Artur Marques Kalil
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Economics of Design and the Design of Economics
Watch Rio Erase and Rebuild Its Entire Waterfront in 3 Minutes
(Source: theatlanticcities.com, via urbanresolve)
The lotxlot vacancy map for Philadelphia by @PossibleCity
What’s the Big Idea?
Possible City is an experiment in engaging the city’s forgotten spaces to bridge a crucial gap in current urban planning practice. Top-down master planning, while cohesive and potentially visionary, is static and often insensitive to the needs of communities and individuals. Bottom-up advocacy planning addresses these issues, but can be fragmented and fall victim to “design by committee”. The Web provides a virtual medium for a sophisticated new approach whereby an organized vision for an entire city can emerge from networks of citizens working to improve their local environments . Vacant properties provide the physical medium, open to transformative new possibilities. Neither top down, nor bottom up, Possible City is a web-based framework for a symbiotic network of continuous experimentation, feedback, and synthesis more in-tune with the city as a complex and evolving entity.
(via urbanresolve)
A Google Map of Mexico City’s Street Vendors
Scientists will sometimes stain a certain element of organic matter to enhance its visibility under a microscope. These surreal and sharply colored images could be mistaken for such contrast-enhanced biological material.
They are actually Google Earth photos of tianguis, the famous street markets that spring up all across the Distrito Federal. In a collection compiled by Fabian Neuhaus of UrbanTick, and featured on Nicola Twiley’s Edible Geography on Monday, the markets — sheltered beneath red plastic tarps, which gives them their distinctive appearance from the air - look more like living organisms than groups of merchants. They sprawl down certain streets, seemingly chosen at random from an endless grid, turning corners or branching off into side streets. Their logic, from above, is mysterious and undeniable.
Read more. [Image: Flickr/UrbanTick]
Studio Gang
“Recombinant House”
Flexible Spaces Designed for Contemporary Families
Concept completed 2012
Architects: Personal Architecture BNA
Location: The Hague, the Netherlands
Area: 225 sqm
Year: 2012
Iveria Hotel in Tbilisi
Built in 1967 as a luxury hotel, but became a refugee camp housing more than 800 people. The hotel was then renovated and in 2009 reopened as the Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel.
(via architectureofdoom)
Mundus Mound
“Free Design through Steel”
Artur Marques Kalil
Competition Entry for ACSA Steel Competition 2008
Seem Familiar?
http://www.studiogang.net/work/2012/gardeninthemachinetower
Aerial view of El Ateuf, M’Zab Valley, Algeria (32°27’N, 3°44’E)
(Source: noctuaries, via urbanresolve)
