MCMV

Chaos order

http://www.fronteirasdopensamento.com.br/videos/player/?13,254

Chaos and order

The ultimate stealth threat

HEIJPANEMA BEACH

Heijplaat in a way is a strange place because it is harbour-locked, its existence is because of the harbour who always has given work for the residents. The water has always had a work function. Now that part of the harbour is disabled, the Port of Rotterdam is making plans together with the creation of a second Maasvlakte. Some companies will move further to the sea and some will stay. Within these future plans Heijplaat has to get economically and only on a later moment socially more interesting. We want to question this approach by making the residents the most important thing on this peninsula.

Now that the water has lost and will lose part of its work function, we want to give it a recreational function. We want to give the water to the residents because for some years now the swimming pool of Heijplaat is empty and the waterfront is private area. Heijplaat needs high-grade public space. So we will offer a beach floating in the middle of the water to enjoy the sun, play in the sand, practice sports, take a shower and buy some ice-cream, look at the ships and the movement in the harbour.

cities 2030

"Humanity has not been down this road before," write urbanists Peter Hall and Ulrich Pfeiffer. "There are no precedents, no guideposts."
© 2002 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.

Paulo Mendes da Rocha - Capela São Pedro - Campos do Jordão

The Chapel of Saint Peter in Campos do Jordão is located next to the Boa Vista Palace, the winter residence of the governor of Sao Paulo.

The architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha creates a sense of strength and simplicity through the use of materials like concrete, glass and steal. Religious spaces flow around a single massive column in the center. The glass-fronted two-story chapel overlooks the distant mountain peaks of Mantiquera.

As UPPs na mídia brasileira

É importante conhecer como a mídia vem tratando a questão das UPPs no Rio. É importante também visitar e sentir de fato a força e o desafio de conhecer esta realidade.

http://tvuol.uol.com.br/#view/id=favelas-pacificadas-do-rio-estao-na-mira-de-investidores-0402CD183662C0992326/mediaId=12301607/date=2011-11-23&&list/type=tags/tags=1793%2C1666/edFilter=editorial/time=week/

how the dutch got their cycle paths

Fonte: http://citylines.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/the-history-of-the-dutch-bicycle-success/

FAU - USP

Designed by the architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas and the engineer Carlos Cascaldi, the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo was constructed in apparent reinforced concrete and reveals a singular and extraordinary plasticity. By these meanings, the building became a sample of reference and inspirations for other architects in order to concive educational buildings. The magnitude of the roof composed by a grid, long-span beams (up to 22 meters) as well as other structural elements, such as the inverted A beams and unparallel pyramid-like shape columns, mint innovations for the advance in architecture and engineering in Brasil during the decade of 1960.

(http://www.docomomo.org.br/seminario%207%20pdfs/069.pdf)

It is within the close relationship between people and the learning of group life, says the architect, that it becomes possible to combat individualism. "I thought it [the building of FAU] as the spatialization of democracy, worthy places, no front doors, because I wanted it as a temple, where all activities are lawful."

Piet Hein Eek

This video, made by Dutchdfa, shows the work and way of working of designer

Piet Hein Eek.

dutchdfa.com

reality

Unfortunately this is still reality in the peripheral areas of São Paulo;

no sanitation and garbage everywhere.

This while star architect Daniel Libeskind has designed a very expensive appartmentbuilding in the city´s most expensive area.

The building will include 14 apartments - one per floor plus a two-floor penthouse -from 565 to 1,145 square meters and each unit’s floor plan will be individual.

Urban bike design

The latest and ultimate VANMOOF model, the Düsenjäger, was selected by a jury out of 14.000 entries from 68 countries and awarded with the Red Dot for product design.

The urban VANMOOF Düsenjäger clearly convinced the judges with its built-in ABUS chain lock, integrated solar LEDs and USB port. The Düsenjäger has an anodized aluminium frame, is light as a feather and equipped with a duomatic hub: two gears but zero cables. The iconic Düsenjäger is stripped from the redundant. The bike is slick and simplistic on the outside while clever and strong on the inside. With its anodized red rims, minimalistic looks and edgy details, riding the Düsenjäger makes you look fly and feel like flying.

www.vanmoof.nl

fonte:dutchdfa.nl

Windmill in restauration

The 270 year old windmill nr. 5 of Kinderdijk has been straigthened. It has been levered for 60 centimeters on one side. This operation is part of a restauration of fourteen of the 19 windmills in Kinderdijk. Since 1997 the windmills of Kinderdijk are part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

For more information and images (dutch):
http://nos.nl/video/259543-molen-no-5-kinderdijk-rechtgezet.html

MUBE

One of the nicest places of São Paulo, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Museo Brasileiro da Escultura.

http://mube.art.br