Edifici Fòrum Barcelona

James Turrell meets Anish Kapoor pimped by Yves Klein - as seen by swiss architects -
all of which are not necessarily bad things...

FOA Parque Litoral Barcelona

Make your own mind up.... does this look as good as the concept and drawings suggested?

Herzog + De Meuron Winery

nice gabion walls...

Fighting Robots

A little light relief - maybe one for Odysseus?

FREE SOIL

Free Soil is an international hybrid collaboration of artists, activists, researchers and gardeners who take a participatory role in the transformation of our environment. Free Soil fosters discourse, develops projects and gives support for critical art practices that reflect and change the urban and natural environment. We believe art can be a catalyst for social awareness and positive change.

Links to loads of stuff, architectural exhibitions, texts, etc......

LEARNING SITE

Learning Site pays attention to the local conditions it finds in the place where it chooses to work. In the past years Learning Site has mainly worked with resource materials and economies related to the specific situations where work has been carried out. Economic, environmental, labor, property rights, and many other issues are investigated in tandem to produce a variety of perspectives.

Learning Site takes part of a discussion of how knowledge is distributed and produced.

N55

Introduction:

N55 works with art as a part of everyday life.



Construction:

N55 is a platform for persons who wants to work together, share places to live, economy, and means of production.
N55 is based both in Copenhagen, and in LAND.


Production / distribution:

N55 has its own means of production and distribution.
Manuals for N55 things are published at www.N55.dk and in the N55 periodical. Furthermore, N55 things are implemented in various situations around the world, initiated by N55 or in collaboration with different persons and institutions.


Economy:

N55 is non-commercial. N55 is financed primarily by exhibitions, grants and educational work.


Politics:

N55 suggests respecting conditions for description: logical relations and facts, as a basis for politics.
Ideologies, religions, subjective opinions, social conventions, and habitual conceptions do not necessarily respect conditions for description.
An example of a decisive logical relation is the logical relation between persons and their rights. Persons should be treated as persons and therefore as having rights. If we deny this assertion it goes wrong: here we have a person, but this person should not be treated as a person, or: here is a person, who should be treated as a person, but not as having rights. Therefore we can only talk about persons in a way that makes sense if we know that persons have rights.
An example of a decisive fact is that concentrations of power characterise our society. Concentrations of power do not necessarily respect person's rights.
Concentrations of power force persons to concentrate on participating in competition and power games, in order to create a social position for themselves. Concurrently with the concentrations of power dominating our conscious mind and being decisive to our situations, the significance of our fellow humans diminishes. And our own significance becomes the significance we have for concentrations of power, the growth of concentrations of power, and the conflicts of concentrations of power. It is decisive that persons try to find ways of existing with as small concentrations of power as possible.


History:

In 1994 a non-commercial exhibition space and lab was initiated in Nørre Farimagsgade 55, Copenhagen. N55 grew out of this collaboration. In 1996, a number of persons started living together in an apartment located in the center of Copenhagen, trying to "rebuild the city from within" and using their everyday life situation as a platform for public events and collaborations. In the year 2000 FLOATING PLATFORM and N55 SPACEFRAME were constructed in the harbour area. N55 SPACEFRAME served as a starting point for local initiatives and interventions, a workspace and living space for the group until 2004. It now serves as a living space.In 2005 co-founder of N55 Ingvil Aarbakke died. N55 continues activities locally and elsewhere in collaboration with various persons.

URBAN PRESCRIPTIONS

Santiago Cirugeda Parejo exploits gaps in administrative structures, governmental bodies’ supervisory energies, official procedures, and where the law falls short. As Benedicte Grosjean writes in ArchiLab’s Futurehouse (2002): “(Cirugeda) formulates realistic and empirical strategies to push the law to its limits and find pockets of non-law in which to develop a possible habitat.”

more maya stuff

Hi - heres a link to Columbia's maya resources - mostly quite basic but there is a laser cutter wizard and a couple of other interesting bits - so something for n00bs and others...
enjoy.
j

LINK!!

Biomimetics: Design inspired by nature

Biomimetics is an enabling discipline which looks towards nature for ideas that may be adapted and adopted for solving problems:

The burr on a dog's fur was the inspiration for Velcro!

An interesting site, with many links and information on ideas borrowed from nature applied in fields as innovative material research from aeronautical, submarine engineering to architecture etc

TheVeryMany

Hi all.
John you might know this guy from your time at the AA. Mark Fornes. His research, some of which is displayed on his blog, is all about parametric/scripted/encoded processes in design. There's a couple of rhino scripts that can be copied and tested in the comfort and safety of your own home!

GM

Morpho-Towers---Two Standing Spirals

Morpho Towers--Two Standing Spirals is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral.

LANDSCAPE URBANISM WEBOGRAPHY

heres a list of weblinks to interesting Landscape Urbanism projects and designers. might just be useful.......

