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8.4.11 Collaboration between BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin and ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory — BLOG
Aedes and the BMW Guggenheim Lab share a common interest in the communication of architecture and urban design, and its ethical, cultural and social dimensions. Aedes looks forward to this exciting and inspiring initiative, and to collaborating with its new neighbour during its stay in Berlin at Pfefferberg in 2012.
The BMW Guggenheim Lab is an ambitious six-year, nine-city initiative devoted to the exploration of challenges and opportunities facing today’s cities. As a combination of think
tank, public forum and community centre, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will offer nearly three months of free programmes that address present urban living conditions through the theme ‘Confronting Comfort’. As a leading international cultural institution, the Guggenheim’s involvement underscores the relevance of ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory’s mission. Aedes highly appreciates the Guggenheim and BMW for their commitment to this significant research project, and is glad to contribute with its partners and associated networks.
The ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory is a unique cultural and educational tool in the contemporary urban discourse. Building upon three decades of expertise in the communication of architecture culture – through exhibiting and publishing internationally acclaimed and pioneering architects and urban planners – Aedes established, in 2009, an additional urban research and workshop programme entitled ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory. In collaboration with leading universities from around the world, ANCB offers a common platform for a continuous interdisciplinary workshop programme for students and practitioners. It provides a publically accessible experimental environment in which students, researchers and practitioners from architecture, urban planning and related disciplines come together with the industry, governance and the public to understand and to tackle the key issues facing our globalized urban environments. Through its programme of workshops, discussions and exhibitions, ANCB challenges architecture to become the cultural communicator for the future city.
ANCB will communicate details on the opening dates of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin and its programme as they are available.
8.2.11 Taichung Gaetway Park International Competition — PROJECTS
Located in the heart of Taichung City, Taiwan, the main goal of the project was the environmental recovery and remediation of the land formerly occupied by the old Taichung (Shuinan) Airport. Based on the 2007 Master Plan developed by the local Government, the project strives to become a “gateway” to the City, combining state of the art green technologies.
The proposal for Taichung Gateway Park integrates a sequence of public open spaces dedicated to environmental experimentation, recreation and comprehensive water management, in order to generate areas where nature and its processes blend with the City and its day to day activities.
The proposal involves a series of strategies that will operate simultaneously on several scales and along different subject areas. The idea is that the integration of said strategies will incorporate the land’s potential to provide environmental viable solutions to the inherent problems of the region.
Areas dedicated to urban sustainable agriculture, endemic and environmentally productive landscapes, multiple use corridors, and the design of a hydraulic infrastructure capable of responding when faced with critical rain scenarios, are some of the strategies behind the park’s proposal.