*️⃣Orquideorama

Architect #PlanB, #CamiloRestrepo  and #PaulRestrepo
City #Medellin
Country #Colombia #SA

🔤The Construction of a Orchideorama should come up of the relation between architecture and the living organisms. The microscale of the organic, such as its capacity to be organized in precise laws of geometry patterns.

Direct example: Honeycomb structure, allows us to build a single module. We call it Flower - tree, which mean a flower form figure with the size and properties of a tree, that when it becomes systematically repeated, it allows us to define growing properties, its evolution and its adaptability. Its geometry.

The Orchideorama is composed of 10 Flower - tree structures, that can be built individually, and allow the system grow or response to any uncertainties, such as budget, construction inconvenients or political decisions.

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Colour #brown
Material #wood
Function #public #community
Address: Cl. 41, 40A-26, Aranjuez, Medellín, Aranjuez, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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*️⃣Maison Louis Vuitton Sanlitun

Architect #Aoki #JunAoki
City #Beijing
Country #China #AP

🔤Located within the Sanlitun shopping district in the heart of China's capital city, the facade of the four-storey building has a fluid form and is clad in dichroic mirrors.

It was designed in reference to a dress designed by Nicolas Ghesquière, artistic director of Louis Vuitton's women's collections, and presented as the final look of the Women's Spring–Summer 2016 show.

The resulting facade is composed of two layers. An inner envelope ensures insulation, while the external layer is a mosaic of 315 hand-curved glass pieces and was designed to act as an "architectural lace".

Through the adoption of dichroic mirrors, the overall surface of the building shifts colours based on the movement of daylight and seasonal changes, leading the brand to describe the store as "a larger than life kaleidoscope".

Apparently this is yet a third Louis Vuitton mentioned in @simoderna archive. The Tokyo Maison is reminiscent of the new one in Beijing and is also done by Jun Aoki.

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Colour #blue
Material #curvedglass and #stainedglass
Function #retail #shop
Address: 39.933536, 116.448053

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*️⃣Canton TV tower

Architect #IBA
City #Guangzhou
Country #China #AP

🔤"We wanted to offer the city, something simple but complex, a new form that would be in tune with the contemporary times and that would challenge the current building technologies. Where most historical skyscrapers were bearing male characteristics; being angular, heavy and based on repetition, we defined our tower to have the identity of a female; smooth, curved, slender and gracious, in short a sexy tower." - (c) IBA

Single curved surfaces like cylinders have weaknesses. Double curved surfaces, as the hyperboloid in question, are curved in two directions and thus avoid these weak directions. This means that you can get away with far less material to carry a load, which makes them very economical. The second reason is that it is made entirely of straight lines (pic. 3) reducing costs by avoiding curved beams. #budget@simoderna

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Colour #white
Material #steel
Function #public #observation #industrial #other
Feature #skyscraper
Address: 4849+RG2, Binjiang E Rd, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 510310
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*️⃣Centre Pompidou-Metz

Architect #Ban #ShigeruBan
City #Metz
Country #France #EU

🔤The roof is made from laminated #wood in a hexagonal woven pattern composed in the form of a Chinese bamboo-woven hat.

This large wooden roof is covered in a Teflon-coated fibreglass membrane (PTFE #polymer) and allows soft natural light to filter into the interior

The main galleries are a series of 90m x 15m cantilevering rectilinear tubes that float above the ground, and their glass window ends point in the direction of the cathedral and other monuments of the city. #cantilever

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Colour #white
Function #public #museum
Feature #nightlight
Address: 1 Parv. des Droits de l'Homme CS 90490, 57000 Metz, France
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