As I sipped a much-needed cappuccino on the patio,Herzog took exception to that idea. “If there is any new direction in the office,” he said, “it is driven by me and
Pierre and by us alone!”.
a good read - Full article On Credit
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Trondheim Text
Let me know your comments. Everything else is ready to go up otherwise.
NYHAVNA, TRONDHEIM
The city of Trondheim plans to revitalize the Northeastern district of Nyhavna from a underutilized harbor-industrial zone into a hub of cultural and social development.
The site, 1.5 km from the city center, is defined by two radically different scales of building: huge concrete bunkers left over from World War II and a settlement of small, wooden squatter-turned-owner houses that have sparked a new burgeoning arts community.
To catalyze the site's development, two interventions are proposed: the transformation of an imposing, Nazi-built submarine bunker into an icon of arts and culture, and a new 21-unit 'house' with a gallery on the ground floor.
DORA ISLAND
The submarine bunker, named Dora 1, has a casing built from three meters of solid concrete to withstand Allied attacks. Its solidity has thwarted demolition attempts since the end of the war, with the building finally being accepted as a permanent fixture in 2003 when it became the home of the city and state archives.
Given the impenetrability of the structure, any architectural alteration of Dora would be impractical, if not physically futile. Therefor, rather than alter the building itself, we decided to simply change its context.
By surrounding Dora with water, a single intervention that simultaneously underlines its indestructibility and foreignness, the harbor is remodeled into an animated social waterfront. Dora becomes an island: a centerpiece for the reimagined neighborhood and a destination of artistic experimentation.
THE WOODBLOCK HOUSE
Conceived as three wooden blocks with one tipped over, the Woodblock House is a 21-unit residential building designed to integrate into the homey neighborhood of Svartloemen. The tipped block creates a raised and semi-private courtyard, bringing light and air to the residences at the middle of the deep site.
Within the tipped block is a ground-floor gallery, lit by the windows-turned-skylights above and contributing to the expansion of small galleries throughout Nyhavna.
The 21 unique residential units are organized into three distinct types: double-height garden lofts, studios with individual balconies, and pitched-roof cabins complete with fireplaces.
NYHAVNA, TRONDHEIM
The city of Trondheim plans to revitalize the Northeastern district of Nyhavna from a underutilized harbor-industrial zone into a hub of cultural and social development.
The site, 1.5 km from the city center, is defined by two radically different scales of building: huge concrete bunkers left over from World War II and a settlement of small, wooden squatter-turned-owner houses that have sparked a new burgeoning arts community.
To catalyze the site's development, two interventions are proposed: the transformation of an imposing, Nazi-built submarine bunker into an icon of arts and culture, and a new 21-unit 'house' with a gallery on the ground floor.
DORA ISLAND
The submarine bunker, named Dora 1, has a casing built from three meters of solid concrete to withstand Allied attacks. Its solidity has thwarted demolition attempts since the end of the war, with the building finally being accepted as a permanent fixture in 2003 when it became the home of the city and state archives.
Given the impenetrability of the structure, any architectural alteration of Dora would be impractical, if not physically futile. Therefor, rather than alter the building itself, we decided to simply change its context.
By surrounding Dora with water, a single intervention that simultaneously underlines its indestructibility and foreignness, the harbor is remodeled into an animated social waterfront. Dora becomes an island: a centerpiece for the reimagined neighborhood and a destination of artistic experimentation.
THE WOODBLOCK HOUSE
Conceived as three wooden blocks with one tipped over, the Woodblock House is a 21-unit residential building designed to integrate into the homey neighborhood of Svartloemen. The tipped block creates a raised and semi-private courtyard, bringing light and air to the residences at the middle of the deep site.
Within the tipped block is a ground-floor gallery, lit by the windows-turned-skylights above and contributing to the expansion of small galleries throughout Nyhavna.
