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Nanjing Foshou Lake Architect Hotel (CIPEA)

This video shows the amazing architecture of this lakeside hotel in Nanjing, China. The hotel is the legacy behind the CIPEA project ( China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture), where 24 world renowned architects from 15 countried gathered at the lush shore of Foshou Lake, each designing a fuctional building of the hotel/resort. Easily recognized amongst the designers include established names Irata Isozaki of Japan, Steven Holl of the US, and Ettore Sortsaas of Italy. Also participated are architect David Adjaye of the UK, Mathias Klotz of Chile. Odelie Decq of France, and many other most innovative and awarded architects.  The hotel has 20 individual villas, 300+ luxurious hotel rooms, a modern art museum, a conference centre and a recreational centre & spa.

佛手湖,建筑师Architects: 周恺 马清运 张雷 Mathias Klotz Hrvoje Njiric David Adjaye Sean Godsell Odilie Decq 刘珩, 姚仁喜 Gabor Bachman 汤桦 王澍 艾未未 张永和 崔恺 Alberto Kalach Matti Sanaksenaho

Man Allegedly Builds Homemade Submarine

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/06/man-allegedly-builds-homemade-submarine/

Bamboo Scuplture by Cambodian Sopheap Pich

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‘cycle’ by sopheap pich, 2005
rattan, steel wire
image courtesy 10 chancery lane gallery

 ‘my main materials are rattan, bamboo, and metal wire – the stuff that is common and cheap in cambodia. my tools are simple: razorblades, knives, axes, pliers, a blowtorch. the manual labor allows me the time to contemplate on the forms and my relationship to it. this relationship between the viewer and the form is what matters most to me, and each pieces are open to interpretations by the viewer.’ sopheap pich was selected for the best of discovery section at shanghai art fair in 2008. more information see Designboom’s Blog Continue reading ‘Bamboo Scuplture by Cambodian Sopheap Pich’

Andrew Palladio’s Bridge

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Martin Margiela at ICON Magazine

Finally, we can see the face of Martin Margiela which is published at ICON magazine this month issue. I haven’t got time to write comments yet and will do later. It is an interesting article though. I haven’t got time to sort it out my images about his 20ys retrospective show in Antwerp where I visited last year. see my old post Martin Margiela@MOMU, Antwerp.

Martin Margiela@MOMU, Antwerp

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Coming soon…..Martin Margiela’s 20 years in fashion exhibition in MOMU of Antwerp is the most impressive and inspiring fashion exhibition I have seen so far. Highly recommend if you have a chance to visit Antwerp! Don’t forget MOMU……..  Continue reading ‘Martin Margiela@MOMU, Antwerp’

Book Launch: ‘Forming Climatic Change’@AA School

Finally, my winning entry ‘Reef Surface Mobile Island’ (highlighted on blue color) for Environmental Tectonics Competition is published and the book launch will be on Tuesday 25 Nov between 12 to 2:30pm at AA School. See detail below:

Book Release

In 2006 and 2007 the Environmental, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster sponsored the Environmental Tectonics competition.  For the compilation of the book the curators sought projects that redefined common environmental parameters and explored design potential – while formulating critical and informed responses to the relation between aesthetics, ethics, tectonics and qualitative environments. The competition offered a unique opportunity to exhibit and publish relevant and important new projects as well as to understand current strands of investigation within this realm. Throughout, the focus of the publication is on ideas – ideas arising from an exploration of the complex variables surrounding environmental, sustainable and climatic design. The collected work looks beyond the typical carbon conservation solutions and instead finds resonance in projects that celebrate, organize and uncover new potentials in environmental design.

A few excerpts from the book are posted on:

www.aaees.net

The book is available for purchase for £15.00 from AA Publications and to mark the publication, will be available for £10.00 on Tuesday 25 November between 12.00 and 2.30 in the Back Members’ Room at the Architectural Association.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/publications

AA Publications
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
T +44 (0)20 7887 4021
F +44 (0)20 7414 0783
publications@aaschool.ac.uk

There were over 160 entries, many of them produced by teams, bringing the total numbers involved to around 250 students and professionals from more than 20 countries.  The book contains a cross-section of entries and associated activities along with articles from invited authors that punctuate the sections of work.

