nexus project

  nexus – a symbiotism Experiment Project Formal Strategies: Symbiosis in architecture The project focusses on the interrelationship of different orders in collision. The site as observed exhibits a plethora of such interactions and relationships relevant to the development of the district and city. This is consistent with the program of the building as a center [...]

Mensa Karlsruhe – Case Study

MarcoGeorges- Mensa Karlsruhe Case Study  

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA – MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Starting by understanding the development of media and how it greatly affected our life. Media has fragmented our daily life, during the mechanical age humans extended themselves through space, but in the electric age we technologically built massive extensions to our nervous system, “abolishing both space and time”. The main difference between the mechanical and [...]

THE SPACE OF FLOWS: MANUEL CASTELLS

Starting by exploring the theory of space and time and the effects of the development of electricity in the formation of technology. Telecommunication has impacted the traditional definition of space. Castells explores how information technology has impacted the definition of a corporation and how space no longer defines the organization’s work space as many members [...]

SPACE AND POWER: REYNER BANHAM

Banham’s article considers space in the sense of art and architecture. Architecture was mostly either horizontal or vertical, but mostly horizontal. Until the end of the renaissance era, space was considered to be an interior space. It was until Barbeque architecture emerged that the space began to externalize and as the concept of infinity started [...]

THE ECSTACY OF COMMUNICATION – JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Baudrillard believes that object is a sign with meaning, and it has the mirror status of the subject which turns into an imaginary depth of scene, so that the object shows how it subject to function from look of its form.  By the Authors assertion television transfers our own body and the surrounding universe into [...]

The Structure of Vagueness

Similar to Gaudi’s method for the Sagrada Familia, Frei Otto studied the “optimized path systems” by developing a method of generating forms, he used wool thread, and soap and water to generate vectorized systems that minimize the number of paths and make them share the same geometry.This algorithmic procedure is developed in three steps, mapping [...]

Informale e nuove strutture – Cecil Balmond

“We make cages out of our structures, we want our buildings to have frame works but out of a Cartesian compulsion, we compartmentalize space into strict horizontals and verticals” Cecile Balmond expressed his dissatisfaction with the how space is often compartmentalized into a strict and rigorous grid of verticals and horizontals. There is a dominant [...]

TOWARD A CRITIQUE OF ARCHITECTURAL IDEOLOGY – MANFREDO TAFURI

What is modernity? . Modernity is linked by fundamentals to capitalism and flourishes within it. Cities are generally defined by their architecture and the general loss of the subject in architecture has turned buildings into meaningless ‘objects’. Architecture has long been disconnected from utopia and it must return to its origin of a pure form [...]

PROLEGOMENON FOR A STUDY LINKING THE ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF THE PRESENT TO THAT OF THE 1970’S THROUGH IDEOLOGIES OF MEDIA – K.MICHAEL HAYS

Hays projects a negative view towards modern art and modern architecture. Technological optimization has increasingly threatened architecture and provided a negative impact within culture “This was a time when architecture as traditionally practiced saw itself threatened by technological optimization and utilitarianism, by the demands placed on it as service industry”. By adopting the idea of [...]