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Ferroconcrete SentenceS oF tSchumi

Bernard Tschumi is known as the architect of the scandalous Acropolis Museum that was opened two years ago in Athens. Nevertheless, the main contribution to architecture made by Monsieur Tschumi should be deemed not man-made developments but his ideological ones – because he actually has become the deconstructionism ideologist thanks to la Villette park in Paris which can be considered the starting point of this movement. The architect himself does not think he’s a deconstructionist, and he denies his existence as such… (p. 4)

Around the World

The magical space that changes depending on the time of the day – this is what the newly-built Revel Casino in Atlantic City (USA) looks like, after its lighting was done by specialists from Lightemotion, the leading Canadian company that specializes in light design. “The task was clear: to create an absorbing and dynamic atmosphere, something exciting, with the wow factor”, explained Francois Roupinian, the founder, chief designer and president of Lightemotion. Along with this, due to the current unstable economic situation in the world, the creative team had to limit their activities only with those lighting devices that boasted both a long term of service and low operational costs. Trying to create a fairytale and give each room its own shade and mood, the designers integrated about 3600 diode lamps into the casino space, 3100 local lights, 1000 spotlights and 1300 deco-rative and custom-made lights. Using these lights, they made various amazing compositions. (p. 52)

www.lightemotion.ca

BAlineSe mood

Turquoise lagoons, sandy beaches… A paradise on earth which is almost intact and not spoiled by tourists – the Anguilla island – attracts visitors with its virgin nature and warm waters of the Caribbean Sea. It is here that the architect from To-ronto, Frank Hamilton, designed a villa the interior of which has been done by Cecconi Simone Inc. designer studio. The ro-mantic name of the spacious residence with the area of 1450 square meters, Villa Kishti, has an ambiguous translation. The word “Kishti” in Urdu (Indo-European language related to Hindu, appeared in the XIII century) means a boat or a canoe, as well as love, life and God. The ambiguity is embedded not only in the name of the villa, but also in its architectural style that looks like a spread Oriental fan. (p. 46)

www.cecconisimone.com

PASSiveneSS AS An AdvAntAge

Three years ago, architects from the Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture Bureau and builders from Höllviksnäs Förvaltnings AB won the project competition for the best block with “passive house” technology announced by the administration of Malme, Sweden. Today, the complex they designed is completed: Salongen 35 occupies the last free area of residential space of Bo01 ecological district, standing at the place of former industrial zone and serving as a global example of a stable city lineup. Four low-rise passive houses located at 400 square meters area have been perfectly inscribed in the local architectural style. To make the buildings differ from each other, they were faced with different materials: wood, fiber-reinforced concrete façade panels or plaster. At the same time, the whole number of similar details shows that they are part of the same project, for instance, exter-nal Venetian shutters installed on all windows to preserve coolness in summer and warmth in winter. (p. 38)

www.kjellgrenkaminsky.se

A houSe in the ForeSt

As ironic as this sounds, but the development of technologies and exploration of new materials made it possible for the hu-man beings to go back to basics. Today you can live in the nature’s lap without having to sacrifice all creature comforts, and the house not far from Seattle is the obvious case. The house bearing a romantic name, “The Lake Reserve”, was built in the 50-ies according to the principles of organic architecture, which also form the base of philosophy preached by FINNE Archi-tects bureau. The architects decided not to just reconstruct the building following the Wright style, they wanted to preserve the spirit of the 50-ies. The internal house layout went through the most radical changes: most of the walls were taken down, and the architects expanded the kitchen and the living room at their expense, and also made a spacious terrace. The main feature in the decoration of internal and external areas is the combination of warm and cold, wood and glass. (p. 74)

www.finne.com

PAlindrome

A residential space with the total area of 3 200 square meters is located in a five-floor block building of a former warehouse in Tribeca, New York. Like the majority of non-residential houses, the former warehouse occupied the whole area of the land plot, so there was no room for a patio or a flower bed. But the real test for the architect was the lighting of the house: in essence, it was a vertical well in which the inserted floors did not let any light to the lower levels. Charles Wolf from the Dean-Wolf Architects bureau literally turned the traditional building concept upside down. To let the light to the lower floors and create a space for a garden, a patio and a playroom for children in the open, the architect made three two-floor empty cells in the center of the former warehouse. (p. 60)

www.dean-wolf.com

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