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003 Architectural Concept – Suveyda Pavillion
October 15th, 2011 | 
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In the Name of the Mere Unknown
Mankind… the noblest creature… the talker animal… the thoughtful brain
Who analyses everything around him, analyses, theorizes. He hypothesizes. He proves a theory. He understands everything, he thinks he understands everything. He thinks he is a mankind because he thinks.
A Cube, a Rectangular Cube
Look at him afar… What do you see?! A pendant cube in the air, being pendant between the earth and the sky, being pendant between physics and ultra. His tendency to flight is eternal, permanent. Though, terrestrial attractions attract him such that the flight of the soul has been legend for him.
He can culminate more than angels but what a profit from the attractions which have crucified his heavenly wings and pull him from every side.
With an external layer, a white cortex. A face, a small face which has decorated itself with various notions, diverse thoughts.
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Aurora Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010
Chinese jade culture through its 8,000-year history will take center stage at the Taiwan-based Aurora Group’s Expo 2010 Pavilion. Jade symbolizes the national character such as gentleness, perseverance and the pursuit of peace, and the Expo will provide a platform to help promote such hopes, Tan Baijuan, deputy director of the pavilion, said yesterday while unveiling the design.
The pavilion will feature rare exhibits such as a piece of 2.5-ton jade and Beijing Olympic medals made of fine jade from the Kunlun Mountains in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province.
The theatre inside the pavilion will show Chinese myths and about 30 rare jade relics from the Aurora Museum will also be exhibited. The biggest challenge now is to squeeze the soul of jade’s history spanning thousands of years into a short journey of 20 minutes, said Tan. More images after the break.
UNStudio – New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion
New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion, Battery Park, New York, USA, 2008 – 2009
UNStudio:
Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos with Wouter de Jonge, Christian Veddeler and Kyle Miller, Jan Schellhoff, Wesley Lanckriet, Arndt Willert
Advisors:
Handel Architects, New York
(Executive Architect)
Gary Handel, AIA, D. Blake Middleton, FAIA, LEED AP, Stephen Matkovits, AIA, LEED AP, Mark Morris
Buro Happold
(Lighting Design and Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection Engineering)
as seen on ArchDaily
Structural Concept – TERMES Pavillion at London’s Pestival
Joseph BurnsThe much anticipated Termite Pavilion arrived at the International Arts Pestival in London earlier this week. The Pestival is “a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect…it is a rare creature: an international, inter-disciplinary, community-led festival.” Inspired by the Namibian termite mounds, the six square meter walk-in solid timber structure ”allows Pestival goers a unique insight into these extraordinary organic forms.”
Joseph BurnsBased on the work of Dr. Rupert Soar and the TERMES project, the pavilion is a 3D central section of a termite mound that is scaled up to accommodate humans. The structure will arrive in kit form, to be put together on site. It is made of cross laminated timber, sourced from Austrian spruce, for reasons of sustainability, durability and cost.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavillion for World Expo 2010
In 1976, Centre Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, turned the building inside out and made utility ductworks part of the architectural expression. It was unprecedented thus a breakthrough in the field of architecture.
In 2010, we will have gone through a long period of rapid technological advancement and the amount of infrastructure in a building will have dramatically increased to the point that technologies are today’s basic building blocks. For Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, we would like to manifest this observation in our design: the interior spaces of the Shanghai Corporate Pavilion, which are shaped as a series of free, flowing forms, will be no longer enclosed by walls of the static kind but a dense, cubic volume of infrastructural network, including LED lights and mist making system, which are capable of changing the appearance of the building from one moment to another as programmed through computer.
