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Bernard Rudofsky «Conditioned outdoor room»

Reclaimed Barn Wood Francis D’Haene

Francis D’Haene

In these text Bernard Rudofsky offer us to think about connection between buildings and nature. He contemplate about garden as a living space, about relations between interior and outdoor.

In the beginning the author say how is important climate for us. Our life and activity depends on it. People always choose place for living according preferences to climate or…climate form our preferences? Maybe relations between people and nature also depends on it? The hostile environment and climate never encouraged an intimate relationship between man and nature. Read More »

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Purposeful architecture ?

imageOnes own space- purposefully designed or existing. Sou Fujimoto text talks about how spaces are perceived. Functional spaces, whether they are created or discovered and how these spaces are used. Humans have their own way of adapting and taking advantage of little things, using them for his own comfort. As he gets used to the spaces he will discover various ways of using and manipulating them. He talks about caves and nests. The spaces in a cave are discovered rather than specifically made for an individual.
The question here is whether a non purposeful kind of architecture can be made functional. Read More »

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Toyo Ito “Tarzan in the media forest”

(Tarzan in the media forest by Toyo Ito) 

(The blog doesnt allow me to upload a picture but these are in the Media library)

The fall of a big structure the “Aoyoma” Hospital by the investors in Japan near of the building which Toyo Ito worked, produced a strong revolution in his mine 40 years ago. He starts to see how the architecture along the time turns in a developers race, the  idea was to build big and high structures without concern of the surroundings, unfortunately in Tokyo like in the most cities of the world the economy market decide about those big projects, big towers of condominiums in the middle of a group of houses. Read More »

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Intermediate Architecture

 

Intermediate Architecture

“The Architecture of Dreams”

There are concerns that have increased in recent years and is about how the natural environment is related to the built environment and how it is no longer the sole concern of the architects and the way we, as architects we approach it.

The rapid growth of cities, generated mainly due to population growth and migration of people from rural areas to cities continued proliferation of vertical solutions that solves one of the many problems associated with population density, but not the problems that architects must solve in an urban environment related to the conditions of the inhabitants. The resolution of these problems related to human habitat, which should be solved by the subject matter experts, such as architects, urban designers and planners, no longer seem to matter, as the economic interests of the private sector and the proliferation of technological solutions somehow have addressed the problem, but can not meet the needs and requirements from the intangible conditions and their relationship with the environment inhabited. These intangible conditions are the most important components for the inhabitants of the architectural project. Read More »

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The Architecture of Atmosphere

http://www.bloodandchampagne.com/2012/11/19/112/

Different atmospheres can be perceived in one same space. http://www.bloodandchampagne.com/2012/11/19/112/

 

Atmosphere is the space in which we inhabit. It is summarized to the intangible effects we perceive in a place. There is no architecture without an atmosphere. It goes beyond the constructed space. Atmosphere surrounds the space between the building and its surroundings. Read More »

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