A personal manual for making architecture

A PERSONAL MANUAL FOR MAKING ARCHITECTURE

CONTENTS: MANUAL I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII. XXIV. XXV. XXVI. XXVII. XXVIII. XXIX. XXX. XXXI. XXXII. XXXIII. XXXIV. XXXV. XXXVI. XXXVII. XXXVIII. XXXIX. XL. XLI.

HOUSE

INNER INTEGRAL SPACE TREES AND WINDOWS THE LIMITS OF SPACE REUSE OLD STONES USE EXISTING PRODUCTS HOUSE ON THE STREET

LONG HOUSING BLOCKS UNIBLOCK PUBLIC BUILDINGS SHAPE OF ABSENCE CONCRETE PERSONS NON HYBRID VERTICALITY THE FOLD IN-BETWEEN FOLDING TOPOGRAPHY THE DOME INVISIBLE CATALOGUE OF SELECTED WORKS

EXHIBITION A PERSONAL MANUAL FOR MAKING ARCHITECTURE Gallery MC / MACEDONIAN CENTER of NY 549 West 52nd Street, 8 floor, New York SEPTEMBER 2011 SUPPORTED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA, AS A PART OF THE ANNUAL PROGRAM FOR ACHIEVING THE NATIONAL INTEREST IN CULTURE

A PERSONAL MANUAL FOR MAKING ARCHITECTURE: The architecture of today, as it appears and in the way we experience it, is becoming increasingly complex and more contradictory. Can we still extract logical steps from inside the architectural discourse? Can we reconstruct the project's logic? Things undoubtedly change, and so does architecture, our houses, streets, cities. But if we are unable to recognize them today, or we are unwilling to face them, it doesn't mean that they are not there, that they were cancelled. They are but strongly altered, different from what they used to be, unalike, more unusual. This is the reason why these personal instructions for making architecture are intended to tell the story of our experience with everyday architecture through drawings and words.

LESSONS FOR ARCHITECTURE: Architecture, in addition to the useful, aesthetical and tectonic values, has an empirical value as well. It shows us and teaches us about certain methods, about our behavior in space and our relationship with space, with spiritual and material things, with the environment and with people. It teaches us about everyday reality, in our houses, streets, cities.

The works of architecture in this collection are as seen through their heuristic value, telling us about our ethics in space, our relation to the house/ trees/ people/ monuments/ cities/ villages/ nature: What is a house? How can it be like?

What kind of imprints do social buildings/monuments leave?

How can a house and a tree merge? How can a house be placed? What is the border between the outer and inner space? These and many other questions are all part of this collection. They do not impose, but rather they expose themselves. They do not create an overall model in our behavior toward our surroundings, but they speak about the experiences of a work of architecture, which is frequently contradictory, yet always open.

A HOUSE IS NOT WHAT LOOKS LIKE A HOUSE, BUT WHAT WORKS AS A HOUSE

I

A HOUSE CAN UNFOLD AND CATCH DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD AND DIFFERENT VIEWS

II

A HOUSE CAN BE CUT OFF AND GAIN A DYNAMIC CONTENT BETWEEN THE EXTERIOR AND THE INTERIOR

III

A HOUSE CAN BE POSITIONED SO THAT IT OVERLOOKS THE ENTIRE LANDSCAPE

IV

A HOUSE CAN INTEGRATE INTO THE TERRAIN AND BECOME ONE WITH NATURE: HOUSE=NATURE

V

THE HOUSE IS LIKE A MAN, IT CAN SIT/ STAND/ HOLD BALANCE

VI

THE INTERIOR OF THE HOUSE IS ALWAYS INTEGRAL

VII

THE TREES AND THE HOUSE CAN BE TOGETHER, IF THE HOUSE ALTERS, GETS EXTREME MIN/MAX DIMENSIONS

VIII

WINDOWS ARE NOT MERELY WALL OPENINGS, BUT ALSO OPENINGS TOWARDS THE DIFFERENT WORLDS OF THE ROOMS

IX

THE LIMITS OF SPACE MUST COME OUT OF WHAT IS PHYSICALLY GIVEN TO THEM

X

A WALL IS NOT SIMPLY A LINE, IT IS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE

XI

USE OLD MATERIALS FOR NEW BUILDINGS: OLD STONES FROM VILLAGE HOUSES IN THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH “ST. ILIJA”, GOVRLEVO

