|
|
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
image | activities | contacts | links | italiano | |||||
|
6.
international festival for architecture in video |
||||||
|
introduction
program -dates -authors -events partners credits previous editions mailto |
 Douglas Garofalo, Randall Kober, Karl Karlen (Garofalo Architects), LOESS, USA 2001, 2'55'' The animation suggests how digital media is employed to produce a dynamic volume that is analogous to a particular landform. Ecologists speak of community as a succession of changes in stability, diversity and density. The community proposed here is a transitional housing shelter that includes spaces for living, working and relaxing. LOESS is German for loose or crumbly. It is a gritty, lightweight, porous material composed of tightly packed grains of quartz feldspar, mica, and other materials. Loess is the source of most of America's rich agricultural soils and is quite common in the Midwest. Significantly, Loess hills are formed by wind deposits, and therefore not permanent: Loess terrain is dynamic and rapidly evolving. Erosion has sculpted certain Loess deposits into unusual shapes. These characteristics of Loess landforms suggest a set of uniquely qualitative and functional combinations that are directly applicable to the idea of temporary housing: stability & transience, cohesiveness & variation, specificity & integration, density & porosity. Douglas Garofalo has developed a thriving practice in Chicago that produces architectural work through buildings, projects, research and teaching. He is Associate Professor and Acting Director at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture, and a Facilitator at Archeworks. He graduated from Yale University in 1987 and was awarded the prestigious Skidmore Owings & Merrill Foundation Traveling Fellowship. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame In 1981. Randall Kober is a project architect for Garofalo Architects. He received an M. Arch. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995. He was a founding member of OSB, a covert architectural collective which maintained a fully equipped fabrication space for various design-build projects. |
|||||
|
site
hosted by ARCH'IT rivista digitale di architettura  www.architettura.it |
||||||
