tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28695156066585385342024-03-18T21:05:38.353-07:00ArchisensesArchisenseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502500475074534408noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869515606658538534.post-76635378455647586062017-07-27T15:21:00.001-07:002017-07-27T15:21:32.797-07:00Sorry for the belated posting. I have taken on new challenges back in London after spending nearly 10 years in Nottingham. It is now time to move back to London and re-engage with exciting practice, research and teaching activities. Watch this space!Archisenseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502500475074534408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869515606658538534.post-38652718545494047082011-12-06T14:14:00.000-08:002011-12-06T14:14:19.618-08:00Herman Hertzberger to receive the Royal Gold Medal for ArchitectureThe internationally acclaimed Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger has been named today (Tuesday 6 December 2011) as the recipient of one of the world’s most prestigious architecture prizes, the Royal Gold Medal.<br />
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A must read for all architecture students and people alike!" <br />
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Read more about this book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Architecture-Peter-Zumthor/dp/3764374977/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t#reader_3764374977">HERE</a>Archisenseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502500475074534408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869515606658538534.post-29034948716700283142011-10-11T16:07:00.000-07:002011-10-11T16:07:51.328-07:00The Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette<i>“Create a silent dwelling for one hundred bodies and one hundred hearts”.</i>Such was the prayer that Father Marie-Alain Couturier offered up to Le Corbusier whom he regarded as “the greatest living architect”.<br />
More information about this building can be found <a href="http://www.arcspace.com/architects/corbusier/La_Tourette/">HERE</a><br />
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The convent sits in the shadow of a highly-lauded design by <strong>Le Corbusier</strong>, an architectural legend so venerated in his own right that the <strong>Fondation Le Corbusier</strong>,<strong> </strong>the organization devoted to preserving his work, vehemently opposed anything being built on the chapel's grounds. Starchitects like <strong>Richard Meier</strong> joined the opposition, while, as if it were a Pritzker Prize winner showdown, the likes of <strong>Tadao Ando</strong> supported the new convent. <br />
Commissioned by the <strong>Association Oeuvre Notre Dame du Haut</strong>, Piano was ultimately able to erect the building, with a mission to preserve Le Corbusier's structure and finish the job with a mere $14 million, raised through a combination of local government funding, donations, and the sale of the nuns' former convent in Besançon, which their order had inhabited for 800 years. The new structure, barely visible, is nestled into the hillside, greeting visitors with an outward facing zinc and glass façade. More information about this buildin can be found <a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/photos/3490/33991/">HERE</a>. <br />
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<div class="info"><div class="caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Photo by Michel Denancé</span></div><div class="caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can also read </span><a class="contributor" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jonathanglancey" rel="author"><strong><span style="color: #005689; font-size: small;">Jonathan Glancey</span></strong></a><span style="font-size: small;"> 's article about this building <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/25/renzo-piano-convent-ronchamp">HERE</a>. Enjoy!</span></span></div><div class="caption"></div></div>Archisenseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502500475074534408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869515606658538534.post-27981239039110320602011-10-05T09:45:00.000-07:002011-10-05T09:53:12.038-07:00British Pavilion for Shanghai EXPO 2010 by Heatherwick StudioIn September 2007, <a href="http://www.heatherwick.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=57&limit=1&limitstart=1">Heatherwick Studio</a> leading a team that includes Adams Kara Taylor and Atelier Ten won the competition to design the UK Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 Expo. <span id="more-14494"></span>The event, which was held from May to October 2010, was set to be the largest ever. Two hundred countries took part and with over 70 million visitors visited the Expo.<br />
The studio’s concept is an enclosure that throws out from all faces a mass of long, radiating cilia. Their length means they gently sway in response to any wind movement. It rests on its soft forest in an urban field, surrounded by a concrete canopy that resembles unfolded wrapping paper.<br />
The UK, with its millions of gardens, thousands of public parks and garden squares, has pioneered the integration of nature into cities as a way of making them healthier places, in which to live and work. The UK pavilion encourages visitors to look again at the role of nature and wonder whether it could be used to solve the current social, economic and environmental challenges of our cities.<br />
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More information about this project can be found <a href="http://www.dsgnwrld.com/british-pavilion-for-shanghai-expo-2010-by-heatherwick-studio-14494/">HERE</a><br />
