .jpg?1492491129 "© Kyungsub Shin") © Kyungsub Shin This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Competition Announced for New Concert Center in Kanaus, Lithuania Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:01 PM PDT  © Kaunas City Municipality. Courtesy of Malcolm Reading Consultants Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) has been appointed by Kaunas City Municipality to run a one-stage design contest for Kaunas' new Concert Centre. The substantial new building for this leading Lithuanian city, which has just won the title European Capital of Culture 2022, will encompass a world-class concert venue as well as multifunctional spaces for public and community events. The one-stage contest will launch in early summer and conclude in the autumn. The initiative follows the success of the recent Science Island contest, which was the most popular architectural competition in Lithuania's history. Commenting on this collaboration, Malcolm Reading, MRC Chairman, said: 'Kaunas is a European city to watch – it has a distinguished architectural heritage and is rapidly achieving prominence as a key hub within the Baltics. 'We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with Kaunas. This project is a perfect successor to the recent Science Island competition - a more complex building, setting a challenge to competitors in urban design, landscape and satisfying technical requirements. We are looking forward to a creative response from the global design community.' MRC will shape the design brief for the project, develop the design criteria, advise on jury selection, launch and propose the competition through a dedicated microsite, and manage the tender process. MRC is currently running high profile competitions for the UK Holocaust Memorial in London, the Ross Pavilion in Edinburgh, and the Art Mill in Doha, Qatar. Final preparations for the competition are in progress, with full details to be announced at the launch. Interested architects and designers are invited to visit https://competitions.malcolmreading.co.uk/kaunasconcertcentre to sign up and receive notification of the competition launch. Press release via Malcolm Reading Consultants.
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| Pavilion of the Origins / Hung Nguyen Architects Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © Nguyen Thai Thach
 © Nguyen Thai Thach From the architect. The Pavilion of the Origins is located in Hanoi which is one of the most air polluted cities in the world. In 2016, the PM2.5 particulate level recorded in Hanoi was seven times higher than the permissible level set by the World Health Organization. The declining air quality in Hanoi has been attributed to high traffic volumes and industrial activities.  Floor Plans Pavilion of the Origins is an attemp to bring the clean air back by setting a place for living plants which can help detoxify the air. They are not just ornamental plants for decorative purposes, but they are air-purifying plants that can absorb harmful toxins from the air.  © Nguyen Thai Thach  Diagram  © Nguyen Thai Thach The pavilion sits on the terrace of a 3-storey house in Hanoi, with the main structure being constituted by many cuboid frames. Each small cuboid frame acts as a small pavilion for a few plants, then the superposition of many cuboid frames creates a big pavilion for human scale. With varying heights, the spaces in spaces flow into each other. Light is poured down, wind comes through the voids. The boundaries between inside and outside are blurred. A harmonious relationship is established between human, nature and space.  Elevations The white color of the upcycled steel frames and the white round pebble stones on the floor blend into the sky and clouds, reflecting light in multiple directions while the translucent polycarbonate roof reduces the solar radiation. In different heights, the 200x200x200mm cubic planters are suspended and hovering around to distribute the purification in every corner of the pavilion. Plants grow and spread along the structure, bathe in the soft light. In this forest ambience, one may pass through the rugged terrain, climb up the branches of the frames and find his own tranquility on a floating hammock. Time presents in the flow of air, the change of weather, the shedding of leaves and the movement of people.  © Nguyen Thai Thach In Pavilion of the Origins, trees and plants play a role as the main users for the amount of time they spent in this space, while the pavilion owners act as the servants who have the duties to take care of those main users and subsequently be paid in clean, fresh air, as well as experiencing the vivid beauty of the natural origins.  Diagram This slender structure is just a minimal intervention of human to nature. Architecture, in this sense, acts as a rope to tighten up the interaction and connection between humans and nature.  © Nguyen Thai Thach This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © Dion Robeson
 © Dion Robeson From the architect. The heritage listed 1904 house had undergone numerous renovations over the years. Our clients, wanted to upgrade the existing house, add in a secondary garage, add a small studio space and upgrade the landscaping with a reasonable but modest budget. We gave them a sketch design that met their brief which they were happy with but in seeing the true potential of the site we went out on a limb and gave them another option demonstrating the full potential of the site and opening their eyes to a new way of living. Not really having greatly thought of the alternates or possibilities, our clients were blow away by the proposal and it snowballed from there. We basically reworked the whole house and reoriented the spaces to accommodate a growing family and a more modern lifestyle that was specifically tailored to our clients. The final budget ended up significantly higher but our clients could see the real value of what we were proposing and were happy to revisit and increase the budget. I truly believe it's an architects job to go above and beyond to help our clients realise the true value and potential of their site. Often clients are unaware of the possibilities or, might need a little nudge to help them to reconsider any preconceptions they might have. At the end of the day, clients engage us for our opinions and experience but a house should first and foremost be for our clients, not our egos. These were dream clients too, nearly everything we threw at them (within reason) they took on board. They gave us their absolute trust which was somewhat daunting but we had absolute respect for, as did the builder and all the trades on site. Ultimately I believe their trust, backing and passion in all the people behind the project created such an amazing and unique home that we are all so proud to have been involved in.  © Dion Robeson  © Dion Robeson To describe the extension itself, it's a generous light filled space that centres around family interaction, entertaining and the environment with the integration of indoor and outdoor spaces. The aesthetic has a modern industrial vibe but with a touch of warmth and softness from the materiality and curved forms. Our belief is the mock reproduction of heritage buildings is futile so there is a clear and defined contrast from the 'old' part of the house. Each area holds architectural merit in its own right and its own era.  Ground Floor Plan With all the glass and skylights and high ceilings, the amount of light enters the house and the play of light around the house is just beautiful. It's just such an amazing open and light filled space to be in.  © Dion Robeson The curved glass sliding door is a real feature and focal point. Everyone really loves having a go at sliding it. We also get asked about the timber a lot as it's a very dominate - yet soft and textural - feature. It's a Burnt Ash (thermally modified) cladding and we designed it in a random pattern to create some interest then deepened the tones with a rich dark ebony stain. We love the off form concrete the most, its raw and industrial but the curve really softens it. It's such a permanent and unforgiving material that there is always a lot of stress when it's being poured and then when the formwork gets stripped everyone holds their breaths. As a final finish, a lot of effort went into getting everything just right and to everyone's credit the builder did an amazing job.  © Dion Robeson This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Call for Entries: 2017 MAD Travel Fellowship Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:30 AM PDT  © Marc Goodwin IMPORTANT UPDATE 4/18: Dates and information for the competition have changed. Learn more below. To architecture students worldwide, MAD encourages you to apply for the 2017 MAD Travel Fellowship. Ma Yansong, founding principal partner of MAD Architects, initiated MAD Travel Fellowship in 2009. During the past 7 years, the program has sponsored 35 students for their overseas architecture travels to Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Starting 2017, the program will sponsor five more global students to visit China. MAD believes it is only through travel – the visceral experience of interacting with, and being influenced by, different spaces – that one can begin to understand ideas of context and gain a deeper insight into architecture.  Courtesy of MAD Architects
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| Studio Gang to Construct "Hive" for the National Building Museum's Summer Block Party Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:10 AM PDT  Courtesy of National Building Museum Previously home to a beach-like ball pit, a giant maze, and sea of icebergs, this summer the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. will host the "Hive," a 60-foot-tall domed structure made up of more than 2,700 individual paper tubes. Designed by Studio Gang, the installation is part of the museum's Summer Block Party series, which invites architects to fill the building's historic Great Hall with a temporary, immersive intervention. The "Hive" will consist of three interconnected domed chambers constructed from wound paper tubes wrapped in a reflective silver exterior and a bright magenta interior, creating vibrant visual contrast to the museum's nineteenth-century interior and colossal Corinthian columns. The tubes will vary in size from just several inches to 10 feet tall, allowing the structure to meet a maximum height of 60 feet. "Through their use of space and materials, Studio Gang pushes the limits of our summer series to new heights, literally and figuratively," said Chase W. Rynd, Hon. ASLA, executive director of the National Building Museum. "They have ingeniously co-opted a commonplace material—the paper tube—into the ultimate building block, capable of reaching dazzling heights and affecting the sound, light, and scale of our surrounding building." .jpg?1492545422 "Courtesy of National Building Museum") Courtesy of National Building Museum The structure will utilize a catenary shape to optimize its structural potential and give the installation a reverberant acoustic effect. By reaching so high into the Great Hall space, the "Hive" will be able to be experienced from unique perspectives at both at ground level and from the Museum's upper-floor balconies. "When you enter the Great Hall you almost feel like you're in an outside space because of the distance sound travels before it is reflected back and made audible," said Studio Gang founding principal Jeanne Gang. "We've designed a series of chambers shaped by sound that are ideally suited for intimate conversations and gatherings as well as performances and acoustic experimentation. Using wound paper tubes, a common building material with unique sonic properties, and interlocking them to form a catenary dome, we create a hive for these activities, bringing people together to explore and engage the senses." Tubular instruments, such as drums and chimes, will be featured inside the Hive's smaller chambers, inviting visitors to play and explore the structure's acoustic properties. The largest chamber will feature an oculus more than 10 feet in diameter that will filter the natural light of the Great Hall into intricate patterns inside. Outside the installation, Philadelphia-based design educator Alex Gilliam's notched cardboard Build It! Disks will offer a "hands-on cooperative building activity." The Hive will be will be open to the public from July 4 to September 4, 2017. To see the full slate of events surrounding this year's Summer Block Party, visit the National Building Museum website, here. News via National Building Museum.
