ryue's toledo museum:

more about sanaa and toledo here.

my window

my [previous] window

some fun

new new museum

since the opening day of the new new museum is very soon [dec 01], i am posting the slides from ryue nishizawa's lecture related to this:










more about sanaa at toledo =]

ryue nishizawa

last week there was a lecture from mr nishizawa at gsd.
he talked about few projects some of his own and some of sanaa!
it was a really nice lecture from a very nice architect with lots of humor!
as we already know he has designed together with kazuyo sejima the toledo glass museum which bee-zee has extensively presented!

sociopolis

last week i 've been to the lecture of vicente guallart at mit.
vicente guallart is the man- in this sketch explaining the metacity- behind

sociopolis:


sociopolis is a big research project, where many architects were/ are involved [like himself, toyo ito, r&sie[n], aballos & herreros and more]. it somehow emphasizes the need for an architecture that reflects the social reality of our time. i am not so sure i am convinced by this "new" idea. however i respect the amount of work that has been done and i try to be open to explore the sharing tower part of the architectural scale of this project:

so in this tower of 21.000m2 every floor has a different amount and type[meeting room, laundry, cooking and eating, terrace, living room and others] of area to be shared by the various groups [8-person micro-communities] to inhabit the 250 rental appartments:


according to guallart, people go through phases of ages that they like sharing, for example they like it around 5 or around 60, and not to forget the student dorms...

i am not so sure if this would work or if this is kind of socially right, however its an interesting idea of generating form and not only.


*photos form the lecture and diagrams from here

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i became [eventually] a bike commuter: beautiful scenery to ride back home, non?

MCUS* video [before opening]

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MCUS* is essentially an anti-noise garden in the city.

*MCUS=MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW

MCUS* video [opening]

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*MCUS=MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW

super happy!

apostolos kalfopoulos is giving an interview infront of MCUS*

*MCUS=MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW
**photo by glouizis

gtroza + glouizis

most of you probably know gtroza [on the left]- since he is an active participant in this blog; but bee-zee would like to introduce you to hidden glouizis [on the right] for his highly active participation in MCUS*.
although most of the credits are on me, this installation was a creative collaboration among the 3 of us.
gtroza:

glouizis:

bee-zee:

*MCUS=MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW

MCUS* at the opening

katerina+lois+other people!


*MCUS=MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW
**photos taken by glouizis [1 left], yanakili [1 right],kika [2] and gtroza [3]

MCUS*

MY HETEROTOPIA: GARDEN
The busy and noisy daily life in a metropolis calls for a spot, a heterotope where the tired worker of downtown or the man of the neighborhood can stop for a second, feel the city, the [everchanging] weather and take a break.
Inspired by the naive and picturesque happy moment of a man enjoying life under a plane tree, the MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW [MCUS] is a small city garden growing next to the streets.
The hybrid typology of MCUS is merging the quality of a rich plane-tree shadow by using artificial foliage that absorbs or reflects away the severe urban noise or even transforms it to a rustle or warble sound.
The MCUS is a small breath within the megalopolis where people can escape from the hostile urban environment to smoke a cigarette, eat a snack, chat, meet, talk on the phone, or simply loaf.
Ideally many MCUS will cover the needs of passages for a pause by transforming the noise in the city to sounds of nature.

*MCUS=MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW
**photos by glouizis

heterotopias:: garden

Eleni Kamma > artist
Zenovia Toloudi > architect



this is the room where MCUS* was exhibited.
you can also see the 3 paintings of eleni kamma.

*MCUS=MICRO CEASEFIRE UNDER SHADOW
**photos by glouizis [1] + gtroza [2+3]

updated

the following 9 posts have been updated [thanks to gtroza] with the names of the participants and the official english heterretopia titles, all taken from the exhibition's catalogue.

heteretopias:: hospital

Xenia Themeli > performer
Ebelyn Gabrilou > architect






*photos by gtroza

heteretopias:: prison

Pavlos Nikolakopoulos > artist
Fotis Sagonas > architect





*photos by gtroza