“So what does all of this have to do with architecture?” Jeremy Till
Archive for December, 2007
20-12-07 Cross Studio Review
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sheffield ‘Signature’ Meal
Posted in Sheffield on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sam Taylor Wood
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Interdependencies
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“…interdependencies tend to be complex, and complex systems tend to swing or sway between different states (which reflects the derivation of the word from the Latin pendere – to hang). Interdependence, in other words, implies a condition of radical uncertainty. The future is always pending, and thus open to how we act on our interdependence.” [...]
Decaying architecture…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“A construction that acknowledges its own redundancy.” J.Lloyd
“There is now an increasing tendency to prolong the life of a structure way beyond any possible usefulness.” Cedric Price, 2000
The ice garage…
Posted in Architecture of Decay on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In winter the temperature can drop as low as minus 35 degrees in Jukkasjärvi in the northernmost part of Sweden. In these temperatures it would normally be impossible to maintain a working vehicle unless the garage was heated – a costly business. This season’s Icehotel has found a solution. They have constructed a garage from [...]
Impermanent (Provisional) Construction
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What if we designed with the end point as an empty site (the true end of a buildings life cycle) rather than practical completion? Thereby designing a building which deconstructs itself in a safe, controllable, manageable, and most importantly, usable way. This may include both the natural decomposition of materials – reacting to the environment [...]
Adaptation…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Can a finished city adapt? Can a precribed city adapt?
The Unfinished Map…
Posted in Nowa Huta on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Aside from this being a screenshot of my incomplete Nowa Huta map… is any map ever finished? If Nowa Huta is an unfinished city is it possible to complete a map at all?
Mapping on pause
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
….due to tedious management lectures. Although in developing a social enterprise I stumbled across the idea of food miles linking Sheffield and Krakow. The respective residential masterplan’s in both cities are highly dependent on imports due to lack of provisional space.
