Publication: Poorne Valu. Porous Cast

Marjan Colletti and Kadri Tamre: 'Poorne Valu. Porous Cast' in Keha Ehitus, Body Building. TAB Main Exhibition 2015, eds. Sille Pihlak and Siim Tumsam, Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn Estonia, pp. 43-52.

Quaquaversal - Iris van Herpen Spring Collection Show, Paris

QUAQUAVERSAL

For Spring/Summer 2016 Iris Van Herpen explores the powerful confluence of nature and architecture. Inspired by the living tree bridges in India, the designer executes a new approach to garment construction, mixing the techniques of cutting, weaving, folding and growing into a process that transcends the boundaries of traditional clothes-making.[...]

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“The beautiful potential of plants and other organisms to form living architecture inspired me to make a collection that is tangled like a maze around the body. Inspiration came from the way plants and their roots grow, and how roots have been used to grow living bridges in the forests of India. This tradition of growing bridges inspired me to re-envision my process of making a garment.”
Central to the show Gwendoline Christie lies in a deep-time dream, wearing a circular dress, which is being woven upon her. The live process blends different techniques - lazer cutting, hand weaving and 3-D printing into one dress, which spreads from the centre, quaquaversal in its geometries.
Three ‘Beings’ move over the sleeping figure, their geological mineral landscape magnetically grown by the artist Jolan van der Wiel, weaving the dress in real time, interlacing an architectural mesh which rays out around her.
“Van Herpen’s work reveals the secret structures of our existence giving us a multidimensional experience of what it is to be alive, it is an investigation into the past, present and future in all its primal and mythological forms.”
Gwendoline Christie
In order to underscore the growth process inherent in living architecture and the installation, variations of lace were used as the key materials in the collection - a fine organic lace from Calais, a nude, graphic maze-like lace, iridescent changeant silver lace, leather lace embedded with Swarovski ceramic stones and glass-like transparent lace with square gems. The collection is executed in minimal colors – white, nude, grey, silver and black tones.
To complement the collection, the “airborne” shoes were developed in collaboration with Finsk. Their ultra-thin platform creates an illusion of the wearer being suspended above ground.

CREDIT LIST:

Press agent: Karla Otto | ​Nicolas Delareu
Styling: Patti Wilson
Casting Director: Jess Hallett
Consultancy: Jerry Stafford

Make-up: M.A.C | ​Inge Grognard
Hair: TIGI |​ Maria Kovacs, Marco Lafrate
Music & sounds: Salvador Breed

Runway music: Excerpt of “Canto Ostinato Audio Visual” | Gwyneth Wentink, Wouter Snoei & Arnott Hulskamp

Collaborating artists: Jolan van der Wiel, Marjan Colletti

Installation: Rex Lab | University of Innsbruck for Experimental Archictecture
Pedja Gavrilovic, Pavlos Fereos

Show: 6up event production | Martin Cohen, Bruno Augusto Ramos
Showproduction: Bdifferent | Kim Vos, Diek Pothoven​ & Michelle den Hollander

Shoes in collaboration with Finsk London by Julia Finsk

Press release: Jerry Stafford & Eugene Rabkin

Installation photography: Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
Frontstage Photography: Peter Stigter
Backstage Photography: Morgan O’Donovan
Video Registration: Fabrice Daville - Premices Films

 

Special Thanks to:
Gwendoline Christie

Swarovski­
Ets Lucien Noyon Et Cie
Akadamie van Kunsten
Stefano Martinetto & Tomorrow team

 

 

 

Member of the jury panel of the 2015 Arch20 Next7 competition

Member of the jury panel of the 2015 Arch20 Next7 competition

Jury Board 
1. Massimiliano Fuksas: Founder of Studio Fuksas, and Visiting Professor at the Columbia University (New York), the École Spéciale d’Architecture (Paris), the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Wien).

2. Kas Oosterhuis: Former Unit Master of AA London, Founding partner at ONL and Hyperbody research group

3. Marjan Colletti: Director of Computing at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Co-principal of ‘mam-arch’ in London, and Head of the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck.

4. Marc Fornes: Registered Architect and Founding principal of MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY

5. Daniel Gillen: Registered Architect and Founding principal of DGD:DGILLENdesign

6. Ibrahim Abdelhady: Founding Principal and Editor-in-chief at Arch2O, Former Faculty member at Virginia Tech, School of Art and Art History. The American University in Cairo (AUC), and College of Fine Arts, Alexandria University.

NEXT7 | 2015

For the second consecutive year Arch2O would like to call upon and challenge architects, artists, urban planners, engineers, designers, students and creative individuals to envision the Next- by conceiving of a proposed [set of] condition(s) which is( are) fundamentally different from the present. The future is going to be different. How so, for this competition, is completely plastic and up to individual entries to decide and define.

