dino crane - brooklyn navy yard

[what]: competition by One Prize. the goal is to "give a relatively small amount of dedicated space both flexibility and high symbolic value, to distribute a network of smaller docks in the shared areas, and to have the possibility of holding temporary events and exhibitions"

[where]: brooklyn, new york. 

[who]: raquel prendes, inés idzikowski, irene cañada, magdalena polvorinos

[when]: august 2014

WEEK 01. As the final project of the workshop “Programming Archaelogy” in ONElab, we're building a full size robot dinosaur. We were brainstorming today: just pulled down some hanging chairs and a whiteboard and started discussing our ideas.

square - pormetxeta

[what]: public square

[where]: pormetxeta, barakaldo. spain. 

[who]: xpiral + mtm arquitectos

[when]: 2011

"...our aim is to build city. Understanding the public space and private space as hybridization between the city planning and the edificational model, where the Architecture and the Urbanism are mixed at all times."

[source]: dezeen

children's bicentennial park - santiago

[what]: children's playground

[where]: santiago, chile

[who]: elemental

[when]: 2012

a classic dilema for children's playground: make them fun or safe? The slope of the hill made it easier to achieve both goals.

[source]: plataformaarquitectura

cover - renens

[what]: a new cover for the market square piazza

[where]: renens, switzerland 

[who]: localarchitecture

[when]: 2010

"As if supported by the trees, the discontinuous lines of the canopy give the structure a vibrant natural aspect."

[source]: afasia

humanity pavilion - copacabana

[what]: pavilion 

[where]: copacabana, rio de janeiro, brasil

[who]: carla juaçaba + bia lessa

[when]: 2012

There is no architecture, meaning a space unconnected from what is inside of it: the space is the exhibition itself. The massive amount of visitors, transforms and reinvents the space, interacting with the objets and spaces, giving them their own life. 

[source]: plataformaarquitectura 

he - rome

[what]: temporary installation at the Maxxi piazza

[where]: rome, italy

[who]: bam!

[when]: 2013

"The transparency and the apparent weightlessness of the installation generates a dialogue and a stimulating contrast with the imposing masses of the museum and its sinuous geometries."

[source]: bam!

transit shelter - vancouver

[what]: transit shelter

[where]: vancouver, canada

[who]: public: architecture + communication

[when]: 2013

"The shelters aim to create the kind of visual balance between random and regular pattern that one finds in nature. [...] the form that emerged was a single repeated pentagon, rotated and flipped along its edges. This produced a regular module for ease of fabrication and a random arrangement for visual movement."

[source]: archdaily

pavilion museo tamayo - méxico

[what]: temporary pavilion 

[where]: mexico

[who]: tatiana bilbao

The proposal seeks the dialogue between the museum and the forest, in order to being able to observe and breathe from one to another. Opposites meet: the greatness of the museum against the lightness of the installation.

[source]: plataformaarquitectura

sarugaku - tokyo

[what]: commercial building

[where]: tokyo, japan

[who]: akihisa hirata architecture office

[when]: 2007

"[...] it was demanded to build several small volumes in a narrow site, and we decided to make several volumes that seemed to be mountains. Thereby valley-shaped space between mountains is formed, where people and displayed things will overflow."

[source]: archdaily, akihisa hirata architecture office