View of the natural pools
POOLS EN LEÇA PALM
Alvaro Siza
Matosinhos.Portugal 1966.
The municipal swimming pool on the edge of the coast of Matosinhos beach hometown architect, represents a different way to assume the natural, where architecture is more autonomous, deleting references to traditional architecture.
The complex includes two pools, a cafeteria and changing rooms, where buildings are arranged in parallel bands under the promenade level resulting scarcely visible, being very respectful of their immediate environment. The low walls, the steps and the edges of the pools make very slight incisions in the landscape and provide a gradual transition from the rigid line of wall boundaries fluids walk to sea.
Using flat shapes of concrete, stone pavements of rough concrete and gravel, riga treated wood and copper sheet cover.
Photography:Kings Cro
Drawings and photographs
General Plant Complex
 Cross sections of the Paseo Maritimo
Photos: Maurizio MWG, Flickr
A tea house located in the garden. Photos: M Strasser, Flickr
Gardens OF Villa Katsura
Toshihito Príncipe y Maestro Kobori Ensho
Kamigyo-ku, Gyoen-nai. Kyoto, Japan. 1629
The gardens of this villa is a masterpiece of traditional style of gardening that has been practiced historically in Japan. Built during the Edo period has many buildings and several houses to practice the tea ceremony.
The Imperial Villa Katsura is the Prince Toshihito effort to translate into reality the landscape poetry known work described in the Tale of Genji. Her beauty would make his heirs appreciate this site over the years increasing its attractiveness.
An essential part of the whole, one that sets the spatial unit is the arrangement of the gardens. The overall goal is recreation scenic natural landscape, She referred to using outstanding examples and Japanese geography Appreciated. Siguiendo al Sakuteiki, Chinese treaty of garden art that transcends the representation of the form, traditional Japanese gardens should contain a series of six basic spatial elements, rocks and artificial hills, ponds, islands, streams, waterfalls and a garden for ceremonies south.
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Meditation on Japanese gardens
Walking city visiting New York
WALKER CITY
Ron Herron, Archigram
Britain. 1964
In the early years 60, a group of young British architects, recently graduated from the Architectural Association and led by Peter Cook, would shape the Archigram group. This group would produce a strong shock to the architecture scene of the mid-twentieth century using an architectural aesthetic inspired by the comic. And also, both by linking Anglo Pop movement and for its extreme utopian urban ideas about future development of cities populated by and ultra tech machines.
His inventive propositions would not paper and manifestos written but would have a decisive influence on the so-called High Tech architecture that would develop in the next decades. Buildings like HSBC in Hongkong Ass Foster, the Centre Beaubourg in Paris by architects Piano and Rogers or Lloyds insurer headquarters in London of the latter would clearly works inspired by Archigram ideas.
The City Walker is a proposal to build a megastructure mobile robot that could freely roam the planet hosting tens of thousands of people. A conceptual anticipation of the big tourist cruise ships that ply the seas today.
Over the years, the group leader, Peter Cook, materialize achieve a similar project in the House of Art in the Austrian city of Graz.
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The Helicopter Archipelago. An article about the city BLDG BLOG walker
Cities Walking formation off the coast of Canada in Percé, Quebec: Imagen de Jean Daniel Mercier. LeSingeNu
General map of the plan that defines the road hierarchy and the areas reserved for the main spaces.
GENERAL PLAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL
Ishizu Sanjiro, Tagawa Daikichiro, Fukuda Shigeyoshi and Reconstruction Office Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan. 1923
Japanese authorities, headed by the Minister Shinpei Goto, propose this plan to rebuild the city of Tokyo after the devastating Kanto earthquake 1923. Would be implemented only in some minor issues due to strong opposition from the population, Diet preventing expropriation necessary capacity.
The urban proposal would seek to radically transform the medieval streets of the capital of Japan between the Imperial Palace and the bay introducing a system of large avenues, evenly distributed bridges and parks. The aim was to rebuild the imperial city and a metropolis in the European manner by Haussmann in Paris.
The promoters of the plan intended to acquire substantially all of the soil affected by the earthquake to ensure technically and aesthetically complete reconstruction, to reach not only the buildings but also to road networks and associated technical infrastructure, as sanitation. And the influence is clear also Eugene Henard, hygienism French theorist and inventor of road roundabouts.
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 Plan the reorganization of old city area of Edo
Shirokiya, an example of consumer stores that would arise in the new avenues in the area of Nihonbashi.
Exterior view of the facade
HOUSING IN Barceloneta
Josep Antoni Coderch
Barcelona. Spain. 1954
The modest housing building for low surface,which resolves plant from a frame defining oblique allowing increase the chances of space and thereby eliminating dead zones.
The tripartite composition of the facade crowned by a canopy (that is perfectly enrrasada with the cornice of the neighboring building) not resign at any time the character of modernity that give traditional materials such as ceramics and glazed louvred blinds.
This facade is divided into vertical strips where great bands alternating blind and practicable ritma elements and characterizes the central body of the building, noted for the different inclinations of these planes facade.
Photography:Carlesfochs
Building Plant (facilitado for hasxx)
Books
View of main entrance
Jaume Fuster Library
Josep Llinás Carmona
Barcelona. Spain. 2005
The Jaume Fuster Library in the Gracia district, is the first visible part of the square and its surroundings Lesseps, becoming a reference point at the confluence of the square and Vallcarca Avenue.
