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Today we have presented to the students the subject of our next Design Lab, which will take off in March 2012. We are going to deal with the refurbishment of a dismissed Milanese petrol station that was designed and built in the beginning of the 50’s by Mario Bacciocchi. The building represents a very precious heritage for the city and for its owner, Eni S.p.A. As we started to research about the history of the building, and the company, we realized how intriguing this project might become if all the issues around it will be taken into account…

To find out more download the pdf of the presentation.

Interior Arcadias by Mark Pimlott from ADA Rotterdam on Vimeo.

Fragments of nature captured in an interior, particularly when they are alien or exotic, provide pleasure to its occupants. When brought indoors, nature imposes its own character and order, and the interior typically concedes in a fundamental way to its contents, and loses much of its substance. The story of such an interior is bound up with Enlightenment-born ideas regarding the categorization, possession and domination of the world’s natural contents. The nineteenth century witnessed an explosion of expressions of these ideas, which yielded the various building typologies we continue to be familiar with: the crystal palace, the arcade, the department store, the mall, and the atrium.

Tesi: Valeria Mercogliano, Viola Lucioni
Politecnico di Milano, ottobre 2011

Proposta per un Adaptive-reuse del deposito ATM di Ticinese a MIlano con l’obiettivo di generare nuovi spazi per nuove modalità di lavoro collettivo (co-working) e individuale. Senza dimenticare gli  abitanti del quartiere e la tradizione mercantile della zona poco di stante dalla Darsena…

Sfoglia il book nr 2 [casi studio]

Tesi: Ilaria Bollati
Politecnico di Milano, ottobre 2011

Proposta per un Adaptive-reuse del deposito ATM di Leoncavallo a MIlano con l’obiettivo di generare nuovi spazi per nuove modalità di lavoro collettivo (co-working) e individuale. Senza dimenticare gli  studenti del Politecnico…

Sfoglia il book degli attachments

Milano Architectural International Workshop (MIAW) is an annual initiative promoted by a multidisciplinary group of colleagues working in the Master of Science programs at the School of Architettura e Società of Politecnico di Milano that involves its students and a number of international guest tutors.

The focus of MIAW is the city of Milano and the concept is that each annual edition developes designs and/or built explorations along the definition of a keyword.

For MIAW2010 the keyword was ‘re-appropriation’ and now the 2010 WS report [download excerpt 500KB] is aviable the bookshops [retail price is 15,00 euros: the money will go to finance the 2011 report]. For MIAW2011 has been ‘forests’: soon also this report will be available.

MIAW.2 is now over: 10 teams of 20 students have been guided by 10 guest tutors through a racing working week. For a week the school looked like a working place for sharing collaboration: different nationalities, different genders, different education lines, different age & level, different projects, but all involved as a whole team. Productions out of the workshops can be seen walking in the Campus: from heavy wooden tower to delicate mint garden almost invisible in the labyrinth of POLIMI.

Thanks to students’ enthusiasm and a special thanks to the generosity of the invited guests.

snark realizza con modalità partecipata il nuovo video di chairsharing (servizio di panchine nomadi wifi):

150 persone > 450 foto > 40 secondi

uno shooting collettivo, in due sessioni a bologna e milano, 8 e 9 ottobre.
persone piacevoli, chiacchiere, drinks

evento facebook a milano
8 ottobre
presso barra A
via ampere 61/A
ore 10:00

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per partecipare scrivere a info@snarkive.eu o confermare su FB

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Spazio 33 Competition, an open call addressed to everyone, has been launched! If you think you are good with chalks and freehand drawings… just click here.

Il Concorso Spazio 33, un’iniziativa rivolta a chiunque, è stato lanciato! Se ci sai fare con i gessetti e sai disegnare a mano libera… clicca qui.

Archmedium, a student organization that has been promoting International Architecture Competitions for over two years, with the support of the Architecture School of Barcelona (ETSAB) and the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC), launches Paris Market Lab. The ArchMedium competitions are conceived as learning experiences and allow students to become familiar with how professional architecture competitions work. By participating, students will have the chance to get their projects reviewed by teachers from other schools, see their proposals published on architecture magazines and exhibited around the world.

To find out more click HERE.

Architects Casper Mueller Kneer have converted a south London warehouse into the city’s third White Cube gallery. Have look at the article: go to link.

Kiyonori Kikutake, Statiform Structure Module, 1972.
Kiyonori Kikutake

From: The architects’ Newspaper
Sounding weary with focusing on his own positions and prominence and energized by researching Japan in the 60s and 70s, Rem Koolhaas came down for coffee at the Carlyle Hotel to talk to AN about his new book Project Japan: Metabolism Talks (Taschen), a six-year project undertaken with Swiss critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist to interview the founders and thinkers of what the architect calls “the first non-Western avant-garde movement in architecture” and the Dutch architect’s search for a more meaningful engagement between architecture and societies.

Day 2: 110805

Brainstorming seminar in Cambridge (03-06/08/2011) chaired by Dr. Gilly Carr, Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College.

Lablog was invited to join a group of 8 Scholars discussing about possible Research schemes to investigate the Atlantikwall remains: a difensive infrastructure crossing Europe from cape North to Pireénes, lasting more than 6.000 Km with almost 12.000 buildings and schelters abandoned on the shores of Europe.

A Military Heritage where large part of WWII painfull memories are melted together with the concrete used as construction material. Socio-cultural history, architecture and landscape, conflict archaelogy, are some of the disciplines involed by a such hudge invasive presence.

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Rendere percepibile e fruibile il patrimonio celato che si conserva nel paesaggio rurale abruzzese attraverso dispositivi fruitivi che azionano produzioni percettive e fuzionali.

Sfoglia il book nr 2 [le premesse]
Sfoglia il book nr 3 [il progetto]

PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND

Few weeks ago, in Italy, we delivered a volume and an exhibition (MACRO-Testaccio in Rome untill 14/08/2011) titled “AREA Norway”, a monographic issue of the architecture magazine all about Oslo and Norway. Nature was the protagonist. Now, the same landscape tells stories of an incredible horrible event: a double attack to Norwegians where almost 100 people died. This was possible only due the peacefull trusting friendly Norwegian mode: never thinking about hevil and stupid actions. A Country where, in a such occasion, the Royal family and the politicians did not refrain to crying in front of the large mass of people gathering in the Oslo Cathedral to take part at the celebration for the victims.

We would like to express all our pain and nearness to Norway and to all Norwegians, with the hope they will never lose their inncence towards life and world.

INTERSEZIONI
Attraverso la costa, 6 occasioni per fare città

4-10 Settembre 2011
Palazzo Platamone, Catania

Al workshop sono invitati a partecipare tutti gli studenti, i laureati e i dottorandi delle Facoltà di Architettura e Ingegneria dei paesi membri dell’Unione Europea. Sono invitati a partecipare anche gli studenti delle Accademie di Belle Arti e delle Scuole di Specializzazione e dei Master delle discipline di architettura del paesaggio e arte dei giardini.
Gli aspiranti partecipanti saranno selezionati per titoli. A tal fine occorre inviare la domanda di partecipazione corredata dal curriculum vitae (n. 1 cartella formato A4 verticale) e da un portfolio di progetti (di n. 2 cartelle formato A3 orizzontale).

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Maurizio Cattelan: Charlie don’t surf

Facoltà di Architettura e Società
aula B 4.1
dalle ore 10:00

Laboratorio di Progettazione degli Interni 1
Presentazione dei lavori