May 24, 2011
Polyp.LUX by SOFTlab
An installation curated by Nuit Blanche New York as part of Flash:Light 2011 along with the Festival of Ideas for the New City sponsored by the New Museum.
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Polyp.LUX by SOFTlab
An installation curated by Nuit Blanche New York as part of Flash:Light 2011 along with the Festival of Ideas for the New City sponsored by the New Museum.
Explorations Architecture, Flint&Neill and Arup Lighting have won the international competition to design the Negrellisteg crossing over the Hauptbahnhof railways in downtown Zurich. The international competition was held by the City of Zurich with 12 shortlisted teams.
"Metropol Parasol" by Juergen H. Mayer is complete! The scheme aims to transform Plaza de la Encarnacion in Seville, Spain in the city's new centre providing a dynamic programme and public amenities including an archeological museum, bars, restaurants and farmers' market with beautiful panoramic views of the city from the winding public routes on the structure's roof.
The Parasol rises out of the archeological site below as an iconic (yet not overpowering) infrastructure whose mixed-use programmatic intensity and forms create an interesting urban space within the dense medieval fabric of Seville. How people will relate to it and occupy it (socially, culturally and economically) will be the true test of its ambitions. Hopefully it won't end up a dead, empty square like West8's Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam!
Kinetura is a concept design for a tower whose skin dynamically shifts from seemingly solid and impenetrable to light and porous in response to (supposedly) environmental conditions.
As pretty as it may look in the shiny video presentation, I do think the reality of such a system would be visually and sonically much heavier. As with all "kinetic" architectural systems (e.g. Aegis Hypersurface experiments) it is interesting to consider the way that they would contribute to and influence their sonic contexts. Spinning, turning, wizzing electrical motors, or maybe the hissing of steam as it pushes thousands of micro hydraulic pistons in a steam punk version? Could be fun!