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Human-Scale Spider Web

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:26:24 +0000

Design team Numen/For Use transformed 700 rolls of clear packing tape into an incredible human-size inhabitable spider web at DMY Belin 2010. The weaving took place over four consecutive days inside of the Tempelhof former airport. 49,213 yards (45 km) of tape wrapped around constructed scaffolding posts allowed visitors to experience the installation by crawling around inside.
This is the 5th Tape Installation exhibited by Numen/For Use, and it is the only time a scaffolding construction support had to be constructed due to location restrictions. The installation took approximately 160 hours and was erected by six workers. Previous installations used up to 1000 rolls of tape costing approximately $620 US dollars (500 Euro) and were woven around structural components that already existed on site. The cocoon shape is realized through the design concept of dance performance. As dancers weave in, out, and around existing pillars, a trail of tape records the history of each dancer’s step. The entangled surfaces present a unique relationship between man-made materials and natural organisms inside an environment which encourages the visitor to engage with spatially. The mechanical and chemical construction qualities of tape combined with the amorphous nature of the organic structure unwinds a special narrative that is a beautiful showcase of bio-mimicry.

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Dazzling Solar Powered OR2 Tree Structure Pops Up in London

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:53:44 +0000

Don’t be startled if you see a luminous pink tree sitting in London’s Belgrave Square this weekend — it’s just OR2, a combination shading device and solar-powered chandelier designed by London-based Orproject. The structure’s purpose is twofold: it acts as a source of shade during the day, and it turns into a dazzling chandelier at night, dispersing light collected by photovoltaic cells hours before.

he pink-tinted structure, built as part of the London Festival of Architecture, is a follow-up project to the OR single-surface solar roof structure. OR2 is translucent while in the shade, but it quickly fills in with color when exposed to sunlight.

According to the designers, OR and OR2 are the first structures to use photo-reactive technology at an architectural scale. The designers explain, “The beauty of OR2 is its constant interaction with the elements, at each moment of the day OR’s appearance is unique.”

Want to check out OR2 in person? It’s on display until July 4 at the Italian Cultural Institute in London.

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Ecosystèmes Modulables

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:24:07 +0000

Seule commune insulaire du Grand Paris, l’Ile Saint-Denis compte aujourd’hui une population de soixante douze mille habitants. L’île s’étend sur huit kilomètres de long et deux cent mètres de large, néanmoins soixante dix sept hectares du territoire de l’île sont des terres submergées, soit plus de quarante pour cent de la commune.

Résultants d’une importante activité industrielle passée, les espaces résiduels, terrains vagues, sols et eaux sont fortement pollués.

Ecosystèmes Modulables est construit comme une hyper-structure paysagère. Stratégiquement identifiable, elle est planifiée pour sauvegarder divers processus appartenant au paysage naturel-biologique et artificiel local.

Le projet fonctionne comme un instrument efficace de croissance remédiant l’urbanisation informelle et irrégulière, contexte de la banlieue parisienne. Etienne Gozard spécule et vise à planifier en projetant des scénarios plausibles, en anticipant sur l’échelle, le contexte et la configuration des futurs patrons morphologiques urbains.

Ecosystèmes Modulables est une stratégie d’aménagement du sol capable d’exploiter la surface réduite de l’Ile Saint Denis tout en préservant de manière efficace les écosystèmes locaux (flore et faune) et en mettant au service de la population les cycles naturels de l’ile.

Jorge Ayala Academic Unit_ ESA Paris

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Jorge Ayala_Studio Project

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:01:10 +0000

Prototypical Gennevilliers, Landscape Urbanism Paris

Edouard Molinari develops a prototypical urban fabric for Gennevilliers (Hauts de Seine) having as main strategy to tackle the social housing issue, one of the biggest realities the Greater Paris region faces up to date.

Gennevilliers represents also one of the 4 biggest trade harbours in regional Paris, today lacking an overall masterplan responding to urgent demands like carriage, transport and dwellings.

Based on the low density ratios of Gennevillers context, Edouard proliferate a mesh within the residual space and terrains vagues left over after the Industrial Era.

Enhancing its land value, this hexagonal spatial organization acquires depth and thickness proposing new typologies for housing, leisure, public venues and tourism.

© ESA Landscape Urbanism Archives

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Jorge Ayala Atelier recent works

admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:27:06 +0000

LANDSCAPING PARIS/

PARIS AND ITS LANDSCAPE URBANISM

Paris and its suburbs represent a working population of 5.5 million people. More than 11 million inhabitants are distributed within 12,000 square kilometers, out of those, 2 million people live within 105 square kilometers.

Topographic conditions, cultural and social interaction, political problems and a constantly increasing unprivileged population limit the transformation of Paris into a 21^st century major city, requiring urgent solutions.

The Landscape Urbanism Studio at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture aims to reformulate both -existing and proposed projects- the Parisian suburbia is engaged with, by trying to question them. The studio led by Jorge Ayala proposes systems of organization seeking to find methods and strategies in order to inform the development of this region.

The Paris Agenda starts proposing a series of actions capable of coordinating new modes of urban transformation by the reconfiguration of activities considered as “social or environmental threats”.

These physical models are the exploration of spatial configurations suggesting several levels of engagement with existing conditions: topography, rainfall flows, ground conditions and residual landscape, among others. These models have become a medium through which new urban logics appear and proliferate, becoming the structure of each of the students’ proposals.

