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AP193.S1
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Series 1, Water Flux and Scrambled Flat, 2002-2010, documents the conception and evolution of a project that was originally a farm building and later became a geology and glaciology museum and research center focused on the Swiss Alps. The project was never realized. R&Sie(n) conceptualized Scrambled Flat as an experimental farm. The project goal was to reconcile European Union’s agricultural regulations, imposing a separation between animal and human living, to the community of Évolène traditional way of living, contiguously with animals, benefiting from the resources they offer. As conceived, Scrambled Flat creates an environment where fluidity between the existence of the animals and the humans is materialized. The size of the form is also adapted from a typical local rural house and exploits the heat of the animals and the insulation of the hay. For this project, R&Sie(n) approached the mayor of the community with the design proposition. The mayor then called for a competition, while also changing the program to an ecology museum and research center illustrating the local effects of global warming and the thawing of the Alps. R&Sie(n) won the competition with Water Flux, a reinterpretation of Scrambled Flat. The project was intended to uncover and exorcise the anxieties of ecological disaster, and the principle of flux related to seasonal change and, more broadly, climate change. The firm designed rooms that reproduce the geological and meteorological environment of the high mountains making it visible and experimental, offering refrigerated spaces for art installations and scientific demonstrations. The concept was also to build with the use of new technologies such as digital modelling, point scanning, and computer numerical control (CNC), combined with ancient local knowledge of knocking on trees to decide which specific pines have the best wood for construction. The building is designed to be constructed with local lamellar wood milled by nearby CNC. The resulting parts would be used for the structure, the insulation, the waterproofing and both the interior and exterior finishes. The design includes a grille wrapping the building, reproducing the profile of traditional houses and enclosure and making it possible to hold the snow inside a typo-morphological imprint. Therefore, the transformable envelope of the building reacts to the rhythm of the seasons. In the winter, the structure would appear like a solid cut-out of ice and snow, with cavities similar to those found in glaciers. In the summer, it would resemble piles of stones used in these areas to make borders. A small pool would collect rainwater and supply it to an interior artificial snowmaking system designed for the gallery. Transformation of the water is an integral part of the design. The records contain images of plans, sections, details for the structure of the façade, renderings, plans of the engineered structure, and photographs documenting the conception of the models with the CNC machinery. The Rhino 3D modelling files are also part of the records along with AutoCAD models and a video documenting the process. The records contain two physical models: a smaller polymer model at 1:20 scale representing the whole structure of the building, and a larger 1:1 latch wood fragment representing detail of the structure in its integrality.
2002-2010
Water Flux and Scrambled Flat
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AP193.S1
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Series 1, Water Flux and Scrambled Flat, 2002-2010, documents the conception and evolution of a project that was originally a farm building and later became a geology and glaciology museum and research center focused on the Swiss Alps. The project was never realized. R&Sie(n) conceptualized Scrambled Flat as an experimental farm. The project goal was to reconcile European Union’s agricultural regulations, imposing a separation between animal and human living, to the community of Évolène traditional way of living, contiguously with animals, benefiting from the resources they offer. As conceived, Scrambled Flat creates an environment where fluidity between the existence of the animals and the humans is materialized. The size of the form is also adapted from a typical local rural house and exploits the heat of the animals and the insulation of the hay. For this project, R&Sie(n) approached the mayor of the community with the design proposition. The mayor then called for a competition, while also changing the program to an ecology museum and research center illustrating the local effects of global warming and the thawing of the Alps. R&Sie(n) won the competition with Water Flux, a reinterpretation of Scrambled Flat. The project was intended to uncover and exorcise the anxieties of ecological disaster, and the principle of flux related to seasonal change and, more broadly, climate change. The firm designed rooms that reproduce the geological and meteorological environment of the high mountains making it visible and experimental, offering refrigerated spaces for art installations and scientific demonstrations. The concept was also to build with the use of new technologies such as digital modelling, point scanning, and computer numerical control (CNC), combined with ancient local knowledge of knocking on trees to decide which specific pines have the best wood for construction. The building is designed to be constructed with local lamellar wood milled by nearby CNC. The resulting parts would be used for the structure, the insulation, the waterproofing and both the interior and exterior finishes. The design includes a grille wrapping the building, reproducing the profile of traditional houses and enclosure and making it possible to hold the snow inside a typo-morphological imprint. Therefore, the transformable envelope of the building reacts to the rhythm of the seasons. In the winter, the structure would appear like a solid cut-out of ice and snow, with cavities similar to those found in glaciers. In the summer, it would resemble piles of stones used in these areas to make borders. A small pool would collect rainwater and supply it to an interior artificial snowmaking system designed for the gallery. Transformation of the water is an integral part of the design. The records contain images of plans, sections, details for the structure of the façade, renderings, plans of the engineered structure, and photographs documenting the conception of the models with the CNC machinery. The Rhino 3D modelling files are also part of the records along with AutoCAD models and a video documenting the process. The records contain two physical models: a smaller polymer model at 1:20 scale representing the whole structure of the building, and a larger 1:1 latch wood fragment representing detail of the structure in its integrality.
