This talk is part of the Building Technology Series curated and held by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Jeffrey S. Anderson in the context of their book The Ecologies of the Building Envelope published by Actar Publishers.
James Westcott talks about the history of architectural elements and how technology can boost or diminish its potential.
The CCA Charrette and Hackathon worked in tandem. Young designers’ putting forth ideas within a skillfully framed design charrette generated a wide range of ideas and a creative range of solutions. This in turn served as an inspiration for the Hackathon, which would later be recognized by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Canadian Institute of Planners, and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects with the 2018 National Urban Design Award in the Small or Medium Community Urban Design category.
Investigations of the conditions of seabirds such as murres, puffins and cormorants, create maps based on their migratory routes, and the resting and feeding areas for the birds, where each spot and connection might be crucial for the species’ viability. These beautiful patterns of survival are of course invisible in most other maps, as they are nonexistent as physical imprint, but once traced they give important meaning and awareness to the understanding of the landscape.
Animals has long been domesticated and living alongside with human within the city. However as the city grows and the natural landscape diminished, wilds animal permeated the city boundaries. And as we discussed further, animals that are not bound within the geographical or administrative confines–like the city, are more common than what we would like to think. Come join Prima and Hagar as we discussed the effect of migrating animal and the city.
The urban regeneration zone of Clichy-Batignolles covers over 133 acres of land (54 hectares). Located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, it is one of the most ambitious urban projects currently led by the city. The site bears the historical signs of transportation and logistics activities, facilitated by the train lines leading to the Saint Lazare train station and the beltway nearby. Therefore, the stakes of the project can be summarized by the single idea of designing a densely built environment for this neighborhood, creating the possibility to include this isolated railway site into a very much needed urban continuity.
Life after the Covid-19 outbreak will never be the same. We are at the beginning of the end, waiting for a new beginning. Planet Earth will break its cooperation agreement with mankind unless we urgently revise our behaviour.
Gigantic Interior
In the summer of 2014, construction was started in the Nevada desert on what was announced to be the largest building in the world when completed. With a footprint of 10 million square feet, the building was to be named the Gigafactory, a production facility to provide lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and home energy storage for the Tesla company.[1] With its 1.9 million square feet completed at the time of this book’s publication, the manufacturing floor of this already massive factory is a landscape for the automated workforce of machines and robots that sits within the vast desert landscape of the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, the largest industrial park in the United States. Thinking of this colossal factory and many other giant air-conditioned interiors—of fulfilment centers, data centers, self-storage buildings and assembly plants—sited mostly in the unpopulated areas of the low-human-density hinterlands, one can contend that their interior space has swallowed the earth.
The new building for the residential care center at Parkhof replaces an existing elderly home consisting of two parts, one from the 1960s and the other from the 1990s. Neither building meets present-day standards and expectations. The earlier building has been demolished. The more recent structure, the “Q-building”, will be refurbished and used as an office building for the client, the social services agency of Machelen (OCMW).
This talk is part of the Building Technology Series curated and held by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Jeffrey S. Anderson in the context of their book The Ecologies of the Building Envelope published by Actar Publishers.
Lydia Kallipoliti talks about political, social and economic implications determining enclosed environments and how they construct the collective thinking of building envelopes.
In the 1st session from Nature of Enclosure, Jeffrey S. Nesbit is joined by Lydia Kallipoliti and Antoine Picon to discuss the nature of enclosed worlds.