ArchtRoom

This design for a house on a Washington state ranch by Peter Macapia, the principal of Brooklyn-based Design Office for Research and Achitecture (DORA), applies his interest in the relationship of formal geometries and energy relations. 



Archrecord 

YourWorkForThem

Approaching the Louvre Museum in Abi Dhabi from the city, the white, low cupola seems a flattened echo of the round cupolas found in Arab architecture.

Approaching from the water, the shaded space shows its scattered light, which continues the sparkling light of the water onto the architecture.

On a more abstract level, the museum is a ‘city’ with houses, streets and plaza’s that is ‘protected’ from the sun by a Buckminster Fuller kind of dome. If we fold it a bit further: if ‘protection’ becomes ‘conservation’, we could also read in it all a small Pompeii. The cupola becomes the ash that conserves a civilization.



Eikongraphia

The existing construction primarily started as an office building; the building is re-designed as a residence bearing the Loft concept. The long, thin planned building is located on a total 3.870sqm area, the front block consists of 11 stories above the ground floor, and the rear block is ground-floor +7 stories. Lofts are at various sizes and types; differing from 68 to182sqm; including duplexes; with terraces or gardens. The façade is perceived as an assortment of boxes; also, each unique module shall be distinguished from outside due to the curtain system, a range of colors and light will be reflected from inside, as a method of benefiting functional solutions for esthetics purposes. Offering an efficient, tranquil, life style in modern-day standards in “downtown”, the complex is supported by the recent technologies; the car park, storage, central heating and ventilation, security, maintenance services and “intelligent house” system grant a user-friendly environment and easy access. The building is not only programmed as a housing facility but also it is planned to be a high quality social venue; the entrance is made through the lobby on the first floor where meeting rooms, a health center, cafés and restaurants and the other common areas take place. Total site area is 3.456 m² and the construction area is 30.159 m².



Architectureweek

第一次相遇：遺忘了的可樂
時裝設計師淑珍每次到便利店買東西，粗心大意的她總會留下銀包和購買的東西。有天她買了可樂，又是這樣子離開，當她醒覺後返回便利店時，只見一個不修邊幅的男人正慢不經意地喝可樂，淑珍憤怒得一手把可樂搶去，更在對方面前一口氣把可樂喝掉，但原來店員保管了她留下的錢包和可樂，而剛才那個男人已不見了。

第一個吻：遺忘了的感覺
機緣巧合下，淑珍再次遇上那個便利店的男人俊樹 - 一個夢想成為建築師的木匠。這次的重遇，淑珍竟被地位身份懸殊的他所吸引，她純真的愛打動了冷漠內斂的俊樹，令從小就被母親遺棄、孤苦伶仃地長大的他，重拾久違了的被愛感覺，敞開心扉，跟淑珍慢慢由朋友成為戀人，後來淑珍更主動向他求婚。

最痛的意外：忘記你是誰
兩人新婚不久，淑珍的失憶症逐漸惡化，更出現老人痴呆症的早期病徵，她甚至連自己是誰也搞不清楚。然而她極愛俊樹，害怕他會從此於腦海中消失，逐漸俊樹亦開始懂得何謂愛..



Added  March 05, 2006
From  adiar

A dramatic new wing of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) designed by Daniel Libeskind is set to open 2 June. Dubbed the Lee-Chin Crystal, the 175,000 square foot aluminum and glass clad building will house seven collection galleries on two levels, two special exhibition spaces, new retail and dining facilities and a new main entrance and lobby. Libeskind’s ‘Crystal” is comprised of five interlocking, self-supporting prismatic structures that interface with the historic buildings that embrace it. With hardly a right angle anywhere, its sloping walls create unique interior spaces with soaring volumes and such distinctive details as the “Spirit House”, a void at the heart of the building that is traversed by criss-crossing bridges. Slashing windows fill the rooms with natural light and create uniquely framed views of the cityscapes outside. The new wing is the centerpiece of the Museum’s $250 million expansion and renovation project to be completed by 2009.


WorldArchitecturenews

LAb[au] is happy to announce you its new urban interactive installation Touch on the DexiaTower and Place Rogier in Brussels, Belgium. The project takes as a starting point Brussels 145 m high DexiaTower, from which 4200 windows can be individually colour-enlightened by RGB-led bars, turning the facade into an immense display.

