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Kurokawa v samém centru Tokia nedaleko slavné nákupní třídy Ginza navrhl obytnou budovu, která se skládá ze dvou částí: první tvoří dvojice železobetonových sloupů, uvnitř kterých je veškerá infrastruktura domu a výtahy,a 140 prefabrikovaných kapslí, které byly vyrobeny v továrně i s vnitřním vybavením a na místě zavěšeny (každá visí samostatně) ve 14 úrovních. Každá kapsle skrývá miniaturní obytný prostor 2,3 x 3.8 metrů velký, v němž nechybí vestavěná toaleta, sprcha i kuchyňka. Součástí vybavení byla mimo jiné vestavěná lednička, TV souprava a magnetofon.

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Kdyby, kdyby … Obyvatelé Etarei, města snů uprostřed venkovské přírody, by dojížděli za prací rychlodráhou Alweg, noviny a teplé rohlíky by dostávali do bytu potrubní poštou a o víkendech by si za humny zahráli golf. Kde? Kousek za Prahou.

Okrouhlo, Záhořany, Libeř, Libeň a Zvole. Pět malých obcí na jižním okraji Prahy, které si dodnes zachovaly svůj vesnický charakter. Většině z nich se zatím vyhnula i takzvaná satelitní výstavba a tak vrcholem obecních tužeb zůstávají prozaické záležitosti jako je kanalizace nebo lepší autobusové spojení s metropolí.

Všechno mohlo být jinak. Vesničané ze zmíněných obcí se už před čtyřiceti lety mohli stát prvními obyvateli Etarei, města snů, které by se rozkládalo na jejich pozemcích. Za prací do Prahy by dojížděli rychlodráhou Alweg, noviny, léky a ještě teplé rohlíky by dostávali ráno až do bytu potrubní poštou a o víkendech by si mohli zahrát kriket a golf. Nestalo se. Možná bohužel, možná bohudík.

Brožuru pojednávací o satelitním městě Etarea objevila nedávno v Archivu hl. města Prahy Kateřina Jíšová, která se jako badatelka zabývá historií pražských sídlišť. Na první pohled ji udivil rozsah i hloubka studie, stejně jako nezvykle vysoký počet odborníků z nejrůznějších oblastí vědy a techniky, kteří se na jejím vzniku podíleli.

„Viděla jsem už projekty řady pražských sídlišť, ale tohle bylo něco mimořádného,” tvrdí archivářka. Když o Etarei referovala vloni na podzim na mezinárodní konferenci o vývoji velkoměst od konce války do pádu komunistických režimů v Evropě, byli projektem udiveni i zahraniční historici. Překvapilo je, že se tak propracovaný a nadčasový projekt zrodil už před čtyřiceti lety právě v komunistickém Československu. „Autoři studie určitě museli mít volnou ruku, když svoji představu spojení člověka s přírodou prostřednictvím satelitního města dotáhli do takových detailů,” domnívá se Jíšová.

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Journal on a team’s investigation with Parametric Urbanism, A brief of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association

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To combat the Sahara Desert’s ongoing growth, student Magnus Larsson has proposed a 6,000km wall that will be-wait for it-constructed by letting a bacterium have its way with the sand, forming sandstone.

The bacterium, bacillus pasteurii, turns sand into firm sandstone structures very quickly, and the proposed wall could house a sort of lengthy oasis of water and vegetation, to be used by refugees for housing. It’s trying to kill two enormous birds with an equally enormous stone: Combating desertification and providing mass amounts of housing for those who need it. The proposal won a prize for sustainable agriculture, but nothing this outrageous is without its problems.

This kind of bacterial change has been performed in very small environments, but has never been tried in as large a scale as the Sahara Desert. Besides the practicality of the project, there are also environmental concerns: This massive a change to the ecosystem could cause problems we can’t even foresee, from species extinctions to water shortages. Not to mention a problem that wasn’t brought up in the article: How do we get this thing to stop making sandstone? I’m pretty sure experiments with ice-nine didn’t turn out so hot.

text: gizmodo
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Spacebuster by Raumlabor
(Above: Kitchen Monument by Raumlaborberlin with Plastique Fantastique, Duisburg, Germany 2006, photo by Marco Canevacci) 

Spacebuster is a mobile inflatable structure — a portable, expandable pavilion — that is designed to transform public spaces of all kinds into points for community gathering. A new iteration of a past Raumlabor project, the Küchenmonument (presented in Europe in 2006–8), the Spacebuster will make its first appearance in the US this evening and will travel throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn for 10 consecutive evenings hosting various community events. 

