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Dunhuang, an oasis deep in the Gobi Desert along the famed Silk Road, has become a center for China's drive to lead the world in wind and solar energy.
 
DMY Berlin 09: Norwegian designers Fantastic Norway have sent photos of Walking Berlin, a project in which they dressed up as their latest building and walked around Berlin. The event took place at DMY Berlin earlier this month and featured members of Fantastic Norway wearing models of high-rise towers while walking, cycling and dancing around the city.
 
See also our earlier stories on Cardboard Cloud and Cabin Vardehaugen by Fantastic Norway. Here’s some text from Fantastic Norway:
FANTASTIC NORWAY
“Walking Berlin” // Description
”Walking Berlin” was an event created as part of our exhibition at the DMY International Design Festival 09 in Germany/Berlin. The walking houses are man-sized models of our latest architectural project: a tourist destination located on the northern west coast of Norway. As our project depend on the idea of travelling, we decided it was only fair that the houses got to do some travelling too!
 
The project consists of a group of narrow high-rise modules welcoming the guests of the Norwegian west coast. The systematic and flexible module-system allows the outdoor spaces, the miniature high-rise modules and the interiors to be designed in collaboration with the future inhabitants and selected artists. Interacting with the locals of Berlin, the event emphasizes the project’s social and local ambitions. While exploring the streets of central Berlin, the walking houses chatted with the locals, danced at Alexanderplatz, travelled on the u-bahn, and even shared a curry-würst with the Berliners.
Architectural team: Håkon Matre Aasarød, Erlend Blakstad Haffner, Magnus Ohren, Tomos Osmond, Anne Busemann, Mathias Steinbru, Anette Flygansvær, Ingeborg Cappelen Lindheim, Renata Barros and Håvard Arnhoff.
Client: Bjørn Erik Sørvig
www.fantasticnorway.no
Typical cases of structure damage show portions of or whole buildings collapsing, but this is the first time that I see a building perfectly toppled.
The 13-story building is part of the Lotus Riverside complex in suburban Shanghai. The cause of this epic structural fail is under investigation, but first sources claim that an error on construction and unstable soil conditions are the probable causes.
More images after the break.
You can see another photoset at Flickr.
Comments from ARCHDAILY
Well, at least the top part of the building seem to be of quite sturdy construction!
Great exmple of how important are footings… the rest is a joke haha
spectacular!
right click -> save picture as cool
Doesnt everything MADE IN CHINA break before it should.
How long until the same buildings next door topple over?
as i know ‘chinas’. next week will be a brand new building again. transformer´s land!
Note to self: Never ever live in a building MADE IN CHINA.
According to witness, not a single glass window was broken in the process, go figure.
Was there a mudslide? I don’t see much of a footing at the base of the building.
Why do I have a feeling that most of these materials will be reused in the next building?
How would you like to be living in the building next to it?
Just get a crane and lift that bad boy up. Let it walk it off of bit and it’ll be good as new.
I thought it was the last MVRDV’s proyect in China.
I lived and worked in china and this is just a perfect example of the reckless building culture there. I mean there is some seriously shoddy workmanship.
This is classic!
Yea…….I bet the property owners are about to lose ALOT of tenants.
f*cking great
You know, I’m actually not so sure about comments like shoddy workmanship. The building is incredibly intact and I’m incredibly impressed. Sure the guys need to get a better handle on the foundation but the rest of the building is in tip top shape.
maybe the Architecture Gods knocked it down because it was so ugly.
Adjacent site excavated without rakers or tiebacks. That’s why this stunning piece of architecture toppled over.
What’s these hollow pipes coming out of the building? it doesn’t look like columns..
the American house floats, the Chinese house collapses… hahahahahah.
…the other two are standing proud…….hihihihihi….this is brilliant!!!and just imagine that this building stays like this and gets functionable…….climbing from one room to the other,walking on the walls,everything that we all imagined when we were kids……fantastic…….they should keep it like this and take the advantage of the situation :)))))))))))
i would take some pictures climbing up like spiderman ,, jajaja,,,
i think if theres people in it during the collapse…they just think that they just have a major headache and the world suddenly topple down..hahhah
Look at the Second picture.. it creates this new undulating wave if you stand far enough away. i like it more that way =]
hey guys, this is an architectural tragic, be mercy. -XING
29GPS Architecture (developed by 29GPS) makes a very good use of this feature, featuring a daily selection of contemporary architecture and telling you exactly how far you are from it.
