https://paulmosley.cargo.site paul mosley Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:44:58 +0000 https://paulmosley.cargo.site en https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Projects Sun, 03 Jul 2022 14:49:21 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Projects paul mosley &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; publications contact about ︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Bird-s-eye-view Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:44:58 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Bird-s-eye-view ︎ Bird’s-eye view 2023 Featured competition proposal The Torbiere del Sebino has seen numerous geological transformations throughout history, contributing to new generations of micro-environments that overlap and give rise to a complex ecological mosaic of incredible value. This fragile yet resilient environment is therefore the catalyst of a new system of small-scale site interventions and three wildlife pavilions that take an active role in the ecological conservation and restoration of the reserve: First, the birdhouse – conceived as a simple line at the intersection of the reserve’s three trail systems. The birdhouse is made from aluminum I-beams infilled with danpalon panels. The lightweight structure reduces the size of foundations, and the translucent panels blend with the environment without mirroring it to protect birds from crashing into them. Second, the bird fountain – a disc of water lifted slightly above the bog’s surface. This fountain inhabits the water without displacing habitat. Since water within the bog is only lost through evaporation, its recharge is therefore very slow, resulting in eutrophication (low oxygen levels). To help mitigate these effects, the bird fountain continuously aerates bog water without disturbing aquatic wildlife. Lastly, the bird garden – a subtle tilt of the ground plan in the shape of a square. The resultant vertical surfaces are lined with log ends to provide habitat for insects such as bees and dragonflies - an ideal meal for the colorful European bee-eater. The garden interior restores existing lawnscapes with endemic vegetation. Along with several site interventions, this garden acts as a catchment for agricultural runoff, which is one of the greatest threats to the ecology of the bog. <img width="2032" height="2347" width_o="2032" height_o="2347" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d0561d0f0c3dfac47c60170e0f9af3bfc2f1670dc50aea07eb6a6f185bb4dd7/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-italy.png" data-mid="176355581" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d0561d0f0c3dfac47c60170e0f9af3bfc2f1670dc50aea07eb6a6f185bb4dd7/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-italy.png" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp;Terrestrial Ecoregions of Italy&nbsp;Torbiere del Sebino is positioned between the temperate divisions of the Po Plain Province and the Central and Eastern Alps Section in the Lombardy Region of Northern Italy. This geographic location implies several important ecological and terrestrial observations for the natural habitat of the reserve. <img width="3600" height="3600" width_o="3600" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d160feaab849b91b41ae399c22c73575c66320615ec3c61146b29a45034400c9/territory---anthropic-areas.png" data-mid="176356062" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d160feaab849b91b41ae399c22c73575c66320615ec3c61146b29a45034400c9/territory---anthropic-areas.png" /><img width="3600" height="3600" width_o="3600" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/614cf790300c4e58e2aa3d01c5b784d0eb9d5c758b7243984392e52d3285d430/territory---areas-of-high-habitat-value.png" data-mid="176356065" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/614cf790300c4e58e2aa3d01c5b784d0eb9d5c758b7243984392e52d3285d430/territory---areas-of-high-habitat-value.png" /><img width="3600" height="3600" width_o="3600" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b157a00201e679638ff5e2141d6c9adefe3130e9c08209a963705e736e9dc2a9/territory---settlement-patterns.jpg" data-mid="176375340" border="0" data-scale="34" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b157a00201e679638ff5e2141d6c9adefe3130e9c08209a963705e736e9dc2a9/territory---settlement-patterns.jpg" /> ︎︎︎ Anthropic areas, areas of high habitat value, and settlement patterns in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy. <img width="9367" height="6959" width_o="9367" height_o="6959" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14cd1712e16f6bf8fb052c0584cb29798414bca9b059ea8780819ba080f657c5/nature-preserve-site-plan.png" data-mid="176355506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14cd1712e16f6bf8fb052c0584cb29798414bca9b059ea8780819ba080f657c5/nature-preserve-site-plan.png" />︎︎︎&nbsp;Illustrative Site Plan showing three new wildlife pavilions along the central and south trails, and at their intersection at the foot of the eastern escarpment. <img width="9367" height="6959" width_o="9367" height_o="6959" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86227c1e090f1ff747adf6699e49124d5b9eb35c9a6764e7b4ad03ef056be14a/nature-preserve-trail-map.png" data-mid="176355483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86227c1e090f1ff747adf6699e49124d5b9eb35c9a6764e7b4ad03ef056be14a/nature-preserve-trail-map.png" /> <img width="6698" height="2871" width_o="6698" height_o="2871" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d84401eee30752f4df9a73d40f819ce967c4ae4c386552bdab382bbe8787b0d/nature-preserve-trail-elevations.png" data-mid="176355502" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d84401eee30752f4df9a73d40f819ce967c4ae4c386552bdab382bbe8787b0d/nature-preserve-trail-elevations.png" />&nbsp;︎︎︎ Diagram of Interventions along the north, south, central, and accessible trails at the Sebino Nature Reserve. Plan and section. <img width="6404" height="997" width_o="6404" height_o="997" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23930bdd6fd2b11a4cd4e7606ae609dc5b850ab8cd3b50add387f304c3a3f86e/site---architectural-interventions.png" data-mid="176355140" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23930bdd6fd2b11a4cd4e7606ae609dc5b850ab8cd3b50add387f304c3a3f86e/site---architectural-interventions.png" /> <img width="2880" height="2880" width_o="2880" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9afe04e00b88cdd7edc74c06635ee986090baa57cc096797944c8a7fc2b23d65/20230306-south-trail-approach-from-mall-parking-after.png" data-mid="176355093" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9afe04e00b88cdd7edc74c06635ee986090baa57cc096797944c8a7fc2b23d65/20230306-south-trail-approach-from-mall-parking-after.png" /> <img width="2800" height="2800" width_o="2800" height_o="2800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af31b48bf1b7452a4dbcde4017c4324d5959953f30f6c31b2dd81a645d3a1610/20230305-south-trail-approach-from-mall-parking-before.png" data-mid="176355127" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af31b48bf1b7452a4dbcde4017c4324d5959953f30f6c31b2dd81a645d3a1610/20230305-south-trail-approach-from-mall-parking-before.png" /> <img