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Design Blending Form and Function DESIGN BLENDING FORM AND FUNCTION 027 | Dubai - United Arab Emirates Price: UAE 50 AED, Bahrain 5 BHD, KSA 50 SAR, Kuwait 4 KWD, Oman 5 OMR, Qatar 50 QARSAR, IT 15 Euro. 15 IT 50 QARSAR, Oman 5 OMR, Qatar 4 KWD, Kuwait 50 SAR, KSA 5 BHD, Bahrain AED, 50 UAE Price: Emirates Arab - United 027 | Dubai Focus: New trends in Italian design Special Ten years of Compasses Tim Power Architects Mario Cucinella Architects Marco Zanuso Jr Gambardellarchitetti Massimo Mariani Harquitectes Ivan Paradisi Archea Associati Mario Pagliaro Fadi Sarieddine Bruno Palmegiani Nada Debs 027 DESIGN BLENDING FORM AND FUNCTION Publisher Board Art Director Text Review Publisher [editorial] 22 Design: blending form and function - Andrea Pane Marco Ferretti Ferdinando Polverino De Laureto Rania Shalabi e.built Srl - Italy e Francesca Maderna Neal Putt Via Francesco Crispi 19-23 Team and Publishing Coordinator 80121 Napoli [essays] 25 10 years: a brief history of Compasses - Giovanna Russo Krauss, Damiana Treccozzi Scientific Director Andrea Del Gaudio Photographer phone +39 081 2482298 es Andrea Pane [email protected] Sharif Nazal fax +39 081 661014 34 The Compasses experience - Two interviews by Andrea Pane [email protected] Sandra Zarneshan mobile +39 335 5889237 41 Creativity and expertise. The graphic design of Made in Italy - Francesco E. Guida, Luciana Gunetti Associate Editor Middle East Scientific Committee Ivan Parati Advertising Sales Director Gulf Countries Representative David Chipperfield Luca Màllamo Build LLC [focus] 50 A global approach: Tim Power between architecture and design - Cloe Piccoli Odile Decq Associate Editor Italy Souk Al Bahar f Massimilano Fuksas Maria Vittoria Capitanucci Advertising Sales Agency Old Town Island Burj Khalifa District 56 In between. Marco Zanuso Jr - Maria Vittoria Capitanucci Hans Ibelings Agicom Srl Dubai - UAE 64 Well tempered design. A conversation with Massimo Mariani - Pietro Belli, Massimo Mariani Farida Kamber Al Awadhi Correspondents Viale Caduti in Guerra, 28 William Menking Brazil Ana Carolina de Souza Bierrenbach 00060 Castelnuovo di Porto (RM) [compasses] is a supporting member of 70 Half a Century for Cobra - Maurizio Perticarini Italo Rota Beatriz Mugayar Kühl Media & Advertising 74 With wood in the heart: Ivan Paradisi’s furniture - Francesca Bellecci, Maria Vittoria Capitanucci Livio Sacchi Nivaldo Vieira de Andrade Mobile UAE : + 971 567890149 Yehuda Safran China Massimiliano Campi Mobile Italy : + 39 3358225239 78 A[C]ross design: Mario Pagliaro’s philosophy - Damiana Treccozzi Karl T. Ulrich Emirates Annamaria Giangrasso Phone Italy + 39 069078285 Compasses n.27 - 2018 82 Talking with Bruno Palmegiani, the myth of Police sunglasses - Maurizio Perticarini Cristiano Luchetti [email protected] Printed in Italy by Rossi Srl Editorial Staff France Laurence Bassières Skype: agicom.advertising Nola (Napoli) Giovanna Russo Krauss Nicolas Detry [architecture & plan] 86 One Airport Square: an opportunity for a sustainable urban project - Jenine Principe Damiana Treccozzi Claudia Tamburro SUBSCRIPTIONS March 2018 ap ISSN NUMBER: 2409-3823 [email protected] India Ingrid Paoletti To subscribe 94 An always elsewhere - Maria Gelvi Japan Matteo Belfiore please send your contacts The publishers regret that they cannot accept liability 102 Cristalleries Planell Civic Centre - Federico Calabrese, Ana Carolina de Souza Bierrenbach Editorial Board Kuwait Sikander Khan by e-mail to for error or omissions contained in this publication, however caused. The opinions and views contained Paola Ascione Morocco Laurence Bassières [email protected] in this publication are not necessarily those of the Francesca Capano New Zealand Alberto Calderoni publishers. Readers are advised to seek specialist [experiences] 108 Ventura’s Adventures - Yara Dakkak Maria Vittoria Capitanucci Palestine Cristina Bronzino Decree of the Court of Naples advice before acting on information contained in this ex publication, which is provided for general use and Concrete Treatment - Ivan Parati Paolo Giardiello Portugal Teresa Ferreira n. 58 / 20-12-2016 may not be appropriate for the reader’s particular 112 Serkan Gunay Spain Federico Calabrese circumstances. The ownership of trademarks is 116 An historic mansion block in the heart of old Beirut - Ciara Philips Achraf Ibrahim Camilla Mileto Cover Image acknowledged. No part of this publication or any part of the contents thereof may be reproduced, stored in Dubai Belle Époque - Anna Cornaro Massimo Imparato Fernando Vegas Courtesy of retrieval system or transmitted in any form with - out the 120 Ferruccio Izzo Turkey Serkan Gunay Marco Zanuso Jr and Corraini Edizioni permission of the publishers in writing. 