We’ve been working on the next edition of Public Design Festival that will be in Milan, from 17 to 22 April. With our magnifying glass we’re studying creative solutions for a new type of public space: it is less urban than an overpass but it’s undoubtedly a gathering point. In the meantime you can join our new community in Facebook.
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Cigoli’s (1559-1613) drawing of Brunelleschi’s double shell design of the dome of the Florence Cathedral
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‘1000 Singapores: a model of the compact city’, the singapore pavilion, at the 12th architecture biennale in venice, italy. image © designboom
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‘Balancing Act’ by spanish practice Ensamble Studio at the arsenal building in venice, italy.
Sense and Advanced Sensibility:
about the relationship of sensuality, obsessions and advanced design techniques
Matias del Campo _ SPAN Architects Vienna
Matias del Campo describes in this lecture the ballistic trajectories and gravitational forces shaping the design sensibilities of SPAN. From the initial desires to explore specific problems such as topological surfaces, algorithms based on biological behavior to extensive conditions and their trajectories unfolding in architectural space.
Vienna based Architecture Firm SPAN, headed by Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger, is driven by a compulsive desire to speculate about architectural opportunities in the presence of animated matter, organic entities and their underlying geometrical and mathematical presence. Their award winning architecture designs are informed by a manifold variety of sources reaching from Science Fiction and Fashion to Biology and Botany. The multiplicious inspirations are fused into projects applying the most advanced digital design tools and casted into form by computer
controlled machinery. Their activities include Architecture Design, exhibitions and lectures as well as teaching in various countries and institutions, such as the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Bauhaus Dessau and the ESARQ in Barcelona.
Venice Flood, December 2008, with 1.50 meters at Piazza San Marco… get creative!
LINGOTTO FIAT WORKS Torino, Italy (1923)
Giacomo Matte-Trucco
The Fiat Works is a monument to innovation and efficiency while serving as the first large scale application of reinforced concrete framing in architecture (a). The production line winds up the building to the roof where cars are tested (b) and then re-circulated back down another ramp to the showroom on the ground floor. The plant closed in the 1980’s and as a result of its architectural and social significance Renzo Piano was chosen to restore the building as a cultural center and icon of Torino (c).
(a) MODERN ARCHITECTURE: A CRITICAL HISORY. Frampton, Kenneth. Thames and Hudson. 3rd Ed, P 39.
(b) THE ITALIAN JOB (1969)
Directed by Peter Collinson, Starring Michael Caine
(c) LINGOTTO FACTORY CONVERSION Torino, Italy (1923)
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
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