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Bracket 3 - At Extremes

Singing Landscapes - The Lost Language Repository , (4th year AA project) has beaten over 200 other entries to be selected for the next issue of Bracket - At Extremes. 

'Bracket 3 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate the potentials when situations extend beyond norms – into the extremities. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an anti-entropic notion of programmatic and social order. But are there scenarios in which a state of extremity or imbalance is productive?

 

Ulrick Beck, in “Risk Society’s Cosmopolitan Moment” suggests that being at risk is the human condition at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While risk produces inequality and destabilization, he argues, it can be the catalyst for the construction of new institutions. The term extreme is defined as outermost, utmost, farthest, last or frontier. Bracket [at Extremes] seeks to understand what new spatial orders emerge in this liminal space. How might it be leveraged as an opportunity for invention?  What are the limits of wilderness and control, of the natural and artificial, the real and the virtual? What new landscapes, networks, and urban models might emerge in the wake of destabilized economic, social and environmental conditions?

 

Bracket [at Extremes] will examine architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states. In such conditions, the status quo is no longer possible; systems must extend performance and accommodate unpredictability. As new protocols emerge, new opportunities present themselves. Bracket [at Extremes] seeks innovative contributions interrogating extreme processes (technologies, operations) and extreme contexts (cultural, climatic). What is the breaking point of architecture at extremes?'

http://brkt.org/index.php/extremes/entry/bracket_at_extremes_issue_3_call_for_submissions

3d Glass etchings of wind analysis

A conversation with Professor Jörg Schlaich & Dr. Arndt Goldack

Yesterday I met with Professor Jörg Schlaich & Dr. Arndt Goldack in their office in Berlin to talk over my technical studies for my final thesis project 'Aeolian Fields'. The conversation shifted around the energy production of the proposed architecture and the feasibility of the design to create an experiential environment based on artificial extreme weathers, without  causing harm to the users of the building. The wind analysis studies I had produced provided an insight into the immaterial landscape the project proposed, but more interestingly, gave the engineers a visual representation of every cm of wind movement which they found both effective and beautiful. The conversation concluded on a high note, although some tweaks would have to be implemented before continuing into the architectural design of the project.

Tornado Alley News

"More storms are forecast across the US Midwest on Monday as the death toll from numerous tornadoes over the weekend rose to six.

Around 120 tornadoes reportedly touched down across Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska on Saturday and Sunday, with some storm warning systems knocked out as a result.

Sophie Hutchinson reports." BBC

BBC goes Storm Chasing