Inspirations

Bay of Algiers
Model, Conceptualization
© 2010 Nacym Baghli Architects
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Unreal,
Meeting with Rem Koolhaas
OMA / Rotterdam, 2010











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BASIC
Sinclair Research Ltd
(Early 80's)

'Reserved words' / COMMANDS
ZX SPECTRUM
© 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd
ABS, ACS, AND1, ASN, AT, ATN, ATTR, BEEP, BIN, BORDER, BRIGHT7, CAT2, CHR$3, CIRCLE, CLEAR, CLOSE#2, CLS, CODE3, CONTINUE, COPY, COS, DATA, DEF FN, DIM, DRAW, ERASE2,EXP, FLASH7, FN, FOR9, FORMAT2, GO SUB, GO TO, IF4, IN, INK7, INKEY$3, INPUT, INT, INVERSE7, LEN, LET5, LINE, LIST, LLIST, LN, LOAD, LPRINT, MERGE, MOVE2, NEW, NEXT, NOT1, OPEN#2, OR1, OUT, OVER7, PAPER7, PAUSE, PEEK, PI, PLOT, POINT, POKE, PRINT, RANDOMIZE, READ, REM, RESTORE, RETURN, RND, RUN, SAVE, SCREEN$3, SGN, SIN, SQR, STEP,STR$3, TAB, TAN, THEN 4, TO, USR, VAL3, 6, VAL$3, VERIFY.

Source : Personal archives + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_BASIC


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Haus-Rucker-Co




Haus-Rucker-Co were a Viennese group founded in 1967 by Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Klaus Pinter, later joined by Manfred Ortner. Their work explored the performative potential of architecture through installations and happenings using pneumatic structures or prosthetic devices that altered perceptions of space. Such concerns fit with the utopian architectural experiments of the 1960s by groups such as Superstudio, Archizoom, Ant Farm and Coop Himmelblau. Alongside these groups, Haus-Rucker-Co were exploring on the one hand, the potential of architecture as a form of critique, and on the other the possibility of creating designs for technically mediated experimental environments and utopian cities... (read more)
Also view : http://zamp-kelp.de/
Photo credits : Haus-Rucker-Co. (Günther Zamp Kelp, Laurids Ortner, and Klaus Pinter; Austria, 1967–92);
Flyhead Helmet, from the Environment Transformer project, 1968



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Rem Koolhaas
Cancelled / Demolished

(...) Then, a long silence.
Suddenly, a summons. New plans had to be made in three weeks; time was running out; 1989 was getting closer. The previous plans had been too intricate, too expensive, too architectural, as if a whole new city had to be built.

Credits (texts + photos) : OMA / Exposition Universelle, France, Paris, 1989.
Concept. Masterplan for the 1989 World’s Fair.
Cancelled
By OMA© All rights reserved



(...) It is made from re-used 1950s bus shelters collected from around Rotterdam. Inside the building is a ticket hall that encloses the metro exit. This faces a curved ticket information desk. Behind this are administration offices, a refreshments room and changing facilities for the bus company staff.

Credits (texts + photos) : OMA / Bus Terminal, Netherlands, Rotterdam, 1985.
Demolished
By OMA© All rights reserved