“Unseen” by the Lab Collective to be performed in Spiral Booths

07/02/2010 11:06 am

“Unseen will be performed at the Victoria & Albert Museum, as part of the 1:1 – Architects Build Small Spaces exhibition (www.vam.ac.uk/smallspaces). Performances will take place on the 2nd July, at 6.30 and 8pm, and 3rd and 4th July at 1pm and 3pm daily.  Attendance is free of charge.

“Unseen is [the Lab Collective] response to Vazio S/A’s unique architectural structure Spiral Booths.  Unseen explores concealed relationships set around the peak and abyss of a spiral staircase, charting the emotional and psychological fluctuations that occur between two people.  As the spectators are guided through this theatrical experience, they will witness the force that these destroyed relationships have wrought within the space.

“Using a haunting soundscape and uninhibited interaction, we invite you to take part in this consuming performance, questioning how far we can ever comprehend the relationships of others, even when we invade their intimacy.

Directed by: Bethany Pitts
Produced by: The Lab Theatre Collective
Performed by: TBA”

Source: The Lab Theatre Collective website, www.thelabcollective.co.uk

Swarming Futures – symposium + exhibit

07/01/2010 11:47 pm

Swarming Futures, exhibition at the Embassy of Brazil in London that is part of London Festival of Architecture (see post below, 29/05/2010), opened on June the 24 followed by a symposium on the 26. Swarming Futures presents projects of architects MMBB, BCMF, Tryptique, and Vazio S/A, and is on show up to August 10.


Instalation designed by NaJa & deOstos and João Wilbert (foreground) + Vazio S/A panel (background) - photo: Samantha Lee

O Condomínio Absoluto (The Ultimate Skyscraper) - maquette printed in a 3D printer after the drawings by Vasco Mourão and Carlos Teixeira - photo: Carlos Teixeira

Symposium at Brazilian embassy. L to R: Abraham Thomas (V&A), Carlos Teixeira (Vazio S/A), Ricardo de Ostos (NaJa & deOstos), Ellie Stathaki (Wallpaper), Gui Sibaud (Tryptique) - photo: Anna Stathaki

The Factory: performance in Spiral Booths, V&A

06/22/2010 01:52 am

“Never before has the V&A knowingly hosted a theatrical event.
Until Brazilian architect, Carlos Teixeira, built the V&A a theatre.
Wait ’til you see it.

“On 25th, 26th and 27th of June The Factory presents 6 short new plays by 6 writers specially written for this most venerable, this most English, this most unsuspecting of institutions.

“Please do come and be part of the uncontrollable. The Porter Gallery at The Victoria and Albert Museum.
Entrance is Free.

Friday 25.6.10 – 1900 & 2030
Saturday 26.6.10 – 1300 & 1500
Sunday 27.7.10 – 1300 & 1500″

Source: text from The Factory’s invitation

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Spiral Booths – the visitors’ performance

06/17/2010 01:55 am

Designed as a space  for fiction and performance for the 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces exhibition (Victoria & Albert Museum, 15-jun – 30-aug), Spiral Booths works like a vertical theatre where the stage was fragmented and stacked into six micro-stages connected by a spiral staircase. The performances will be presented by eight different theatre companies from London, the first one starting today, Friday 18 June.  The play is called 12 Dancing Princess, and it was conceived by theatre company Metta Theatre (www.mettatheatre.co.uk) especially to be presented in the Booths. Taken yesterday, the pictures below, by Leonardo Rodrigues, depict the first museum visitors (that could also be seen as performers) to visit the structure.

Urbanacción, the book

06/10/2010 02:55 pm

I have just received the excellent volume Urbanacción, a compendium based on exhibitions and workshops that happened in the cultural center Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2007-2009. Edited by Ana Mendez, Urbanacción presents works by EcosistemaUrbano, Santiago Cirugeda, Raumlabor, AAA, Vazio S/A, and others. The text below was published at NAi Bookshop, where the book can be purchased:

“This book collects various actions and proposals of intervention in the urban space brought by the Urbanacion organization along with La Casa Encendida, developed between 2007 and 2009. It also includes the projects of urban intervention and appropriation carried out in different More…parts of the world by raumlabor, Recetas Urbanas/Santiago Cirujeda, Vazio S/A, aaa (atelier d’architecture autogeree), Einfach/Mehrfach (Viena), Green Guerrillas, Cascoland, Bruit du frigo and [R]activa, with the theoretical texts by Merijn Oudenampsen, stre Szymczak, Klaus Obermeyer, Stany Cambot and Gil Doron; the result of the workshops by Carlos Teixeira, Lara Almarcegui, raumlabor, Sterni and Pied la Biche, as well as the winning and finalist projects of the urbanaccion2 contest. This publication is a part of the collection of books on urban reflection: Housing and Domestic Space in the XXI Century, Think Madrid.”

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Under Construction – Spiral Booths

06/06/2010 02:06 pm

Spiral Booths under construction: MDM Props, London, May 21.

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Born in Brazil – Wallpaper May 2010

06/03/2010 02:05 am

The latest edition of Wallpaper magazine, “Born in Brazil | Nascida no Brasil,” features a panel (aka incredibly  hyper-colorized) from recent projects, including our project 285 Montevideo.

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Swarming Futures, London Festival of Architecture

05/29/2010 01:32 am

Supported by the Embassy of Brazil in London, ‘Swarming Futures’, an exhibition of four practices that includes Vazio S/A and its project The Ultimate Skyscraper (pictured), explores the way innovation in design can be generated by large patchworks of inclusive collaboration and creative exchange. Swarming Futures is part of the London Festival of Architecture, and will be on show from June 25 to July 11 at Gallery 32, Embassy of Brazil, London W1K 7AT.

 
Designers, politicians, communities, businesses, participants and visitors are all agents and stakeholders in a massive swarm of interests and possibilities that will ultimately shape the cities and lives in Brazil’s near future.

Curated by London-based architect Ricardo de Ostos, the exhibition explores how unique associations between mainstream and underground forces can open new fields for innovative buildings and city planning. The exhibition itself is an assemblage of diverse urban elements, including already built and yet to be built projects, from individual buildings to larger city scale projects. Aiming for fresh ideas, it displays projects that explore trans-disciplinary and spontaneous networks between the social, economic and cultural. Maverick cooperation and urban experiments in and for the city are uncertain, and at times unpredictable, but fundamental to encourage social progress.

‘Swarming Futures’ brings together a cross-section of current, cutting-edge Brazilian architectural proposals. Selected projects include large infrastructural interventions, such as the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Park, designed by BCMF, as well as local and sensitive proposals by São Paulo practice MMBB.The inventive Brazilian-French architects Triptyque display their well-known ecological projects alongside new and exciting experiments. Strengthening the speculative vein of the exhibition theme, Vazio S/A present their hyper-critical project ‘The Ultimate Skyscraper’ which discusses the impact of large scale commercial developments, while additional features investigate innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration in the contemporary scene of Brazilian architecture.

Spiral Booths video, V&A Museum

05/22/2010 09:33 am

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Produced by Culture Shock Media, the Victoria & Albert Museum has just published on its website a two-minute video of our project Spiral Booths (see post below, April 10). An extended version of the video will be on display at the museum by occasion of the exhibition “Architects Build Small Spaces”, to be open  June 15. 


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BCMF Architects at Columbia University

05/18/2010 04:00 pm

Architect Bruno Campos – from BCMF Architects – lectured about the architecture and planning of the Olympic Games – Rio 2016. The text of the presentation can be read on electronic magazine e-Oculus. Below, the video of Young Practice in Brazil, which was presented by him at Columbia University GSAPP, New York.