I love this facade - name that facade?

morphosis' silent collisions project (though i believe it is technically an installation.

a multitude of calatrava projects and sculpture work.

there was a book titled "the artificial landscape", and it had a project on the cover. i don't recall who did it. it had red arms in movement, around a plaza if anyone knows what i am talking about.

there are so many more, i am having trouble thinking right now though.

Peter Cook, kunstals Graz: also a mies nomiated project [was featured on the cover of a recent AR]



what i cant figure out is why the move to HOK? looking for a pension?

a religious project that is focused on the movement of the sun - stonehenge

mobile dwelling

the denari building is the solar clock. it isn't very well documented but it is in gyroscopic horizons on page 206.

you might also check out will alsop's british pavilion for expo '92. a balloon that rises in and out of the building is connnected to the roof and other parts of the structure causing the building to expand and contract opening and closing a central courtyard and other moving pieces.

how about some expressionism.. Saarinen's TWA? or some organic... Wright's Guggenheim spiral, or Aalto's MIT senior dormitories?

usually, things -not only buildings- with a lot of curves have expressed movement better than static and orthogonal creations...

the challenge this time, to bring the architectural discourse one step forward, would be to design a "boxy" building with some kind of dynamism... like the building that has won, just this afternoon in Barcelona, the Mies prize.. Koolhaas' Netherlands embassy in Berlin, which is a boxy building on the outside but the complex circulations inside may represent some kind of "movement"...

oh, and he has come to receive the Prize... huh, he's tall!

Yes, every spiral ramp owes its existance to Momo's Vatican ramp. Good job for finding the Laugier's hut of spirals. What about Babylon?

oh, I didn't know about the Vatican ramp.. would the change of scale -seems that the Guggenheim's ramp has a bigger diameter- decrease the amount of movement in the american museum?

The great thing about the Kunsthaus is that they forgot to properly design how to change the lightbulbs! the only way that they are going to do it is wait till a third of all the bulbs have gone, then put up scaffolding, take all the cladding off, change every light bulb, put the cladding back on and....
yes seriously.
Now that will be an animated facade!

But on the subject of architecture displaying movement, i think it happens on a smaller scale, and i think that it is a more personal experience.
The aegis hyposurface which DeCoi designed is a fantastic example of that, but i think that transience inherent in certain architectures also provide this-
like dan graham.

Architecture inspiring the notion of movement.

Corb's Villa Savoye...hovering in the field of grass
FLW Robie House...original site conditions of open prairie utilized the elongated horizontals to emphasize movement. These examples utilize material/form as variable.

time as variable...the temporary or at least fooling the brain into thinking temporary....things usually on the move as stationary architecture...
http://www.archpaper.com/feature_articles/shipping_news.html
and...
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/CHE/CHE-037.htm

see the work of Jones Partners:
http://www.jonespartners.com/
He designed a home, from what i recall, that operated by using an elevator on the interior to hoist occupants to each level/use of the home.

denari's solar clock is documented better in pamphlet architecture 12 than in gyroscopic horizons. it not only include photos of the model, but drawings too.

I've wrestled with this project/concept before... you could come up with all sorts of technology-driven achitectural contraptions, but in the end you have to think at either micro- or macro- scales: the perception and use of space by individual organisms, or a whole site's systematic evolution over time. My favorite example was always the shipwreck - an immobile, useless structure placed violently out of context, which over imperceivable lengths of time becomes integrated with and eventually inseperable from its new environment.

wes jones memorial for astronauts

My thesis project was based on movement in architecture. Looked at four aspects. Expressive Movement = Borromini (quattro fontane), Ambulant Movement = Henry Hoare II (stourhead) + Le Corbusier (Promenade Architecturale), Digital Movement = Lynn (generative animations) and Affective Movement = Phenomenology/Sensual/"To be moved" (Steven Holl and others). My project assembled each of these into one proposal. I had wished to integrate kinetics into the project as well but it became to overloaded... in other words, movement in architecture is quite a rich and extensive topic... the hyposurface project by decoi is a good example of kinetics mixed with interactivity...

