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Brandtrap in Sao Paulo. Je bent dan aardig dizzy als je in je vlucht beneden komt...

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ESCAPE van Ultramoderne, voorstel voor een paviljoen van brandtrappen naar analeiding van de tentoonstelling Souvenirs: New New York Icons bij Storefront for Art and Architecture.

ESCAPE / Speculative high rise / 2017

The brief for this project asked for a model souvenir that could represent present-day New York City. Born of a pragmatic compromise, fire escapes reconcile 19th century housing stock with 21st century safety standards. Every borough has them, and not one begrudges them. They’re even more universal than the Yankees.

When we lived in New York we had a fire escape.  We never once needed to flee a fire, but we used it plenty, its prosaic architecture belying the experiences it made possible.  We grew plants out there, ate dinner, and basked in the views and the late summer sun.  It was an incredible escape from the confines of our apartment.  In this regard, the humble fire escape seemed to open a world of possibilities when other aspects of city life appeared to close in on us. The fire escape became more than a code requirement: it was an aspiration.

Our proposal imagines a new life for the fire escape.  No longer dependent on squat townhouses and tenements for support, it’s free to be itself.  Its filigree architecture multiplies, it spirals upward, and it makes new friends.  It even tries on a new look, the vertical form of a Manhattan skyscraper. Like most New Yorkers, it is happiest when trying to reinvent itself.

Project Team: Po-Ming Chou

ESCAPE was commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture for the exhibition Souvenirs: New New York Icons. The exhibition is open through November 2017.

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De brandtrap in huis ... autisme en structuur

De brandtrap in huis … autisme en structuur

Foto van Avery Lewis op Unsplash

  Soms vertellen ouders me na enkele maanden dat het weer minder goed gaat met hun kind. Dit kan natuurlijk met allerlei factoren te maken hebben, maar het gebeurt toch meermaals dat ik dan, als ik even rondkijk, opmerk dat er bijvoorbeeld geen weekschema meer hangt. Ouders geven dan aan dat het kind ‘er toch niet meer naar keek’.

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