11/19/2014

SABA at "Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities", Museum of Modern Art, New York


"In 2030, the world’s population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two-thirds will live in cities. Most will be poor. With limited resources, this uneven growth will be one of the greatest challenges faced by societies across the globe. Over the next years, city authorities, urban planners, designers, economists, and many others will have to join forces to ensure these expanding urban enclaves remain habitable.
Uneven Growth, the latest exhibition in MoMA’s Issues in Contemporary Architecture series (which also includes Foreclosed and Rising Currents), addresses this increasingly inequitable urban development.
In conjunction with the exhibition, this online platform welcomes the public around the world to submit examples of "tactical urbanisms"—temporary, bottom-up interventions that aim to make cities more livable and participatory.
In the scope of the exhibition, six interdisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners were brought together to examine new architectural possibilities for six megacities: Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Mumbai, New York City, and Rio de Janeiro. Challenging assumed relationships between formal and informal, bottom-up and top-down urban development, the resulting design scenarios, developed over a 14-month initiative, consider how emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature of public space, housing, mobility, the environment, and other major issues of near-future urbanization." (source: http://uneven-growth.moma.org/)

SABA 2011 Halvad project:
http://uneven-growth.moma.org/post/102987238658/spontaneous-architecture-at-the-bezalel-academy

SABA 2013 Hiriya
http://uneven-growth.moma.org/post/103053956283/saba-spring-2013-park-hiriya-20-sqm-of-shade

SABA Summer 2013, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
http://uneven-growth.moma.org/post/103053786368/saba-summer-2013-mitzpe-ramon-israel

SABA 2014 OccupyTLV projects:
http://uneven-growth.moma.org/post/99675462858/saba-spring-2014-public-showers-and-grey-water

http://uneven-growth.moma.org/post/103053754823/saba-spring-2014-black-water-compost-toilets-at

11/17/2014

SABA's OccupyTLV projects at the show "Mobile Home project", Songwon Art Center, Seoul


"Grey Water, Black Water", SABA's projects at the OccupyTLV tent-city, were selected to the show and archive "Mobile Home Project" curated by Somi Sim at the Songwon Art Center, Seoul.


Mobile Home Project (Songwon Art Center, Seoul, KR) | 21.11-19.12.2014

‘Mobile Home Project’ is a research and exhibition project on various cases of mobile spaces that are created and caused by people’s migration and about the life within them through perspectives of arts, architecture and design.

11/15/2014

Pope Francis plans to build showers for the homeless


Pope Francis reportedly is working on plans to build showers for homeless men and women in Vatican City, his latest move to change the public’s expectations of the Catholic Church and to ease some residents’ suffering.
The pope’s chief alms-giver, Monsignor Konrad Krajewski, told The Associated Press that three showers will be installed in the public restrooms in St. Peter’s Square, the plaza directly in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, to help individuals who are homeless. The idea allegedly stemmed from Krajewski’s encounter with a homeless man who declined the charity provider’s offer to celebrate his 50th birthday at a restaurant because of his odor.

(source: http://on.msnbc.com/1xoucHH)

11/09/2014

e.t.g.r - pavilion


The pavilion was designed based on two principles: first, the layout of the bricks, the second grid that divides the building to 9 equal squares.
Shape laying bricks actually was little structure element which has the general arrangement and form of the building containers. Pavilion typesetting grid, expressed in continuous visual structure, and expression of the roof Hbmna engineering, grid happens in parallel to each other.
These two principles together with the environment of the Pavilion (location of trees), served in the idea that we wanted to express planning is private. Grid and cover created by the arrangement does not get very walls of growing taller ones only partial closure of the building, it manages to convey in serving the private experience without barriers and without concealment.