width="2880" height="2880" width_o="2880" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70260fb9577d9437b317175ce1f926ef1c3145d209eb69ec245ecdd690442a7f/20230307-fountain-close-up.png" data-mid="176358019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70260fb9577d9437b317175ce1f926ef1c3145d209eb69ec245ecdd690442a7f/20230307-fountain-close-up.png" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="2880" height="2880" width_o="2880" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f46fe54ee155aff91a99d8534c08d60e2dd9eda6700e0c53e81aa6ca8fade12/20230306-south-trail-below-lamosa-monastery--looking-south.png" data-mid="176354898" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f46fe54ee155aff91a99d8534c08d60e2dd9eda6700e0c53e81aa6ca8fade12/20230306-south-trail-below-lamosa-monastery--looking-south.png" /> <img width="1792" height="1792" width_o="1792" height_o="1792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e396ac845f8f0453a783caec01cede6566840eafc14b43b06305d17d76d9aad/20230306-south-trail-below-lamosa-monastery--looking-south-before.png" data-mid="176354902" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e396ac845f8f0453a783caec01cede6566840eafc14b43b06305d17d76d9aad/20230306-south-trail-below-lamosa-monastery--looking-south-before.png" /> <img width="2880" height="2880" width_o="2880" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b6f74450c13dbbaa6d97e01b6c8a140dc3fd631eeaeec5f23323ca8ce960df4/20230307-mouse-hole.png" data-mid="176357984" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b6f74450c13dbbaa6d97e01b6c8a140dc3fd631eeaeec5f23323ca8ce960df4/20230307-mouse-hole.png" /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="2880" height="2880" width_o="2880" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b6b453f311ae9684badd26ba7c441ebc41487050e251642e3019cda2429dc28/20230307-fishing-pond-after.png" data-mid="176354964" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b6b453f311ae9684badd26ba7c441ebc41487050e251642e3019cda2429dc28/20230307-fishing-pond-after.png" /> <img width="2880" height="2880" width_o="2880" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/092d1a22bcb68846babf3e38a029f931909ad748ab060530ef768cdda7adf074/20230307-fishing-pond-before.png" data-mid="176354918" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/092d1a22bcb68846babf3e38a029f931909ad748ab060530ef768cdda7adf074/20230307-fishing-pond-before.png" /> <img width="2880" height="2880" width_o="2880" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/252d252c87a09abfd64766ccdb93263b427690637cc0e9c577ce53dfc1181caf/20230307-dock---detail.png" data-mid="176358088" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/252d252c87a09abfd64766ccdb93263b427690637cc0e9c577ce53dfc1181caf/20230307-dock---detail.png" /> &nbsp; ︎︎︎ Site &amp; architectural interventions A system of small-scale site and architectural interventions help provide habitat for wildlife, reduce waste, improve wayfinding, and expand trail accessibility. Pavilion 1: The “Bird Fountain” <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ca5f75cd7b5328d9ed11647a90afdd80ec502769c3adfead291b910d909c132/01_cover.png" data-mid="176358500" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ca5f75cd7b5328d9ed11647a90afdd80ec502769c3adfead291b910d909c132/01_cover.png" /><img width="1284" height="941" width_o="1284" height_o="941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6ef03665f98c6cd9c8853d37e5713b273f55b2e00239346d51aaecf94be7594/oblique-views-02.png" data-mid="176358432" border="0" data-scale="93" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6ef03665f98c6cd9c8853d37e5713b273f55b2e00239346d51aaecf94be7594/oblique-views-02.png" /><img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c8d4a1cb37a1faeb5f5898291b28ff607fbd4797d7244f6d075510e9b4241ed/02.png" data-mid="176358791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c8d4a1cb37a1faeb5f5898291b28ff607fbd4797d7244f6d075510e9b4241ed/02.png" /> Pavilion 2: The “Bird Garden” <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70a46ab90d5fcc43920e720d532bf3730eb8086a0e6312ec02f8851c07211377/04.png" data-mid="176358841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70a46ab90d5fcc43920e720d532bf3730eb8086a0e6312ec02f8851c07211377/04.png" /> <img width="1284" height="941" width_o="1284" height_o="941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c9fedaf6472f3418e780528ca4d978c8fe430f3ab38dc10f0cfa3b9423349ec/oblique-views-03.png" data-mid="176358864" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c9fedaf6472f3418e780528ca4d978c8fe430f3ab38dc10f0cfa3b9423349ec/oblique-views-03.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42638254a5f154bb6fe4aa386957a2e5442466fa8886a9410cac723003bf8ff3/05.png" data-mid="176358858" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42638254a5f154bb6fe4aa386957a2e5442466fa8886a9410cac723003bf8ff3/05.png" /> Pavilion 3: The “Birdhouse” <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5253249ba948abefc7e70341bc80fbc698e5eba25cb748dd2e31ddd40ff3e10d/07.png" data-mid="176358976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5253249ba948abefc7e70341bc80fbc698e5eba25cb748dd2e31ddd40ff3e10d/07.png" /> <img width="1284" height="941" width_o="1284" height_o="941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a983160038167606accc845d9534877be5ca0c0f2332b7b069e6cc47f39f0128/oblique-views-01.png" data-mid="176359018" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a983160038167606accc845d9534877be5ca0c0f2332b7b069e6cc47f39f0128/oblique-views-01.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a851096701596735e5272dcb06ba4558ff9ceef190f28075f36dad9e7aafc11/08.png" data-mid="176358996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a851096701596735e5272dcb06ba4558ff9ceef190f28075f36dad9e7aafc11/08.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3846150aeb39c022281090ff4d5ab7670af9a019e3406d003fb36b60e661e317/09.png" data-mid="176359006" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3846150aeb39c022281090ff4d5ab7670af9a019e3406d003fb36b60e661e317/09.png" />︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Remedium Sun, 03 Jul 2022 14:42:32 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Remedium ︎ Remedium: Seven Detached Houses for Environmental Restoration 2022 Remedium on One House Per Day︎ <img width="3125" height="3125" width_o="3125" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7748312f3232c089674203e3fdd5ac9c432da4abab23c1e3982281fd33f01b73/1---compost.png" data-mid="146957794" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7748312f3232c089674203e3fdd5ac9c432da4abab23c1e3982281fd33f01b73/1---compost.png" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; Compost House belongs to many time periods. It is heavy, durable, and permanent. It will stand many centuries in the future or stood many centuries in the past. Its longevity is the most important aspect of its sustainability, not how its materials are used or where they come from, but that they remain, ruined