Folly for a Flyover

Non-profit organisation Assemble have constructed a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover. Folly for a Flyover was assembled by a team of volunteers over the course of a month, using reclaimed and donated materials. It remains in place for six weeks, staging a series of movies and performances as part of the Create festival.

This particular example is one of the successful design which attract people in that area, yet the function of the space is for leisure. In my opinion to attract people in political purposes is much harder than that, where most people are not interest by it.

Compare that percentage that people interest in different kind of media.

Power of People

Television: Master Chef - Political Talk

Magazine: Sports/ Gossip - Politic Issue

Event: Music event - Political Speech


http://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/05/folly-for-a-flyover-by-assemble/

BMW Guggenheim Lab

The lab (Atelier Bow-Wow as architect) is hosting a series of programs around the theme of comfort in the city, including talks, exhibitions, discussions, screenings, workshops and games. 

New York, NY, August 2, 2011 – The BMW Guggenheim Lab launches its nine-city worldwide tour tomorrow in Manhattan’s East Village. 

A combination of think tank, public forum, and community center, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will offer free programs that explore the challenges of today’s cities within a mobile structure that was designed to house this urban experiment. Over the next six years, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will go through three successive cycles, each with its own theme and specially designed mobile structure. Each structure will travel to three different locations, building on-site and online communities around the BMW Guggenheim Lab that raise awareness of important issues, generate ideas specific to each urban situation, and engage with innovative and sustainable designs, yielding lasting benefits for cities around the world.

“Rather than architects educating the public on how to behave within spaces, it is the public who should have the autonomy of spatial practice in their cities,” stated Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow. “We have always been advocates of people regaining ownership in order to shape the city around them, and are very pleased to participate in the launch of the BMW Guggenheim Lab. We always conceived the Lab as a public space without enclosure".

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/04/bmw-guggenheim-lab-by-atelier-bow-wow/

Multi Mill

Dutch studio NL Architects have won a competition to design a stage intended to sit on a breakwater in the river IJ, Amsterdam. Called Multi Mill, the structure is meant to host performances including theater, film, fashion, sculpture, sound and light art, dance, video and music. The design consists of three arms extending from a central platform: a screen, stepped seating and a longer catwalk. 

Different views should attract people to explore new space.





Here's the video of Tomomi Hayashi's; the Architect; thought about this project and value of the space LIFT11 - TO THE SEA


http://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/17/multi-mill-by-nl-architects/

thinkingthroughthecity.com

You better make it count, because you’re voting every day

Habit Makes Us Blind

These conceptual images by Spanish studio Espai MGR show impossible Lego structures filling vacant neighbourhood plots in Valencia. The aim of the project, named Habit Makes Us Blind, is to draw attention to the problem of unused spaces in urban environments.

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/05/06/habit-makes-us-blind-by-espai-mgr/


How to make people aware of Government?

Inspiration Wall - Singapore

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009

This Pavilion is designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA.

“The Pavilion is floating aluminum (metal), drifting freely between the trees like smoke. The reflective canopy undulates across the site, expanding the park and sky. Its appearance changes according to the weather, allowing it to melt into the surroundings. It works as a field of activity with no walls, allowing views to extend uninterrupted across the park and encouraging access from all sides. It is a sheltered extension of the park where people can read, relax and enjoy lovely summer days.” says Kazuyo and Ryue.

Open and ephemeral in structure, its translucent and reflective materials make it sit seamlessly within the natural environment, reflecting both the park and sky around it.

Separate areas within the Pavilion contain spaces for a café and an auditorium, where public programmes will be presented, including performances, talks, film screenings and a Poetry Marathon in the Park Nights at the Serpentine Gallery programme.

The aluminum/ metal material allow us to experience the reflection from different angle of surroundings views. Therefore it might create indirect communication.

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/04/01/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-by-sanaa/

Cloudscapes

Similar work from Tetsuo Kondo Architects

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar have suspended a cloud inside the Arsenale exhibition space at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

The installation forms part of the exhibition People Meet in Architecture, directed by Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA.

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/06/cloudscapes-by-tetsuo-kondo-architects-and-transsolar/

A Path in the Forest

This work is by Tetsuo Kondo Architects, as part LIFT11, a festival of urban installations in Tallinn’s public spaces for the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011.

"I feel that the appearance of the woods slightly changes when you walk along this path. We no longer are looking up at the woods from the ground but we get closer to the leaves and sliver through the branches. It is a piece of architecture which exists for the woods as the forest exists for the architecture. We can not change the form of the forest but we think the various elements in a forest can become one entity in this condition."

One of the way to achieve the successful design is by making paths to attract people there. It can be a symbol, sound, light, or in this case an actual path that direct people to the space.

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/10/10/a-path-in-the-forest-by-tetsuo-kondo-architects/

STP - exemplar

STP (Stockholmsporten) by Bjarke Ingels Group and Jakob Lange

This project came as a possible solution of a current infrastructure in Stockholm, where the area then separate into four parts, that the physical roads is the main visual barriers to have connection between surrounding neighbourhood.

"This Stockholm Sphere connects these four parts with a landscape loop. A continuous circular bike and pedestrian path aligned with public buildings and functions reconnects the different areas in an un-hierarchical and democratic way." big.dk