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Uppsala University Main Building / AIX Arkitekter

April 3, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

The Uppsala University Main Building is a listed building part of the Swedish architectural heritage. The building and the park were built according to the drawings of Theodor Holmgren between 1877 and 1887, next to the Cathedral and the University’s first central building at the time, the Gustavianum. The vestibule is one of Sweden’s most prominent space creations crowned by three uniform glass domes. The semi-circular aula is the heart of the building and can hold up to 2000 people. There are also lecture halls and many other classrooms in the building. The original activity, education, and teaching are ongoing in the building today and its role as a collective point is strengthened, as the institutions move to the campus outside the city. In order for the activity to continue, AIX Arkitekter has worked with the accessibility adaptation, fire safety and renewed of technical equipment.

Pivoting doors offer breezes and views at Tamara Wibowo’s Indonesian home

April 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Rows of pivoting glass doors can be opened to allow air to flow through living spaces that open onto courtyards, terraces and lush gardens at this house in the Indonesian city of Semarang. House of Inside and Outside is the first project designed by architect Tamara Wibowo, and was developed as a home for her

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Forensic Architecture to Create a 3D Simulation of the Grenfell Tower Fire with Crowdsourced Video

April 3, 2018 Collin Abdallah 0

Since the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, the people of London have been searching for an answer to the exact cause of the fire that killed 71 people. Now Forensic Architecture—the Goldsmiths, University of London-based research group headed by Eyal Weizman—seeks to aid in the search for answers with their new Grenfell Media Archive. This online crowdsourcing database intended to collect people’s first-person accounts in order to map them onto a 3D model of the tower and analyze exactly what happened to the tower.