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Fire
Station Ave Fenix
Silver
Medal Mexican Biennale of Architecture
BGP
Arquitectura + AT 103
The
program includes, in addition to the Firemen station itself, a space of
consultation and training center open to the public, both activities must be
executed separately and never the presence of the visitor should interfere in
the work of the firemen.
The design
chosen for the station appears towards the outside like a simple high box that
it almost disappears after a facade that plays with the context in a game of
reflections, floating on the patio of maneuvers and the pump cars parking area;
this space extends towards the street or, in inverse reading, incorporates the
urban space.
Within the
chromed box, both uses are alternated and complemented, organized by planes with
holes in different sizes and shapes that allows natural lighting and
communicates the different levels. In the case of the main access, the double
stair proposed, separated the flow of the employers and the visitors and goes
from the level of visitor access to a heliport in the roof.
This
vertical circulation was complemented by the classic tubes where the firemen
descend faster. Thus, making them coexist thanks to the views crossed in the
main patio, but without mixing them, the proposed solution is able to resolve
both uses - the station requirements and the public areas.
New
Holland
Island
St
Petersburg,
Russia,
Foster
+
Partners
The
New
Holland
Island
Redevelopment
will
provide
the
triangular
shaped
self-sustaining
island
in
St
Petersburg
with
7.6-hectares
of
mixed-use
cultural
development.
The
scheme
will
include
an
indoor
theatre,
conference
facilities,
galleries,
a
hotel,
shops,
apartments
and
restaurants,
with
a
flexible
outdoor
arena
at
its
heart.
Edged
by
canals,
and
covering
an
area
of
7.6
hectares,
New
Holland
Island
was
created
in
the
time
of
Peter
the
Great
as
a
centre
for
shipbuilding.
Over
succeeding
centuries
it
has
served
as
a
naval
prison,
been
home
to
a
naval
radio
station,
and
from
Soviet
times
accommodated
high-security
naval
and
military
facilities.
The
military
recently
ceded
the
island
to
the
city,
thus
creating
the
opportunity
for
New
Holland’s
dramatic
reinvention
as
both
a
major
cultural
centre
and
a
self-sufficient
city
district.
Reflecting
a
creative
dialogue
between
old
and
new,
the
historic
warehouses,
originally
built
for
timber
storage,
are
reinvented
as
hotel
and
retail
space
and
complemented
by
a
range
of
amenities
for
the
visual
and
performing
arts.
An
office
complex,
which
completes
the
missing
side
of
the
‘triangle’,
will
establish
the
island
as
a
venue
for
business
as
well
as
pleasure.
An
outdoor
arena
follows
the
contours
of
the
dock
basin
to
provide
a
venue
for
open-air
performances,
which
can
be
flooded
for
regattas
or
frozen
as
a
skating
rink.
The
historic
rotunda
is
adapted
as
a
400-seat
recital
hall
for
more
traditional
theatre,
opera
and
dance
and
the
main
performance
venue
–
the
2,000-seat
Festival
Hall
–
forms
the
centrepiece.
An
art
gallery
links
the
three
performance
venues
at
basement
level.
Using
a
sophisticated
system
of
natural
ventilation
and
an
energy
strategy
that
maximises
the
insulating
properties
of
snow
and
the
cooling
potential
of
the
surrounding
canals,
the
island
will
be
energy
efficient
and
sustainable.
Crucially,
the
scheme
provides
the
infrastructure
to
connect
with
the
city
at
an
urban
scale.
There
will
be
a
prominent
gateway
into
the
site
from
the
major
city
artery
of
Nervskiy
Prospect
and
new
bridges
and
routes
will
tie
the
island
into
a
wider
cultural
quarter
that
includes
the
Mariinsky
Theatre
and
the
Hermitage
Museum
to
establish
a
thriving,
accessible
centre
for
the
arts.
The
project
has
the
regenerative
power
to
lift
the
fortunes
of
the
surrounding
areas,
while
locking
itself
into
the
heart
of
one
of
Europe’s
most
dynamic
cities.
Client:
ST
New
Holland
Consultants:
Waterman
International
/
Buro
Happold,
Davis
Langdon,
Waterman
International
/
Buro
Happold,
Anne
Minors
Performance
Consultants,
Sound
Space
Design,
Waterman
International
Co-architects:
Yuri
Mityurev
Studio
(Architect
of
Record)
LILYPAD, A
FLOATING ECOPOLIS FOR CLIMATE REFUGEES
2100, a large
crowd of ecological refugees
Further to the anthropogenic
activity, the climate warms up and the ocean level increases. According to the
principle of Archimedes and contrary to preconceived notions, the melting of the
arctic ice-floe will not change the rising of the water exactly as an ice cube
melting in a glass of water does not make its level rise. However, there are two
huge ice reservoirs that are not on the water and whose melting will transfer
their volume towards the oceans, leading to their rising. It deals with the ice
caps of Antarctic and Greenland on the one hand, and the continental glaciers on
the other hand. Another reason of the ocean rising, that does not have anything
to do with the ice melting is the water dilatation under the effect of the
temperature.
According to the less alarming forecasts of the GIEC (Intergovernmental group on
the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm
during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th
Century). The international scientific scene assets that a temperature elevation
of 1°C will lead to a water rising of 1 meter. This increase of 1 m would bring
ground losses emerged of approximately 0.05% in Uruguay, 1% in Egypt, 6% in the
Netherlands, 17.5% in Bangladesh and up to 80% approximately in the atoll Majuro
in Oceania (Marshall and Kiribati islands and step by step the Maldives
islands).
