Remodelação de apartamento em Lisboa, Portugal

A lok está neste momento em fase de acompanhamento de obra de uma remodelação de um pequeno apartamento de aproximadamente 60 m2, na zona do Rego em Lisboa.

Com um orçamento reduzido e um prazo bastante restrito a cumprir, o trabalho foi direccionado no sentido de uma economia de projecto, material, tempo e dimensão de obra. Optou-se por um desenho sintético e por soluções correntes, capazes de se conformarem com a situação existente mas, ao mesmo tempo, de impulsionarem qualitativamente as suas dimensões tipológicas e a experiência de habitar.

Publicam-se aqui algumas imagens do apartamento original, e desenhos do que se pretende que venha a tornar-se. Durante o decorrer do processo publicaremos mais informação de modo a que o projecto se vá desvendando e a que possam acompanhar a sua transformação.

Todos os comentários serão bem vindos e tentaremos responder com prontidão e clareza às dúvidas que vos surjam, por isso não se acanhem!

Entrada do apartamento, com vista em direcção à sala (em frente) e cozinha (ao fundo à esquerda). A porta a meio do corredor faz acesso à casa-de-banho. A aduela branca do lado esquerdo da imagem pertence à entrada no quarto principal. Directamente atrás fica o quarto secundário.

Sala

Cozinha

Quartos

Casa-de-banho

Pop-Up Landscapes no canal Hangar

"Je me vide de moi-même", Jan Fabre

In his book Hypertext 3.0, George P. Landon presents the conceptual background and identifies the characteristics of an information structure that departs from the conventional way of constructing and absorbing textual content. Hypertext, as a new paradigm, marks a break with the classical tradition of reading in a linear motion, becoming an expression of an evolutionary shift towards the reinvention of ancestrally settled habits of assimilation of written language. In this expansion of the possibilities of text, argumentative processes no longer apply as they would, as narrative conduction is no longer controlled by the writer, but is left open to the individual representations of different operators involved within a cyberspatial interval of networked communication. Different hyper narratives are constructed by the possible combinations of each set of independent lexias, fragment entities which become the indivisible units of this construction. Nevertheless, Landon still mentions that “conventional reading habits apply within each lexia".

Boxing Booth at Mayfest 2009, Bristol, UK

BOXING BOOTH recovers two iconic and contradictory public events - the traditional red pillar telephone box and the 17th century boxing booth - by combining them into a redefined piece of urban furniture. By installing a boxing bag inside, the typical red pillar telephone box is rediscovered, subverted by its new use as an outlet for physical discharge. As a public installation, this confessional space acquires an ambiguous dimension, exposing a particular act of individual avowal by framing it into general acceptance, and therefore underlining the truth that everything is permitted within its own social boundaries.

BOXING BOOTH is part of the Mayfest 2009: Bristol's festival of contemporary theatre, and can be found in front of the Bristol Old Vic theatre (UK), from the May 1 to 5.

author Pedro Viana
produced by Polar Produce
May 2009

limits (introduce) meaning

Landscaping in Mação

O caso em que a condução é simétrica.

Pop-Up Landscapes no EME3: Colapso

Pop-Up Landscapes também participa no festival EME3: Colapso.

Uma parte da instalação Pop-Up Landscapes foi instalada no hall central do CCCB, no centro de Barcelona, e pode agora ser experienciada por todos de 19 a 21 de Março. A entrada é livre.

Pop-Up Landscapes is also participating in the EME3: Collapse festival.

Part of the Pop-Up installation was installed in the main hall of the CCCB in the center of Barcelona, and can now also be experienced by everyone for free from 19 to 21 of March.

Still Venice

A 4ª edição do festival de arquitectura EME3: COLLAPSE reunirá durante 3 dias pensadores, artistas, estudantes e professionais de arquitectura para que reflictam, experimentem e debatam sobre os novos cenários surgidos do colapso.

Um "mercado" de arquitectura instalar-se-á em três entidades emblemáticas que se afirmam como motor cultural da cidade de Barcelona: CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona) e FAD (Foment de les Arts i del Disseny).

O vídeo lok com o título Still Venice foi selecionado para participar na secção Mercado Digital do festival, onde se encontrará em exibição de 19 a 21 de Março. Uma pré-visualização pode ser vista aqui.

The 4th edition of the EME3: COLLAPSE architecture festival will gather, for a period of three days, intellectuals, artists, students and architecture professionals in order to think, experiment and debate about new scenarios that rise from collapse.

An architecture "market" will be installed in three different entities that are known for their part as the cultural motor of the city of Barcelona: CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona) and FAD (Foment de les Arts i del Disseny).

The video Still Venice, by lok Arquitectura, was selected and will be exhibited in the Digital Market section of the festival, from march 19 to 21. A sneak preview can be seen here.

Pop-Up Installation

The first version of the Pop-Up Landscapes installation got up and running in Hangar (BCN) in time for the first Pop-Up Landscapes workshop.

The installation combines landscape photography and sensor technology in order to create an interactive triptych composition using panoramic pictures captured in specific locations. The fragmented imagery allows for the exploration of the visual landscape of the Poble Nou, and at the same time provides an interface for communication between two environments, turning its visualization into a shared, interdependent process.



A primeira versão da instalação Pop-Up Landscapes entrou em funcionamento no Hangar (BCN) a tempo do primeiro workshop Pop-Up Landscapes.

A instalação combina fotografia de paisagem e tecnologia sensorial de modo a criar uma composição tríptica interactiva, usando fotografias panorâmicas de locais específicos. A fragmentação da imagem convida à exploração da paisagem visual do Poble Nou, e ao mesmo tempo providencia um interface para a comunicação entre dois ambientes, tornando a sua visualização num processo partilhado e interdependente.

Pop-Up Landscapes is now online!

Pop-Up Landscapes Workshop

Exploring New Visualisation Tools for Community Participation in the Transformations of the Built Environment



Pop-Up Landscapes and Wiki Urban Planning Workshop

26-27-28 Feb 2009

Thursday 26 & Friday 27 February 17h-21h
Saturday 28 10h-14h 16h-20h
Presentation : Saturday 28 20h30

Location: HANGAR, Poble Nou, Barcelona

Participation : 50 euros
Inscripciones : activitats@hangar.org

Workshop leaders :
Teresa Dillon (IRE/UK)
lok Arquitectura (PT/ES)
Tuomo Tammenpää (FI).

Drawing on case studies taken from the Poble Nou neighborhood, participants will use visualization techniques developed as part of the Pop-Up Landscapes project and Wiki Planning to explore how mixed media techniques can be used to create a visual toolkit for citizen participation in urban planning.

Pop-Up Landscapes is a locative and interactive media installation and research project exploring the construction of landscape in relation to transformation, interdependency and survival. The project combines landscape photography and sensor technologies to create an interactive triptych composition within which direct, photographic impressions specific to different locations can be inputted. Developed by the Finnish architect Peter Tattersall, Wiki Planning is part of a wider attempt to consider what the implications of web 2.0 might be on architecture and planning, and whether or not social media (and phenomena arising from it) might be used to make urban planning more participative. Combining the visualization techniques employed in Pop-Up Landscapes, along with the Wiki Planning method, the participants will develop a series of visual maps and architectural sketches to be publicly presented at Hangar on Saturday 28th of February.

Teresa Dillon: http://www.polarproduce.org/
lok Arquitectura: http://lok-arq.blogspot.com/
Tuomo Tammenpää: http://www.misusage.org/
Peter Tattersall: http://www.dodo.org/

Landscaping in Poblenou