Image 1 of 5 from gallery of Neva Towers Multifunctional Estate / HOK + FXFOWLE + SPEECH. Courtesy of Renaissance Development
All images, unless otherwise noted, have been taken from the Internet and are assumed to be in the public domain. In the event that there is a problem or error with copyrighted material, the break of the copyright is unintentional and non-commercial and the material will be removed immediately. 58...
A timelapse of tonemapping with Light Layers and postprocessing some random scene inside C4D and Indigo. Maybe interesting for some. Final frame: http://abload.de/img/untitldo5u7f.jpg Music: Afta-1…
www.facebook.com/WiktorFrankoPhotography
Final vision and masterplan for the proposed Seven Lochs Wetland Park at Gartloch / Gartcosh in Glasgow / North Lanarkshire. Sets out proposals for enhancing habitat networks, improving recreational facilities and integrating planned development into this unique wetland landscape.
'All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know' ~ E. Hemingway
Learn how to migrate timelines between DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, and Avid Media Composer in the following post.
The proposal for Huafa Hengqin International Exchange Plaza is the response to a series of requests defined by the brief. The client was seeking an economical design for the project, comprised of a retail podium, an exchange plaza, an office tower and a residential tower with a maximum height of...
The competition aims to discover new innovative solutions to improve residential design and planning for the new developments.
Today I dig into studying the structural element of CCTV by OMA. CCTV has a primary steel structure on the facade which wraps around the whole building as a loop. The pattern on the facade is purely generated from the resulting analysis by several structural engineering softwares. To begin with, I would like to quote some lines from the Introduction of A + U special edition on CCTV by OMA written by Ole Scheeren. He questioned on the nature of skyscrapers and also the future typology of skyscrapers in relation to the urban development. Shibata, N., CCTV by OMA: Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, A+U, Tokyo, 2005. " ... Is it a typology that has become the ultimate tool of financial speculation, enslaved to economics and devoid of contents? Is it nothing more than the constant and monotonous repetition of a piece of land in vertical direction, whose only aim is the profitable multiplication of the value of the ground, and whose only means of expression are reduced to striving for absolute height and dominance of the skyline of a city (if not the whole world)? Is nothing left but the self-referential quality of a vertical line, which desperately seeks (to compensate for the lack of) identity, with a decorative top sprouting a flower, pagoda style or modernist composition? Is the higher the better? all that remains? ... " " ... After the promise of surprising programmatic variety in its initial incarnations (Manhatten), the skyscraper became emptier and emptier - and was finally adopted by Asia ... the ultimate symbol of tis modernisation at the very moment of its conceptual implosion ... " " ... It seems about time to no longer treat this typology as a commercial export product ( and subject it to the apparently irrevocable laws of Central Business Districts as their ultimate model), but instead to re-think the skyscraper as a potential for new urban manifestations ... " - end of quote These questions stay valid, still, that, as we can see there are a lot of new typology in skyscrapers, e.g. challenging structure, modularisation, eco-towers. All these typologies have their validity with, undeniably, strong reasons/motives behind. CCTV does not exclude in this, what I called "A New Movement in Digital Architecture" which I have mentioned in my previous post. So maybe after many years later, CCTV will become like an avant-garde in the history of architecture. Here are some of the highlighted writings in jpeg and some images of CCTV itself. Please click the image for better resolution: Introduction by Ole Scheeren Programme Site Plan Overall Diagrams Text Structural Studies Structural Study Models (there are really a lot of these by Arup!) Unfold Facade showing Structural Stress Text + Exploded Diagram of Facade Final Model featuring its Structure Axo-Diagram Key Text Structural Analysis Structural Documentation Drawings More information can be found from arcspace.com, OMA official website, miragestudio7, e-architect and archiCentral. Last but not least, here's a video clip showing OMA CCTV Presentation Video found at archifield.