Contents
6 Preface by Steve Hardy
8 Ironies, Impracticalities and Ecologies by Brett Steele
11 Environmental Tectonics: A Call for Projects Competition

Morphological
14 Environmental Morphologies by Steve Hardy
20 BAD (Bath) by SMAQ – Sabine Müller, Andreas Quednau
24 Eco-Boulevard by Belinda Tato Serrano, Jose Luis Vallejo Mateo, Diego Garcia-Setien Terol
28 Hydro Wall by Virginia San Fratello
30 Koivu Tree by Tuomas Pirinen
34 Marine Cultivation Park by Erik Brett Jacobsen
38 Biot(r)ope Sensorium by Ross McLean

Ornamental
42 Environmental Ornamentation by Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee

48 Reef Surface Mobile Islands by William Hai Liang Chen
52 Private Sun/Public Shadow by Dusanka Popovska, Galit Shiff
54 Orchid Water Garden by Vincent Young
56 Fogharvester by Toby Burgess
58 Dirty Geometry Pavilions by Peter Macapia
60 Storm Watershed by Dan Marks
64 Synthetic Gardens: An Architecture of Vibrant Substrates
by Daniel Norell, Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure
Sustainable
68 Sustainable Environmental Design by Simos Yannas
74 Handmade School by Anna Heringer, Eike Roswag
76 Eureka School by Vennila Thirumavalavan
78 Wet Wall by Watson Architecture + Design – Robert Watson, Steffen Mattaboni, Mark Cummins, Matthew Dingle
80 PhotoThermHouse by Mattias Rubin de Lima
84 Living Delta by Rafiq Azam
86 Mews House NW6 by Jonathan Pile
Global
90 Recombinant Ecologies by Andrei Martin with projects by Mohamed Abdelghafar, Darren Chan, Natalie Ghatan, Alex Jones

96 Vertical Farm by Chung Yin Ho
98 Shibaura Island Tower by Christopher Robeller
100 Radiant Hydronic and Lattice Houses by Tom Wiscombe
102 Condensation4645 by Poyuan Huang

Ecological
108 EcoMachines by Marco Poletto

116 Metabolicopera by Anna Dyson, Maria-Paz Gutierrez, Derek Keil, Sylvia Krajewski, Marion Jones
118 Machine + City by Kwok Wah Tung
120 Sustainable Housing Neighbourhood by Florian Heinzelmann, Takeru Sato
122 Aqua Cells by Fotios Vasilakis, Fani Natou
124 Climodynamic Appliances by EcoLogic Studio & AA Summer School
128 Re-Sustenance by Richard Saunders, Akram Fahmi
130 Tower of Winds by Cordula Weisser, Jon Goodbun, Brian Ford, Aran Chadwick Climatological

134 Landscape Issues by Sandra Morris

140 VOL///|||ET02 by Eduardo De Oliveira Barata
142 Dry Water by Daniel Talesnik
144 Down to Earth by Ruth Kedar
146 Wasteland by Pierre Belanger, Dave Christensen, Josh Cohen, Maya Przybylski, Jimenez Lai, Marcin Kedzior, Deanna Wasyliuk, Kim Ligers, Thomas Smahel, Rick Hippocite, Eryn Stoddart, Caria Muñoz-Puente, Melanie Kramer, Davide Gianforcaro, Gabriella Aviad
148 CPULS4TG2016 by Katrin Bohn, Andreas Viljoen, Jorge Peña Díaz
150 Hydro-Urbanism by Minseok Kim

Environmental Tectonics: A Call for Projects
154 2006 Competition Results
156 2007 Competition Results
159 Environmental Tectonics Participants

Geometrics: Elements of form, structure, materials and manufacture

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Geometrics: Elements of form, structure, materials and manufacture

An exhibition showing the work of Structural Engineer, Price & Myers’ Geometrics group.

Geometrics; Elements of Form Structure Materials and Manufacture offers a fascinating insight into the realization of four projects and demonstrates how principles of geometry, engineering, materials and manufacturing methods have been used to go from simple base components to intricate and apparently complex three dimensional forms.

The projects include a bridge inspired by woven baskets, whose form has been engineered using trimmed hyperbolic paraboloids; a building made up of over 10,000 individually cut plywood parts; a stainless steel bridge whose stressed skin is perforated with thousands of holes whose size varies according to the stress levels and a new staircase made out of a new high strength concrete that can be cast to incredibly slender proportions.

