Category: Kinetic

Tsubasa Kato 加藤　翼

http://www.mujin-to.com/artist_kato.htm

http://koganecho.net/koganecho-bazaar-2011/artist/tsubasa-kato.html

http://koganecho.net/koganecho-bazaar-2011/artist/tsubasa-kato.html

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1984 年埼玉県生まれ。2010年東京藝術大学 大学院美術研究科 修了。2007年、当時 住んでいた自分と友人の部屋の間取りを合体させた構造体を引き興す を発表。その後、上野恩賜公園（2008 年）、 フランス ナント（2009年）でのプロジェクトを経て、2010年、東京・森美術館での「六本木クロッシング2010展：芸術は可能か？」に参加。今年、大阪市中央公会堂前、大阪城公園、万博記念公園前でのイベントを行う。

Daylight Window, Philips, (from Simplicity event at 2007)

from Philips’s Youtube Channel

The full presentation of the Philips Daylight Window concept, shown at the Simplicity Event 2007 at Earls Court in London.

(memo Sep20th2011)
around 3min, a scenario which considers light color effect for sleeping, adjusting jetlag and waking up is mentioned with some medical information/evidence such as cerotonine production.

Taizo Matsumura, 松村泰三

http://otonanokagaku.net/feature/vol9/index.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/colored_shadows/

http://www.aomori-museum.jp/ja/blog/1175.html

ワークショップでの混色の使用は、以下のものに似ている

http://www.olafureliasson.net/exhibitions/your_chance_encounter_24.html

Slow-motion shadow in colour, 2009
Your chance encounter
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2009-2010

Selected publications:
Olafur Eliasson: Your Chance Encounter. Exhibition catalogue. Baden: Lars Müller Publishers; Kanazawa: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010.

Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments, David Gissen, 2009

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568987773

Review

“Gissen defines subnatures as conditions within our cities that are often deemed filthy, fearsome, and uncontrollable. He defines 12 subnatures in three categories: Atmospheres include dankness, smoke, gas, and exhaust; Matter contains dust, puddles, mud, and debris; and Life includes weeds, insects, pigeons, and crowds. For each subnature Gissen traces the changing historical views, looks at the current attitudes towards it, and presents contemporary projects that question and consider alternatives for incorporating the subnature into architectural design. In some cases the views over time have done a complete 180, pointing to the way nature is defined socially, not objectively or scientifically. Not surprisingly the projects are today’s avant-garde, mostly hypothetical, research-based, installations, or unrealized. They are examples of how Gissen’s path of exploration is not unprecedented; it is tapping into more widespread reconsiderations of today’s fairly uncritical acceptance of sustainability.” –Archidose“The exhilarating and at times unsettling work featured in Subnature suggests an alternative view of natural processes and ecosystems and their relationships to human society and architecture.” –One Half of the Worlds Population, Approximately 3 Billion People on Six Continents, Lives or Works in Buildings Constructed of Earth“Another book that engaged me on my hiatus from blogging is one I picked up on somewhat of a whim as it looked like a fascinating read. I wasn’t disappointed, as ‘Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments’ by David Gissen, quickly became impossible to put down. The reason? It really tackles some interesting terrain that is definitely at the fringes of architecture and landscape, which typically addresses the realms purity and order, whether in terms of materials or the messy nature in cities.” –Landscape and Urbanism

“Just the idea of exploring the design implications of Atmospheres include dankness, smoke, gas, and exhaust; Matter contains dust, puddles, mud, and debris; and Life includes weeds, insects, pigeons, and crowds gets me salivating. I’ve yet to read this, but Gissen seems to have tapped into the world of Dross, rust, derive and other relevant under-appreciated aspects of our material culture.” –Archinect

“In Subnature, David Gissen, author of our critically acclaimed Big and Green, examines experimental work by today’s leading designers, scholars, philosophers, and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world, free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature.” –Dexigner

“In his book Subnature, the architectural historian David Gissenprovides an etymological history of debris as it pertains to our perception of ruins.” –TripleCanopy

“There is little point in me repeating what David Gissen has put so beautifully and engaging in print. This is simply a must read, if you are prepared to take the plunge and be prepared to see the world, and definitely your work, with different eyes.” –UrbanTick

“…a clear, well-structured analysis.” –archinnovations

“As the title suggests, however, Gissen’s contention is that these forms not only advance more novel relations but deserve their own distinction from`nature.’ He claims that while these alternative forms are not separate from nature, they are perceived to fall beneath the strata of normative nature. To arrive at this new definition, he extends the metaphysical idea that if the supernatural world exists above humankind, the subnatural world must lurk below.” –Yale Architecture Magazine

Product Description

We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of today’s discussion about sustainable and green design revolves around efforts to clean or filter out these primitive elements. While mostly the direct result of human habitation, these “subnatural forces” are nothing new. In fact, our ability to manage these forces has long defined the limits of civilized life. From its origins, architecture has been engaged in both fighting and embracing these so-called destructive forces. In Subnature, David Gissen, author of our critically acclaimed Big and Green, examines experimental work by today’s leading designers, scholars, philosophers, and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world, free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature. Each chapter provides an examination of a particular form of subnature and its actualization in contemporary designpractice.The exhilarating and at times unsettling work featured in Subnature suggests an alternative view of natural processes and ecosystems and their relationships to human society and architecture. R&Sien’s Mosquito Bottleneck house in Trinidad uses a skin that actually attracts mosquitoes and moves them through the building, while keeping them separate from the occupants. In his building designs the architect Philippe Rahm draws the dank air from the earth and the gasses and moisture from our breath to define new forms of spatial experience. In his Underground House, Mollier House, and Omnisport Hall, Rahm forces us to consider the odor of soil and the emissionsfrom our body as the natural context of a future architecture. [Cero 9]’s design for the Magic Mountain captures excess heat emitted from a power generator in Ames, Iowa, to fuel a rose garden that embellishes the industrial site and creates a natural mountain rising above the city’s skyline. Subnature looks beyond LEED ratings, green roofs, and solar panels toward a progressive architecture based on a radical new conception of nature.

Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design, Lucy Bullivant, 2006

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851774815/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i5?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=047PT8344RB3JGG78TEF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470939291&pf_rd_i=507846

Product Description

The latest title in the V&A Contemporary series looks at groundbreaking interior design, art, and architecture. Responsive environments—spaces that interact with people who use or pass through them—have become ubiquitous lately. Lucy Bullivant provides an intriguing look at these cutting-edge spaces, from an installation in a shopping center that registers passers-by with patterns of colored light and sound, to an interactive artwork in the boardroom of a British TV network.

With insights drawn from the author’s interviews with many of the designers featured, Responsive Environments will appeal to designers, students, and creative professionals, as well as anyone interested in interior design, architecture, and technology.

Flexible: Architecture that Responds to Change, Robert Kronenburg, 2007

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1856694615

Product Description

Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static. Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change. This book explores the whole genre of fl exible architecturebuildings that are intended to respond to evolving situations in their form, operation, or location. Crossing the boundaries between architecture, interior design, product design, and furniture design, this innovative book is the first to deal with the entire scope of the topic.

About the Author

Robert Kronenburg is professor at the University of Liverpool. He has written a number of books, including Portable Architecture, Houses in Motion: The Genesis, History and Development of the Portable Building, and Spirit of the Machine: Technology as an Inspiration in Architectural Design.