© ESA Landscape Urbanism Archives

Jorge leads the Landscape Urbanism Seminar at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris/ Grand Paris Agenda – French Government Major Urban Project.

Label: Landscape Urbanism

Author: Jorge Ayala, Landscape Urbanism professor, Paris

Credits: ESA Landscape Urbanism 2010

Link: www.paysageurbanisme.com

www.jorge-ayala.com

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Energy roof by Coop Himmelb(l)au

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:19:48 +0000

“Passeggiando per la storia” è il titolo di un progetto seguito dall’Università degli Studi di Perugia. E’ stato presentato il 15 gennaio scorso da Wolf D. Prix, tra i fondatori di COOP HIMMELB(L)AU e prevede due interventi: uno di tipo archeologico e una sorta di icona architettonica che fungerà da copertura e da fonte di energia per la città. L‘“Energy Roof” sarà la copertura di Via Mazzini, nel pieno centro di Perugia, invece saranno degli scavi archeologici e una galleria sotteranea in corrispondenza delle vecchie mura della città etrusca, nell’area sottostante Piazza Giacomo Matteotti. Grazie alla combinazione di vetro laminato e cuscini pneumatici traslucidi, il tetto simbolico di Via Mazzini potrà produrre energia dalle radiazioni solari (ala ovest) e dall’energa eolica (ala est) tanto da essere autosufficiente.

via www.viaggidiarchitettura.it

via www.designboom.com

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Hong Kong Urban Adapter

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:05:25 +0000

Rocker Lange Architects are participating in this year’s Hong Kong & Shenzhen bi-city biennale with their proposal for a new urban furniture concept.

Hong Kong’s urban furniture contains multiple functional objects. Each of them belongs to a different set of formal expression or is part of a different style. While variation is obvious in the style mix of Hong Kong’s public furniture, there is a lack of uniformity in the formal expression that could foster a unique Hong Kong identity..

This design proposal for a contemporary city bench seeks to understand the concept of street furniture as a holistic design problem. Instead of offering only one single static design, this scheme suggests multiple varying solutions that meet specific fitness criteria.

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The project “Urban Adapter” is based on a digital parametric model. At its core the model utilizes explicit site information and programmatic data to react and interact with its environment. That way the model’s DNA structure is capable of producing a variety of unique furniture results. Together they generate an endless family of new urban bench furniture.

Rather than having a fixed form the members of the family can adapt to different site conditions and programmatic needs. While all of the designs have the ability to serve as a seating element, some have additional programmatic values added, such as recycling containers, flower buckets or billboards serving for advertisement or educational purposes. The generated functional surface invites the user to new seating and communication arrangements and establishes a unique identity for the urban space of Hong Kong.

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Getaheart installation 1.0

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:12:27 +0000

A heart:

[some] sensations

[some] sounds

[some] visions

[some] smells

[one] material

A heart which is an expression of the multiples “senses” within of the place, projection and identification from to beginning.

It’s an attractive immersive installation but also repulsion of the urbanscape.

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Un cuore,

delle sensazioni, dei rumori, delle visioni, degli odori,…un materiale.

Installazione immersiva attrattiva e repulsiva di un arredo urbano; un cuore come espressione dei “sensi” di un luogo, identificazione e proiezione delle origini.

Studio dell’analisi per l’ottimizzazione formale attraverso il tool MathSurface, attraverso l’implementazione delle variabili spaziali e la relativa esplicazione dell’andamento della funzione.

plastic canopy

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:52:52 +0000

One of the main principles of permaculture is that “the problem is the solution.” Problem: tons of waste cups created by attendees of the OutsideLands concert in San Francisco. Solution: a fabulous recycled cup canopy. BIOS Design Collective tapped a keg and invited their friends over for a canopy party, building a gorgeous wave of concave color at Stable Cafe just in time for Architecture and the City.

They started by stringing steel cable mesh above the Stable Cafe patio in equidistant lines. Designer Chris Chalmers created the layout for the cables using a definition created by Grasshopper, a graphical algorithm editor. Laminated cards depicting sections of the canopy helped volunteers to place their multi-colored cups in an artistic– and precisely algorithmic– fashion.

As the keg drained, revelers clipped the cups onto the cables with special, laser-cut plastic clips. We wonder what the next BIOS installation will be– plastic clip jewelry? Regardless, the resulting canopy was stunning in its form and precision. The BIOS blog boasts that the keg for the party cost more than the materials to create the canopy. We’ll drink to that.

info via www.inhabitat.com

Corian® 3D Math Series

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:24 +0000

La serie Corian® 3D Math Series è costituita da 6 pannelli diversi che traggono ispirazione da famosi matematici o note funzioni matematiche.

I pannelli sono stati progettati con Grasshopper da Alessio Erioli, Andrea Graziano e Corrado Tibaldi.

via blog.it.rhino3d.com,

via co-de-it.com

DuPont™ Corian® 3D – Math series: PDF…

_parametric Fourier

_parametric Gauss

I miei più sentiti complimenti in particolare rivolti all’Arch. Andrea Graziano, il quale ho avuto occasione di conoscere durante il workshop digitalMaya a Torino. Un lavoro eccezionale che unisce lo studio formale con l’analisi numerica e materica, producendo degli elementi con alto significato iconico!