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AV Proyectos 83 Dossier Souto de Moura

AV Proyectos 83 Dossier Souto de Moura

Dossier Souto de Moura. Seven Projects
Born in Porto in 1952, Eduardo Souto de Moura is the author of a natural and serene architecture, deeply-rooted and worldly, characterized by formal rigor and sensibility towards context and closely connected to the work of the other two masters of what has become known as the Porto School: Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza. Pritzker Prize laureate of 2011, in his latest proposals Souto de Moura tackles an extensive repertoire of scales. From large infrastructures to subtle interventions in existing constructions, the selection of recent proj- ects gathered here reflects this versatility, and also the architect’s attention to the details and to the use of local materials.

Tour montparnasse redesign. Competition in paris
An international competition to renovate Tour Montparnasse, the first skyscraper in Paris – built 40 years ago – and a symbol of the French capital, was held last June 2016. From among the more than 700 teams that delivered proposals, seven finalists were chosen. They all responded to the requirements of generat- ing a new identity for the tower, innovative and powerful, as well as of updating its uses and its comfort and energy-efficiency measures to adapt to current standards. The winning project, designed by Nouvelle AOM – a consortium of three Paris-based firms – will have a budget of 300 million euros, and is scheduled to be devel- oped between the years 2019 and 2023.

Stone in Detail
With much potential yet to be exploited, stone is a veteran material but by no means obsolete, as this dossier reveals. Stone is used to solve an acoustic problem in an urban park of Zaragoza, and other projects like a housing development in northern Italy, a shopping center in Shanghai, and a golf club in Mallorca look into the possibilities of stone for building enclosures. Furthermore, parametrization and digital cutting have created a whole new range of possibilities, as can be seen in another three projects: the flower-shaped structure of the Bahá’í temple in Santiago de Chile, a selfbearing vault prototype built in Jericho, and the new Apple Store in Singapore.

Jean Nouvel. Qatar National Museum
Inspired by the whimsical crystal forms of desert roses, the museum uses its formal expressiveness to establish a link between the Bedouin culture and global modernity. An organic system of intersected disks stretches around the ancient Amiri Palace, creating an undulating itinerary in its interior: a journey through the past, the present, and the future of the country. The National Museum of Qatar is an example of the architect’s support of structural innovation as a response to the search for formal identity. The building has approximately 40,000 m2 of covered area and is surrounded by a park of 112,000 m2 that reinterprets the desert landscape of Qatar.

Enrique Bordes
Comics and architecture play similar games: they adapt different geometries to the human figure, occupy a limited space – the site or the page –, and always fulfill specific functions – according to the narration or the program of the building. With this vision, Enrique Bordes, architect museographer, professor, and expert in the visual arts, presents in his book an analytical journey through the relationship between the ninth art and architectural drawing, going back to ancient Egypt and leading to a present with multiple styles, proposals, themes, and authors. A journey with an extraordinary collection of images that illustrate the parallel development of the visual narrative language linked to them both.

Kasper Kowalski. Abstract Aerial Beauty
Kacper Kowalski studied architecture at Gdansk University of Technology, and after four years of professional activity in the field, the young Polish, born in 1977, decided to focus on his two great passions: flying and photography. Since 2006 Kowalski takes photographs of his country’s landscape from a paraglider. He flies the aircraft himself and the photographs are taken without drones, always with a rigorous zenithal perspective, through which he obtains abstract images filled with subliminal messages that graphically reflect human presence on Earth. In 2014 he published a book featuring his well-known series Side Effects, and is currently working on the sec- ond, Over, to be released at the end of the year.

Dossier Souto de Moura, Seven Projects

Power Plant for Foz Tua Dam, Alijó (Portugal)
School Campus in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi)
Assembly and Arts Building Aiglon College (Switzerland)
La Comédie, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Residential Building in Praça das Flores, Lisbon (Portugal)
PHZ Private House in Zurich (Switzerland)
Ruin in Cristelo, Caminha (Portugal)

Tour Montparnasse Redesign, Competition in Paris

Nouvelle AOM
Studio Gang
OMA
Architecture Studio
PLP Architecture
Dominique Perrault
MAD Architects & DGLA

Piedra al detalle, Stone in Detail

Héctor Fdez. Elorza & Manuel Fdez. Ramírez
Venecia Park, Zaragoza (Spain)

Gino Guarnieri & Roberto Mascazzini
Six Housing Units, Sesto San Giovanni (Italy)

GMP Architekten / Von Gerkan, Marg & Partners
SOHO Fuxing Lu, Shanghai (China)

GRAS Arquitectos
Stone Clubhouse, Mallorca (Spain)

Hariri Pontarini Architects
Bahá’í Temple of South America, Santiago (Chile)

AAU Anastas
Stone Matters Vault, Jericho (Palestine)

Foster & Partners
Apple Orchard Road, Singapore (Singapore)

Qatar National Museum, under Construction
Jean Nouvel
Doha (Qatar)

Cómic, arquitectura narrativa
Enrique Bordes

Kacper Kowalski, Abstract Aerial Beauty
‘Side Effects’ and ‘Polish Patterns’