As we gear up for phase 2 at Thornhill Primary School, we started thinking about the frisson between indoor (dance) vs outdoor play (football). How could the proximity of adjacent activities be emphasised? With the goal as a window? A goggle of ‘glass goal windows’ threw up some interesting possibilities…
And if not through materiality, then what about cross-programming? The dance in football vs the football in dance? http://plashingvole.blogspot.com/2010/06/peace-reigns-once-more.htmlLa Cachucha, by Friedrich Albert Zorn vs Roger Milla in Italia ’90…
Hybrid/ge is a hybrid bridge. It is an assembly of connections. Bridges connect two points but for how long? The demand from a public civic client for an ‘iconic’ architecture is a titanic struggle between architecture as marketing (cost) and an architecture of sales (income). The brief might be an iconic bridge for Amsterdam but this relegates the primary purpose of a bridge – to connect – for a greater demand – that of attraction. The physical is bypassed for the visual. The Hybrid/ge’s iconography is withdrawn from the aesthetic of money. Bridge brokering…
In our current age of the look-at-me iconic building, it has been interesting to consider the ‘invisible’ building. Version 2: a building (house) which cannot be seen from 100% of the Conservation Area…
London was once a medieval walled city with just seven city gates before transforming into the urban mass recognisable today as being served by sixteen air ports (Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton, Stansted and City), all interconnected / served by rail and bus transport links.
An 8yo child asked: what’s faster: a horse? a bus? a taxi? a train? a helicopter? or a plane? Well, it depends…
In our current age of the look-at-me iconic building, it has been interesting to consider an ‘invisible’ building. A building (seven storey mixed-use) which cannot be seen from 92% of the Conservation Area… the anti-wow-now!