3x1 “Green”Thoughts - ThreeSome

Who You gonna Call..Choose?

ESCAPE .... WITH THAT LIGHT?

LEDscape installation was created by the design firm LIKEarchitects, experimental and innovative firm whose partners are three renowned architects: Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto João Jesus. The installation consists of 1,200 bulbs to create a path of light that invites attendees to think about saving electricity. (And how many people it took to put all these lights?)

LEDscape has been selected as a finalist in the 2013 FAD Awards, in the category of Ephemeral Installations, "Architecture as a constructor element of contemporary narratives, often associated with marketing and advertising."

ESCAPE ….CON TANTA LUZ?

La instalación LEDscape fue  creada por la empresa de diseño LIKEarchitects, una firma experimental e innovadora que tiene por socios a tres arquitectos de renombre: Diogo Aguiar, Jesús João y Teresa Otto. La instalación consta de 1,200 bombillas, para crear un camino de luz que invita a los asistentes a reflexionar sobre el ahorro de energía eléctrica. (Y cuantas personas hicieron falta para poner todas estas bonbillas?)

LEDscape ha sido seleccionada como finalista en los Premios FAD 2013, en la categoría de Instalaciones Efímeras; “la arquitectura un elemento constructor de narrativas contemporáneas, muchas veces asociadas al marketing y publicidad”.

FUTURAMA TRANSPORTS (Let´s Travel like a Hamster!)

Et 3 system is a new mode of transportation: Traveling through tubes capsules five feet in diameter by magnetic levitation , avoiding friction.

As advantages of the project are targeted security , speed (more than airplanes, which is reassuring seeing as Ryan Air and Vueling evolve right now) , lower noise, lower power consumption and power feed only . (Find your own electricity if you can)

In operation the air is first removed from the tubes to give rise to the electric motors that drive and accelerate the capsules inside of  a vacuum installation, only require power to maintain the speed.

Initial prototypes will reach speeds of 600 kilometers per hour, with the maximum theoretical speed of approximately 6,500 kilometers per hour. (To teleport anywhere, Star Trek What have you been playing? )

The system is automatic and requires no driver. 2016 we are Ready!

El TRANSPORTE DE FUTURAMA (Viajemos como Hamsters!)

El sistema Et3 es un nuevo modo de transporte que consiste en cápsulas que viajan por tubos de metro y medio de diámetro mediante levitación magnética, evitando la fricción.   

Como ventajas del proyecto se apuntan la seguridad, la rapidez (más que los aviones, lo cual es tranquilizador viendo como evolucionan Ryan Air y Vueling en estos momentos), el menor ruido, el menor consumo de energía y que se alimenta únicamente de electricidad. (De donde saques la energía ya es harina de otro costal)

En su funcionamiento primero se extrae el aire de los tubos para dar lugar a los motores eléctricos que impulsan y aceleran las cápsulas que, debido al vacío de la instalación, apenas necesitan electricidad para mantener la velocidad.

Los prototipos iniciales alcanzarán una velocidad de 600 kilómetros por hora, siendo la velocidad teórica máxima de unos 6,500 kilómetros por hora. (Para que teletransportarte a ningún lado, Star Treck a que has estado jugando?)

El sistema es automático y no necesita de conductor. 2016 estamos listos!

Watch where you Step!

Today we can find a big amount of solutions as many call eco-friendly, Star Path, and only with the name you get goosebumps. Light your way (transcendent friends, very transcendent) like you're walking over galaxies! ; Treading star after star. (If the “little prince” had to hunt with a comets catcher (aka butterfly net) the reality is much simpler.

The product was designed by Hamish Scott , whose Pro-Tec company develops and markets the product in the UK. Starpath absorbs and stores energy from ultraviolet rays. According to Scott "This product conforms to natural light, so if it's completely dark outside, the path will be illuminated, and if the sky is clear, the light less." NO TO ANOTHER UNDESIRE HAZARD!, No more unwanted tripping. "A smart way" for dummies who do not look the path they walk.

MIRA POR DONDE ANDAS

Actualmente podemos encontrar un sinfín de soluciones como muchos las llaman eco-amigables, Star Path, ya solo con su nombre se te ponen los pelos de punta. Ilumina tu camino (trascendental amigos, muy trascendental) como si caminaras sobre galaxias!!; Pisando estrella tras estrella. (Si el principito las tenía que cazar con un cazacometas(alias cazamariposas) la realidad es mucho mas sencilla.

