Athens 2012_Ifigeneia Liangi

"The project is called 'still life' and is still ongoing. Its core idea is the in between state of hope and despair, which is in my opinion a duality that characterises the city of Athens at the moment. Situated in the centre of the city, a series of neoclassical facades inhabit potential playgrounds. Some of these playgrounds are: banks that exchange their habitable shadows, trees that pick up their own oranges, a mechanical bird that moves (because it can) and pretends to be flying.. and finally, columns of watermelon ice-cream, which runs indefinitely on the concrete slabs of the schoolyard towards the only person that is left in the city.." 

From Ifigeneias' blog 

An interesting project about Athens from Ifigeneia Liangi, student at the Bartlett School of Architecture

Ruin Academy_Marco Casagrande

[a suggestion for the re-use and re-thinking of the Greek Polykatoikia]


The Ruin Academy occupies an abandoned 5-story apartment building in central Taipei. All the interior walls of the building and all the windows are removed in order to grow bamboo and vegetables inside the house. The professors and students are sleeping and working in mahogany made ad-hoc dormitories and have a public sauna in the 5th floor. All the building is penetrated with 6 inch holes in order to let "rain inside". The Academy is viewed as an example or fragment of the Third Generation City, the organic ruin of the industrial city.

Without his ruins man is just a common ape.

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