If a study of architecture can be highlighted by their NATURAL PERVERSIONS certainly those are the Americans SITE (with permission of Emilio Ambasz who will dedicate the next post), best known for its crumbling warehouses BEST. for this company also designed three supermarket new clothing for their boring department stores whose main theme was Artificial Naturalization.
BUILDING FOREST 1978. Richmond, Virginia
The construction of these stores was scheduled in a suburban area occupied by a dense forest on one side of the road. SITE attempts to reverse the situation creating a building that looks invaded the forest and not the reverse. He owns this iconic image (retrieved very accurately in a second prize (sorry) the competition for the market Sanchinarro) of natural perversion of entry to a forest that turns out to be another supermarket BEST.
Terrarium Showroom 1978. California.
The location of the supermarket was a mound visible from the highways that surround Los Angeles. SITE thus takes the earth excavated for display in the glass facade of the building the geological stratum that was in place prior to construction, leaving a gap of 20cm between the glass facade and the brick wall. Across the roof of the weeds will grow as it did on the site yet built.
HIALEAH SHOWROOM 1978/79. 5301 West 20th Avenue, Hialeah, Miami.
SITE In this case generated in the facade of a microcosm of plant life in Miami with palm trees and rock Arean between a glass enclosure and the interior brick structure as a min-greenhouse with which the facade of the building becomes a reflection of something that does not exist, and which is flanked by buildings and a large car park opposite. Strikes me as getting SITE transform this effect around the building in a paradise it seems that the vegetation interior part of the reflection of the facade.
Bibliography:
A + U Extra Edition E8612 Site December [1986]
SITE Architecture as Art [1982] GG
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