and unwasted. Here, its walls retain compost that is continuously aerated from pumps on the roof and hydrated from condensation tanks below grade. <img width="3125" height="3125" width_o="3125" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c97bc43d53690d7482d247f22e007b18093a98d9f9cb4be6d0ed3213eef21427/2---reforestation.png" data-mid="146957795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c97bc43d53690d7482d247f22e007b18093a98d9f9cb4be6d0ed3213eef21427/2---reforestation.png" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; Reforestation House is a material infrastructure for growing trees. Here, seeds that are believed to produce the healthiest and fastest growing trees are collected and used to grow seedlings that are then planted within the species’ natural geographic range. The house employs the minimum necessary means to suggest a domestic architecture. A simple post and beam structure encloses an area of soil to enact a framework for temporary domestic spaces. It exists first for trees, then for everyone else. <img width="3125" height="3125" width_o="3125" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/952168317db0c6223dc40c9319b33468b908369a1f556af0bae739add06a4bfb/3---soil-solarization.png" data-mid="146957797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/952168317db0c6223dc40c9319b33468b908369a1f556af0bae739add06a4bfb/3---soil-solarization.png" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; Soil Solarization House implements solarization to regenerate soil on degraded land. It covers an area of ground with a transparent polyethylene cover to trap solar energy and regenerate soil composition. The plastic is repurposed as a greenhouse cover over a detached peristyle. An enfilade of rooms lines an edge of the peristyle and contains spaces for both living and garden management. <img width="3125" height="3125" width_o="3125" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a9f30ca47ab9c37b6247c9d3ef8fcd8c058445331c896f98403495c8baf91f3/4---grazing.png" data-mid="146957798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a9f30ca47ab9c37b6247c9d3ef8fcd8c058445331c896f98403495c8baf91f3/4---grazing.png" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; Conservation Grazing House is a cooperative apparatus that grazes domestic livestock to improve soil conditions for grassland plants and animals. Rows of vertical walls define a linear datum for the grazing. This corridor of space collects and collectivizes land, rather than privatizing it, to provide universal access and make space available for both housing and ecological restoration. Nature is the precondition and objective of this architecture. <img width="3125" height="3125" width_o="3125" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f22404550be83d229057b291c5ebad13fbf68314328c8e6fc186d4ff8870dc5/5---lean-to.png" data-mid="146957820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f22404550be83d229057b291c5ebad13fbf68314328c8e6fc186d4ff8870dc5/5---lean-to.png" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; Lean-to House is a structural, analogical idea about cross-laminated timber panels. It is made from 10 panels and refers to the primitive “lean-to” where a roof leans on a wall. It also refers to the logistical concept of “lean” by eliminating waste and streamlining the construction process in a way that has minimum impact on the soil and relies on the least possible amount of building trades for construction. <img width="3125" height="3125" width_o="3125" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f9c43dc0832815992d208777dac3cf6fbba6e72c490db78986cc0d5eebf39b9/6---seaweed.png" data-mid="146957827" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f9c43dc0832815992d208777dac3cf6fbba6e72c490db78986cc0d5eebf39b9/6---seaweed.png" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; Seaweed Farming House cultivates, produces, and grows seaweed to rebuild marine ecosystems via the symbiotic relationship between fish, seaweed, and mussels. It cultivates seaweed and kelp as a natural carbon sink that needs zero input – no freshwater, no fertilizer, no feed. This house is not entirely a solution; it’s a domestic analogy for ecological maintenance. &nbsp; <img width="3125" height="3125" width_o="3125" height_o="3125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbe056fb078f42523b43d5566fd94ac0da3cb45f58c795c1232101f84aed44be/7---river-dam.png" data-mid="146957828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbe056fb078f42523b43d5566fd94ac0da3cb45f58c795c1232101f84aed44be/7---river-dam.png" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; River Restoration House is a vector for river restoration through the removal of obsolescent dams. It is made almost entirely from the repurposed rubble of a river dam – aggregate, gabion walls, and a stone foundation. Every component of the interior is moveable and can be composed in whatever way. Like a dam, it contains anything that ends up in it. By defining space in this way, it is an open work for human, animal, and plant life. <img width="1613" height="1090" width_o="1613" height_o="1090" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efa1238379148ee439a720c9490c1b4e80a579fd130940f5c5c1d7a4352c8bf8/thumbnail.png" data-mid="151434992" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efa1238379148ee439a720c9490c1b4e80a579fd130940f5c5c1d7a4352c8bf8/thumbnail.png" /> ︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Up-in-Smoke Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:16:45 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Up-in-Smoke ︎ Up in Smoke: Project for a Burial Pyramid in Xian 2019&nbsp;competition proposal, finalist The burial complex of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty displays Xian’s history of largescale and elaborate burial projects. Craftsmen who worked making terracotta drainage pipes made the figures using molds and an assembly-line production system of cast body parts. Following this ingenuity and scale, I propose a burial data complex in the form of a 100m x 100m pyramid. To compress area, vertically oriented caskets line the exterior surface of the pyramid. They form a roof over a data center designed to collect the social media presence of those who pass. Through image rectification, the individual’s digital image passes from the data center to the innermost sanctum using homographic projection. Mourners approach this complex in the greater territory of Xian as a contemporary pyramid among the ancient pyramid tombs dispersed throughout the Xianyang river valley – a place known as the cradle of civilization. Intended as both a cemetery and plaza, mourners approach the complex through a garden to carry a flower across the grave surface and into a series of scaled pyramids, the centermost space with a cauldron. Following the custom of burning xi bo, flowers are burned in the cauldron creating billows of smoke that rise through the holographic projection of those who pass. Up In Smoke on Non Architecture's website︎ <img width="5000" height="7500" width_o="5000" height_o="7500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2279fa1e73761f13faad09904b6f0663afca5d0531343d4777db0e72e4b2ee16/construction_o.jpg" data-mid="146957493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2279fa1e73761f13faad09904b6f0663afca5d0531343d4777db0e72e4b2ee16/construction_o.