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Andrew Kovacs, “RARE ARCHITECTURAL GIFT,” 2013 (via archiveofaffinities)
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Andrew Kovacs, “FORMAL ARCHITECTURE,” 2013 (via archiveofaffinities)
At some point, I don't know who was responsible, the word 'starchitect' was invented. And we all know what it is: a term of derision. And at some point, it becomes very hard to avoid. I would say that preservation is, for us, a type of refuge from this term. What we are hoping to do is propose a number of strategies in which we are working to undo, or escape, from this label.
Rem Koolhaas, Preservation is Overtaking Us, 2004 / 2014
Andrew Berman Architect, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY, 2014
MAP Architects, Kalø Castle Stair Project, Aarhus, Denmark, 2016
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Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu, CG House, Pajottenland, Belgium, 2016 (via dujardin)
‘The conversion of a former farm complex to residences is based on inserting multiple “houses” within the existing structures; this concept is strengthened by creating a new orthogonal layout independent from the existing barn, peeling them away from the original walls at varying angles.’
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Jacopo Costanzo + Giovanni Cozzan, “Rooms for a Discontinuous Roman Villa: MAIO” at Ierimonti Gallery, New York City, NY, 2016 (via archidose)
Source: afasiaarchzine.com
In a building of historical value the most important idea is to restore. Although, in a paradoxical way, to rehabilitate is to transform and answer to new needs. I think we should not be afraid to change the original building and to add something new. Changes can and should bring value. The methodology should be flexible enough to allow an architect to have a personal method of drawing and design that, accordingly to his beliefs, can make him approach an historical building as a whole, a space that includes different times and different interventions. The context is very important and the idea of integration is the key… I would like to see more young architects working on rehabilitation projects. To build from scratch is not that important. What matters is to design spaces that give us a felling of belonging. I know that each generation wants to leave a 'mark', but it’s possible to do so in an existing building
Even in his most artificial creations, man is still working upon nature; certain places will always impose their own particular empire on their surroundings, hoist their immemorial insignia in the middle of a park just as they would have done far from any human intervention, in a solitude which returns to surround them wherever they are, arising from the exigencies of the position they occupy and superimposed on the work of human hands.
Institutionally sponsored art for public spaces was once an extension of pedestal art, emblematized by large sculptures on plazas and sometimes called plop art. The social intervention, guerrilla art, and community-based practices that grew out of the sixties have become to infuse the process. There are still plenty of artworks - perhaps most of them - commissioned to adorn already-built spaces or to be “Band-aids for bad architecture.”
Jack Pyburn of Lord Aeck Sargent, Diagram of Historic Preservation, 2014
"All preservation is in the present seeking to link the past into the future. It is research-based design based on intervention, and conceptualized as one of four types of architectural treatments:
- Preservation (n): The act or process of applying measures necessary to sustain the existing form, integrity, and materials of an historic property. Work, including preliminary measures to protect and stabilize the property, generally focuses upon the ongoing maintenance and repair of historic materials and features rather than extensive replacement and new construction. New exterior additions are not within the scope of this treatment; however, the limited and sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make properties functional is appropriate within a preservation project.
- Restoration (n): Focuses on the retention of materials from the most significant time in a property's history, while permitting the removal of materials from other periods. Historic use will be continued; any new use should reflect the property’s restoration period. Archaeological resources should be protected and preserved in place, not disturbed or removed. Work should be physically and visually compatible with existing material, identifiable upon close inspection, and properly documented for future research.
- Reconstruction (n): Reconstruction is defined as the act or process of depicting, by means of new construction, the form, features, and detailing of a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure, or object for the purpose of replicating its appearance at a specific period of time and in its historic location.
- Rehabilitation (n): Defined as the act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values."
Historic Preservation does not have a treatment described as "adaptive (re)use", because the users adapt the space as soon as the project is opened. Additionally, Historic Preservation dismisses the term "renovation" as it indicates thoughtless treatments of existing structures.
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