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AV Proyectos 97 Tham & Videgård

DOSSIER THAM & VIDEGÅRD + RENZO PIANO / RPBW IN UGANDA · EUROPAN 15: SPANISH WINNERS · HUTONGS IN BEIJING · OMA*AMO, PRADA CATWALKS · MORLINGHAUS

AV Proyectos 97 Tham & Videgård

Tham & Videgård. New Approaches
Founded in Stockholm in 1999 by Bolle Tham (1970) and Martin Videgård (1968), the studio tackles project design from an experimental and innovative perspective that connects Swedish tradition and the most international contemporary architecture. With large-scale works like the School of Architecture for Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the Kalmar Museum of Art, and Moderna Museet in Malmö, Tham & Videgård are also the authors of the widely published Krokholmen and Husarö houses, which reflect their concern for function, the environment, and nature, and their vision of architecture as a something which lasts in time, and is a faithful reflection of society.

Renzo Piano en Uganda. Children’s Surgery Center
In the city of Entebbe (Uganda), on the shores of Lake Victoria and close to the capital of Kampala, Renzo Piano Building Workshop is completing a pediatric surgery hospital. The project has been developed for Emergency, an NGO working in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, which promotes the construction of healthcare and training centers for doctors and nurses. These buildings are also architectural prototypes for the region: rational, efficient, and constructed with local resources and systems like rammed earth walls. The center is organized in three parallel wings around a pavilion that houses surgery rooms and the ICU. The central garden is the key space in the building, presided by a big tree.

Europan 15. Spanish Winners
With the three issues of ‘Resources – Mobility – Social Equity’ as guiding thread, the latest session of Europan has focused on the subject of the ecological transition related to a vision of the productive city for the future, keeping in mind the synergies between ecosystems, between biotopes and artifacts, between functions and uses, between citizens… rather than considering a dual approach. Twelve teams including Spanish architects among its members have picked up first prizes in different sites, six in Spain and six in other countries (Austria, the Netherlands, Finland, and Norway), with proposals that have studied the implementation of systems to find a new balance.

Hutongs en Pekín. Tradition and Innovation
Hutongs are the narrow streets and alleys in the historic center of Chinese cities, formed by lines of siheyuans, the traditional dwellings organized around a small courtyard that encourages neighbors to socialize outdoors, creating a strong sense of community. In Beijing many of these neighborhoods have been demolished over the past years and replaced with new residential and commercial developments, so in 2014 a plan was launched to preserve them. This section includes four examples of hutong refurbishment projects, where the old and the new come together to recover a lifestyle that had practically disappeared.

OMA*AMO. Prada Catwalks
Since their first collaboration in 2004, every year AMO – the research and design branch of the office founded by Rem Koolhaas – designs the sets for the runway shows of the Milanese luxury fashion house Prada. Proposing issues like the relationship of spectators with fashion, the hierarchy of the industry, or the use of performative spaces, AMO’s projects transform industrial facilities like those in the group’s headquarters on Via Fogazzaro or those of Fondazione Prada – built by OMA in 2015 in an old distillery – into dazzling stages, turning the fashion shows into true sensory experiences protagonized by fashion and architecture alike.

Christoph Morlinghaus. Superlative-Made in Germany
The series ‘Superlative-Made in Germany’ gives a photographic and artistic perspective of the country’s economic and social situation through the images of Christoph Morlinghaus. The photographer has already captured, since starting on the project in the year 2016, around forty ‘superlative’ places – the largest, the oldest, the most efficient – within a huge variety of thematic areas such as industry, logistics, agriculture, and religion. With an 8×10” large format film camera, the German artist achieves, from a very personal perspective and in the most unusual conditions, hypnotic photographs impregnated with the daunting atmosphere of the large scale.

Tham & Videgård, New Approaches

+One Tower, Gothenburg (Sweden)
Orgelpipan 7, Stockholm (Sweden)
Täby Park School, Stockholm (Sweden)
New Buildings for the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Smíchov South, Prague (Czech Republic)
Vertical Village, Gothenburg (Sweden)
House on a Field, Skåne (Sweden)
House B, Island of Gotland (Sweden)
Casa Fredriksberg, Södermanland (Sweden)
House on a Hillside, Lovö island, Stockholm (Sweden)
House on a Hill, Värmdö (Sweden)

Europan 15, Spanish Winners

‘La charca de la abundancia’, Cáceres (Spain)
‘Common Node’, Lasarte-Oria (Spain)
‘Proxiferia’, Madrid (Spain)
‘Productive Memories’, Oliva (Spain)
‘Beginning at the End’, Palma (Spain)
‘Prunus Avium’, Sant Climent (Spain)
‘Capability Mound’, Vienna (Austria)
‘47Nord15Ost’, Graz (Austria)
‘Hybrid Parliament’, Rotterdam Kop Darkpark (Netherlands)
‘Rambla + Kapsalon’, Rotterdam Visserijplein (Netherlands)
‘Sewn Heart’, Rauffos (Norway)
‘Symbiotic Fabric’, Hyvinkää (Finland)

Hutongs, Hutongs,

Vector Architects
Hybrid Courtyard, Beijing (China)

Archstudio
Qishe Courtyard, Beijing (China)

ZAO/Standardarchitecture
Micro Hutong Hostel, Beijing (China)

MAD Studio
Hutong Bubble 218, Beijing (China)

Emergency Children’s Surgery Center, in Construction
Renzo Piano Building Workshop/Studio TAMassociati
Entebbe (Uganda)

OMA*AMO, Prada Catwalks
Milan

Christoph Morlinghaus, Large Scale
‘Superlative-Made in Germany’