Material Memory
Senses can trigger our memory, but can memory trigger our senses? My grandfather used to tell us stories of the war and his march from Omaha Beach to Berlin. With […]
Category Archives: Concrete
PENTAGON MEMORIAL [Stainless_Steel _Casting+CNCtech]
Project: Pentagon Memorial, Arlington, VA US Architect/Designer: KBAS Studio Sources: http://www.kbas-studio.com Featured material: Stainless Steel The pentagon memorial required the collaboration of a network of disciplines from melting, pouring, and […]
NINGBO TENGTOU PAVILION [Social_Responsive_Vernacular]
Project: Ningbo Tengtou Pavillion, Shanghai, China, 2010 Architect/Designer: Amateur Architecture Studio, Wang Shu, Principal Sources: http://www.worldarchitects.com/en/amateur Featured material: Reused/Repurpose brick+tiles Responding to current China’s thirst for impatient¹ urbanization, Architect Wang […]
Urban Camouflage Rethought
Rethinking about the application and ability for camouflage’s potential impact on design and the building industry, I have started challenging some of my earlier thoughts. How do we start to […]
Holy Crypsis
Crypsis is the final study of camouflage I’m taking a closer look at. In biology crypsis is the ability for an organism to avoid observation or detection by other organisms. […]
Razzle Dazzle
This week I am going to continue testing and studying the idea of camouflage. Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle or dazzle painting is used in the animal kingdom […]
MAT_MACRO_SCALESERIES 2 of 2 [FUKOKU=expressive]
MAT_MACROSCALESERIES: [2 OF 2] EWHA/FUKOKU – Building: as an urban EXPRESSIVE surface Project: Fukoku Life Osaka Tower Building Architect/Designer: Dominique Perrault Sources: http://www.perraultarchitecte.com Features: Concrete structural system – Metal Glass […]
MAT_MACRO_SCALESERIES 1 of 2 [EWHA=functional]
MAT_MACRO_SCALESERIES: [1 OF 2] EWHA/FUKOKU – Building: as an urban FUNCTIONAL surface Project: Ewha Women’s University Architect/Designer: Dominique Perrault Sources: http://www.perraultarchitecte.com Features: Landscape(Park/Garden) – Metal Glass Facade (printed glass facade) […]
Defying Gravity
What is gravity? We may think we know it, but some, like Werver Tscholl, like to test those conventions. The Pass Museum in the Timmelsjoch, a high mountain pass between Austria […]
Concrete, Deterioration, and Aesthetic
Now, many decades after the midcentury boom in concrete construction, we are beginning to understand just how this material ages – when it does so well, and when mismanagement and […]
Camouflage This?
For my second attempt at understanding methods of camouflage I decided to study Casa Corallo by Paz Arquitectura. The project is located on a hillside forest in the Santa Rosalia […]
Concrete Masonry Units
Pre-cast concrete blocks have been around since ancient Rome and survive today as perhaps the only remaining structural use of masonry in the globalized economies of the world. Concrete masonry […]
Architecture Sells
When seeing the Vizio All-In-One PC commercial recently, I was intrigued by the visual argument being presented. Most commercials attempting to sell technology present you with a magical (and in […]
RTP/RPD Studios [concrete_dematerialized=glass]
RTP/RPD Studios [concrete_dematerialized=glass] Project: R.T.P. / R.P.D. Studios, Lisbon Architect/Designer: Frederico Valsassina Arquitectos Sources: http://www.fvarq.com/ Featured material: Glass (printed glass facade) The RTP/RDP Studios offers a remarkable example of concrete […]
PORSCHE@AUTOSTADT [Concrete_Metal?]
PORSCHE@AUTOSTADT [Metal_Concrete?] Project: Porsche Pavilion @ Autostadt in Wolfsburg Architect/Designer: Henn Architekten Sources: http://studio-b.org/ Featured material: Metal At first glance, the Porsche Pavilion designed by Henn Architekten might appear to […]
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