rethinking utilities: large concrete drain pipes as a hotel… reserve a room
roof
Das Park Hotel by Austrian Andreas Strauss
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Enough Room for Space show about reimagined public space
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Martin Hendrijks show called Enough Room for Space about
“Displacement of residents, whether they are gentrifying artists priced out of Soho or the poor and unemployed excluded from New York altogether, is no random by-product of gentrification but its structural condition. Decay, disinvestment, abandonment . . .prepare the way for profitable reinvestment . . . Like all the social relations that art supposedly transcends, housing is one of the historical circumstances of its existence”. Rosalyn Deutsche, “Alternative Space”
“And howsoever oppositional we architects may be, as long as we fail to challenge basic elements of society, such as the concept of private property, nothing will improve. This is a great paradox for me”. Achim Felz, “IKAS: An Experiment in Extra-Parliamentary Architectural Opposition”
Roof fooR Me!
Saturday, December 29th, 2007incognito roof skylight research
I am researching air rights, roof design, and building code issues related to my rooftop aspirations with skylines of horizonal inspiration.