please view in a slideshow- animation added- difficult 2 view otherwise- a brief about Bernard Tschumi and his wonderful parc de la villette

1. Bernard Tschumi

6. In each of Tschumi’s projects pictured below, the linear and curvature qualities of the grid and the curve are key elements that define Tschumi’s architectural design style.

8. HIS WORKS THE ACROPOLIS MUSEUM,ATHENS ATMOSPHERE PARK, SANTIAGO BLUE RESIDENTIAL TOWER, NEW YORK ROUEN CONCERT HALL, ROUEN PARC DE LA VILLETTE,PARIS

12. LINES: Lines are the main movement paths across the park The paths do not follow any organizational structure; rather they intersect and lead to various points of intersection within the park and the surrounding urban area. NORTH-SOUTH AXIS EAST-WEST AXIS

14. DECONSTRUCTIVISM - IDEAS Tschumi was not particularly interested in either the real or virtual worlds, separately, but he was attracted to the tension between those two worlds and felt that when the real and the virtual worlds come together, tension is created and the potential for design begins. He wanted the park to be a space for activity and interaction that would evoke a sense of freedom. He designed the Parc de la Villette with the intention of creating a space that exists in a vacuum, something without historical precedent.

15. EVENTS OF THE PERIOD THAT MAY HAVE INFLUENCED HIS DESIGN In 1976 Tschumi gave his students at the Architectural Association a project: They were to take James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and design a landscape plan from the text. Each student was assigned a point on a grid of Covent Garden in London, Tschumi’s way of organizing the students to get a lot of work done.This project was named Joyce’s Garden and would be one of the concepts used for Parc de le Villette seven years later. In 1976 Tschumi was doing some research called the Screenplays or the Manhattan Transcripts in which he was experimenting with movement, events and the systems of points, lines and surfaces. He was testing ideas on movements and the dynamic of events and activity, and this became his deciding strategy to enter the competition for Parc de le Villette and use multiple devices to organize complexity.

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19. PLAN GRAND HALL CANAL DE ORUCQ THE CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY GEODE ZENITH