ONEbeam

MACH

MODERN ART CENTER HAARLEM

“The dimension of sculptures is no longer an issue. A project focused on the dialogue between buildings as well as cultural activities.”

Part of new design for AMC Amsterdam, personal project.

Perspective through stairs

Richter Musikowski, Futurium, Berlin

Arguably, the breadth of contemporary public buildings underlies aesthetic configuration consisting of introvert solid volumes. Mysterious boxes whose entering threshold has never been so clear. Is that a source or a consequence of design process?

Dattner Architects, Spring Street Salt Shed, New York, 2015

Rojkind Arquitectos, Foro Boca, Boca del Rìo, 2017

Luca Fontana, AColor: Adobe Smart-Offices, Interior reuse project, Milan.

A Data Center is a storage space in which potentially never-ending series of racks are contained. Unconventionally it is designed as a mysterious black block inspired by the famous one of Space Odyssey. It well identifies the value of data concealed inside: powerful and fragile, important and unreadable, heavy and ethereal.

What if human beings will be incapable of contrasting their own impact on the world? We need a Plan B, namely, we should begin to build something will handle future predictable events. 

Somebody might say that it’s too early to get worried about this. However, it’s exactly what sustainable acts all over the world are doing. Those are just trying to reduce the impact or more hopefully to erase it, but nobody knows whether it will be sufficient. 

The following project illustrates critically consequences of just a sustainable architecture. By the time we will have converted every building into sustainable one, then, could be too late... Check it out! 

Josh Kayden’s Thesis ‘Beyond Absurbia: A Critique of Sustainable Design and Repetitive Trends’.

Beyond the Shape

“Red is the new Green” / Three Public Outdoor Spaces

1. Hyperflexible Space, Superspatial, Canada, 2017.

2. Stadtlounge, Carlos Martinez Architekten, Switzerland, 2005.

Suspended paths

How can different circumstances lead to the same design principle?

If we take a while to reflect on the aims of these two projects, regardless of their sites and implications, it could be easy to stand the comparison. Let’s say…

“The project presented by Shigeru Ban together with Korean artist Jaeeun-Choi" is located in “a former battlefield, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), where decades of absence of human occupation have allowed nature to regenerate. A suspended park built of light bamboo structures should allow people from both Koreas access to this new environment so that someday people will reunite, just as nature has.” (1)

Is MVRDV’s “Seoullo Skygarden” an urban response to our need of layerize? Namely, to build layers into cities whereas trying to avoid our own "dangerous” habitat and enjoy leisure time.