I have to admit to being curious as to the challenger's use of the word "displaying". This might give you impetus to go in other directions...

check the building in front of shibuya crossing in tokyo, or the cover of s.coppola's lost in translation. it's the q-front building.

Rita 'I think there's even a piece of Stonehenge embedded within the exterior wall of the Chicago Tribune Building.'

There had better not be or I see an Elgin Marbles fiasco taking shape. Removing national treasures from a World Herritage Site is ... acceptable only if you are British.

Gonna have to agree wit Medit here... Saarinen's TWA terminal is a great example.

Aalto's Baker House senior dorms at MIT is interesting because it's form is generated from a desire to minimize motion... the motion of the cars speeding by on Memorial Drive. By angling the views out the window you get a more serene, pleasant view of the river, instead of cars whizzing by at a perpendicular angle to the view.

Rita Novel, to set the record straight Wright's Guggenheim was the fruition of the spiral he developed for the Gordon Strong Automotive Objective and Planetarium, conceived in 1924. The Vatican Museum was conceived in 1929.

Don't ever doubt the almighty Wright!

momentum, the project on the cover of Artificial Landscape was Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam by West8 - and it sure is pertinent. the "arms" are in fact four hydraulic lighting elements that can be interactively altered by the square users.

this may be a bit off-topic, but continuing with dherman's example of the shipwreck and the movement as a matter of time instead of space, check out spanish AMP Arquitectos project for rescuing an old sunken boat in the Spree river in Berlin, turned into a movable pool - the Spreebrücke.
The Berlin authorities forbid public bathing in the Spree river way back ago, so this artificial pool floating over the water (actually fixed to the river's bed) was placed first in one of the original public bathing zones of the river, and the wood platforms and footbridges to reach the pool are used as an artificial beach, in the future the boat-pool could be moved to other zones of the Spree in the city...



here's some more... and here

Falkirk Wheel - world's first rotating boat lift

The best that I've seen/visited is Zaha Hadid. Calatrava comes close on some things, but nothing suggests movement like her work.

the denari moving clock is also featured in his pamphlet
architecture book.

instrument of action: the jone's house isn't actually jone's partners...
it's doug jackson i believe his name is...a former principal in jone's
office who went out on his own...it was featured in the book 'mobile'
i'm pretty sure and also in a GA houses issue...not sure which one..
my books are at home.

Trace... Good call on Zaha Hadid. The intention of the Vitra Fire Station was to capture the kinetic energy of the firefighters who lived there. They wait until they're called, then spring into action to fight fires, and the building is supposed to reflect this.

Problem is the firefighters themselves hated it. They thought that fighting fires was stressful enough without having the building messing with them in their downtime.

Bowlon,

I believe the idea was more about context. If you visit the site, you can see how it is a dynamic point on the Vitra site and is, believe it or not, quite appropriate.
As for the firefighters, it was more of a 'hmmm, so what can I build now?' and they (meaning the Vitra Pres who has 'collected' work by the top names, many at the beginnings/pivotal point in their careers) came up with a firehouse. Vitra is big, but not that big, soon it was pointless to have the added expense of a firehouse so the idea was discraded leaving a building without a purpose. Now the garage serves as a display room and the rest as the highlight for the tours (and yes, there were quite few people that made the trek to the middle of nowhere to see it, as well as the others - Gehry, Ando, Grimshaw, etc.).

Much of her work is generated from movement and circulation around the sites. Her paintings do a good job of capturing this. If you look at the early paintings for the firehouse, you'll see how the it came together.

When I visited, in 1997, there was no trace of any firemen or equipment.

I'm creating my own moving project inspired by the work of dECOi, Nox and Kas Oosterhuis. I'm interested in the potential to dance with a room through physical movemnt of the inhabitant and the space itself.

Check it out www.ruairiglynn.co.uk/reciprocalspace

The project diary has a number of examples of architects interested in moving architecture. It also shows how Ive dealt with the physical construction, the electronics and programming

My Dissertation surrounding some of these ideas will also be online soon.

melting grid of Sol LeWitt. it has been moving slowly..

another condition.