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Un’interessante opera dell’amico Matteo Cibic.
una persona fuori dagli schemi che riesce a interpretare in maniera sempre nuova e vincente le sfide che gli vengono proposte.
Continuando la rassegna sugli Shopping Centre, ricordo l’italianissimo Etnapolis, opera di Massimiliano Fuksas:
Il complesso è articolato su quattro livelli, destinati alla vendita tranne il livello sotterraneo ed il tetto, utilizzati come parcheggio. I percorsi pedonali sono stati ridotti al minimo, permettendo un forte beneficio dal punto di vista pratico, acustico ed estetico. Negli spazi interni la progettazione ha incluso e raggiunto ogni dettaglio, e gli spazi pubblici sono illuminati da luce naturale attraverso i grandi lucernai, composti da grandi piani inclinati. Il prospetto principale, realizzato attraverso una “doppia pelle” di rivestimento, ha anche la funzione di vero e proprio spazio pubblicitario ospitando il logo ETNAPOLIS, lungo tutto il lato che si affaccia a sud sulla statale 121, per circa 1 km.
La forma segue veramente la funzione nello sviluppo della tazza da caffè.
Riporto alla luce questo esempio, a mio parere molto bello, che coniuga design, arte e funzionalità.
Di Matteo Thun & Partners, Illy Cup 1990-2004.
Styrofoam Sofa del designer coreano Kwangho Lee è un divano fatto di Styrofoam, che è un materiale tipicamente usato per i pannelli isolanti nelle architetture.
Ha realizzato il divano tagliando il materiale con un cavo metallico incandescente.
Di seguito l’abstract di Lee:
“Styrofoam is something easily exposed and quite familiar in our daily lives. Not to mention how often art or design students use it so often for its reasonable price and manipulation. It was also one of my best toys in childhood and thus the memory of playing with it was the biggest inspiration. For its materialistic merit of getting warmer as you sit or keep hold of it, I sculpted a sofa out of the most raw form - a whole block of it - of Styrofoam with heat wires. It is a study/experiment of a material so raw and familiar, transforming it into something different, giving it another meaning. I sculpted it out of a whole block of styrofoam with heat wire. The pieces are ‘cut off’ by melting from the heat. The wires are adjusted with handles on both ends which is connected to the adoptor. It’s a lot better than cutters or knives. The cut is very clean with no styrofoam powder dusting and produces a certain texture that ‘coats’ the surface.”
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Un progetto dello studio messicano di architettura Pascal Arquitectos: qui la loro proposta per lo shopping centre Pedregal, svelata la scorsa estate.
Di seguito testo tratto dal sito degli architetti:
“This project comes to set a new architectural statement in the Pedregal area of Mexico City, which has been neglected because nothing new and important had happened since its beginnings when “Cuidad Universitaria” was built. Nowadays the real-estate pressure and the need of services are beginning to promote significant changes. The way that this building relates with its context is by breaking away from what is common to the zone, which are big houses in big areas surrounded by very high stone walls which do not let anybody know what is happening outside and vice versa. This goal is achieved with the main facade that consists of two elements: one of them lined with a zinc plate with large irregular perforations, into which different shades of yellow translucent laminated glass section is inlaid. It allows the view of the interior event from the outside, while at the same time allowing the view of the exterior event from the inside. In this way the public social spaces mix and the limits between the urban and the private become frontiers. The project includes two commercial levels and a roof garden and two underground parking levels. Mobility-impaired individual access and areas are included: ramps, special parking spaces, elevators, etc.; car reception area at the entrance and the exit to avoid parking in the public area, numerous garden areas, including the roof; car delivery zone inside the first parking basement floor.
This is a sustainable and intelligent development project with an automation and control system that contemplates passive and active energy saving resources: lighting and extraction control, opening and closing façade rolling doors, air conditioning, security and control access, prevention signage, and CCTV - all of them scheduled and synchronized.”
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Un’adorabile re-interpretazione della solita tazzina “misurino”.
