Sunday, April 11, 2010
My Playground by BIG
BIG and propaganda... This guy (well all the studio too) is an amazing architect as well as a great seller. He does comics to promote himself, gives talks... and now makes videos involving people jumping around his buildings. Obviously it is not chance, it is a very thoughtful marketing enterprise based on the idea that architecture alone might not be easy to sell but if you ad a cool wave with some cool activity/people. A lot of people will seem to be interested, and the most important fact is that the main focus is young people?? Whom better to sell the architecture they will be willing to consume? (they might not know it yet, so lets push them a little further...)
Ladder by Itay Laniado
I always thought that ladders keep up so much space!! And this is the best idea to minimize the space of a ladder once you are not using it and to make them easier to carry around. Simply brilliant!
"A collapsible ladder held together by a strap under tension. The strap is tightened with a ratchet and forms two rungs of the ladder once assembled. A loop in the strap acts as a handle once collapsed. "
"A collapsible ladder held together by a strap under tension. The strap is tightened with a ratchet and forms two rungs of the ladder once assembled. A loop in the strap acts as a handle once collapsed. "
House K by Yoshichika Takagi
Thins within things... that's the main concept! It's a house made by other smaller separated spaces, most of them with a house shape. The separation between them and the roof, and the use of a differentiated material within the main space gives the final effect. They even thought about reflecting this concept from the outside with the only usage of one material and house shapes in walls and voids. Check the pictures:
Yoshichika Takagi
Yoshichika Takagi
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Jean Nouvel
Hot news!! Jean Nouvel will design next Serpentine Gallery Pavillion...
Some explanations:
"The design for the 2010 Pavilion is a contrast of lightweight materials and dramatic metal cantilevered structures. The entire design is rendered in a vivid red that, in a play of opposites, contrasts with the green of its park setting. In London the colour reflects the iconic British images of traditional telephone boxes, post boxes and London buses."
"The building consists of bold geometric forms, large retractable awnings and a freestanding wall that climbs 12m above the lawn, sloping at a gravity defying angle. It experiments with the idea of play in its incorporation of the French tradition of outdoor table-tennis. Striking glass, polycarbonate and fabric structures create a versatile system of interior and exterior spaces. The flexible auditoria will accommodate the Serpentine Gallery Park Nights and Marathon and the changing summer weather."
Some explanations:
"The design for the 2010 Pavilion is a contrast of lightweight materials and dramatic metal cantilevered structures. The entire design is rendered in a vivid red that, in a play of opposites, contrasts with the green of its park setting. In London the colour reflects the iconic British images of traditional telephone boxes, post boxes and London buses."
"The building consists of bold geometric forms, large retractable awnings and a freestanding wall that climbs 12m above the lawn, sloping at a gravity defying angle. It experiments with the idea of play in its incorporation of the French tradition of outdoor table-tennis. Striking glass, polycarbonate and fabric structures create a versatile system of interior and exterior spaces. The flexible auditoria will accommodate the Serpentine Gallery Park Nights and Marathon and the changing summer weather."
Grotto by Callum Morton
Maybe this was on Stanley Kubrick's mind while he was thinking in 2001: A Space Odyssey... Pure cubic black form that is reflective and transparent at the same time and contains pure organic shaped rock alike that also contains a space for human beings, a space that is prehistoric: A cave! It's minimal kith I would say as the atmospheric interior has a lot to do with Theme Parks. And the cube itself mimics with the artificially altered nature surrounding it. Also that nature its minimal as its flat and green grass with threes working as a frame...
From the outside it doesn't exist and from the inside you seem to be in a natural space.
Seriously interesting isn't it? Well let me tell you something else... It's inside a Baroque Garden in Tilburg, Netherlands!!!
Callum Morton is an artist not an architect... more info at Grotto
"In 2007 Fundament Foundation commissioned Callum Morton to design a pavilion for De Oude Warande. If the Baroque design of the garden was to be respected, it had to be at the central point of the park, the only spot from where the star-shaped pattern of the paths can be seen."
"The exterior is not immediately apparent, because it is a mirror, so all eight paths of the star continue in the reflection. The exterior of the pavilion functions both as a façade, screening off the inside from the outside, and as a reflective screen, mirroring and continuing the outside world. However, this continuation is an illusion. The Baroque design only appears to remain in view."
From the outside it doesn't exist and from the inside you seem to be in a natural space.
Seriously interesting isn't it? Well let me tell you something else... It's inside a Baroque Garden in Tilburg, Netherlands!!!
Callum Morton is an artist not an architect... more info at Grotto
"In 2007 Fundament Foundation commissioned Callum Morton to design a pavilion for De Oude Warande. If the Baroque design of the garden was to be respected, it had to be at the central point of the park, the only spot from where the star-shaped pattern of the paths can be seen."
"However, a pavilion in this position would destroy the view of the star design. This presented Morton with a dilemma, which he resolved in a way that was both simple and ingenious: he designed an invisible pavilion."
"The exterior is not immediately apparent, because it is a mirror, so all eight paths of the star continue in the reflection. The exterior of the pavilion functions both as a façade, screening off the inside from the outside, and as a reflective screen, mirroring and continuing the outside world. However, this continuation is an illusion. The Baroque design only appears to remain in view."
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