Each entry should specify at least one MAJOR difference that makes the future in which the competition is set, unique from the present day. This condition should be understood to fundamentally alter what and how everything is.

The future presents problems that cannot be solved 1 or even 2 dimensionally. Any solutions must therefore incorporate an amalgam of disparate, cooperating and new approaches. Humanity solves its modern day problems with its modern day methods, currently this is technology. Entries are encouraged to solve problems occurring in their defined futures with post-contemporary technologies or methods. Failing this, there should be a clear demonstration of advancement in techniques; either advancement towards the positive, or the negative. Again, this is up to individual entries.

We at Arch2O put forth that sustainable approaches incorporate parametric techniques, a reexamination of the analogue, as well as forward-looking technologies. We also put forth that entrants must decide for themselves what sustainability means in, and for their futures. Entrants should consider that the time-frame for the competition is set at an undetermined point in the future, so restrictions set on current technologies may not exist. Cars may fly, fusion might work, things may be roughly the same, save for one or two defining features. Things may be better or worse. These prospective possibilities should be considered and incorporated into entries. The main focus of the competition will be Architecture.

   The competition will be open for registration starting Sep.22nd.2015 in accordance with our media partners, the Detroit Design Festival, Rhino 3d and Archello.

Check the last year’s winners and honorable mentions! click here

To download full competition brief, please follow this link

FrAgile 2 - Porous Cast at Tallinn Architecture Biennale

TAB main exhibition participants announced!
TAB main exhibition “Body Building”, curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam, presents an impressive line-up of internationally renowned architects and researchers, experimenting on the borderline of architecture, using new materials, cutting edge technology (robotic fabrication, multi material 3d printing, real time data analyses) and reaching out to new disciplines (fashion, engineering).

Among the ten exhibits to be presented at the Museum of Estonian Architecture are recent or custom made works for "Body Building" by Atelier Bruno Juricic from Croatia/USA, Tom Wiscombe Architecture from USA, Kokkugia (Roland Snooks and Robert Stuart-Smith) from Australia, REX|Lab (Marjan Colletti and Kadri Tamre) from Austria/UK, ISSSStudio (Igor Siddiqui) from USA, Julia Körner from USA/Austria, Carlo Ratti Associati from Italy, City Form Lab (Andres Sevtsuk and Raul Kalvo) from Singapore/Estonia, nformations from Austria, Moritz Dörstelmann and Achim Menges from Germany.
The pieces include spectacular architectural prototypes that make use of new technologies enabling the viewers a peek into the future of space, buildings, design and everyday objects.

The main exhibition will be open from 11th September to 11th October 2015 in the Museum of Estonian Architecture, Ahtri 2, Tallinn. Find out more about the participants and take a peak at the gallery here.

Photos: Tõnu Tunnel

Sicily: Baroque, and beaches and lots more

Sicily: Baroque, beaches, gold, ice cream, archaeology and lots more. Awesome...

27.07.2015 TV Interview 'Meeting Nature Halfway'

27.07.2015 TV Interview 'Meeting Nature Halfway' on Austrian TV: REX|LAB robotic experimentation and Postdigitality: Meeting Nature Halfway

01.06.2014 Exp.Arch. GuestProf. Francois Roches premiere of the student movie zEITgAST l MythomaniaS

01.06.2014 Exp.Arch. GuestProf. Francois Roches premiere of the student movie zEITgAST l MythomaniaS

zEITgAST (6mn / Innsbruck / 2015)

Entwerfen M2
Institut für experimentelle Architektur.hochbau
François Roche, Stephan Henrich, Galo Moncayo Asan, Marc Ihle, Peter 'Griebel

Studenten:
Alexander Grasser, Jörg Stanzel, Lukas Härtenberger, Philipp Rust, Theresa Uitz, Lino Lanzmaier, Pedja Gavrilovic, Simeon Brugger, Alexander Nikolas Walzer, Gülay 'Güldemir

