Comments on: STEMcloud v2.0 / ecoLogicStudio

By: abe

abe — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:57:47 +0000

http://www.archdaily.com/29718/stemcloud-v20-ecologicstudio/

By: Felipe Goes

Felipe Goes — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:55:41 +0000

Very good !

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By: oldschool

oldschool — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:24:38 +0000

I find the new direction in architecture interesting, but it is really no different than the previous ‘blobitecture’ movement of the early nineties, despite the attempt to sheathe it with a veneer of intellectualism. How is this space going to be used? its purely a machine; what kind of program will it house? How would people live in such an object?

There are very few projects that incorporate parametric design that do not simply become a pastiche. Its a methodology best suited for interior design of ‘environments’ and is pushed by academics in a search for an intellectual autonomy.

its pretty, but how would one use this as a school? or even as a museum or theater? don’t be fooled by the archispeak, its the High Victorian of the new century.

By: Cindy FrewenWuellner

Cindy FrewenWuellner — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:01:27 +0000

New design meme? rt @ethel_baraona "architecture responds to instant human ubiquity…" at http://tinyurl.com/kwdv3m

By: archilocus

archilocus — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:10:57 +0000

The only synergy i can see is simple technical/natural process + fancy design + good communication…
Alvar Aalto was long ago involving users in the outdoor design, letting them make their own way in the grass, which would by iterations mark the main paths…
I think you put too much hope in what is nothing more than a fancy pergola, or a green wall. Ok the time scale is interesting, but i doubt any kid will say : “oh look dad, what a wonderful pack of notions !”. There is nothing bad in this project, but i’m not comfortable with the speech. I don’t know if it’s from the architects themselves, but it sounds like being too much inlove with that stuff, thus forgetting what is done, or was done already elsewhere.

By: kimbo

kimbo — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:40:47 +0000

Could be interesting in terms of evaluation with regards to space~usage statistics. It is a contra indication of good design to utilise space in terms of grasping spatiality after boundary marcation…STEMcloud might be better appropriated by interior designers, who, with such statistics would maximise ‘opacity’ in terms of tried and tested natural human zones, and those of ‘transparentness’ as valued non human zones which might include open space or closed zones for specificity…after day 2 of musing STEMcloud, their statisitical opacity zones have evolved, for me, into gravitational linger, savour, touch spaces for human intervention, all through actualised social synergy…now how often do architects get that kind of layered knowledge, and human mapping data as a development tool for post conceptual contemplation ~ of a common thought?
ps. your mirror fog is your fog, not a socially conscious fog…

By: 16:08:78

16:08:78 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:49:28 +0000

As an architectural experiment it’s interesting to see how architecture respond to instant human ubiquity in a way is not actually happening in mainstream architecture, on the other hand this “sci-arch weird looking thing” always seems to trickle grasping reality in which is no more than a prototype lacking applicability out side of its own conceptualizations, therefore ending at an amusement like display for wondering people.

By: kimbo

kimbo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:36:59 +0000

notions of essence, synergy, if…

By: tommy

tommy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:21:23 +0000

Ok, what are these interdisciplinary notions you speak of, or the layered uses? As far as the mapping you mention, I’m not convinced, not does it seem all that interesting. So, some blocks are more opaque because a person is breathing more often or heavier around them, or by your ‘participatory user intervention.’ It’s a one trick pony. My mirror fogs up when I breath on it. I also don’t see how this process altered the use of the space. I can’t tell from the images, but it appears to be visitors just milling around this thing. There’s a lot being done with algae for energy production but this doesn’t qualify as anything valuable, and quite frankly, it seems more effort was put into making the containers of algae look more elaborate to hide an otherwise common process. No, in my opinion, there’s not much here. But, hey, mad props for the trippy algae container thing. Reminds me of a Dale Chihuly chandelier. Sorry, Dale.

By: kimbo

kimbo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:53:23 +0000

tommy, i think you miss the interdisciplinary notions here, and layered uses of this presentation…did you notice how the space is mapped purely by participatory user intervention? …and how such defines space usage in terms of opacity and transparency?

By: alejandro

alejandro — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:52:50 +0000

I agree with tommy and archilocus it´s plain non sense, what can you expect from STEMcloud v2.0 / ecoLogicStudio!
please find something usefull to do, don´t mix architecture with snobbery.

By: archilocus

archilocus — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:28:35 +0000

I agree with Tommy, it is a simple photosynthesis with blob shapes and colorful lights. I like though the idea of trying to make it architecture, but the architects try to do too much in my opinion, and i find that also in the way the project is sold through the text: too much grandiloquence and misuse of terms such as “genetic architecture”…
I see nothing genetic here so far (i had the opportunity to study that after a 1.5 year thesis about influence of sciences on new architecture) but it sounds probably better than “natural architecture”.

By: tommy

tommy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:21:14 +0000

I’m sorry, maybe it’s just me, but I fail to see what’s interesting about this project. Plants emit oxygen, we absorb oxygen, we emit carbon dioxide, plants absorb carbon dioxide. Kimbo, I have no idea what you said. Can we forego the archi-speak, it gives me a headache. It seems the only thing this project really does is change its opacity and transparency based on the growth of the algae. Unfortunately, the form and configuration chosen by Pasquero and Poletto does more to obscure these changes – I haven’t seen this in person so the effects may be more apparent than the images portray – than emphasize them. I dare say a few fish tanks would do a better job of communicating than the chosen form. There’s potential here, but obscuring such a simple concept with inflated language and obtuse formal representation doesn’t equal awesomeness.

By: kimbo

kimbo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:08:17 +0000

visual monitoring of opaque blocks in terms of comparative studies with relation to, and contextually; transparency…aka O2 challenges, has to be the most site specific way to evaluate architectural space in terms of environmental factors…would love to know this method might be optionally incorporated into procurement, focus being at planning stages of a new build, or regeneration sites, especially with regards to foundation studies akin to ventilation and lighting…this truly is angel hair in the architecture

By: radarq.net

radarq.net — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:43:18 +0000

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By: ArchitecturePassion

ArchitecturePassion — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:50:33 +0000

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By: Shaun Gamboa

Shaun Gamboa — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:40:56 +0000

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By: Architecture Feeds

Architecture Feeds — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:34:12 +0000

STEMcloud v2.0 / ecoLogicStudio:
After meeting Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, founders of.. http://bit.ly/1dUN2e
(Via @archdaily)