ARCHITECTURE, GLOBAL DISASTER AND EMERGENCY The National Art Museum of China exhibition opens this week
Crossing: Dialogues Architecture for Emergency . The exhibition, which opens on May 12 coinciding with the anniversary of the earthquake in Wenchuan, the misfortunes of the past reviews, analyzes that lie ahead and provides a platform for discussion and research about the architecture of post-catastrophe.
17 architects have been invited to design emergency shelters safe, efficient, pleasant and beautiful for victims of natural catastrophes (earthquakes, hurricanes) or social (epidemics). On May 13 there will be a symposium at the museum on global disaster prevention, environmental protection and reconstruction. Yesterday
ArchDaily
published an article on one of the projects, Epidemics, R / K Studio. The architects reflect on the rapid spread of disease, increased resistance to viruses and bacteria to drugs and biological weapons and focus on the quarantine as a basis for their work: as separating infected people from which it is not and where, what physical characteristics should have that space. His research focuses on the following questions:
What would be the maximum and minimum space needed to safely contain a contagious disease?
What is the cultural space of social anxiety vs. healthy. space of alienation of the sick?
Who has the power to determine quarantine control and the associated loss of civil liberties?
How can we create an environment where social groups, families and communities are maintained?
In response to these questions and with reference to inflatable structures
Ant Farm and Tijen Tjebbe van in the 60 and 70, I / K Studio proposes the use of surface-membrane material for separation of infected and uninfected bubble creating spaces in the city.
I can not help but wonder how these membranes respond to the problem and the questions raised above. The idea that architects want to convey is that a closure of this type would encourage social dialogue to minimize the barrier between the two sides maintain the security. Used as a reference for this proposed radical experimental groups of 60-70 and inflatable structures of their happenings. When treating a quarantine room as a happening, disease and death become spectacle. People isolated in these bubbles can die in the street and anyone can attend the event. The photomontages are very attractive project because the quarantine rooms are empty. If you have people dying in the effect would be different. Furthermore
how to address the project is very naive. The most important thing for any government in a state of emergency is no social dialogue, but the surveillance and control. And here the project did meet expectations. The proposal very effectively solves the problem of social control during epidemics.
In short, we talk about PRIVACY, HEALTH, SURVEILLANCE DISPLAY and
(5) of The Glass House Philip Johnson
(1) (2) of the Tokyo Nomad Girl Toyo
Ito (3) (4) , Big Brother, security cameras, the popemobile, the Facebook ...
1. Glass House Philip Johnson via Blog Art Matthew Langley, 2 and 3. Project "Tokyo Nomad Girl" of Toyo Ito and Unstable via Useless 4. Jade Goody from Big Brother UK or death live via El Pais 5. Surveillance camera via Visual Cam 6. Benedict in the Popemobile through negocios.com
And finally some music. Today: groups going to Primavera Sound 2009
When You Sleep / My Bloody Valentine
Electricity / Spiritualized
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