Uneven Growth

Galerie D.I.N. is an architectural proposal for art exhibitions in public spaces. It questions the place and accessibility of art in the public sphere, and how urban design can promote new forms of diffusing art.

Urban Foragers {house of eco-drifters}

  The Urban Foragers is a series of wearable architectures that transform the confining structure of the hoop skirt into portable shelters and gardens. The Urban Forages are designed to support a flexible way of living that can be adapted to a variety of climate changes. Each outfit promotes growing one’s own food supply, from preserving seeds to planting herbs or harvesting local edible plants, which are integrated into the walls of the skirt. The pivotal design element is a thin wooden base with casters, which can be converted into a cart to facilitate traveling via public transit.

SAN ANTÓN PAVILION 

Cuenca - Spain | 2015

It is a temporary facility that raises the reappropriation of public space in disuse of Barrio San Anton in the city of Cuenca in Spain, through new protocols reprogramming of the territory, taking into account citizen participation, the daily processes of the inhabitants neighborhood, existing tissues and human relations that are generated on-site and major assumptions for the design exercise.

It is a project that comes from the hand of neighbors and social organizations that make life in the district through international residency program for artists Permanencias performed from September to December 2015.

A new landmark on the landscape, a piece that invites the hiker to climb the neighborhood, to meet its people and its neighbors provides new living spaces and recreational arises.

Architecture : MAAN | Maximillian Nowotka 

Wunderbugs is an interactive architecture fully dedicated to the human-insect relationship, curated and designed by Francesco Lipari and Vanessa Todaro. The entire pavilion was realised in wood combining traditional techniques and computer-numerical control machines. Inspired by the typical shapes of the Roman Baroque, hybridized with geometries that the insects are capable of producing, the pavilion was seen as an aggregation of repetitive and simple elements. Wunderbugs can assume infinite configurations thanks to its modularity realised through the careful combination of 1104 arc modules, 92 rhombuses which allow to alternate and adjust the pavilion’s fullness or emptiness, and 198 knots in wood that regulate the circular or curvilinear progress. Wunderbugs’ indisputed protagonist is the world of insects. Within Wunderbugs six spherical interactive ecosystems are equipped with Arduino and sensors for motion, humidity, temperature and intensity of sunlight. This data, combined with the information collected by a network of ultrasonic sensors able to detect the position of the visitors, is used to modulate in real time the Wunderbugs musical composition implementing a complete integration between architecture and environment. By playing with technology, the architecture and pavillion’s geometry create an outdoor room equipped with an audio installation in which the music makes through combining nature and human an inseparable (and abstract) relationship with the world’s harmony.

Further infromation

http://www.oflstudio.com/works/wunderbugs/

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URBAN ACTIVATORS - Staging TEDx in a Self-Made Neighborhood

Wover, (the woven rocker) is a dynamic rocking structure that invites strangers of all ages to relax and play. The project was a collaborative design / build for the 2014 Seattle Design Festival: Design in Motion, a weekend-long event in Occidental Park. The design was based on two guiding principles: juxtaposing architectural tectonics with textile production methods and the theme, ‘Design in Motion.’ 

Tea House in Beyoglu

The image shows the tactics of a tea house located on a street that is rarely used by the public in Beyoglu, İstanbul. The tea house fights to live and attract customer for itself.

As a first tactic, it starts with small additions (small pillows) on the pavement.

Second, after a while it makes them bigger and more comfortable pillows.

Third, small wooden tables and chairs take the place of pillows.

Finally, they invite street artists to play and sing.

PUSHING FOR CHANGE

Improving Livelihoods on the Streets of Kisumu

Kisumu is Kenya’s third largest city, and growing fast. But due to a lack of available employment in the formal sector, many newcomers turn to the informal street trade to earn a living. The modest stalls that line the streets of Kisumu are considered an eyesore by the official city. The local authorities aim to relocate every street trader to formal markets.  However, even if the local authorities succeed at relocating the current street traders there will be more tomorrow.

The “Pushing for Change” project proposes a different approach. With a participatory approach, prototyping and the investigation of the informal street trade in Kisumu as a base, the project deals with the creation of street stalls and furniture. The aim is to change the official mind-set about the street vending and about the streets themselves. Can a street be more than a transportation channel? What can Architects and planners do to improve and create employment on the urban streets? What small changes and strategies do we need to improve life and livelihoods for street vendors and informal traders in an African context?

This is a project by Tove Wennberg, Karen Høstmark & Andreas Møller Nielsen, three Master students of Design for Sustainable Development at Chalmers University of Technology. The project was a part of the Reality Studio, which is carried out between Gothenburg, Sweden and Kisumu, Kenya in spring 2015.

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The Building Society is a speculative proposal addressing the barriers to engagement with the built environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miCG83DEXag&spfreload=10

The animation shows how to grow engagement with the built environment and equip people with the knowledge they need to better interact with it.

“URAYCAMUY ” [Going up and down in Quechua]

 The XII Latin American Social Architecture Student Workshop, Bolivia 2015, brings together students and architects of different nationalities that seek to generate social intervention in the Valley of Cinti in Camargo. The purpose of this workshop is to foster authentic construction and maintain local identity.  