For example, works like the Hollywood House by XTEN or the recently opened Standard hotel in NY are presented with a set of photos (and even a video), with a radar (green,yellow or red, depending how far you are from the building) and a view that allows you to see the building pin pointed over Google Maps.
A very good app if you are traveling around and want to discover new architecture around. And the best of all, is that you can download this app for free (it contain some ads, see screenshoots ). There are two different versions of the app depending which measure system do you use, with the distance in either kilometers (download with iTunes, free) or miles (download with iTunes, free).  (Réflexions colorées by Hal Ingberg. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
Exactly four years ago today, in one of our very early posts, we noted the start of the latest edition of the International Garden Festival at Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens. We would like to tip our readers again the start over the weekend of this year's festival, which will last until 4 October. Below are some photographs of the gardens to temp you to make a trek to Quebec. While the gardens look rather inventive, something you'd expect when the designers are given absolute creative freedom, however, you can be sure that there will always be some sort Picturesque-esque visualary:  (Réflexions colorées by Hal Ingberg. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
And hyper-modern geomet-o-rama:  (bois de biais by Atelier le balto. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
And everyday objects given post-modern cooptery for high designery:  (Passe-moi un sapin Rita by Stéphane Halmaï‐Voisard, Francis Rollin and Karine Corbeil. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
And algorithmic computerary:  (Camouflage View by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
And volup-terra-ry (see this one with bouncing, infectiously joyful kids):  (Safe Zone by Stoss Landscape Urbanism. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
And green-goism (though this one isn't overtly treebuggery):  (Pomme de parterre by Angela Iarocci, Claire Ironside and David Ross. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
And pushing-it-with-the-project-statement:  (Dymaxion Sleep by Jane Hutton and Adrian Blackwell. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
And rhythmametry:  (Le jardin de bâtons bleus by Claude Cormier Landscape Architects. Photo courtesy of Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens.)
It's interesting to note briefly that not one of the gardens are peddling in what Piet Oudolf, the avant-gardener of the High Line, would call “the soft pornography of the flower.” The installations are less about botany and almost singularly about sculpting spaces and programming them with melodrama. Go see (and play).
 (Photo by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf.)
Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna is host to a fascinating series of temporary art installations by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf. In one animal enclosure, the German duo have half-submerged a car in a watering hole used by the resident rhinos. In another enclosure, penguins frolic in the shadow of an oil pump, and in yet another, alligators must share their modest bayou with a bathtub and a monster truck tire. According to the artists, these scenes of ecological nightmares are “experimental set-up[s]” in which “the viewer is forced to reconsider traditional modes of animal presentation and simultaneously to question the authenticity of concepts which are restaging 'natural' environments while they are increasingly endangered.”  (Photo by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf.)
Quoting further: “Present-day conceptions of zoological gardens aim at the presentation of animals in an idyllic and apparently natural environment, untouched by civilization. But this is a contemporary conception, since courtly menageries and kennels were adapted to the exposure of animals as decorative objects. Until the early years of the 20th century, animals were part of a preferably spectacular and exotic staging, to the entertainment and amazement of the public. The artificial and the sensational were foregrounded, without creating a realistic setting of the natural environment of the animals.”  (Photo by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf.)
(Photo by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf.)