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; approach <img width="2481" height="3508" width_o="2481" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dfd1996b0e2298ff1f8125c8b8540890e5acce5797f9feb0f22eecfdc0a129a/11636_Up-in-Smoke_Functional.jpg" data-mid="146957496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8dfd1996b0e2298ff1f8125c8b8540890e5acce5797f9feb0f22eecfdc0a129a/11636_Up-in-Smoke_Functional.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; image rectification and projection diagram <img width="5000" height="7500" width_o="5000" height_o="7500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e3c68387c7d6233ce3665c6b4a5be60d34d230f85f51251ecb70b4b9a7eecce/plateau_o.jpg" data-mid="146957494" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e3c68387c7d6233ce3665c6b4a5be60d34d230f85f51251ecb70b4b9a7eecce/plateau_o.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; vertical casket orientation with burial objects <img width="5000" height="7500" width_o="5000" height_o="7500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d15e3b452647d9ad32e28dd8f72556b078b2ed51f57528d7ad1470ec38c59c01/lying_o.jpg" data-mid="146957495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d15e3b452647d9ad32e28dd8f72556b078b2ed51f57528d7ad1470ec38c59c01/lying_o.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; plaza surface <img width="2481" height="3508" width_o="2481" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a724b4287bfb2ee3e786f63a81f0084a02ccf6e0e658655a2dca606fba592869/11636_Up-in-Smoke_Technical.jpg" data-mid="146957498" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a724b4287bfb2ee3e786f63a81f0084a02ccf6e0e658655a2dca606fba592869/11636_Up-in-Smoke_Technical.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; analogous collage ︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/The-Yards Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:24:23 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/The-Yards ︎ The Yards April 2017 a collaboration for Francesco Marullo's Garofalo Exhibition "An Analogous Play: Nine Projects for Bertolt Brecht's Chicago" UIC School of Architecture <img width="1896" height="1058" width_o="1896" height_o="1058" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b15fac131340eba79db79e9830c78709f19c6be4d5b259ad9ca0f67fbb6b651/2.jpg" data-mid="146957507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b15fac131340eba79db79e9830c78709f19c6be4d5b259ad9ca0f67fbb6b651/2.jpg" /> UI: Am I Never to hear the last of these foul rumors This calumny which poisons at the root My noblest aspirations and endeavors To live in harmony with my fellow men? Oh, why must they refuse to understand me? Why will they not requite my trust? What malice To speak of threats when I appeal to reason! To spurn the hand that I hold out in friendship! BETTY: You hold it out to murder.︎ The Yards is a machine for dying in. Straddling the divide between, on one side, a seemingly infinite sea of hog corrals, and on the other an aggregation of processing and packaging plants, The Yards unfurls its tongue, welcoming a steady stream of hogs into its stony expression. Each hog patiently toils upwards along the tongue of The Yards Machine, slowly advancing beneath the iron gaze of the machine, until they reach the “knocking floor,” from which they never return. The Yards Machine is a systematic process, embodying both the image and function of digestion. In a continuous stream of conveyors, gears, and machinic apparatuses, the hogs are ushered along from their transition to meat. At the head of its tongue is a massive iron wheel. On both sides of this wheel is a narrow space, into which came the hogs at the end of their journey; amid them stands a great burly robot, sheathed in constructive apparatus’. It never rests, and the wheel never stops. Chains are fastened to the hogs. At the other end of the chain they hook into one of the rings of the wheel. And as the wheel turns, the hogs are violently jerked upwards and borne aloft.&nbsp; At this instant, one's ear is assailed by terrifying screeches. No one hears these screeches. No one turns pale. No one shrinks back. The screech is followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing. At the top of the wheel they are shunted off upon a carrier. Others are swung up, one after another, screeching and roaring along with rusty gears and machinery. The uproar is too appalling for human ears, perilous to the ear-drums. It seems too much for the room to hold—the walls give way and the ceiling cracks. There would at times be a lull, and then a fresh outburst, louder than ever, surging up to a deafening climax. One by one the hogs are hooked up, and with a swift stroke tear away their hides. It was all so very corporate-like…so matter of fact. Packaged neatly into containers and distributed across the city, the hogs is commodified, purchased and cooked. Straddling the divide between, on one side, a seemingly infinite sea of appetizers, and on the other your own digestive system, you unfurl your tongue, welcoming a steady stream of pork into your stony expression. <img width="864" height="1152" width_o="864" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a37fd2a5337c8e0faff3d0ac13402e393a98e85dd112ab0b9b3eee5ccf43f541/roma_orthographic.jpg" data-mid="146957505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/a37fd2a5337c8e0faff3d0ac13402e393a98e85dd112ab0b9b3eee5ccf43f541/roma_orthographic.jpg" /><img width="864" height="342" width_o="864" height_o="342" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/442c6f400932abb9f80e65b4be43c23c8f442a5454023f98f9812c6b7666ffc6/roma_orthographic-elevation.jpg" data-mid="146957508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/442c6f400932abb9f80e65b4be43c23c8f442a5454023f98f9812c6b7666ffc6/roma_orthographic-elevation.jpg" /> <img width="864" height="1152" width_o="864" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a10733bfc9d44df2652b91420b9f4f0a56950d484fb53d2153ccf93d22978b47/roma_axonometric-01_7.jpg" data-mid="146957509" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/a10733bfc9d44df2652b91420b9f4f0a56950d484fb53d2153ccf93d22978b47/roma_axonometric-01_7.jpg" /> <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bfdf2045ca78e34a5447a55ef20e2fcca5b63a8c3cfad30d78236933fcf8a58/2017-04-12-12.42.49.jpg" data-mid="146957516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bfdf2045ca78e34a5447a55ef20e2fcca5b63a8c3cfad30d78236933fcf8a58/2017-04-12-12.42.49.jpg" /> <img width="2296" height="2296" width_o="2296" height_o="2296" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcf0951042b968e1dc2c5c6d9fe4e087f1c9102fcf753947e2265b499fea6ef8/2017-04-03-12.47.45.jpg" data-mid="146957511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcf0951042b968e1dc2c5c6d9fe4e087f1c9102fcf753947e2265b499fea6ef8/2017-04-03-12.47.45.jpg" /> ︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/An-Analogous-Theater Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:24:29 