Samstag, 21. Februar 2009

Fassadenspielen: Black & Gold

kleine vierstündige spielerei... ein wenig gold tut jedem gut. bling bling.

Thank God For Youtube - Now in Hi-Q

Zorn macht langweilige Menschen geistreich. Francis Bacon

Das geht auch andersrum:

Langeweile macht geistreiche Menschen zornig => Sobek guckt grimmig wegen Auftragsverlust
Via Stuttgarter Zeitung

Ich meine mich zu erinnern, dass Sobek im Schulrat (minus Hoch) der HCU sitzt. Oder doch nicht mehr? Gesehn wird er ja in Hamburg manchmal schon auf diversen Vorträgen. Mitunter sitzt da laut Bildungsklick auch noch Jörn Walter - der Herr der farbigen Klinker in der Hafencity. Was anderes gibts da nämlich nich mehr. Außer 2er "Außreisern". Klinker muss jetzt sein. Innovation hin oder her.

Hoffentlich wird Stuttgart21 realisiert. Wenn schon der Sobek-Pavillon eingestampft wird.

Yelle - Ce Jeu | ou, quel bel langue

Hm, was soll man dazu noch sagen... magnifique
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Fou et telemement evident
Que je n'trouve plus de sens
A ce jeu excitant
Si bon mais si lassant
Tu aimes me manipuler
Et j'aime en faire autant
Nous sommes tout deux victime
De ce doux jeu d'amants

Je f'rais l'effort, je te connais par coeur
Il suffit que je t'ignore
Pour que tu revienne en pleure
Je m'occupe de toi
Tu repars c'est ça
Toujours le même schéma
Et j'anticipe a chaques foi

Refrain :

Fou et telemement evident
Que je n'trouve plus de sens
A ce jeu excitant
Si bon mais si lassant
Tu aimes me manipuler
Et j'aime en faire autant
Nous sommes tout deux victime
De ce doux jeu d'amants

Hypermediocracy

wahrscheinlich abgeleitet von Mediokratie. Jedoch singt Herr Spooner oder Fischer das Wort in ihrem New Yorker Akzent mit einem harten fränikschen D. Entwerder sie nehmen das Gegenteil von Anglezismen oder sie singen was komplett anderes. Letzteres ist wahrscheinlich.
Musik ist gut. Aktuelle gute Musik gibt es auch. Die Kreativität ist eine andere, aber sie is da...

und CD Cover sind auch schön...

Freitag, 20. Februar 2009

Add some Colour - TShirt Orders Please

You can order by Fax or mail. Final Layout still to come.

Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009

approach

s.a.:

Victoria cruziana - Seerosenblattunterseite -
...gibs aber auch schon von Barkow Leibinger / Werner Sobek Ingenieure ( Detail 01/09)

Finland Expo2000

Birkenwald, Birken, Birke, Grün, Wald, Architekturfotografie

Mora River Aquarium / Promontorio Architecture

via archdaily By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Housing , Selected , Concrete, Portugal

Architects: Promontorio Architecture
Location: Mora, Alentejo, Portugal
Project Team: João Perloiro, João Luís Ferreira, Paulo Perloiro, Paulo Martins Barata, Pedro Appleton
Collaborators: J. Cancela, A. Braga, R. Correia, S. Reis, R. Henriques
Client: Municipalidad de Mora
Contractor: Teixeira Duarte, SA
Site Area: 17 Ha
Constructed Area: 3.000 sqm
Construction year: 2004-2006
Budget: US $3,000/sqm
Photographs: João Morgado

The River Aquarium is located in Mora, a small municipality in the Northern Alentejo region. Given the need to shift regional development from the dependence of an increasingly weaker agriculture economy into the environmental tourism and leisure market, the municipality launched a design-and-build competition for an aquarium that could somehow embody the paradigms of biodiversity of the Iberian river.

Integrated in the Ecological Wild Park of Gameiro and bordering the Raia stream, the building stands amidst a secluded field of cork and olive trees removed from the more intense leisure and fishing activities of the river. The plot’s gently undulating topography forms a basin at the confluence of two small watercourses. Placing the aquarium at the edge of this quasi-natural retaining lake brought together the fundamental relation between its thematic contents and the presence of fresh water.