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| Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © Pedro Vannucchi
 © Pedro Vannucchi From the architect. São Paulo, 2017 - A large 1,000-square-meter slab construction - something rare in the region of Alphaville, a neighbourhood of Barueri (SP) - was the client's request to the brazilian office of architecture MM18 Arquitetura, led by the architects Mila Strauss and Marcos Paulo Caldeira, for the corporate building project Nova Quest. When MM18 studied the ground, very irregular, the L shape with the first side parallel to the front of the lot was the one that resulted better use, but generating the sharp sharp angle that ended up giving the nickname to the building.  © Pedro Vannucchi Another demand was that the construction needed to be fast, and with that need, the construction system adopted was the pre-cast concrete construction widely used in the region. The great challenge was to reconcile innovative ways with the conventional building techniques of the existing shed buildings in the region, adding aesthetic value to the Nova Quest.  © Pedro Vannucchi Overcome the challenges of finding the company that would accept to produce the pieces of irregular shapes, the assembly worked like a puzzle. The one-piece pillar structure on all floors has been installed. Then the beams came, and then the flagstones. The building has three floors, plus the ground floor and basement, has a total area of 6 thousand m².
Built for an investor himself to receive his own company, the other floors were available for rental. On the ground floor were restaurants, shops and other shops. Built in the mold of a shed, Nova Quest was a low-cost building.  © Pedro Vannucchi In addition to glass - to take advantage of natural light -, the predominant materials were the metallic tiles and the elements cast in concrete. The lighting design is of the MM18, which adopted yellow electrodes to highlight the lighting of the building.  © Pedro Vannucchi This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Acolhúas House / SPRB arquitectos Posted: 18 Apr 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Lorena Darquea
 © Lorena Darquea From the architect. As if it were the case of a precious musical instrument, the house is a robust wrapping that develops around the position of a majestic Bösendorfer piano. The main spaces are related to both the central courtyard and the surrounding gardens, either for functional relationships or for comfort issues given the mild climate of Guadalajara.  © Lorena Darquea  Floor Plan 01  © Lorena Darquea  Section  © Lorena Darquea Introverted to its neighbors, exploits its privileged position of contiguity to a public park. To the orthogonality of the plant, the section is contrasted with its different interior reliefs of the roofs in successive variations of scale, intimacy and hierarchy of spaces. An honest materiality has been intended, both in its construction systems and in its finishes.  © Lorena Darquea  © Lorena Darquea This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Kengo Kuma & Associates Unveils Stacked Timber Museum in Turkey Posted: 18 Apr 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled their design for the Odunpazari Modern Art Museum, currently under construction in Eskisehir, Turkey, a city well-regarded for its university and young, lively population. Borrowing from the scale and materiality of traditional Ottoman wooden houses, the museum seeks to become a new cultural venue that both stands out and integrates into the existing streetscape.  Courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates The new museum will be located in the neighborhood known as Odunpazari ("wood market" in Turkish), an area of the city home to intimate, meandering streets and historic Ottoman homes that feature cantilevered upper levels. This language has been adapted for the design of the museum.  Courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates "Our design strategy is to make the volume in aggregation; stacking small boxes to create urban scale architecture," explain the architects. Stacked boxes of varying sizes reflect the scale of the surrounding homes along the street level, and rise towards the center of the structure to "[announce] itself as new cultural landmark of the area."  Courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates Inside the building, gallery spaces in a range of sizes offer flexible opportunities for the display of art; boxes located on the ground floor are designed to accommodate large-scale art installations, while smaller boxes on the upper levels will provide space for more intimate exhibitions. A central atrium, constructed of timber blocks, connects each level and allows natural light to permeate through the building through the skylight above.  Aerial view of the project site. Image Courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates The project is currently under construction – an opening date is yet to be announced. News via Kengo Kuma & Associates.
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| ICD-ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17 / ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart Posted: 18 Apr 2017 04:00 AM PDT  © Laurian Ghinitoiu
 © Burggraf / Reichert From the architect. The Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart have completed a new research pavilion exploring building-scale fabrication of glass and carbon fibre-reinforced composites. The novel process is based on the unique affordances and characteristics of fibre construction. Because these materials are lightweight and have high tensile strength, a radically different approach to fabrication becomes possible, which combines low-payload yet long-range machines, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), with strong, precise, yet limited reach, industrial robots. This collaborative concept enables a scalable fabrication setup for long span fibre composite construction. The research builds on a series of successful pavilions, which investigate integrative computational design, engineering and fabrication, and explores their spatial ramifications and construction possibilities. The project was designed and fabricated by students and researchers within an interdisciplinary team of architects, engineers and biologists.  © Burggraf / Reichert Lightweight, Long Span Fibrous Construction Fibre composite materials have tremendous potential in architectural applications. Due to performative material characteristics, they are readily used in highly engineered applications, such as in the automotive and aerospace industries. The potentials within architecture, however, remain still largely unexplored. Within architectural scale production, where material self-weight is of high concern for larger span structures, lightweight fibre composites provide unparalleled performance. However, we currently lack adequate fibre composite fabrication processes to produce at this scale without compromising the design freedom and system adaptability required for the architecture and design industries. Traditional methods of fabrication require full-scale surface moulds and often restrict the process to serialized production of identical parts. Previous research at the ICD and ITKE has explored fibre composite construction without the need for surface moulds or costly formwork. These novel manufacturing processes have been utilized to create highly differentiated multi-layered structures, functionally integrated building systems and large element assemblies. They have freed the relatively formable material from the limitations of traditional fibre composite fabrication processes. However, the scale of these early investigations has been limited by the working space of the industrial robotic arms that were utilized. The goal of the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17 is to envision a scalable fabrication process and to test alternative scenarios for architectural application by developing a manufacturing process for long span continuous fibre structures.  © Laurian Ghinitoiu Process Biomimetic Investigation The focus of the project is a parallel bottom-up design strategy for the biomimetic investigation of natural construction processes of long span fibre composite structures and the development of novel robotic fabrication methods for fibre reinforced polymer structures. The aim was to develop a fibre winding technique over a longer span, which reduces the required formwork to a minimum whilst taking advantage of the structural performance of continuous filament. Therefore, functional principles and construction logics of natural lightweight structures were analysed and abstracted in cooperation with the Institute of Evolution and Ecology and the department for Paleobiology of the University of Tübingen. Two species of leaf miner moths, the Lyonetia clerkella and the Leucoptera erythrinella, whose larvae spin silk "hammocks" stretching between connection points on a bent leaf, were identified as particularly promising for the transfer of morphological and procedural principles for long span fibrous construction. Several concepts were abstracted from the biological role models and transferred into fabrication and structural concepts, including: the combination of a bending-active substructure and coreless wound fibre reinforcement to create an integrated composite winding frame, fibre orientation and hierarchy over a long span structure and multi-stage volumetric fibre laying processes for the generation of complex three dimensional geometries.  Courtesy of ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart  © Laurian Ghinitoiu  Courtesy of ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart Multi-Machine Cyber-Physical Fabrication Creating a long span structure, beyond the working space of standard industrial fabrication equipment, required a collaborative setup where multiple robotic systems could interface and communicate to create a seamless fibre laying process. A fibre could be passed between multiple machines to ensure a continuous material structure. The concept of the fabrication process is based on the collaboration between strong and precise, yet stationary machines with limited reach and mobile, long-range machines with limited precision. In the specific experimental set-up, two stationary industrial robotic arms with the strength and precision necessary for fibre winding work are placed at the extremities of the structure, while an autonomous, long range but less precise fibre transportation system is utilized to pass the fibre from one side to the other, in this case a custom-built UAV. Combining the untethered freedom and adaptability of the UAV with the robots, opened up the possibilities for laying fibres on, around or through a structure, creating the potential for material arrangements and structural performance not feasible with the robot or UAV alone.  Courtesy of ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart  Model  Courtesy of ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart An adaptive control and communication system was developed to allow multiple industrial robots and a UAV to interact throughout the winding and fibre laying processes. An integrated sensor interface enabled the robots and UAV to adapt their behaviours, in real time, to the changing conditions during fabrication. The UAV could fly and land autonomously without the need of human pilots, the tension of the fibre was actively and adaptively controlled in response to both the UAV and robot behaviours. A localization system was utilized to create a digital and physical "handshake" between the robot and the UAV in order to pass the fibre back and forth throughout the winding process. The series of adaptive behaviours and integrated sensors lay the foundation for developing novel multi-machine, cyber-physical fabrication processes for large scale fibre composite production.  Integrative Demonstrator The ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17 was created by laying a combined total of 184 km of resin-impregnated glass and carbon fibre. The lightweight material system was employed to create and test a single long spanning cantilever with an overall length of 12 m as an extreme structural scenario. The surface covers an area of about 40 m² and weighs roughly 1000 Kg. The realized structure was manufactured offsite and thus the size was constrained to fit within an allowable transport volume. However, variations of the setup were found suitable for on-site or in situ fabrication, which could be utilized for much longer span and larger fibre composite structures.  © Laurian Ghinitoiu The pavilion's overall geometry demonstrates the possibilities for fabricating structural morphologies through multi-stage volumetric fibre winding, reducing unnecessary formwork through an integrated bending-active composite frame, and increasing the possible scale and span of construction through integrating robotic and autonomous lightweight UAV fabrication processes. It explores how future construction scenarios may evolve to included distributed, collaborative and adaptive systems. This research showcases the potential of computational design and construction through the incorporation of structural capacities, material behaviour, fabrication logics, biological principles and architectural design constraints into integrative computational design and construction. 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| The Surface Travel Awards: Call for Submissions Posted: 18 Apr 2017 03:30 AM PDT  At Surface, we see design as a catalyst for creative journeys. The Surface Travel Awards will anoint the most thoughtfully conceived new projects at the intersection of travel and design: hotels, restaurants, public spaces, retail outlets, cultural institutions, airports, travel products, luggage, branding, and more. Produced in collaboration with Peter Frank, former director of editorial product development at Travel + Leisure, the program aims to raise global awareness of the crucial benefit of design as a means to improve our lives as we explore the world around us. In July, Surface Media will assemble a jury of prestigious professionals in the design industry in New York City for a private luncheon to select the winners for each category. Held in conjunction with the release of Surface's Travel Issue, the formal awards ceremony will take place in October 2017 with 300-400 guests, including the finalists, jurors, partners, press, and members of the design and travel communities. Immediately preceding the award ceremony and cocktail party, Surface Media and a presenting sponsor will co-host a private dinner exclusively for winners and program partners. Official Categories
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| Architecture Takes Center Stage With Google Earth Relaunch Posted: 18 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT Google Earth is no longer a clunky, data-intensive desktop or mobile application. As of today, one of the tech-giant's flagship (and unrivalled) products has been relaunched as a widely accessible web application for Google Chrome. This means that anyone can now access the full Google Earth product, free of charge, without having to install software or download mobile applications.  Courtesy of Google Earth What's new?Search within Google Earth has been dramatically enhanced, "Knowledge Cards" give you snapshots of information and places and cities as you navigate, "Voyager" will take you on "adventures" (interactive guided tours), and the familiar search option of "I'm Feeling Lucky" has finally been brought to the platform. In addition, there is now the ability to orbit the entire globe in "3D" as opposed to isolated urban conurbations.  Courtesy of Google Earth Tour "Frank Gehry's Buildings" and "Architecture by Zaha Hadid"As part of Google Earth's "Voyager" collection, the platform have compiled a tour of a collection of Frank Gehry's built projects from across the globe from Weil-am-Rhein to Minneapolis. The same can be experienced with a world tour of projects by Zaha Hadid Architects. Complex forms and unique geometries are part of their product showcase.  Courtesy of Google Earth A new mobile app for Android has also been released, with versions for iOS and mobile browsers coming soon. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Website Behind the "Post-Digital" Drawing Revolution Posted: 18 Apr 2017 02:30 AM PDT  Depicting Spaces. Image Courtesy of Tom Grillo This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "Inside The Digital Platform Championing Post-Digital Drawing." Digital technologies were supposed to kill the drawing. And in an obvious way they did, with CAD displacing hand draughtsmanship long ago. But drawing is more than mere delineation—measured construction drawings—or even the rendering, which has devolved into a mere marketing tool. Indeed, as Sam Jacob writes, it constitutes a fundamental "architectural act" that lies at the core of the discipline's self-understanding. Jacob describes a new "post-digital" mode of drawing that incorporates narrative cues, art historical allusions, and software-enabled collage techniques. It recalls Mies's sparse one-point perspectives and de Chirico's metaphysical paintings as well as the affected irreverence of Postmodernism. It's a style popularized by blogs such as KoozA/rch, which was founded by architect Federica Sofia Zambeletti three years ago. We spoke to Zambeletti about the resurgence of architectural drawing and how the style could soon exhaust itself.
 Mixed Realism Meets Flatness and Symbolism. Image Courtesy of Nowadays Office Samuel Medina: What prompted you to found KooZA/rch? Federica Sofia Zambeletti: KooZA/rch was born from the idea of creating a platform where beautiful drawings, like those produced at the Architectural Association, could be presented and create an architectural dialogue. Too often the means through which we represent our projects, especially as students, are the only physical elements which bring the project to life—most of the times these are never constructed. As such, the role of the drawing as a prime site for architecture needs to be constantly addressed and developed.  Built In A Day, Creating Narratives of Horizontality Based On A Speculative Fiction. Image Courtesy of David Verbeek SM: What is the importance of architectural representation? What do you make of this new "tendency"—why do you think this style has become so prevalent in universities and among "critical" practices? FSZ: I don't think it is about representation but about architectural communication. The hyper-realistic softwares, through which we render a utopian view of the project, do the "real" [work of] representation. These new images focus on the concepts and atmospheres that the architects want to create. Here, the drawings enter a much larger dialogue, not only about the visual identity of the project but the narrative, context, and identity of both project and architect. The image produced is as much of the finished product as it is of the driving conceptual forces that developed it.  