Aluminium environment. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab

14/12/2015. [Guangdong Sheng] China
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA

The proposal by Aether Architects + Futurelab for this environment, between the artificial and the natural, this unreal context of silver highlights, recalls the proposal for the Madrid River competition by SANAA, just 10 years ago.

Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab. Photography © Aether Architects.

Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab. Photography © Aether Architects.

Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab. Photography © Aether Architects.elab. Photography © Futurelab. Click above to see larger image.

Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab. Photography © Aether Architects.

Model. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

Structural analysis. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

Ground floor plan. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

South elevation. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

North elevation. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

Diagram. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

East and West elevations. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

Unit element. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

Diagram. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

Detail. Cloud Odeum by Aether Architects + Futurelab.

The scenery in this exhibition gives us an idea of what might have been intervened with these materials in the extreme climate of Madrid (with very hot summers and hard winters day, well, not so much with the climate change). A dream world that has been built in the Shenzhen Futian Central Park on the occasion of the Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture.

Description of the project by Aether Architects + Futurelab

Environment, Status, How does architecture exist?

If people are living in an “environment”, then we should carefully consider what is an environment, or what is the significance of the environment? Suppose there is a most objective and fundamental term that could be described as equivalent to the environment, that should be – Nature.

If building the artificial environment is to create the environment as nature, then whether the artificial environment should attempt to exceed artificial substance, to appear as a natural phenomenon and alternate status?

In this exhibition, we try to consider the theme of reliving the city from the perspective of city re-imagination, then propose the concept of “Odeum” (composition of daily fragments), an urban odeum that represents the environmental permeation (behavior, climate, landscape, etc.) following the variation of time.

Through re-imagination(behavior or thought)and using the basic element "building/space" which forms a city, the "Cloud Odeum" attempts to show the phenomenon of environmental relationship beyond material and form, and furthermore, inspire the dialogue and imagination to the creation and possibilities of the built environment ( urban / construction) through the interactive process of body and space.

Eventually, the Cloud Odeum automatically presents the relative vision, the audience inside will continue to develop observation, feeling, and thinking. The existence of the building itself at this time is to give landscape and people proof, that they are living in the scenery of space.

Cloud Odeum also hope this is a kind of compensation, let the audience realize architecture should not be regarded as just a still image, but as a way leading them to re-understand of the city, form, space as well as time.