The 21 unique residential units are organized into three distinct types: double-height garden lofts, studios with individual balconies, and pitched-roof cabins complete with fireplaces.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
DALLAS slide 2.0
I just took the most complicated way to upload a pdf on the blog. sucks.
and now us:
JDS Agenda Text
This JDS description of their new book Agenda, is what I feel like alot of our (or at least my) text reads like. And its something that would be good to avoid. Very fluffy.
AGENDA is an architecture book that occupies the territory between a monograph, a diary, and a collection of essays, interviews, and conversations. At its most harmless AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent.
Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. “Change,” the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape.
Bringing together diverse forms of content, AGENDA is a product of vigilant observation, introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and collaborators - artists, curators, politicians, authors, economists, journalists, developers, educators, and architects.
AGENDA is a record of search and research, providing more questions than answers.
AGENDA is unapologetically naive.
AGENDA is an unorthodox architecture novel.
AGENDA demystifies the practice of architecture, revealing process, research, fun, and failure.
AGENDA looks to both the past and the future.
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There will be book launch parties in Rotterdam on 20 November, Oslo on 28 November, Brussels on 3 December, and New York City on 10 December.
Launches in Copenhagen, Paris, Barcelona, and London will follow in early 2010. More details about the launch parties and about how to obtain your own copy of AGENDA will be posted soon. AGENDA will be available worldwide in December.
http://blog.jdsarchitects.com/events/jds-releases-new-book-agenda/
AGENDA is an architecture book that occupies the territory between a monograph, a diary, and a collection of essays, interviews, and conversations. At its most harmless AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent.
Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. “Change,” the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape.
Bringing together diverse forms of content, AGENDA is a product of vigilant observation, introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and collaborators - artists, curators, politicians, authors, economists, journalists, developers, educators, and architects.
AGENDA is a record of search and research, providing more questions than answers.
AGENDA is unapologetically naive.
AGENDA is an unorthodox architecture novel.
AGENDA demystifies the practice of architecture, revealing process, research, fun, and failure.
AGENDA looks to both the past and the future.
.
There will be book launch parties in Rotterdam on 20 November, Oslo on 28 November, Brussels on 3 December, and New York City on 10 December.
Launches in Copenhagen, Paris, Barcelona, and London will follow in early 2010. More details about the launch parties and about how to obtain your own copy of AGENDA will be posted soon. AGENDA will be available worldwide in December.
http://blog.jdsarchitects.com/events/jds-releases-new-book-agenda/
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Strikethrough Comment
DALLAS PEAKS USES PRODUCES ALL OF ITS OWN ENERGY
This isnt quite the right sentence, but I still like the strikethrough technique.
This isnt quite the right sentence, but I still like the strikethrough technique.
DALLAS slide draft 1
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dallas Text 2.1
What if you could make more energy by building more housing?
Dallas Peaks is a 600,000sf high-density residential downtown project that challenges the traditional relationship between housing and the city, transforming a typology of wasteful consumption into a new model for ecological productivity, economical viability and urban community.
The project, located in Dallas’ Central Business District, is a formation of 500 apartments above 75,000sf of commercial and 40,000sf of arable farmland shaped maximize the on-site production of energy, introduce a rural setting and enhance community dynamics.
The typical metropolitan residential building has inflated into a massive block of deep floorplates, artificial lighting and an inherent dependence on extensive mechanical ventilation systems.
By splitting a conventional block into a series of individual peaks, the average depth of floorplates is cut in half, taking advantage of natural ventilation and light, automatically reducing the building’s energy demand.
The Peaks are positioned to exploit the potential to harness solar and wind energy: shadowing is minimized on the south-facing facades to provide for 60,000 sf of optimal photovoltaic panels and the sloped edges of the peaks act as wind-accelerating ridges for the installation of over 220 vertical-axis wind turbines.
The design of Dallas Peaks is no more than a response to opportunities provided by the immediate ecological conditions.
What if you could spend less money by making more energy?
Dallas Peaks’ produces more energy than it consumes, technically annulling its demand from the existing urban infrastructure by applying a new and profitable business model.