Lisbon-based architect Maria Morais used collages and textures to represent her project "The Tagus Baths: Spaces of Water and Light in Aterro da Boavista". Image Courtesy of Maria Morais / KOOZA:RCH SM: How would you characterize this drawing style? FSZ: I must admit that these are much more artistic than "architectural." Coming from an Italian background, I have always been fascinated by how architecture was represented in paintings of Bellini and Raffaello, particularly Predica di san Marco ad Alessandria d'Egitto by Bellini and The Marriage of the Virgin by Raffaello. In both, architecture plays a major role in defining the composition: It is not just a background but the performative actor on the canvas.  A Unifying White. Image Courtesy of Olga Tarasova SM: Who were the early pioneers of this approach, would you say? FSZ: It's a continuum! SM: So, when would you date this style to? FSZ: I think it really depends on what terms we use to define it. One can go as back as the 1960s with Superstudio and Archigram and then of course to the paper architects of the '90s. For sure, these influences are there, but what I find extremely interesting is the choice of images borrowed from artists like Hopper, Hockney, and Magritte, among others. We often witness how designers reference these artists and allow for further exploration of them, each in different ways.  This sketch by the architect and noted yacht designer Lujac Desautel attempts a synthesis of Miesian space and David Hockney's representational style. The drawing, along with many others of its type, was featured on KooZA/rch, a popular blog curated by designer Federica Sofia Zambeletti. Image Courtesy of Lujac Desautel / KOOZA:RCH SM: To what extent is this an international trend, beyond the AA and London, or the Ivy League circuit? Are there local or cultural differences you can see in the style? FSZ: It is for sure an international language, although there are some cultural differences, which we must treasure to maintain identities. I feel that otherwise we risk this new type of drawing becoming so standardized that we might as well go back to the hyper-realistic rendering.  Courtesy of Maria Morais / KOOZA:RCH SM: Do you feel that this "standardization" could soon become the case? How might KoozA/rch help to prevent this? FSZ: Yes, this might already be the case, but my hope is that our interviews and publications invite architects and aspiring architects to reflect upon the graphic language [they use] in relation to the proposal rather than just copying a specific aesthetic. The proliferation of figures such as Hockney and Magritte [in these drawings] is something we need to be very aware of, as these now just occur in images without having a specific reason that has led to a standard understanding of something which at its origin held a significant role. I am not against the re-appropriation of previous narratives so long they hold a specific position.  Courtesy of Maria Morais / KOOZA:RCH SM: Would you say that this mode of drawing—or the "return" to drawing—carries with it a criticism of contemporary architectural culture? FSZ: As architecture verges towards some kind of generic corporate standard, this type of drawing tries to reappraise the poetics of atmosphere. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Murteira School Refurbishment / NOZ Arquitectura Posted: 18 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
 © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG From the architect. The project consisted in the refurbishment of the existing school building and extension with the construction of a new adjacent building to accommodate the new program.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The new building was designed with a remarkably modern language without however overlapping with the existing architecture. The ground level of the extension building houses a classroom, teacher's room,sanitary facilities and kitchen. The upper floor has three of the new rooms, all with a direct exit to the exterior.  Ground Floor Plan In the existing building the old classrooms were converted to kindergarten rooms. The original porch, now centrally located to the entire school, is used as the transition between the existing rooms and the new building, becoming a central distribution space and as a large internal space for various activities.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The outer spaces were fully redesigned with pavement games, playground toys for different age groups, a small football space games, new trees for shading and even a small children's farm.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Exposed brick was applied in bands of different colours, recalling the idea of a bookshelf. Two different bricks heights were used providing the brick surface with a subtle texture variation.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The new construction includes large spans and skylights, allowing cross ventilation of the interior spaces and the possibility for natural light. The use of high performance glazing allowed to maintain the internal temperature balance, avoiding the use of air conditioning for space cooling.  © Marcus Quelhas This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 2017 American Architecture Award Winners Announced Posted: 18 Apr 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards 79 shortlisted buildings have been selected as winners of the 2017 American Architecture Awards, which honor the best new buildings designed and constructed by American architects in the United States and abroad, and by international architects for buildings designed and built in the United States. The Awards, hosted by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, were juried by a group of Greek architects, who chose from 300 buildings and urban planning projects. The winners of the 2017 American Architecture Awards are: Airports and Transportation CentersORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SOUTH TERMINAL COMPLEX; Orlando, Florida / Fentress Architects  ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SOUTH TERMINAL COMPLEX; Orlando, Florida / Fentress Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON STATION; Seattle, Washington / LMN Architects Bridges and InfrastructureHARAHAN BRIDGE - BIG RIVER CROSSING; Memphis, Tennessee / Philips Lighting TU LIEN BRIDGE; Ha Noi, Vietnam / WATG  TU LIEN BRIDGE; Ha Noi, Vietnam / WATG. