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“Museum of the Extinct Seas” by Amir Hariri
Aestatix
My ongoing theme of fatalistic inevitability in the face of existential threats is approached from a compromised angle: what happens when the devastating outcome of a catastrophic event can be forecasted? And does this understanding help or, counterintuitively, hinder our response by mythologizing this inevitability? By juxtaposing the effects of global warming with our tolerance for pandemics and war, the project will confront the viewers to awaken their sense of urgency.”
“Towards a new Venetian landscape – An inhabited linear infrastructure” by Nicolas Coppieters and Gabin Sepulchre
Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve
Detail
“Venice being one of the most famous city in the world, we are all aware of its biggest problems : the perpetual flooding and its exposure to mass tourism. But there is another considerable problem in Venice and its lagoon : an ecological crisis. During a year, we tried to find a solution to solve all its problems by creating an inhabited linear infrastructure. Its foundations were created like a dam to control the “acqua alta” phenomenon, its first floor used for the new seaweed production, and the upper floors to welcome workers and Venetians fleeing their overcrowded city.
We reviewed a lot of ancient linear cities to create a new ecological one (in its conception and purpose). We tried to find the right balance between industrialization and human happiness. Our handmade drawing, summarizing a full year of work, was made with the Pointillism technique and was 1788mm x 841mm.”
“The Outskirts of Tianjin” by Brent Haynes
“Forests Reign in the Past” by Alan Power
Alan Power Architects Ltd
The title, which is taken from Gaston Bachelard’s ‘The Poetics of Space’, acknowledges that a truly natural landscape is in the past, and that the ecological landscape of the new city will be a construct, using natural forms and processes to define the new built environment.”
“A Week in Venice” by Barbara Brinkmann
Research Assistant at Technical University of Munich, Germany
Detail
“The drawing represents impressions from this year’s journey to Venice, Italy, from the Lido, where we stayed, and the city, where we did some sightseeing, to the Art Biennial at the Giardini and the Arsenale and trips to Murano and Burano. It’s a drawn diary of Venice’s architecture, waterways, vaporetto traffic, people and tourists, mobile phones, masks, art, nature and everything that caught my eye, often fleetingly.
Drawn on 25 connected pages of a folded Moleskine leporello notebook (“Japanese Album”) with an old fountain pen, it results in one single drawing (21×325 cm), sometimes blurred by drops of rain and lagoon water, sometimes smeared by my sweating hands. Spontaneous fragments of sketches, that tell a personal yet universal story of Venice. May it encourage artists, architects and students all over the world to never stop drawing by hand, whereever you are, and telling stories in the most universal language.”
“Magical night at the palace” by Piotr Chilik
Xavio Design
Lighting is the most powerful factor which helps to admire architecture in its full glory. The moonlight travels along all shapes, touching surfaces and providing general light whilst the artificial lighting enhances the space, creating focus and accentuating the most interesting architectural features. The juxtaposition of moonlight and the proposed lighting provides this perfect combination and delivers the feeling of stepping almost into a fairy tale world.”
“skin index” by Patricia Vraber, Architect
“WEEKEND IN THE CHALET” by Jeronimo Andura
Art and Architecture
“The Jura-Chalet
Green-yellow waves structured by meadows and wild daffodil pastures adorn the horizon. The air is carefree. The chalet where I spend my weekends is located between groups of local fir trees. For some years now, however, it has become difficult to find tranquility. The naturalness of living on the ground has been taken away from us. In the media, we are told every minute about the dangers of the soil. Isolated lonely souls remain unmoved and surrender to their fate. Here in the chalet, our neighbours climb the remaining tree trunks. Meanwhile our plots are covered with the latest high-tech tarpaulins. They give the feeling of protection, but I miss the sound of cowbells and working in my Japanese garden. The view from the treetops is our only consolation.
I don’t want to complain. Chaos reigns in the cities.
• the silent place where one studies the path.”
“Mycelium Modularity” by Dustin Wang
Young Guns Studio
Mycelium, a natural fungi found in forests, can form rigid, water-resistant structures when molded and grown. Possessing a flexible form, this allows for the creation of these pods around trees and hills – existing in harmony with nature, rather than replacing it. The resulting effect are teardrop-like structures, differing in shape as each is hand-built.
In this scene, pollution is the origin of the hazy, grey sky. With plastic and waste reduction having become an everlasting consequence, mycelium is used in this small community of hopeful outliers, being a last ditch effort to slow down the deep-rooted repercussions of the changing climate.
In an inevitable future where the natural lives in the artificial, the increased awareness of the benefits of mycelium, will aid in revitalization.”
“Into the Void: Fragmented Time, Space, Memory, and Decay in Hiroshima” by Wing To Victoria Wong
University of Michigan
The three selected locations are experimental adaptations to the spatial and environmental challenges that facilitate ‘changes’ according to our mental statuses and behaviors. Through displaying site-specific elements, Into the Void captures the heterotopia voids in time, culture, and nature. The over-saturated sites are witnesses and flaneurs through time that capture the architectural scars in the parallel universe where the past, present, and future coexist simultaneously.”
“URBAN NET” by Alena Dolzhikova
A4 Studio
What if the Architecture we build today would be able to proceed developing into entwined bodies, uniting buildings of the past with future forms? What if buildings could be inhabited with a living organism that flourishes into new forms while adapting to the shape of available structure? What if the livable organism constructing future environment turns the building into so-called a neuron cell? It would contain all the valuable information, DNA of a particular building. The city organism consisting of cells would create connections – bridges between each other, for a mutual exchange of information. Some their bridges will be thicker, some thinner – depends on the amount of information transporting trough it. The overall connections create an URBAN NET – final but never ending evolving version of the future city.
