• Login / Join
  • About
  • •
  • Contact
  • •
  • Advertising
bustler logo
bustler logo
  • News
  • Competitions
  • Events
  • Bustler is powered by Archinect
  • Sign up for Bustler's Email Newsletters

  • Follow these Bustler feeds:

  • Search

    Search in

  • Submit

    What are you submitting?

    News Pitch
    Competition
    Event
  • Login / Join
  • News|Competitions|Events
  • Search
    | Submit
    | Follow
  • Search in

    What are you submitting?

    News Pitch
    Competition
    Event

    Follow these Bustler feeds:

  • About|Contact|Advertising
  • Login / Join
Tagged: urban

MODU's Outdoor Room installation highlights air quality crisis in Beijing

By Bustler Editors|

Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013

Outdoor Room by MODU. Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

MODU's competition-winning Outdoor Room creates a visual experience while raising awareness on Beijing's persistent air-quality issues. 

Recently installed in Beijing's Olympic Park for the 5th China International Architecture Biennial, the 5,000 sq.ft pavilion functions as urban public space and a barometer for Beijing's air quality levels — which are documented as much as the daily weather report.

Outdoor Room is currently at Beijing's Olympic Park through November 2013 before installation in six different cities.

Although MODU was recently re-established, its principals Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem have won previous competitions like the 2010 Art Basel Miami Beach competition.

Here are some photos MODU sent us.

Project details:

"Along with the weather report, daily readings of air particulate contaminant have become part of everyday urban life in Beijing. On most days, pollution creates a dense fog that transforms the city with an unsettling palette of colors—from dull grey to off-white and yellow-beige. On the occasional day of better air quality, urban forms suddenly materialize “out of the fog.” The concept of a city that disappears and reappears is central to the public experience of Outdoor Room."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"Inside the pavilion, a large elliptical roof opening provides a visual measure of the air quality. On days of good visibility, the roof void frames clear views of the Olympic Observation Tower and beyond to the National Stadium. On days of poor air quality, the landmarks virtually disappear from sight."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"The design of Outdoor Room precipitated the concept of the 'room in the city' and its converse, the 'city in the room.' Viewed from the Olympic Park, the “room in the city” does not attempt to recreate the urban boundaries that separate polluted outdoor air from conditioned and filtered indoor air throughout Beijing."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"From within the public space, the openings between the fabric panels frame a 'city in the room.' This 'city in the room' offers changing views of the Olympic Park and the air that surrounds it."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser
Photo: Matthew Niederhauser
Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"The glossy translucent fabric panels both reflect and transmit the color hue of the polluted air enveloping the city—from blue to grey to yellow."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"The torque geometry of the fabric panels reflects the colors differently, especially when viewed from different vantage points within Outdoor Room. All of the fabric panels were recycled from nearby exposition tent structures in the Olympic Park, highlighting existing environmental opportunities even in Beijing."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

All images courtesy of MODU.

Browse the thumbnails below to see diagrams and drawings.

Related

urban ● public space ● pavilion ● modu ● installation ● china ● beijing ● asia ● air pollution ● urban issues

Share

  • Follow

    0 Comments

  • Comment as :

MODU's Outdoor Room installation highlights air quality crisis in Beijing

Providence, RI Takes Grand Prize at Mayors Challenge

eVolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition Winners

Finalists Announced for Breathe, The New Urban Village Project in New Zealand

Copenhagen's Superkilen Urban Park by BIG + Topotek1 + Superflex

ONE PRIZE 2012: FROM BLIGHT TO MIGHT - Winners Announced

Moscow Expansion Competition - Winning Entry by CCPG

Winners of URBAN ANIMAL: 2012 Animal Architecture Awards

U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale Announces Participating Projects

