Comments on: Beijing Hutong Bubble / MAD

By: YILUN ZHANG

YILUN ZHANG — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:39:52 +0000

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By: LC

LC — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:44:03 +0000

wo kao ni yi wei ni shi sha bi ma
gun yi bian qu ,you ben shi ni zuo chu ta zhe yang

cao

By: Jakob

Jakob — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:37:11 +0000

the seamless surface is pretty impressive, agreed. finding someone who can build the maya blob is also great. but why is this shape (out of a kazillion random shapes) so impractical? the birds shit on the roof, cleaning is difficult because you can’t reach over the roof. and what about the door to the roof terrace? one centimeter of plastic, no real insulation, wind whisteling through the gaps,,, does “making architecture” and improving the hutongs not include doors that close well? beijing is icy in the winter, you know,,,

By: juahirjaafar

juahirjaafar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:50:37 +0000

my only question is, why a toilet? it is such an inovative way of reflecting the old and the new holistically. then you put a toilet in there.

By: kysmikfoo

kysmikfoo — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:32:52 +0000

I don’t see how these are going to solve the problems of people using the hutongs as dumpsters, or becoming havens for the wealthy, and theme parks for tourists. Seems to me that only the wealthy will be able to afford them, and their novelty will drive in the tourists to see them. Dumpster problem? This article doesn’t answer that. Are bathrooms the problem, and additions to add these would be unsightly? In that case the reflective surface is clever, but I don’t understand the need to have these additions be amorphous.

By: hematophobia

hematophobia — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:17:46 +0000

i don’t get it. please can someone explain to me how this is suppose to benefit hutongs.
anish kapoor’s work are pieces of art, it is not intended to rescue hutongs.
did they not teach MAD in architecture school the word ‘why?’ in this case then MAD ‘why? why? why oh why..?’

By: Cleven

Cleven — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:56:46 +0000

fake

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By: squidly

squidly — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:43:05 +0000

Its a staircase addition with a toilet beneath. Done brilliantly in its ability to reconcile garden/water and house. This is not about whether to blob or not to blob; its a small piece of architecture very well done.

By: Jaro Kukucka

Jaro Kukucka — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:59:01 +0000

Staircase in beautiful metallic bubble. In Beijing by MAD architects: http://ow.ly/1bwlU

By: Rick S.

Rick S. — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:47:47 +0000

“The hutong bubbles, inserted into the urban fabric, function like magnets, attracting new people, activities, and resources to reactivate entire neighborhoods.”… Well, I’m not particularly attracted by bubbly shiny objects, but hey… I have to admit, it may look cool. Yet, I’m very critical of the overall concept of this intervention, which seems totally oblivious…

It’s just like if the peasants had no bread, and MAD says “Let them eat cake”.

Considering that all effort costs proportional money – and it’s obvious that there is a lot of effort involved putting this into reality, as many people state – this kind of intervention cannot truly be meant to be extrapolated to the whole Hutong fabric, for it demands expensive, specific responses to specific situations, every single time. Designing and crafting hundreds (or even dozens) of singular sanitary blobs such as this is as a conceptual strategy is macroeconomycally unfeasable, and all the technology and resources put into this kind of design should be directed to more conscious and responsable responses to the same problem.

By: Kevin Parent

Kevin Parent — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:47:11 +0000

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By: andres

andres — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:42:01 +0000

Thought it might look as a outrageous proposal at firs sight, but it conceals a highly technical endeavor with a very interesting statement. Most of the ‘Blob’ critics are aware of the fact that technology has indeed changed the way architecture is being produced and consumed, and this is a very good example of a realization of an architectural concept extracted straight from MAX or Rhino into reality. However, as in chinese landscaping the matter is about ‘what-doesn’t-exists’ as it might be seen in the gigantic rocks of the chinese garden in the interaction of real-nature with man-intervened-nature. here we do assist to the realization of a computer-assisted,’simulated’ piece of nature which wonderfully interacts with the surrounding as a mimic of it;thus providing an statement of the relation amongst technology-man-nature as a local answer to the ultimate global/contemporary phenomena faced currently by China, especially by Beijing and Shanghai. Superb.

By: up_today_arch

up_today_arch — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:35:23 +0000

I just would like now how it made… Plastic?… Metal?… But in general it is very beautiful idea, very close to my mind of architecture.

By: aston79

aston79 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:00:47 +0000

marveLlous! SAVE HUTONGS PLEASE!!!

By: Jere Pääkkönen

Jere Pääkkönen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:07:16 +0000

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By: sunx

sunx — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:40:43 +0000

just brilliant

By: Burke

Burke — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:02:55 +0000

A humiliated mole on Hutong culture!

By: mark

mark — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:40:04 +0000

The idea of using surface as a means to affect the architectural space is admirable and essential. I do however take issue with the lack of technical rigour and determinism in surfacing that is generally apparent when Max or Maya is used to create architectural forms. Perhaps MAD could learn something from the high quality surfaces in the auto industry. If you are going to make something shiny, you need to control the highlights, otherwise it is just a case of “NURMS it” and hope for the best.

By: wxgougou

wxgougou — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:55:21 +0000

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