In the February issue, guest editor Winy Maas talks about the importance of water and a new generation of designers working on visionary proposals aimed to save the Earth.
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Water crisis, gentrification, collective architecture. Browse this gallery to discover the features included in the February issue.
Text Winy Maas, photo Amanda Weidemann
Text Javier Arpa, photo Cynthia dan Elk, Ade Adekola, Tobin Jones
Project Design Earth, text Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy
characterise the world’s largest metropolitan area.
Text Jason Hilgefort, photos Virgile Simon Bertrand, Ivan Dupont, IVY Photography, Marcel Lam Photography, Leo Xiao-Yong Wang
Text Rory Stott, photo Unsplash
Project: EM2N Architekten AG; client: Municipalità di Zurigo; landscape architecture: Balliana Schubert, Landschaftsarchitekten AG. Photo Damian Poffet
Project: LIN Architects Urbanists. Photo Nikolai Wolff, Kay Michalak/fotoetage
Project: EM2N Architekten AG; client Cooperative Wogeno, Cooperative Hofgarten, Zurigo. Site supervision Losinger Marrazi AG, photo Damian Poffet
Project Rotor, text Valéry Didelon. Photo Jean-François Flamey, Théophile Flécheux, Cécile Guichard
Project: Brasil Arquitetura – Marcelo Ferraz & Francisco Fanucci. Client: Stato di Pernambuco; air conditioning engineering TR Thérmica; Lighting Design: LUX Projetos – Ricardo Heder. Acoustics Harmonia Acústica – Akkerman, Holtz. Photo Nelson Kon
Project Herzog & de Meuron, photos Adriano A. Biondo, Robert Hoesl
Concept Cookie Heinz Gindullis, SAP SE, text Jan Knikker. Photo Stefan Lucks, Marcus Zumbansen
Direction James Cameron; Production company Twentieth Century Fox; visual effects Weta Digital; year 2009
Design Nuria Salvadó Aragonès, Ines de Rivera Marinel·lo, Daniel Lorenzo Almeida, Roger Sauquet. Photo Adrià Goula
Text Aurora Fernández Per; projects Haworth Tompkins Architects, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands. Photo Morley von Sternberg, Edmund Sumner, Philip Vile
Text Marina Otero Verzier. Photo Johannes Schwartz, C. Bouton
Text, research, infographics: Stefano Andreani, Joanna-Maria Helinurm. Event date: 3 February 2019
Presented by Giulia Guzzini
Photo Nanna Heitmann, Bottrop, 2017, from the series Weg vom Fenster. Presented by Raffaele Vertaldi
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- La redazione di Domus
- 04 February 2019
The issue starts with the Discussion section with a contribution from Dutch water ambassador Henk Ovink, which gives a realistic – and dramatic – insight into the water situation in Europe and the world, but concludes with a message of hope: we can still save the planet but have to do it collectively.
The Landscape section is dedicated to the speculative work Geostories by Design Earth, composed by the duo Rania Ghosn + E, Hadi Jazairy. Their illustrations are projected into the future and offer new ideas for living in space and the abysses. Also presented is the low-budget urban decoration project for Avenida Carles Buïgas in Tarragona, Spain.
In Urbanism we talk about the Greater Bay Area in China, the largest metropolitan area in the world, with ‘creative’ borders and characterized by colossal infrastructural works. The second focus is on the proliferation of hipster aesthetics, defined by a stereotyped imaginary in a gentrified world, which has made cafes all over the world homogeneous.
The Architecture section is populated by a series of projects designed for a community, from the social housing of LIN Architects in Germany and the projects of EM2N in Zurich, to the urban veranda of Brasil Arquitetura in Recife, Brazil. An article recounts the work of the Belgian collective Rotor, and their radical approach to the concept of reuse in architecture.
The chapter on Future city products highlights the sliding shutter systems used for the facade of Herzog & de Meuron’s Meret Oppenheim Hochhaus in Basel, the digitized Data Kitchen in Berlin – the first automatic restaurant in Europe designed around high-quality slow food – and the strategies to safeguard the Coin Street district in London.
The issue closes with the case of the eviction of ADM, one of the last independent communities in Amsterdam, crushed under real estate speculation. The city loses one of the most representative architectural complexes of a radical and visionary housing approach.
The key event covered in this issue is the Super Bowl LIII Atlanta: for the American football final, an ephemeral city works its way into the urban fabric, offering its inhabitants a unique opportunity.
This month’s Rassegna is dedicated to thresholds, best represented by the work of dutch designer Petra Blaisse.
We’ve learned from our first issue of Domus in January, making corrections using the many observations received. The desire to position and quantify the projects we publish keeps improving. The parameters employed to measure our published contents are indicated by the effects that these features have in terms of capacity (space and usage), sustainability, time and economy. These parameters are shown in tags beside each project description. The categories that bundle the approaches towards a comprehensive world agenda have been clarified: landscape, urbanism, architecture, products, art, politics, governance, agents, users, critics, cinema. Reactions have been noted, as with the “I Amsterdam” polemic, a reality already commented upon in January’s article. Again, we welcome your comments.
We still have time to save the planet but the change has to come from us collectively. Interview with Henk Ovink.
To tackle the current crisis of climate change, we must learn to tell different stories.
“Creative” borders and colossal connecting infrastructural works
characterise the world’s largest metropolitan area.
Hipster imagery filtered through design language is homogenising cafés around the world.
With an overhang of 16 m, the roof is a compositional element which characterises the project.
Like many German cities, Bremen is confronted with an increasing housing shortage and a growing demand for affordable housing. In response to this, the largest Bremen housing association, GEWOBA, has prudently taken on a supplementary extension to their existing 45,000+ housing stock.
The apartment building – one of the first built as part of the programme for the new Greencity district, on which several architectural firms are collaborating – occupies a long, narrow site flanked by the railway and a road.
Deconstructing architecture and building social networks are the Rotor collective’s aims and practice.
Overlooking the old port of Recife, a protected national heritage area, the new museum is divided into the reuse of a historical warehouse and construction of an additional 5,000 sqm.
The system of sliding and folding shutters on the facade defines form and aspect of the tower.
The first automated restaurant in Europe is designed around high-quality slow food.
Pandora is a lush and uncontaminated rain forest, a perfectly balanced ecosystem thanks to its direct biochemical interaction with its inhabitants. It is a utopian vision of a more equitable and spiritual relationship between humans, animals, plants, nature and the whole cosmos.
A temporary and reversible project regenerates public space and returns the street to pedestrians.
From the campaigning of the Coin Street Action Group begun in 1977, the strategies of a London community to safeguard and develop their neighbourhood.
With the ADM eviction, Amsterdam also loses one of the architectures that epitomised the once radical and visionary housing projects that the city seemed able to realise. Long under fierce real estate speculation, the majority of its population now struggle to find affordable housing options, notwithstanding the initiatives of cooperatives and some public agencies. In this uninspiring context, the architectures of the squatting movement still unleash strategies of subversion against the market-oriented housing models and policies that overwhelmingly lead the development of cities.
For the American football final, an ephemeral city works its way into the urban fabric, offering its inhabitants a unique opportunity.
Doors and windows that define the confine between inner and outer worlds and the threshold that sanctions the limit between environments lie at the base of any architecture project.
Bottrop, Ruhr area, North Rhine- Westphalia region. When short of breath, men working for Prosper Haniel, the last coal mine to be shut down in Germany, would look out of windows like those of this house to catch a breath of fresh air. And when they stopped, those who remained would say they had “gone out of the window” (“Weg vom Fenster”).