Do You Have To Cook Summer Sausage

/ Settings hostile [I] 1971 Arctic City [Frei Otto / Ove Arup / Kenzo Tange]


The two common features of any utopia (as Jameson its Archaelogies of The Future, unconscious father inspired this blog) are: a general and systematic closure law. The closure law is one parameter that allows its existence to create a differentiation in the current system (for Thomas More and his Utopia generate the closure law, for which a fictional island Moro looking where to start from scratch).

The search for resources in environments as hostile as the Arctic creates a good starting point for the development of climate utopias. In this case, Frei Otto (structural design) joins Kenzo Tange (urban planning) to design a continuous envelope around 3Km2 transparent surface (which had been built in a smaller size in the U.S. pavilion of Osaka70) under which manages a model of low-density city like a small city garden pool.

This project is the culmination of the testing of Frei Otto on air-conditioned environments from large textile coverings.

Bibliography:

Architectural Design [June 1971]

urban structures for the future [1972] Justus Dahinden

Women Panty Hose Wrestling

SCALE CHANGE / CHANGE OF THINKING giant Sprays 1973 [Haus-Rucker-Co]



a nod [postmodern] to spray Hans Hollein, Haus-Rucker-Co graphy raise two water tanks in Marne-la-Vallée (in a competition for deposits and bring them a new face image to the city) as two giant environmental sprays. Thus, one of the options for the future, the control / perversion / environmental modification as architectural approach becomes an icon and remains a field of exploration projecting to become the iconic image.

Scaling / Exchange thinking. The objectification of ideology.

leave also images of some of the other interventions ...

Bibliography:

Superarchitecture. Le Futur de l'architecture 1950-1970

Domus No. 528 [1973]

Need To Cut Sweetness In My Chili

1956 The Revolution? of Plastic Houses in popular magazines such as homes of the future American

Between 1955 and 1956 showed three prototypes of housing built with materials plastics that attracted the interest of American popular magazines, for its ability to generate options for "future" for the construction of affordable housing in series with a great capacity to transport ... 1955 Monsanto House of (built in 1957) as the option for the future of Disney, Tomorrow Land and its subsequent EPCOT (cited in a previous post AF) that follows the center of the first versions of Fuller's Wichita House, the All Plastic House (1956) prototype designed by Ionel Schein for a furniture fair in Paris and whose evolutionary model may be the son of some of the projects of the last Le Corbusier (and later father of Guy Rottier) and presents the honor of being the first home built entirely with plastic materials and House of the Future [1956] of Smithson, built for the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, which takes the traditional courtyard houses creating a perimeter that is orthogonal aggregation capability and a fully molded interior geometry as the material allows (with much integrated furniture and also molded plastic). This is a House? Asked in the article by Mechanix Illustrated September 1956 in which it appears ...

1955/1957 Monsanto House [Hamilton + Goody] Popular Science Apr 1956 / Mar 1956 Popular Mechanics

1956 All Plastic House [Ionel Schein] Popular Mechanics Ago 1956

1956 The House of the Future [Alison + Peter Smithson] Mechanix Illustrated Sep 1956

Bibliography:

Popular Science Apr 1956

Aug 1956 Popular Mechanics

Mar 1956 Popular Mechanics

Mechanix Illustrated Sep 1956

How Many Inches Can You Lose With Preparation H

INTERACTION CENTER 1972/1977 [Cedric Price] Hybridization of programs / Flexibility / Components supported as an option for future

As apparent from what might have been the Fun Palace ... this neighborhood arts center designed by Price is truly an option for the future not only in terms of construction of unfinished structures through compatible components (trusses Catalog / windows Caravan / containers equipped plug in) but the versatility of application programs within a single cultural "structure" and joint programming with the people of the neighborhood. His disappearance even justify theories Price around the expiration of the buildings and the obsolescence of materials ... I leave here the transcription of some the words of Price on this "building" taken from an article published in the journal Domus No 581 of 1978 ...

"The order I received was for a building other than a building ..."

"Many architects come from fatigue, to want to give a three-dimensional shape too fast to what is social welfare. Health centers are less important than health. "

"Architecture is still too foreign to the social aims truer, deeper. I would like it was less, so I'm an architect. "

InterAction And what about the Centre as an example of "architecture without quality" and flexible megastructure that invites comparison with the icon of the moment, the Centre Pompidou?

"As I am a generous person of limited intellect, I like to think that the Inter Action can have fun and also work to infinity all those people who like this type of exchange. There is a possibility building expansion in unfinished areas and sides. What I like is that this building is not the image of a future potential but is now demanding that people handle it. "

Bibliography:

Domus No. 581 [1978]

November RIBA Journal 1977