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2002-2010
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Fonds
Gene Summers fonds
AP114
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The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
1957 - 2004
Gene Summers fonds
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AP114
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The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
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1957 - 2004
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AP181
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The COOP HIMMELB(L)AU BMW Welt project records, 1994-2007, document the design of the firm’s BMW Welt project, also known as BMW World, in Munich, Germany. The archive consists of approximately 52, 400 born-digital files representing the greater part of the digital archive of the project, as well as 52 of the study models made in the earlier stages of the project.
1994-2015
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU BMW Welt project records
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AP181
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The COOP HIMMELB(L)AU BMW Welt project records, 1994-2007, document the design of the firm’s BMW Welt project, also known as BMW World, in Munich, Germany. The archive consists of approximately 52, 400 born-digital files representing the greater part of the digital archive of the project, as well as 52 of the study models made in the earlier stages of the project.
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1994-2015
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ARCH268725
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Contains photographic materials on 22 projects by Abalos & Herreros used in a conference: - Estaciónes depuradoras de aguas residuales Majadahonda y Guadarrama, AP164.S1.1986.D5 (5 slides: interior and exterior views); - Planta de reciclaje de residuos urbanos de Valdemingómez, AP164.S1.1996.D4 (32 slides: plans, exterior views and reference materials); - Edificio de servicios generales para la Universidad de Extremadura, Mérida, AP164.S1.1999.D4 (15 slides: interior and exterior views); - Aula medioambiental y oficinas, Arico, Tenerife, Centro de control y aula medioambiental de Arico (33 slides: map, plans, interior, exterior and aerial views); - Pabellón de gimnasia en el parque del Retiro, AP164.S1.2000.D3 (27 slides: plans, interior, exterior and aerial views); - Biblioteca Usera, AP164.S1.1995.D1 (22 slides: interior, exterior and aerial views, plans, construction, etc.); - Barcelona Forum 2004: Parque litoral nord-est, AP164.S1.2000.D9.SD1 (38 slides: presentation documents, plans, aerial views, etc.); - Barcelona Forum 2004: Edificio de oficinas y planta integral de RSU, AP164.S1.2000.D9.SD2 (8 slides: presentation document, reference materials, etc.); - Viviendas, locales y garajes en la M-30, AP164.S1.1988.D3 (12 slides: plans and exterior views); - 10JH, Sant Andreu viviendas para jóvenes, AP164.S1.2002.D8 (20 slides: models, plans and site plans); - Palencia Parque Europa, AP164.S1.1991.D2 (16 slides: plans, exterior and aerial views, models, perspectives); - Es Pil•larí, AP164.S1.2000.D5 (32 slides: landscape and aerial views, plans and drawings); - Plaza y torre Woermann, Las Palmas, AP164.S1.2001.D7 (15 slides: models, plans and exterior views); - El mirador: torre mixta en la bahía de Algeciras, AP164.S1.1999.D10 (17 slides: plans, models, landscape views, reference materials, etc.); - Torres mixtas bioclimáticas en el Humedal de Salburua, Vitoria, AP164.S1.2002.D2 (10 slides: plans, models and site plans); - Sala municipal y plaza en Colmenarejo, AP164.S1.1997.D11 (36 slides: interior and exterior views); - La Casa verde, AP164.S1.1997.D4 (11 slides: presentation documents, plans, model and sketch); - Prototipos de vivienda industrializada: Casas AH-Gia, AP164.S1.1993.D11 (20 slides: plans, models, presentation documents, etc.); - Casa Mora, AP164.S1.2000.D10 (34 slides: plans, sketches, landscape views, etc.); - Casa Gordillo, AP164.S1.1993.D2 (48 slides: plans, and interior and exterior views); - Estudio Gordillo, AP164.S1.1999.D6 (12 slides: plans, and interior and exterior views).