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/An-Analogous-Theater ︎ An Analogous Theater 2017competition proposal, honorable mention a collaboration with Juan Andrés Suarez <img width="5000" height="2390" width_o="5000" height_o="2390" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a3894c1652856df22361608e3f180c66c350b8590f5eba2b94521ac214358d1/Persp_03_noon_o.jpg" data-mid="146957501" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a3894c1652856df22361608e3f180c66c350b8590f5eba2b94521ac214358d1/Persp_03_noon_o.jpg" /> An Analogous Theater is located in Tenancingo in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. This region is entrenched in the sex trade industry, which is the second largest criminal industry in the world. Our approach was subtractive, to erase any indication of an expressive authorial character in the architecture by delineating a simple frame around Tenancingo’s main Zócalo. Each edge of this frame forms a specific relationship to its existing context: the stepped plaza, the market edges, and the cathedral, which is recentered in the square through reframing the urban space that it foregrounds. The competition proposal asked, “how can a modified square reshape communal mindset and motivation, reconstituting the image of a town where exploitation has become normalized?” In response we asked, “how can Tenancingo’s victims subjectify traffickers? How can the trafficker’s resources be appropriated by the people they exploit?” The communities of Tlaxcala have already provided an answer to this question. Every year they throw an explosively colorful carnival called the Tlaxcala Carnival, which is one of their most important folkloric and cultural events. The way the Carnival has evolved over time has a long history that has transformed by Tlaxcala’s as a stratregic critique and reformulation of Spanish colonialism. L ike the Feudal system in Europe, the Spaniards introduced the hacienda system, which subjected indigenous people to working land in a way that trapped them in debt. Hacienda owners began organizing exclusive, lavish fiestas. In response, the Tlaxcalan people occupied the streets and plazas with dancing, and extravagant costumes that mocked the colonizers. This tradition persists today, over 300 years later, and each city in the region has adapted its own way of celebrating the Carnival through idiosyncratic colors and dances. Drawing from this 300-year momentum, what if Tenancingo’s citizens once again reclaimed their urban space as a stage for protest against exploitation? What if they constructed and destroyed the traffickers’ mansions in the square as an act of protest against them? In present-day Tlaxcala, the traffickers themselves operate from elaborate mansions scattered throughout the countryside. We propose caricaturizing these mansions, to quote and capture them within a new permanent peristyle surrounding the existing city square. We propose a new “carnival” where the community can gather and mock the traffickers as an act of protest, and to restage their urban square as a theater of resistance. This leverages the possibility of architecture to act as a medium for communities to collectively expose and confront the constructedness of exploitation in their territory. An Analogous Theater on Arch Out Loud ︎ <img width="1950" height="1951" width_o="1950" height_o="1951" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42ea4570afcb75a4d5abcea9a83177a98e7e09a73b7f13921ee3e7c654f339e4/tenancingo-map_vv.png" data-mid="147035966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42ea4570afcb75a4d5abcea9a83177a98e7e09a73b7f13921ee3e7c654f339e4/tenancingo-map_vv.png" />︎territorial plan <img width="1747" height="1178" width_o="1747" height_o="1178" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aa39a0ed8502b403b7da846a44889addbecc0254454bd74a22de2ebe180d1fb/PLAN.jpg" data-mid="146957500" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3aa39a0ed8502b403b7da846a44889addbecc0254454bd74a22de2ebe180d1fb/PLAN.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp;site plan <img width="1584" height="1152" width_o="1584" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/873ef0592ca1d41cd6760e29e3d5e66c58fa4d6b060e71641e3f9edd82b64c2b/Axon-Drawing.jpg" data-mid="146957499" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/873ef0592ca1d41cd6760e29e3d5e66c58fa4d6b060e71641e3f9edd82b64c2b/Axon-Drawing.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp;axonometric illustration <img width="5000" height="2076" width_o="5000" height_o="2076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8f3ce8e9d366dc5b93d90814a6df145155c9112139c3c45b139f3da1e5b2035/Persp_09_composite_o.jpg" data-mid="146957502" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8f3ce8e9d366dc5b93d90814a6df145155c9112139c3c45b139f3da1e5b2035/Persp_09_composite_o.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp;digital collage <img width="1729" height="984" width_o="1729" height_o="984" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67822f994bcd82b479507b1ff9beb539bc38daf42b7af3b281cc1feb83529099/Persp_02_morning.jpg" data-mid="146957503" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67822f994bcd82b479507b1ff9beb539bc38daf42b7af3b281cc1feb83529099/Persp_02_morning.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp;digital collage <img width="864" height="3016" width_o="864" height_o="3016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0fecc1bce74904659905421441eeeb959629775fa713771dc3556b8ae426ee3/Effigy-Index.jpg" data-mid="146957504" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/864/i/a0fecc1bce74904659905421441eeeb959629775fa713771dc3556b8ae426ee3/Effigy-Index.jpg" /> ︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/In-Search-for-an-Architectural-Urbanism Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:35:02 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/In-Search-for-an-Architectural-Urbanism ︎ In Search for an Architectural Urbanism Visionary Cities Project / Alexander Eisenschmidt, In Search for an Architectural Urbanism exhibition at The World in Our Eyes as part of the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Portugal, October 6 – December 11, 2016. Team: Alexander Eisenschmidt (director), Paul Mosley (project manager), Matthew Busscher, Daisey Martinez, Janina Sanchez, Anton Tonchev In Search for an Architectural Urbanism juxtaposes two large-scale panorama drawings of visionary cities in search for new forms of architectural urbanism that are able to navigate the contested but highly productive realms of contemporary urbanization. One drawing, “City of Architectural Fictions,” represents unbuilt but architecturally significant proposals while the other, “City of Urban Facts,” shows built innovations that are largely unknown. In addition, each drawing is supplemented by a catalog that documents the examples that