The Meeting Point

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The meeting point is the third Brief from the LINE OF SITE.
The main brief is to create at any selected site a meeting point for the neighbourhood people.
The winners have being announced:
Richard James
United Kingdom
Selva oscura 'under the shadow of the darkling forest'
A forest storytelling pavilion.The last rays of evening sunlight burn there flickering path across the darkest corners. This is the time for the drummer,To arise from his forest home,And begin his tales.From this place Imagination gives rise to the lurking shadows, Cast by the chimneys around which we huddled.The wild forest mushrooms roasting in the fires embers.

David Adar Isreal

The Temple Bar

Functioning as a café-bar at daytime and a bar at night, the 'Temple Bar' is more than that. By taking its programmatic region to a new one: region of space. A simple use of basic form and levels leading to a bar having substance with the 'meeting place' term. The Bar is the 'space between'- a temple, an urban room, a campus, a theatre. Located between 'U' type building defining limits and space, the bar is connecting between earth and sky, extends its spatial experiment into the street in front, and into the city. Like this, the urban narrative continuity. The street is a stage, a scene, and sometimes it is the opposite, an integral part of the meeting narrative, a dialogue between two urban positions.In urban context of a small neighborhood with vibrant atmosphere, the bar serves a vital purpose at the centre of young community of tel-aviv. People will meet and talk, they will converse and exchange ideas, drink and eat, play and integrate on many levels, listen to lectures and watch the street and the world goes by.

Luhki Heranisvari

Indonesia
the green deck
Chosen site location is in a busy neighbourhood where school, office, commercial, and service buildings are located. Yogyakarta is famous as students’ city, where art and knowledge shape its daily activity. This meeting point will accommodate the needs of students to have discussion on their afterhours, place where small lectures can be arranged, place where artists can have small showcases, and place to watch the world goes by (on its literal meaning) .Why in a junction? Simply because junction itself is an intersection. People will gather in a hub that is a “real” hub. Yet its floating structure doesn’t need land, which in this area is very expensive.Why just deck and why green? Hot tropical climate requires a building to be airy enough for human thermal comfort. I don’t want aircon to be used since it consumes a lot of energy. Instead, this green building will also help to reduce city pollution. Its very simple and basic form, with open plan floor will create a spacious room, yet cost effective. No Starbucks, no Dunkin Donuts, no formal layout! It lets traditional-food street vendors to lay their retails, and people will enjoy foods on whatever ways they like.
Runner up:
Paul Bower
UK No-Man's-Land
A sublime shared meeting place that shifts on currents of air and overcomes the inevitable ties that accompany contested territories on the ground.‘No-Man’s-Land’ functions at high altitude and directly above the political and economical fault lines that lie below. It stakes a claim of claiming no land. Instead two separate, lightweight platforms on rails are lifted into the sky by two identical; helium filled aluminised nylon tower balloons, which bring the two platforms together in mid-air to provide a floating meeting place. The service is for interested parties on either side of a contested settlement to forge relationships and build bridges that may not be feasible in person on the ground.
Vincent
Mr. USA
Hydrogram
EACH HYDROGRAM IS LINKED IN WITH ALL OF THE OTHER HYDROGRAMS LOCATED RANDOMLY AROUND THE GLOBE. INDIVIDUALS USE A COMPUTER INTERFACE TO CHOOSE ONE OF THE OTHER SATELLITE LOCATIONS TO CONNECT TO. THE HYDROGRAMS RELAY VIDEO OF THE SELECTED LOCATION AND PROJECT THE MOTION FROM THAT SATELLITE HYDROGRAM TO THE LOCAL HYDROGRAM ON A SERIES OF FALLING SHEETS OF WATER. THE BEAUTIFUL IMAGES ARE CONSTANTLY DISTORTED AND OBSERVED IN LAYERS. ULTIMATELY USERS WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE VISUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WHILE INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER LOCALLY.

Info and images from Line of site

Massimo Silenzio - Installation

Monday, November 17, 2008

10.000 changing-color light globes at the Circo Massimo in Rome for the Notte Bianca.A wonderful view, night and day Images from house42
Images from house42
Images from house42
images from house42

NotCot-Design ideas, aesthetics and amusement

http://www.notcot.org/

Have a Break-----Videos of Cats....sometimes i Wonder wat CATs are thinking in their minds

Video: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3898066/10614370

Turtle Creek House, Dallas

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Turtle Creek house is designed by Antoine Predock Architect, located at Dallas, Texas.
The client has a great passion in bird-watching, the architect try to create every opportunities at every level for bird watching activities.
From the street, stood a long edge of rocky mass welcoming the visitors.

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While at the entry hall, your view will be prolonged by a steel bridge in front of you. At the same time, you will notice there is another lower level and another upper level leading you to different spaces.

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The overall layout is a combination of both straight and curve lines flow perfectly with the surrounding trees.

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The experience is more than a house itself, the architect understand the client needs and incoprorate them into the design.

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Images from Antoine Predock website

If you come across with the book name "Architecture Inside Out" , you can get the floor plan of this house and other details information about it.

Holl wins in Copenhagen...

Friday, November 14, 2008

Steven Holl Architects' design for the dramatic new harbor entrance to the great city of Copenhagen is based on a concept of two towers carrying two bridges at two orientations all connecting back to the unique aspects of the site's history.

The Langenlinie site, a berth for ocean ships for decades, is expressed in the Langenlinie tower with geometry taken from the site's shape. A prow-like public deck thrusts out to the sea horizon. This deck is the level of public entry to the bridge elevators and has public amenities such as cafes and galleries.

It can be reached by a wide public stair as well as escalators. The Marmormolen tower connects back to the City with a main terrace that thrusts out towards the city horizon shaped by a public auditorium below. It can also be reached by escalators and is adjacent to the public bridge elevator lobby.
Images and text from WAN

IDFX magazine Digital edition

Desisn Magazine

World Architecture Community

World Architecture Community

Borgaretto Cemetery by Studio Elastico

The Borgaretto Cemetery, designed by Studio Elastico and completed in 2005, is the most recent, acting as a hardscape plaza within a larger park.

Accessed by a bright red bridge, the multi-level cemetery was conceived as a mass of stones and gravel that will surely be enlivened by flowers and other mementos left for the departed.
the Borgaretto Cemetery is about landscape and spaces carved from the earth
Images from Archidose and Studio Elastico

Restoration of a single family house by Studio Elastico

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

This is a project done by Studio Elastico from Italy. A restoration of a single family house with an impressive staircase.
Image from studio Elastico
Image from studio Elastico Image from studio Elastico
There are a lot more of other interesting project by this archi firm, very different and innovative.