Floating structure Veetee (Water Way) was created in 2016 during a ten-day summer school titled 5th Season: Wilderness, organised by Estonian Academy of Arts interior architecture department and bringing together students from Estonia, Iceland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, etc. With its biggest wetlands in Estonia and changing water levels, Soomaa was the inspiration for creating a structure that could inhabit different functions: a shelter, a fireplace to meet the needs of a traveller or a local, either by land or by a boat. Floating was conceived as a way to adapt to the ever changing conditions of the Soomaa context, especially the extensive flooding of the so-called “5th season”, which happens in the area every year, during two weeks in springtime.
Two of the three objects have now been opened to the public as part of local forest infrastructure in Soomaa, testing how experimental forest infrastructure could provide for the needs of people living in the area or visiting it. However, one of the structures, the sauna, did not persist the testing, and sunk to the watery depths: an experience described by both the participants and tutors as unforgettable and incredibly useful opportunity to truly comprehend how materials function in different conditions.
The wooden installation is now part of larger network of forest infrastructure organized by the State Forest Management Centre of Estonia, similar to the forest megaphones Ruup, built by students in the forests of South Estonia last year. The Estonian Academy of Arts interior architecture department has been focussing on forest infrastructure for a few years, with all students getting a chance to explore, design and also build in the forests during their studies.
Soomaa is a mixture of boglands and meandering rivers that flood over seasonally, mostly in spring, when the water raises several meters higher for weeks. The water flows over flood-plain grasslands and forests and covers fields, forests and roads, disrupting connection with the rest of the world. Locals and visitors use boats to navigate the altered territory, but the students took up the challenge to see what types of floating space they could create, responding to the needs of people in the area.
Few weeks ago over a lake Hafravatn just a short drive from the capital Reykjavik.
This northern lights season has started with a bang and has already given us many nights of amazing lights display and the winter has just started. Hopefully this is just the beginning
From the Griffith Observatory to the LAX Airport, LACMA’s Urban Light installation, the Bradbury Building, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Broad, and more, Los Angeles is full of inspiring architecture. In his new 10K x 4K resolution video, photographer and filmmaker Joe Capra of Scientifantastic captures the beauty of LA through panoramic footage. Over a span of two years, Capra stitched time-lapse footage from two synced DSLR cameras together resulting in a spectacular view of the city.
Find out more about Capra’s work here, or view his timelapse of Rio de Janeiro here.
News via Joe Capra.
Redsquare productions in collaboration with Think! Architecture has just produced new videos on two of the firms projects: the Jerome Robbins Theater and Pratt Institute’s Myrtle Hall. Both videos explore their respective project’s design strategies in addition to featured interviews with the architects.
Created with “regional, recycled, and low volatile organic compound-emitting materials, Pratt Institute Myrtle Hall is the first institutional building in Brooklyn to be LEED Gold certified. The video provides further information on the environmental standards and the structure’s solutions to them.
The Jerome Robbins Theater was actually converted from a standard concrete box into the stunning space it is today. “Everything sprang from one defining factor: the severe limitations of the pre-existing physical space,” said architect Marty Kapell.
Think! Architecture is a Brooklyn-Based firm founded in 2013 by Martin Kapell.
News via: Redsquare Production
Myrtle Hall / think!
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Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jerome Robbins Theater / think!
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Seljalandsfoss @ night by Kevin Heggie Final stop
We decided to stop at Seljalandsfoss on the way back, as it’s lit up at night so gives a different perspective. I tried to get the stars to come out more in this, but it was tricky due to the brightness of the waterfall http://flic.kr/p/b97jLi
Sig Nordal 