Malmö's skyline changed yesterday

The Ferris Wheel in Folkets Park, Malmö was deconstructed during last week and now Malmös modest skyline has one less peak.

Cartography Morphology Topology Workshop 4th step | Finished Project

[Text presentation will be provided shortly]

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Cartography Morphology Topology Workshop 3rd step | re-make by hand

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Cartography Morphology Topology Workshop 3rd step

The drawings have been sorted out. Some have been thrown away and some have been scaled and rotated to create a composition. This composition is placed on the map but as a new layer. The fact (or should I say paradox) that it is not a part of the map, is very important!

Cartography Morphology Topology Workshop 2nd step

I'm currently in the middle of a cartoraphy workshop where a cut out of Tokyo is to be examined and reinvented. Not in a classic city planning way. Actually this is pretty damn far from city planning.

We are starting with an close examination of the area in Google Earth, where "interesting" transformations are of great interest. These are in the next step redrawn, by finding the characteristics in each element and/or shape.

Cartography Morphology Topology Workshop 1st step

Tokyo

Pulkhova | Leningrad

Photographer: Howard Sochurek (1959)

Mark Smout and Laura Allen

Protean Landscape

Claude Parent

Architectural innovation (for its time). See this interesting article regarding his exhibition at la cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine in Paris (spring 2010). It was while visiting this exhibition I first got to know about Parent.

Zaha's early bridge additions

Since my last project was revolving around adding structures to existing bridges, I wanted to share with you some of Zaha Hadid's early work, regarding the same topic (only 34 years earlier), in her projects Museum of the 19th Century, London, 1977/78 and Malevich's Tektonik, London, 1976/77.

See her later bridge alterations, in the Habitable Bridge Over the River Thames (1996) by clicking the link.

Scans are taken from: Pamphlet Architecture 1-10

ISBN-10: 1568981260

ISBN-13: 978-1568981260

City of Cranes

I love cranes and I think that they are the ultimate combination of form and function.
Watch this video and you'll see what I mean.

Malmö way back when...

I'm currently learning the art of conceptual cartography in school. Due to this I've found a growing interest to examine maps of various type.

I remember when I was a young boy, I could spend hours browsing through my World Atlas. But I never became interested in geography, not at all. The interesting parts, for me, as I remember it, were the maps of density in population, the maps of temperature and the maps of valuables, such as metals, gems and oil. The ones that didn't describe the physical conditions that are obvious, but the ones where the more hidden and dynamic aspects are described.

For my current semester I'm studying a site in central town of Malmö, Sweden. While looking for information about the historical growth of Malmö, I found a great collection of historic maps over the city on the City Planning Offices website.

These maps are dating:

1871

1874

1894

Jorinde Voigt

This German artist intrigues me and my love for perfectionist drawings.

Her drawings has a mathematic touch and the communicate extraordinary spatiality with the simplest of tools. These drawings are made with ink, oil crayon and pencil on paper (258x208cm)

pictures are taken from http://jorindevoigt.com/blog/

Petra Kempf

I found an architect who works in a similar manner to how we are taught in department 6, regarding the analyze of the city. The outcome of her analysis is a beautiful graphic material, with lots of depth (both literary and metaphorically).

Check out some of her earlier work and an interview on archdaily.

Pamphlet Architecture

I found a publication called Pamphlet Architecture when looking for inspirational material by Smout Allen. I started to read further about this publication my pulse rise and I got childishly excited when I read: "Pamphlet Architecture helped launch the careers architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid"

Yeah!

I found a compilation of issue 1-10 on amazon and ordered directly. If it fulfills my expectations, issue 11-20 will be ordered shortly.

ISBN-10: 1568981260
ISBN-13: 978-1568981260

Reflections

Last week I presented my project for a jury of 7 teachers from my school.
I received reflections, critique, feedback and comments on my work. Both good and bad. And now a week later I, myself have got some time to reflect upon what I have done i.e. "the end result" and what was said during the presentation. The thing that goes against my concept the most is the fact that my project actually ended up in a plain old modernist box. Perpendicular wall-floor-roof relations. Even though some exciting things happens within the building and between the building and the context, I feel that I would have needed to take it further and blow up "the box".
I always tend to rationalize... unfortunately.
New project starting tomorrow. New cool ideas bubbeling and new energy has been stored during a lazy week.