Projects
MFO Park, Zurich, Switzerland
Multi-tiered vine park
http://www.burckhardtpartner.ch/english/projekte/mfo/projekt.php

Parque de Diagonal Mar, Barcelona Spain
Misting Vine Pergola
EMBT
http://www.mirallestagliabue.com/project.asp?id=51

Palio de Bougainvilleas
Wind Adapted Road Canopy Strcuture
West 8
http://biennale.cp-artspace.com/2005/featured_west_8.html

Olympic Structure Park, Seattle
Mechanically stabilized landform
Weiss/Manfredi Architects
http://www.weissmanfredi.com/projects/index.php

Wonder Holland, Rome
Floating Glass Plain
West 8
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefoxa&
channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-
GB%3Aofficial&hs=Tko&q=wonder+holland+west+8&btnG=Search&meta=

The High Line, Section I, New York City
Field Operations
Navigate from website via projects:
http://www.fieldoperations.net/

Safe Zone, 7th International Gardens Festival, Reford Gardens, Grand Metis
StoSS landscape Urbanism
http://www.stoss.net/metis.html

Maritime Youth House, Sundby Harbour, Copenhagen
Surface Inversion
PLOT=BIG+JDS
http://www.big.dk/

Allianz Arena Munich Stadium, Munich
Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Herzog + de Meuron
Weaving Porous and Nonporous surfaces
http://www.vogt-la.ch/en/aussenraum/landschaft/projekte_1587.html

Shoulder Hedge, The Lurie Garden, Millenium Park, Chicago
Hedge Trimming Armature
Gustafon Guthrie Nichol Ltd + PPPiet Oudolf + Robert Israel
http://www.ggnltd.com/frame-sets/portfolio-fset.htm

Hybridized Hydrologies, Erie Street Plaza, Milwaukee
Artificial Winter Microclimate for a Bamboo Garden
StoSS Landscape Urbanism
http://www.stoss.net/metis.html

Former British Petroleum Park
Bio-Remediation Park Design
McGregor + Partners
http://mcgregorpartners.com.au/mcgnp_alternate.html

Daimler Chrysler Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Water-Cleansing Biotope
Atelier Dreiseitl
http://www.dreiseitl.de/index.php

Sidwell Friends School, Washington
Andropogon Associates + Kieran Timberlake Associates + Natural Systems
International
http://www.andropogon.com/home.htm

Cultuurpark Wetergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Strategic Contaminated Soil Replacement
Gustafson Porter
http://www.gustafson-porter.com/

Ephemeral Structures, Olympic Games, Athens
Pneumatic Body
ONL
http://www.oosterhuis.nl/quickstart/index.php?id=349

Courtyard in the Wind, Munich
Powered by wind, the ground is turnable
Acconci Studio + Wolfgang Hermann Niemeyer
http://www.acconci.com/

Harvey Milk Memorial, San Francisco
Responsive Cloud Machine
Christian Werthmann + LOMA architecture.landscape.urbanism
http://www.loma-design.de/loma2/indexe.html?http://www.lomadesign.
de/loma2/projekte.asp?l=e

Pitterpatterns, Stuttgart
Computer Animated Rain
J. MAYER H. Architekten
http://www.jmayerh.de/home.htm

Wind Veil, Mesa Arts Centre, Mesa, Arizona
Dynamic Thermal Wind Wall
Ned Kahn
http://nedkahn.com/wind.html#

Exhange Square,Manchester
Martha Schwartz Inc.
http://www.marthaschwartz.com/prjts/civic/manchester/exchange.html

The Aesthetics of Urban Renewal
Online slide show review of MOMA’s exhibition Groundswell
http://www.slate.com/id/2114188/

Shanghai Carpet
Tom Leader Studio + Skidmore owings & Merrill LLP
http://www.tomleader.com/

Southeast Coastal Park, Barcelona
Foreign Office Architects
http://www.f-o-a.net/

Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park
Latz+partner
http://www.latzundpartner.de/L3/eng/e-4-du.htm

Northeast Coastal Park, Barcelona
Abalos + Herreros
http://www.abalos-herreros.com/#

Maya tutorials

Hi All,

some of you have asked where to find online Maya tutorials:
here are some places. Enjoy...your eyes may look like this, after a while, though.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials.html

http://www.zoorender.com/?page_id=26

http://www.highend3d.com/

http://www.purplestatic.com/courses/maya/

Park & Jog - Buschow & Henley

Park + Jog regenerates its surroundings, bringing activity and value to blighted sections of the city, and it radically alters the political situation for the suburb and the heartless commute it makes inevitable. In 2006 it was shown at the Van Alen Institute in New York as part of the international exhibition “The Good Life - New Public Spaces for Recreation”.

Our utopian scheme is envisioned for a 1km stretch of the A6 road between Salford University and Manchester city centre. The road is transformed into a 4-lane linear park. One lane is grassed, another a water channel, another sand and the last a running track. Parking their cars in a multi-storey car park, commuters can change in the facilities provided and head east into Manchester walking, jogging, cycling, rollerblading, horse riding, swimming or rowing.

Web http://www.buschowhenley.co.uk/projects/regeneration/006.htm

Another 'Smashing' article on Data Visualization

It has a lot of the same examples as below and also includes an interesting interview

PingMag

SmashingMAGAZINE

Wish i'd found this earlier! :) still, loads of ideas for data visualisation and diagramming.

Architecture and Situated Technologies

Online results from a 3-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metapolis.

Some of the presentations are worth a look and the bibliography is ok too....

Sky-Rail

Intereseting in relation to diagrams as interactive machines.

link

AkrYls

Hi all.
I thought i would post this for those of you interested in CG. It's one of my favourite indie animations of all time :)

link