The installations will last until October 18, 2009. source: Pruned
今天早晨看报纸，说王杰在铜锣湾自弹自唱，突然意识到上周末一个人去铜锣湾买东西的时候，撞到的就是他。。。当时我还在旁边看他们拍戏好久，怎么就没看出来这是王杰呢？他好像是肥了一些。。。。不过那天至少室外也有33度，他真是够热的，很辛苦。这算是第一次在香港撞到小时候就认识的港星吧。
 (From our repository of decorative whatnots and filler knickknackeries, this photogenic ghostly imprint of aborted architecture. Some refer to them as medianeras, others as the unconscious art of demolition. Our own fancy phraseology is urban graffiti of absence. The photograph above by Marcus Buck comes from his photo series called Restarchitektur, viewable via “Freie Arbeiten” on his flash website. With thanks to the artist for the photo.) 白羊座小朋友
1、世界上只有两个国家：中国和外国。另一版本：世界上只有三个国家：上国，中国和下国。
2、听爸爸说调动工作，觉得是用大吊车把人调来调去的，很麻烦的样子。
3、电视里人肚子痛的时候都是要生孩子了，有一次我肚子痛，跟妈妈说，我要生孩子了，晕死。
金牛座小朋友
1、有一次大人们叫我去打酱油，路上我发现瓶子里还有一些剩的酱油，我还以为打酱油是按瓶算(其实按斤算)，那我岂不是亏了，于是一口气把剩酱油喝个精光。 2、一直觉得很奇怪，为什么国家不印很多的钞票发给大家，这样大家不都有钱了吗？
3、听老师说红领巾是红旗的一角，惊讶那得需要多少红旗啊，真是太浪费了。
双子座小朋友
1、听说花生油是花生榨出来的，芝麻油是芝麻榨出来的，蓖麻油是蓖麻榨出来的……那婴儿油岂不是……想想都好恐怖。
2、一直认为邮筒的下面有一个神奇的出口，信投进去之后会被一阵怪风吹向要寄的地方。
3、总是看到别人结婚，就问爸爸你怎么不结婚？
巨蟹座小朋友
1、妈妈说我是垃圾堆里拣来的，好担心妈妈以后会不要我，而且对垃圾堆一直深有感情。
2、一直认为自己一天天的长大，爸爸妈妈就一天天的变小，等我长大了就可以照顾他们了，用过的东西都不舍得扔，奶瓶留着以后给爸爸喂奶。
3、小学时听说男的尿尿到女的里面，女的就会怀孕，于是在游泳池里拼命尿尿，希望别人怀孕，后来才知道，不是尿……
狮子座小朋友
1、一直认为世界是绕着我转的，除了我之外的所有人，都是为了配合我完成我的精彩人生而来到这个世界上的。
2、小时候一直认为全世界的人都在北京，后来听说有人是XX地方的人，非常惊讶，原来北京以外还有人啊。
3、地球总有一天会毁灭，而能阻止毁灭的只有我一个人，但我要付出牺牲的代价，一直在思索我会不会去牺牲，答案是为了全人类，我愿意！
处女座小朋友
1、所有的东西都是地里种出来的，小孩子也一样，谁家想要小孩子了就去地里挖就可以了，残疾人就是因为挖的时候不小心铲断了手脚。
2、每次想在路边摊买东西，妈妈都说:“私人的东西不能吃", 一直把“私人”听成“死人”，以为死人会从坟墓里爬出来卖东西，每次看到摆摊的老太太都绕道走。 3、发现看书的时候如果离得太近就看不清楚，心里非常紧张，觉得自己眼睛出了问题，于是就一直练近距离看东西，终于近视了。
天秤座小朋友
1、一直认为老师是不用吃饭不用便便的，直到有一天看到老师在便便，大惊失色，很不能接受啊。
2、小时候一直以为 动画片里的人都是真人，还很自卑，为什么有长的那么漂亮的人哪。
3、小时候一个人在家，想看动画片，可是电视里在放新闻，又不会换台，于是对着播新闻的阿姨说：“别说了，我要看动画片”，后来怕阿姨生气，把电视关了。
天蝎座小朋友
1、以前一直认为只有坏人才会死，后来知道人人都会死，伤心了很久，整整哭了一天。
2、总是觉得灵魂可以脱离身体，不明白为什么我只能控制自己的身体而不能控制别人的。
3、当演员好倒霉啊，演一部电视就死了，后来想明白了，他们一定都是杀人犯，死前最后演一次电视。
射手座小朋友
1、听说了“情人”这个词，问妈妈什么意思，妈妈说就是朋友，于是第二天去幼儿园跟一个男生说“你是我的情人”，巨寒。
2、一边嘘嘘的一边喝水，觉得这样可以一直尿下去。
3、一直在思索，这世界要是没有了我会不会运转的问题。
魔羯座小朋友
1、以为主席都是姓毛才可以，自己不姓毛，永远当不了主席，自卑了好久。
2、看到毛阿敏唱歌很好听，韦维唱歌也很好听，觉得因为嘴巴大唱歌才好听，于是天天扯自己的嘴巴。
3、发现正在读初三的姐姐上完厕所流了很多血，觉得很敬佩她，要死了还那么努力的读书。
水瓶座小朋友
1、坚信这世上有外星人的存在，每次耳朵嗡嗡作响的时候，就觉得是外星人给我发信号了，晚上睡觉开着窗，希望外星人带我走。
2、爸爸对我说，屁股本来是一个的，我生出来的时候被摔了一下变成两个了，为此，自卑了好久。
3、听广播里说警察叔叔抓了十几个卖银的，很纳闷为什么不能卖银，每次上街都不敢戴银项链，怕被警察叔叔抓。
双鱼座小朋友
1、自己是月亮上的公主，总有一天，他们会驾着宇宙飞船到约定的树下接我回去的。
2、认为高级绘图铅笔就是神笔马良的那种笔，画的时候心里想什么颜色就出什么颜色，而且画完了还可以跳出来变成真的。
3、认为书店是不赚钱的，每本书多少都印在上面了，也不能多卖。有时候书店会打折，觉得老板真是善良。
