book | Constructing shadows : pergolas, pavilions, tents, cables, and plants

Constructing shadows : pergolas, pavilions, tents, cables, and plants / Peter Petschek, Siegfried Gass (eds.)
Basel : Birkhäuser, 2011.
247 p. : fot., planos
ISBN 9783034607148*
Materias:
Mobiliario urbano
Pabellones (Arquitectura)
Biblioteca A-72.017 CON

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Trees are ideal sources of shade; where they cannot be used, their function is taken over by tents, pergolas, and pavilions. In the context of global warming, shade-providing construction is becoming an increasingly important building task. In Part One of this book, specialists in the field present the typical forms of shade-providing construction as well as the design approach associated with each. Part Two presents easily consultable overviews of 140 plants that have proven to be effective givers of shade in temperate, subtropical, and tropical zones. Part Three presents thirty built projects by celebrated architects and landscape architects from five continents. These constructions illustrate a wide variety of functions and scales and cover various climatic zones and cultural contexts. All structures are constructionally and systematically analyzed with texts, true-to-scale drawings, and photographs from their foundations to their connections and the shadows they cast.

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hemeroteka | Peter Zumthor, ante el reto de la Sepertine

Imagen: El  Mundo

Peter Zumthor, ante el reto de la Sepertine
EFE | El Mundo, 2011-06-30

En medio del Kensington Garden londinense, el arquitecto suizo Peter Zumthor ha diseñado para la Serpentine Gallery un pabellón minimalista de planta rectangular que encierra un jardín destinado a cultivar los sentidos y a la meditación.

Es una especie de gran contenedor de paredes negras y mates de madera en cada uno de cuyos lados hay tres entradas por las que se accede a un pasillo oscuro que rodea toda su estructura.

hemeroteka | La furia roja toma Hyde Park

Imagen: El Mundo

La furia roja toma Hyde Park
Begoña Arce | El Periódico, 2010-07-16

buch | Der Pavillon : lust und polemik in der architektur

Der Pavillon : lust und polemik in der architektur = The Pavilion : pleasure and polemics in architecture / herausgegeben von = edited by Peter Cachola Schmal.
Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, 2009.
191 p. : il.
Catálogo de la exposición del mismo nombre, organizado por Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt y Main, del 11 de julio al 20 septiembre de 2009.
Ed. bilingüe alemán - inglés
ISBN 9783775724944*
Materias:
Pabellones (Arquitectura)
Exposiciones - Construcciones.
Biblioteca A-725.91 PAV

“Pleasure and Polemics in Architecture” examines both the history and the contemporary state of pavilion architecture. This historical survey consists of two parts: first, the examination of a group of twentieth-century pavilions—categorical examples that form an architectural typology and can be interpreted as such—and second, a comprehensive collection of essays.

This outstanding analysis has been produced by students of architecture at Frankfurt’s Städelschule. In the theoretical section, well-known authors discuss the materials used in pavilions, starting with influences from the Orient, India, and Asia, and moving on to significant twentieth-century pavilions and today’s issue of temporary buildings somewhere between art and architecture. In addition, this volume documents the research and development of a summer pavilion for the garden at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt done by the offices of Barkow Leibinger and Werner Sobek.