Tuesday, March 02. 2010
The World in a Shell
Of all the shipping containers that will pass through
For five years, Hans Kalliwoda and Delft
The World in a Shell will premiere in Rotterdam, thereby starting its journey. Since art, technology and architecture come together In the container, the Netherlands Architecture Institute and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media are joining forces to organize a number of activities in and around the container. There will be workshops and a seminar on sustainability in art, architecture and science on April 1 at V2_. Follow Hans Kalliwoda's journey at http://www.worldinashell.net, or drop by The World in a Shell!
Because, technology and architecture coincide in The World in a Shell, the NAi and V2_ are joining forces to organize a number of activities in and around the container:
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Official Opening: The World in a Shell
March 27 | 17:00 | NAi Museumpark, Rotterdam
Seminar: Art, Architecture-Science Collaboration in Sustainability
With Ute Meta Bauer, Robert Zwijnenberg and Hans Kalliwoda
April 1 | 19:30 | Admission: € 7,50 | V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam | Reservation required
Workshop: The Power of Logic Versus the Logic of Power
With Ion Sorvin (N55) and Anne Romme
April 2 | 10:00–18:00 | Admission: € 20,00 | Reservation required
Urban Adventure: A Walk in the Invisible City
With Petr Kazl and Wilfried Houjebek
April 9 | 16:00–18:00 | Reservation required
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Mercedes-Benz Tornado
[Image: The Mercedes-Benz Tornado; photographer unknown]."The twister takes around seven minutes to materialize," Autoblog explains, "and is generated by 144 jets and 28 tons of air. The low pressure area at the center of the tornado works to create a jet stream that draws smoke out of the building's corridors and funnels it upwards and out an exhaust vent on the roof." It is also more than 100 feet tall—making it the official world-record holder for the World's Largest Artificial Tornado.
Watch the video of how it forms:
A reader, Daan Koch, pointed this internal atmospheric feature out to me—the tornado as ornament—adding that this "dramatic way of ventilating an atrium... could be nice for the Guggenheim in New York, as well." I couldn't agree more.
Or perhaps horizontal tornadoes could roll through the New York subway system every night from 2-5am, cleaning out the underworld of its dust and potato chip bags. Perhaps even inside this New Haven parking garage, shown below, with its "fabulous concrete circulation drum" as recently photographed by Charles Holland. Complicatedly angled fans and vacuums suck new wind systems into existence near Yale.
[Image: New Haven parking garage as Tornadodrome; photographed by Fantastic Journal].Or your new house in the Chicago suburbs seems absolutely perfect for you and your family—till the first hot day of the year sets in and you turn on the A/C. Some sinister combination of ill-conceived vents and over-tall foyer begins to rope together winds—pulling in air from the living room, from the basement, from the kids' bedrooms—and within a mere twenty minutes a tornado-strength twister takes visible form.
It then spins for days, suffocating the residents in their sleep by robbing them of oxygen, and lifting their limp bodies into the air, where they turn in lazy circles like pirates drowned at sea. Their bodies dance aloft, as if caught in an aero-spirograph, eerily lit by dim suburban lamplight and visible through the front door windows—a vision of the vortex—accidentally killed by HVAC.
[Images: Two views inside UNStudio's Mercedes-Benz Museum; photographer unknown].(Thanks, Daan, for the tip!)
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