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- 2. Born Remment Lucas Koolhaas 17 November 1944 (age 72) Rotterdam, Netherlands Nationality Dutch Alma mater Architectural Association School of Architecture, Cornell University Occupation Architect Architectural theorist Urbanist Awards Pritzker Prize (2000) Praemium Imperiale (2003) Royal Gold Medal (2004) Leone d'oro alla carriera (2010) Practice Office for Metropolitan Architecture Buildings Casa da Música in Porto De Rotterdam Seattle Central Library Netherlands Embassy Berlin China Central Television Headquarters Projects Volume Magazine
- 3. About • Known for his striking, often gravity-defying structures, Rem Koolhaas has built a reputation as one of the top architects of the 21st century. • After graduating in 1972, he conducted research in the United States, during which time he wrote Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. • In 1975 he founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, along with fellow architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. Among the firm’s early projects were the Almere- Haven police station and the Netherlands Dance Theater in the Hague. • Over the past ten years, Koolhaas has unveiled some of his most innovative creations, including the CCTV Center in Beijing, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China. Quotes It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces. Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
- 4. Design Philosophy : 1. You can easily identify the source of idea. 2. There is a clear expression of unique planning tools. 3. Stand out, the architect’s invention. Steps : The inspiration source Developing the conscious Inspiration tools. Realize the design idea. Koolhass was influenced by post–modern Japanese architectural theory along with his experience in reconstructivism and invention in the Netherlands and Indonesia.
- 5. Rem Koolhaas – designing (the design process) It is not easy to define Koolhaas. Although his buildings can be found all over the world, it’s hard to recognize a typical Koolhaas building by visual appearance alone. To define Koolhaas one have to move to his realm, leave the world of bricks and steel, and enter the world of images, models and processes, a world of ideas. Not what is, but what could be. Koolhaas has built is a very large version of himself, a system that, through a method of researching and building, is capable of reliably creating beautiful and intelligent ideas on how the world could be. Designing Processes : Observation The studio practice Models Archives Books Conclusion 6.Conclusion
- 6. Observation • The easiest way to uncover new ideas is to be in areas where life is being transformed fast. Koolhaas and his team have been working on a structure that is capable of searching the world for opportunities where change is happening faster than anywhere else. Some places like the historical centers of European cities have hardly changed through the centuries, whilst others like Beijing, Dubai or Laos seem to redevelop themselves within years. • He states: “We define an agenda, and then we look at the current moment and see where and in what way we could make certain breakthroughs and that is completely independent of making a constant sequence of architectural projects.“ • AMO (a branch of OMA) is focused on research, publications and exhibitions. Through this research OMA manages to be present on the scene before the scene appears. The studio practice • Another way in which Koolhaas differs from his competitors is in how his studio is run. Koolhaas doesn’t come up with the masterplan that is then refined by his architects. On the contrary, his practice defines itself by an enormous freedom, in materials, in methods and in working hours. • Another aspect of this freedom is the way employees are allowed to manage their time, so they can be productive without being constrained by fixed working hours. (People at OMA can walk out or you can stay the whole night and can work there. They have a freedom to continue their work.) • In order for Koolhaas to have the greatest chance of uncovering new ideas, OMA is created around renewal and regeneration. (Every year at least 25% of their people are new. And they want them to be young, bright people for generating new ideas.)