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First published in 1996, <i>The Eyes of the Skin</i> has become a classic of architectural theory and is required reading on courses in schools of architecture around the world. It consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocularcentric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and its impact on the experience of the world and the nature of architecture. The second examines the role of the other senses in authentic architectural experiences, and points the way towards a multi-sensory architecture which facilitates a sense of belonging and integration. <br />
Since the book’s first publication, interest in the role of the body and the senses has been emerging in both architectural philosophy and teaching. This new, revised and extended edition of this seminal work will not only inspire architects and students to design more holistic architecture, but will enrich the general reader’s perception of the world around them. <br />
<i>‘Not since the Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen’s</i> Experiencing Architecture <i>(1959) has there been such a succinct and clear text which could serve students and architects at this critical time in the development of 21st-century architecture.’</i> <b>Steven Holl.</b><br />
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You can read more about this book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Skin-Architecture-Senses/dp/0470015780/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1#reader_0470015780">HERE</a><br />
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Andrew Juniper's "Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence" summarizes the concept by saying that "the term wabi-sabi suggests such qualities as impermanence, humility, asymmetry, and imperfection. These underlying principles are diametrically opposed to those of their Western counterparts, whose values are rooted in the Hellenic worldview that values permanence, grandeur, symmetry, and perfection. ... Wabi-sabi is an intuitive appreciation of a transient beauty in the physical world that reflects the irreversible flow of life in the spiritual world. It is an understated beauty that exists in the modest, rustic, imperfect, or even decayed, an aesthetic sensibility that finds a melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things." (pages 2 and 51) <br />
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In order to appreciate Junichiro Tanizaki's 50-page pamphlet "In Praise of Shadows" it helps to keep the concept of Wabi Sabi in mind. While many people would object to Tanizaki's anti-modernist view of art (and call it "reactionary" or "nationalist"), it is in fact a contemporary take on an ancient aesthetic concept that favors obliqueness (shadows) over brightness, weathered naturalness over functional novelty, the crude over the polished, and - ultimately - irrationality over rationality.<br />
Tanizaki's essay contains good examples of Wabi Sabi, and a few peculiarly funny ones that reek of Zen humor: "one could with some justice claim that of all the elements of Japanese architecture, the toilet is the most aesthetic. Our forebears, making poetry of everything in their lives, transformed what by rights should be the most unsanitary room in the house into a place of unsurpassed elegance, replete with fond associations with the beauties of nature." (page 4) To a Western reader this sounds like unmitigated satire. But it is not. Tanizaki is serious about this stuff. In sum, I find "In Praise of Shadows" a very entertaining illustration of an important Japanese aesthetic concept, written by one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century.<br />
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You can read more about this book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Praise-Shadows-Junichiro-Tanizaki/dp/0918172020#reader_0918172020">HERE</a>.<br />
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The subject of the weather has long shaped the content of everyday conversation. The eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson famously remarked ‘It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.’ In <em>The Weather Project</em>, the fourth in the annual Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall, Olafur Eliasson takes this ubiquitous subject as the basis for exploring ideas about experience, mediation and representation. More information about this Project can be found <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/eliasson/about.htm">HERE</a>.</div><div class="text"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Abstract: </strong>Interactive facade technology is a way of designing building envelopes which can change their properties or form in response to various environmental stimuli like temperature, humidity, solar radiation, etc. The objective of this study is to develop a kinetic facade shading device inspired by the principle behind plant movements in nature, to analyse the potential of the system for its practical applications in facades and to examine the factors which determine the efficiency of shading device. The hinge-less bending deformation property of plants is translated into a kinetic shading device, featuring curve line folding mechanism, using flexible polymers. The designed component is tested using ANSYS static structural analysis. The application of verified component in building facades of different geometries is demonstrated using physical paper models and digital models. Further, the possibility of applying the principles of leaf rolling mechanisms in nature to design solar responsive actuator is demonstrated using smart materials. </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1eAniX-NUf1Tvrc00ef1-DzVkbhCknvNOCdHhPqSL5BGdM5jdzL-h0BHlvoSBNSAFuM2ILZ22BLVEH2vrDnN7lPnzOwp-VTQhvM3qv_Q0_gSuusZc6qM4GpzO9Vn0U4ynoOr5uT4hTCK/s1600/Rahul+MC2011+paper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><strong><img border="0" height="99px" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1eAniX-NUf1Tvrc00ef1-DzVkbhCknvNOCdHhPqSL5BGdM5jdzL-h0BHlvoSBNSAFuM2ILZ22BLVEH2vrDnN7lPnzOwp-VTQhvM3qv_Q0_gSuusZc6qM4GpzO9Vn0U4ynoOr5uT4hTCK/s320/Rahul+MC2011+paper.jpg" width="320px" /></strong></a></div><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Raul has won the Best Presenation Award in the MC 2011 Conference. The full paper can be found on the NCEUB website I have posted on the 20th September blog.