Engaging interventions
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about engaging interventions
Project • By Straddle 3 • Exhibitions
El Nodo
El Nodo is a cultural production centre that aims to become a mediating element between run-down, disconnected and marginalised neighbourhoods in the city of Saltillo, in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. The project is based on the concept of a participatory centre that is open to direct proposals from the local population, which sets it apart from traditional cultural centres run by institutions.
El Nodo aspires to becoming an integrating element capable of stimulating the cultural life of the surrounding districts and the entire city, and promoting permeability between different neighbourhoods and on a civic level
The initiative intends to connect and support people who are undertaking similar projects in different parts of the countr... More
Project • By raumlaborberlin • Nightclubs
EICHBAUMOPER
Eichbaumoper characterises the temporary transformation of the metro station Eichbaum into an opera house. ‚Eichbaum’ is a crosspoint and station located between the cities of Essen and Mülheim. Located in the eye of the highway intersection between the motorway A40 and the B1, this station was built using a lot of concrete in the 70’s as a fit for the future infrastructure project. Once considered as a place of aspiration and hope, the ‚Eichbaum’ is now shaped by vandalism, fear and foreboding. However, ‚Eichbaum’ is an important connection in an urban landscape that is dissected by highways and metro lines. At the same time, the site can be viewed as a model for the current situation of this former industrial region, facing urban and soci... More
Project • By GravalosDiMonte Arquitectos • Art Galleries
Esto no es un solar / This is not a parcel
This vacant plot intervention program stems from the need of crossbreeding a couple of correlated and complementary initiatives that might seem apparently unrelated at first sight, the municipal employment plan by the zaragoza mayoralty and a management commission from the same mayoralty to Zaragoza vivienda, the local state backed agency responsible of housing and planning policy.
The amount of the employment plan was of 1 million Euros, from which 700,000 Euros are to be used hiring workforce and the 300,000 left for the public works and material. This employment plan has been promoted by the Municipal Board of the Historic Centre, which has transferred its management to Zaragoza Municipal Housing Company.
Thanks to this job p... More
Project • By Favela Painting • Art Galleries
Santa Marta
Using a flexible concept of colourful rays which can easily be expanded, we made a design for the houses around the square and part of the street, including the local Sambaschool. A group of local inhabitants where instructed by trainers from TintasCoral as part of the project "Tudo de Cor para Santa Marta." They where taught everything from different types of paint to safety measures about working on scaffolding. As every wall, every house needs another solution, the painters learn to work with all kinds of material. During the hard month of work they received an education as well as a paycheck. The inside of the sambaschool was painted in their traditional colors.The final result was a huge artwork spanning over 34 houses .About 7000 squa... More
Project • By JDS Architects • Memorials
BAD
Copenhagen’s harbour undertakes a transformation from an industrial and traffic junction towards being the city’s cultural and social center. The Harbour Bath design has emerged out of the desire of extending the surrounding park onto the water and the practical needs for accessibility, safety and programmatic demand. The Harbour Bath realises the transition from land to water as a terassed landscape.
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Brandgrens Rotterdam
Rotterdam Brandgrens (the fire limits) permanently marks the areas of the city that were destroyed by the bombing on 14 May 1940 and the ensuing fires that broke out. The bombing only lasted fifteen minutes but managed to destroy practically all of Rotterdam’s city centre. In 2007 CBK Rotterdam invited designers Wieki Somers, Atelier van Lieshout, Studio Anthon Beeke and West 8 to present their ideas on how to mark the fire limits. A jury was asked to choose one design. On Monday 14 May 2007 the winning design by West 8 was announced by vice mayor of Rotterdam, Lucas Bolsius.
West 8's design uses light objects to mark the fire limits permanently in the public space. An iconic image of a flame is incorporated in circular light objects on... More
Project • By TYIN Tegnestue • Libraries
Old Market Library
The Old Market Library is built in a 100 year old market building. The section for the library measured 3x9 metres internally, with a back yard facing a small canal. The roof and the walls were in very poor condition. One of the main challenges for the community is the annual flooding during the rainy season. In this period the water can raise to around 50cm above floor level, rendering the library unusable. The community simply required a usable space throughout the year, without having to relocate. The commercial centre of the Min Buri Market had already moved across the canal due to a fire in the late nineties. As the years past by the community has diminished from a lively origo into an almost slum-like area.
For the building itse... More
Project • By Department of Unusual Certainties • Urban Green Spaces
StairSpace
DoUC recently contributed to the John Street Ideas Competition held by the Toronto Entertainment District BIA with our submission entitled StairSpace. The competition called for a new public space concept as the centre point of what has been dubbed a major cultural axis in the city – John Street.
The current space is bland and oppressive, wedged beside the monolithic cartoonishness of an aggressively post-modern Metro Hall. The space is large but feels small, needlessly cluttered and obstructed by two follies and a raised concrete planter.
Our proposal StairSpace is a three-dimensional park that addresses the dense nature of its location by maximizing its program through vertical extrusion. Its structure is derived from the theatre... More
Project • By MAD Architects •
Hutong Bubble 32
MAD’s proposal for the future Beijing 2050 was first revealed at its exhibition MAD IN CHINA in Venice during the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale. Beijing 2050 imagined three scenarios for the future of Beijing―a green public park in Tiananmen Square, a series of floating islands above the city’s CBD, and the “Future of Hutongs,” which featured metallic bubbles scattered over Beijing’s oldest neighborhoods. Three years later, the first hutong bubble has appeared in a small courtyard in Beijing.
China’s rapid development has altered the city’s landscape on a massive scale, continually eroding the delicate urban tissue of old Beijing. Such dramatic changes have forced an aging architecture to rely on chaotic, spontaneous renovations to... More