Sou Fujimoto Interview / Part I from 0300TV on Vimeo.

Sou Fujimoto Interview / Part II from 0300TV on Vimeo.

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This isn’t so much of one observer’s gripe with Indian Airports as it is about a real global phenomenon: that of the extended, ubiquitous Generic City, to quote Rem Koolhaas from S,M,L,XL, ‘ In terms of its iconography/performance, the airport is a concentrate of both the hyper-local and the hyper-global - hyper-global in the sense you can get goods there that are not available even in the city, hyper-local in the sense you can get things there that you get nowhere else…’. Novelist J.G. Ballard paid homage to his favourite building type, ‘The terminal concourses are the ramblas and agoras of the future city, time-free zones where all the clocks of the world are displayed, an atlas of arrivals and destinations forever updating itself, where we briefly become true world citizens.’

And while this might be true of many airports today, Ansgar Sickert’s plea for ‘character and local touch’ is one in a sea of discussion about whether the way to be truly global, might be to go local.

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A mosque in Singapore is a sort of community centre, housing a madrasah, conference halls, social spaces and offices plus the main prayer hall, used day and night. The madrasah extension maximises to the limit what the planning authorities can allow – 4 storeys and a basement.

The most important is the existing prayer hall with its prominent fan-shaped roof. The architects’ choices; to enhance its independence or reverentially engulfing it? Their choice is the latter - flaring open the ends of the corridors of the new block and stretching its new staircases to enwrap the old hall. The staircases flanking the opposite ends of the new block are expressed as sturdy towers, and portals of the new wing. The widened ends of the corridors are also used as external spaces of the classrooms…

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Theme: Open City: Designing Coexistence
How and what can architects and urbanists contribute to the way we live in cities? What is the Open City? How do people work, think, dream and act there? And why is it urgent to re-imagine the Open City?
These are just some of the questions that will confront the visitor to Open City: Designing Coexistence.

Six sub-themes
The curators of the 4th IABR have identified six situations in which geographical, spatial, typological, and socio-cultural conditions reveal different qualities and potentials of Open City. Each of these situations will be explored through research and actual projects, and presented as a sub-theme of the Biennale.

The six sub-themes will be shown in the exhibition Open City: Designing Coexistence, in the Nederlands Architecture Institute (NAI), the main location of the 4th IABR. Other exhibitions of the 4th IABR are Parallel Cases//IABR@RDM at RDM Campus and The Free State of Amsterdam (Vrijstaat Amsterdam) in Amsterdam (location to be announced).

Read more about the sub-themes and sub-curators

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Five students in Thailand are using architecture to make new lives for 24 orphans by providing them with homes to call their own.

Humanitarian design organization TYIN Tegnestue from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology conceived the project in response to a need for more dormitories for Karen refugee children in the village of Noh Bo on the Thai-Burmese border. The six woven bamboo huts, dubbed Soe Ker Tie, or The Butterfly Huts because of their “winged” appearance were designed with the children’s happiness and health in mind. As simple as these new dorms may seem, they provide something wonderful for a growing child - a space to call their own to learn, sleep and play in. This small luxury is one that so many of us take for granted but makes a huge difference in the development and happiness of these youngsters.

Aside from giving 24 orphans brand new homes, the huts are pre-fabricated and assembled on site with sustainability in mind. Most of the bamboo used is harvested locally and woven in the same way that is traditional to the area. The special flapped roof of the Soe Ker Tie House is conducive to natural ventilation. Since the roof also collects rainwater, areas around the huts are more useful during the rainy season, and water can be stored during drier periods. Using foundations cast in repurposed tires, each hut is raised above ground level preventing issues that could arise due to moisture and decay.

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