- 7. Models • Models play a crucial role at the OMA design process; produced in large quantities, they function as a container for ideas and constrains. • Because of their shape they create an immediate impact, there is no need to go through long documents, a model is an entity to makes experiments easy. • Dozens or even hundreds of ideas are turned into presentations, diagrams and models which through a process of constant critique, slowly turn into a final plan. Evolution process De Rotterdam(Model options) Seattle Central Library(Conceptual Model) Dutch Parliament Ext. Seoul National Museum of Art (Experimental Model)
- 8. Buildings
- 9. De Rotterdam • Location Rotterdam, The Netherlands • Area 162000.0 m2 • Project Year 2013 Elevation Program Isometry Model Options View • Slab-tower conceived as a ‘vertical city’ on the river Maas. • The three stacked and interconnecting towers of De Rotterdam rise 44 floors to a height of 150 meters and span a width of over 100 meters. Nevertheless, the building is exceptionally compact, with a mix of programs organized into distinct but overlapping blocks of commercial office space, residential apartments, hotel and conference facilities, restaurants and cafes. • The building’s shared plinth is the location of the lobbies to each of the towers, creating a pedestrianized public hub by means of a common hall. Interior Materialization Perspective Atrium Section Atrium Model Perspective long Section
- 10. CCTV Headquarters • The CCTV Headquarters is a 234-metre, 44-story skyscraper on East Third Ring Road, Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business District. • The CCTV headquarters aims at an alternative to the exhausted typology of the skyscraper. Instead of competing in the race for ultimate height and style within a traditional two-dimensional tower 'soaring' skyward, CCTV's loop poses a truly three-dimensional experience, culminating in a 75-metre cantilever. • The building is visible from most of Beijing; it sometimes comes across as big and sometimes small, from some angles strong and from others soft. • The main lobby, in Tower 1, is an atrium stretching three floors underground, and three floors up. It has a direct connection with Beijing’s subway network, and is the arrival and departure hub for the 10,000 workers inside CCTV headquarters. View Location China, Beijing, Dongcheng Project Year 2012 The self-supporting hybrid facade structure features high performance glass panels with a sun shading of 70 percent open ceramic frit, creating the soft silver-grey color that gives the building a surprisingly subtle presence in the Beijing skyline. Floor area 389,079 m 2 Lifts/elevators 75 Transparent glass floor
- 11. Site Plan North ElevationSouth Elevation • The highest tower 234 meters in 54 plants, with a footprint of 40x60mm, 2.400m2 and an area of 405,000 m² floor rises. • Tower 2 has a height of 210m in 44 plants and a footprint of 40x52m, 2.000m2. The smaller building houses the Cultural Center Television (CCTV ). This has a hotel, a visitor center, a large public theater and conference facilities and exhibitions for 1500 seats. • Each tower has a different character: Tower 1 serves as editing area and offices, and the lower Tower 2 is dedicated to news broadcasting. They are joined by a cantilevering bridge for administration, the Overhang. Section
- 12. Casa da Musica Location Avenida da Boavista, Portugal Area 22000.0 m2 Project Year 2005 View Entrance Closed Auditorium • The Casa da Musica attempts to reinvigorate the traditional concert hall in another way: by redefining the relationship between the hallowed interior and the general public outside. • It has a distinctive faceted form, made of white concrete, which remains solid and believable in an age of too many icons. • Inside, the elevated 1,300-seat (shoe box-shaped) Grand Auditorium has corrugated glass facades. Front Facade • Innovative use of materials and colour throughout was another imperative: as well as the unique curtain-like glass walls at either end of the Grand Auditorium, the walls are clad in plywood with enlarged wood patterns embossed in gold, giving a dramatic jolt in perspective. Key Location View
- 13. Netherlands Dance Theater • Completed in 1987, the Netherlands Dance Theater was OMA’s first major project. • The Netherlands Dance Theatre, completed in 1987, was originally conceived in 1980 as an extension to a circus theatre in Scheveningen, a seaside resort in The Hague. In 1984, the design was adapted for a new site- the Spui Complex - in the center of The Hague. Front Facade • Located in the Spui Complex in the Hague, Koolhaas’s theater shared the site with a hotel and a concert hall, incorporating the latter’s exterior wall in a shared foyer. The complex was demolished in 2015. • The plan, which was partially determined by the grid of the parking garage below, divides the building into three parallel programmatic zones. The large zone contains the stage (35 x 18m2) and 1,001 seat auditorium. View Site Plan
- 14. Seoul National Museum of Art InteriorFront View Concept Experimental Model Software Renders •Location Seoul, Korea Area 4478 sqm The Seoul National University Museum is defined by its siting on the side of a small hill, close to the entrance of the university. The building's form was conceived as a basic rectangular box, sliced diagonally by the incline of the hill. This form is then raised up on a small central core – the only point of contact with the ground – so the building is nearly all cantilever, extending up and down the hill, following the topography precisely and appearing to hover above it.
- 15. Seattle Central Library •Location Seattle, WA, United States •Area 38300.0 sqm The Seattle Central Library was designed to accommodate all kinds of media and grow over time. The space is organized into five “platforms,” with four “planes” in between. The library’s collection is stored in the Books Spiral, a continuous shelving system of more than 6,200 bookcases. Seattle Central Library Elevation Diagram PlatformInterior