Month: September 2017

Following an open competition, the Estonian Architecture Center have announced “Weak Monument” as the theme of the Estonian Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Laura Linsi, Roland Reemaa, and Tadeáš Říha will develop a project which views the “architectural environment as a layered and historically continuous system,” focusing the exhibition on “projects from the recent and more distant past.”

This project abandons ‘formal’ concepts.  It searches for a haptic world, where the corporeal/spatial connection is revalued, thus granting all hierarchy to perception. The project focuses on the interaction of experiences where materialization tries to integrate itself into all spatial references, into memory and imagination, stimulating the construction of another form of dwelling. Ideas that obey an operative principle and a design strategy that gives distinct meanings, bringing psychological dimensions into play and opening the possibility of connecting with the power of intuitive association between all parts of the project. The similarities between cause and effect are recalled by the sensorial multiplicity that all architecture should be obliged to provide; instruments that relate time and space.

Undoubtedly, Virtual Reality has come to stay while offering very high contributions to Architecture and Design. The possibilities offered by allowing architects, collaborators, and customers to experiment within a virtual environment, is a design tool that allows better decision making.

While VR allows the viewer to experience what it is like to be inside an environment, the 360 rendering processes the idea mimicking it to real life experiences as much as possible, trying to match specifically what the eye sees.

Completed in 2013 on the western coast of Bornholm—a small Danish island located south of Sweden—the Hasle Harbour Bath by White Arkitekter is one of a number of waterfront bathing facilities appearing in Denmark. Structures such as the Hasle Harbour Bath, the Kastrup Sea Bath, also by White Arkitekter, and the Copenhagen Harbour Bath by BIG + JDS, evoke images of a bracing coexistence with natural elements. If hygge, the Danish art of cosiness, has been one of the country’s most successful cultural exports in recent years, the idea of a refreshing dip in the Baltic Sea offers a counterpart—a ying to hygge’s yang.

This 2000.00m² shed located in the neighborhood of Vila Leopoldina – São Paulo, near Marginal Pinheiros was used as a factory and warehouse for 50 years and was seen as a potential structure for a new function.

Constructed as part of Agrikultura—a triennial of public artworks and urban interventions in Malmö, Sweden—this installation, described by the designers a “maquette of a monument to the honeybee”, is in fact home to an entire colony. It references—by design—the mysterious elements of ‘bee orientation’: verticality (gravity), geometry (the cell structure of the beehive), and the position of the sun relative to the hive. The project is, on the one hand, “a potential memorial for the bees” while, on the other, “a celebration of the sun on which all life depends.”

This apartment in Bilbao possessed two singular features that conditioned the planned approach right from the beginning. On one hand, a powerful reinforced concrete structure with edged girders; on the other hand, a polygon-shaped facade, furnished with sash windows that advanced over the front line.