area 112 – beauty of built
presentazione/introduction la bellezza del costruire non coincide con la ricerca della bellezza testo Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Costruire da dietro: l’architettura e l’estetica del ”retro” testo Spyros Papapetros …
La bellezza del costruire non coincide con la ricerca della bellezza
Ensamble Studio, Hemeroscopium house, Lasrozas-Madrid, Spain 2008 – photo by Roland Halbe Architectural planning and the subsequent construction bears witness to an own interior beauty – the most appropriate term would however be felicity – which must …
Costruire da dietro: l’architettura e l’estetica del “retro”
Building from behind: Architecture and the aesthetics of dorsality. Beauty? Yes, by all means [si, certo, ma…], but from which angle? In addition to who or what is being looked at, one has to reconsider the aspect from which the objects of our desire t …
l‘architettura strutturale: dalla ricerca della forma al free form design
Structural Architecture: from form finding to free form design 1. Abstract. The empirical method in structural form finding has achieved world-wide efficiency and recognition as massive building tradition has continued to expand in history. Through dir …
Cidade da Musica
Barra de Tijuca is a new town in Rio de Janeiro’s southern outskirts. It is a long plain that lacks strong architectural events and urban marks. The site is structured by two highways that cross. On the centre of this cross imagined by Lucio Costa, the …
Museum of Kanayama Castle Ruin
The site is located at the foot of Kanayama Castle, known for its beautiful stone wall and stone pavement. It is a community center incorporating guidance facilities for this historic place and a workshop for local residents to learn handicraft and dye …
Gallery Yeh
Enormous urban <canvas> has been attempted through the project Gallery Yeh. Canvas is the wall of the building as well as a piece of experimental artwork that indicates a sign of the upcoming change of the new gallery. If typical canvas can be th …
Serpentine Gallery
How should one make a pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery? Where should one begin? I open my eyes, and where am I? In England. In London. In Hyde Park: a typical area of the English urban space. English gardens, with the famous perfectly mown lawns, wi …
Torres Porta Fira
Within the “European Plaza”, a pair of twin towers now stands as part of the urban regeneration project for L’Hospitalet, the neighboring city to Barcelona. The site is approximately 8km away from Barcelona El Prat International Airport towards the Bar …
The Waterhouse at South Bund
Located by the new Cool Docks development on the South Bund District of Shanghai, the Waterhouse is a four-story, 19-room boutique hotel built into an existing three-story Japanese Army headquarters building from the 1930’s. The boutique hotel fronts t …