Wednesday, June 02. 2010
Over the clouds
Arium: Weather + Architecture / Jürgen Mayer H. and Neeraj Bhatia
I am very interested on the relation between architecture and weather. That’s why On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time
That’s why enjoyed Arium so much.
Arium is the result of a studio led by Jürgen Mayer with Neeraj Bhatia at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. The book moves between a series of analytical articles on the relationship between weather and architecture, ranging from tourism to shopping. These concepts are then tested by the studio over the Victory Soya Mills Silos, a massive concrete structure sitting silent along Toronto’s waterfront, the perfect lab for a weatherized intervention: the Ariums (Algarium, Fogarium, Thermarium, etc).
The balance between weather analysis and the studio projects make this book a good reference on the subject, and not just a mere compilation of student’s work.
More after the break.
Is Weather the last vestige of nature in the city? Do the forces in Weather systems hold the key to the energy crisis? Is instability and disorder something that can be designed? Is Weather the nemesis of Architecture or its best friend? Is Weather becoming the last form of cultural specificity? Does it all come down to the “green”?
Arium is a guidebook to Weather and Architecture. Examining the relationship between the atmosphere, built environment, culture, and politics, this comprehensive research project—under the direction of the architect Jürgen Mayer H. from Berlin and urban designer Neeraj Bhatia from Toronto—offers an in-depth look at our contemporary understanding of weather through critical examinations of design and architecture.
- Hatje Cantz Verlag
Edited by: Neeraj Bhatia and Jürgen Mayer H.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Graphic Design: Eric Bury, Visuals Etcetera
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Illustrations: 70 illustrations (37 in color), 170 drawings and diagrams
Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
ISBN: 978-3775725408
Index
The Weather Report
Weather + Science / Tomek Bartzak
Weather + Health / Lisa Spensieri
Weather + War / Johanna Bollozos
Weather + Infrastructure / Geoffrey Turnbull
Weather + Catastrophes / Andrea Traverso
Weather + Tourism / Daniel Briker
Weather + Shopping / Daniel Rabin
Weather + Media / Annie Ritz
Weather + Materials / Dennis Rijkhoff
The Weather Forecast
Algarium / Piers Cunnington & Geoffrey Turnbull
Ariumarium / Daniel Briker
Iterarium / Lisa Spensieri
Filtrarium / Johanna Bollozos & Dennis Rijkhoff
Mediarium / Tomek Bartzak
Activarium / Andrea Losier & Andrea Traverso
Fogarium / Renee Leung & Marnie Williams
Thermarium / Daniel Rabin & Annie Ritz
The Weather Outlook
Weatherize! / Jürgen Mayer H.
The Post-Junkspace Globe / Neeraj Bhatia
Mutant Environments / Mason White
The History of Green / Renee Leung
MEtreePOLIS / Matthias Hollwich & Marc Kushner
Foggy Eyes, San Francisco Days / Henry Urbach
Strange Weather / Dirk Hebel & Jörg Stollmann
Weathering Architecture / Filiz Klassen
Weather Processor and Social Catalyst / Rodolphe el-Khoury & Robert Levit
Biographies
Image Credits
Acknowledgements
Personal comment:
Weather: a growing (trending) topic in architecture.
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