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screen text, design process kind of got stuck, so started to try rendering things.
went to disaster design lecture yesterday,  the interesting point i picked from there is architecture design could be about preservation and selection. and what we choose to preserve would make difference in the future. 
i feel that every effort we put on to preserve a culture could be a distortion, and any decision made on selection might lead to injustice.  
not ready to do things like that, so the first thing about useless architecture: transiency, be inclusive and exclusive of everything. 

casa malaparte

Casa Malaparte, Designed more by its owner( a journalist) than its architect, is " the best-know example of a building designed in the ambit of the original group of surrealists." 

"even the form is blurred- is it a perfect geometrical wedge, or a distorted rectangle? a pristine, a-historical, geometric block, a violently marred, decapitated plinth lacking a temple, or a fragment of a ruined theater? a violent eruption of the chthonic forces of the earth, or a colossal stairway to the sky?"

the tangency of the world, Jacqueline Gargus 

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working on digital model now, after did some physical model which can not stand firmly by themselves, i found it is too crazy to think everything in the system is changeable.

so i decided work on the fix part of the system first: basic structure ( which raise the whole park up) and one footpath. the system on left is what i had on monday, i showed it to jason, he didn't say anything bad about it, and mentioned me think more about how the park connect to the city. but the dullness of that model does hurt me badly. did the right one today, feel a little bit better now.

manifesto (again)

picture flicker's ordinary architecture pool, thanks leopold






the original manifesto:

I am interested with ordinary architecture.

Ordinary architecture is aspirin, it gives comfort but not rescue.

The best ordinary architecture is insignificant, light, empty, and discreet.

Ordinary architecture is about compromising, blending sharing; it is not about occupying provoking and highlighting. 

Ordinary architecture is as complicated as real life. 

i had no idea what "ordinary architecture" is when i used that term. i was questioning authority of architects at that time, using ordinary is to induce people to think that architecture is not a big deal, and then to justify my negative attitude. ordinary architecture is not useless, but anything is better with some uselessness. 

new manifesto here:

I am interested with ordinary architecture the uselessness of architecture.

Ordinary architecture useless architecture is aspirin, it gives comfort but not rescue.

The best ordinary architecture useless architecture is insignificant, light, empty, and discreet.

Ordinary architecture useless architecture is about compromising, blending sharing; it is not about occupying provoking and highlighting. 

Ordinary architecture useless architecture is as complicated as real life ordinary. 

ordinary architecture

I found a hilarious booklet named "synergetic stew explorations in dymaxion dining." which is a gift for "dearest Bucky" made by crew in buckminster's office, 
let's see how professionals cook:

a). an ideological and theological approach.

b). aslo contribute by amy edmondson, an more ordinary approach.

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collage made for last week's presentation, telling what would in the park; through i am not very sure about that yet.
as said before, the park is for people to wandering. but what to wander about? when flaneur walking on the street they emerge themselves in the city wonders; and when people go to park they enjoy nature wildness, so may be i can combine this two experiences on the "street park".  

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Michael Wolf  a photographer who lived in Hong-Kong for 16 years, and gets a wife who lives in Paris now, started to take picture on google street of paris since 2009. He did two projects named one "Paris street view" and another one "street view: a series of unfortunate events". i gave him a lot of credits because he found a really interesting way to represent that city, and the pictures he takes are good.