25 abr 2010

366



1 year + 1 day


quantity:

driver licence
+
MAID
+
living "idepently"
+
(...)*

*U 24h a day every week


quality:

immeasurable



(lágrimas de sangre de la emoción)

24 abr 2010

22 abr 2010

21 abr 2010

Casa TDA






















.... para mi la obra del 2009

19 abr 2010

Fembot!


Can wait to here all the new tracks!

17 abr 2010

Cat on a HOT tin roof (Volcano in eruption)











Nowadays everybody is talking about volcanos and ash... but if you would have left this two in iceland for sure the cloud of ash would be also big enought to cover Europe... what a movie! what two animals!!






15 abr 2010

A Defensive Architecture






















This thesis is intended to expose unexpected readings of the built environment in the future if we don’t take more drastic steps to deal with climate change. Set in the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, the project envisages a set of militarised coastal defence towers that perform multiple functions:

1. The principle role of the towers is to act as an environmental warning device. The architecture is alive, dramatizing shifts in environmental conditions; breathing, creaking, groaning, sweating and crying when stressed. Air-bags on the face of the towers expand and contract, while hundreds of tensile trunks are sporadically activated, casting water on to the heated facades to produce steam. An empty watchtower at the top of each tower gives them the impression that the fragile landscape below is constantly being surveyed.

2. Across the estuary, a bed of salt marshes provides a natural form of flood defence and habitats for wildlife. Due to rising water levels and adverse weather conditions, the salt marshes are quickly deteriorating. The proposal suggests how megastructures can be integrated and used to encourage the growth of natural defence mechanisms against flooding in order to protect the erosion of fragile coastline areas and our most important cities. Over time, sand is collected at the base of each tower to form a spit across the mouth of the estuary, absorbing energy from the waves.

3. Internally, the towers serve as a vast repository for mankinds most valuable asset; knowledge. The architecture is a knowledge ark, which protects books from culminative and catastrophic deterioration.

by Nicholas Szczepaniak

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Keep on scrolling to see the panels of the 2009 RIBA winner:







In his project, entitled 'A Defensive Architecture', Nick Szczepaniak has proposed an intense and thought-provoking piece of work that is a reflection of and response to the effects of climate change. The work is deliberately allegorical and provocative.

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