The pavilion is comprised of an inflatable bubble-like dome that emerges from a step van that also houses the compressor that keeps the Spacebuster inflated. The dome expands and organically adjusts to its surroundings, be it in a field, a wooded park, or below a highway overpass. The material is a translucent plastic that allows the events taking place inside of the shelter — screenings, lectures, dinners or discussions — to be entirely visible from the outside. Likewise the exterior environments become the events’ backdrops. 

Each of these ten evenings will be organized in conjunction with a community group, nonprofit organizations, university, or arts organization. Events will include artist talks, film screenings, communal dinners and many other events.

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On a grid of equilateral triangles, we hung a total of 280 glass wind chimes from the ceiling at varying heights to represent the undulation of a wave. When you walk underneath the wind chime, not only does it ring, but its LED also alights like a firefly. The wind chimes nearer to the ceiling ring in higher tones, and those hung lower in lower tones together offering 10 degrees of tonal expression. And it feels as though you are walking inside a large interactive instrument. Additionally, the wind chimes are networked together, so that the sound and light spreads to adjacent wind chimes like ripples in the water. This network system was based on the idea of behavior we observe among certain animals in nature that form groups.

zdroj: dezeen

jo nagasaka + schemata architecture office have just developed 
’paco’ an all in one unit. 

paco is a box that measures 3m x 3m x 3m. 
it has the minimum equipment needed to live despite its size. 
they produced it as a conceptual model to imagine a new lifestyle.

zdroj: designboom

for their design of house in never, never land they made four major decisions; 

to minimize tree and shrub removal or pruning on the allotment, raise more than 80% of the building mass on piles to avoid any sort of disturbance on the ground  (paving, crops, watering or other input) which might eventually alter its properties, clustering all the waste filtering and treatment equipment and compensating for the amount of substrate affected by the foundation by including an equivalent mass of substrate in various parts of the skin around the buildings, mixed with a water-retaining gelatin to reproduce the moister of original soil in shallower conditions. the design work began with phase 0, consisting on the close scrutiny and mapping of every tree and shrub. the geometries of the project were  then adapted correspondingly and the construction was inscribed in the space 
available in between the threes, which thus flow through the building interiors.

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Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan
Location: Blairgowrie, Australia
Project Team: Adam Pustola, Meredith Dufour, Michael McManus, Angela Woda
Constructed Area: 290 sqm

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The project explores how new forms of habitable infrastructure might be extrapolated from a geopolitical agreement – in this case, materializing architectural form from the legal interstices of the Oslo Accords.
The result is a fantastic example of architectural speculation: genuinely massive – and impossibly cantilevered – bridges used as transport links, aerial housing, and skyborne agricultural complexes, all in one.

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Rundle Lantern Launch, 7:30pm October 2008. Located on the corner of Pultney and Rundle Street in Adelaide, the Rundle Lantern is a cultural canvas designed by Fusion.com.au. Fusion is a creative agency that connects people to brands. Created for the Adelaide City Council, the Rundle Lantern operates nightly from 8pm till midnight, and until 2am on Friday and Saturday nights.

V Berlíně nedávno skončila výstava Megastructure Reloaded, jež je součástí dlouhotrvajícího projektu Utopia Revisited, zahrnujícím workshopy, přednášky a expozice po celé Evropě.

Kdo jste neměli to štěstí megastruktury navštívit, na stránkách www.megastructure-reloaded.org naleznete seznam vystavovatelů i s konkrétními příklady jejich tvorby. Mimo to je stále možné zakoupit katalog.

Birkbeck College, Film Studies
Centre for Film & Media
Location: Gordon Square, London

Client: Birkbeck College
Budget: £1.15 M
Status: Completed February 2007

Consultants:
Quantity Surveyor: Jackson Coles
Structural Engineer: Techniker Ltd
Services Engineer: Freeman Beesley Ltd
Refurbishment of Grade II Listed Building and creation of a state of the art auditorium

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Instalace na opuštěném domě v Sao Paulu od brazilko - francouzské architektonické skupiny Triptyque.

zdroj: dezeen

Lighting designer Bruce Munro will present his Field of Light installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, this winter.

