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Sol Lewitt:  “Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes”

Transparency, Renewable Energy, Modularity 

In the “Neue Stadt” project (1961-1964) some of the recurring themes of the German architect are already visible, i.e. the dialectic engaged between the rooms and the whole house as that of a group of houses in a city, the choice of monumentality  for a housing complex, the volumetric complexity managed through a rupture of the elements in smaller scales.

- New Dimensions 

Open-endedness of types, the interactive subject of a type is the city itself, considered as a whole, whose nature is induced from its architectural elements. third typology- a city that provides the material for classification, and the forms of its artifacts over time provide the basis for recomposition. 

The project evolved from the investigation of the origin of form and suggesting canonical architecture as a database of formal information.

One could perhaps define new levels of interaction and integration within artificial and natural ecosystems 

Rachel Duckhouse is a multi media artist who lives and works in Glasgow, UK. Her practice is based on the deep observation of patterns in natural systems and in human behavior, from the micro to the macro scale. Her etchings, screenprints, lithographs, watercolors and drawings on paper are the product of this research and of the artist’s dialogues with specialists in different fields, (engineers, scientists, biologists). Her work is an endless attempt to represent flows, fluctuations and relationships by means of lines and surfaces while trying to preserve the cleanliness and immediacy of the resulting images.

The two-storey houses, or cell cubes, are designed for sixteen people each and present a large common service space in the form of a central cross while the private rooms are located at the corners in groups of two. The square is the geometrical principle which organizes the whole design, from the outline of the city to the layout of the single rooms. It also leads the logic of the potential expansions of the whole city, which can be augmented through the addition of other squares, making it an open system.