0°01’ W Network in [e]motion / NOVAE Architecture

Sep 2010

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Cultural , England, London, NOVAE Architecture

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Italy-based NOVAE Architecture shared with us their project “0°01’ W Network in [e]motion”, their proposal for a competition to design an adaptable floating gallery in London, UK. More images and architect’s description after the break.

The challenge involves the design of a mobile architecture gallery built to contain and distribute – both metaphorically and literally – ideas for the city as whole. The installation travels along the River Thames, connecting in this way a number of artistic spaces, and picking up visitors along the riverbank, particularly at South Bank. This container vessel have to be versatile and the exhibition space must be able to adapt itself to the movement of the river.

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The 0°01’ W Network IN [E]motion consists of a lightweight structure installed upon a floating barge, with a basic area of approximately 500 m2. The concept is a sort of crystalline network idea: an anisotropy structure shaping through simple movement, a crystalline network break itself becoming a mobile adaptable machine: the break makes happen flexible modification capable to form different inner spaces looking toward the river. The object is easily distinguishable from all the other types of vessels which currently navigate the river, picking up people, get into a floating urban movement in a changeover condition, the gallery comes into a constant mutation with the city, continuously changing itself, coming into being now a bow, now a floating room, now a bridge; it ‘s capable of altering through its “temporary” presence the urban profile of the city, while at the same time being able to incorporate itself into the miscellaneous context of modern‐day London.

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Breaking water: the idea is to create a new “social” landscape, flowing in a new configuration: spaces form by gradual solidification of water. The floating gallery is a recognizable object able to make its “temporary” presence felt in the context of the urban profile of the city. Working into an idea of clever changing, the gallery is a transformer machine, it changes according to the weather conditions using clever glasses that are capable to became an opaque, colorful or translucid surface; changing their behavior broad light create different conditions of illumination and temperature inside spaces, reducing the energy consumption for the condition of the environment.

Architect: NOVAE Architecture
Location: London, England
Project Team: Annalisa Gallo, Nicoletta Gerevini, Daniele W. Re
Collaboration: Daniela Prinzo
Covering area: 500 m2
Project year: 2008

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Cite:
Jordana , Sebastian . "0°01’ W Network in [e]motion / NOVAE Architecture" 17 Sep 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/78289>

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up_today_arch says:

This shape is realy amazing… Sharp and impressive…

# September 18, 2010 at 03:57

san says:

wtf – this competition was held several years ago (back in 2008 if I´m not mistaken), they should have published their entry back then or gotten over not winning the competition instead of boring us with a dated design proposal 2 years later

# September 18, 2010 at 06:08

Robb says:

Dude, lighten up. Chicks are just trying to market them selves a little bit, who cares if the project submission is dated.

# September 18, 2010 at 06:46

YS says:

This is very triggering. Hope Archdaily could publish more work with interesting ideas, not merely built works.

# September 18, 2010 at 10:00

norm says:

this looks already outdated. unreasonably complex form for an essentially simple program, loaded with aesthetic cliché of the early 90s. misses greatly the opportunity of engaging with river Thames and its tidal cycles, or any of the properties of its surrounding, its site. the first image is just haunting, there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of scale. there is also no supporting visual evidence for the high claims of the project description.

# September 18, 2010 at 11:57

j says:

… norm, you’re a bit of a debbie-downer.

# September 18, 2010 at 15:26

kud says:

who cares if the project submission is dated.It’s a cool project.
agree with J: NORM why are u talking about unreasonably complex form for an essentially simple program: U are 90s!
I guess the challenge is design of a mobile architecture gallery, new ideas for london and NOT NEW BOX FOR SIMPLE PROGRAM

# September 19, 2010 at 06:23

paul says:

i like it !!!

why people are talkg about the date and the program…let’s discuss about the feelings of the space !!! that’s architecture !!!

# September 20, 2010 at 07:27

fentis says:

Taking in consideration that this is the gallery, it really works well.
And the space is in syntony with it´s functional meaning.

nice!

# September 20, 2010 at 07:49

Kio says:

I like it very much! It’s unusual and well recognizable among others!

# September 20, 2010 at 08:08

ARCHANDY says:

Um, wheres the art in this art gallery meant to go?? The first pic got me interested but the others lost me. I actually agree with Norm here – a certain lack of a response to its site is a shame.

# September 20, 2010 at 11:45

Ali says:

it really works well to be a gallery and it could be an interesting experience!

I LIKE IT FLOATING ON THE THAMES!

# September 20, 2010 at 12:37

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