El Pópulo Housing Rehabilitation
By MGM Arquitectos (2007)
“This is an intervention in the district of El Pópulo, one of the oldest in Cadiz. The courtyard house has been subjected over the years to numerous reforms that have gradually varied its original configuration. The building works are based on the idea of conserving and giving new value to some of the historic elements found in this construction, especially the eighteenth-century structure. This means maintaining all the walls from this time and previous ones, plus the main staircase situated next to the courtyard. The current covered corridor is again recovered as a street, with the main entrance situated here, and on the two first levels the regular floor plan it had in the eighteenth century. The Arquillo del Obispo (The Bishop’s Little Arch) is also maintained, an arch in the wall that supposedly follows the old outline of the city wall.”
Photos by Jesús Granada
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Cities like open-air museums
By Arne Quinze
“When cities would be perceived as open-air museums people would start seeing art as a given, as a part of life and as having a positive influence on the quality of life and the general well-being. Trying to convert negative attitudes into positive ones, ensuring people aren’t reluctant of talking to strangers are cornerstones how human relations should progress.”
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Bauhaus Museum
By 2A + P/A (2011)
“More than a building, we imagine a scenario: a large “case” contains within it all of the functions of the museum, all on the ground floor and placed side by side. The great void of the structural container differs from a traditional museum structure comprised of rooms without connecting spaces or corridors, so that visitors can move freely from one space to another.”
Confederation of Danish Industry HQ
By Transform Architects + Kollision + Martin Professional (2013)
I used to bike by this project every day while it was under construction. At one point, I thought it was finished. But then they started installing a second glass façade. The spacing was too irregular for it to be a double layer system for climate control, a common sustainability move. So I thought that the building was just weird. Now that I see the finished project, it makes a lot more sense.
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Toni Gironès - Rebar walkways at the protective housing of a historic tomb, Seró 2013. Photos (C) Aitor Estévez.
Market Hall
By Marie-José Van Hee & Robbrecht & Daem (2012)
“Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot in between a suite of three adjoining Gothic towers. In two consecutive competi- tions between 1996 and 2005, Robbrecht en Daem architecten and MJosé Van Hee architects proposed their own programme, countering the initial competition requirement.”
Photos by Tim Van de Velde
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Olafur Eliasson & Ma Yansong - Feelings are Facts (2010)
“Based on a series of previous experiments by Eliasson that deal with atmospheric density.
Here, Eliasson introduces condensed banks of artificially produced fog into the gallery, shimmering with an artificial light spectrum, created using arrays of red, green and blue fluorescent lamps.
This illusion in light is not something we find in nature, however, as one walks through the space, the sights and sensations experienced become real.
Dimensions are further altered by the substantial lowering of the ceiling along with a nearly 60 meter long curving, inclined wooden floor space which Yansong created within the installation room. The sloping floor challenges visitors to readjust their balance, forcing them to constantly shift their weight and body posture to counterbalance the inclination. This emphasizes the important role of the moving body in the perception of our surroundings. The further visitors venture into the space, the steeper the floors get, reaching the point in which it becomes a wave-like curved wall. Since the ceiling imitates this construction, a seemingly boundless space is discerned above.
Within this installation, insecurity is induced on visitors initially,
reducing visibility, suggesting the need to invent new models for perception.”
Courtyard in Classensgade
By 1:1 Landskab (2010)
“The idea consists of creating an intimate outdoor space which works as a social gathering point for the residents, but at the same time can be enjoyed as an aesthetic element from the kitchen window, where the “carpet” gives the viewer an entirely different visual experience. The carpet was chosen as a motive because it gives a personal expression and signal homely values and cosiness. The inspiration to the patterns came from the many carvings and ornaments at the facades in Østerbro, but has been carefully customized so it has its own unique identity.”
Photos by Anders Sune Berg
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