  (The wetland machine of Sidwell Friends School by Andropogon Associates, Kieran Timberlake Associates and Natural Systems International. Image by Andropogon Associates.)Reading an ASLA interview of Jose Alminana, a principal at Andropogon Associates, we were reminded that Sidwell Friends School, the Quaker school of choice for the Obamas, the Clintons, the Gores, the Bidens, the Nixons — practically every member of the Washingtonian politocracy, except for the Carters, of course — has in the courtyard of a recently renovated building an artificial wetland. Not merely an eco-ornament, it's a machine that “manages all the wastewater generated by the building, as well as all the rain water that falls on the site.” Typically, wastewater is drained away from via a complex network of infrastructure that requires vast financial resources just for its maintenance, deteriorating just as fast as tax revenues get siphoned off away from public works budgets to General Motors and Bank of America. Miles away from its source, the water then gets treated in an energy intensive process. But it still isn't entirely clean afterwards. Thus, when discharged, it still poses a risk to bodies of water, contributing in many instances to elevated bacterial count and eutrophication. At Sidwell, wastewater is treated on-site, somewhat off-the-grid and using comparatively minimal infrastructure. The treatment cycle begins inside the building in a tank filled with anaerobic bacteria. Among other things, these bacteria help break down solids. The effluent is then pumped outside to a trickle filter before continuing on by gravity to a series of tiered wetlands. To lessen the health risk of contact with students and to mitigate any odor problems, water flows through beneath layers of pea gravel. This planting medium contains phytoremediating plants which, together with the microorganisms attached to their root hairs and to the gravel stones, extract contaminants from the water. After circulating through the system, a process which takes between 4 and 6 days, it re-enters the building and gets collected in storage tank ready for reuse in flushing toilets, among other uses for greywater.   (Site plan: 1. Existing Middle School; 2. Middle School addition with green roof; 3. Trickle filter with interpretive display; 4. Wetlands for wastewater treatment; 5. Rain garden; 6. Pond; 7. Outdoor classroom; 8. Butterfly meadow; 9. Woodland screen at neighborhood edge; 10. Playground. Image by Andropogon Associates.)
