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Fühlinger See / Köln-Chorweiler
Sunday, July 22, 2012:
Deutsches Architekturmuseum / Frankfurt
Cluster in the Air / Arata Isozaki before 1982
Isozaki's clusters do not replace the existing city, like Dietrich's Metastadt, or lead to a newly founded city, like the funnel cities by Walter Jonas. He appealed for a condensation and wanted his buildings to be built at important traffic junctures. The model is of vital importance for this project as it shows the many levels at which this seemingly violent goal is connected with traditional Japanese architecture. The model is built from wood, just as wooden buildings comprise wide expanses of Tokyo. The structure of the towers recalls traditional Japanese-Chinese wood structures, which not only resemble trees, but at the same time, quote wood connections tried and tested for centuries. The overall form of the silhouette, for its part, brings to mind images of layered pagoda roofs.
Isozaki's clusters do not replace the existing city, like Dietrich's Metastadt, or lead to a newly founded city, like the funnel cities by Walter Jonas. He appealed for a condensation and wanted his buildings to be built at important traffic junctures. The model is of vital importance for this project as it shows the many levels at which this seemingly violent goal is connected with traditional Japanese architecture. The model is built from wood, just as wooden buildings comprise wide expanses of Tokyo. The structure of the towers recalls traditional Japanese-Chinese wood structures, which not only resemble trees, but at the same time, quote wood connections tried and tested for centuries. The overall form of the silhouette, for its part, brings to mind images of layered pagoda roofs.
Office Building Holcim / Holder Bank, Switzerland / unbuilt
Christian Kerez concept model
Christian Kerez concept model
Stück Natur eingeweckt / Haus-Rucker-Co / 1973
The idyllic landscape inside the preserving jar is canned like marmalade and at the same time, it is presented as a scientific specimen. The small house brings to mind depictions of the "primitive hut."
The idyllic landscape inside the preserving jar is canned like marmalade and at the same time, it is presented as a scientific specimen. The small house brings to mind depictions of the "primitive hut."
Residential House / Study for New York City / Frei Otto 1957
During a stay in the U.S., Frei Otto designed these residential houses that are lined up around a concrete core to form high rise buildings, skewered like a shish kebab. Conceptually, they bring to mind the capsule houses by Isozaki, Archigram, and Döring. However, the representation as model differs quite clearly. Frei Otto was not interested in a staccato of the same module, but the anticipation of little green oases and individually furnished homes.
During a stay in the U.S., Frei Otto designed these residential houses that are lined up around a concrete core to form high rise buildings, skewered like a shish kebab. Conceptually, they bring to mind the capsule houses by Isozaki, Archigram, and Döring. However, the representation as model differs quite clearly. Frei Otto was not interested in a staccato of the same module, but the anticipation of little green oases and individually furnished homes.
Capsule Houses / Wolfgang Döring 1969
If one didn't know that it was a design for a residential complex, the pile of fifty-seven plastic elements could also be taken for an abstract sculpture or a toy. Remarkable is the reduction of the building system to one single form. Design drawings show that a serial residential neighborhood in Solingen-Caspersbroich was planned with the capsule system. Every model was meant to have an edge length of three meters. The structures, which are able to be constantly converted and dismantled like a pin game, are comparable to the visions of the Japanese metabolists like Isozaki, the group Archigram, and the Metastadt by Richard J. Dietrich.
If one didn't know that it was a design for a residential complex, the pile of fifty-seven plastic elements could also be taken for an abstract sculpture or a toy. Remarkable is the reduction of the building system to one single form. Design drawings show that a serial residential neighborhood in Solingen-Caspersbroich was planned with the capsule system. Every model was meant to have an edge length of three meters. The structures, which are able to be constantly converted and dismantled like a pin game, are comparable to the visions of the Japanese metabolists like Isozaki, the group Archigram, and the Metastadt by Richard J. Dietrich.
Prada Epicenter / Herzog & de Meuron
Among architects, the "working model" has a much higher status than do perfectly created presentation models. Hardly any other architectural studio works so intensely with models as does Herzog & de Meuron. Fashion corporation Prada's Tokyo showroom was decisively created using the models on show here. The idea of the bubble-like glass facade was devised using a Plexiglas model that was processed using a soldering iron: the model was a tempting structure that in the course of many stages then evolved into the building as actually realized.
Among architects, the "working model" has a much higher status than do perfectly created presentation models. Hardly any other architectural studio works so intensely with models as does Herzog & de Meuron. Fashion corporation Prada's Tokyo showroom was decisively created using the models on show here. The idea of the bubble-like glass facade was devised using a Plexiglas model that was processed using a soldering iron: the model was a tempting structure that in the course of many stages then evolved into the building as actually realized.
Saturday, July 21, 2012:
Housewarming Party / Frankfurt
Tuesday, July 17, 2012:
Breite Strasse / Cologne
Saturday, July 14, 2012:
Koelner Lichter
Thursday, July 12, 2012:
Cologne
Tuesday, July 3, 2012:
Incubus Concert / Dortmund
Michael Einziger
Brandon Boyd
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