Instead of considering this infrastructure as a flat screen (surface) displaying pre-rendered video loops, the project is working on the architectural characteristics of the tower and its urban context. The characteristics of the building; orientation, volume, scale… are used as parameters to set up a spatial, temporal and luminous concept, which moreover allows people to directly interact with the tower.On Place Rogier, at the bottom of the tower, a station is mounted where people can interact either individually or collectively with the tower through a multi touch screen.


MediaArchitecture      Video

Kunst oder künstlerisch - imposant auf jedenfall! Die Fassade des Parkhaus KaDeWe, ausgestattet mit über 100 farbigen Perspexkanälen und dem idee. Schriftzug mit LED animiert, macht ordentlich was her.


Roomdividion

The Governor of Kaohsiung, Taiwan announced that Mecanoo architecten has won the design competition for the new National Performing Arts Centre. At 100,000 m2 the National Performing Arts Centre is to become the largest theatre complex in Taiwan. An important source of inspiration for Mecanoo’s building design were the existing one of the world’s largest trees, the banyan trees on location. The partially grass and plant covered roof creates natural and efficient building cooling in the subtropical climate. The large roof also provides an informal public space where the city residents can stroll, practice Tai Chi, mediate or just relax. The design also consists of a concert hall of 2,300 seats, an opera house with 2,000 seats, a theatre hall with 1000 seats, an experimental Black Box with 500 seats, an open-air theatre and park design. Work on the 200m Euros is set to begin in early 2009 and to be completed by 2012.


WorldArchitectureNews

上週六去河岸留言聽雷光夏的表演，她在最後唱了一首經典老歌David Gates的IF，這首歌在她的詮釋下實在是非常的好聽!!下面放了原唱的歌曲，大家可以聽聽看..





David Gates, IF

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships, then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you, You're all that's left me to.
And when my love for life is running dry, you come and pour yourself from me.
If a man could be two places at one time, I'd be with you.
Tommorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you. And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out, then you and I would simply fly away.

Frank Gehry is adding a much-needed touch of lightness to the Manhattan skyline just as the city finally emerges from a period of mourning.

IAC headquarters building.
March 22, 2007, Manhattan, New York.

~雷光夏~這位歌手大家應該不是很熟悉，起初我也是，就一次因緣巧合下，我在敦南誠品樓下的演藝廳，聽了一場名為『小王子』的音樂劇，因為這場音樂劇很特殊，她請了~黃心健~也就是「故事巢」的負責人幫她製作人機互動的部份，讓她的音樂與小王子的故事結合，現場讓人有種置身於奇幻世界的氛圍，回頭仔細寧聽她的音樂，在她的詮釋底下，讓人卸下彼此之間的防備，身體自然的放鬆了，直到表演結束，感覺好像夢醒了....

Title: The Artist himself
Name: Piotr Wysocki
Country: United Kingdom
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop, ZBrush

前天在cgtalk看到Piotr Wysocki的新作，很難相信這張也是cg作品吧!!
令我咋舌的是這個作品居然也是出自於Maya的Mental ray，前一陣子有看到一些大師的
作品用Maya做出一些極為擬真的人物作品，主因應該是受到Mental ray sss for Maya的
影響，sss就是最常被使用在皮膚製作的材質球，可以把人皮膚透光的質感製作出來，
當然要做出好的作品貼圖也是不可以忽略的，像是這個作品photoshop製作了8張貼圖
，有機會在來分享製作的方法，人物上的毛髮Pioty是使用Maya fur所製作而成，fur就我
所知結合Mental ray做出這樣的效果並非難事，在light的部份就是經驗了，如何有效的
設定Final Gather and Global Illumination做出期望的效果，再者就是深入了解自然環
境下光影的變化是如何影響物體的..，留給下次在來討論囉。

       此行真是得來不易，換了幾家旅行社後，在最後一天才順利後補上，早上8點就到台北火車站等待遊覽車的到來，在集合時就看到一群人，手裡都提著必備的裝備，安全帽、毛巾、手套和一件厚外套，時間到大家浩浩蕩蕩的陸續上車，車上也有一位外國朋友，看的出來她也是有備而來的。

       到了台南之後，領隊跟我們說要我們當護龍使者，其實就是他們會排長達3公里的鞭炮，而我們就是要維護它不被人破壞，感覺好像有點被利用，不過我們也趁它在準備時，到附近的夜市閒晃閒晃，等到快6點時，大會點燃火龍，鞭炮從遠遠的一端，逐步的朝向我們逼近，聲音越來越大聲，到我們面前時，距離不到1公尺，爆炸的威力立即的波及到我們，如雷的聲音，把小魚都震我後方閃躲了，我的耳朵也快承受不住了。