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Book Review – Digital Fabrications : Architectural and Material Techniques

aatlee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:03:26 +0000

Book Review – Digital Fabrications : Architectural and Material Techniques: “

Digital Fabrications explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms. The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. Projects are shown both in their finished forms and in working drawings, templates, and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch the process of each fantastic construction unfold continue

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Researching Urban Waste land in Berlin: Mobile Research Station No.1

aatlee — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:44:08 +0000

Researching Urban Waste land in Berlin: Mobile Research Station No.1: ”

A team of seven researchers/artists led by visual artist Simon Faithfull have set up an unique mobile research station in Berlin to investigate existing urban waste ground in down town Berlin.
Mobile Research Station No.1 is a curious hybrid – half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster – built from standard waste container, the station encompasses a luxurious designer-pod for an eccentric set of researchers. Rather than researching the frozen wastes of Antarctica or the moons of Saturn, the invited artist have begun their research into the surrounding wilderness and urban zones of uncertainty that still lie at the centre of Berlin.

Their initial findings and questions can be found the station’s blog as they develop.

The research station is commissioned by SKULPTURENPARK BERLIN_ZENTRUM for their project Wunderland. The station can be found on the open ground between Seydelstr and Beuthstr on online here

Researchers include:
Esther Polak (Amsterdam)
Annika Lundgren (Gothenburg/Berlin)
Martin John Callanan (London)
Katie Paterson (London)
Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson (Manchester/Berlin)
Simon Faithfull (Berlin/London)

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Emerging Architects NY Announces a New Competition

aatlee — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:43:03 +0000

Emerging Architects NY Announces a New Competition: ”

I received the following competition notice from the Emerging New York Architects Committee:

HB:BX Building Cultural Infrastructure

The High Bridge International Ideas Competition

Launch Party

September 10 | 6:00-8:00 pm

Trespa Design Centre

62 Greene Street NY, NY 10012

FREE Admission

RSVP: Please e-mail enyacompetitions@gmail.com

September 10, 2009, NEW YORK, NY. The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA New York Chapter, is pleased to announce its fourth biennial international ideas competition, High Bridge: Bronx, Building Cultural Infrastructure (HB:BX). Please join us at the Trespa Design Centre in SoHo, September 10 at 6:00 pm to help us celebrate its launch.

This competition is open to all emerging professionals, including, but not limited to, architects, artists, engineers, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners who have completed their education at the undergraduate or graduate level within 10 years of the competition announcement (September 10, 2009). The registration deadline is November 18, 2009, and the submission deadline is January 18, 2010. An online gallery will feature all submitted design entries. In addition, cash prizes and inclusion in an exhibition and publication will be awarded to the winning designs.

HB:BX is an open ideas competition to design an arts center that culturally reinforces the physical connection between the Manhattan and Bronx High Bridge communities of New York City. Working in cooperation with the arts organizations Artists Unite and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ENYA means to draw awareness to the current efforts to restore and reopen the historic High Bridge. This competition is a forum to explore the urban and community improvement opportunities that may come with the achievement of such a momentous milestone. Thus, ENYA challenges designers to explore how disused structures can be reprogrammed into elements of a vibrant urban cultural center. Entrants are also challenged to rethink the relationship between existing infrastructure (aqueduct, railway, highway) and the contemporary urban context. These issues, universally relevant to any growing city, take on a more site-specific nature when considering the importance of the High Bridge and the topographic challenges posed by the steep riverbanks of the Harlem River. Also defining this competition are the unique clients who ask entrants to reconsider architecture’s role in the creation, display, and experience of viewing art in one of the world’s most culturally vibrant cities.

General information about HB:BX follows:

Type: International Ideas Competition.

[Note: The competition results are intended to generate ideas for the site and will not result in actual development by ENYA or other parties involved.]

Registration Begins: Sept 10, 2009

Registration Ends: Nov 18, 2009

Submission Deadline: January 18, 2010 (postmarked)

Open to: Emerging Designers

Entry Fee: $35 Student, $65 Individual, $110 Team (2-4), $300 Group(5+)

Awards: $5,000 (ENYA prize), $2,000 (2nd Place), $1,000 (3rd Place), $1,000 (Student)

Be sure and submit an entry … you still have time!

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Light City

aatlee — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:34:59 +0000

Light City: “

Lefteris Kiourtsoglou – Light City

http://www.lefkiort.blogspot.com/

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(Via PYTR 75.)

UM 2009: Utrecht’s 3rd Biennial for Social Design

aatlee — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:30:18 +0000

UM 2009: Utrecht’s 3rd Biennial for Social Design: ”

Utrecht Manifest is a multidisciplinary social design biennale held in the city of Utrecht, home of the De Stijl movement in the early 1920s.

The Biennial’s third edition, UM 2009, will take place from October 4 to 17 2009 and will explore the potential of contemporary design as a social tool through the cultural models of which biennials are usually composed, the realistic need and urgency of social design. By using this innovative participatory approach – as opposed to an illustrative one – the Biennial seeks to determine the realistic need and urgency of social design, while exposing its complexity and contradictions at the same time. The event is divided into 5 sections: Unresolved Matters; Unforeseen Magic; Urgent Methods; User’s Manual, United Minds. Each section has a parallel programme of its own consisting of films and videos, temporary and improvised presentations, meetings in the form of dinners or teas, and more regular lectures and debates.
For information and to participate visit www.utrechtmanifest.nl

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(Via Cluster_Blog.)

Wesley Meuris

aatlee — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:50:15 +0000

Wesley Meuris: ”

Wesley Meuris – Botanical World Archive (2007)

Wesley Meuris – Cage for Alopex lagopus (2006)

Wesley Meuris – Cage for Pelodiscus sinensis (2005)

‘Wesley Meuris (°1977 Lier) vertrekt van de interactie tussen geconditioneerd gedrag en architectuur. Hij stelt hedendaagse conventies en de automatische aanpak die we hebben tegenover gestandaardiseerde architecturale ruimtes in vraag. De basisnormen wat betreft dimensies, materiaal, proporties en de verdeling van de leefruimte die doorheen de tijd zijn ontstaan, vormen zijn uitgangspunten. Hij speelt met en stelt deze (culturele en andere) conventies in vraag. Op die manier zorgt hij ervoor dat bekende vormen en gebouwen zowel herkenbaar als vreemd overkomen. In zijn architecturale modellen onderzoekt hij factoren, zoals hygiëne, privacy, comfort en soberheid, die ervoor zorgen dat een gebouw geschikt is. Zijn doel is om zo de betekenis van constructies te ontrafelen.’ (txt: Eva Wittocx)

http://www.wesleymeuris.be

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(Via PYTR 75.)

c_life – City as living factory of ecology by ARUP/Sauerbruch Hutton/Experientia/Galley Eco Capital | SpaceInvading

aatlee — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:42:13 +0000

c_life – City as living factory of ecology by ARUP/Sauerbruch Hutton/Experientia/Galley Eco Capital | SpaceInvading: “
c_life – City as living factory of ecology
Designer: ARUP/Sauerbruch Hutton/Experientia/Galley Eco Capital
Location: Jätkäsaari, Helsinki
The c_life proposal is based around the concept of the ‘Climate Neutral District’: ‘A low carbon building cannot be made into a no carbon building without addressing larger scale issues such as energy infrastructure and mobility that cannot be solved within a single block. By pooling the resources of like‐minded neighbors, large scale investments could be made in renewable energy projects to offset carbon emissions. A district approach would also make low carbon initiatives more effective.’
→ bustler.net
Posted: 09/16/2009
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