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Functional Art

Design and architecture projects that integrate artistic expression with practical utility and spatial function.

53 Projects 47 Journals 4 Publications
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PULSE | Social Seating Structure

Amidst the vast sea of stimuli that surrounds us, Pulse sets a stage for spontaneous social interaction. Each new encounter provides us the opportunity to interpret the world through fresh perspectives, and gain newfound personal clarity.

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BLOOMING

The concept of BLOOMING is to create a magic moment in the busy everyday urban life. With a little bit of collaboration, people can achieve the ultimate special moment that reminds us of the beauty and happiness of exploring the city and the people around us, like unforgettable memories of flowers blooming together at the same time.

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Archipoetry Studio Lets a Hangzhou Factory's Decay Become the Design at Flop Art Space

An 807-square-meter gallery in Binjiang District transforms industrial ruin into a photography and art venue that wears its history openly.

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Schenker Salvi Weber Builds a Children's Art Laboratory That Grows Out of an Austrian Park

In Saint Pölten, a timber and concrete hybrid rises through the trees of Altoona Park as a new kind of cultural institution for children.

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Assembling and Disassembling: The Ruin as Recyclable Architecture

This thesis investigates the ruin as recyclable architecture. By disassembling historic timber warehouses from southern Chile and recoding their components through generative design, it develops an itinerant cultural device capable of reconfiguring itself in different Chilean cultural capitals, transforming heritage into active and adaptable contemporary infrastructure.

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MINOR lab Stitches Three Leftover Spaces into a Community Art Ecosystem in Langfang

A café, gallery, and artist studio carved from residential surplus in a Hebei housing development prove small-scale renewal works.

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Art Room by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen: Innovative Brussels Art Space

Art Room in Brussels by OFFICE KGDV features a minimalist, double-height space with inclined roof, garden integration, natural light, and art-focused design.

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mounika12

Art Gallery as a Public Space

The architectural design I present addresses the concepts of interaction in a public space to achieve dynamism by applying the principles of Kinetic architecture. By means of flexibility and efficiency, this expanded dynamic process can generate direct engagement between the users (artists and public) and the environment that they interact with.

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feiyi

ARCADED MID-AIR

ARCADED MID-AIR encourages people to climb away from everyday life to fragmented leisure time. Isolation between the city and its inhabits exists due to the side effects of fast development. The scaffold arcade installation functions as vertical urban furniture to elevate people?s experience in public, and to re-connect them with the physical environment.

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olaf

BACK TO HUMAN REALITY

The project is based on recalling the trade basics established on a seller - buyer relationship, direct contact with the customer and peoples' contact with the product. The project assumes a return to the medieval concept of the market as a meeting place and a center of social life. Our retail of the future is a retail moving back to human reality.

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Parametric Coal Ceiling_Reparametrize Studio

The final product from Digital Fabrication workshop held by Reparametrize studio working with group of students.The aim behind this algorithms is to generate infinity typology and forms by creating flexible structure system. The ceiling has been designed and subsequently structurally analyzed using grasshopper and Karamba software.

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Editor's ChoiceEditor's ChoiceHaptic

Patchwork

While walking on the street, the masses reaching towards the horizon consist of massive silhouette and color. It starts to show its surfaces as it gets closer. As we get closer and closer, it takes us in and begins to show its color and details. We touch, feel, and it is now fragmented. Patchwork discusses the distance between us and the material and its

MiguelHernández, Esther López, Jule Potter
Juror

This project has a very interesting urban integration. We appreciate the idea of depressing the ground floor and generating a new open urban space and the way of approach to the materials in three levels). The descent by stairs to the basement is a great barrier and does not invite the entrance to the museum. Public buildings must be perfectly accessible to people with reduced mobility.

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Taha Canat

masterpiece of the future

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Umut Rasit Altin

Fabulous

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Archilem

Art-ade

Impressionism is the style that formed the basis of this project. In my opinion, many features of this style are very close to architecture. Expression of forms, imbalance and dynamism of composition, richness of colors, play of light and shadow - these are the main bright features that attracted me in this style when creating this project.

Leonid Emdin
Project Owner

Thank you for your judgment!

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Jorge Frias & Irene Zurdo
Juror

Este es un proyecto demasiado "construído". Consideramos que no encaja con el entorno y resulta agresivo para un programa tan abierto como el que se plantea. Vemos un edificio demasiado cerrado y muy costoso.

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FuturArt

FuturArt by Art Garden is the American animation center based in Chicago, USA. It is a multifunctional institute both making and exhibiting character. This renewed space is intended for variety of passionate people such as students, masters, producers, engineers, designers or ordinary visitors who would like to have an amazing futuristic experience.

Dan Wheeler
Juror

Well, a lot here to digest, maybe too much. I appreciate your focus on the digital , and believe the interior experiences could be developed well, via sight, sound, vibration etc. This said I am at a loss of what this place would look like on site, during the day, in broad daylight. As presented, this could be in the bowels of the earth, inside a casino, anywhere. Louis Kahn once claimed that a space cannot be a space, architecture, with out daylight, even a pin-prick... I know you have a good model here to render, please bring it outside, in the sunlight, in the seasons, heighten the contrast between the "real" and the "unreal".

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Editor's ChoiceEditor's ChoiceArt Garden

The Dancing Cubes in the Water

Art Garden in chicago city

Dan Wheeler
Juror

Delightful presentation, a wonderfully illustrated narrative. This takes on the qualities of swan boats, bumper cars, and with it some skepticism on logistics one can't argue that the experience of floating, paddling, docking and redocking would be fun activity. The nature of interiors suggested here is digital, which is limiting, maybe show a variety to illustrate the excitement of exploring.... ( IE one soft and squishy, one thick/scratchy with hay bails etc...). The aspect of boarding at the edge, and traversing, connecting to others, traveling between comes late, could be described in a comic book form. Thanks, memorable.

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Timeout

The Timeout is a 7-feet-high pavilion consisting of abstract components that resemble animals in motion that race into an endless swirling form. Together, they form a mass that is both static and dynamic. The forced dichotomy between the playful and the grotesque brings back childhood memories and surreal dreams.

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Landscape of the senses

The project is to be treated as a reset of the current thinking about architecture and a return to the basic laws of aesthetics and perception of architecture, which gives it an additional title of a work of art. It is also supposed to be a repair of disturbed senses and sensory deprivation as well as communication on the architecture-recipient line.

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