Date:
Thursday, June 8, 2023, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location:
RCCHU Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St. and over Zoom
Programmed obsolescence metamorphosis of a labyrinth
The ephemeral condition of the Klangkörperbau - Swiss sound Box, programmed obsolescence, has not prevented the Swiss pavilion from remaining in the memory of architecture and avoiding its fall into oblivion. Only existent for instant in the year 2000, it still has become permanent memory. It is a tapestry whose shape resembles that of a labyrinth; supposedly chaotic, extremely comprehensive. A seemingly recognizable, but hugely unknown architecture. Familiar as a stack of drying wood, which may have inspired the formal and constructive system; unprecedented as an abstract forest translated into built form. The re-construction method, layer by layer, is used as a mechanism for the discovery of its secrets of its meticulous details. The Klangkörper was a dynamic condenser, both spatially and sensorially. A polyphony of and for the senses, which seduces the user by means of tactile, sound, olfactory and visual qualities. A spatial scenography. A soundscape, a passable musical instrument.
Speaker: Franca Alexandra Sonntag (Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Margarita Salas Postdoc program, ETS Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM)
How to Live Together in comm[on]unities
The first human being´s refuge is in common unity with the origin of their own existence. The awareness of common can be considered atavistic and ancestral, as well as the need for its physical materialization. Investigating through various paths of the forest; instinctive drifts through loneliness, property, temporality, necessity, or modernity, among others. An eternal dichotomy between the common of the units and the units of the common, between the plural and the singularities, between individuality and society. A montage of shared texts with expansion joints. Social and existential crises were places of opportunity to dismantle and, above all, to reassemble the puzzle´s pieces of coexistence in a different way. Through an atlas of associations and alternative collective habitat constructions with instruction books, a collage of compact and covenantal architectures. Mapping the vestiges of their own aspirations by composing a manhattan of reproductive non-conformist architectures.
Speaker: Ricardo Montoro Coso (Profesor asociado, Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos DPA, ETS Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM)
Sponsors: RCCHU; UPM Delegation of North America; Margarita Salas Postdoc program DPA ETSAM UPM, Grupo de investigación Cultura del hábitat, School of Architecture and Planning SA+P, MIT