:: resources

this looks like a goldmine!!!

www.urbis-resources.org.uk

www.urbis.org.uk

:: Centre of Urbanity, Dialogue and Information

"[...] When we started Cudi/Centre of Urbanity, Dialogue and Information in August 2001 we didn¹t want just to move into the area, carry through projects and leave again. We wanted to start processes that could generate activities, and through these activities add something new to the area, and thereby influence the critical and problematic conditions - social as well as political - in the area and change the structure. We also wanted this to happen in collaboration with the inhabitants in the area.[...]"

www.bigtorino.net

  
  
  
 
  ::Task Creating final model for workshop
  ::Idea I used patterns/shapes from pictures of Taipeh Housing. First I wanted to fold a couple of these buildings with cardboard, but then i went on using just the folding-shapes to construct my model. My aim was to deconstruct the normative shapes of public housing and create open spaces in contrast to the cubish skyscrapers. I wanted to transform the bodies into flat 2D objects. I also used some of the photos below the site, and scarved out one of the numbers which are put on the houses so you can easily identify where you live because they all look the same. My model also doesn't have any patterns. It's the patterns that make the houses on the Taipeh pictures unique, not the architecture. So these patterns shine trough where i carved out shapes on the base of my site.