can be found in the drawings — a 400-page catalog on the history of visionary projects on the city and a 250-page catalog on the breath of urban innovation. The project of an architectural urbanism has a long history within modernity. From Piranesi’s 18th century Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma via Cerdà’s Plan for Barcelona in 1859 to Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin of 1925 and Hilberseimer’s imaginings for Chicago during the 1950s, architects were keen to envision new urban worlds. “City of Architectural Fictions,” revisits these earlier schemes and rethinks their techniques and ambitions through a drawing that collects, assembles, and couples historical examples of unbuilt visionary work with the aim to identify possible forms of architectural urbanism for the contemporary city. On the other side of the spectrum–from the bottom up–urbanization also propels ingenuities that are highly architectural and urban but, somehow, largely invisible to the architect’s eye. “City of Urban Facts,” therefore, draws from the inventions of the everyday city. From a street-runway intersection in Gibraltar, via the Osaka baseball stadium-turnedmodel village, to stilt houses in international waters at Biscayne Bay, the project understands these conditions as saturated with potential. Together these two panoramas seek to articulate an architectural urbanism that taps the inventiveness of architecture as much as the ingenuities of the city. <img width="587" height="429" width_o="587" height_o="429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a69f81190295a1f94a84c8d7a4c8e996723f0e0cdc53856ec7e0e53957445115/TheFormofForm-02.gif" data-mid="146957522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/587/i/a69f81190295a1f94a84c8d7a4c8e996723f0e0cdc53856ec7e0e53957445115/TheFormofForm-02.gif" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc0ae14c4334a654b319073af7f2991d41b35d83c5759c31ca00ac5c44954e32/Olhos_exposicao_c_TiagoCasanova_19.jpg" data-mid="146957521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc0ae14c4334a654b319073af7f2991d41b35d83c5759c31ca00ac5c44954e32/Olhos_exposicao_c_TiagoCasanova_19.jpg" /> <img width="2336" height="1433" width_o="2336" height_o="1433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b595b81121eb084c1ea6e6f5345355d828c484f2856109aefdeb99955455bc96/IMG_6930.jpg" data-mid="146957518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b595b81121eb084c1ea6e6f5345355d828c484f2856109aefdeb99955455bc96/IMG_6930.jpg" /> <img width="1766" height="1875" width_o="1766" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f99747c60f04aaac01197fedc3818d387cf8922aae6bca65ce1b35eb0666433b/IMG_6936.jpg" data-mid="146957519" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f99747c60f04aaac01197fedc3818d387cf8922aae6bca65ce1b35eb0666433b/IMG_6936.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4f1fa6133a51eb9fef42115eb37d6e0fc51a64aff8cd3b8ecc353d2408f00f6/Olhos_exposicao_c_TiagoCasanova_13-1.jpg" data-mid="146957520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4f1fa6133a51eb9fef42115eb37d6e0fc51a64aff8cd3b8ecc353d2408f00f6/Olhos_exposicao_c_TiagoCasanova_13-1.jpg" /> <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59748dfe6c27de6d5b7c1ed58e5e441ccc7b57247c937a8608c441b46f4c32e7/IMG_7054.jpg" data-mid="146957523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59748dfe6c27de6d5b7c1ed58e5e441ccc7b57247c937a8608c441b46f4c32e7/IMG_7054.jpg" /> In Search for An Architectural Urbanism is a Visionary Cities Project / Alexander Eisenschmidt © 2016 Visionary Cities Project. All rights reserved. Chicago Team: Paul Mosley (project manager), Matthew Busscher, Hannah Hortick, Miguel Macias, Daisey Martinez, Pedro Medrano, Kyong Park, Ashley Rogow, Alex Saavedra, Janina Sanchez, Anton Tonchev The project is part of O Mundo dos Nossos Olhos / The World in Our Eyes, curated by FIG projects (Fabrizio Gallanti and Francisca Insulza), at the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennial. A statement by the curators reads as follows: “The World in our Eyes observes how contemporary practitioners are engaged in the description of the city, and the different ways they observe and engage with the transformations of the urban condition stemming from the processes of globalization. The selected projects have been arranged according to seven thematic categories that respond either to the methodology used in the works or to the main object of description. Description thus range from the urban fantastic, where design envisions future urban configurations, rooted in reality but as well charged with an utopic vision to structures and superstructures, where graphic tools are employed to read underlying systems (political or economical) that organize cities and territories; from notations of the spontaneous city, where the uses and unplanned transformations are portrayed within more rigorous analytical frames to the predominance of geometry, where the physical form of the city is seen as the dominant factor in its organization; from taxonomical indexing that gathers examples of collections of samples and case studies as means to organize knowledge; to for and against sprawl, dedicated to the expansion outside the consolidated city and vast geography where the architectural expertise is applied to extended territories.” Special thanks to: Fabrizio Gallanti and Francisca Insulza as well as André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes. With the generous support by: The College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Collective-City Thu, 03 Feb 2022 20:11:30 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Collective-City ︎ Collective City 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture in Shenzhen, China “Collective City” is a Visionary Cities Project Collective City explores spatial, organizational, and material ingenuities born out of the forces and pressures of the contemporary city, answered by the architectural amateur, and used by everyone. As such, the exhibition foregrounds an essential terrain instructive for architecture. The examples highlighted here are important to the way the world is built, influential in its capacities to mobilize, and mesmerizing in its strangeness, yet outside the architectural radar. The exhibition documents, organizes, and projects a catalog of existing inventions and tactics found across the globe (often outrageous, sometimes humorous, but always embedded in the here and now) with the ambition to establish a dictionary of ideas that can act simultaneously as a reality-check and sourcebook. We are interested in how the dynamics of global urbanization effectively infuence architecture; or to put it more bluntly, how the intelligences of the existing city can be engaged by architecture. From a street-runway intersection in Gibraltar, via the Osaka baseball stadium-turned-model village, to stilt houses in international waters at Biscayne Bay, these examples form a new city that in the exhibition creates a massive urban panorama, describing different forms of architectural urbanism. <img width="5000" height="1907" width_o="5000" height_o="1907" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c3ab6a154de1c9e901c9d23de985dc21cc3b83ba6b983706ceb531f37c180df/Collective-City--Visionary-Cities-Project-copy_o.jpg" data-mid="146957524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c3ab6a154de1c9e901c9d23de985dc21cc3b83ba6b983706ceb531f37c180df/Collective-City--Visionary-Cities-Project-copy_o.