Under typical financing models, the large costs associated with an energy producing system of such magnitude negate their feasibility.
Paradoxically, it is the maximized productive capacity achieved through the design of Dallas Peaks that maximizes the financial potential of the downtown site. The financial success is dependent on the extent of energy produced on site which in turn is dependent on the design.
The sole reduction of energy consumption within a building does not make environmentally responsive architecture.
The infrastructural productivity of the project allows Dallas Peaks to anchor a three-party relationship with the city energy grid and private energy providers. The energy systems are paid for, installed, maintained and managed by the providers, whom the production of energy guarantees a 5 year return of investment scheme based on selling the clean energy to the power grid. Dallas Peaks receives a percentage of the profits and also nullifies/ discharges the additional load on the urban energy network.
The collaboration between developer and energy provider does not only have a positive effect on the environment, but it increases the financial profit of the downtown site and implicitly brings economic benefits to the city.
Dallas Peaks is a 600,000sf high-density residential downtown project that challenges the traditional relationship between housing and the city, transforming a typology of wasteful consumption into a new model for ecological productivity, economical viability and urban community.
The project, located in Dallas’ Central Business District, is a formation of 500 apartments above 75,000sf of commercial and 40,000sf of arable farmland shaped maximize the on-site production of energy, introduce a rural setting and enhance community dynamics.
The typical metropolitan residential building has inflated into a massive block of deep floorplates, artificial lighting and an inherent dependence on extensive mechanical ventilation systems.
By splitting a conventional block into a series of individual peaks, the average depth of floorplates is cut in half, taking advantage of natural ventilation and light, automatically reducing the building’s energy demand.
The Peaks are positioned to exploit the potential to harness solar and wind energy: shadowing is minimized on the south-facing facades to provide for 60,000 sf of optimal photovoltaic panels and the sloped edges of the peaks act as wind-accelerating ridges for the installation of over 220 vertical-axis wind turbines.
The design of Dallas Peaks is no more than a response to opportunities provided by the immediate ecological conditions.
What if you could spend less money by making more energy?
Dallas Peaks’ produces more energy than it consumes, technically annulling its demand from the existing urban infrastructure by applying a new and profitable business model.
Under typical financing models, the large costs associated with an energy producing system of such magnitude negate their feasibility.
Paradoxically, it is the maximized productive capacity achieved through the design of Dallas Peaks that maximizes the financial potential of the downtown site. The financial success is dependent on the extent of energy produced on site which in turn is dependent on the design.
The sole reduction of energy consumption within a building does not make environmentally responsive architecture.
The infrastructural productivity of the project allows Dallas Peaks to anchor a three-party relationship with the city energy grid and private energy providers. The energy systems are paid for, installed, maintained and managed by the providers, whom the production of energy guarantees a 5 year return of investment scheme based on selling the clean energy to the power grid. Dallas Peaks receives a percentage of the profits and also nullifies/ discharges the additional load on the urban energy network.
The collaboration between developer and energy provider does not only have a positive effect on the environment, but it increases the financial profit of the downtown site and implicitly brings economic benefits to the city.
More Text Part 1
What if you could make more energy by making more housing?
What if you could spend less money by making more energy?
What if you could spend less money by making more energy?
Friday, November 6, 2009
Dallas Text 2.0
1.DESIGN driven by housing, energy and business model
-concept/ statement
What if energy production would maximize the financial efficiency of urban development?
-what
Dallas Peaks is a 600,000 sf, high-density residential project situated in the Central Business District that reinvents the relationship between people, housing and the city, transforming a typology of wasteful consumption into a new model for ecological productivity, social diversity and economical viability.
The project is a formation of 500 apartments addressing a broad spectrum of socio-economic conditions, above 75,000 sf of commercial and 40,000 sf of arable farmland, articulated to emphasize natural lighting, ventilation and spatial diversity of the living units, while maximizing the renewable energy production.
-how
The typical metropolitan residential building has inflated into a massive block of deep floorplates, artificial lighting and an inherent dependence on extensive mechanical ventilation systems.