Francois Roche & Camille Lacadee

...Psychotic machines, psychotic apparatuses and fragments … Bodies in verse, bodies-becoming… are meeting in the stories of their symptoms… plausible. The ‘forbidden’ is reintroduced as a possible, and, what was rejected or considered as an improper ingredient within our computer graphic idealization of the world is coming back like a George Bataille’ substance… in a repulsive ‘curiouser and curiouser’ affinity, in the pursuit of the notion of risk of Ulrich Beck....
The human being isn’t any more considered as a bio-eco-consumer but is drifting into a psycho-computing-animal which defi(n)es its situation and condition of living simultaneously to the architecture’s emergences, as a co-dependency, a co-relationship… for a Siamese twin alienation (the eggs and the chicken together with the cat of Schrödinger). Para-psychoses, projections of the mind, delusions and singularities seem more relevant: Lines of Subjectivities vs Function, Bodies vs Body, Substances vs Design, Scenario vs Concept… ‘Pataphysics vs pseudo-Scientific Mystical Positivism, Strategies of Resistance and Negotiation vs Parametric Autism …
Fragments differ from time to time: shelter made of stones and lachrymatories (as in “… Would Have Been My Last Complaint”), woven bamboo (“the Feral Child”), stifling anatomical membranes (“(beau)strosity “), aquaria-like protrusions of blown glass (” Although (in) hapnea “) or spiral-shaped ceramic endless assemblages (“Terra Insola”). Environments as symptoms of an inner condition, in a constant exchange between narrative and emergence, providing the “raison d’ être” of the entire process: a storytelling manifested in the creation of a fiction which uses an emerging structure as a by-product and where a material structure with its physical characteristics takes shape and instructs the story.
Each scenario is a description of a condition of solitude in relation to a symptomatic emergent structure, where the fragment is the very “raison d’être” of his/her emotions: the true story of an old Indian book collector exiled from his community on the suspicion of atheism, who finds refuge in a tear-collecting shelter (“… Would Have Been My Last Complaint”); a scientist captured by a water spirit remains trapped like a fish in the mindscape of a fish butcher (“Although (in) hapnea”); a monster-boy endomorph constantly overfed, protected in a claustrophilic antidote-jacket from the love excess of his incestuous mother (“(beau)strosity”) ; the suspended time of Ariadne floating between two periods, two macho spirals, testosteroned Theseus and alcoholic Dionysus (“Terra Insola”) ; the feral child, innocent, naïve, and obscene, in the deep jungle, auscultated by scientism and voyeurism (“the Offspring”) ; the ‘difference and repetition’ of an affective alienation become caged food in the pursuit of the book of Gilles Deleuze (Σdays)… etc. (LabM4 with FRoche, CLacadee & SHenrich, EBlasetti, DWillems, GJahn, DJernigan...)

http://new-territories.com/

https://vimeo.com/mindmachinemakingmyths

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RexLab - University of Innsbruck
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26.06.2015 Bartlett Summershow - the exhibition

26.06.2015 Bartlett Summershow - the exhibition
This year's Unit 20 - 17m2 lightbox

26.06.2015 Bartlett Summershow

26.06.2015 Bartlett Summershow - the party

26.06.2015 End of year, Exp.Arch 2015

26.06.2015 End of year, Exp.Arch 2015

26.05.2015 Exp.Arch. Bacherlors Final Jury with Sir Peter Cook, Dr. Yael Reisner, Stefan Rutzinger, Kristina Schinegger.

26.05.2015 Exp.Arch. Bacherlors Final Jury with Sir Peter Cook, Dr. Yael Reisner, Stefan Rutzinger, Kristina Schinegger

More than Décor – The Responsive Ornament and Digital Criminals
Bachelors Thesis at exparch.hochbau. Thanks to all the great work done by our students, and to our final jury Sir Peter Cook, Yael Reisner, Stefan Rutzinger, Marjan Colletti.

25.06.2015 Exp.Arch. Innsbruck Bachelor exhibition 'More than Decor'. Tutored by Peter Griebel, Galo MoncayoAsan, Marc Ihle, Prof. Marjan Colletti

25.06.2015 Exp.Arch. Innsbruck Bachelor exhibition 'More than Decor'. Tutored by Peter Griebel, Galo MoncayoAsan, Marc Ihle, Prof. Marjan Colletti

25.06.2015 Latent Utopias - Volker Giencke lectures, AUT Innsbruck

25.06.2015 Latent Utopias lectures 'Große Architektur - Große Kunst" / "great architecture - great art, AUT Innsbruck, by Exp.Arch studio3.

Lectures by Yael Reisner,Volker Giencke, Colin Fournier and Peter Cook,
Schnitzel by Planoetzenhof.

Photo: Rivka Rinn

24.06.2015 Technology1 exhibition and jury at Exp.Arch. Innsbruck

24.06.2015 Technology1 exhibition and jury at Exp.Arch. Innsbruck

21.-22.06.2015 invited critic at the Akademie der Bildende Kuenste Vienna

21.-22.06.2015 invited critic at the Final Reviews, Akademie der Bildende Kuenste Vienna

Studio Ecology Sustainability Conservation BArch_4
Hannes Stiefel, Luciano Parodi

Studio Geography Landscape Cities BArch_6
Hannes Mayer (Roland Rainer Chair), Daniela Herold

Studio Analogue Digital Production BArch_2
Wolfgang Tschapeller, Werner Skvara, Eva Sommeregger

Studio Analogue Digital Production MArch
Ernst J. Fuchs

Studio Geography Landscape Cities MArch
Kathrin Aste