Edcouch-Elsa ISD Fine Arts Center / Kell Muoz Architects

21 Feb 2011 By Andrew Rosenberg Filed under: Cultural ,Selected , Edcouch, Kell Muoz Architects, Texas, USA Bookmark Add this to My Bookmarks: +

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 Chris Cooper Photography Architects: Kell Muoz Architects Location: Edcouch, Texas, USA Conceptual design: Henry R. Muoz III Project architect: Ronald J. Biediger, AIA Project designer: John H. Kell, FAIA MEP engineer: Goetting & Associates Structural engineer: Hinojosa Engineering General contractor: Jamail Construction Civil engineer: Noe Garza Engineers Project area: 31,000 sq. ft. Project year: 2007 Photographs: Chris Cooper Photography

 Chris Cooper Photography This building evolved from significant public conversations with students, parents, teachers and community activists, working with historians, curators, folklorists, artists and architects to envision a community gathering place. As the first important civic building funded in over thirty years, the fine arts center needed to convey the communitys cultural heritage, hopes and aspirations.

 Chris Cooper Photography The site was built up and the building placed at the crest, so that it could be seen from all directions at a distance. It is a building of its time, declaring a kind of border modernism that is influenced by the regional vernacular of simple auto shops and garages of the Rio Grande Valley as well as an international modernism that is associated with Mexico.

floor plan It tells a storyof La Maquina Amarilla (The Yellow Machine) a rallying cry that defines the spirit of the people of this area. La Maquina Amarilla is recorded as a *Corrido or Border Folk Song that is a part of the oral history of the city. The sound patterns of La Maquina Amarilla have been interpreted as a mural which wraps the building, creating an icon of cultural voice through which every visitor must enter.

Taipei Performing Arts Center proposal by Francois Blanciak Architect

28 Apr 2009 By Sebastian J Filed under: Cultural , Francois Blanciak, Taipei Bookmark Add this to My Bookmarks: +

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Earlier this year, we featured the Taipei Performing Arts Center proposal of Morphosis, NL Architects, and Abalos+Sentkiewicz, in a competition that was finally won by OMA. Today, we show you Francois Blanciak Architects proposal. As a cultural reference to a taiwanese aboriginal construction technique using slabstone heaps, the project similarly piles up 4 slabstones (3 containing theaters, 1containing administrative spaces) in a cairn-like structure. In order to emphasize the public nature of the building, it is elevated on top of a wide upper plaza, upon a plinth that liberates the movement of pedestrians on the ground level. Seen at designboom. More images after the break.

Cite: Jordana , Sebastian . "Taipei Performing Arts Center proposal by Francois Blanciak Architect" 28 Apr 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed 15 Sep 2011. <http://www.archdaily.com/20783>

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