La Tallera Siqueiros Museum by Frida Escobedo
Materials used to identify different parts of the museum: the existing structure is painted white while additions are in bare concrete.
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alignment, Brasilia, Brasil by Bernie DeChant
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Super Transparent House | Sou Fujimoto
Attitudes towards the use of dead spaces within towns and cities vary drastically around the world. While many first-world countries enforce planning regulations to maintain control over every piece of land and restrict unauthorised building, in less developed regions there are many urban centres in which every centimetre of space is precious and put to good use.
In Mumbai, India, architecture practice Studio Mumbai observed that locals were creating dwellings in the narrow gaps between buildings and decided to recreate a section of a tiny area sandwiched between their own studio and the adjacent warehouse as their contribution to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s 2010 exhibition, 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces. They produced a “cast” of the negative space, with its typically confined passageways divided into small rooms, and even featuring the tree that reaches through the walls on the site.
The Melkwegbridge is located in Purmerend, the Netherlands. The bridge is part of the masterplan ‘De Kanaalsprong’ and connects the historic city center with the towns’ new district. The most striking part of the bridge, designed by NEXT architects, is a massive arch which reaches the height of 12m above water level and stands in a continuous line with the Melkweg-road, thus offering an incredible view over the city. The high lookout is an attraction in itself and lets pedestrians fully experience the relation between the new and historic center of Purmerend.
Flux Cocoon in Lausanne, Switzerland | by allegory.ch
Installed in the heart of the city of Lausanne, ’flux cocoon’ by allegory is one of the winning projects of the the city’s first light festival, Lausanne Lumières, which has been inaugurated on 23 nov. The project is situated at the crossing between vertical and horizontal circulatory movements, interpreted as the flux. the framework is an abstraction of the knot created by the crossing of each pedestrian’s virtual trace at this precise point in the flon area.
Ivan Puig - Artificial Growth, 2008