We conducted the following interview with professor Momoyo Kaijima during her visit at the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague. With assistants and students from ETH Zurich, and inspired by the old vedute of Prague, Kaijima came to observe and record life in the city center. At the end of the week-long workshop the students drew ten large axonometric views of important public spaces, depicting past events that were sometimes hundreds of years old. Calling her research method architectural ethnography, Momoyo Kaijima also gave a lecture at the FA CTU on the same subject.
» entire articleThe move to build a new community center was first initiated when it became apparent that the current premises of the local library, in the Vratislavice 101010 cultural center, were much too confined, and a bigger venue had to be sought. Conveniently located just next door, the disused clergy house seemed a good fit, but it couldn’t accommodate all the intended uses. The solution was to build a new extension. The design brief for the new IGI Vratislavice center was then formulated on the basis of the client’s wishes. The project seeks to establish a new public place that would complement the lively town center. A single tall, contemporary, elementarily-shaped volume of the new library extends from the west flank of the historical clergy house, which was preserved in its original form. Visually separate, the two structures are joined together below ground-level and connect also through a glass corridor on the first floor.
» entire articleAt the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Barcelona’s Flores & Prats architecture studio built a 1:1 scale partial replica of the Sala Beckett Theater and Drama Center in Barcelona. The installation also included all the preliminary drawings, working models and other materials made during project development. Concentrating on the physical aspects of design gives the architect’s work a certain order, free of chance, commission or conditions, claim Flores & Prats...
» entire articleThe Carbon Leadership Forum recently launched its Carbon Smart Building initiative with this bold objective: “We envision a thriving global building industry that safely stores billions of tons of carbon in the built environment every year and makes new and existing buildings carbon neutral in their operation. To realize this vision, we propose to lead the global building industry to transform the built environment worldwide from a carbon source to a carbon sink, by connecting network partners with diverse expertise to execute a coordinated strategy and action plan.” In conversation with Chris Magwood of the Endeavour Centre, we discuss how this industry-wide transformation would look, and in which cases it is already under way.
» entire articleIn almost all areas of human activity, including architecture, we are now searching for means to achieve carbon neutrality. Cutting the so-called operational greenhouse gas emissions by lowering a building’s energy demands and using renewable energy sources is definitely a good course of actio...
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