Parametrics collection
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Project • By MAD Architects • Cultural Centres
Harbin Opera House
MAD Architects unveils the completed Harbin Opera House, located in the Northern Chinese city of Harbin. In 2010, MAD won the international open competition for Harbin Cultural Island, a master plan for an opera house, a cultural center, and the surrounding wetland landscape along Harbin’s Songhua River. The sinuous opera house is the focal point of the Cultural Island, occupying a building area of approximately 850,000 square feet of the site’s 444 acres total area. It features a grand theater that can host over 1,600 patrons and a smaller theater to accommodate an intimate audience of 400.
Embedded within Harbin’s wetlands, the Harbin Opera House was designed in response to the force and spirit of the northern city’s untamed wilderness... More
Project • By ZHA • Cultural Centres
Heydar Aliyev Center
As part of the former Soviet Union, the urbanism and architecture of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on the Western coast of the Caspian Sea, was heavily influenced by the planning of that era. Since its independence in 1991, Azerbaijan has invested heavily in modernising and developing Baku’s infrastructure and architecture, departing from its legacy of normative Soviet Modernism. Zaha Hadid Architects was appointed as design architects of the Heydar Aliyev Center following a competition in 2007. The Center, designed to become the primary building for the nation’s cultural programs, breaks from the rigid and often monumental Soviet architecture that is so prevalent in Baku, aspiring instead to express the sensibilities of Azeri culture and... More
Project • By J. MAYER H. und Partner • Bars
Metropol Parasol
"Metropol Parasol”, the Redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacíon in Seville, designed by J.MAYER.H architects, becomes the new icon for Seville, – a place of identification and to articulate Seville’s role as one of the world’s most fascinating cultural destinations. “Metropol Parasol” explores the potential of the Plaza de la Encarnacion to become the new contemporary urban centre. Its role as a unique urban space within the dense fabric of the medieval inner city of Seville allows for a great variety of activities such as memory, leisure and commerce. A highly developed infrastructure helps to activate the square, making it an attractive destination for tourists and locals alike.
The “... More
Project • By PLASMA STUDIO • Masterplans
Flowing Gardens: Xian International Horticultural
The World Horticultural Expo has become instigator and hub for the redevelopment of a large area between the airport and the centre of Xi’an. The ancient capital of the Qin Dynasty city, home of the Terracotta Army is today a major business centre for the vast interior of the Chinese mainland. Plasma Studio, in collaboration with GroundLab, won this international competition with a radical self-sustainable vision. The project comprises of a 5000m2 Creativity Pavilion, a 4000m2 Greenhouse and a 3500m2 pedestrian bridge set in a 37 ha landscape. The Expo opened in 2011 to approximately 15 Mio visitors. Accomodating and channeling the given flows of visitors whilst offering them choices and variety, Flowing Gardens unfolds into many sinuo... More
Product • By After-Form by Oleg Soroko • Parametric bench
Parametric bench
Parametric furniture collection.The furniture from this collection consists of several benches of a nonlinear, dynamic form, made of plywood and coated with oil. These benches are also sculptures, and when installed immediately become a dominant in the space. Some benches from the collection can be found on the street New Arbat in Moscow, as well as in offices around the world, and at Muscat International Airport in Oman.
Dimensions: L - 7230 mm W - 2320 mm H - 1080mmWeight: 937 kg
Materials: birch plywood / metal rods / Osmo oil
Parametric bench available in different colorsDelivery disassembled More
Project • By Matter Design • Exhibitions
La Voûte de LeFevre
We are truly conflicted. We are pre-occupied with computational design and digital fabrication – commonly assumed to be rapid, fashionable, and surfacial, though simultaneously pre-occupied with volume – thick, heavy, ancient, and permanent. We also maintain an emphasis on speculation, and yet our dedication to reality resists this claim. We intend to innovate and transform the future of architecture, yet we look to history in order to do so. Somewhere in this milieu of confusion and confliction is the kernel that defines us.
Marc Jarzombek recently suggested one could determine how well a society is doing by their ability to precisely carve stone. We like his metric for its simplicity, but also for its assumption that we must not be doi... More
Project • By ITKE • Exhibitions
ArboSkin: Durable and RecyclableBioplastics Facade Mock-Up
Mock‐Up:
The bioplastics facade mock‐up was created within the framework of Research Project Bioplastic Facade, aproject supported by EFRE (Europäischer Fonds für Regionale Entwicklung/ European Fund for RegionalDevelopment). It demonstrates one of the possible architectonic and constructional applications of thebioplastic materials developed in the course of this project. The blueprint is based on a triangular net made upof mesh elements of varying sizes.
