(Source: uclacogen.info)

VENETIAN PIGMENT CHROMATOGRAPHY LABORATORY

Constructing a celebratory space through exploration of Venetian colours and the connections and influences of Venice (the West) and Istanbul (the East) on architecture. This project articulates the colours of Venice through digital design methodology that is driven by the poetic history of Venice and constructing pigment scientific investigation laboratory and sculpting the process of making ink inside the existing Campanile of Venice. St Marks Square is full of exuberance, opulence, sculpture, and colour; the landmark of Venice also required these astonishing architectural elements. The architectural design is elaborated through exploration in Venetian patterns, ornamentations and the influences of domes that links both Venice and the East while also creating functional spaces that also provide a sublime spatiality in contemporary context.

(via fabriciomora)

The Frame House, by Omar Ghazal : socks-studio

“The Frame House is a reimagining of the Scouts’ contribution to the Festival of Britain. In celebrating of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, The Frame House proposes the reconstruction of a temporary park to demonstrate the ideals and benefits of Scouting to the nation. The Frame House thus sets out to provide a contemporary demonstration of the central principles of scouting in structures that allegorically engage with this historical event at the same time as presenting a vision of how architecture for children can realise the Scouts’ ideals.”

- Omar Ghazal

(via ryanpanos)

Perspective section of ‘The Filter House’ featured in the latest issue of P.E.A.R magazine by Matthew Butcher and Tom Noonan

http://www.pearmagazine.eu/P.E.A.R/Issue4.html

(via catrinastewart)

Pascal Bronner - New Opera House, Malta - The Symphonic Cannon

(Source: pascalbronner.com, via catrinastewart)

SOUTHWARK FARMHOUSE MASTERPLAN

New public toilets will be installed all around the borough to generate energy from the biodigesters. The most popular toilets will then cause new farmhouses to grow as communities begin to grow around the biodigesters. 

A new congestion zone will be implemented around the Southwark borough where no petrol producing cars will be allowed through the gates, The congestion zone will be managed by green policemen who will be housed in small elevated police stations dotted around the borough. 

London boroughs now have the duty, under section 40 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act, to have regard for biodiversity. Currently parks and open spaces account for 12% of Southwark’s overall land use with 32 parks, this project will seek to increase this to at least 90% leaving only the transport roads free. New planning laws will be implemented in the borough where all new roofs, balconies and walls will need to be used to grow a certain quantity of vegetables or provide  garden space.

(Source: catrinastewart, via archidose)

The California Cooperative by Justin Randle via The Funambulist

(Source: ryanpanos)

REM KOOLHAAS’ STUDENTS

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION UNIT 6 STUDENT PROJECTS, 1970s

(Source: betonbabe, via victortsu)

Fun House - Eric Owen Moss

(via catrinastewart)

Nicolas Schöeffer - La tour de Lumière

(Source: urbain, via ethel-baraona)

Highlines of New York; Chelsea School of Aerial Arts by Adam Shapland via The Funambulist

The project seeks to explore an architecture that is responsive to the analytical exploration of narratives formulated through extractions of dynamic characteristics in an individual. The tightrope engages with a conventionally hidden or unseen landscape of the City, temporarily removing the user and viewer from spectacles of the ‘everyday’ and entering them into territories of fragile existence. The scheme exists as an academy for tightrope walkers and aerial artists with the intension to address the notion that architecture should be activated and defined by the events that happen within, around and on it.

(Source: ryanpanos)

Feix & Merlin’s proposal for the Gasholder No. 8 in Kings Cross

(Source: feixandmerlin.com, via co-zine)

Massimo Morozzi, Cultural Center within the Emperor’s Castle, Prato, Italy 

(Source: archiveofaffinities, via ethel-baraona)

About Filipa Valente

Architect, Experience & Environmental Interaction Designer

I am currently based in Los Angeles, California, after having completed a Masters in Design Research on Media Art and Architecture (MediaSCAPES) at SciArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture).

I am a practicing Architect and graduated from the Graduate Diploma and BSc in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London UK. Through work experience and since my graduation in 2008 I have had the opportunity to work for different architectural practices around the world and also have been able to pursue some of my own personal work and frequent collaborations. During the past years I have held positions at Zaha Hadid Architects, Amanda Levete Architects and Wilkinson Eyre Architects in London.

As an Architect, my work is strongly rooted in the field of architecture, but I am extremely interested in combining this field with a strong passion for experience design, environmental interaction and media art. My current research explores relationships between generative and virtual space design, our bodies and the creation of interactive environments to enrich the experience of space.

(Source: jorgevaliente)

EMILIO AMBASZ

COOPERATIVE OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN GRAPE GROWERS IN CALIFORNIA, 1979

(Source: betonbabe, via ethel-baraona)