- By splitting a conventional block into a series of individual peaks, the average depth of floorplates is cut in half, taking advantage of natural ventilation and light, automatically reducing the building’s energy demand.
- The Peaks are manipulated with slight variations to increase the site’s potential to harness solar and wind energy: shadowing is minimized on the south-facing facades to provide for 60,000 sf of optimal photovoltaic panels; The sloped edges of the peaks act as wind-accelerating ridges for the installation of over 220 vertical-axis wind turbines.
The design of Dallas Peaks is no more than a social conscious response to opportunities provided by the immediate ecological conditions.
2. ENERGY and BUSINESS MODEL
-goal
The ambition of Dallas Peaks is to produce more energy than it consumes, technically annulling its demand from the existing urban infrastructure.
-why
The concept of ‘green’ buildings is focused on minimizing the energy consumption of structures, while addressing energy production only at a symbolic level.
However, the sole reduction of energy consumption within a building does not make environmentally responsive architecture. While it ensures a reduction of the CO2 footprint, it fails to address the big picture: the source of energy. By doing so, so-called sustainable projects remain parasites, passive entities fundamentally dependent on the established infrastructure, reliant merely on the literal understanding of ‘green’, while leaving it to other fields to solve the burning issues.
-what
Dallas Peaks proposes urban production of renewable energy as a new and profitable business model.
Under normal circumstances the large costs associated with either the production or the infrastructure necessary to bring renewable energy to the city, negate their feasibility.
Paradoxically, it is the maximized productive capacity achieved through the design of Dallas Peaks that maximizes the financial potential of the downtown site. The financial success is dependent on the extent of energy produced on site which in turn is dependent on the design.
-how
The infrastructural productivity of the project allows Dallas Peaks to anchor a three-party relationship with the city energy grid and private energy providers. The energy systems are paid for, installed, maintained and managed by the providers, whom the volume of onsite production guarantees a 5 year return of investment scheme based on selling the clean energy to the power grid. Dallas Peaks receives a percentage of the profits and also nullifies/ discharges the additional load on the urban energy network.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Dallas Text Draft
100% (renewable) ENERGY - my concern is that it reads as '100% renewable' instead of 100% energy; i guess it's obvious that it is renewable energy
0 cost
renewable/ clean energy for exponential revenue
We create a new type of infrastructural design (project) that implements the urban production of renewable energy as a commercial (highly profitable/ self sustaining) business model.
Its financial success is dependent on the extent of energy produced on site which in turn is dependent/ contingent on the design.
design
I (these are meant to be arrows)
energy
I
profit
The sole reduction of the energy consumption within a building does not make environmentally responsive architecture.
While it reduces the CO2 footprint, it fails to address the big picture: the source of the energy. And by doing so the so-called 'green' projects remain passive, stand-alone entities fundamentally dependent on the established infrastructure, leaving it to others to solve the burning issues/with no awareness of its context. A parasite.
In Dallas Peaks Case Study we show how the design of a 600,000 sf, high-density residential project can create a viable business opportunity with a green heart (how freaking cheesy is that?!), while making the project an active part of the urban energy infrastructure.
The structure is developed to maximize the productive capacity of renewable sources which enable the production of 100% of the energy demand on site. The platforms for 60,000 sf of optimal photovoltaics and over 220 vertical-axis wind turbines on wind-accelerating ridges are rented (is he renting or giving percentages back?) by a third party private energy provider. The entire energy system is paid, installed, maintained and managed by the provider, whom the volume of on site production guarantees a 5 year return of investment scheme based on selling the clean energy to the power grid. (needs rephrasing) whose revenue is proportional with the volume of on-site energy production, in this case 5 year return of investment scheme based on selling clean energy to the power grid.
In parallel, Dallas Peaks profits from renting out the places conceived for maximal energy production and the city benefits by saving infrastructural costs typically connected to the obligatory acquiring of renewable energy.
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