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

Theatre for Magicians | Sara Shafiei

November 9, 2015 by bg-martin

Theatre for Magicians | The National Botanical Gardens, Rome, Italy Sara Shafiei The Bartlett, London The project attempts to portray how magic and illusion can become an inherent part of the architectural design, which foregrounds the engagement of the user in the building. The proposal begins by exploring how Harry Houdini’s ‘Vanishing Elephant’ trick is manifested within Albrecht Dürer’s ‘cone of light and vision’ to merge showmanship, optics and illusion.The resultant building, a Theatre for Magicians, is located in the […]

Categories: Academia, Modelmaking • Tags: academia, modelmaking, Sara Shafiei, Saraben Studio, The Bartlett

‘du Fil de Fer’ | Isabelle Bonte

November 7, 2015 by bg-martin

‘du Fil de Fer’ Isabelle Bonte Whimsical models isabellebonte.book.fr

Categories: MAKING, Modelmaking • Tags: making, maquette, modelmaking, sculpture

DrawDEL Strands | Nikita Troufanov + Gonzalo Padilla

August 23, 2015 by bg-martin

DrawDEL Strands: An Experiment in the Oscillation of Materiality Nikita Troufanov and Gonzalo Padilla SCI-Arc Los Angeles, California | 2010 “Representation can be thought of as the place of articulation between architectural practice and theory. It is precisely in such moments of change where critical thought and new theories are produced and practice is radically restructured. What makes representation a crucial field in the understanding of architecture is the mediated character of representation itself. — Stan Allen DrawDEL Strands // […]

Categories: Academia, Fabrication, Modelmaking • Tags: academia, fabrication, materiality, modelmaking, SCI-Arc

Child’s Play | architects make 21st-century doll’s houses

August 22, 2015 by bg-martin

Child’s Play | Architects make 21st-century doll’s houses From Elvis’s treehouse to an inflatable jack-in-the-box, 20 of the world’s top architects and designers – from Zaha Hadid to David Adjaye – have created a doll’s house for the 21st-century child. They will be shown at Bonhams in November then auctioned off, with all proceeds going to the disability charity KIDS via: theguardian.com

Categories: Archibuzz, Modelmaking • Tags: modelmaking

Casa dos Cubos | EMBAIXADA Arquitectura

April 21, 2013 by bg-martin

Casa dos Cubos by EMBAIXADA arquitectura | Tomar, Portugal

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: architectural model, casa dos cubos, EMBAIXADA arquitectura, modelmaking

Barnsley Masterplan | Will Alsop

December 1, 2012 by bg-martin

Masterplan for Barnsley | Will Alsop | 2003  

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: architecture, Barnsley masterplan, master plan, modelmaking, Urban Design, Will Alsop

Jyvaskyla Music and Art Centre | OCEAN North

November 27, 2012 by bg-martin

Jyvaskyla Music and Art Centre by OCEAN North | Finland Laser-cut of the design study   more about this project: Jyvaskyla Music and Art Centre

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: laser-cut, modelmaking, OCEAN North, OCEANNorth

City Tower | Louis Kahn

November 7, 2012 by bg-martin

City Tower by Louis Kahn | 1957 The City Tower, designed by Louis Kahn with Anne Tyng in Philadelphia (1952–1957) and never realised, is a geodesic skyscraper, stabilised by tetrahedronal concrete floors.

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, citytower, louiskahn, modelmaking