Week 5

Theme Group Meeting

Architectural Presence & Identity

Film:  Howeler + Yoon Architecture

From sewing grass onto canvas squares and hanging these squares from steel rods hanging down the side of a high-rise building to create a vertical green wall to making clothing which when the user is wearing the outfit, it responds to the people and things around it to protect the user.

Eco-Pods by Howeler + Yoon Architecture

 Also, please watch the video below by the same architecture firm as the previous video about an unfinished building that would be covered in modular pods growing algae for biofuel. Robotic arms would constantly rearrange the pods to maintain optimum growing conditions.

http://www.dezeenscreen.com/2011/08/26/eco-pods-by-howeler-yoon-architecture-and-squared-design-lab/

Atrium by Studio RHE

Rotating walls with acid green edges slot together like jigsaw pieces between a London lighting showroom and its window display.

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/20/atrium-by-studio-rhe/

Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Toronto architect Philip Beesley has installed a forest of acrylic fronds that move as though breathing inside the Canada pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens this week. 

Called Hylozoic Ground, the installation is covered in sensors, microprocessors, mechanical joints and filters.

These allow the structure to move in response to its environment, drawing in and filtering moisture and organic particles from the air. 

The title refers to hylozoism, an ancient philosophical view that matter has life, and proposes a future city that would operate as a living being. 

http://www.hylozoicground.com/team/index.html