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Mario Botta's Sketches 2007-05-03 09:34:00 Here is the catalyst that inspired me to paint the cube with blackboard paint. I hoped that this would start happening in the studio, and quite honestly; it did on a small scale Read more:Mario
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My Reply 2007-05-03 09:28:00 My Reply:I agree with you 100%. It is the prerogative of every year to do asthey see fit, and from that point of view, all I can do is grieve fromthe sidelines. As a member of the Wits Architecture School and one ofthe partners who created the cube, I feel that criticism needs to bevoiced at the seemingly irrational decision to paint the cube inanything but blackboard paint. I feel what has been done in the secondyear studio is an act of interior decorating, and not architecture. Onthe contrary, no new architectural value has been added to the studio,in fact, as the blackboard was an defining element of spacial use andnot a mere box, by painting the cube that revolting colour, they havetaken a step backwards in the progression of the studio space. Now theblackboard cube has been turned into another boring room flanked bytwo other boring rooms on its left and right. Rather than investingmoney into paint, it would have been a more beneficial exercise toinvestigate how to fix the three ho
Reply 2007-05-03 09:25:00 Eduardo, please forgive me for posting your work without your permission, I would just like this topic to continue here on my blog too.This was a reply by a student on the Wits Architecture Group"Wow, this is serious indeed...I agree with the colours being wrong for the studio; baby blue, dirtyblue, and some kind of red.As for the blackboard paint being painted over, I really thing it iswhichever years choice to do with that space, what they like. In youryear you felt like a definition of space was needed and you did it. Iremember in our year, we always wanted even the side rooms to havetheir doors completely open.Architecture classes come in waves of passionate ones and thencomplacent ones. At the very least, the second years aren't afraid ofdoing something and making it happen. Much like your year. That canonly be praised.As 'objects' of architecture being desecrated, we as architects cannever be sure of the outcome of a building or how it will be changedby its users over that tim
Model renders 2007-05-10 02:36:00 These are some renders
from our mulit programme project... Its really just playing around at the moment, but keep watching and you will see the development of the model...
Huh? 2007-05-29 10:00:00 10 Points to the person who can explain how this is possible!
Structural Aesthetic 2007-06-05 00:17:00 Here are some sketches from a project handed in yesterday looking at islamic architecture and more specifically the detailing/aesthetic of the structure... Read more:Aesthetic
Ten Years Young 2007-08-12 03:47:00 A lot of talk in johannesburg is about redevelopment, fixing existing problems, changing the urban fabric of the city into a city that above anything else, works.I recently read an article on the city of Modi'in, in Israel. The city is 10 years old! and has a population of 70 000, and has a full infrestucture! the article does the city justice... So happy reading...Ten Years
Young from The Jerusalem Post"Ten years young By ILANA TEITELBAUM Not too long ago, Modi'in was known as a place that delivered a high standard of living for bargain prices. Not anymore. In the past month, let alone the past year, real-estate agents say, property values in the burgeoning suburb have skyrocketed. One of Israel's first planned cities, today it houses some 70,000 people and is expected to expand to accommodate 120,000; yet even an expansion of that magnitude may not be enough to meet the current demand. Soaring prices are due in part to an increase in Modi'in's popularity. "There's not a rental
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