Regular building with irregular solid: Central China TV

Central China TV building is architecture building for office in Beijing’s new Central Business District was designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) located in Beijing, China. This building project 2002 built on 18ha constructed area in new central business district. The total construction cost is estimated at 600 Million Euro. The project completed in 2008.
The new CCTV headquarters, at a height of 230m and a floor area of 405,000m2, combines administration with news, broadcasting, studios and program production – the entire process of TV making – in a sequence of interconnected activities. Although the building is 230 meter tall it is not a traditional tower, but a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections that establish an urban site rather than point to the sky. The irregular grid on the building’s facades is an expression of the forces traveling throughout its structure.

Irregular volumes in a regular square in Berlin

The shoah monument, Eisenman, Berlin 2005

In a big area located between the Behrenstrasse and Ebertstraße (near the Brandenburg Gate) is located, according to a strict orthogonal grid of 2,711 concrete stele of a special variable height between 20 cm and more than 4 m, which gives the visitors the idea of a huge campaign shaped by the wind. Absolutely no names and symbolic meanings, hinting to the Jewish tradition, the place wants to be, the idea of the architect, a space in which the individual is alone with himself and his mind in order to make way for the memory . For a generic evocative function of the complex, suggested to those along the paths, was accompanied by concrete proof of historical documents on display in an underground information center. The repetition of shape and extension of the memorial evokes the founding principle of the tragedies of the twentieth century: the reason that if it becomes madness put to the service projects and negative ideals, to invest in the lives and human history in a boundless vastness of events death.

Portrait of Dorian Gray

The novel is set in London of the nineteenth century. Talk of Dorian Gray, a young man of extraordinary beauty, purity, simplicity, capable of transmitting unique feelings to those around him. The story begins in the studio of painter Basil Hallward, a man endowed with special sensitivity and test strong feelings for this guy, which is running the portrait. Along with him is Lord Henry Wotton, cynical and mentor with particular elegance.
Lord Henry will have a decision role in the life of Dorian,who know their Hallaward in fact, with his speeches very articulate, capture the attention of yhis guy,making him, little by little, almost the embodiment of his way of thinking.
Dorian in fact, after a long conversation with Lord Wotton, begins to look to youth as something really important, so try to be the envy of his portrait, beautiful and eternally young. This led him to conclude a "pact with the devil", by which remain eternally young and beautiful, while the picture will show signs of physical decline and moral character.
Will never reveal to anyone the existence of the painting, only to Hallward, then kill in a moment of madness fueled by criticism of the painter. Every so often, however, goes secretly in the attic to check and taunt his portrait that ages more and more every day, but that also creates many regrets and fears. Until, at the end of the novel, tired of the weight that the picture makes him feel, hoping to free himself from the wicked life he was leading, with a knife pierces the framework, the same with whom he had killed Hallward, considering it because of its evils as creator of the work.
His servants will find next to the pristine picture, an unrecognizable and prematurely withered Dorian Gray, who died at the foot of the painting with a knife stuck in his heart.

Regular dress or irregular skin?

Jhonny Robles, Coffe wall in Miami

This murals shows people who are stripped of their skin and reveal its true essence made of color. Resunsaysdope is located at Cafeina Cafe Lounge & Gallery, in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. Designed by artist/designer Johnny Robles

Trompe l'oeil

Spouses bedroom, Mantegna, Palazzo ducale di Mantova

Escaping criticism, Pere Borrell del caso

Trompe l'oeil, the French "tromper, deceive, and 'oeil, eye, nature is a painting technique, based on the use of light and shadow and perspective, that is life in such a way as to seem to eyes of the spectator an illusion of reality. It creates an ambiguity between the picture plane and the observer, be doing what in reality is three-dimensional two-dimensional, so in fact the observer perceives an illusory reality does not exist, created artificially through pictorial means . It is based largely on creating a sort of setting time wisely to incorporate functional elements to get then to meld with the architecture and at the same time to push the limits. The perfect simulation of the physical world creates a subtle play of between reality and perceptual illusion in which modern man is lost and in turn lose the limitations imposed by the phenomenological world.

Iluma: regular lights in irregular elements

United States Application US20100163450

Crystal Mesh is a new media facade.It consists of a tessellated pattern made of 3,000modules of deep-drawn polycarbonate covering a façade area of more than 5,000 m2. About 1,900 of these modules contain a regular matrix of compact fluorescent light tubes forming “active patches” within the façade. At night the light matrix superimposes the idiosyncratic physical structure of the white, crystalline daytime façade.
But the irregular arrangement of these patches – dividing the façade into areas with different resolutions – does not create a large, homogeneous screen in front of the building, but instead forms a more general impression of the building’s “medianess” as an addition to and an essential ingredient of its architecture.”



One of the things that is really like about Crystal Mesh is the way that realities:united have created a sculptural facade where each pixel is in fact not one pixel at all, but an animatable cluster of them. The result is a kind of sub-resolution, where each crystal in the mesh can act as one object, or it’s subpixels can be individually controlled to create a really unique movement of light across the surface of the facade.
In the crystal mesh project realities:united once again shy away from jumping on the LED bandwagon like (most of) the rest of the world, and stick with good old fluorescent lamps. The facade covers a total area of 5180m2 of which 2550m2 are equipped as a media installation. The installation is made up of 6069 individually controllable 36W fluorescent bulbs. Whilst that’s a hefty 234kW power consumption (theoretical maximum with all lamps on), in normal operation the actual brightness for grey scale images is limited by software to approx. 70% brightness resulting in a max. power consumption of 127kW. The estimated power consumption in typical operation mode is approx. 85kW equaling 0.03kW/m2 (29 Watts/m2).



Links

WOHA architects

http://www.woha-architects.com/

realities:united office

http://www.realities-united.de

Crystal Mesh project page

http://www.realities-united.de/#PROJECT,138,1

Duchamp: regular arts with irregular things

Duchamp, New York 1913

Duchamp, NewYork 1917

The ready-made, therefore, is a common article of daily use (a hanger and a bottle rack, a urinal, etc.). which becomes a work of art by the artist and once taken place as it is in a different situation from that of use, which would have its own (in this case a museum or art gallery). The added value of the artist is the operation of choice, or even random object identification, capture and isolation of the object.

Irregular place of the object,but same purpose

Proper use of an everyday object such as clothes line becomes irregular when wearing it in different context.

Irregular shape-regular function

Confusing traffic-light

This traffic light should regulate the traffic but creates more confusion because there are too many lights and people are not able to figure out what to do. It's irreuglar!