OCEAN // Jyväskylä Music and Art Centre

November 14, 2015 by bg-martin

OCEAN NORTH’s design for the Jyväskylä Music and Art Center commenced with the competition entry produced in 1997 [Phase 01] and continued with redesigning the project for the Venice Architectural Biennale 2004 [Phase 02]. Phase 02 retains the principle design ideas of the competition scheme, while re-defining its geometric, spatial, material and ambient articulation. The project aimed for a differentiated event space and an extension of the landscaped town square into an acoustically animated interior landscape that caters for formal […]

Categories: Design, Landscape Architecture, Modelmaking • Tags: Achim Menges, design, Landscape Architecture, modelmaking, OCEAN

HygroSkin by Achim Menges

November 13, 2015 by bg-martin

HygroSkin – Meteosensitive Pavilion by Achim Menges Permanent Collection, FRAC Centre Orleans, France, 2011-13 Achim Menges in collaboration with Oliver David Krieg and Steffen Reichert “It is a question of surrendering to the wood, then following where it leads by connecting operations to a materiality, instead of imposing a form upon a matter” — Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari The project HygroSkin – Meteorosensitive Pavilion explores a novel mode of climate-responsive architecture. While most attempts towards environmental responsiveness heavily rely […]

Categories: Design Research, Installation • Tags: Achim Menges, design research, environment, installation