The exhibition, sited in the historic setting of the German Gymnasium at Kings Cross is contained in a Geometric cocoon, which forms an integral part of the exhibition and embodies the themes of form structure materials and manufacture in its design and construction. The surface of the cocoon will offer information both on the four projects and aspects of the featured architects work in Argent’s nearby Kings Cross development. Continue reading ‘Geometrics: Elements of form, structure, materials and manufacture’

Psycho Buildings@Hayward Gallery

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Imaging Process of Deng Xiaoping

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For such a long time, people have been asking me how I developed Chairman Deng Xiaoping’s portrait on chopsticks of AsMuchAsYouLike installation. Well, here you go. I have done so many researches on image of Chairman Deng Xiaoping; however, I couldn’t find a nice simplified version one. It is interesting to know that Chairman Deng doesn’t like himself to be Chairman Mao who is worshiped by many people and treated as God. Therefore, you rarely find any article published his symbolic image. (or you call iconic image) The only image I found is his photo taken when he visited Shenzhen which is the first city became economic special zone due to his Open and Reform policy. Only this image has significant symbolic meaning to Chinese people. So I have done some photoshop works and simplified a bit.For publication on this image, please contact whchen@whchen.com
I didn’t want to release the image earlier because I am afraid of internet ‘copy’ and ‘reference’ effect.

NO REFERENCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.

For more information on As Much As You Like project, please visit www.asmuchasyoulike.org
or previous post Asmuchasyoulike.org_韧用 

ResoNet_Green Bay on Store Street

Finally, ResoNet_Green Bay is installed at Store Street. More images and stories will be followed when I recover from the busy schedule.

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Zaha’s Mega Shoe for Melissa

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Funny video, not sure why Zaha Hadid tried to create this mega shoe. experiment the ‘technology’? (I meant the technique is pretty much a century old. no? apart from precise CNC cutting wooden mould.) testing psycho-size? or shouting to the world ‘I am a giant shoe maker!’;);)

Very entertaining in deed, watch the creation process of a pair of Zaha Hadid designed shoes in collaboration with Brazilian shoe brand Melissa.

CDR@V&A

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www.cdregion.com
CDR at V&A Fridaylate Beijing 27th June

Cutting Edge
Room 47c
18.30-22.30

Pick up a pair of scissors and join William Hailiang Chen and members of Chinese Designer’s Region in creating this cut-paper installation. Inspired by traditional Chinese paper-cutting and responding to the mosaic floor throughout the V&A, the installation will run along the floor of the galleries like a carpet strip. At the end of the night, you can even take a piece home!

Sound Message Board
India, Room 44
18.30-22.30, live performance 19.00, 20.00, 21.00 (duration approx 15 mins)

What does the sound of writing convey? Write your message on these textured message boards with improvised writing instruments and hear your ideas resonant. Devised by sound artist Zhu Tiantian (Chinese Designer’s Region), she will create live soundscapes in response to your aural messages.

For CDR programs on the event, please visit
www.cdregion.com
For other programs on the event, please visit
www.vam.ac.uk/fcfridaylate  

ResoNet_Green Bay Competition

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by Mark Francis Tynan, William Hailiang Chen and Tai Hollingsbee

ResoNet_tensegrity at Finalist on ‘Greenbay’ competition
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=725&storycode=3115612&c=

Architects to stage urban intervention at LFA 2008
11 June, 2008

Parking bays and design aren’t two words which normally trip off the tongue together, but a competition run by Ramboll Whitbybird is using design to draw attention to just how much space is given up to cars in the city.

It has shortlisted 14 teams to create a series of “urban interventions” during the 2008 London Festival of Architecture to turn a series of parking spaces green.

Overnight on Thursday 3 July, volunteers will turn 14 car parking spaces on Store Street ‘green’ to highlight how much space in the city is given up to cars. Each team will have a budget of £200. The shortlisted teams were chosen based on the designs ability to create discourse and to challenge perception, its use of sustainable materials, and its buildability.

Also on London Festival of Architecture website:

http://www.lfa2008.org/event.php?id=858&name=Ramboll+Whibybird%27s+Greening+Bays

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Phoenix Mars Lander

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Having watched the news from BBC, Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully landed on Mars. It is so amazing and beautiful ‘machine’. The best part I like is the simple piston trangle legs and the beautiful unfurled solar panels which uses the simple geometric mechanism like the Chinese fan. (I remember they used to have a problem on unfurling the solar panels with another geometric shape.)

I should develope my folding panel paper to be like that!!!!!…..mmmm….one day maybe!….