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="2134" width_o="5000" height_o="2134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd2d9a5fb93089031c00b57fd404e834cac0cd52718159ca9f0e204c8c0bfea9/C1-CC-01-01_o.jpg" data-mid="146957531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd2d9a5fb93089031c00b57fd404e834cac0cd52718159ca9f0e204c8c0bfea9/C1-CC-01-01_o.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="2134" width_o="5000" height_o="2134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63a734384191fee6f59a73efd8360595ab09f962f622a396da34f1a1d8a779af/C2-CC-01_o.jpg" data-mid="146957532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63a734384191fee6f59a73efd8360595ab09f962f622a396da34f1a1d8a779af/C2-CC-01_o.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aad63cdbf1b7594a18f182c17c590a7de18d63b6caf26a8e494fc5152c26c5a/1-Collective-City-VCP-copy.jpg" data-mid="146957528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3aad63cdbf1b7594a18f182c17c590a7de18d63b6caf26a8e494fc5152c26c5a/1-Collective-City-VCP-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00e7a2251a12647f7891fee099641be52b8704c0a428654958a0c72f5f343f89/IMG_6962.jpeg" data-mid="146957526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00e7a2251a12647f7891fee099641be52b8704c0a428654958a0c72f5f343f89/IMG_6962.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a3346f2b5e1c7c534dc223a0a7cae38f23a1ec3743b6afa56af73456465fdf7/IMG_7033.jpeg" data-mid="146957527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a3346f2b5e1c7c534dc223a0a7cae38f23a1ec3743b6afa56af73456465fdf7/IMG_7033.jpeg" /> <img width="1010" height="775" width_o="1010" height_o="775" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c90cdcfd0eb7d49902e7c7a4f8063129b2625fdb37ad7f7576f10b1c870aa70a/IMG_68392.jpg" data-mid="146957530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c90cdcfd0eb7d49902e7c7a4f8063129b2625fdb37ad7f7576f10b1c870aa70a/IMG_68392.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="2834" width_o="5000" height_o="2834" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67730b8feb4f05dae5369abc7f5244f58f0a6c0716c8dd8a3fbf58c12aff5d77/3-Collective-City-VCP-copy-4_o.jpg" data-mid="146957529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67730b8feb4f05dae5369abc7f5244f58f0a6c0716c8dd8a3fbf58c12aff5d77/3-Collective-City-VCP-copy-4_o.jpg" /> The Biennale is curated by Aaron Betsky, Alfredo Brillembourg, Doreen Heng Liu, and Hubert Klumpner. Their official statement reads: “Featuring over 75 exhibitors from six continents, 2015 UABB will be set around the central theme ‘Re-Living The City,’ enabling the participants to explore how the reimagining, repurposing, and remaking of our existing urban spaces and architecture can improve the way people experience cities. It will open in Shenzhen on 4 December 2015, and will take over the former Dacheng Flour Factory in Shekou, Shenzhen, one of China’s first Special Economic Zones, while the Xipu New Residence in Longgang District will act as an affiliated venue.” Project description Alexander Eisenschmidt. ©2016 Visionary Cities Project. Team: Alexander Eisenschmidt (director), Paul Mosley, Matthew Busscher, Daisey Martinez, Janina Sanchez, Anton Tonchev. Media: “Collective City Exhibition Opens at Shenzhen’s Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture,” Designboom, by Nick Brink, January 2016.︎ “Collective City,” UrbanNext, by Marta Ariza, February 2016.︎ “Review: Shenzhen UrbanismArchitecture Bi-City Biennale 2015” DesignCurial via Blueprint, by Herbert Wright, February 2016.︎ ︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/That-can-only-mean-one-thing Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:30:49 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/That-can-only-mean-one-thing ︎ That can only mean one thing 2016 competition proposal, first prize a collaboration with Juan Andrés Suarez Social media would seem to shift architecture into a precarious position because its ubiquity forces architecture to pick a side: to either actively engage or disengage the relational forces of digital media. But architecture is indifferent. Digital imagery comprises the ken of today’s cultural vision, but the picture plane of social media is as much a mirror as it is a window. Digital content is shifting from words to pictures, making images more integral to our being (people now include themselves in the things they photograph), which flattens subject matter with authorship. In this context, architecture’s most effective agency is to frame these uncontrollable, artificial conditions. We propose a 100x100m detached arcade in the shape of a square. The generic character of this architecture both contains and delineates The Festival. Stands, displays, Instagram feeds, #foodtrucks, people snapchatting concerts, security cameras, and the anxiety of the ellipsis all animate the #festivalplaza—upon which stands The Beacon: an 8x8x25m monolith of black marble. It both complies with and flouts the exuberance of The Festival. It is abhorred and adored. It is everything and nothing. Its permanence contradicts the ephemerality of digital reproduction through #memes and media feeds—but through this reproduction—it reflects and perpetuates us in an infinite string of updates surrounded by black marble. Take a #selfie with it. Snapchat your reflection in it. Vine yourself howling like a 2001 ape at it, play PoGo around it—but do not touch it, do not meditate on it, and do not theorize it. <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f10bf5df43cb7620944db787fc10e35bfaf940eb0d757a30d6411bb386b9dc34/Line-Drawing.jpg" data-mid="146957533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f10bf5df43cb7620944db787fc10e35bfaf940eb0d757a30d6411bb386b9dc34/Line-Drawing.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2100" width_o="4000" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6025b1482dfe1f534233bd8a6d47cfdf9420b74daa54bab2a312ab2ecfbc99f/Collage-2.jpg" data-mid="146957534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6025b1482dfe1f534233bd8a6d47cfdf9420b74daa54bab2a312ab2ecfbc99f/Collage-2.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2000" width_o="4000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9627923c6f0478b17a352ae967d4bfa6609e50013459287fd171454a176514be/Collage-1.jpg" data-mid="146957535" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9627923c6f0478b17a352ae967d4bfa6609e50013459287fd171454a176514be/Collage-1.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2000" width_o="4000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04f2434916a88373a391f6ff06bb43df82cdc958078344d7d7e4451b27366518/Collage-3.jpg" data-mid="146957536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04f2434916a88373a391f6ff06bb43df82cdc958078344d7d7e4451b27366518/Collage-3.