Just as with wastewater, managing urban stormwater typically involves massive infrastructure to dispose runoffs as efficiently and as quickly as possible. In addition to being a drain on municipal coffers, such a method during a major storm event increases the probability of a flood as well as its destructive force, endangering human life and property. Moreover, since stormwater isn't allowed to remain where it falls, (1) water doesn't have enough time to infiltrate the soil and seep into waiting, possibly depleted groundwater aquifers, and (2) what may have been clean water undoubtedly gets polluted as it moves through pavements, roads, parking lots and subterranean sewers before going on to pollute rivers, lakes and drinking water. At Sidwell, we get a hint of an alternative stormwater management system: hyperlocal, lo-fi, modular (i.e., multiple implementations would be needed to instigate an appreciable effect on urban hydrology), soft and comparatively cheap.   (Section cut through the 1. tiered wetlands used for wastewater treatment; 2. rain garden; and 3. pond. Image by Andropogon Associates.)
Runoff is directed to a rain garden and a permanent biology pond located downslope from the tiered wetlands used for wastewater treatment. Some of the runoff gets in an underground cistern. During dry weather, this storage tank provides water to the pond. During heavy rains, excess water flows from the pond into the rain garden, simulating the hydrological dynamics of a floodplain environment. Water seeps through the soil and gets naturally filtered.  (Flow diagram of stormwater runoff from pond to rain garden. Image by Andropogon Associates.)
Andropogon describes this project as a “working landscape” but we might prefer calling it an “event landscape,” wherein natural processes are co-opted into a cybernetic amalgam of landscape, architecture, geology, biology and institutional pedagogy. Rather than in the inaccessible subterranean voids and in scientific abstractions, this eco-machine is made to perform out in the open for the edification of the elite who, in their dirty, smelly, real-world engagement with the landscape, will hopefully turn them into great stewards of the earth.
"Precocious teenagers write, direct and star in their inconoclastic first film.
They just happen to be future architect Rem Koolhaas, director Jan de Bont, TV personality Frans Bromet, software tycoon Samuel Meyering and multi-media pioneer Rene Daalder. " Watch here. （source: oh haigh.com)
  
  
 
Switzerland is the country of direct democracy. Citizens have the rights to challenge the government's decisions and may overturn parliamentary decisions. Likewise, it can be not easy to obtain a planning permission in some cases. People might have a say in the final result. As part of the approval process, the municipality can demand the construction of the building’s outline: a framework of steel tubes showing the estimated building height. No chance to fiddle. (source: anarchitecture)
这就是瑞士的民主. 实在而具体.
因为最近有考试,昨天到钟就收工了,刚6点多钟吧,从天后地铁口出来就发现好多人在出站口排队,手里还拿着一些资料,街上人也是特别多.第二天早上7点照常去维多利亚公园跑步,才意识到昨晚开过了每年一度的64纪念晚会.跟着早上看到新闻和报纸都在报导昨晚的情况,有15万人参加,整个一个方形的开场地带,大概能容纳6万多人,全部都满座了.每个人都有一个火烛,祭拜的人从60,70后到80,90后不等,去主席台献花的是90后的2个孩子.整个现场据说没有骚动和状况,大家都很秩序,明珠台播放了2个简短采访,一个是采访60后的一位女士吧,记者问她为什么要来这里,她说是因为很感动,问她为什么感动,她说是因为觉得有这么多人都还在关心这个事件,另外一个是采访80,90后的小女孩,她说觉得很幸运,能生活在香港.接下来就是国际台播放了华盛顿64流放人群的纪念团,美国官方发言,和中国国际代表发言. 都是在说一个事情,美国建议是平反64和释放至今关押的人,中国官方声音很强硬,谴责美国粗暴干涉内政,违反了3个公报声明等等...