If the first meter is not very funny with more than 50 million of people
affected in the developing countries, the situation is worse with the second
one. Countries like Vietnam, Egypt, Bangladesh, Guyana or Bahamas will see their
most inhabited places swamped at each flood and their most fertile fields
devastated by the invasion of salt water damaging the local ecosystems. New
York, Bombay, Calcutta, Hô Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Miami, Lagos, Abidjan,
Djakarta, Alexandria… not les that 250 million of climatic refugees and 9% of
the GDP threatened if we not build protections related to such a threat. It is
the demonstration inflicted to reluctant spirits by a climatological study of
the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and that
challenges our imagination of eco-conception!
The water rising being not written in the agenda of the Grenelle agreements on
environment in France, it is primordial in terms of environmental crisis and
climatic exodus to pass from now on from a strategy of reaction in emergency to
a strategy of a adaptation and long-lasting anticipation. It is surprising,
whereas some islands prepare their disappearing to see that the management of
the rising of the ocean level does not seem to worry the governments beyond
measure. More surprising to see that the populations of the developed countries
continue to rush on the littoral to build districts over there; houses and
buildings dedicated to a certain flood.
http://vincent.callebaut.org/
Teodoro Gonzalez de León
2008
UIA
Gold
Medalist
The
jury
decided
to
award
the
2008
Gold
medal
to
the
Mexican
architect
Teodoro
Gonzalez
de
Leon.
He
will
receive
the
medal
at
a
ceremony
in
Turin,
on
2
July
2008,
during
the
twenty
third
UIA
Congress.
CITATION
Through
this
medal,
the
UIA
honours
and
highlights
a
lifetime
of
work
devoted
to
the
realisation
of
an
architecture
that
reflects
an
era,
its
social
reality,
its
culture
and
its
traditions.
The
work
of
Teodoro
Gonzalez
de
Leon
is
part
of
the
architecture
of
the
Modern
Movement,
with
a
vocabulary
that
is
constantly
renewed
enriched
and
reinterpreted.
His
architecture
is
monumental,
in
the
positive
sense
of
the
word
and
the
intelligent
use
he
makes
of
materials,
of
light
and
different
textures
confer
on
his
realisations
a
particular
presence,
imposing
in
the
urban
as
well
as
in
the
natural
context.
JURY
The
jury
for
the
2008
Gold
Medal
met
in
Bratislava,
on
16
and
17
April
2008.
Under
the
presidency
of
Gaëtan
Siew,
UIA
President,
it
was
composed
as
follows:
Jordi
Farrando
(Spain),
UIA
Secretary
General,
Donald
J.
Hackl
(USA),
UIA
Treasurer,
Louise
Cox
(Australia),
1st
UIA
Vice-President,
Martin
Drahovsky
(Slovakia),
2nd
Vice-Président,
Giancarlo
Ius
(Italy),
Mauricio
Rivero
Borrell
(Mexico),
Seif
Alnaga
(Egypt),
UIA
Vice-
Presidents,
Wolf
Tochtermann
(Germany),
Director
of
the
UIA
International
Competitions
Commission.
BIOGRAPHY
Teodoro
Gonzalez
de
Leon
was
born
in
1926
in
Mexico
and
studied
there
at
the
National
School
of
Architecture
from
1942
to
1947.
He
was
granted
a
scholarship
by
the
French
government
and
worked
in
the
Le
Corbusier
Atelier
between
1947
and
1949,
notably
on
the
St
Dié
factory
project.
He
returned
to
practice
in
Mexico
in
1950.
His
works
represent
a
wide
variety
of
programmes:
public
buildings,
housing
and
residences,
urban
spaces,
parks
and
gardens.
His
most
famous
works
of
the
1970-1980
period
are
the
Mexican
embassy
in
Brazilia,
the
Mexico
College
and
the
INFONAVIT
building
with
Abraham
Zabludovsky,
then
the
Tomás
Garrido
Canabal
Park
in
Villahermosa,
Tabasco,
in1986
,
with
Francisco
Serrano
and
Aurelio
Nuño,
and,
more
recently,
the
archaeological
museum
on
the
Tajin
site
in
Veracruz
(1992),
the
Superior
School
of
Music
in
Mexico
(1994)
and
the
Mexican
Embassy
in
Berlin,
in
1999,
with
Francisco
Serrano.
UIA
GOLD
MEDAL
When
creating
this
medal
in
1984,
the
aim
of
the
UIA
was
to
bestow
it
with
a
prestige
equivalent
to
that
held
by
the
Nobel
Prize
in
the
fields
of
Arts,
Sciences
and
Social
Sciences.
This
unique
international
distinction,
free
of
any
interests,
national
or
private,
is
the
supreme
honour
an
architect
can
receive
from
his/her
peers.
It
is
awarded
to
a
living
architect,
in
recognition
of
his/her
achievements
and
contributions
made
throughout
his/her
life
and
career,
to
the
benefit
of
man
and
society,
and
the
promotion
of
the
art
of
architecture.
Since
its
creation,
the
UIA
Gold
Medal
has
been
awarded
to:
Hassan
Fathy
(Egypt),
in
1984
Reima
Pietila
(Finland),
in
1987
Charles
Correa
(India),
in
1990
Fumihiko
Maki
(Japan),
in
1993
Rafael
Moneo
(Spain),
in
1996
Ricardo
Legorreta
Vilchis
(Mexico),
in
1999
Renzo
Piano
(Italy),
in
2002
Tadao
Ando
(Japan)
in
2005 UIA
Architects
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