tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17177944627496674172024-03-13T15:36:31.043-07:00Human Layer_LondonLondon Architecture Biennial 2004Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1717794462749667417.post-66535350065860753952009-01-08T03:24:00.000-08:002009-04-23T22:46:45.363-07:00British Architectural Foundation<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAvkTOWrKAeYla4OZVdRGBSUVj3e2lH4LfGDlaRomJFQH_C9E_1AWgdpB5uhwUi535MNVZr78kFmLjLNKm-GgU_n9uX2xojv0aw0afTthMZBKFD43lXWrkWAyf7HnIftnQruUhzWRPk0k/s1600-h/Trojan+Rocking+Horse_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288890771109768274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAvkTOWrKAeYla4OZVdRGBSUVj3e2lH4LfGDlaRomJFQH_C9E_1AWgdpB5uhwUi535MNVZr78kFmLjLNKm-GgU_n9uX2xojv0aw0afTthMZBKFD43lXWrkWAyf7HnIftnQruUhzWRPk0k/s400/Trojan+Rocking+Horse_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Human Layer London is a network of strategies aiming to reinforce primary human values within the context of the modern city as a human living environment. Withouth moving anything from the city or adding anything heavy but over-lapping a new layer of small scale interventions that tunes the urban psyche towards kindness and other values of real reality - values that cannot be speculated by economical or political means or otherwise.<br /><br />Values that are total.<br /><br />Then interventions are;<br />Dignity Unit - a unit for homeless, travellers and other urban nomads including a stove to heat water and cook food using recycled wood.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCU77ZkvsNdV4XKWc1CDvANRzIGhJ3pfE0J9a4tZwNx73xwLacoJAeAZKXdbYdlxGEGBBPW3LOOj4t5pBY-vEh1qSOIRD1tHoGa1jxdRrJ6oGxEmuspyfPRR_XkjLYO8RQ1jQQnvYqxUE/s1600-h/Dignity+Unit_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288893705866580386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCU77ZkvsNdV4XKWc1CDvANRzIGhJ3pfE0J9a4tZwNx73xwLacoJAeAZKXdbYdlxGEGBBPW3LOOj4t5pBY-vEh1qSOIRD1tHoGa1jxdRrJ6oGxEmuspyfPRR_XkjLYO8RQ1jQQnvYqxUE/s400/Dignity+Unit_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Human Cocoon - a one man sleeping shelter that can be attached to a facade and accessed by a ladder that can be lifter by the occupier to offer public privacy.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIThlfFDCbMPRdJloOEa24r8Hye5yzRlsMTWXwsg_EEfB0KUnS2ePxEqupPsItO2cEeanEheMTbRxzA1tWvaSTyurzEXhEtUSJkCjv8ao-azUCJ5ckFSSHb4T60xK4DEFG4WgoaGOKryc/s1600-h/Human+Cocoon_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288895851574126754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIThlfFDCbMPRdJloOEa24r8Hye5yzRlsMTWXwsg_EEfB0KUnS2ePxEqupPsItO2cEeanEheMTbRxzA1tWvaSTyurzEXhEtUSJkCjv8ao-azUCJ5ckFSSHb4T60xK4DEFG4WgoaGOKryc/s400/Human+Cocoon_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Trojan Rocking Horse - a mailbox for recording the urban subconscious where citizens are encouraged to leave comments about their living environment, their dreams and deepest wishes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLl2cL-Z3ZKn8iC9YQsp35pYaMEWU1GxrC_yFAWlBBws_ttpmnB7VWhTirj7t7GIr_qdEoF3tK56XL9bJl7BxBZDTeZl6wSuUpq9fbqslK7GxJiEo3hyQEpYGP03CqztZ-Im_P_uu8npw/s1600-h/Marty+Ross_Trojan+Rocking+Horse_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288893464165924114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLl2cL-Z3ZKn8iC9YQsp35pYaMEWU1GxrC_yFAWlBBws_ttpmnB7VWhTirj7t7GIr_qdEoF3tK56XL9bJl7BxBZDTeZl6wSuUpq9fbqslK7GxJiEo3hyQEpYGP03CqztZ-Im_P_uu8npw/s400/Marty+Ross_Trojan+Rocking+Horse_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Marco Casagrande, architect, principal/Finland<br />Eri Asano, interior designer/Japan<br />Tuomas Makkonen, constructor/Finland<br />Marty Ross, industrial artist/Alaska<br />Kerby McGhee, visual artist/Alaska<br />August Künnapu, visual artist/Estonia<br />Philippe Gelard, assistant/France<br />Christian Edlinger, young master/Germany</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1717794462749667417.post-5141121681116727632008-11-18T10:30:00.000-08:002009-04-23T22:45:15.279-07:00<div align="justify"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Greetings from London 2004<br />Introduction of the Human Layer</span><br /><br /><br /></div><p align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelpPEBPj1DwDoKvqd_RBChgw4RUPZ8JsHr95VusBX4YsTZ5GDb2qCeDIrTvskaEKkf0RC8c09d4mNL05qXRQVLYG47vtvZ-jUj3J_gnreTxHRPitHytG6DkHGY0pmIam5Xo8ZLSQxxZM/s1600-h/HUMAN_front+page_Marco+Casagrande.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270070379550561762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 287px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelpPEBPj1DwDoKvqd_RBChgw4RUPZ8JsHr95VusBX4YsTZ5GDb2qCeDIrTvskaEKkf0RC8c09d4mNL05qXRQVLYG47vtvZ-jUj3J_gnreTxHRPitHytG6DkHGY0pmIam5Xo8ZLSQxxZM/s400/HUMAN_front+page_Marco+Casagrande.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Cover of the free newspaper "Human". Public domain. Marco Casagrande.<br /></em></span><br />This newspaper describes the ideas and methods of the urban megastructure Human Layer for the London City. The Human Layer is developed by the Finland based architecture office C-Laboratory to contribute for the British Architecture Foundation's Greetings from London urban planning exhibition.<br /><br />The human Layer London is a network of strategies aiming to reinforce primary human values within the context of the modern city as a human living environment. Without moving anything from the city or adding anything heavy but overlapping a new layer of small scale interventions tuning the urban psyche towards kindness and other values of real reality - values that can not be speculated by economical or political means or otherwise.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Values that are total.</span><br /><br />The Human Layer is a democratic free offering from the city to the citizens activating the urban subconscious towards softer more democratic human living.<br /><br />There used to be a time in the Medieval Prague when there was free beer offered in the street corners. It was the right of the Prague citizen to drink beer for free. This was a democratic offering from the city.<br /><br />The Human Layer offers the modern man a possibility of taking himself a thousand years back to realize that the things are the same.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwS0pbpuY7jpTxi34JzEMnluD4i_djfVgz64qKIkYUIafT37hzbieusHWL2eWp5v5PsXDzPMh-98i7-o75BzZ86g7WEjcmnqlhJbOnwtXs71gs9eEJ_6D43YWGutxbHxkaHCBBxeqQhdc/s1600-h/Marty+Ross+mounted+on+a+Trojan+Rocking+Horse_London+Architecture+Biennial+2004_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270070996657285186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwS0pbpuY7jpTxi34JzEMnluD4i_djfVgz64qKIkYUIafT37hzbieusHWL2eWp5v5PsXDzPMh-98i7-o75BzZ86g7WEjcmnqlhJbOnwtXs71gs9eEJ_6D43YWGutxbHxkaHCBBxeqQhdc/s400/Marty+Ross+mounted+on+a+Trojan+Rocking+Horse_London+Architecture+Biennial+2004_Casagrande+Laboratory.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic;font-size:85%;" >Industrial Artist Marty Ross mounted on a Trojan Rocking Horse.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">GREETINGS FROM LONDON<br />A series of new visions for London created by;<br />Zaha Hadid<br />Klein Dytham<br />David Green<br />Norman Foster<br />Foreign Office Architects<br />FAT<br />Will Alsop<br />Branson Coates<br />NL Architects<br />Casagrande Laboratory</span> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0