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20070709_prt.htm 

Please click the following link for high resolution image

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Poly&Chai by Yung Ho Chang_张永和@V&A

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‘Poly & Chai’ by Yung Ho Chang – photo © Zhang Feng

I have received an invitation for private view at Yung Ho Chang’s exhibition – ‘Poly & Chai’ at V&A on 30th May. For such a long time, his reputation is much higher than what I expected to experience his works. Almost two years ago, his ‘perspective box’ – a small installation at ‘China Power Station’ exhibition at Battersea Power Station did not convience me. Perhaps, it is due to the limited time for preparation. (That exhibition is more like a modern ’fast meal’ gives you the taste of what is contemporary art and architecture in China.)  V&A has been curating this show for more than 4 years since I met the curators few years ago. This time, it suits my ‘taste’ and expectation. Well, I haven’t seen it on site yet. At least from the image, it has the quality – materality, light, texture,space,form etc…….oh, looking forward to seeing him on the openning.

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(photo taken by William Hailiang Chen on ‘Tu Mu’ exhibition at AEDES Berlin 2001.)

I still have one of his photo which I toke on ‘Tu Mu’ exhibition at AEDES gallery in Berlin 2001 when I was in second year at AA School. Since then, I haven’t seen him in person.

Above first Photo and below news are copied from Designboom, please click following link for more images
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/2926/yung-ho-chang-installation-at-the-va-museum.html

Yung Ho Chang in the V&A’s john madejski garden
from: june 2nd until september 1st, 2008

to coincide with the V&A’s major exhibition ‘china design now‘, one of china’s leading architects, yung ho chang will create a specially designed installation ‘poly & chai’ in the V&A’s john madejski garden.

for the latest in the V&A’s summer garden commissions, chang has devised a set of free standing screens inspired by traditional chinese garden design that will be arranged around the space for visitors to walk through.  the screens will be made from green recyclable plastic paving blocks, commonly used in parking lots and construction sites in china‘.

yung ho chang established china’s first private architecture firm, atelier FCJZ, in 1993. as well as overseeing a number of high profile architectural projects in china, chang is head of architecture at MIT (massachusetts institute of technology). his work can be seen in china design now, which showcases the latest in architecture, fashion and graphics to emerge from china’.

yung ho chang’s website: http://www.fcjz.com
V&A’s website: http://www.vam.ac.uk

ResoNet Video Presentation

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For such a long time, I wanted to upload this video but I never had time to manage it. Having researched on youtube, I have found out Tiantian has uploaded this video which she have done the sound design for. This video was produced for internal exhibition in my company HOK Sport. Tiantian and her boyfriend Simon has helped us to put all information about ResoNet project together to produce a documentary short film. Please also see post of ArtHOK-ResoNet launched .

ResoNet
Designed by: Mark Francis Tynan, William Hailiang Chen, and Shireen Hamdan
Film Edited by: Simon R. Odonnell
Sound design: Tiantian Zhu

ResoNet employs Low-Fi techniques to visualise the resonance frequencies inherent in the natural environment, via the interaction of the public and surrounding elements detected by a LED net.

 ResoNet for FRED 07 has won 1st prize in Bright LED international competition co-organized by Designboom and Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea. Entrants were required to demonstrate experimentation and innovation on the theme of LED lighting. Total 3431 designers from 92 different countries have participated.  

 ResoNet is a collaborative installation and would like to thank all people involved in its production, especially: Tai Hollingsbee, Francesco Anselmo, Andrew Cowell, Patrick Tynan, Amr Assaad,Fred Pittman, Chong Boon Pok. Steve Messam, Fold Gallery, FRED and the people of Kirkby Stephens. 

 ©reso-net.org 2008
For more information please visit:
www.reso-net.org/
www.reso-net.org/blog
www.fredsblog.co.uk/2007
http://www.designboom.com/contest/winner.php?contest_pk=19

ResoNet: Interactive light installation

共鸣网: 互动的灯光装置 

Designed by Mark Francis Tynan, William Hailiang Chen, Shireen Hamdan

Contributors: Tai Hollingsbee, Francesco Anselmo, Andrew Cowell, Patrick Tynan, Amr Assaad, Fred Pittman, Chong Boon Pok, Steve Messam 

