− Smart Highway _ Studio Roosegaarde
− Scene Sensor _ James Murray + Shota Vashakmadze
− Waller Creek _ Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Breaking the Stereotype
Breaking Stereotypes of Living _ Silvio Carta
− Glass House for Diver _ Naf Architect & Design
− Atelier-Bisque Doll _ UID Architects
− Toda House _ Office of Kimihiko Okada
− Atelier Tenjinyama _ Ikimono Architects
Ground Folds
In the Folds of the Ground _ Marco Atzori
− HanSeong BaekJe Museum _ G.S Architects & Associates
− Monteagudo Museum _ Amann – Cánovas – Maruri
− Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center _ Weiss/Manfredi
− VanDusen Botanic Garden Visitor Center _ Perkins + Will
− Emblematic Monument _ TEN Arquitectos
Architecture and Recipro-City
Decoding the Vernacular: An Architecture of Reciprocity _ Nelson Mota
− Apartments Buso _ dmvA Architecten
− Pattern Housing _ IND
− Qingpu Youth Center _ Atelier Deshaus
C3 no.340 (2012 #12/12)
Breaking the Stereotype
Breaking Stereotypes of Living _ Silvio Carta
Houses are often designed within an invisible box reflecting design habits, local regulations or handbooks indications. To escape “normal” results often becomes an added value to the project and it is in general considered positively by the final users of the house. But what are the extents of a “regular” house project? And what does differentiate it from a “extravagant” project? Moreover, the work -both professional and intellectual- of a designer consists of a continuous challenge between the fact of not taking anything from granted about his/her design and yet following (design, constructive, normative) rules. One may argue that a good direction is a middle position between the two poles. Others can raise the question of interpretation (of design habits and rules) as solving tool for architects. Perhaps the question can be reformulated by tackling the cliches that frame our “living spaces”. The image of the common house is often conceived by following a fixed or oversimplified idea of living. Before the containing space, the actual activity of living (in all its varied manners) should be questioned and more carefully considered. People conduct their lives dynamically, in a continuously changing balance between paradigms and models from the past, current needs and future ambitions. Therefore, if the act of living is being reconsidered and reestablished everyday, according to the change of times, why should the house –accommodating the living within physical boundaries– be anchored to a preconceived idea?
The presented projects display a range of possibilities of dealing with the main idea of the house and its stereotypes, offering clear reconsiderations of living as not fixed human activity.
C3 no.340 (2012 #12/12)
Breaking the Stereotype
Breaking Stereotypes of Living _ Silvio Carta
Houses are often designed within an invisible box reflecting design habits, local regulations or handbooks indications. To escape “normal” results often becomes an added value to the project and it is in general considered positively by the final users of the house. But what are the extents of a “regular” house project? And what does differentiate it from a “extravagant” project? Moreover, the work -both professional and intellectual- of a designer consists of a continuous challenge between the fact of not taking anything from granted about his/her design and yet following (design, constructive, normative) rules. One may argue that a good direction is a middle position between the two poles. Others can raise the question of interpretation (of design habits and rules) as solving tool for architects. Perhaps the question can be reformulated by tackling the cliches that frame our “living spaces”. The image of the common house is often conceived by following a fixed or oversimplified idea of living. Before the containing space, the actual activity of living (in all its varied manners) should be questioned and more carefully considered. People conduct their lives dynamically, in a continuously changing balance between paradigms and models from the past, current needs and future ambitions. Therefore, if the act of living is being reconsidered and reestablished everyday, according to the change of times, why should the house –accommodating the living within physical boundaries– be anchored to a preconceived idea?
The presented projects display a range of possibilities of dealing with the main idea of the house and its stereotypes, offering clear reconsiderations of living as not fixed human activity.