作为70后的一员,我很幸运能经历那样一个事件的年代,记得那时候学校停课,好多人上街游行,电视里放的都是暴力镜头,新闻一天到晚就是说学生动乱...一直都不清楚这个事情是怎么样发生的,那个年代,没有网络,没有youtube.....而且很奇怪的是,接下来的20世纪,很快就没有人谈论或者关心这个事情了,不敢谈也不想谈了,父母也不知道这个事情的缘由...我相信所有的国人到今天为止对这个事件都差不多一个理解吧...那就是64就是小部分西方人士戳动的一次大规模学生动乱.....后来好多年...直到看到了<奇迹的黄昏>....直到在美国看到了64的纪实报道和那个著名的tankman....才慢慢开始了解整个事情的始末.....我觉得很奇怪,为什么那么多的画面我以前没见过?.....返工的路上我就一直在想,我们的国人,其实有很多方式去知道这些历史事件的客观真相,虽然绝大部分信息都被屏蔽了(每次重大事件纪念事件发生的时候国内的MSN空间就被屏蔽）,但只要有心,就能发现.而问题是,如果你在这个千面的社会已经做到了衣食饭饱又或者每日都奔波在名利横流之中,还有什么理由去关心这些事件?连饭都吃不饱的时候,经济永远是第一位的.国内的80,90后们,应该都不会有人关心和知道这些可贵的历史了吧.89年,一个尚存普遍血性和道德的年代,也是唯一一次中国知识分子和工人阶级的自我意识觉醒发生的年代,但在绝大部分人心中,它已经远去,也毫不重要.可是,我认为,他们的失败,很重要.从某个程度上来说,正是他们的当日天真的感性的理想的不懈的斗争换取了我们今天的丰衣足食.
我记得你们,曾经热血的青年们.
ATKINS in Mecca's new release. 很震撼，如果你不断想象他一旦建成后的效果，尤其是无数人在里面膜拜的场景。虽然这么巨大的结构，但还是考虑了遮阳和冷却的技术。水冷不太可取，因为蒸发量也很大。 爱在西元前 （转ABBS）
多米诺单元完成了现代建筑最初的还原
以雪铁龙住宅面目出现
距今已近100年
我在柱网间
拷问批量生产的幻灭
纯粹主义机器美学，教义终逃不出帕拉第奥的古典
流动空间、自由平面是谁的宣言
游荡于改良革命间形式和功能的辩证模糊了视线
想起阿道夫·路斯的箴言
我以恩斯特·梅之名许愿
社会住宅像卡尔·马克思大院般实现
当摩登只剩下了冰冷的立面
圣路易斯公寓就成了只能回忆的体验
我对你的爱藏在文脉间
捧读塔夫里的宏篇
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In August this year, a design competition was launched to generate ideas to repurpose Quito's Mariscal Sucre International Airport after its planned closing in a couple of years. According to the organizers, “the coming availability of 126 hectares of space with a flat topography, located in the midst of a consolidated area, which thanks to the decision of the Quito Metropolitan Council, will be transformed into a park, constitutes an exceptional event and a unique opportunity. This leads us to rethink the city and to take advantage of the opportunity to set forth solutions to multiple issues linked to: changes in the use and building capacity of land; improvement in mobility and transversal connectivity; expansion of infrastructure; provision of green areas and public spaces; improvement in environmental conditions, recovery of urban landscapes and environment; improvement of the quality of life of present and future inhabitants of the city.” The first team, then, is Paisajes Emergentes, a studio collective based in Medellin and Bogota, Colombia. Its members include Luis Callejas, Edgar Mazo and Sebastian Mejia. This is their Second Prize-winning entry, in all its linear awesomeness.   (View original version.)Per the competition brief, water has to be central element in the design. After all, the organizers refer to the future park as Parque del Lago. In response, Paisajes Emergentes flooded the 3-kilometer runway to create an “active hydrologic park,” which they then partitioned into 6 programmatically discrete areas.
1. At the north end of the park are wetlands. These bioremediate water redirected from the south end of the park after having run its course through this outrageously elongated pool. 2. Relatively clean water from the wetlands is then used to fill an open air aquarium. The tanks here contain fluvial species from tropical ecosystems. 3. An aquatic botanical garden comes next in this hydrological assembly line. Whereas the faunal variety is showcased in the aquarium, tropical plants are the main attractions here, though both are equally essential to maintain any kind of a robust ecosystem. 4. From there, water moves into circular water tanks, where it is mechanically oxygenated and filtrated. Pedestrian walkways involve people with an infrastructure and a process that are usually hidden from them. Meanwhile, one has to question the placement of these tanks. Shouldn't it be at the head of the line to take care of the heavy duty stuff? Given the park's closed system and the proven ability of constructed wetlands to improve water quality biologically, is a “conventional” treatment plant, of that scale, even necessary? 5. In any case, the water must meet legal standards of quality if they are to fill the public pools and thermal baths. A combination of wind and solar energy is used to heat this aquatic complex. 6. Finally, we come to a recreational lake, where the water is collected in subterranean tanks to satisfy the need of irrigation systems and general maintenance of the park before.   (From the top: sections of the recreational lake zone; public pools; thermal baths; two sections of the treatment plant; an aquatic botanical garden; an aquarium; and finally the bioremediation garden.)
