Machines for Living (In) – Enric Ruiz-Geli
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From: papermag.com
He follows South American writer Jaime Lerner and his philosophy of culture as acupuncture: lots of little pin pricks as opposed to one big statement. He sees his proposal for the aquarium as a small part of much larger plan to reactivate a neighborhood. Ruiz-Gelli’s proposal would completely cover the entire aquarium with a giant, mesh net covered with lights: similar to his design for the Barcelona hotel.
And from The New York Times:
The Villa Nurbs (which gets its name from the world of computer-aided design) is an effort to salvage the more promising strains of that history.
The villa’s compact design represents a seismic mental shift. His aim, instead, is to bend technology to serve the needs of the individual. As silent and amorphous as a cloud, his house functions to smooth our relationship with an increasingly complex world rather than provide a comforting veneer of nostalgia.
The entire space is enclosed under a taut translucent skin made of ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) — a matrix of inflatable plastic roof panels. The oblong panels are imprinted with negative and positive grids on each side. When they are injected with air, they expand to let in daylight; when the air is let out, they contract again, blocking out the light and views up to the sky. The effect looks almost like a living organism — an enormous grid of robotic eyes.
His site, The Villa Nurbs, gives photos of other works under construction.
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