124 A meticulous and multilayered approach - Ciara Philips Laura Lieto UK Pietro Belli Giovanni Menna Michele Pasca di Magliano 126 Walking through the oasis of design - Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue by the curator Noor Aldabbagh Linda Nubani USA Randall Mason Ivan Parati Linda Nubani Gennaro Postiglione [materials & interiors] mi 128 Rooted in the history of the place. The green flavour of the Benci House - Giovanna Russo Krauss Titti Rinaldi 136 A touch of Italian style in Japan: the new Piaggio store in Tokyo - Daria Verde Saud Sharaf [smart food] sf 142 Blending form and fruition - Ferdinando Polverino De Laureto Giovanna Russo Krauss [rewind project] Sydney Opera House, ground plan and conceptual drawing. Damiana Treccozzi morphing the line: jörn utzon and its plateaus Sydney, Opera House. Jörn Utzon It is the direct relationship of the earth line with its pos- relation with the original sense of the founding act. From sible modif cations, acts to making it a usable surface, the layers to the abstract planes, the platform is the Platforms and plateaus: ideas of a Danish that generates the initial platform shape. The antique f rst human architectural behavior that morpheses the architect architecture is essentially doing platforms or precints. ground, it is the esplanade which identif es itself as a Original text by Jörn Utzon, They are together referable to the def nition of a board- human act in the landscape, such as the tumulus in the published on Zodiac 10, Milan 1962. ed or elevated dominion, with particular characteristics: forest for Loos. an enclosure that goes through the landscape, a launch So, thinking through the drawing, the groud line can 10 years: pad for the eye, or a representative precint where the move varying the intensity, modifying its parallels, symbolic form is brought as on a tray. and can create a space holded between its differenc- It is the appropriation of a place through a ‘position’, es. From the treading f oor to its submitted squares, a site chosen for the construction, even in its tectonic to its sky-lines: a dynamic look kept inside of its function of a ‘basement’. From the temple that rises horizontal views. from the artif cial plateaux, that born from the earth, with To design by layers, by superimposition. “The mobility its step layered passages, up to supply base for the of the components – the earth and sky lines – makes columns, to the platform as an absolute base, tray or the modif cation possible”. The morphing and compo- theatre for the spectator. sition process is concentrated in a line, and the exist- The mastabas in Mexico, as Jörn Utzon describes, are ing interrelations are easily perceivable. The clarity immersed in an uniform landscape and constitute a par- relationship is all played on the binomial that the ticular concretion of it. They work as a rising mechanism abstract ‘tray’ builds with its surroundings – the ‘plat- to the ritual platform. form’ really is a scene – , a place of overlooking and In ancient time the landscape was spotted by related a place overlooked from afar. It is starting point but an constructions that talk together -and today they still ending, too. Thresholds of a huge environment. conserve this power of relationship and of structuring of Corrado Di Domenico a space in the buildings net- and imposed their symbolic presence on it. They are a sort of a pre-urban situa- a brief history of Compasses tion of building, or absolute solutions of the space. The smooth horizontal line opposite to the rocky shape of the natural environment: is a dialectic of the artif ce in architecture & design Conceptual sketches by Jörn Utzon: Platforms, Monte Alban. 150 [rewind project] 151 compasses numero 2 parte 2.indd 150 21/01/14 16:59 compasses numero 2 parte 2.indd 151 21/01/14 16:59 2008 2008 002 002 MORPHING [real estate] 2008 2008 SKY 001 001 ARCHITECTURE tattooed earth: the promise of a perfect world Work Look at the architectonic production of the Arab Creek, the historic focal point of life in Dubai. The The Lagoons Emirate in these recent years and refect on the mean- development embodies a bold vision of the future while Developer ing of the term construction as an operation that often building upon its rich past, where traditional souks and Sama Dubai, the international real estate investment and compels, whoever confronts it, to broaden the horizon navigable waterways will co-exist with global business development arm of Dubai Holding signifcant of the term. In fact it does not deal with houses and boldly designed landmarks in a dynamic Location simply registering the magnifcence of the edifces environment set amongst a lush, green waterfront. Dubai, UAE and or the mass in the form of extreme technological Situated in the heart of Dubai, the creek-side develop- advancement; in the Arab Emirates today, there is the ment is being formed by extending the Dubai Creek 2008 2008 Year sensation of a postponement of perception, of a subtle further inland to create a series of seven beautifully 2006 NATURE change in the rules of the game, when we fnd our- landscaped and interconnected islands that encom- Image credits selves facing operations that make the orography, and pass a mixed-use project unique to Dubai. Courtesy of Sama Dubai one could say, the very crust of the earth, real materi- With less than thirty percent of the total area being 003 003 als of the project.
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