The diamond-shaped building with a, with an empty space on the side of the avenue "with the aim of opening the panoramic go as it passes in front. The architect wanted to make a space in which "people to feel at home and to facilitate the relationship between people", where large glazed surfaces facilitate visual relationship with their environment users.
The interior is characterized by the extent and nature diaphanous,provides for individual recollection without harming the relationship between people. With an area of 5.636 square meters is one of the largest libraries of Barcelona on four floors with an auditorium for 260 people, multipurpose room, counting showroom 298 reading points.
Photography:Commons wikimedia.org
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Plans:
Situation Plan
Access Floor and
Books
Exterior View of the Complex
CENTRO COMERCIAL LA ISLA DIAGONAL
Rafael Moneo / Manuel Sola-Morales
Avenida Diagonal, Barcelona. Spain,1993
The complex L'Illa is a huge skyscraper lying on Avenida Diagonal. With a total area of 56.000m2 of commercial, offices, hotels and four floors for parking. This great building is the result of a comprehensive plan to reform the district of Les Corts which won an international competition Rafael Moneo Architects / Manuel Sola-Morales.
Facing the approach of a large urban tower isolated the idea of architects would be the formation of a large horizontal building to keep the urban scale of the former city, looking for a more coherent integration with prexistencias.
This "Big Apple"Occupy a gap between the city still loyal to the Plan and that other fruit Cerda planning the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. The project idea was to define a longitudinal building parallel to the diagonal run along the entire block that matuviera compositional unit through the repetition of an essential, window opening.
Finally, for this large volume is not perceived as an undifferentiated mass would add another strategy lace, breaking both the plant and the profile, perforating the piece at all points in urban accidents claimed him so.
Photography:Barcelona-out
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View of the outdoor spaces that make up the Cemetery
CEMETERY IgualadaEnric Miralles and Carme PinosEqualizer, Barcelona. Spain, 1994
After winning the competition held by the city of Igualada Year 1985, This cemetery is built with the idea of replacing the previous. Design breaks with the traditional cemetery image, where architecture merges with the landscape as if it were a single element.
The main idea of the architects when they embarked on the project was the recreation of the landscape, proposing to landscape architecture, being the main virtue of the project where they use very poetic language.
Most of the cemetery is under the access dimension, so the project is buried and connected with the environment, conforming to the shape of the site.
When speaking of the Cemetery Miralles says :”When not intended to tabula rasa, imposing a project to a place, it remains to develop a sensitivity to the reality, architecture and has no other solution than to be critical of the place and the program. In Igualada use the site is to make it disappear.”
Photography: LeonL
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Floor plan of action
Other detail photography
Books
Top view of the built elements that are inserted into the urban space of the square
CATALAN COUNTRY PLACE
Helio Piñon and Albert Viaplana
Sants station. Barcelona, Spain. 1983
A design that would fortune late 80 and open the way to a whole new generation of abstract urban spaces and where the natural vegetation is absent.
The proposal for the redevelopment of the square start from the incontrovertible fact that all his supposed underground was occupied by underground train station of the same name. Because of this, the authors establish a novel conceptual design strategy would rely on symbolic rhetorical language next to the art movements of Minimalism and Land Art. Language that includes the production of undulating and broken stone hard surfaces punctuated by formal elements generated metallic materials such as pergolas Monumental, sculptural lighting, banks, sources, etc..
The Plaza de Sants accepts the uncertainty of its center and edges, by the presence of numerous discordant urban elements to generate a new spatial reintegration more in line with contemporary urban chaos. Provide a model for numerous urban interventions later becoming one of the favorite icons of the new urbanism of Barcelona in the early 90.
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Urban perspective of the square boundary at the point of access to the building of the railway station.
Wide of the proposal for a system of parks and highways in the area of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey
NEW YORK REGIONAL PLAN
Thomas Adams. Regional Plan Ass.
NY. USA. 1932
In the early twentieth century, a group of sociologists, geographers and planners Americans raised the proposed set of recommendations for improving planning and ample space comprising 3 states, 22 counties and would affect more than 10 million. This immense work of analysis and end up becoming the proposal Regional Plan of New York and its environs, submitted 1932. A philanthropic document would be developed collectively by private independent association of the same name and have a decisive influence on the future management of the environment and regional development of the great American conurbation.
Based on the ideas of Robert Parks and led by Lewis Mumford and Thomas Adams, New York Plan propose spreading the concept of geographical space in New York as a metropolis made up of a industrial core and a periphery reserved for residential, agriculture and recreation.
This sprawling complex territorial plan proposed strategies for functional improvement of space, establishing the concept of fuzzy recentralization, a reference to a coordinated and active relocation of population and industry in new poles outside Manhattan.
The plan would establish, among many others, general idea for implementing systems that articulate the movement of people, connections and communications by proposing huge meshes road and interconnected spaces what I would call Parkway System.
The Regional Plan of New York is a pioneer and reference history to the modern techniques of territorial and environmental planning. The Regional Plan Association is working with philanthropic today to improve the quality of life in the New York area.
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Image extracted from blog Gothamist
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Cross sections of the Paseo Maritimo
