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Back in Los Angeles from MIA....... New semester awaits 

Eight Thousand Two Hundred Fifteen Designed by Studio BONNER & Stayner Architects

Today Arcdaily reported on Eight Thousand Two Hundred Fifteen  by Studio BONNER & Stayner Architects!


Architects: Studio BONNOR & Stayner Architects
Location: Miami, Florida, United States
Project Team: Jennifer Bonner, Studio Bonner; Christian Stayner, Stayner Architects; Antonio Follo, Leo Castillo, Jack Gaumer, Jonathon Schnure, Dolly Davis, H Clark
Client: Miami-Dade Art in Public Places / Zoo Miami
Program: Entrance Plaza and Children’s Play Area
Project Type: Public Art Competition, Shortlisted
Size: 80,000ft2
Budget: $1.3 million


Designed by Studio BONNER & Stayner Architects, Eight Thousand Two Hundred Fifteen is a proposal for an entrance plaza and children’s play area for Zoo Miami and Miami-Dade Art in Public Places. Emerging from the uncontrollability of hydrology and urbanism, the 80,000 ft2 paving system is comprised of thousands of pre-cast and cast-in-place concrete surfaces that mutate from horizontal to vertical at key points, both adaptive and constantly changing. More images and architects’ description after the break.



http://www.archdaily.com/157630/eight-thousand-two-hundred-fifteen-studio-bonner-stayner-architects/#comments

pornographic_architecture

The understanding of the visual message can sometimes take a different read by different people. 

'[One of the most controversial projects of the decade its already making noise but on the Chinese joke websites. The CCTV and Rem Koolhaas his author is victim of allusions of the pornographic form of his buildings and even they have call them the 'shitting man"]'

Exorbitance of the bad taste!

By now the chapter of plain copying the classical orders was considered and underline as untrue to design and its architectural meanings, but the fact that there are universities that sell and promote this proceedings is to me biological impossible to comprehend such thing. Here is the statement of the dean of the University of Notre Dame. Check the link below for samples of work!




"The School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame offers two professional degree programs: a five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree and a two-year Master's of Architecture degree. The School emphasizes the principles of the traditional city and its architecture as a way to understand and solve the problems of contemporary life. It uses the past as a way of informing the future.

The liberal arts program all Notre Dame students explore in the first year forms the foundation for the principles of construction and their relationship to architectural form and the built environment. The third year, which the students spend entirely in Rome, explores traditional urbanism and how classical architecture facilitates a humane and sustainable way of life. By the fourth year, issues of regionalism and cross-cultural values are explored through the typological understanding of the city and its architecture developed during the previous three years. By the fifth year, the students have forged individual viewpoints about architecture and engage a diversity of issues that culminate in their spring thesis studio.

---Michael Lykoudis"

http://architecture.nd.edu/arch_home.aspx

Welcome to the bipo_bio

Welcome everyone, this blog has been created to entertain and learn something in the process! The information presented will be speculative to a certain degree; the intention its to simulate scenarios that are happening now as speculations that reveal their true nature.