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Kevin Matthews Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 614 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:05 pm    Post subject: ArchWeek - Changing Shapes of Space - Zaha Hadid Discussion related to this ArchitectureWeek story:
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djswan millennium club Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Montana, USA	Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:11 pm    Post subject: Attempting to understand the title and maybe something about the architect. I will take notes everwhere "shape or space" is mentioned. "ability to sell or rent the apartments or office space" "One might identify in some of her works of the last decade the letter Z, which one could also read as a logical development of the snakes slithering through some of the earlier forms, here becoming a more tightly bundled way of defining space within confined circumstances." "The shape is most evident in the giant beams that zigzag" "The expansion of space along terraced galleries" "What ties all of this together is the roof, which is in actuality what makes possible and shelters the new space. A continuity of structure enables a continuity of space" "The zigzag shape is even clearer" "as well as the office spaces" "leaving the spaces beneath open to each other" "These spaces are magnificent" "as snakes of spaces as pile up" "finally accomplish the intertwining of structure and space" "to unfold continuous spaces" "Out of the snaking roofs and bending shapes", "without ever constraining either interpretation or space""these clouds become containers of space""as the promise of freer space". WTF, I don't get it. What does this have to do anything besides renting apartments or office space? This may be a case, of where I'm better off not reading the article. _________________ n/a
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djswan millennium club Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Montana, USA	Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:56 pm    Post subject: Holy, slithering snakes of space! I was interested enough to read one too. http://www.architectureforum.com/topic-31027.html Speaking of fluid movements, where's the bathrooms in these things, I gotta go. _________________ n/a
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djswan millennium club Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Montana, USA	Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:55 pm    Post subject: It's been done before, space and snakes that is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc&NR=1&feature=fvwp Same results. _________________ n/a
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