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BREAK SPACE AD1.1 // ARCS449
TUTORS:
MOHAMAD HAFEDA ANNA PEPE ANN STEWART
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SOU FUJIMOTO MANY SMALL CUBES-PARIS
Sou Fujimoto exhibited an inhabitable sculpture of stacked and suspended aluminum cubes as part of the FIAC art fair in the Parisian Jardins des Tuileries’ gardens. The installation, “Many Small Cubes” is his first project in Paris and was commissioned by the Philippe Gravier art gallery as an exploration of nomadic structures and Sou Fujimoto’s concept of bringing architecture closer to nature. "The floating masses of Many Small Cubes creates a new experience of space, a rhythm of flickering shadows and lights like the sun filtering through leafy trees,” described Sou Fujimoto. "The architecture forms one unified element whose balance and stability are carefully designed: the position of each cube and each tree participates to the overall stability, yet reaching a random-like feeling, bringing the whole architecture closer to nature." A void in the centre represents the "living area", with formal entrances at either side and lots of other access points if "one doesn't mind lowering their head," said a statement from Fujimoto. The structure is intended to represent a "nomadic" house and serve partly as an architectural intervention and partly as a sculpture.
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SOU FUJIMOTO SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION -LONDON
The Serpentine Pavilion 2013 is a delicate, three-dimensional, latticed structure, each unit of which is composed of fine steel bars. It forms a semi-transparent, irregular shape, simultaneously protecting visitors from the elements while allowing them to remain part of the landscape. The depth of the grid at different locations will create thicker walls or thinner, transparent sections. The building’s footprint is 357 square metres and the gross internal area is 142 square metres. The Pavilion has two entrances, with a series of stepped terraces to provide integrated seating. The topography of the grid is a flexible, multipurpose social space, where the walls, seating and roof are made of the same steel cubes. In this way, the organic structure of the Pavilion overall creates an adaptable terrain, encouraging visitors to create their own experience of the building.
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MICHAEL RAKOWITZ paraSITE HOMELESS SHELTER -1997
Polyethylene, 42" x 36" x 11' (107 x 91.5 x 335 cm) Like a parasite, this temporary and transportable shelter for the homeless is dependent on a host, in this case the outtake duct of a building’s HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning) system. In 1997 Rakowitz proposed a prototype of this shelter to Bill Stone, a homeless man in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the time, city officials were installing tilted grates over air vents in Harvard Square so that homeless people could not sleep on them. Rakowitz created the first paraSITE homeless shelter from discarded materials, including Ziploc bags and packing tape. Now it is made of polyethylene, a common type of plastic. He has custom-made dozens of similar shelters that are in use in several East Coast cities. They cost approximately five dollars to make and are provided free of charge.
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