</span></strong>Archisenseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502500475074534408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869515606658538534.post-80223163999261171862011-09-20T13:21:00.000-07:002011-09-20T13:31:44.881-07:00Light and experience: How can Architectural strategies of manipulating light, create experiential spaces.<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">D<span style="font-size: x-small;">ISHANT </span>J<span style="font-size: x-small;">ARIWALA </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial; font-size: xx-small;">The University of Nottingham <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">ABSTRACT: Light has always fascinated designers, primarily for two basic reasons, first that it brings life to a building or an object by giving them depth and defining form and secondly it creates phenomenon in a space, for the user to appreciate and use the space. The following research focuses on how natural light can be manipulated by architectural strategies to create experiences in a space. The precedent studied here is ‘Chapel of St Ignatius’ by Steven Holl. Computer simulations were used to have quantitative analysis of light in the spaces and based on their inferences, factors like the movement of spectator (user), Glare, brightness, contrast and colours were further discussed and studied as how each of them were used by architectural means for the purpose of daylighting and creating sensations in the space, physical models were also used in the study. The study suggests that by using simple architectural strategies like building orientation and baffles, light can be manipulated to create ineffable spaces. The research is based on one building, but its implication can be used in different buildings depending on the functionality of the building. <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The author of this paper is DISHANT J<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">ARIWALA, a current student of the MArch Environemntal Design Course, Nottingham University. He is going to present his research outcomes in the MC2011 Conference: <b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;">People and Buildings </span></i></b></span><span style="font-size: small;">held at the offices of Arup UK, 23rd September 2011. London. This paper and other 5 papers written by the current MArch ED students can be found HERE: </span><a href="http://nceub.commoncense.info/index.php?n=Network.MC2011ConferencePapers"><span style="font-size: small;">http://nceub.commoncense.info/index.php?n=Network.MC2011ConferencePapers</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<b>Book Review<br />
<i></i></b>Environmental poetry, 22 May 2009 <br />
By <br />
Ken Stevens<br />
This review is from: The Environmental Imagination (Paperback) <br />
"Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know" (Roux). In this book Hawkes really gets to 'know' his buildings and communicates their characters in a poetic and vivid manner. He feels and listens to the spaces, revealing new insights about well-known buildings (by architects such as Corb, Mies, Asplund, Aalto, Kahn, Scarpa, Lewerentz, Zumthor, Siza and Holl). The book is underpinned by archival and research work that delivers new insights, quotes and drawings. Hawkes is as eloquent about pipes as he is about light and texture. In this book Hawkes sees what many have seen but thinks what nobody has thought.Archisenseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502500475074534408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2869515606658538534.post-14490423892402298402011-09-08T08:06:00.000-07:002011-09-08T08:12:00.028-07:00The Poetics of Sacred Light - a comparative study of the luminous environment in the Ronchamp Chapel and the Church in the Monastery of La Tourette<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXbX9Q7GUY9kb1Q-8dfZ_slqjA2oba1-5HP9I8T7Tsp2DEOEyaPCYGRM_QZNi8QhpIhtTAweD30U8iCcOpy-rRNkYpQDl_K4uvZYW_I6PsY_WeBkWK-I1A_pPX5URvFG0Tk_seMZSdG3-/s1600/La+Tourette+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXbX9Q7GUY9kb1Q-8dfZ_slqjA2oba1-5HP9I8T7Tsp2DEOEyaPCYGRM_QZNi8QhpIhtTAweD30U8iCcOpy-rRNkYpQDl_K4uvZYW_I6PsY_WeBkWK-I1A_pPX5URvFG0Tk_seMZSdG3-/s320/La+Tourette+1.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="AbstractTitle" style="margin: 0cm 1cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Abstract</strong></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 1cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In Le Corbusier’s religious buildings, space, light, sound, colour and rhythm are the key architectural elements which introduce visitor to a sense of inner harmony resulting from a state of spiritual transformation. This spiritual transformation can be most vividly experienced in the Ronchamp Chapel and the Monastery of La Tourette. The aim of this paper is to investigate the luminous environment of these two sacred structures through a comparative study which was conducted qualitatively and quantitatively. Much can be learned by studying Le Corbusier’s buildings which were built with daylight as the primary light source. Detailed analysis of his work would provide valuable insights and data which can be applied to the more routine design of the luminous environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><br />
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