between 1986 and 2003
Ring binder with photographic materials related to twenty-two projects by Abalos & Herreros
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ARCH268725
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Contains photographic materials on 22 projects by Abalos & Herreros used in a conference: - Estaciónes depuradoras de aguas residuales Majadahonda y Guadarrama, AP164.S1.1986.D5 (5 slides: interior and exterior views); - Planta de reciclaje de residuos urbanos de Valdemingómez, AP164.S1.1996.D4 (32 slides: plans, exterior views and reference materials); - Edificio de servicios generales para la Universidad de Extremadura, Mérida, AP164.S1.1999.D4 (15 slides: interior and exterior views); - Aula medioambiental y oficinas, Arico, Tenerife, Centro de control y aula medioambiental de Arico (33 slides: map, plans, interior, exterior and aerial views); - Pabellón de gimnasia en el parque del Retiro, AP164.S1.2000.D3 (27 slides: plans, interior, exterior and aerial views); - Biblioteca Usera, AP164.S1.1995.D1 (22 slides: interior, exterior and aerial views, plans, construction, etc.); - Barcelona Forum 2004: Parque litoral nord-est, AP164.S1.2000.D9.SD1 (38 slides: presentation documents, plans, aerial views, etc.); - Barcelona Forum 2004: Edificio de oficinas y planta integral de RSU, AP164.S1.2000.D9.SD2 (8 slides: presentation document, reference materials, etc.); - Viviendas, locales y garajes en la M-30, AP164.S1.1988.D3 (12 slides: plans and exterior views); - 10JH, Sant Andreu viviendas para jóvenes, AP164.S1.2002.D8 (20 slides: models, plans and site plans); - Palencia Parque Europa, AP164.S1.1991.D2 (16 slides: plans, exterior and aerial views, models, perspectives); - Es Pil•larí, AP164.S1.2000.D5 (32 slides: landscape and aerial views, plans and drawings); - Plaza y torre Woermann, Las Palmas, AP164.S1.2001.D7 (15 slides: models, plans and exterior views); - El mirador: torre mixta en la bahía de Algeciras, AP164.S1.1999.D10 (17 slides: plans, models, landscape views, reference materials, etc.); - Torres mixtas bioclimáticas en el Humedal de Salburua, Vitoria, AP164.S1.2002.D2 (10 slides: plans, models and site plans); - Sala municipal y plaza en Colmenarejo, AP164.S1.1997.D11 (36 slides: interior and exterior views); - La Casa verde, AP164.S1.1997.D4 (11 slides: presentation documents, plans, model and sketch); - Prototipos de vivienda industrializada: Casas AH-Gia, AP164.S1.1993.D11 (20 slides: plans, models, presentation documents, etc.); - Casa Mora, AP164.S1.2000.D10 (34 slides: plans, sketches, landscape views, etc.); - Casa Gordillo, AP164.S1.1993.D2 (48 slides: plans, and interior and exterior views); - Estudio Gordillo, AP164.S1.1999.D6 (12 slides: plans, and interior and exterior views).
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between 1986 and 2003
ARCH273864
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Awards and Honours to Arthur Erickson and Erickson/Massey Architects: - AIBC Western Homes and Living 1960 Special award for for distinguished house design, house at Comox, B.C. - Canadian Wood Design Awards, certificate of Merit for the Baldwin Residence, Vancouver, B.C. (1965) - Vancouver Citation Buildings 1965 Award, to Erickson/Massey Architects for the Laxton Residence, West Vancouver, B.C. - The Molson Prize of the Canada Council, to Arthur Erickson (16 October 1967) - Prestressed Concrete Institute 1966 Award, to Erickson/Massey Architects for the Central Mall and Transportation Centre, Simon Fraser University, the 1972 Award for the University of Lethbridge, the 1977 Award for the Water Tower and B.C. Hydro & Power Authority Communications Centre, Simon Fraser University. - 1967 National Design Award, Centennial Award for Residencial Design, The Canadian Housing Design Council, awarded to Erickson/Massey Architects and Ian Davidson MMRAIC for Town Houses, Point Grey Road, Vancouver, B.C. - Certificate of Academician, Royal Academy of the Arts, awarded to Arthur Erickson (7 December 1968) - Letter from Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1 September 1970) - 1970 Massey Medal, Massey Foundation, to Erickson/Massey Architects for Man and the Community and Man and His Health, theme building, Expo '67 - Award of Excellence, 1970 Canadian Architect Yearbook, to Erickson/Massey Architects for Elementary School, Southeast Sector, Vancouver, B.C. - 1971 Award for Residential Design, The Canadian Housing design Council, awarded to Erickson/Massey Architects for the Nelson Towers, Nelson, B.C. and for the Catton Residence, Vancouver, B.C. - Doctor of Engineering, Honoris Causa, Nova Scotia Technical College, awarded to Arthur Erickson (5 May 1971) - First Honour Award, American Public Power Assosication, to Erickson/Massey Planners for Burnaby Mountain System Control Center (16 May 1973) - 1974 Award for Residential Design, The Canadian Housing Design Council, for The Eppich house, West Vancouver, B.C. - Citizen of the Age of Enlightenment Award, The Ministry of Development of Consciousness, to Arthur Erickson (1976) - Honorary Fellowship, The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, to Arthur Erickson (1987) - Master of Architecture, Honoris Causa, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture to Arthur Erickson (8 June 2001) - Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (16 May 2001) - Citation Award, The Wood Design Awards 2004, to Arthur Erickson Architectural Corp and Nick Milkovich Architects for the Canopy Collonade. - 2007 "Prix du XXe siecle," The Roayl Architectural Institute of Canada, to Erickson/Massey Architects for Smith House 2. - University of Toronto Honour awarded to Arthur Erickson (30 October 2008) - Arthur Erickson, Honorary Member, The Architectural Institute of British Columbia.