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards Corporate Office BuildingsSWIFT AGENCY; Portland, Oregon / Beebe Skidmore Architects  SWIFT AGENCY; Portland, Oregon / Beebe Skidmore Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards REDWOOD HIGHWAY; Mill Valley, California / Studio VARA HANNA ANDERSSON HEADQUARTERS; Portland, Oregon / ZGF Architects, LLP. WASHINGTON FRUIT & PRODUCE CO. HEADQUARTERS; Yakima, Washington / Graham Baba Architects  WASHINGTON FRUIT & PRODUCE CO. HEADQUARTERS; Yakima, Washington / Graham Baba Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards FAST HORSE; Duluth, Minnesota / Salmela Architect TREC - Training Recreation Education Center; Newark, New Jersey / kon.5 architects PACIFIC CENTER CAMPUS AMENITIES BUILDING; San Diego, California / BNIM 38 NEWBURY STREET; Boston, Massachusetts / Touloukian Touloukian Inc. CORPORATE CAMPUS CAFE AND TRAINING CENTER; West Des Moines, Iowa / substance Government/ Civic BuildingsBENJAMIN P. GROGAN AND JERRY L. DOVE FEDERAL BUILDING; Miramar, Florida / Krueck + Sexton Architects  BENJAMIN P. GROGAN AND JERRY L. DOVE FEDERAL BUILDING; Miramar, Florida / Krueck + Sexton Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards Hospitals/ Medical CentersHARVEY CLINIC; Rogers, Arkansas / Marlon Blackwell Architects  HARVEY CLINIC; Rogers, Arkansas / Marlon Blackwell Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards Mixed-Use BuildingsFRAMEWORK; Portland, Oregon / Works Progress Architecture  FRAMEWORK; Portland, Oregon / Works Partnership Architecture. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards Museums and Cultural BuildingsGLOBAL CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM (GCAM); North Adams, Massachusetts / Gluckman Tang Architects PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM; Los Angeles, California / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates  PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM; Los Angeles, California / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART; New York, New York / Renzo Piano Building Architects and Cooper Robertson MINNESOTA STREET PROJECT; San Francisco, California / Jensen Architects  MINNESOTA STREET PROJECT; San Francisco, California / Jensen Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards KMAC MUSEUM RENOVATION; Louisville, Kentucky / Christo : Finio Architecture THE STOREFRONT THEATER; Lyons, Nebraska / Matthew Mazzotta SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART RENOVATION THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS; Lawrence, Kansas / Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects Parks and GardensLIBERTY PARK; New York, New York / AECOM  LIBERTY PARK; New York, New York / AECOM. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards Private Homes510 HOUSE; Fox Point, Wisconsin / Johnsen Schmaling Architets GUEST HOUSE; Wainscott, New York / Roger Ferris + Partners GEMMA OBSERVATORY; Southern New Hampshire / Anmahian Winton Architects  GEMMA OBSERVATORY; Southern New Hampshire / Anmahian Winton Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards SAWMILL; Tehachapi, California / Olson Kundig ONTARIO RESIDENCE; Washington, DC. / David Jameson Architect LAKE HOUSE; Stockbridge, Massachusetts / Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design CUERNAVACA RESIDENCE; Austin, Texas / alterstudio architecture LLP. LITTLE HOUSE; Seabeck, Washington / mwworks MIRRORHOUSE; Beverly Hills, California / XTEN Architecture SQUARE HOUSE; Mill Valley, California / Levenbetts .jpg?1492141585 "SQUARE HOUSE; Mill Valley, California / Levenbetts. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards") SQUARE HOUSE; Mill Valley, California / Levenbetts. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards ALAMO SQUARE RESIDENCE; San Francisco, California / Jensen Architects OVERLOOK GUEST HOUSE; Los Gatos, California / Schwartz and Architecture SEA SONG; Big Sur, California / Form4 Architecture ARTIST RETREAT; Upstate New York / GLUCK+ GRACE STREET RESIDENCE; San Francisco, California / VeeV Design HIDE OUT; Los Angeles, California / Dan Brunn Architecture PACIFIC HEIGHTS RESIDENCE; San Francisco, California / Jensen Architects 3 LP RESIDENCE; Iowa City, Iowa / substance Religious BuildingsWILLOW CREEK NORTH SHORE; Glenview, Illinois / Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture  WILLOW CREEK NORTH SHORE; Glenview, Illinois / Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards CHAPEL FOR OUR LADY OF FATIMA; Cayey, Puerto Rico / Toro Arquitectos SOKA GAKKAI INTERNATIONAL- NEW ENGLAND; Brookline, Massachusetts / Touloukian Touloukian Inc. Restoration/ RenovationMIT KRESGE AUDITORIUM AND CHAPEL RENOVATIONS; Cambridge, Massachusetts / EYP  MIT KRESGE AUDITORIUM AND CHAPEL RENOVATIONS; Cambridge, Massachusetts / EYP. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards AMERICAN ENTERPRISE GROUP NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS RENOVATION; Des Moines, Iowa / BNIM Retail/ HospitalityIN SITU; San Francisco, California / Aidlin Darling Design  IN SITU; San Francisco, California / Aidlin Darling Design. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards Retail/ ShowroomsAESOP THE SHAY; Washington, DC. / Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design  AESOP THE SHAY; Washington, DC. / Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards MARTIN'S LANE WINERY; Seattle, Washington / Olson Kundig CHARLES SMITH WINES JET CITY; Seattle, Washington / Olson Kundig BLU DOT SHOWROOM; West Hollywood, California / Standard Architecture  BLU DOT SHOWROOM; West Hollywood, California / Standard Architecture. