New Orleans Prototype House Competition
by admin on October 23rd, 2006
As New Orleans struggles with a future of continued displacement, this competition, open to architecture students only, sought designs for houses that respond to the city’s new circumstances: ease of installment, flexible to rise above flood waters, and a respect for local climate and environment.
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Asylum seeking artists
by Regine on May 4th, 2006
This week, WHITE BOX’s gallery space has become a creative asylum where 10 successful applicants (from Mexico, Ukraine, Japan, Nigeria, etc) are spending five nights and days under a state of detention, working and developing an artistic project until April 29, 2006.
Projects must actively challenge a regime of exclusion in New York by including otherwise excluded individuals from cultural and socioeconomic systems or physical structures in the city.
In exchange, AsylumNYC provides a free lawyer to try to obtain an O-1 “Special Talent Artist Visa.” If successful, the artist will be awarded the opportunity to stay in the U.S. for up to three years.
The artists arrived at the gallery with sleeping bags, clothing and passports but without any material as one of the requirements of the project is to create an art piece from nothing.
“In the gallery they gave us a pen, a notebook, a pillow and meals. The rules say that we can make either an object or a performance, but the final work will depend on the interaction with the public,” explains Venzuelian artist Valeria Cordero. Other rules of the “residence” include: never going out of the gallery and speaking only in english.
The idea of Wooloo Productions, a collective of activists who organised the competition, is to let the artists experience the same conditions and restrictions suffered by those who arrive in the country, looking for an asylum or a working visa.
On April 28 the most original project will be selected and its author will meet Daniel Aharoni, a lawyer specialized in immigration issues. The exhibition of the winning project will open on April 29 at the WHITE BOX’s gallery.
Via El Mundo.
Site Museum in Tulum - Mexico
by John on April 25th, 2006
Making Radura
The project relates itself with two different contexts: the archaeological site of Tulum and the forest.
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The museum is formed by a series of autonomous rooms that are set together in a way to create a series of different paths inside the expositive spaces. The rooms are alternated with open spaces that allow lateral illumination. Vertical illumination is assured by the series of lithic elements on the roof that captivates and inserts the light. The walls are characterized with a superficial treatment that is inspired from the antic decoration of the Maya civilization, creating a texture that filters and decompose the external light.
Project Team: Alessandro Console, Giuditta Benedetti, Alessio Cancellieri
5NOVE is: Alessandro Console, Gina Oliva, Andrea Canale, Alessio Cancellieri and Giuditta Benedetti.