El producto fue diseñado por Hamish Scott cuya compañía Pro-Tec desarrolla y comercializa el producto en el Reino Unido. Starpath absorbe y guarda energía de los rayos ultravioleta. Según Scott “Este producto se ajusta a la luz natural, así que si está completamente oscuro afuera, el sendero se iluminará más, y si el cielo está más claro, se iluminará menos.” NO AL TRASPIES, Se acabaron los tropiezos no deseados. “Un camino inteligente” para torpes que no miran por donde caminan.

The Walking Dead… I mean… "City"

Nomadic VS Sedentary.Wich side would you choose?

Are you Green or Zombie?

We started being nomads, we settled down and we take roots, we call a place “home” , and suddenly, as they say in fashion, everything is ciclycal, That´s where we headed?.

A debate that I completely leave to scholars of anthropology and my beloved "Bones" or Temperance Brennan as many others know her, that will give you an interesting speach, sometimes long and tedious, but extremely interesting.

 (Anthropology Rocks! Do not tell me it itsn´t “This  sticker will go on mi car next time I wash it”).

I present one of the top ten followed topics of architecture  blogs last week: "Very Large Structure". Beyond its immense size, has much less impact on the environment than a sedentary city .... (I for once am willing to let me bamboozle). ( Baamboozle: Kind of a “Gangway” word, such an improving English we have here)

Empezamos siendo nómadas, nos asentamos y echamos raíces, una cultura arraigada a un lugar al que llamamos hogar, y curiosamente, como dicen de las modas, de manera cíclica, es a eso a lo que nos encaminamos?.

Un debate que dejo completamente a los entendidos de la antropología y a mi muy querida “Bones” o Temperance Brenan como muchos otros la conoceréis; que os darán un interesante sermón, a veces largo  y tedioso, aunque tremendamente interesante. (La antropología mola!, no me digáis que no).

Os presento uno de los temas mas seguidos en blogs de arquitectura la semana pasada: “Very Large Structure”. Más allá de su tamaño colosal, tiene mucho menos impacto en el medio ambiente que una ciudad sedentaria….(Yo por lo menos estoy dispuesto a dejarme embaucar) (leela la traducción de embaucar en inglés. Cómo veis no solo enseñamos arquitectura…)

Dominguez, the author,  says his design is consciously utopian, but also notes that the construction is more realistic than ever. The scale of the structure is not very different from the present, and is designed to, for example, move to warmer climates in winter, just like if we were migratory birds. So forget about taking the car and the regional road (since tolls are so high), to Benidorm in January. Gandia is closer than ever and what's even better, we can finally live what many have dreamed of in secret for years; Our own Big Brother, Gandia Shore, Jersey Shore, The Valleys, all unique, only that this time with a  "greenmind" and "class".

Domínguez asegura que su diseño es conscientemente utópico, pero señala también que la construcción es más realista que nunca. La escala de la estructura no es muy distinta a las actuales, y está diseñada para, por ejemplo, desplazarse hacia climas templados en invierno, igualito que si fueramos aves migratorias. De manera que olvidaros de coger el coche y la carretera comarcal( puesto que los peajes están por las nubes), camino a Benidorm en el mes de Enero. Gandía está mas cerca que nunca y lo que es aun mejor, podremos vivir por fin lo que muchos hemos soñado en secreto desde hace años; Nuestro propio Gran hermano, Gandía Shore, Jersey Shore, The Valleys, todos ellos únicos , solo que ésta vez de manera “ecológica” y con “clase”.

Remeber Archigram? Maybe It´s time to get a closer look.

¿Os acordais de Archigram?. Quizás es hora de pegarles otro repaso.

He hey, Living so soon?. This week 2x1. We are that generous. Stay tuned !

Oye Oye, Nos dejas ya? Esta semana 2x1. Así de generosos somos. Estad atentos!

WHAT A LOVELY WAY TO WORK.....¿on weekends?

Picture yourself on a Weekend, maybe a Saturday, the sun is shining, it´s cold, but not to cold for a walk, One or two clouds in the sky and you have been all morning lying on the terrace tanning your self, experiencing the real “weather project “( "not the artificial sun in the Tate modern by Olafur Eliason") drinking a happy tonic, only because it is too soon to turn your happytonic into something else; Suddenly, an Idea. Get up, have a shower, you know you need it, and device the perfect afternoon with some of your naive friends or companions, those you can cheat easily. Go to Plaza Castilla, gossip and criticizes Santiago Calatrava for being so damn clever, building such awful things everywhere, do what he likes, and get very well paid for it ;Telling yourself you could do better. In the meantime, your are getting inside the “Canal” and your level of angerness is decreasing.

Magnum Photos ! Those people knew how to work and enjoy their proffesion!... 