Research Project Bioplastic Facade:
ITKE can look back on numerous years of experience in both teaching and researching the computer basedplanning, simulation, and production of cladding for buildings with complex geometries. Currently, materialsmade from petroleum‐based plastic, gla... More
Project • By Heatherwick Studio • Pavilions
Shanghai Expo 2010 British Pavilion
The UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo expresses British creativity and environmental engagement at the biggest event of its kind since the Expo phenomenon began in 1851 with the Great Exhibition at London's Crystal Palace. Since then, there have been more than 50 Expos – which have also been known as World’s Fairs or World Expositions – and the most spectacular have included those at Chicago in 1893 and Paris in 1900. The latter attracted 50m visitors, a record at the time, setting an early benchmark for a country’s portrayal of innovation and progress.
Held under the auspices of the Bureau International des Expositions, the Shanghai Expo will be the largest the world has ever seen. Staged on a 5.28km2 city centre site beside the Hu... More
Project • By ARCHJS · Jassim Alshehab Architects • Shops
TFK, The Fragrance Kitchen store
Jassim Al Shehab Architects have created an innovative perfume house located in Kuwait's prestigious shopping destinations, Al Hamra Mall. TheFragrance Kitchen, commonly known as 'TFK', is a thought through concept aimed to enhance the typical retail experience.
The Journey of the retail experience begins as it captivates the consumer with its minimal and discreet exterior appearance. The Signage, TFK, is extruded and backlit upon the dark façade of the entranceto create a sense of contrast to attract passing shoppers.
As the consumer walks in they are struck with the seductive, sensual, and directed ambience of the shop.They are initially drawn to the spectacular wooden wall display consisting of 500 laser cut wooden pieces design... More
Project • By Serpentine Gallery • Exhibitions
SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION 2013
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, which will open on 8 June, will be designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.
He is the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The most ambitious architectural programme of its kind worldwide, the Serpentine's annual Pavilion commission is one of the most anticipated events on the cultural calendar. Past Pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid, who designed the inaugural structure in 2000.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most important architects coming to prominence worldwide, Sou Fujim... More
Project • By Asymptote Architecture • Shops
Alessi Flagship Store
The Alessi Flagship Store at 130 Greene Street in SoHo opened to the public in September 2006. Commissioned to create a new identity for the Alessi brand, Asymptote designed not only the store’s interior architecture, but also all of its graphic elements from wall graphics to packaging to a unique modular display system. The store also features an espresso bar and gallery/exhibition area that expands the conventional retail program. In 2007 the store was named Travel + Leisure magazine’s Best Retail Space and received an AIA New York Chapter Design Award. More
Project • By Kengo Kuma and Associates • Shops
Starbucks Coffee at Dazaifu Tenman-gu
Location of this Starbucks is somehow characteristic, as it stands on the main approach to the Dazaifu Tenmangu, one of the most major shrines in Japan.
© Masao Nishikawa
Established in 919 A.D., the shrine has been worshiped as “the God for Examination,” and receives about 2 million visitors a year who wish their success. Along the main path to the shrine, there are traditional Japanese buildings in one or two stories. The project aimed to make a structure that harmonizes with such townscape, using a unique system of weaving thin woods diagonally.
© Masao Nishikawa
The building is made of 2,000 stick-like parts in the sizes of 1.3m – 4m length and 6cm section. Total length of the sticks reached as fa... More
Product • By Materialecology • Work in Progress for the Museum of Science, Boston
Work in Progress for the Museum of Science, Boston
Mineralization processes form many natural structures and introduce metals, such as gold, into a rock. The resulting rock composition is stiffer and stronger. By using the ratio of stiff to soft materials, Stalasso mimics these mineralization processes for design purposes. This leads to construction based on performance requirements. For example, a bed, a table or a building’s ceiling could be tailored to respond to different weights across its surface according to specific requirements and preferences. The images show the mold which is currently used to mix between various material properties in order to achieve desired performance. The pattern of the mold is based on a fibonacci series applied in two dimensions computed to allow for cellu... More
Project • By Rojkind Arquitectos • Exhibition Centres
Tamayo Museum Atizapan Extension
Set upon a steep hillside in Atizapan on the outskirts of Mexico’s largest metropolis will soon sit the New Tamayo Museum which will serve as a nucleus of education and culture, locally, regionally, and internationally. Named after the Oaxacan born artist Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991), the very strong and symbolic shape of the cross is a direct interpretation of the client’s preliminary program studies that defined the museum’s optimal functionality.
The main concept of Tamayo Museum Atizapan Extension is an “open box” that unfolds, opens and invites the visitors inside. Package, restoration and storage will serve as additional cultural spaces for visitors to understand the stages that an art piece goes through in order to get to its specifi... More
Corian Lounge
The idea A drop of water creating a series of ripples became the metaphor for transforming space through movement. Just as the ripple causes intricate moiré patterns in water, Corian® Super Surfaces is about revealing the moment of change through visual complexity, creating dynamic kinetic effects. Moving through the space appears to animate it. Views are revealed and concealed as the surfaces transition between active and passive states creating countertops, display shelving, seating and a partition that seamlessly morphs from solid to transparent. The project embodies opposites; simple yet complex, solid yet apparently kinetic, sculptural though not monolithic. The voids between the surfaces become as essential as the form and structure i... More