VULGARE

( Source : Jean Müller )

Rue de meaux public housing project by renzo piano and desvigne & dalnoky

Photos by Laura Knosp.

The origin of the term dingbat is much debated; the only thing known for sure is that the appellation arrived after the buildings themselves. The first textual reference was made by Reyner Banham in Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971); he credits the coining to architect Francis Ventre and describes them.

« …[Dingbats] are normally a two-story walk-up apartment-block developed back over the full depth of the site, built of wood and stuccoed over. These are the materials that Rudolf Schindler and others used to build the first modern architecture in Los Angeles, and the dingbat, left to its own devices, often exhibits the basic characteristics of a primitive modern architecture. Round the back, away from the public gaze, they display simple rectangular forms and flush smooth surfaces, skinny steel columns and simple boxed balconies, and extensive overhangs to shelter four or five cars… »^[1]

The word is sometimes said to reference dingbat in the sense of a « general term of disparagement, »^[3] referring to either the flawed buildings themselves or the builders or even the residents. For example, one online architecture dictionary says, « They were called dingbat houses because of the quick and shoddy way they were constructed. » ^[4] However, it is generally believed dingbat refers to the stylistic flourishes (à la typographic dingbats) that often garnish the stucco façades.

source: wikipedia & Flickr

Built in 1970-1978, designed by architect Carlo Scarpa. It’s located beside the cemetery of San Vito d’Altivole. For the Brion Tomb, Scarpa established a new landscape within an old one, constructed a complex narrative out of startlingly fresh free-standing forms, and explored radical design and construction techniques to effect them.

Via butdoesitfloat

LACP 9, « Road Atlas » 2002 – Cuts on a road atlas

( Source : Noriko Ambe )

Thanks to Alban Mannisi

Postulate

Study on the transition of space, its value as the first image of Paris towards the world, Charles de Gaulle Airport by plane, Gare de Lyon by railway, and Paris Bercy Interchange by road.

If they are… Where are they?
Wondering about the geographical location of these sites makes inevitable to wonder about their relationship with their close environments, their connections not obvious as other “events” of the landscape can be. Let’s say that if one cannot doubt that they maintain the relations… it is hard to imagine the content of those and even with which they maintain them, such allies that snub their adjacent neighbors.
Does Roissy Charles-of-Gaulle Airport maintain an intimate contact with these fields and villages along its boundary?  To which cities is it close? Paris or Gonesse? The tarmac of the airport or Paris-Roissy Charles-of-Gaulle is located on 6 communes at 50 km of Paris and of an area equivalent to one third of Paris, that is 3.174 hectares.
Set of geographic attributes, once assembled, sometimes quasi answers to their existing space developments. But in fact these sites have contacts so particular and absent that it is difficult to draw obvious connections.
The geographic definition of these sites is low leads. That is to say the tarmac out of the cities, the stations in the cities and the road junctions at the entries of the cities.
Cause and future of particular location of the Transit zones is a study/projection of the future of landscape of Roissy Charles de Gaulles Airport, Paris-Bercy  Interchange and Gare de Lyon in Paris.

( Source : Seiwooo )

A spectacular Landscape created with just 4K of code.  It’s from RGBA and TBC, as part of the 4K Code Competition at the Breakpoint 2009 demo-scene.

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http://www.katharinagrosse.com/

vvork

Source : Piet Oudolf