Santuario Della Madonna Delle Lacrime, Syracusa, Sicilia.

amazing internal space with the nature sitting right next to you within the same enclosure.

though it's a church (or anything holy)

would be great to turn into concert hall sometimes,

Source

Stelineset

the construction gave an implicit consent to be contained by nature.
nasjonale turistveger

another layer and the charged void

inspired by alison and peter smithson, the existing layer of void is transformed into a charged identity of movement.

120hours competition

Flight Assembled Architecture/Architectures volantes from FRAC Centre on Vimeo.

submitted 9th dec 2011

Unite d’Habitation

“The sun gets in everywhere, as does the air. The garden is paved with red tiles, its walls are hung with ivy and clematis; laurels and other shrubs cluster thickly in large cement pots ; the place is gay with flowers ; this is a real urban garden easy to keep up. There is a table sheltered from the rain where the household can eat ; one can converse or rest in the open.”

how to live again in progress

Almost three months have passed for diploma semester, and the project is getting hard. The territory which is an extremely ordinary pubic housing block in hong kong offers us with unlimited local residential traces and identity, but also large restrictions of the existing spatial arrangement and structural integrity.

We attempted to attack the construction with the idea of 'offering': what is the construction longing for, and what are the people searching for, together with the mountain climbing experience and implosion of home territory, we tried to discuss the relation among human behaviors, high man-made structure and the essence of nature.

Though it's getting tiring to 'move' around within the structure in our imagination, we believe the project has a high value of stimulation especially in such a high-density and machine-like city. Now we just have to trust what is already there and the offer of the construction, and let's hope the outcome could be an initiation of our awareness on how we live today.

A+PS : golden lane

Man may readily identify himself with his own hearth, but not so easily within the town which he is placed. ‘Belonging’ is a basic emotional need – its associations are of the simplest order. From belonging and identity comes the enriching sense of neighbourliness. The short narrow street of the slum succeeds where the spacious redevelopment frequently fails.

Team 10 response to the CIAM 8 report 1951

(Modern architecture, a critical history p.271)

metropol parasol

i came across this project during third year in hku, and it was completed already this april. the result is amazing and is much more atmospheric than the renderings. however the cost of the construction was 90 millions euro.. it is really difficult to say whether it's worthy to spend such a large amount on this sort of 'sculpture', but the community effect could be extremely huge especially for tourism and local branding.

architecture and fashion

In 1926 coco chanel announced her 'little black dress' which was described as 'chanel's ford' by Vogue, as if it was the Model T in the fashion field. It was not only about the outstanding style in fashion in the time, but most importantly the desire of liberty that frees people from the constricting lifestyle. However at the same time, it was so personal.

Today, fashion is an everyday life practice for people, while the breakthrough in 1920s was merely mentioned or remembered. It seems the desire of escaping the current construct through understanding humanity or present issues are overwhelmed by visual exaggeration.

It sounds the same to us in architecture circle, or out in the real practice. Since the 50s modernism rules almost everywhere on the earth, even there were groups like Team X who tried to drag the trend back to a way of concerning humanity, or simply lives of individuals. Sadly they did not end with great success. Nowadays in any different magazines or blogs, 'photography architecture' becomes more and more popular, as they can be captured in just a second and the photos are then being published through the excessive information exchange. This is unlike the classic master pieces and undoubtedly many other architecture by unknown architects, where you could get the other layer of experiences by visiting those constructions even after looking at the photos.

Putting everything into clean and white setting becomes one of the most popular or easy ways to handle architecture. By doing this you can ignore the cultural and historical background of the locations and the individuals' uniqueness. They will present the construction as a background that allows people to express themselves with the most efficient way, like most of the pure white gallery space.

For our generations, architecture does not mean only the construction from a ground-zero setting, but also about transforming the existing environment through the adaptation of time. While the excessive materials world and constructional gestures overwhelmed our natural human behavior and fundamental desires, we are blinded by architecture. Minimization maybe one answer, or we should say it's more a comment on the current situation. Subtraction and distortion of familiarity and everyday perception would reduce the unnecessary gestures of life, and the conscious additives of individual behaivors.

Um.. what could actually help a bit on this situation? Maybe this is also something we would like to figure out in the fall.

Fabric formwork - Miguel Fisac

textile concrete done in casa de Miguel Fisac

manipulation of materials through constructional creativity gives imaginary results, letting the force to shape the construction itself into its own desirable way.

james wines drawings

high rise of homes

normal

peter sumthor.serpentine gallery pavilion 2011
architectural students have spectacles way too far from everyday life and comfort


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Träinformation - swedish magazine

Träinformation Nummer 1 2011

Church of Solitude, 1974-77

Gaetano Pesce's Church of Solitude was conceived in reaction to his experience of New York in the 1970s, where he saw people living together, "helter-skelter in crowds." To provide a serene place for introspection and contemplation, he buried the church beneath a vacant lot amid the towers of the city. The silent sanctuary incorporated small individual cells, a further retreat from the city's corporate and institutional culture. An excavated landscape was, for Pesce, an overlooked space that could provide for people's future needs.
moma collection

perhaps too early to sum up the beauty of the project, but hope one day i will go to leiden and see this happen, as he said, to hear the sounds of factory working, history will appear again in another from, beautiful times...

though it's not so impressive, it suits his attitude on architecture - beautiful lecture by peter zumthor

outhouse by sverre fehn

So you’ve just won the Pritzker Prize and the world’s your oyster. Those big juicy commissions are going to start coming in even faster, you might not even want/need to enter any competitions anymore since people will be asking for you by name now, and for that whole next year you’ll largely be considered the best in the business. That’s why it was very fun to learn that the first project Sverre Fehn worked on after this 1997 Pritzker win was the outhouse below. It’s on the far end of the parking lot connected to his brilliant Norwegian Glacier Museum. As the museum director told us, “I called him and said ‘Congratulations on winning the Pritzker. We need an outhouse. Can you do it?’”


by steve dalehovd




By Steve Delahoyd

my favorite masters

i heard of them almost once i studied architecture

but why didn't i try to understand their work until now?

sometimes you just have to admit how ridiculous you were

revitalization of central police station h&dm

not bad, though no detail design is revealed,

but it's anyway a lot better than the imitation of bamboo scaffolding!

http://www.designerhk.com/forum/post/4311