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/895199444cd2ad8572dc5e4283522a0dd2d55e221b52c5978664db1beb9a1d84/aerial-view-from-2000ft.jpg" data-mid="146957537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/895199444cd2ad8572dc5e4283522a0dd2d55e221b52c5978664db1beb9a1d84/aerial-view-from-2000ft.jpg" /> ︎governor's island, aerial view from 2000 ft. ︎ https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Transfiguration-of-Mies-s-Country-House-in-Brick Sat, 02 Apr 2016 16:09:43 +0000 paul mosley https://paulmosley.cargo.site/Transfiguration-of-Mies-s-Country-House-in-Brick ︎ Transfiguration of Mies's Country House in Brick 2014&nbsp; Many of Mies’s early houses, as spatial and conceptual constructs, denote a figuration of absence, yet negative figuration is absent in the Brick Country House. After 1923, he never returned to the brick bearing wall as a structural system that also defined space fluidly. This abandonment of the positive figure as an operative spatial device, and his omission of this project from the G exhibitions, constitutes the Brick Country House as the first ruin of modern architecture. This project explores that ruin. <img width="5000" height="3450" width_o="5000" height_o="3450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f05c86152de937ca15dff5cbf43ff46c0a91d042c68c091e745fab7e15b2c254/IMG_7375edited_o.JPG" data-mid="146957543" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f05c86152de937ca15dff5cbf43ff46c0a91d042c68c091e745fab7e15b2c254/IMG_7375edited_o.JPG" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Fred &amp; Mary Smith Gallery, Fay Jones School of Architecture. <img width="4494" height="3388" width_o="4494" height_o="3388" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03d986e5943613a77f8fb8a49fd38878277c9525b0455fd0edd067d594ffd659/IMG_7363edited_9.JPG" data-mid="146957554" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03d986e5943613a77f8fb8a49fd38878277c9525b0455fd0edd067d594ffd659/IMG_7363edited_9.JPG" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Fred &amp; Mary Smith Gallery, Fay Jones School of Architecture. <img width="5000" height="5000" width_o="5000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80d8946bbb359ce2c2db7857603237bd7f69cd832dc10f16779e38e5679f237a/process-diagrams-01_o.jpg" data-mid="146957555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80d8946bbb359ce2c2db7857603237bd7f69cd832dc10f16779e38e5679f237a/process-diagrams-01_o.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp; index of diagrams showing process of transformation <img width="5000" height="3791" width_o="5000" height_o="3791" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3deb022f8aec8a657717b72c78ca6262c901c31be8d94681a9cd515f6232f11b/fjsoa_24x36in_falaatelier-axonometric_20_o.jpg" data-mid="146957558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3deb022f8aec8a657717b72c78ca6262c901c31be8d94681a9cd515f6232f11b/fjsoa_24x36in_falaatelier-axonometric_20_o.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp; axonometric <img width="1500" height="1184" width_o="1500" height_o="1184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5eaa9cad1fb0c00f43ec7f64fa8b27d14a3c291065c71dada9fcdf79ffb3610/1.jpg" data-mid="146957538" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5eaa9cad1fb0c00f43ec7f64fa8b27d14a3c291065c71dada9fcdf79ffb3610/1.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1095" width_o="1500" height_o="1095" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/612f61c7deb07e3bb6e6eb5167cacffba48f6e6bf489334e043111c3dbf3a418/2.jpg" data-mid="146957540" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/612f61c7deb07e3bb6e6eb5167cacffba48f6e6bf489334e043111c3dbf3a418/2.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="1889" width_o="2400" height_o="1889" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/deb2cb083b22858719a8efe3382f3371be537e1e8f1912421d5cf1d189e44f33/4.jpg" data-mid="146957541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/deb2cb083b22858719a8efe3382f3371be537e1e8f1912421d5cf1d189e44f33/4.jpg" /> <img width="3809" height="2808" width_o="3809" height_o="2808" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1e18e34ec3cd6edbe18b06c7ab3ec80445d914538e390d532b1fac03a68d5a5/IMG_7347.jpg" data-mid="146957556" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1e18e34ec3cd6edbe18b06c7ab3ec80445d914538e390d532b1fac03a68d5a5/IMG_7347.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fa2ff9e6a7f90678a6ba07d27779dc9dec83c19367cd74dcef378f7b207cca2/20140222_roof-plan.jpg" data-mid="146957547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fa2ff9e6a7f90678a6ba07d27779dc9dec83c19367cd74dcef378f7b207cca2/20140222_roof-plan.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp; roof plan <img width="4400" height="4400" width_o="4400" height_o="4400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e319daa2dfe72bface9a7f7e55eb32f839f631148f18d09f4e96b9573de24115/plan.jpg" data-mid="146957544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e319daa2dfe72bface9a7f7e55eb32f839f631148f18d09f4e96b9573de24115/plan.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp; ground floor plan <img width="4400" height="4400" width_o="4400" height_o="4400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eec1dffcefea70c7b852a327377b646a5742b3f7da33397123d50d108380b549/mies-plan.jpg" data-mid="146957549" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eec1dffcefea70c7b852a327377b646a5742b3f7da33397123d50d108380b549/mies-plan.jpg" /> ︎︎︎&nbsp; &nbsp; mies's country house in brick. digitally redrawn. <img width="2000" height="1000" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63df959e3acadd0900440fbaf4a1a5e39fee02f8427c6c208b7eb7453d59f32c/elevation3.jpg" data-mid="146957550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63df959e3acadd0900440fbaf4a1a5e39fee02f8427c6c208b7eb7453d59f32c/elevation3.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1000" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/039132d945b9386b31477f53ae8314bb4746687aa9fb398deb5e9dbc90d78191/elevation1.jpg" data-mid="146957551" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/039132d945b9386b31477f53ae8314bb4746687aa9fb398deb5e9dbc90d78191/elevation1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1000" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/758dd2769d839241be67e9632fb2b45f81a25bc5be1ed92d7dc0c15aee419f91/elevation2.jpg" data-mid="146957552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/758dd2769d839241be67e9632fb2b45f81a25bc5be1ed92d7dc0c15aee419f91/elevation2.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1000" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/136fb5cf589aedb195c871dca89f99daa2b31b68ccff4994f11160d4ca0f3999/elevation4.jpg" data-mid="146957553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/136fb5cf589aedb195c871dca89f99daa2b31b68ccff4994f11160d4ca0f3999/elevation4.jpg" />© Paul Mosley ︎