Rem Koolhaas -“They were All my sons”– BIG & MVRDV& REX- Chapter two-The “Wrapper Strategy” or the”libraries syndrome”

From  eliinbar’s sketchbook 2012 – Rem Koolhaas’s “Wrapper Strategy”

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And the design strategy chosen for today’s post is…….. The “Wrapper Strategy”

(you are invited to visit  my relevant  previous  post)

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 We will start our journey with a building designed by the spiritual father…. The Inspiration Source for all his followers…… Rem Koolhaas

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 The next two images are Rem Koolhaas/OMA’s   Television Cultural Centre in Beijing – CHINA, (1st prize in a Competition from 2002)…. Construction began 2005.

This is the model of the internal part of the building, showing Rem Koolhaas’s “Wrapper Strategy” the Inside is an accumulation of structurally independent volumes

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And This Is an External Image of the Television Cultural Centre building, showing the “Wrapper Strategy”

 Continuous skin encompasses this assemblage, the walls become the roof and the roof transforms back into the walls.

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We will continue our journey with a building designed by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus (Rex) – OMA/LMN

The next three images are Rem Koolhaas/OMA’s   and Joshua Prince-Ramus (Rex) Seattle Central Library opened to the public, 2004

This is the model of the internal part of the building ,The Inside…. structurally independent volumes”

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 And This Is an External Image of the Seattle Central Library, showing the “Wrapper Strategy”-

 “Continuous skin encompasses this assemblage. The walls become the roof and the roof transforms back into the walls”

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The next image is the interior space of the Seattle Central Library The Library is covered by a glass shell. Natural day light penetrates through geometric openings in the exterior shell, creating lit spaces for reading”

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And here is another example …. REX’s and OMA’s  Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas published in arc space.com 2005 – Completed in 2009

This is a three-dimensional Internal imaging of the Wyly Theatre ” the Inside…. structurally independent volumes”

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And This Is an External Image of the Wyly Theatre showing Rem Koolhaas’s “Wrapper Strategy”

“A transparent skin encompasses this assemblage”

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This Is a view from the inside of the Wyly Theatre

A transparent skin encompasses this assemblage

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The next images are MVRDV’s   interior space of the Book Mountain Library in the Netherlands published in Dezeen 2009

This is a section of the Book Mountain Library showing  “ the Inside a “book mountain” ,a “structurally independent volumes”

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And This Is an External Image of MVRDV’s Book Mountain Library showing Rem Koolhaas’s “Wrapper Strategy”

“A glass shell refers to a traditional Dutch barn style typology”

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The next image is the interior space of the MVRDV’s Book Mountain Library

“The book mountain is covered by a glass shell; natural day light penetrates through openings in the exterior shell, creating lit spaces for reading”

Notice the resemblance to the Seattle Central Library transparent shell

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And the last images are BIG’s Architects new-national-library Astana Kazakhstan published in Designboom 2009

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This is a section of the new-national-library  “In the Inside…. structurally independent volumes”

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And This Is an External Image is BIG’s design of the new-national-library in Astana Kazakhstan. Showing Rem Koolhaas’s “Wrapper Strategy” 

“Exterior shell, creating lit spaces, the walls become the roof and the roof transforms back into the walls”

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The next image is the interior space of  BIG’s new-national-library.

“The interior corridors are naturally day lit through geometric openings in the exterior shell, creating lit spaces for reading”

 

Notice the resemblance to the Seattle Central Library transparent shell

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My challenge in this blog is to clarify the “Conscious Inspiration Method”. I want to thank my eldest son, whose conversation with him makes the challenge much more enjoyable….

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The five “HOWS” of the “Conscious Inspiration Method”  The ultimate inspiration methodology

1. How to filter out relevant Knowledge from the Web with abundance of information?

2. How to develop your own architectural Vision?

3. How to choose the right “Inspiration Sources” that empowers your Vision?

4. How to develop your personal Design tools?

5. How to use your “Inspiration Sources” as the “Planning Process Generator”, and design high quality and creative architecture?

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“Conscious Inspiration” – to be inspired consciously….

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Check the NEW CONSCIOUS INSPIRATION PAGE

in my Facebook

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