Hot Air Balloon

The hot air balloon plays an important urban and social role in the transit urban space in my Bowden Transit Hub final year studio project.

The hot air balloon acts as a moving landmark within the plaza space, acting as a marker seen beyond to the parklands and even towards the city.

Fiera Di Milano

Awesome Link

http://digilander.libero.it/studiolenci/Ricerche/0%20linguaggi%202.htm

Milan Train Station

The Constant Balloon

Ideal Happiness

Where is the Spirit?

Where is the spirit?

Slavoj Žižek at the 2009 National Architecture Conference Melbourne

Zizek during the National Architecture Conference Melbourne 2009

Presenting Veronika Valk

Showcasing Veronika Valk...

Melbourne Sightseeing

Just a few places I visited during my visit of Melbourne for the National Architecture Conference.

Bowden Village, Extreme Master Plan Model

Where is the spirit of Adelaide?

This is what I wrote on the 'Adelaide Architecture is boring…?' comments to CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO FROM PCA’s Nathan Paine!!


This video is great!! Gavin Kain definently has a point about Architecture being a reflection of society, and that it doesnt necessarily mean Adelaideans are boring.
I am an architecture student at the University of South Australia, and recently went to the National Architecture Conference in Melbourne, it was a great experience, especially the SuperTute with the architects. I happened to talk to Bijoy Jain from Studio Mumbai and in talking about my studio work on my groups masterplan for the Bowden Village Site, (my groups main idea for the Bowden Village is to create a permanent attraction for Adelaide involving the theme of ‘extreme’, and adrenaline, as a tourist attraction and and an involvement of different communities and ages all grouped together) I explained to him about this debate about Adelaide Architecture being boring. He talked about how you define cultural orientation of the community. He believes that there is a spirit about a place, and we should always be in search of ‘Where the spirit is?’. For Bijoy it was his first visit to Australia, and he felt that Melbourne has no nostalgia, and he sees Melbourne as a young city of 40 years where the spirit has created a thriving and progressive city. Then we explained to him about Adelaide and that to some extent came to a conclusion that if Melbourne has been at it for 40 years, Adelaide has been going for maybe 5-10 years or maybe not even born yet. We explained that there is strong public and council view about keeping the ‘1940’s style residential housing’ even in some extent to new housing developments, and he pointed out something quite interesting that, obviously there was something in the spirit of that time, that those people want to keep, but ‘the obsession’ has chipped away the spirit, as seeing it aesthetically doesn’t necessarily mean the spirit is still alive. Therefore nostalgia is not a good thing. It does not allow a city to progress. And in comparison to Melbourne, the large diversity of cultures and people have allowed it to thrive.
Therefore, I personally think that the question ‘Is Adelaide Architecture boring?’ should be more like, what and where is the spirit of Adelaide? and, how do we use that spirit in creating something of quality?




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Community on Adrenaline

Submission by Adam Albanese, Adam Cavuoto, Carlos Cofre, Erin Kingston and Kyriakos Tsinivits
Studio submission for Architectural Design Studio 09
Bowden Village Master Plan
The idea behind this master plan scheme is a community on adrenaline, an urban terrain with different speeds and spaces.

Connecting to the World - Thom Mayne

Hare-Way to the Stars

The Urban Spaceman 4/5