THE FORMLESS

baroque church, plan, niche, geomertry

staircase

rose window, geometry, lattice

meiji shrine, traditional, motif, console

staircase

ai wei wei, extrusion, negative, void, hexagon

polyhedron, singular form

teahouse competition, door, opening, threshold

http://teahouse.main.jp/index.php?itemid=123

kengo kuma, fragility, transparent, translucent, mesh

temporary structure, circulation, light, scafolding, transparency, translucency, rapping, covering

saatchi gallery, london, ice, car, sculpture, melting, temporary, time

computing, complex, pattern, chaos, complexification, geometry

http://www.complexification.net/gallery/

babel, tower, twist, spiral, turris, paul bril

doris salcedo, crack, sculpture, instalation, ground, division,

martin puryear, vessel, round shape, mesh

steiner lenzlinger, floating garden, fragments, hanging

green, arcade, passage, plant, parque eduardo

syosoin, japan, breathing skin, elevated

william forsythe, compressed space, the defenders, scattered crowd

http://www.theforsythecompany.de/

cappadocia, landscale, integrated, nature, rock, erosion, carved out, cave

mexican baroque, decoration, density, roughness, facade

layers, posters, ad, time, chronology, footprint

Snøhetta, Tafjord, Sunnmøre, Norway, hotel, dam

A museum dedicated to represent this interesting region... fusing nature, art and technology.

The small community of Tafjord on the western coast of Norway lies in a very deep fjord at the confluence of a deep freshwater lake and the sea. Because of the steep character of the valley, the area often experiences avalanches of both rock and snow.
In recent times the town has shifted location and a large dam was constructed to help allay damage from the tsunamis as well as help to provide hydroelectric power for the region. This dam is the second highest in Europe, standing over 93 meters tall.

The Tafjord Gallery is built as a a square glass beam spanning the deep fjord. The 8,2 x 8,2 transparent structure contains a 350 square meter gallery and a 95 square meter auditorium.
Entrance to the museum is made by burrowing down into the rock where access is gained to the descriptive portions of the museum placed along the bridge. This leads further into the rock on the other side of the fjord where a darkened cave like room can be used to show video presentations during the day. At night it is possible to project from the bridge onto the curving dam wall that acts as a 93-meter high by 50-meter wide panoramic screen.

The 40 room Tafjord Hotel is placed in a circular form on top of the almost 100 meter tall embankment, mimicking the curving form of the dam itself. The hotel will look back toward the museum bridge in one direction and toward the dramatic, often mirror like lake, in the other direction.

Exhibitions will focus on the relationship between nature and the work of humans. A video artist from the area, Marianne Heske, will contribute some of her works and will have an important influence on the museum.

Completion is planned for summer 2005.

http://www.snoarc.no/

badeschiff berlin, floating, pool, water, continuity

Jubilee Gardens, competition, green, field, surface

http://www.jubileegardens.org.uk/designs.html

alex maclean, aerial, landscale, pattern, spontaneous, unintensional

alex mclean

punta pite, chili, coast, trail, rock, nature, arifice

Improbable stairs lead down to the surf on the Chilean coast.

Punta Pite is a 27-acre piece of land that follows the contours of a bay between Zapallar and Papudo, two sea towns located 93 miles north of Santiago, Chile. A residential development planned and built here between 2004 and 2006 takes its name from this place and is laid out in a way that surrenders to the power and beauty of the ocean. It was developed as a series of parts connected by a walking path, one part of which seems to be sculpted out of the existing cliffs, while the other part passes through a restored creek that crosses the site from east to west. The parts were meant to create one single spatial experience of the site.

The Punta Pite project began in 2003 when Consorcio Nacional de Seguro, a Chilean insurance company that invests in real estate, bought the land for development. They hired Santiago-based architecture firm José Peñafel Architects for the general planning of the site, including the layout of roads and lots, and landscape architect Teresa Moller, whose office is also based in Santiago, for the site’s environmental studies and overall landscape design.

Moller began her career as a protégé of the well-known Chilean landscape architect Juan Grimm, through whom she learned about the extensive native flora of Chile and its particular geography. After studying garden design at the New York Botanical Gardens she returned to Chile and set up her own office, which is now one of the most prominent in Santiago. In 2005, British landscape magazine Garden Illustrator chose her, along with nine other landscape architects from different parts of the world, as one of the most interesting current designers.

When explaining what guided the design for Punta Pite, she refers to the words of a famous Chilean poet who describes Chile as “pure geography” and the consequent responsibility she thinks this places on local designers. Then she talks about how she spent her childhood in Zapallar and experienced the cliffs, the creeks, and the beach as parts of a whole, underlined by the strong presence of the sea.

“I wanted Punta Pite,” she says, “to have the same possibility of exploring and discovering nature that Zapallar had when I was a little girl.”

http://www.asla.org/lamag/lam07/august/interdesign.html

bubble, transformation, motion, fluidity, floating

bubble, water, geometry, transparency, ellipse, abstract

water drop, bubble, network, fluid