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 Concrete Is Beautiful

Gio Ponti : Villa Planchart  1953-1957

One of the most beautiful houses designed by Gio Ponti is Villa Planchart for Anala and Armando Planchart in Caracas, Venezuela.

The design process between Milan and Caracas was documented through drawings acompanied with significant annotations related on views, landscape framing and circulation diagrams where spatial design was meant through hierarchy by activities organized around a courtyard, rooms with large heights and views throughout the inside and outside the house, at every angle. The Villa was built on the top of a hill —later called 'el cerrito'—with concrete slabs as main structure  and colorful ceramic tiles for interior finishes. 

ground plan | schemes

views from main floor | schemes

views from first floor | schemes

first floor interior view through courtyard

courtyard with ceramics design by Fausto Melotti.

check out a model of the Villa showing the volume over the valley here +

Fortunately, the house preserves as the original design and takes part of the Venezuelan architectural heritage. 

Images: 

Photography: Paolo Gasparini, Miguel Braceli

Plans: Original Plans of Gio Ponti / Planchart Foundation

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Fictional Landscapes

Steven Holl

1. Gymnasium-Bridge Project, New York, New York, exterior Perspective, 1977

2. Gymnasium Bridge, project, New York City, New York, Plan, site plan, exterior perspective, 1977

3. Gymnasium-Bridge, project, New York City, New York, exterior Perspective, 1977

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Organic Architecture

Francois Delarozière 

Designer, Scenographer and Director, his impresive living architectures and live productions are a total inspiration for us.

Francois Delarozière is an incredible machine designer, he created living architectures for street theathre caring all the details. Through his drawings Francois represents the insides of machines and makes their architecture visible, also get the feel about how they have been made, with cogs and pulleys.

He created with Pierre Orefice and Alexandre Chémétoff, ‘Les Machines de l’Île’, located on the Western point of Nantes Island, a cultural and touristic facilities inaugurated in 2007. 

His latest creation, “Long Ma Jing Shen”, stages a Dragon-Horse created for the 50th anniversary of Franco-Chinese diplomatic relations in Beijing in 2015.

On the video below Francois, as artistic director of the company La Machine, presents his book "Bestiaire, Machines et Ornements", published by Actes Sud, available at his shop.

image1. Le Arbre aux Hérons. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.

image2. Le Manege Carré Senart. Les cuatre Boeues. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.

image3. Le Serpent des Mers. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.

image4. Les Araignées Savantes. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10. 

image5. L' Attelage des Mers. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.

image6. Le Dragon. Francois Delarozière. Section. Esc 1/10.

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