Given the blazing Alentejo sun and the need to create shade, the building was devised as a compact and monolithic volume with a pitched shelter of thin white pre-cast concrete porticos with single spans of 33 metres, evoking the profile of the canonical Alentejo whitewash barns known as “montes”. The shading and cross ventilation systems along with the water circuits foster the reduction of cooling energy, the sustainable increase of humidity and the wellbeing of animal and plant life.

Standing on a massive concrete plinth with a built-in stairway-cum-ramp entry, the pitched shed veils a set of mute boxes that contain the programme, namely; reception, ticketing and shop, cafeteria, changing exhibits hall, documentation centre, research and education, live exhibits, multimedia and a small auditorium. Inside, the exhibition spaces tend to be dark, in order to minimize UV impact on the live exhibits and allow visitors an in-depth viewing of the aquariums. The outdoor void between these programme boxes and the pitched shed generates not only accelerated viewpoints onto the outside but also a promenade that culminates in the passage through a bridge over the lake which in itself is also a live exhibit of animals and plants collected and nurtured in the region.

The live exhibits, the main feature of an aquarium, reproduce, through complex life support systems, the habitat conditions of different regions allowing to exhibit side-by-side the various animals and plants. On the basement, these support systems guaranty stability of water temperature, ph, quality control and filtering for each habitat parameter, including a duct gallery below each exhibit to supply and monitor the water. For this building, the water is taken from a well on the plot, pumped into a deposit and regenerated after use. In addition, areas for animal quarantine, food preparation, laboratories, staff facilities, and logistics complete the technical floor.

Other than the in-situ concrete cast plinth and the white pre-cast porticoes, the programme boxes are built in polished finish plastered terracotta masonry with steel frames and varnished MDF carpentry. With a total built area of 2000 sq.-m, the Mora River Aquarium includes more than 500 live specimens and is expected to receive 200,000 visitors per year.

: site plan

: ground floor plan

: deck plan

: section 01

: section 02

: project axo

: constructive detail

Sehr cool! Via Archdaily

Carabanchel Housing / dosmasuno arquitectos

Aug 2008

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Housing , Selected , Concrete, Spain

Architects: dosmasuno arquitectos - Ignacio Borrego, Néstor Montenegro and Lina Toro
Location: Madrid, Spain
Construction beggining: September 2004
Construction ending: November 2007
Client: EMVS. Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid
Contractor: Begar
Structural advisor: José Luis de Míguel
Consulting Engineers: Grupo JG
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán

FOOTPRINT

Orientation and introspectiveness

Despite the guidelines drawn on the plots, places need to express their own personality, to arise naturally, to construct themselves. And concretely this one is aligned against a green area, against the concatenation of public spaces that link the old Carabanchel district with its forest through the new neighborhood. In response to these conditions, the dwellings are compressed onto one edge, onto a single linear piece, in search for the genus loci of the place, views and an optimal orientation in which east and west share the south, generating the limit of the activity, soothing the interior and defining the exterior.

STRATEGIES

Minimum core + additions

The dwellings are designed from an invariable core with a modulated addition which completes the requirements of the program. This fixed core is constructed attending to the surrounding views and sunlight, and its two main pieces, living and sleeping rooms, are stacked to the south limit, from which they are protected with a filter, relegating a services strip to the back side. Behind this strip, and like clouds drifting over the void, variations are introduced by the addition of programmatic pieces that form the dwellings of two and three bedrooms. The strict order achieved by the linear core is mathematically blurred into a shifting volume. Thus, the dwellings become “machines for living”, and they are designed as such, fitting surfaces and diminishing the transition areas of between rooms.

BUILT

Modular casting system

Its construction responds to a necessity of industrial optimization. Therefore, the structure of the main body is constructed in concrete from a single high accuracy aluminum cast. At the same time, the light steel structure modules that constitute the additioned elements enable volumetric variations. This industrialized system facilitates the constructive process, avoiding rubbish and accelerating the implementation times.