 
(Open air aquarium.) (Heated public baths. Image by Paisajes Emergentes.)
Additional activities are also programmed adjacent to this central pool. For instance, the old terminal building is turned into a convention center. Soft materials and walls are removed, and the remaining forest of columns confine 3 theaters inside hanging gardens.   (The former terminal building.) (A forest of columns.)
There is also an open air aviation museum, where a fleet of planes are allowed to rot in their obsolescence. A wetland fed by waters from the botanical garden is allowed colonize this area. In time, the planes become a sort of Picturesque ruins of the industrial age, sinking into deep mire, crumbling in the wilds.   (An open air aviation museum. Wind turbines and the treatment plant foreground the museum in the bottom image.) (Quito's future Parque del Lago, as envisioned by Paisajes mergentes.)
Meanwhile, it would have been nice to see how the park relates to its context, apart from suggesting amenities the local community may (or may not) need. Graphically, the site looks divorced from the urban grid. All paths radiate out of the terminal building and one parking lot on the other half, then terminate just before they reach the edge of the park. Opportunities for more meaningful connectivity between the surrounding neighborhoods and between the north and south parts of the city seem to have been missed. Paisajes Emergentes, a studio collective based in Medellin and Bogota, Colombia. It is one of the most amazing LAR firm in South America I have ever seen before.
  (Drip Feed, by Thomas Raynaud and Cyrille Berger.)
According to Raynaud and Berger:
Our project for the urban park of Sacca San Mattia consists of reinvesting the island in a Venetian, multi-functional approach to urban planning, in the context of an enlarged metropolitan, tourist centre. The Drip Feed project on the Island of Sacca San Mattia puts into place an above-ground ulva rigida cultivation device that is in keeping with the Greenfuel system. A saprophyte structure that ingests polluted waste from local industry, and conceptually redefines the lagoon’s future water level, without harming the natural state of the island.
 
(Drip Feed, by Thomas Raynaud and Cyrille Berger.)
This process of cultivation would produce the biofuel for the lagoon's transportation and somewhat incredibly, seaweed to feed the tourists. One other byproduct is oxygen, which would be used to reduce the eutrophication of the lagoon caused by industrial run-off. Supposedly, then, one would have to be careful not to reduce it too much or else a new source of algae would have to be found. Since Venice is “codified as a city-diversion,” Ranaud and Berger wanted to program this site of production into a site of consumption as well. The tubes are arrayed trellis-like. Above and below this emerald ground plane are spaces for activities, for instance, outdoor concerts and camping.
 
(Drip Feed, Thomas Raynaud and Cyrille Berger.)
Of course, the entire structure itself would be an attraction, an engineering marvel equal to the Renaissance churches and palazzos just across the lagoon. In fact, if the duo had followed the contours of the hills or better yet, sculpted some imaginary landforms into the structure, it might even compete with the sagging San Marco. more details on Prunded.com.
some works by Hubert Blanz. They are gorgeous. images from Pruned.   (Hubert Blanz, X-Plantation, 02, 2008.)
Danish landscape architects Schønherr Landskab and Adept Architects have won the H+ competition to masterplan a 100 hectare site in Helsinborg, Sweden. Their proposal, called The Tolerant City, was selected ahead of other invited entries by architects including Foster + Partners. The motivation of the jury was clear: “The Tolerant City of all the entries offers the most extensive and balanced range of solutions to the challenges posted by the competition. With its strong blue green connection the structure plan is very convincing and full of development potential. The authors have understood and worked with the specific needs of Helsingborg. The proposal also shows how cultural, provisional, entrepreneurial and sustainable initiatives can be integrated with the area’s physical environment.”
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