Simultaneity in Cities (2017)
Simultaneity in Cities - An interchangeable and unrecognisable built environment
2017
2017
rotative research
‘rotate and change the perspective’
Since the beginning of rotative studio we reflect and react on contemporary issues and personal fascinations, in parallel to our design practice. It is our way to explore a selected topic from various perspectives, to develop experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to architecture (our architectural and urban practice) and to stimulate a fresh and critical attitude to our role as architects today.
In each rotative research project we focus on both topic as well as method. Findings are accumulated and transferred from one project to another. Dialogues play a central role: always departing a project from a dialogue between the two of us, we extend it by engaging emerging and distinct voices from multidisciplinary groups, and stimulate the involvement of a wider audience than the architectural community.
Simultaneity in Cities (2017)
Topic
With ‘Simultaneity in Cities’ we focussed on contextually conflicting transformations, where we find discontinuities, contradictions, paradoxes and dualities. Specific moments in the city where past, present and future meet; moments where the layers are encountering (or conflicting). This was very much attached to the topics of materiality, material trade and global formalisation of architecture, and questioning what if we continue to build like this, similar buildings and architectural styles in all our cities.
What does it mean to have a homogeneous reality? What part of the identity gets lost in these projects? What kind of values remain? How do we recognise our cities?
We wrote four scenarios on the topic and experimented with different forms of dialogues.
Method
The project was set-up as an exercise, a pilot for collective research, a dialogue with ten people in different ways.
We invited eight people from different cities and disciplines a.o. graphic design, social anthropology and philosophy for a dialogue based on photography and short paragraphs.
Besides the topic, we explored the method of dialogues in different rounds: one round where everybody reacted on the scenarios, one round where one person reacted on the contribution of another one, and so forth.
Scenario 1 ‘Urban transformation as event*’
Scenario 2 ‘Materiality’
Scenario 3 “An object tossed from one country to another”
Scenario 4 ‘Simulation of transformation’
‘rotate and change the perspective’
Since the beginning of rotative studio we reflect and react on contemporary issues and personal fascinations, in parallel to our design practice. It is our way to explore a selected topic from various perspectives, to develop experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to architecture (our architectural and urban practice) and to stimulate a fresh and critical attitude to our role as architects today.
In each rotative research project we focus on both topic as well as method. Findings are accumulated and transferred from one project to another. Dialogues play a central role: always departing a project from a dialogue between the two of us, we extend it by engaging emerging and distinct voices from multidisciplinary groups, and stimulate the involvement of a wider audience than the architectural community.
Simultaneity in Cities (2017)
Topic
With ‘Simultaneity in Cities’ we focussed on contextually conflicting transformations, where we find discontinuities, contradictions, paradoxes and dualities. Specific moments in the city where past, present and future meet; moments where the layers are encountering (or conflicting). This was very much attached to the topics of materiality, material trade and global formalisation of architecture, and questioning what if we continue to build like this, similar buildings and architectural styles in all our cities.
What does it mean to have a homogeneous reality? What part of the identity gets lost in these projects? What kind of values remain? How do we recognise our cities?
We wrote four scenarios on the topic and experimented with different forms of dialogues.
Method
The project was set-up as an exercise, a pilot for collective research, a dialogue with ten people in different ways.
We invited eight people from different cities and disciplines a.o. graphic design, social anthropology and philosophy for a dialogue based on photography and short paragraphs.
Besides the topic, we explored the method of dialogues in different rounds: one round where everybody reacted on the scenarios, one round where one person reacted on the contribution of another one, and so forth.
Scenario 1 ‘Urban transformation as event*’
Scenario 2 ‘Materiality’
Scenario 3 “An object tossed from one country to another”
Scenario 4 ‘Simulation of transformation’
Type
Research (self-initiated)
Year
2017
Dialogues with
Lidija Burcak (London), Noortje De Leij (Amsterdam), Ramon Landolt (Zürich), Eulalia Martin (Barcelona), Hannes Rutenfranz (Zürich), Pavle Stamenovic (Belgrade), Ljuba Slavkovic (Belgrade), Simone Trum (Rotterdam), rotative studio (Zürich, Rotterdam)
Research (self-initiated)
Year
2017
Dialogues with
Lidija Burcak (London), Noortje De Leij (Amsterdam), Ramon Landolt (Zürich), Eulalia Martin (Barcelona), Hannes Rutenfranz (Zürich), Pavle Stamenovic (Belgrade), Ljuba Slavkovic (Belgrade), Simone Trum (Rotterdam), rotative studio (Zürich, Rotterdam)
Cities
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Milano, Maastricht, Noto, Palermo, Rome, Rotterdam, Seoul, Tokyo, Zürich and more
Cover image (thumbnail)
Battersea Power Plant dwellings, London (September 2017) ©rotative studio
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Milano, Maastricht, Noto, Palermo, Rome, Rotterdam, Seoul, Tokyo, Zürich and more
Cover image (thumbnail)
Battersea Power Plant dwellings, London (September 2017) ©rotative studio