来自大陆毕业于英国建筑联盟学校的陈海亮与校友Mark TynanShireen Hamdan  组成的设计小组的参选作品ResoNet (共鸣网) 赢得‘Bright LED’ 国际竞赛一等奖: 光州市市长奖。Bright LED是由意大利的Designboom 韩国光州设计双年展(Gwangju Biennale Foundation) 联合举办。竞赛主题要求作品在LED灯光设计上有实验性及创意。此次竞赛吸引了3431位来之92个国家的设计师。获奖作品在韩国光州设计双年展期间(05.10.2007-03.11.2007) 展出。( Gwangju Design Biennale ) 

ResoNet是一个在户外的LED灯光装置作品。作品是由英国艺术协会赞助委托,特别为每年秋季在坎布里亚郡 (Cumbria) 举行的欧洲最大的户外艺术活动FRED 07而制作的。ResoNet是由Resonance(共鸣)Network(网络) 两个词汇合并而成;意译便成共鸣网 。作品通过一个LED的网络与公众以及周边环境产生互动,将自然环境中截取的共鸣现象视觉化。运用Low-Fi技术, 通过共鸣网结构上振感器的触发,创造了一个光影闪烁的瀑布效果。  ResoNet的张力网像一个蜘蛛网一样横跨于树干之间。360个的振感器和LED布满在结构网上的节点上,去探测感应周边环境及人类每一刻的动静。风吹草动,这轻微的能量被转变成光影与整个网结构共鸣, 使观者沉浸于星光闪烁的光影瀑布中

共鸣网’作品在自然,艺术与科技的边界中探究,试图创造一个瞬间浮现的物理现象。在这里,光是自然永恒的主题。 

相关信息链接
www.designboom.com/contest/view.php?contest_pk=19&item_pk=18021&p=1
 
www.reso-net.org 
www.fredsblog.co.uk/2007 

注: LED 发光二级管(light-emitting diode。陈海亮是07大声展的参展艺术家之一,现在在英国伦敦的建筑事物所POPULOUS(前身是霍克体育建筑事务所HOK Sport Ltd.) 参与伦敦2012年奥林匹克体育场的设计工作。

Shanghai City Weekend @V&A

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Finally, through an over night hard work; we finished the paper folding panel wall for ‘Shanghai City Weekend’ -a fashion catwalk show for ‘China Design Now’ in V&A Museum. 

Thanks all the help from Wang kai,  Hu Xingzhu, Quan Shanshan and her boyfriend Alex.

I am very pleased with the final result in terms of the timing and budget.  (only 3days planning and one day for production.)

Organisor Xiaoyi Li asked me to design a ‘screen’ background for the fashion show  on Monday and requested me to finish it by Saturday. I really had to do something magic about it. Finally, I came out the solution which used the invention from my third year academic project about paper folding.

More report will come out later.

You will still be able to see the fashion show again today at lunch time from 12:30 to 1pm and also from 3:30-4pm. It is a free event inside V&A’s Raphael Gallery as part of satellite events for ‘China Design Now’.

Continue reading ‘Shanghai City Weekend @V&A’

Ma Ke’s fashion show@ V&A

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(Note: All images on this post are taken by William Hailiang Chen except those specified. For using images or large size files, please contact whchen@whchen.com ; 注:除了特别有标注出处外的相片,其余所有相片由陈海亮所摄。如引用,请联系 whchen@whchen.com )

Fashion in Motion
China Fashion Now
Friday 16 May 2008
14:00, 17:00, 20:00
Raphael Gallery

The V&A 2008 Fashion In Motion series opens with a show of work by Zhuhai-based designer Ma Ke. Coinciding with the V&A’s China Design Now exhibition, the event focuses on the artistic label of one of China’s most talented and prolific fashion designers. Ma Ke graduated from the Suzhou Institute of Silk Textile Technology in 1992 and four years later set up her own label Exception de Mixmind.

Her interest in the cross over between art and fashion led her to establish the brand Wuyong (Useless) in 2006. Wuyong is an examination of the concept of ‘uselessness’ and how this interpretation varies when seen from different points of view. Ma Ke is an advocate of sustainability in fashion and with Wuyong she invites the audience to consider the idea of recycling and reusing found objects and old textiles to create beautiful and unique garments. For Ma Ke this focus on persona; interpretation and transformation is a way of highlighting the importance of the individual and the inestimable value of life.

In February 2007 Ma Ke became one of the first contemporary Chinese fashion designers to show at Paris Fashion Week. Her collection’s dramatic style and unexpected presentation attracted much attention within both art and fashion circles. Continue reading ‘Ma Ke’s fashion show@ V&A’


 

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