The team agreed that the purpose of the intervention should be to recover the space, to encourage recreational activity, which contributes to both physical and mental development, and to create a space with features that characterize its context and recover local identity. Contact with the community was constantly sought to strengthen the role of the architect as an intermediary between citizens and the built environment, the city. In addition, it was suggested that the work should be carried out with the support of the community with ideas, materials and equipment, which allowed them to integrate the construction work, fostering the re-appropriation of their public spaces.

 Students developed analysis exercises in the urban context and with the community’s help through site visits, identification of materials and vegetation of the area, interviews, discussion and consensus. The final proposal for the intervention was generated from these exercises. A reinterpretation of the natural landscape of Camargo brought to the built urban context led to the construction of a structure using reeds as the primary material. These reeds were placed randomly and were united and strengthened by wire leading to the creation of structures with different shapes, height and shadow effects. Wood, stone and vegetation of the area were added to the reeds as complements.

By being in contact with both the community and the intervention area the students identified the space as a potential generator of different uses throughout the day. In a first stage, students challenged the locals by transforming the transition space of City - Cemetery into an outdoor cinema. In a second stage, the challenge was to intervene in public spaces, in this case the central market; there was a presentation of the concept to check the people’s reaction. Once again, the response was positive — the locals identified themselves with the material used (the reeds) and praised the dynamic aspects of the proposal, as well as the shadows created by this structure.  “URAYCAMUY” emerges as an intervention in the built environment, which generates and regenerates flows and new dynamics. With a renewed image that is functional, integrated into the context, identified in different parts of the city, as well as permeable and coordinated with other sectors, this proposal not only reinforces the recovery of the character and use of space but also fosters the appropriation of space by the people of Camargo.

Video: https://vimeo.com/126310696

Work Team

Students from Workshop – TSL 2015| Valle de Cinti, Camargo - Bolivia

#2 Summer Social Facilities For Bank of Municipalities Signs of abandoned camp area / Transmissivity between two bay

Renascent Convertible Complex Tuzla is an old summer district of Istanbul and will be a popular place again because of the student population, easy access and the relocation of the dockyard. The project area connects two bays, which are the closest bays to one another, and an old camp of municipalities on the south bay of the area. Because of a rising student population, Tuzla needs dormitories and activity areas for students. These places can also be used by other people who come from city center when students are on holiday or internship. During school times, all activities can be used by both students and guests. Signs of old buildings of the municipalities bank camp and existing trees are preserved as a path. These signs create units on south part of the area and this geometry continue from south to north by using lines. Buildings parallel to bays are raised in order to not disconnect the two sides of the road.

#1 Arsenal

#1 Arsenal Multilayering / Frame Networks / Lightening Tuzla Public Gathering Space Child & Youth Center Tuzla arsenal has been a symbol and key point of Tuzla and its transformation for many years. In our future projection, the arsenal, swallowed by the city of Istanbul, will be moved out of the city and the area will be open to public use. The old Tuzla arsenal that is now used as a public gathering space is an attraction point full of multi-functional structures and introduces itself in an environmentally friendly attitude: Steel columns, beams and railings are all colored in bright colors. The area my project focuses on is the child and youth center close to the Sakızadası region. Placed between natural protection area Sakızadası and Marmara Sea, the bridges, as the main structural elements of the project, aim to strengthen the relationships between the users and the site. The bridges form a lateral network of frames imitating the vertical frame system of the existing hangar and form space from time to time. The railings are formed by a truss system and the pathways offer picturesque walkways.

#1 Arsenal

future terrain / extensions of plane Linear Dispersed

For years one of the Tuzla most important identities was the Tuzla shipyard zone. With a growing city, the shipyard area is now part of the city. Because of this, it is expected that the shipyard will be moved out of the city.That will make the area “vague.” When we move the shipyard from the region, this will open a long coastline directly connected to the sea. After moving back to the area, it is possible to settle in a linear direction, maintaining the existing relationship with the sea and the development direction. This differentiated settlement is added to region’s already attractive characteristics. The area was established as an extension between residential areas and the sea. To distribute the linearity, “juggler” areas incorporate transportation to create non-linear areas to break the linearity and at same time bring them together.

Mapping is a process of understanding, a chart of what is there, and a tool for recording and visualizing the information. Once this information has been collected, local values and perceptions cannot be forgotten easily and it will be possible to create credible visionary frameworks for the regeneration of the area.

This studio is based on the proposals that ones can create architecture utilizing the concept of re-use / improvement / reflection / renewal through analysis and future predictions of projections on Tuzla.

Projects includes 4 main areas in Tuzla;

#1 arsenal Tuzla arsenal is one of the largest one in Turkey. The projects in this area focus on future conditions and try to read the industrial heritage of the old arsenal.

#2 summer social facilities for bank of municipalities The south part of Tuzla has been abandoned and closed to the public for 10 years. We are looking for a new habitation that can recover the area for the future by remembering the old summer resort.

#3 water treatment center The industrial center owned by Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration is located in an important junction point of Tuzla that can produce new programs for improving the future of Tuzla.

#4 city center this area was also the old city center and the starting point of growth of Tuzla. We search for new users of of the district and future scenarios.