Category Archives: Architecture

Traga sua Luz

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Foto Peetssa - Política do Impossível
Caminhada iluminada pelo bairro da Luz, São Paulo, também conhecido como Cracolândia, hoje em processo de revitalização urbana. O projeto Nova Luz é criticado por excessivas demolições e limpeza social, deixando (por enquanto) vários vazios na região e aglomerações de mendigos, traficantes e usuários de drogas nas bordas da área de intervenção.
A caminhada coletiva, cada um levando sua própria luz, foi organizada pela Política do Impossível e Fórum Centro Vivo, no dia 15 de Maio de 2008.

Mais fotos:
www.midiaindependente.org/…

Read more:
Nova Luz – an update

Incêndio faculdade de arquitetura

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O prédio onde estudei 6 anos, a faculdade de arquitetura da TU Delft, pegou fogo e desmoronou esta semana. Foi preciso apenas um cano vazando água em cima de uma cafeteira. Perdeu-se muito trabalho de estudantes, pesquisas e acervos importantes de livros e obras de arte, além do prédio modernista de Van den Broek en Bakema.
imagem ANP

Video do colapso do edifício:

Estilingão

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foto Merten Nefs
Last Friday the new prestigious hanging bridge at the end of Avenida Roberto Marinho (named after the media mogul, founder of Globo) was inaugurated. The R$260 milion (EUR 100 milion) project is supposed to be the new “postcard” of São Paulo and solve part of the transit problems in the Berrini/WTC area. In popular language “Estilingão” already replaced the oficial names of Ponte Estaiada and Otávio Frias.

To built the expressway and the bridge, most of the favela Jardim Edith was removed in the late 1990´s. A small part next to the bridge is still there, increasing the social contrasts on the city´s new postcard.

Cyclists and social housing organizations protested at the inauguration and invaded the bridge to have a picnic before the official parade of oldtimers would start. The bridge has exclusive access for cars and motorcycles; buses, cyclists and pedestrians will not be allowed.
foto Merten Nefs
foto Merten Nefs
foto Merten Nefs
foto Merten Nefs

Also see:
www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/cotidiano/…
http://apocalipsemotorizado.net/2008/05/11/ciclistas…

Networked cultures

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Network of artists and architects, developing theoretic projects in Europe with an unusual focus on the Balkans, the Black Sea region and Russia.
www.networkedcultures.org

“Networked Cultures investigates the cultural transformations under way in Europe through examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, the project collaborates with art, architectural and urban practices across Europe and beyond to look at ways in which contested spaces allow for a multi- inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural, social or geographic boundaries. Sites of alternative urban engagement are collected on a database and will be presented in a variety of formats, including exhibitions, films and books.”

Barcelona - image networked cultures

One of the highlighted projects:
Lost Highway Expedition (School of Missing Studies)
www.schoolofmissingstudies.net

Habitation grid

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grelha de habitação

The grid contemplates the improvement of informal settlements without removing the inhabitants, by constructing an infrastructural grid with suspended building lots. The grid recycles water and includes space for food production and public activities. An integrated pig farm, besides producing pork meat, supplies organic material for a biogas electricity plant as a byproduct.

The habitiation grid is a student project by Bernardo Araújo, Éder Andrés, Isabel Brant, Mateus Andreatta e Thiago Campos, coached by professor Maria Lúcia Malard at the Federal University of Belo Horizonte.

Read more (in portuguese) at:
www.arcoweb.com.br/debate/debate116.asp