Ocean
Membrane |
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This shoreline membrane project is based on three techniques of pre-stressed polycarbonate tube extrusions, which can potentially be mass produced on any scale : helical tubing, loop-knot tubing and reinforced resin mesh. All the systems can extend infinitely. As the standard units are joined with concealed male/female pin joints. The structural fields operate interdependently, as the three systems intertwine excessively, achieving structural stability while maintaining continuous dynamism. The generic structural systems interact with numerous dynamic conditions of tidal (downwells, upwells, rip tides, near-field waves, far-field waves, wave diffraction and refraction, etc.) and wind forces (laminar, strata, turbulent coastal interaction, etc.). The technological experiment has also manifold potential programmatic implications of construction over, on and under water : industrial (water separation for fisheries and for desalination plants), infrastructural (a bridge/tunnel), leisure (fresh water pools, climate controlled pools in salt/cool water). Interface, modulated by contextual flows, the membrane does not separate exterior and interior, but opens an osmotic medium that depends on material conditions of the structural system rather than formal, or optical shape for their operations. |
Museo
Costantini |
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Four diagrammatic systems accumulate to form the volumetric configurations of the Costantini Museum proposal. An urban configuration of two rectangular volumes envelopes the interior space of the museum. The massing of the museum hovers above the ground that flows continuously from Peru Square. Gradual undulations of a continuous ground plane grants pedestrian and public access to the museum. The light ambient space of the continuous landscape surface at ground 0 level accomodates a variety of non-programmed activities, with landscape bands, themed as an instillation of floral and mineral landscapes, selected from a variety of ecological regions of South America. A new curatorial potential is engendered via several circulation loops, entering the museum with ease of access to the bookshop and café. An evolving flow of inter-connected surfaces projects a loop logic of circulation, enabling several possible routes through the temporary and permanent exhibition spaces. The spatial effect is one of heightened lack of gravity, unfolding a new curatorial order. The museum is to enable a cultural space as an extension of the civic space in a tectonic/curatorial site landscape strategy. |
Shanghaï
Residential |
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Cette proposition définit 8 prototypes d'organisation, en coupe, qui relient en douceur l'espace extérieur urbain à l'espace intérieur en créant ainsi un environnement fluide sur plusieurs couches. Le projet développe une organisation nouvelle où un flux aquatique continu d'espaces ouverts paysagers s'articule autour de transitions douces entre les centres de gravitation des territoires privés et publics. Des séquences continues distribuent les espaces résidentiels, commerciaux et de loisirs autour de cours intérieures, en unifiant et diversifiant simultanément le champ urbain. Les volumes bâtis et les espaces ouverts permettent de créer une organisation cohérente par la fusion des catégories de bâtiments, de routes, de parcs et de jardins. L'aménagement paysager relie le plan d'eau au jardin urbain central. Ces deux zones paysagères fluides serpentent perpendiculairement à travers, au-dessus, au-dessous et à l'intérieur de ces deux zones. Un socle urbain accueille des flux piétonniers et cyclables à des niveaux multiples. La circulation routière est interdite sur toutes les surfaces piétonnes publiques et paysagères. Huit accès aux voies de desserte permettent de gérer un flux déterminé de véhicules vers les tours. Une nouvelle liaison de transport public et un nud commercial intégrent le site à la nouvelle station de métro. |
TumbleweedTM
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The initial phase of TumbleweedTM research intends to collate, re-nominate and transform categories of existing historical typologies of furnishing. A broad selection of 20th century furniture sections are sampled as a genetic code in the generation of them. The initial profiles emerge subverted and hybridised via radical exercises of abstraction and reconfiguration. They can be configured in a variety of scales. Extruded polycarbo-nate or aluminium tubing follow trajectories that generally describe highly lineated surfaces achieved from the accumulation of lines. The organization of the tubes follows three directions that converge in structurally necessitated laminations, and re-orient to shift to adjacent laminated tubes. The surfaces of Tumbleweeds provide opportunities to be filled with foam, or sheathed with a loose inflatable skin, or wrapped in a taught skin. Tumbleweeds aim to revise modes of production, consumption and codes of utility of furnishing objects. Devoid of fixed orientation, Tumleweeds roll with force exerted by the user, with differential states of stability. The occupant engages with TumbleweedTM in unfamiliar tendential patterns, always on the verge of finding new ways to use the object. |
O.C.E.A.N. UK Tom
Verebes (1965) Laure
Gimenez (1970) Alexander
Thompson (1967) O.C.E.A.N. est également présent à Helsinki, Oslo, Ljubljana, Cologne et Boston Principaux projets et réalisations 2000
"Tumbleweed™ Furniture" (projet) Bibliographie sélective de O.C.E.A.N. UK 1999
"Hybrid Space : New forms in digital architecture" Peter Zellner,
éditions Thames & Hudson, Londres ; "Urbanisations" Michael
Hensel & Tom Verebes, O.C.E.A.N. UK, Serial Books, Arch. & Urbanism
3 Black Dog Publishing Limited, Londres ; RIBA Journal (fév.);
Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (sept.) ; Wallpaper |