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vi segnalo (anche se abbastanza in ritardo) un interessante articolo critico riguardante l’architetto canadese (ma statunitense) più conosciuto al mondo: Frank O.Gehry

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[Gehry vs. the Simpson]

Signori e Signore, vi presento il dipartimento di Arte, Design e Media della Nanyang Technological University a Singapore, di CPG Consultants

The design was conceived as 3 intertwining blocks that are apparent natural extensions of the ground. These blocks interweave to enclose a picturesque plaza and landscape. Major spaces such as the Auditorium, Media Studios, library and art galleries surround this outdoor activity node.

Il tetto giardino è stato pensato sia come spazio calpestabile e quindi fruibile, sia come elemento isolante di copertura per l’edificio.
Le pareti internet sono state lasciate appositamente allo stato grezzo per consentire agli studenti d’arte di personalizzare il loro spazio di studio.

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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.

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 piccolo accenno a questo progetto che utilizza patterns floreali (in entrambe le versioni proposte) per il Padiglione Polacco di Orchard Road, Singapore per l’expo2010.
Le proposte di progetto sono firmate dallo studio di architettura basato a Singapore U:phoria.

La struttura sarà costruita usando acciaio leggero e rivestita in pannelli acrilici stampati con pattern.

Le informazioni seguenti da U:phoria:

“Prize winning entry for a pavilion in the heart of Orchard Road, Singapore.
The concept is to create a structure that is light and elegant looking. It will be a place for quiet resting and dining, while evoking a sense of peace & tranquillity as an antithesis to the urban flurry that surrounds it.

This pavilion will exemplify the use of lightweight steel framing to create a structure that appears to defy its own weight, and seemingly looks as if it is floating above the ground. It is an urban manifestation of the ephemeral quality of the city life.

Steel Design StrategyThe strategy is to utilise a simple component: an l-shaped lightweight galvanised steel section. This steel section will be placed in consecutive additions and in pairs, in perpendicular directions at each end of the section, thereby causing a curved nature of the form created, without physically bending the steel members.
Through the additions, the steel sections will form a lightweight roof frame that itself acts as a structural component. The frame itself will encompass both the wall and the roof as structure, therefore eliminating the need for columns. A series of similarly placed vertical steel bars will form the entrance screen and also support for the cantilever of the steel frame.”

Designed by U:phoria Architecture+Design.
Principal Architect : Tan Wee Meng

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