Justin Bell, Bartlett Student Unit 17

BARTLETT UNIT 17 YEAR 5 2009/2010
The project is an immigration centre, located in the post-flood alluvial landscape of a near-future Rio de Janeiro. The city developed with dream-like rapidity through colonialism, slavery, monarchy, military dictatorship and modernism. It is to be thought of not as a collection of discrete architectural objects, but rather as a single artifact, the dynamic and evolving product of cultural accretion.
Key to the generative process of the project has been the accessing and layering of this multitude of cultural, urban and architectural histories. Each period is accessed through the narrative of an individual protagonist. Through these players, common themes of landscape and flooding, arrival and encounter, are revealed then extended.
The imagined flood uncovers layers of the built, the unbuilt and the demolished. These are treated as equal and are brought into multi-perspectival dialogue with the new. Instrumental modernist projects and boundaries dissolve. Ships, as vessels of culture, become absorbed into the building fabric. Post-colonial theories of hybridity and dialogism are explored for their architectural potentialities, both through methodologies and through drawing itself, paper as microcosm of city. The architectural artefact is itself, like the city, a product of accretion

Link
http://www.justinebell.com/index.php?/architecture/landfallthe-other-shore/

house-8

© Julien Lanoo

http://www.archdaily.com/84444/update-house-8-big/

madasban

http://photo.zhulong.com/danwei/detail.asp?id=106

http://www.far2000.com/zhuanti/exhibition/mada/beijing/jianjie.htm

Hiroshi Nakamura

Dancing trees,Singing birds

Located in Ebisu, Tokyo, Bird Park is an apartment where people and birds can live in total harmony. We believe that the pleasure of living with nature can be communicated through architecture, and by living face to face with nature can raise the awareness of sustainable living in each individual. Architecture is usually seen to be concerned only with humans, but by expanding the target to plants and animals, we thought it could familiarise more people to architecture. It is an apartment sympathetic to both human and to the environment.The site is located in the very central district of Tokyo surrounded by trees over 20m high. We felt that such greenery was a precious asset to a crowded city like Tokyo, and wanted to preserve this forest ? to build with it rather than to build on it.We began the process by measuring the shape and the location of each and every tree with a laser pointer and created a three dimensional computer model from the collected information. Then we consulted a tree doctor and discussed how we could build without damaging the roots.The ‘huts' were constructed according to the location of the branches, leaving enough room for the trees to sway in the case of tropical rainstorm. Towards the top of the building, we located small birdhouses echoing the shapes of the ‘huts'.Living with the forest; to be able to smell the flowers, to hear the leaves blowing in the wind, and to be able to listen to the birds sing. Bird Park became a place where people and nature can form a close and intimate relationship with each other, and by forming such relationship, I hope to enhance the quality of life in each individual.

tokyo-eight

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ta-/1951082799/

New Local NY

http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=2481&dop=True&year=2009
http://eclectica.co.uk/smout-allen/
http://www.margaretbursa.com/projects/landscape-of-movement/
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-local-worlds-in-section.html

[Images: From New Local NY by Margaret Bursa].

Video: The New City

Chapter 1: The New City focuses on the way we live, and how it will impact the way we move.  Part of a four film series about the future of mobility “Wherever You Want To Go” is the first release under BMW Documentaries.

From the minds of some of the most influential scientists, academics, pioneers, and entrepreneurs of our time, this four-part documentary paints a unique picture of technology, culture, cities, our past, present and how it all relates to the future of mobility.

“Wherever You Want To Go” is not meant to provide definitive answers, but rather, to ask the right questions from the right people in an attempt to generate discussion, provoke thought and stir the imagination. As part of the Activate the Future website, viewers are also encouraged to click and comment on various points throughout the documentary.