“The Impermanent Collection” by Morna Hu, Megan Chen and Yuyang Liu
University of Melbourne
It challenges the notion of visual art having a singular, superior cultural system by embracing and broadcasting multiple understandings to artists and the wider community. Following Orcutt’s lead in ‘The Open Storage Solution’, our institution aims to democratise knowledge, and to share curatorial authority with the viewer by allowing meaning to accumulate through profusion rather than isolation. It broadcasts to the public, what the power of a non-discriminatory, inclusive, unsegregated art industry can do for a community.”
“Subterra” by Gregory Klosowski
Pappageorge Haymes Partners
“Beauty from catastrophe” by Eric Larsen
Empire Architectural Design
Many people that visited the site wanted to keep the Palace of Fine Arts from decay as it was planned to do as per the vision of the architects. It was rebuilt from 1964 – 1974.”
“Labyrinth” by Eric Pham
University of Texas at Arlington
“Le Corbusier’s Dream” by Jennifer Steffek and John Lynch
studio J2 architects
(15″ x 23″ mixed media collage)
This project explores the interplay between art, emotions, dreams, memory and architectural design.
When Le Corbusier was a young art student, he was fascinated with Japanese Woodblock Prints. What follows is an imaginary tale:
On one of Le Corbusier’s trips to Japan, he fell asleep under a tree by the ocean. He dreamt he was swimming in an aqua sea when a tsunami hit. While turning around to head back to shore, he thought he caught a glimpse of a house perched on an island. As the water swirled around him, he tried to get a better look, but the waves were too high and the sea foam too thick. When he awoke, he struggled to recall the design of the house, but it was impossible to disentangle from the images of Japanese prints and the ocean in his mind.”
“Dekkene in the Daoura Neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon” by Stephanie Tager
Lebanon is currently suffering from a dire political situation, an electricity crisis, inflation, corruption, nepotism, and elitism, among other things. But aside from all of this, these are the storefronts of the hardworking and untiring Lebanese people (and those of the refugees there, as well) that continue to try to work and provide despite all the grim circumstances.”
“Lost to the City” by Alex Hoagland
Boston Architectural College
In this city scape the understanding of raw emotion and how that correlates too the work we as humans produce and environment we surround ourselves with is the key to understanding the longevity of our own mentality and livelihood. This cityscape represents the separation between ones self and the greater good of the others around, it signifies a liberation of the human conscious.”
“Metaverse Getaway” by ShihHwa HungYI-XUAN DUNG Phoebe Wen
PHOEBE SAYS WOW ARCHITECTS
These satellite dwellings took the shape of a spherical mobius strip which forms an internal capsule where user-defined domestic programs are curated along the strip for dwellers to maneuver accordingly towards either the sphere garden and farm which sustain the supply of fresh air, food and water from its micro ecosystem. The outer skeleton shell serves as an autonomous structural system utilizing self-aggregated construction technique housing necessary infrastructures for waste exchange and environmental purification as well as climate control for optimized moisture and temperature.”
“The Archivist of Emptiness” by Jeronimo Andura
Art and Architecture
Our livelihoods are becoming dissolved, while emptiness is once again taking over. There is little left to remind us of the abundance that poured over us. Images of our contemporary history are preserved on hard drives in secret archives.
If you look closely, you can see beauty in the dust-filled light that fills the new void. Is it freedom that no one anticipated?”
“The Modern Architect” by Jeronimo Andura
Art and Architecture
The service that remains is occupied with executing number games which result in increased ownership. Those efficient results reflect the truth of our coexistence.
Archived was the special gift to respond to the needs of society with idea and realization. Today they comfortably endure and let themselves be driven by the storm. The modern architect is a petrified observer in his own cosmos.”
“A Space That Is Other: What’s a “Camel?”” by Ghassan Alserayhi
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
“PlayHouse” by SOK HO
University of Pennsylvania
Bringing the gable from the residential to the institutional scale begins to bridge the disconnect between the smaller residential neighborhoods to the West and larger downtown buildings to the East.
In this playhouse, children can feel comfortable and familiar, but the play with the gable form brings the playfulness of exploration in the space.”
“FAMAZON” by Philip ShenHieu Phung Jiawei Ji, Architectural Designer
FAMAZON TOWER is also a city for robots, and the ‘residents’ don’t shy away from treating it as such. When AI gains more freedom from humanity, they start to modify the tower, adding elements they found elsewhere that eventually change the architecture of the structure. Consequently, the tower becomes a spontaneous mega-system that runs only to maintain the fluidity of the global supply chain, even without the presence of humans.”
“The Collective Vein” by Pariya Mohammaditabar
deNorm Labs
Historically cities flourished in proximity to bodies of water or rivers, where they prospered into metropoles. The cities of Iran depicted here in monotonically derelict ruin resembles the vision of the tyrannical regime of its black and white rule over the citizens. The 50-year long oppressive shadow of the government who has tried to segregate Iranian cities and their civilians from each other.
Today, through their blood, the many brave iranian women have portrayed a new landscape for the evolution of cities. Their blood has formed a collective vein that runs through the borders of Iranian cities, uniting the people of the nation into one again, whispering hope into the horizon for Iran’s freedom.”