1. Phaeno Science Center - Wolfsburg, Germany
(Zaha Hadid)
"Zaha Hadid pours her ideas of fluid architecture into concrete and glass at the cinematic PHAENO SCIENCE CENTER in Wolfsburg, Germany"
Zaha Hadid's Phaeno Science Center exemplifies her notions of 'fluid architecture' throughout the entirety of the building, from the sweeping front yard to the rolling ground planes and to the elevation of the main bulk of the building opening up views through the site.
"I didn't want it to occupy the ground," - instead it rests on 10 concrete 'cones' which curve and cant structural elements of different sizes that seem to warp the building where they meet it.
2. Water Cube (Beijing National Aquatics Center) - Beijing, China
( PTW Architects, CSCEC, CCDI and Arup)
"In contrast to the Swiss firm's circular red bird's nest, the pool...would be a 'very green' blue cube, with an insulated cavity as a thermal buffer. 'Architecture has to perform as an ecosystem.'"
The 'Water Cube' located in Beijing, China, possess a rather complex 'climate control' design utilizing ETFE (Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) throughout the design allowing for the cavity to warm the interior during winters of -3 degrees, but also evacuating excess heat when the cavity reaches average temperatures of 25 degrees.
3. BMW Toronto - Don Valley Parkway, Toronto
(Quadrangle Architects Ltd)
"Designed by local firm Quadrangle Architects, BMW Toronto is the flagship retail showroom for a company that fully understands what gives this brand its cool-factor: the cars. Taking maximum advantage of its unique exposure to the highway, the building mixes sophistication and spectacle as passing motorists are tempted with titillating displays of new cars showcased four storeys above the street. "
"...white-framed display cases prompt passers-by to wonder if they are indeed real. And while the mass is clad in blue-tinted glass, the pillboxes feature an ultra-clear lead free glass...from the inside, the cars are ghosted against a screen of frosted glass. By day the sober glass facade appears darkly translucent and quietly slips beyond the edges of the building. At night, the glass wall disappears as the interior comes aglow..."
Technical Aspects of Complex Geometry
1. The HybGrid : FROM FORM GENERATION TO FORM ADAPTATION - Diversifying digital architecture
(Yu-Tung Liu)
"The aim of this project has been designing a system/process able to generate multiple and non-predetermined shapes that are modifiable with regard to different spatial requirements. Our purpose has been achieving formal adaptability and not formal identity (ideal form). For this purpose it is necessary to design a physical system (phenotype) able to articulate; but it is also important to design a process (genotype) linking the multiple spatial necessities to their multiple formalizations.
2. Metropol Parasol - La Encamacion square, Seville, Spain(Jurgen Mayer-Hermann)
Metropol Parasol is a complete wooden building consisting of an undulating, fluid, almost organic exterior design composing of interweaving waffle-like wooden panels rising from the concrete base. The panels are strategically/architecturally placed in such a way as to form structural canopies and walkways below the parasols. The structure itself serves as a unique organic public urban space within the crowded and dense medieval city center of Seville.
3. Swiss Re Headquarters - Riverside Three, 22 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN
(Foster and Partners)
"The futuristic skyscraper in London's Financial District was soon given an entirely appropriate nickname: the Gherkin - entirely understandable in view of the particular design of the building. The structure is also the city's first-ever ecological multi-storey building. "
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