Robert Capa, Festival popular, País Vasco, Francia, 1951

Erich lessing Wienerwald, Austria, 1954

Magnum was founded in New York in March 1947 as a cooperative of photographers who had two objectives: first, to make a new form of photojournalism, and secondly, create an independent agency outside of large journalistic companies , full autonomy on issues they would try and reserving intellectual property rights.

For photographers of Magnum was essential to have freedom to choose their own stories and work on them for long periods of time. They believed that photographers had to have their own point of view and should not be controlled by the editors of a magazine.  

DO WE HAVE LOST THIS? EXPERIMENT A THEME FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME RECREATING OURSELVES IT´S POSSIBLE NOWADAYS?... Are we going too fast?

..."You can not believe that the group Magnum Photography is a UNIFORM, it includes all types of individual talents and creative technical approaches and interests. That said, it does present a kind of unity, a unity difficult to define but nevertheless there.” ...

It is like talking of Arquid?...Stay tunned… 

After a long afternoon learning, culturing your self, you and  the innocents who accompany you, deceived  by the vague promise of a new and different afternoon experienced…

Reward yourself, get rest, eat, drink, and see what´s beneath your feet. You can discovered a fantastic mosaic of pieces that remaind you another time.

Geometries combined, create a mosaic, travel to another time ... and please! Please!… only do one thing. Watch where you step because it is one hell of a floor!. Enjoy the experience! Your are ending your day in the Punck Bach of Madrid.

 Next experience. How to cheat your non architecture friends into this Expo?….. Fisac and De la Sota…

THE "COMEBACK"

“From darkness to light, from uncertainty to the security of the known, from loneliness to the company of others.”

Olafur Eliasson once told:

"In this space, time is the main protagonist, is a critical component or vehicle. The space has different times. You have a sense of space when you get lost in time. With this work, I am interested in taking all of your senses: your sight.... The situation is threatening, but develop your sense of orientation "….

This words describes our past year perfectly and now we can finally describe our journey which will continue now that we are in the vicinity of the light.

But before we start telling our amazing,horrible, quietly, loudly, long, short, fast and also slowly experience. We are going to investigate about the capturer of moments, the capturer of sensations, the capturer of feelings.  Olafur Eliason : Danish artist responsible for such well-known projects as “the weather project” and “the flood of new york”.

One of the things I love about this guy is the ability to realize a sense. Something that architecture search desperately and sadly no often achieve it.

Funcionamiento silencioso (2003)

His inspiration for the the Biosphere II experiment, carried out by a group of scientists during the Eighties and the beginning of the Nineties in Arizona, USA. The aim was to construct an enormous greenhouse as an artificial environment for recreating organic life and drawing conclusions on the habitats on other planets. After years of work, between 1991 and 1993 they obtained ecological stability as the structure was sealed with eight researchers living inside.

Where do you think would be the perfect situation or environment to give an interpretation of this experiment here on earth. The Palacio de Cristal, one of many examples of this glass and iron architecture spaces wich where created as greenhouses ( Spaces to create life, without caring of the outside world. One of the request of this interesting experiment; Biosphere II, testing the possibility of life inside a container in another planet). Inside the Palacio de Cristal Eliasson creates an artificial garden via eight works that join organic and artificial elements to reproduce seemingly self-sufficient microcosms. Each of the works exhibited refer to elements present in society and look at the inversion of perspective - the viewer becomes an object rather than most commonly a subject in works. As a result, the first receives the experience that creates the second - this change of mentality is what Eliasson offers viewers of his work.

Funcionamiento silencioso en el Palacio de Cristal 2003

And just for fun, if you have time and don´t want to see anything more of Olafur, or maybe you want to see it all, go further and try to find similarities with his job in something else, as for example a movie; I invite you to watch Sunshine (2007) directed by Danny Boyle and try to feel and recreate your eyes with some beautiful images, colours and utopian thoughts in most of the rooms of the spaceship Icarus II.

Observatory room of Icarus II

Stay tunned for more of our posts. We have news, Projects, Contest, Partnerships, inside thought to investigate…That we would like to share.

WelcoME 2013!!!

fOR EVEryOne

THE LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST

Latest member of Arquid. How do I describe my self ?

Voyeaur architect by profession and creative by vocation. Sick of order, perfectionist and enthusiastic of teamwork. Conscious landscaper and crazy about design at work and life. Eager to live abroad.
Fan of television series, films and sound montage of it. Social person and public relationship.

So here I am, my first entrance in the blog will be a scene of great film. Areally special film, a current view of black cinema with a singular  sensitivity wher music, color , story and a little bit of dialogue wich is more than enough to pay attention to the rest of the film and way of act of the actors.

The scene takes place in an elevator. And is extraordinary how it starts and how it ends. A masterpiece of our time.

Stay tuned, I´ll be back with much more staff.