Sign up for Bustler's Email Newsletters

IluminAction by UrbanoActivo Selected for Venice Architecture Biennale

FLIP/CITY SHANGHAI by PinkCloud.dk

European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012 Announces Joint Winners

eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition Winners

TED Prize Wish Revealed: The City 2.0

BudCud Takes Honorable Mention for EUROPAN 11 Leeuwarden, NL

Next page » Loading

MODU's Outdoor Room installation highlights air quality crisis in Beijing

By Bustler Editors|

Wednesday, Nov 27, 2013

Share

Outdoor Room by MODU. Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

Related

urban ● public space ● pavilion ● modu ● installation ● china ● beijing ● asia ● air pollution ● urban issues

MODU's competition-winning Outdoor Room creates a visual experience while raising awareness on Beijing's persistent air-quality issues. 

Recently installed in Beijing's Olympic Park for the 5th China International Architecture Biennial, the 5,000 sq.ft pavilion functions as urban public space and a barometer for Beijing's air quality levels — which are documented as much as the daily weather report.

Outdoor Room is currently at Beijing's Olympic Park through November 2013 before installation in six different cities.

Although MODU was recently re-established, its principals Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem have won previous competitions like the 2010 Art Basel Miami Beach competition.

Here are some photos MODU sent us.

Project details:

"Along with the weather report, daily readings of air particulate contaminant have become part of everyday urban life in Beijing. On most days, pollution creates a dense fog that transforms the city with an unsettling palette of colors—from dull grey to off-white and yellow-beige. On the occasional day of better air quality, urban forms suddenly materialize “out of the fog.” The concept of a city that disappears and reappears is central to the public experience of Outdoor Room."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"Inside the pavilion, a large elliptical roof opening provides a visual measure of the air quality. On days of good visibility, the roof void frames clear views of the Olympic Observation Tower and beyond to the National Stadium. On days of poor air quality, the landmarks virtually disappear from sight."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"The design of Outdoor Room precipitated the concept of the 'room in the city' and its converse, the 'city in the room.' Viewed from the Olympic Park, the “room in the city” does not attempt to recreate the urban boundaries that separate polluted outdoor air from conditioned and filtered indoor air throughout Beijing."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"From within the public space, the openings between the fabric panels frame a 'city in the room.' This 'city in the room' offers changing views of the Olympic Park and the air that surrounds it."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser
Photo: Matthew Niederhauser
Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"The glossy translucent fabric panels both reflect and transmit the color hue of the polluted air enveloping the city—from blue to grey to yellow."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

"The torque geometry of the fabric panels reflects the colors differently, especially when viewed from different vantage points within Outdoor Room. All of the fabric panels were recycled from nearby exposition tent structures in the Olympic Park, highlighting existing environmental opportunities even in Beijing."

Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

All images courtesy of MODU.

Browse the thumbnails below to see diagrams and drawings.

Share

  • Follow

    0 Comments

  • Comment as :

Archinect JobsArchinect Jobs

The Archinect Job Board attracts the world's top architectural design talents.

VIEW ALL JOBS POST A JOB

Marketing Assistant | Office Manager

Steven Holl Architects

Marketing Assistant | Office Manager

New York, NY, US

Project Architect

Bright Architecture

Project Architect

Brooklyn, NY, US

Lecturer/senior lecturer in interior design

Norwich University of the Arts

Lecturer/senior lecturer in interior design

Norwich, GB

Job Captain

BAMO

Job Captain

San Francisco, CA, US

Residential Project Manager/Designer

Neal Beckstedt Studio

Residential Project Manager/Designer

New York, NY, US

Lead Architect

AAA Storage

Lead Architect

Project Architect

AUX Architecture

Project Architect

Los Angeles, CA, US

Project Architect / Designer - Sports and Entertainment Studio

EwingCole

Project Architect / Designer - Sports and Entertainment Studio

Philadelphia, PA, US

Corporate Marketing Director

NAC Architecture

Corporate Marketing Director

Los Angeles, CA, US

Intermediate Designer/ Architect

Totum

Intermediate Designer/ Architect

Los Angeles, CA, US

Next page » Loading