[Gabriele Cappellato, Padova, Docente Accademia di architettura - Università della Svizzera italiana]
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[Nikos Ktenas, Atene, Architetto]
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“Every person dies, but not every person lives.”
Michael Michalko
CARPE DIEM is Latin for “seize the day.”
As a greeting in ancient Rome, it reminded Romans to “seize each day” and live each moment joyously and alive.
Listed below are some materials about attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to help you “seize the day.”
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The structure will be built in a strategic area of the historic quarter EUR on a 55,000-square-meter built surface. The design concept is briefly explained by three images: the ”Theca”, the ”Cloud” and the ”blade” of the Hotel.
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The ”Cloud” is the heart of the project. Its constriction into the ”box” of the Theca underlines the comparison between a free spatial articulation, without rules, and a geometrically defined shape. Inside the Cloud there are: an auditorium for 1850 people, snack points and support services to the auditorium. The Cloud is, without any doubt, the distinctive architectural element of the project: the structure in steel ribs, with its extraordinary visual effect, will be covered by a 15,000-square-meter transparent curtain. The 441-room hotel, the ”blade”, is thought as an independent and autonomous structure. At the underground level of the complex it’s planned a 600-place parking.
Casalgrande, Reggio Emilia, ItalyFonte: http://kkaa.co.jp
We were asked to create a monument in a road roundabout in Casalgrande, an area of Reggio Emilia known for its great tradition and technology for ceramics. This roundabout is surrounded by the beautiful landscape characteristic of that part of Italy.
We took the challenge of involving the ceramic tile as an architectural element itself, avoiding its conventional use as a mere cladding.
Just after developing a specific detail of how to panel and connect standard ceramic tiles, we understood the possibilities of how to assembly and organize them creating different structures.
With this unique structure we wanted to avoid creating a monument that stands in the middle of the site: we wanted it to become part of the site. Therefore we decided to create a wall that simply divides the site in two making it a special place with a dual character, far from the usual and banal roundabouts. Our anti-monumental approach went far enough to decide aligning the direction of the ceramic wall with the road that leads to it so as to make it almost disappear: when reaching the site, drivers will only perceive a roundabout divided by a vertical line. Only when going around it, along the movement of the car the wall extends until appearing with its whole length of 45 meters.
In our buildings we usually work with concepts of anti-dimension or anti-volume but in a project like this with such an especial site (a roundabout only approachable by cars) we wanted to experiment on these concepts’ relationship with dynamic principles such as time, movement and sequential perception.
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Future Shack
1985 – 2001
No fixed address
Fonte: www.seangodsell.com
A mass produced relocatable house for emergency and relief housing. Recycled shipping containers are used to form the main volume of the building. A parasol roof packs inside the container. When erected, the roof shades the container and reduces heat load on the building. Legs telescope from the container enabling it to sited without excavation on uneven terrain.
This house has applications for a variety of needs – post flood, fire, earthquake or similar natural disasters, temporary housing, third world housing, remote housing and so on. The universal nature of the container means that the houses can be stockpiled and easily transported throughout the world. The Future Shack can be fully erected in 24 hours.
As architects in stable democracies our responsibilities are reasonably clear cut. Our role in those societies where freedom has been ripped away by force, or where nature has devastated whole cities, or when generations of minority groups have been forced into a life of poverty because of a political philosophy, is hazy by comparison. The need ‘to house’, born out of the adversity of war offers for architects the opportunity to provide shelter for fellow human beings in need. To that end our building provides:
1. Mass Production
Steel shipping containers are robust and durable. They are a mass produced and inexpensive universal module which forms the basis of this design.
2. Flexibility
As a base module the containers can be stockpiled for use on an ‘as required’ basis. They are designed to be transported by trucks and ships and trains- all infrastructure for the handling of the module is available world wide.
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Packed inside the container is a pair of steel brackets which are fixed to the outside of the container. Inside the brackets are four legs which telescope out and which can therefore enable the module to be sited without the need for extensive site preparation.
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