Re: ARE WE REALLY READY FOR 'BOTTOM UP'?

This week _urb_ (a blog I am reading a lot these days and I can really recommend) features a post on this question. I am personally dealing with this issue as well for quite a while. Since I am relased to the professional world I have been trying to bring the ideas of bottom-up 'design' closer to architects and clients, but my attempts are without success. That doesn't really answer the question but it substantiates suspicion that some ideas work better on an academic level and the so called 'real world' has nothing to do with that - or are we not ready yet?

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URBAN FOOD PRODUCTION

Benedetta Garguilo :: Fish Faming

Here are two projects of last year's AA inter3 studio. Students were asked: Can extremes of programmatic effectiveness blend with the fragility of human habitat? Can food production be integrated into the fabric of the City?
Benedetta Garguilo dealt with fish farming in central london while Soonil Kim designed the King's Vineyard London
Soonil Kim :: Vineyard


Thanks to pruned for the hint


related posts:
on urban agriculture here, here and here and on aqua-culture here and here

YELLOW FOG

Finally Vienna got one: the recently installed Olafur Eliasson's Yellow Fog. Each day at the break of dawn the yellow fog rises. The Austrian Energy Company Verbund bought the installation - previously installed at the New York Jewish Museum - 2005 for 75,000€. Now the installation is worth around 400,000€. all images by synchronicity

BIENNALE DI VENEZIA - ARSENALE

An Te Liu::Cloud:: Air Purifier installation :: image synchronicity

As expected, la Biennale di Venezia was a big show off of big names - at least at the main exhibition at Arsenale. Zaha, Frank, Hani, Greg... with few things which were new. While Greg Lynn's recycled toy furniture was quite interesting comprehending a good sense of humor, I was quite disappointed by Diller + Scofidio's installation - a ride through venice with a gondola filmed from rear and front. We know that already way back in the sixties from Valie Export.

Greg Lynn Form ::image by disturbnet
Also Zaha's and Patrick Schumacher's mobile Lotus home was a bit annoying, especially when you listened to Patrick Schumacher's Parametric manifesto where he talks about Parametrisim beeing the real new style after Modernism - Post-Modernism, Deconstructivism only where transitory styles. But the problem with the Lotus installation is, that it only is able to exist in a Modernist building, a white box or as well the beautiful Arsenale pavillion. But how would it look like in a curvy Zaha building? So what about this new style being so dependend on the old one?

Zaha Hadid Architects::Lotus ::image by disturbnet
UN Studio's 'The changing room' was at least more critical in the description.

UnStudio :: Image synchronicity

Philippe Rahm showed again one of his Architecture and Meteorology installions, which I always like a lot although it did not work the time I was there.

Philippe Rahm (whith MVRDV's Flying cars City in the back) :: Image synchronicity
A fresh cheer up on these exhaustive days was S1NGLETOWN by Droog Design focusing on the world of contemporary singles

Droog design :: image synchronicity

I will post an entry from the Biennale dealing with issues of sustainability and landscape soon. So stay tuned..

SYNCHRONICITY@BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

reflections on 'archtitecture beyond building' soon on this platform.