AI and Architecture: Are we going to be out of work? _ Silvio Carta + Herbert Wright
New Projects
Like a Stratified Rock
Kobe Port Museum _ Taisei Design Planners Architects & Engineers
Interview _ Takefumi Doi and Kensuke Harada + Herbert Wright
Iconic Rectangular Bayside Forms
M+ Museum _ Herzog & de Meuron
The Observatory, or the Architecture as Vision Machine
The Observatory, or the Architecture as Vision Machine _ MyungSeok Hyun
Climbing Angles to See Dunes
Tottori Takahama Café _ Kengo Kuma & Associates
Cantilevered Tubes with Views
Chuncheon Lakeside Observatory, Thousand Plateaus _ JangHwan Cheon + Emersys
Interview _ JangHwan Cheon + YuMi Hyun
Journey to a Mountain Vista
A Rest Station on a Mountaintop _ Jumping House Lab
From Wasteland to Community Apex
Barranca de San Marcos Tultepec Observatory _ Taller de Arquitectura Miguel Montor
Dwelling Now > House
Truly at Home in the Landscape
Truly at Home in the Landscape _ YuMi Hyun
Home for Solace with Nature
House on the Hill _ HW Studio
Earth-house Coils like a Snake
Chuzhi House _ Wallmakers
Carved beneath Ground
House and Restaurant _ Junya.Ishigami+Associates
Ishigami Takes a Heavy Turn _ Herbert Wright
Contextualizing the Community Library
Contextualizing the Community Library _ Herbert Wright
New Topography in Suburbia
Springdale Library & Komagata Maru Park _ RDH Architects
Floating Library Preserves Landscape
Animu Media Library _ Dominique Coulon & Associés
Interview _ Dominique Coulon + Herbert Wright
Library Transforms Dense Old Townscape
Charles Nègre Media Library _ Ivry Serres Architecture + Beaudouin Architectes
Interview _ Laurent Beaudouin + Herbert Wright
C3 no.425 (2023-3/6)
The Observatory, or the Architecture as Vision Machine
The act of ‘seeing’ entails entering into a network of visual relationships between different objects. A vision machine is the medium and the technique that organizes this network of relationships into a particular form, and often have a significant impact on what and how we see. However, the viewer may not always be aware of its presence because the machine is frequently identified with or integrated with the viewer’s eye or body, effectively functioning as an extension of them. [...]
While a relatively low-rise observatory like the four projects presented here may not provide the drastically different perspectives of an airplane or microscope, its vertical movement up and down offers the opportunity to experience a variety of landscapes from different heights that are typically inaccessible in everyday life. The assemblage of various architectural components, such as structure and envelope, functions as a framework for editing and framing these landscapes. [...]
Truly at Home in the Landscape
Houses inherently interact with the land they are built on, whether nestled within it, molded to sit on top of it, or carved through it. The three houses share the unique feature of having their living spaces located below ground level, but each architect’s approach to the land is distinctive. [...]
House and land are intimately connected. Although the land does not demand anything from us, it remains essential to demonstrate respect towards the land that unwittingly provides a sanctuary for humanity.
Contextualizing the Community Library
Local libraries serve their neighborhood, and few from beyond it are likely to use or see them. They are not like the great central libraries of major cities, whose catchment areas may extend beyond the city, and whose architecture is often designed to attract attention, whether it is a monumental heritage structure or is contemporary and dramatic. But new local libraries are also urban interventions. Rather than appearing as buildings transplanted from elsewhere, they should fit in with their location. Architects can take a contextual approach by basing design on the neighborhood’s existing built environment, street plan, topology or landscape. We see this approach in the three examples we survey. All of them succeed in delivering positive social impact, for example in offering digital resources which can change people’s lives by allowing access to training, education and work, while children’s space relieves family pressures and generates communal togetherness and play. Libraries should be an active social resource for the community, but the libraries we survey go further. They are designed to fit in and enhance the environment where they are. [...]
C3 no.425 (2023-3/6)
The Observatory, or the Architecture as Vision Machine
The act of ‘seeing’ entails entering into a network of visual relationships between different objects. A vision machine is the medium and the technique that organizes this network of relationships into a particular form, and often have a significant impact on what and how we see. However, the viewer may not always be aware of its presence because the machine is frequently identified with or integrated with the viewer’s eye or body, effectively functioning as an extension of them. [...]
While a relatively low-rise observatory like the four projects presented here may not provide the drastically different perspectives of an airplane or microscope, its vertical movement up and down offers the opportunity to experience a variety of landscapes from different heights that are typically inaccessible in everyday life. The assemblage of various architectural components, such as structure and envelope, functions as a framework for editing and framing these landscapes. [...]
Truly at Home in the Landscape
Houses inherently interact with the land they are built on, whether nestled within it, molded to sit on top of it, or carved through it. The three houses share the unique feature of having their living spaces located below ground level, but each architect’s approach to the land is distinctive. [...]
House and land are intimately connected. Although the land does not demand anything from us, it remains essential to demonstrate respect towards the land that unwittingly provides a sanctuary for humanity.
Contextualizing the Community Library
Local libraries serve their neighborhood, and few from beyond it are likely to use or see them. They are not like the great central libraries of major cities, whose catchment areas may extend beyond the city, and whose architecture is often designed to attract attention, whether it is a monumental heritage structure or is contemporary and dramatic. But new local libraries are also urban interventions. Rather than appearing as buildings transplanted from elsewhere, they should fit in with their location. Architects can take a contextual approach by basing design on the neighborhood’s existing built environment, street plan, topology or landscape. We see this approach in the three examples we survey. All of them succeed in delivering positive social impact, for example in offering digital resources which can change people’s lives by allowing access to training, education and work, while children’s space relieves family pressures and generates communal togetherness and play. Libraries should be an active social resource for the community, but the libraries we survey go further. They are designed to fit in and enhance the environment where they are. [...]
