Comments on: Proposal by architecture student to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By: Esco

Esco — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:39:51 +0000

Final fantasy!!!.. btw I don’t like final fantasy.. This project is just too fictiona. How does it solve the problems happening at that side of the world. Only thing that comes to mind is, if this gets built, there’s another reason why Palestinians would blow themselves up. I think the idea of agriculture is pretty strong, but what about the idea that Palestinians don’t get much water resource? water governs over agriculture…

By: S.

S. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:49:55 +0000

eww.

By: Tadao Cern

Tadao Cern — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:09:20 +0000

Don’t you get it people-the idea of this work was sarcasm!

By: bauster

bauster — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:37:23 +0000

f**king perverted mislead project.
this definitely seems not the right angle to tackle the existing problems in the westjordan region.
strange aswell that any professor would exept this students work.

By: Abdul Al Hazred

Abdul Al Hazred — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:35:20 +0000

Architects like to pretend they have a social role. It helps them to justify their existence when they don’t have anything relevant to build.
Last time there was a tabula rasa, it created modern Japan, Sony, Toyota, etc…

By: Wsiam

Wsiam — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:38:07 +0000

Soooooooooo aggressive …

such architecture could represent the negative side of that conflict…….
Architecture must be a social reformer …

but anyway good graphics for a student

By: whoopy

whoopy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:59:50 +0000

wonder if the building is suicide bomber safe. although it might be an act of merci to this peace bringing social housing O

By: meme n youyou

meme n youyou — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:38:08 +0000

Israeli-Palestinian conflict
http://tinyurl.com/brna4n

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:37:20 +0000

I dig the fact that by examining the materiel of geopolitics (bridges, walls, tunnels) it arrives at a really novel form. Because while it is in a sense a bridge, it has an interior, and that interior emerges from the ground. It’s a spanning tunnel, an autochthonous building form that attempts to take on the status, the use, the value of *land* (which is of course the quantity in short supply in that region). Really inspirational.

By: Paul ALLEN

Paul ALLEN — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:35:12 +0000

There is no discussion to have here. It is true, the presentation is excellent. Nevertheless I think that, at a conceptual level, the only purpose this proposal serves is to highlight the absurd nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. An absurd project for an absurd dilemma.

By: os

os — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:22:56 +0000

History:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EAmtgfPz-k

By: Olivier M.

Olivier M. — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:14:27 +0000

Proposal by architecture student to Israeli-Palestinian conflict http://tinyurl.com/brna4n Interesting!

By: Richie

Richie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:40:59 +0000

It’s amazing, and I commend the guy on following through with such an outrageous idea.. Obviously totally impractical and sort of inhuman, but the whole point of these kind of theoretical projects is to provoke discussion and test situations that would not be possible in real life, which most students would be scared to try. I’m very impressed by the quality of the presentation also.

By: utopian robot

utopian robot — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:21:11 +0000

so basically Viktor spent a lot of time and effort in making a really sarcastic statement that will most likely be ignored by it’s intended audience, the u.s. & isreali government.

By: gus

gus — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:16:55 +0000

erratum: socio-political ;)

By: tube_0

tube_0 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:16:36 +0000

not so crazy for China,maybe!!

By: gus

gus — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:15:31 +0000

there’s nothing human about this ‘sculpture’. i find it’s a rather simplistic proposal with no insight about the real socio-polotical problems dividing the two people.

By: gerson

gerson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:56:16 +0000

Its a detour’ a bypass, not a “comfrontation with culture and problems but building a antibridge that will create a bigger separation between those simiolar cultures. i think mister Ran\mos is a great ilustrator and image creator, but he missunderstood the principle of architecture and enviroment that is creating spaces and connections-he is evading it

By: Audric

Audric — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:43:08 +0000

I have to agree with K. After reading the project description, including the quoted statement, it is obvious that it is was not intended to function apart from providing commentary.

Reminds me of the recent White House Redux competition:
http://www.whitehouseredux.org/

By: Miguel Sá, Arqt

Miguel Sá, Arqt — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:59:04 +0000

land no longer exists in the world?
not get the idea!