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The Tainan Xinhua Fruit and Vegetable Market by MVRDV takes an often-prosaic part of the food industry and elevates it into a place for the public to experience food and appreciate views of the landscape.
Flamingo Bamboo Pavilion by BambuBuild in Vietnam This bamboo structure was previously designed as an exhibition kiosk before finding new life as a bar and restaurant. Bambubuild — a team of bamboo specialists based in vietnam — was first commissioned to develop plans for a pavilion for vietnam’s international travel mart in 2015. The client requested a unique stand, which could be quickly and easily assembled. Importantly, the brief called for a structure which could be used again and again. To build the pavilion bambubuild selected dendrocalamus, one of the tallest bamboo species, capable of reaching extraordinary heights. To test…
Mountain by Zhaohong Zhang in Anhui Province, China The sculpture ‘Mountain’ by Zhangzhaohong is located in front of the main entrance of Yu’an Tea Valley Park in Lu’an, as the landmark piece for the Tea Valley Park. Yu’an Ditrict of Lu’an is located in the west of Anhui province. Having one of the most essential transportation hub in mainland China, Yu’an connects traffic arteries from East to West, as well as the communication with South and North. The unique Tea culture of Liu’an emerged around mountain Dabieshan, nourished by three rivers – River Pi, Shi and Hang. In order to strengthen and…
H.O.R.T.U.S. XL Astaxanthin.g by ecoLogicStudio in Centre Pompidou, Paris The H.O.R.T.U.S. XL Astaxanthin.g by ecoLogicStudio in Centre Pompidou of Paris, is a large scale, high-resolution 3D printed bio-sculpture receptive to both human and non-human life. The project is conceived by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto (ecoLogicStudio) and developed in collaboration with the Synthetic Landscape Lab at the University of Innsbruck. In the digital era a new interaction is emerging between creativity and the fields of life science, neuroscience and synthetic biology. The notion of “living” takes on a new form of artificiality. This project confronts the dictates of human rationality with the…
Bahá’í Temple by Hariri Pontarini Architects in Santiago, Chile The Bahá’í Temple of South America uses light for its spiritual and design inspiration. Set within the foothills of the Andes bordering the metropolis of Santiago, Chile, it represents the last of eight continental Temples commissioned by the Bahá’í Community. Its nine monumental glass veils frame an open and accessible worship space where up to 600 visitors can be accommodated. Looking up to the central oculus at the apex of the dome, visitors will experience a mesmerizing transfer of light from the exterior of cast glass to an interior of translucent Portuguese…
Sigmund Freud Pavilion by Christoph Hermann in Vienna, Austria The urban site conjures the common architectural dilemma of how to amalgamate the antagonising spatial qualities of the proposed pavilion with those of an unobstructed open space. The project attempts to achieve an architectural assembly whereby various spatial parametric architectural configurations fluently alter to assist the existing qualities of the site (a recreation area) and the demands made on the pavilion (an exhibition space, cafe). The Sigmund Freud Park located in the very center of Vienna operates as the regions main recreation area. Therefore the site conjures the common architectural dilemma of…
Digital Substance The Digital Substance of Oleg Soroko was generated by algorithms in Rhino3D and Grasshopper3D. Russian artist and designer Oleg Soroko of AfterForm explores the new possibilities of geometries and creates forms, modified by digital substance, generated with algorithms in Houdini, Rhino3D, and Grasshopper3D. Oleg is researching how procedural forms can bring a new fresh look to different objects like furniture, cars, architecture, and cloth. His goal is to create a new form of language by procedurally generated structures, based on the different physical processes, mixed and changed by an algorithm. The basic idea of this spiral look algorithm…
The Stingray by ApicalReform respects the greatness of nature and seeks to capture the beauty and movement of stingrays in slow motion.
PA Talks 001 with Han Tumertekin, Parametric Design and Future of Architecture in the Middle East Han Tümertekin is a practicing architect based in Istanbul and principal of Mimarlar ve Han Tümertekin. A firm he established in 1986. He previously worked as an architect in Paris. His work includes residential, commercial and institutional projects primarily in Turkey, as well as in the Netherlands, Japan, United Kingdom, France, China, Mongolia and Kenya.Han was trained in architecture at Istanbul Technical University and completed graduate studies in historic preservation at the University of Istanbul. In addition to his built work, he has been…
After successfully conducting over 50 design workshops worldwide, rat[LAB]EDU (Educational subset of rat[LAB]-Research in Architecture & Technology) is hosting PARAMETRIC DESIGN WORKSHOPS for design students and professionals.