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards RAJEUNIR BLACK CAVIAR; Palm Desert, California / Studio Jantzen Schools and UniversitiesMASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN DESIGN AND MEDIA CENTER; Boston, Massachusetts / Ennead Architects BRIDGE FOR LABORATORY SCIENCES VASSAR COLLEGE INTEGRATED SCIENCE COMMONS; Poughkeepsie, New York / Ennead Architects  BRIDGE FOR LABORATORY SCIENCES VASSAR COLLEGE INTEGRATED SCIENCE COMMONS; Poughkeepsie, New York / Ennead Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards TAUBMAN COMPLEX; South eld, Michigan / Morphosis Architects DEBRUCE CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS; Iowa City, Iowa / Gould Evans PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EMBODIED COMPUTATION LAB; Princeton, New Jersey / The Living UNIVERSITY OF IOWA VISUAL ARTS BUILDING; Iowa City, Iowa / Steven Holl Architects .jpg?1492141820 "UNIVERSITY OF IOWA VISUAL ARTS BUILDING; Iowa City, Iowa / Steven Holl Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards") UNIVERSITY OF IOWA VISUAL ARTS BUILDING; Iowa City, Iowa / Steven Holl Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards COLLEGE OF MARIN ACADEMIC CENTER; Kentield, California / TLCD Architecture + Mark Cavagnero Associates COMMON GROUND HIGH SCHOOL; New Haven, Connecticut / Gray Organschi Architecture PRESTON OUTDOOR EDUCATION STATION; Elmdale, Kansas / KSU Design+Make Studio DAVIS-HARRINGTON WELCOME CENTER; Springfield, Missouri / Dake Wells Architecture WAKE TECH REGIONAL PLANT TEACHING FACILITY; Raleigh, North Carolina / Clark Nexsen Skyscrapers/ High RisesSHINSEGAE INTERNATIONAL; Seoul, South Korea / Olson Kundig GATEWAY PLAZA; Richmond, Virginia / Forum Studio 15 RENWICK; New York, New York / ODA New York  15 RENWICK; New York, New York / ODA New York. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards CONFIDENTIAL OFFICE COMPLEX; Chicago, Illinois / Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture MINOR AND STEWART; Seattle, Washington / WATG  MINOR AND STEWART; Seattle, Washington / WATG. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards Sports and RecreationGOLDEN 1 CENTER; Sacramento, California / AECOM RIVERSPORT RAPIDS; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Elliott + Associates Architects  RIVERSPORT RAPIDS; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Elliott + Associates Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards MICHIGAN LAKE HOUSE; Leelanau County, Michigan / Desai Chia Architecture .jpg?1492141945 "MICHIGAN LAKE HOUSE; Leelanau County, Michigan / Desai Chia Architecture. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards") MICHIGAN LAKE HOUSE; Leelanau County, Michigan / Desai Chia Architecture. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards THE LINEAR CABIN; St Germain, Wisconsin / Johnsen Schmaling Architects Urban Planning/ Landscape ArchitectureCOLORADO ESPLANADE; Santa Monica, California / PWP Landscape Architecture ST PATRICK'S ISLAND; Calgary, Alberta, Canada / W Architecture and Landscape BURJ 2020; Dubai, United Arab Emirates / RNL Design  BURJ 2020; Dubai, United Arab Emirates / RNL Design. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards THE NEW ST. PETE PIER; St. Petersburg, Florida / Rogers Partners CHICAGO RIVERWALK; Chicago, Illinois / Ross Barney Architects  CHICAGO RIVERWALK; Chicago, Illinois / Ross Barney Architects. Image Courtesy of The American Architecture Awards Learn more about the winning projects here. News via: The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2017 11:00 PM PDT  Selfridges at the Birmingham Bullring Centre, 2003. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/bs0u10e0/6837495909'>Flickr user Bs0u10e0</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Radical neofuturist architect Jan Kaplický (18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was the son of a sculptor and a botanical illustrator, and appropriately spent his career creating highly sculptural and organic forms. Working with partner Amanda Levete at his suitably-named practice Future Systems, Kaplický was catapulted to fame after his sensationally avant-garde 1999 Lord's Cricket Ground Media Centre and became a truly innovative icon of avant-garde architecture.  via jan-kaplicky.com  © Jan Kaplický Beginning his career in Czechoslovakia, where he studied at the College of Applied Arts and Architecture and Design in Prague, Kaplický fled to London in the wake of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and soon found himself working on the design for the Pompidou Centre under Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. Moving to Foster and Partners after Rogers and Piano relocated to Paris, he later set up Future Systems in 1979, producing intricate and outlandish drawings of orbiting robots and homes transportable by helicopter.  © Jan Kaplický  Hauer-King House, London, 1994. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/zongo/13063967574'>Flickr user zongo</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> For the first decade of Future Systems' existence these fantastical plans did not drive commissions for actual buildings, but built projects in the 1990s—including the 1994 Hauer-King House—supplied ever-increasing amounts of attention to Kaplický's elegantly radical projects, culminating in the Lord's Media Centre in 1999 and Birmingham Selfridge's at the Bullring Centre in 2003, the ultimate rejoinder to what was then Birmingham's reputation as a decaying concrete jungle.  Lord's Cricket Ground Media Centre, 1999. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/bensutherland/3359283721'>Flickr user bensutherland</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>  Enzo Ferrari Museum, Modena, 2012. Image © Andrea Morgante Where other practitioners of high-tech and futuristic architecture have been accused of moderating their radicalism as they became increasingly commercial, Kaplický built on the media attention these projects gave him to propose and build a series of buildings just as outlandish or seemingly impractical as ever, including the Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari in Modena. Sadly, his proposal for the Czech National Library in 2007—his first major project in his home country—was viewed as a step too far, and met with fierce opposition from the public and political class. He died without seeing it commissioned. Enzo Ferrari Museum / Future Systems + Shiro Studio London's Architectural Association Exhibits Futuristic Work of Jan Kaplický Yesterday's Future: Visionary Designs by Future Systems and Archigram This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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