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Arne Quinze, Bruxelles

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Arne Quinze, Bruxelles

Anamorphism

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:37:06 -0500

Borderfield Area | A zone along the US/Mexico Border between the...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:24:05 -0500

Borderfield Area | A zone along the US/Mexico Border between the Pacific Ocean and Interstate 5, with several remarkable land uses that combine to make one of the most unusual places in the country.

More info: CLUI

Our walk upon this earth is in essence a creative path. There is...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:12:05 -0500

Our walk upon this earth is in essence a creative path. There is nothing uncreative about you.

— Synaptic Stimuli

Alles Wird Gut - Herzburg Apartments, Vienna 2010.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:48:06 -0500

Alles Wird Gut - Herzburg Apartments, Vienna 2010.

Wasseraufbereitung in der DDR by Konstantin Datz, Moritz von...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:36:06 -0500

Wasseraufbereitung in der DDR by Konstantin Datz, Moritz von Volkmann, and Philipp Datz

AN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE INFORMAL //Masterplan for the City of...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:25:05 -0500

AN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE INFORMAL

//Masterplan for the City of the Dead

*Infrastructures are flexible and anticipatory. They work with time and they are open to transformation. By establishing what must be fixed and what is subject to change, they can be precise and intermediate at the same time. They do not progress toward predetermined state, but are always evolving within a loose envelope of constraints. Infrastructures manage and organize complex systems of flow, movement and exchange. Infrastructures prepare the ground for future building and create the conditions for future events.

The project investigates the role of infrastructure in the city as the tool able to bring a first state of order to informal settlements. Infrastructures give direction to future work in the city, not by establishing rules or codes, but by fixing points of service, access and structure.

This approach is applied to the City of the Dead, the Muslim necropolis in Cairo. The cemetery is located on the west side of the city and has an area of 7sqkm.

The city of Cairo, as other megalopolis in developing countries, is undergoing a period of transformation: three new metro lines are planned for the year 2030 and two of them will run close to the cemetery.

Vision 2050, promoted by the Egyptian Government, plans to entirely demolish the area of the cemetery, in order to provide space for high-rise building developments.

The project aims at proposing an alternative strategy for this area based upon a gradual restructuring of single parts of the cemetery. The strategy implies that the infrastructure is the fixed element appointed to organize several specific interventions.

All the existing elements within the cemetery are graphically synthesized to points and an area of influence is associated to every single one of them. Hence, a map has been generated: the area is described as a field in which its global behaviour is determined by the internal relationship of parts. The resulting image of the city is a virtual landscape related to abstract indicators like the activity and attraction between the single points.

Based on these maps, a phase-oriented strategy is proposed. Each action produces a deformation on the map, allowing to observe the consequences of the intervention within the city.

The first phase of the project provides to intervene at a local level, starting from the existing systems and using the potential embedded in the informal areas. Close to the main mosques and the craftsman activities, projects with a strong cultural characterization are proposed.

The second phase utilizes the introduction of the subway as the structure for the intervention. New functions and more dense areas are located close to the new subway stops.

Finally the new subway stops and the connection that they allow with the buildings are designed. The architecture is reduced to its vertical distribution. The infrastructural junctions have a decreasing grade of definition from the point of insertion of the infrastructure out. Indeterminate areas are generated. They allow the transition from the points that are fixed and designed to the informal areas.

by Robert Currie ‘927m of nylon monofilament with black and...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:12:05 -0500

by Robert Currie

‘927m of nylon monofilament with black and coloured acrylic’ - 98x66x20cm 2010

White/Cream/Black/NYC This is a fabulous photograph. I’d order...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:48:05 -0500

White/Cream/Black/NYC

This is a fabulous photograph. I’d order this as a large print.

GRUTA DAS TORRES VISITOR CENTRE, AÇORES SAMI ARQUITECTOS

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:36:06 -0500

GRUTA DAS TORRES VISITOR CENTRE, AÇORES

SAMI ARQUITECTOS

Casa mila / Barcelona-España

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:24:06 -0500

Casa mila / Barcelona-España

China’s clear days :)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:12:05 -0500

China’s clear days :)

Project 12:31 | Animation from a cross-sectional photographs of...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:48:05 -0500

Project 12:31 | Animation from a cross-sectional photographs of an executed convicted murderer.

Concept & Art Direction: Croix Gagnon

Photography: Frank Schott

via @entropicIQ & cerreyes-dpr-bcn

Villa Midgård by DAPstockholm

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:36:05 -0500

Villa Midgård by DAPstockholm

waiting for rain: site specific installation (Boston). time,...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:24:05 -0500

waiting for rain:

site specific installation (Boston). time, sugar and mylar
KEVIN TOWNSEND | 2012

- Robert Venturi

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- Robert Venturi

Odds’n’sods 2010: Efficient radiator by adamgreenfield on...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:48:05 -0500

Odds’n’sods 2010: Efficient radiator by adamgreenfield on Flickr.

Audi AreA1 by Schmidhuber Partner

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:24:05 -0500

Audi AreA1 by Schmidhuber Partner

URA - KOP logistics office and storage, Puurs 2010. Via.

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URA - KOP logistics office and storage, Puurs 2010. Via.

A lot of people think L.A. is just eyesore after eyesore. Full...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:12:05 -0500

A lot of people think L.A. is just eyesore after eyesore. Full of mini malls, palm trees and billboards. So what? They don’t know the L.A. I know. The good, the bad and the ugly about L.A. The good; The Forum, The Five Torches, The Cockatoo Inn, Brolly Hut, Watts Towers. One’s man eyesore is another man’s paradise. The Bad; the traffic. Each freeway has its own personality. The 405, bougie traffic. The 110, (ha ha) that’s gangsta traffic right there.There’s a difference, you gotta know where you at. Coming from South Central Los Angeles, you’ve got to use what you’ve got and make the best of it. What I love about the Eames is how resourceful they are. Charles and Ray Eames a husband and wife team. Before I did rap music I studied architectural drafting and one thing I learned is that you always gotta have a plan. Two days to build this frame. “Two Days.” Got off-the-shelf factory windows, prefabricated walls. They was doing mashups before mashups even existed. It’s not about the pieces, it’s how the pieces work together. You know taking something that already exists and making it some special. You know – kinda like sampling. In a world full of mc-mansions, where the structure takes up all the land. The Eames made structure and nature one. This Is Going Green 1949 Style, Bitch’. Believe that. Who are these people who got a problem with LA? Maybe they just mad that they don’t live here.

-O’Shea Jackson [Ice Cube]