cooling, heating and power PLANT

Description of the system

process- 2. brainstorm

BRAZIL

Suffocating corridors, vacuum tube

and neon electronics, typewriters

as keyboards, ubiquitous little flat

screens, tiny cars, ductwork and

pipes everywhere.

Dominant environment over people.

Propaganda, Regime and progress.

Hide degraded reality.

DENSITY.

PIPES.

WHAT IS/CAN BE A PIPE/DUCT? 

1.Whenever there is a new building being constructed in the center of Berlin, the foundations reach into the water and the construction site is constantly flooded by the ground-water.

2. WATERWALK TUBE

Theo Botschuiver and Jeffrey Shaw, 1970

3.CHICAGO TUNNEL SYSTEM

62-mile grid.Most of the tunnel system was operated using overhead lines and trolley poles for power. Several theaters bought tunnel air to keep audiences cool.

4. Carsten Höller

"Test Site" Slides TATE MODERN

5. R. Banham, 1969.

A home is not a house.

...a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi reverberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters(...) so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house to hold it up.

Environment-bubble

computer systems-

First approaches to the concept of the building.

proceso_ 1

Concept.

The scale of the place. The size of Kowloon Walled City.

The perception of the place. ISOLATED AND PERMEABLE at the same time.

BRAZIL

Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1984+1).

1.  Analysis

[WATCH VIDEO HERE: brazil_video1]

Suffocating corridors, vacuum tube and neon electronics, typewriters as keyboards, ubiquitous little flat screens, tiny cars, ductwork and pipes everywhere.
(Sequences copied from Terry Guilliam’s film “Brazil”

2. Applying it to the Parque Movil. Comparison.

[WATCH VIDEO HERE: brazil_video2]

Dominant environment over people. An oppressive system where people are trapped.

(Sequences copied from Terry Guilliam’s film “Brazil” and "PMM-PARQUE MOVIL DE MINISTERIOS"- propaganda video from the 50's)

3. Postcards.

Posters and billboards. Propaganda. Progress. Hide degraded reality.
(Images extracted from Terry Guilliam’s film “Brazil” and original posters)

300millones

El Estado prepara una gran operación inmobiliaria en el centro de Madrid valorada en 300 millones

http://www.expansion.com/2013/09/19/empresas/inmobiliario/1379590039.html

how to draw a party. Vice, consumption and some other things

[vice, consumption and some other things]

[trough time]

[superposition]

[visualization]