1960-2008
Various awards and Honours to Arthur Erickson and Erickson/Massey Architects
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ARCH273864
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Awards and Honours to Arthur Erickson and Erickson/Massey Architects: - AIBC Western Homes and Living 1960 Special award for for distinguished house design, house at Comox, B.C. - Canadian Wood Design Awards, certificate of Merit for the Baldwin Residence, Vancouver, B.C. (1965) - Vancouver Citation Buildings 1965 Award, to Erickson/Massey Architects for the Laxton Residence, West Vancouver, B.C. - The Molson Prize of the Canada Council, to Arthur Erickson (16 October 1967) - Prestressed Concrete Institute 1966 Award, to Erickson/Massey Architects for the Central Mall and Transportation Centre, Simon Fraser University, the 1972 Award for the University of Lethbridge, the 1977 Award for the Water Tower and B.C. Hydro & Power Authority Communications Centre, Simon Fraser University. - 1967 National Design Award, Centennial Award for Residencial Design, The Canadian Housing Design Council, awarded to Erickson/Massey Architects and Ian Davidson MMRAIC for Town Houses, Point Grey Road, Vancouver, B.C. - Certificate of Academician, Royal Academy of the Arts, awarded to Arthur Erickson (7 December 1968) - Letter from Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1 September 1970) - 1970 Massey Medal, Massey Foundation, to Erickson/Massey Architects for Man and the Community and Man and His Health, theme building, Expo '67 - Award of Excellence, 1970 Canadian Architect Yearbook, to Erickson/Massey Architects for Elementary School, Southeast Sector, Vancouver, B.C. - 1971 Award for Residential Design, The Canadian Housing design Council, awarded to Erickson/Massey Architects for the Nelson Towers, Nelson, B.C. and for the Catton Residence, Vancouver, B.C. - Doctor of Engineering, Honoris Causa, Nova Scotia Technical College, awarded to Arthur Erickson (5 May 1971) - First Honour Award, American Public Power Assosication, to Erickson/Massey Planners for Burnaby Mountain System Control Center (16 May 1973) - 1974 Award for Residential Design, The Canadian Housing Design Council, for The Eppich house, West Vancouver, B.C. - Citizen of the Age of Enlightenment Award, The Ministry of Development of Consciousness, to Arthur Erickson (1976) - Honorary Fellowship, The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, to Arthur Erickson (1987) - Master of Architecture, Honoris Causa, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture to Arthur Erickson (8 June 2001) - Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (16 May 2001) - Citation Award, The Wood Design Awards 2004, to Arthur Erickson Architectural Corp and Nick Milkovich Architects for the Canopy Collonade. - 2007 "Prix du XXe siecle," The Roayl Architectural Institute of Canada, to Erickson/Massey Architects for Smith House 2. - University of Toronto Honour awarded to Arthur Erickson (30 October 2008) - Arthur Erickson, Honorary Member, The Architectural Institute of British Columbia.
1960-2008
books
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88 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
[Montréal] : [Compagnie de Ciment Canada], [approximately 1967]
Dosage et contrôle des mélanges du béton.
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88 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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[Montréal] : [Compagnie de Ciment Canada], [approximately 1967]
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1 v. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm.
Paris : Ministere de l'equipement du logement, des transports et de la mer, [198-]
Les references architecturales et urbaines du controle d'ambiance.
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1 v. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm.
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Paris : Ministere de l'equipement du logement, des transports et de la mer, [198-]
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ii, 65, 73, ii pages ; 23 cm
[Ottawa] : Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, 1991., ©1991
Authority control : a manual for archivists / by Elizabeth Black.
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ii, 65, 73, ii pages ; 23 cm
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[Ottawa] : Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, 1991., ©1991
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28, 30 pages ; 23 cm
Ottawa : Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, 1989.
An introduction to authority control for archivists / by Louise Gagnon-Arguin.
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28, 30 pages ; 23 cm
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Ottawa : Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, 1989.
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182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Paris : L'Harmattan, [2017]
L'expérience corbuséenne : d'un habitat collectif sous contrôle / Noël Jouenne ; postface de Noël Jouenne et Mohammed Zendjebil.
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182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Paris : L'Harmattan, [2017]