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‘TOY CITY - a conceptual urban study for the future of Pereslavl-Zalessky’ is an attempt to grasp the character, opportunities and threads, which a Russian city is facing in XXI century. The case study, Pereslavl-Zalessky, is situated at the famous Golden Ring of Russia, 140km form Moscow. Pereslavl represents most of the problems of a typical Russian city, as well has many unique qualities, like its location at the lake and Natural Park.
Within the “toy city” concept the city would become the sandbox for new creative ideas and developments. Applied within the city the success could be measured with new technologies applied and analyzed by the university and a newly formed BOTIK URBAN ANALYSIS CENTER.
Calling all graphic designers, illustrators, artists, writers, singers, cooks, actors, musicians, mathematicians, thinkers, painters etc. Join us for a new collaboration on the next beta of imaginary spaces.
“Imaginary Spaces” is an ongoing series of interpretations of aA´s non realized architectural projects by other artists or creatives. Sarah Grether is ”morphing into this building as a feminine creature and creating movements according to its geometry as well as its emotional physicality. Using very minimal but slow and precise movements to execute the heavy, grounded feeling this building has and at the same time highlighting the spider like lightness that its esthetics reinforce as it spreads its web over a vast area and penetrates the soil of our earth.”
REMIX IS EVERYWHERE
There are this days when suddenly some links become very obvious and new information seem to fit each other like a puzzle. The same happened today when researching for OpenSimSim and watching the theories of Kirby Ferguson.
By showing references from the music industries and Hollywood bluckbusters Kirby is arguing that the act of “copy, transform and combine” is inherent in our social evolution. Just think about the internet - it could only develop so quickly because of the possibility to see the source code of a page and start using the most intelligent bits and pieces. Funny enough I was starting a similar argument during a lecture in Wroclaw using the example of “WALK THIS WAY” by RUN DMC.
In contemporary architectural theory and education we believe in a different truth. Real architecture needs to be unique. Remixing is considered to be an act of un-creativity. At least this applies for the western architectural philosophy. Famous architects start to abuse in public other architects of plagiarism. In 2007 Rem Koolhaas announced in public that Sir Norman Foster was copying his ideas of RAK Gateway in the urban design of Masdar City.
But maybe it´s time to adopt to the Chinese philosophy of mastering ones profession by copying the “master”? Only by starting to share information and knowledge more openly we can reach our challenging goal to built CO2 neutral cities and buildings by 2050.
But maybe we are on the right way already? Funny enough today some architectural blogs published the “red ball project” and diller scofidio + renfro hirshhorn museum bubble.
aerial view of the balloon expansion at the hirshhorn museum
image courtesy of diller scofidio + renfro
I guess no one would really deny that this could be considered as a remix of Rem Koolhaas´ 2006 Serpentine Pavillon (see image on top).
Or maybe it´s just a remix of Leonidov´s 1927 Lenin Institute?
What do you think about the Kirby´s theory of REMIX in regards to architecture? Do you know any other buildings that use an inflatable in a similar manner?
10 years of development.
This image with both the first iPod and the current iPod Touch model demonstrate in an impressive way the huge development Apple did in the design and technology.
Imagine we would understand architecture in a similar way and develop a product towards perfection and usability. I guess we would be living in much more interesting environments today.
image via: http://thefoxisblack.com/2011/12/07/the-ipod-one-product-10-years-of-innovation/
aA goes Uzbekistan
We received an invitation by the Goethe Institute to moderate together with Transsolar a workshop on architecture and sustainability in Tashkent.
Does anyone have some interesting references of buildings or sites to visit in Uzbekistan?
S.Adylov, I.Koptelova and G.Korobovtsev, Blocks of Flats in Residential Area C 27, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1973
Imaginary Space is an experiment into the interpretation of architectural tectonics into body movement.
The project was realized for the ArchMoscow 2011 NEXT exhibition of anOtherArchitect.
The exhibition won the prize for the best international exhibition at ArchMoscow.
[credits]
idea and concept: anOtherArchitect : Daniel Dendra with Natalia Fentisova
dancer: Sarah Grether
realisation and editing: Natalia Fentisova
camera: Natalia Fentisova, Marcin Malaszczak
filming location: Station Berlin
interpreted building: XX(L)andScape Museum Kiev 2008 by anOtherArchitect
Urban Origami - Trondheim Norway - 2007
aA : Daniel Dendra in collaboration with Markus Nonn (UK)
