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the workshop is in full swing. In the first week the five groups are competing in the design of the hotel lobby.
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Irene Benjuma and Nick Chrispin will run a workshop exploring the design of a stack hotel on a site in Canary Wharf challenging the typology of the hotel.
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Irene's distinction 'Wall to Wall Mat' Project received the highest praise from the external examiners. Her project is also nominated for the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards.
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NEKTON's project for Vatnsmyri, Reykjavik, Iceland. ' Turf City ' is a
2nd place group prize winning finalist out of 136 entries.
Our vision for Vatnsmyri sets out to develop a clear local/global
identity for a site that stands in strong relation with the existing
region and future city of
Reykjavik. We call this new urban region Turf City.
Turf City has been conceived from the traditional Icelandic turf houses
and the relationship with the landscape/ground, the space it produces
and how
these instances blur between each other. Our aim is to use these
conditions as an architectural rule for generating a new urban condition
that offers the
desired spatiality of evolved European cities and the functionality of
designed cities of the 20th century, with a strong spatial and formal
ambiance we see as Icelandic.
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OCEAN exhibits at FRAC, opening 7th feb at 18h30
www.frac-centre.asso.fr/public/acc_fr.htm
Fonds Régional d’Art contemporain du Centre
Orléans
OCEAN
Conception performative
>Exposition du 8 FÉVRIER AU 15 JUIN 2008>
Vernissage : 7 février, 18h30
En présence des membres d’OCEAN, Londres, Francfort, Oslo, Rome, Tel Aviv et Sydney
Dr. Natasha Barrett, Daniel Coll i Capdevila, Andrea Di Stefano, Gudjon Erlendsson, Mattia Gambardella, Yasha Grobman, Michael Hensel, Pavel Hladik, Aleksandra Jaeschke, Steinar Killi, Dr. Toni Kotnik, Achim and Eva Menges, Dr. Charles Rice, Dr. Birger Sevaldson, Defne Sunguroglu, Jeffrey Turko,
]]> Cette exposition présente le travail d’OCEAN, un réseau international d’agences d’architecture (Oslo, Rome, Londres, Francfort) créé en 1998.Travaillant avec les nouvelles technologies, ce groupe développe une approche « morpho-écologique » du projet architectural grâce à des méthodes génératives informatisées qui intègrent des données écologiques, topologiques et structurelles faisant émerger des formes mouvantes et dynamiques en lien étroit avec leur environnement. À travers une installation, OCEAN présentera une sélection de ses projets les plus récents.
Cette exposition, itinérante, sera présentée en 2009 au DAM (Deutsches Architekturmuseum) à Francfort.
dam.inm.de/
Le jour du vernissage : Transport en car depuis Paris :
Départ : 16h30 Place Denfert-Rochereau, Paris (devant le Fleuriste Monceau Fleur)
Retour : Départ d'Orléans 20h30 - Arrivée à Paris 22h30
Important : Le nombre de places est limité : Réservations auprès du secrétariat du FRAC Centre :
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Contact PRESSE :
Sophie Bellé, Adjointe
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain du Centre
12, rue de la Tour Neuve F-45000 Orléans
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Images presse sur demande.
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'Classical geometry continues to enable us to do things in architecture that still haven’t been seen. For instance the theorem of Pascal and Brianchon uses configurations that would be done today with fuzzy software.
What is very important for me is that until now the profession has always been based on what I would call a kind of vertical synthesis – that you start a project first with a programme, and then an analysis of the site, followed by foundations, walls, and roof, before putting your flag on the top. But other models of synthesis can exist. The alternative involves the design of just one component across many different scales and building types. The component itself is obviously fundamental, and the software that best implements its design is the more ‘primitive’ approach that you privilege. When architectural debate reaches the stage where we look at the nuances of these components, then, I think, we will have made considerable progress.'
Bernard Cache, 2007
In his first public lecture at the AA since 1999, Bernard Cache, principal of the mythical Paris-based practice Objectile and noted theorist of computational ontology, will share his latest disciplinary insights on Vitruvius’ classic Tower of Winds, the parametric software TopSolid, and other such powerful ‘machines dedicated to the production of information’.
Bernard Cache, born in 1958, developed the concept of ‘non standard architecture’ Earth Moves (MIT Press, 1995), a concept that was given the name Objectile by Gilles Deleuze in his book on Leibniz, The Fold. In 1996, Bernard Cache founded the company Objectile together with his partner Patrick Beaucé in order to conceive and manufacture non-standard architecture components.
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