The installation, consisting of 6,000 acrylic tubes containing optical fibres, is inspired by the way the desert flowers after a rainstorm.

zdroj: dezeen

místo: Ras al-Khaimah 
účel: konferenční a výstavní centrum, hotel 
investor: Ras Al Khaimah
plocha: 270 000 m² 
projekt: podzim 2008 
architekti: Snøhetta

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Architects: Snøhetta
Location: Alstahaug, Norway
Project year: 2001–2007
Collaborators: Kjetil Traedal Thorsen, Tarald Lundevall, Astrid Renata Van Veen, Jim Dodson, Bartek Milewski, Maria Svaland, Jenny B. Osuldsen, Lars Jørstad Nordbye, Heidi Pettersvold
Client: Alstahaug kommune
Constructed Area: 1350 sqm

Architects: Sinato
Location: Funabashi, Japan
Use: Ladies’ Apparel Shop 
Project year: 2008
Constructed area: 116.9 sqm

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a reactive floorprojection for a recoil performance group dance performance/installation. developed with choreographer tina tarpgaard and programmer jonas jongejan. the installation was part of a larger installation and moern dance performance by tim rushton, danish dance theatre called labyrint. we used processing for the infrared blobtracking of the dancers and drawing the open gl graphics. during the performance tina controlled the whole thing live from an isadora-based interface via osc.

requirements

• recent generation apple mac with two sceens or macbook pro with extended desktop

• infrared cctv camera

• infrared flood light

• videoprojector, min. 10.000 ansi lumens

• 7 x 5,25 m floor space covered with white dance vinyl.

• app. 7 meters vertical space, depending on projector and camera optics.

• low-latency imaging source dfg/1394-1e video grabber with 3rd party mac driver

• isadora license

http://www.curiosity.jp

within japan’s contemporary conceptual architecture scene, it is a natural progress to become more and more specialized and push the
idea of ‘conceptual’ further. in japan’s creative society perhaps ‘conceptual’ does not yet have all these negative connotations, they still think of ‘conceptual’ as an object that took longer to develop than it took to make. in most western cultures ‘conceptual’ is intended as a ‘school of abstract art’ or an ‘artistic doctrine’ that is concerned with the intellectual engagement of the viewer through conveyance of an idea and negation of the importance of the art object itself. but too often in architecture and design the ‘negation of importance of the object’ is not seen as a consequence of the conveyance of the idea, but as an individual aspect that designers, and architects abuse to adhere a deeper constructed meaning to a trivial object.

conceptual architecture produces cubes, and yes, this is white and box like, but there is a lot of detail. french born gwaenel nicolas and japanese wife reiko miyamoto of tokyo’s design and architecture studio ‘curiosity’ have simply tried to convey an idea of harmony between structure and space. they built a spiral gallery space wrapped around a central glass living space. c-1 is designed like a movie with a scenario and story boards. interesting vistas are not only created by the interaction of adjacent rooms but also between rooms placed above one another.

the stairs are extended to become corridors. the design is not defined by walls and floors but by the movement of the user within the open space.
like different scenes in a movie, the user will appear and disappear from floor to floor. when he moves inside this spiral, he turns around places for contemplation.

text: designboom

Architects: Shuhei Endo
Location: Sayo-cho, Hyogo, Japan
Project team: Kengo Sasamoto, Aya Umemoto
Design year: 2005–2006
Construction year: 2006–2008
Principal use: Institution and exhibition of earth environmental
Site Area: 5,000 sqm
Constructed Area: 968 sqm

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‘dancing trees, singing birds’ is a housing complex in tokyo designed by architect hiroshi nakamura. The multi unit dwelling may look like it is in the countryside but is actually nestled in an urban forest in Tokyo. the exterior is clad in dark wood making it blend into the surrounding trees. small windows and alcoves protrude from the wall creating a knotty face. inside the building is minimal and modern. swimming pools and staircases create unique vistas for inhabitants, which complement the unusual exterior.

http://www.nakam.info

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