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AP164.S1.1999.D10
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The project series documents the competition entry for the mixed-use tower “El Mirador” in the Bay of Algeciras. The firm was invited to submit their design proposal which won second prize. The competition was organised by the Algeciras City Council. The firm identified this project as number 123. “The project attempts to express, with an architectural gesture, the beauty of the geography of Algeciras: the bay, the port, the Rock and the Straits of Gibraltar, the proximity of Ceuta and Africa, the cork-oak forests that surround the town. For this [Abalos & Herreros] propose a building that, from a single body, opens out into two towers from one great public viewing platform. This form has strategic holes giving onto the more notable topographical features, establishing a physical relationship with them, while the section is organized as a gradient of privacy that increases with height. The competition […] proposed a mixed programme in a posture parallel to the great avenue of the harbour of Algeciras. An evanescent building apparently fragile appears to let one being stimulated by the effects of the climate and the atmospheric phenomenons with an appearance changing with the function of the hours of the day or the season. Its layered section attends ascending to the different landscapes of the city: first public space, second the cities skyline and at last the 360° horizon rising above the city.” (ARCH270975) Abalos & Herreros worked with Ángel Jaramillo, Renata Sentkiewicz, Jakob Hense. Documenting this project are conceptual, design development and presentation drawings, cartographic and graphic materials, and competition records.
circa 1999
El mirador: torre mixta en la Bahía de Algeciras, Spain (1999)
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AP164.S1.1999.D10
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The project series documents the competition entry for the mixed-use tower “El Mirador” in the Bay of Algeciras. The firm was invited to submit their design proposal which won second prize. The competition was organised by the Algeciras City Council. The firm identified this project as number 123. “The project attempts to express, with an architectural gesture, the beauty of the geography of Algeciras: the bay, the port, the Rock and the Straits of Gibraltar, the proximity of Ceuta and Africa, the cork-oak forests that surround the town. For this [Abalos & Herreros] propose a building that, from a single body, opens out into two towers from one great public viewing platform. This form has strategic holes giving onto the more notable topographical features, establishing a physical relationship with them, while the section is organized as a gradient of privacy that increases with height. The competition […] proposed a mixed programme in a posture parallel to the great avenue of the harbour of Algeciras. An evanescent building apparently fragile appears to let one being stimulated by the effects of the climate and the atmospheric phenomenons with an appearance changing with the function of the hours of the day or the season. Its layered section attends ascending to the different landscapes of the city: first public space, second the cities skyline and at last the 360° horizon rising above the city.” (ARCH270975) Abalos & Herreros worked with Ángel Jaramillo, Renata Sentkiewicz, Jakob Hense. Documenting this project are conceptual, design development and presentation drawings, cartographic and graphic materials, and competition records.
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circa 1999
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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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Kieran Long parle de la difficulté de décrire une ville dans toute sa richesse. Londres regorge d’histoires et de significations bien vivantes pour ses citoyens, mais dont il est apparemment difficile de parler, car trop riches et trop complexes pour que ceux qui décident des évolutions de la ville se laissent influencer. L’absence de réceptivité des promoteurs, hommes(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
10 mars 2011 , 19h
L'enseignement de... Londres : Kieran Long
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Kieran Long parle de la difficulté de décrire une ville dans toute sa richesse. Londres regorge d’histoires et de significations bien vivantes pour ses citoyens, mais dont il est apparemment difficile de parler, car trop riches et trop complexes pour que ceux qui décident des évolutions de la ville se laissent influencer. L’absence de réceptivité des promoteurs, hommes(...)
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10 mars 2011
19h
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
Les progrès de la technique, aussi bien que les conditions sociales, politiques et économiques, ont de tout temps influencé les architectes. L’exposition Les jouets et la tradition moderniste examine la manière dont les fabricants de jouets ont reçu les multiples idées novatrices des architectes modernes. Plusieurs des jouets exposés ont été conçus par des figures(...)
16 décembre 1993 au 1 mai 1994
Les jouets et la tradition moderniste
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Les progrès de la technique, aussi bien que les conditions sociales, politiques et économiques, ont de tout temps influencé les architectes. L’exposition Les jouets et la tradition moderniste examine la manière dont les fabricants de jouets ont reçu les multiples idées novatrices des architectes modernes. Plusieurs des jouets exposés ont été conçus par des figures(...)
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AP193
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R&Sie(n) project records, 2002-2015, document the development and design process of four projects of the firm: Water Flux (2002-2010), I’ve heard about (2004-2006), Olzweg (2006) and Une architecture des humeurs (2008-2011). The records consist of original born-digital material in addition to two models for Water Flux.
2005-2015
Document d’archives des projets de R&Sie(n)
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AP193
Résumé:
R&Sie(n) project records, 2002-2015, document the development and design process of four projects of the firm: Water Flux (2002-2010), I’ve heard about (2004-2006), Olzweg (2006) and Une architecture des humeurs (2008-2011). The records consist of original born-digital material in addition to two models for Water Flux.
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2005-2015
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vii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Cities and climate change / Harriet Bulkeley.
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vii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
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Climate change economics.
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1 online resource
Singapore : World Scientific Pub. Co. Pte. Ltd.
périodiques
Singapore : World Scientific Pub. Co. Pte. Ltd.
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x, 258 pages ; 23 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023], ©2023
Women and climate change : examining discourses from the Global North / Nicole Detraz.
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x, 258 pages ; 23 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023], ©2023
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x, 110 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm
Zanzibar [Tanzania] : The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, The First Vice President's Office, May 2014.
Zanzibar climate change strategy.
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x, 110 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm
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Zanzibar [Tanzania] : The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, The First Vice President's Office, May 2014.
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xxiii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Climate change and urban health : the case of Hong Kong as a subtropical city / Emily Ying Yang Chan.
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xxiii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.