XII

“ST. ILIJA” CHURCH, GOVRLEVO

XIII

USE EXISTING PRODUCTS FOR NEW PURPOSES: FROM REINFORCED CONCRETE LAMMPOSTS, TO THE COLONNADE IN VELMEJ VILLAGE

XIV

YARD ILOVSKI FAMILY, VELMEJ:

BY REDISCOVERING THE ARCHETYPES FROM THE VERNACULAR, THE YARD BECOMES AN ATRIUM, AND THE VILLAGE BECOMES A “PALACE”

XV

PLACE A ROOM IN THE HOUSE THAT OVERLOOKS THE STREET AND THE INNER YARD

XVI

A HOUSE ON THE STREET

XVII

USE LONG HOUSING BLOCKS TO CREATE IN BETWEEN SPACES

XVIII

GREAT GREEN OASIS

XIX

APARTMENTS MAY BE MINIMAL, BUT SPACIOUS TOO

XX

ALLOW SPONTANEOUS PROCESSES IN THE BUILDINGS: PLANED / UNPLANNED

XXI

INBETWEEN SPACES

XXII

HOUSING BLOCK, IN FRAGMENTED PLACES MAKE INTEGRATED LIVING SPACES

XXIII

BUILDINGS ARE NOT PACKAGES THAT ARE FILLED WITH CONTENTS

XXIV

A BUILDING WEARS THE DRAMA OF THE CITY, SHAPE OF ABSENCE, LIKE EXTRACTIONS OF THE VOID FROM THE SOLID

XXV

MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST ARCHEOLOGY OF ABSENCE

XXVI

A BUILDING DOES NOT CONTAIN PERSONS BUT IT IS MADE OF PERSONS: “HISTORY IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS THE CONCRETE PERSONS WHO MADE IT”

XXVII

ARCHITECTURE IS FOR MAN, BUT A NON-MERGED BLEND OF MAN AND PILLAR IS POSSIBLE (ST. SIMEON STYLITES)

XXVIII

MUSEUM OF THE MACEDONIAN STRUGGLE: FIELD AND CORES

XXIX

A COMPLEX BUILDING IS NOT ALWAYS A HYBRID. THE THEATER MUST REMAIN A THEATER EVEN THROUGHOUT THE COMPLEX PROGRAM STRUCTURE

XXX

THEATER

XXXI

PRODUCE VERTICALITY

XXXII

SELF SIMILAR GEOMETRY OF THE CHURCH

XXXIII

THE PUBLIC SPACE AND THE BUILDINGS ARE NOT NECESSARILY CONTRADICTORY. THEY MAY FOLD IN A BUILDING / SQUARE CONTINUUM

XXXIV

FOLD: MACEDONIAN SQUARE

XXXV

AN ORDINARILY PROFILE NOT NECESSARILY SPLITS ORDINARILY

XXXVI

MACEDONIANITALIAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER: CREATE LANDSCAPES IN THE BUILDING

XXXVII

FOLDING TOPOGRAPHY, DANCING TOPOGRAPHY

XXXVIII

CONGRESS CENTER ST. JOVAN KUKUZEL, OHRID PUBLIC BUILDING SHOULD BE A PUBLIC SPACE

XXXIX

A BRIDGE MAY CONSIST OF ARCS, BUT IT ALSO MAY BE A PRESTRESSED BAND, OVER THE ENTIRE SPAN

XL

PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

XLI

CATALOGUE OF SELECTED WORKS:

HOUSE 365째, SKOPJE 2007 A HOUSE THAT UNFOLDS AND OVERLOOKS THE CITY

SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE, POROJ 2011 A HOUSE WITH CUT - OUTED INNER ATRIUM

MEMORIAL HOUSE OF MOTHER TERESA, SKOPJE 2007 A HOUSE THAT MAKES A STEP BACKWARDS AND ALLOWS TREES TO BECOME A PART OF HER

ORTODOX CHURCH ST. ILIJA, GOVRLEVO 2008 - 2011 THE CHURCH IS MADE FROM THE STONES OF THE OLD HOUSES

COURTYARD VELMEJ 2010 - 2011 A VILLAGE YARD WITH INSCRIBED WATER CIRCLE AND FRAMED WITH READY MADE COLONNADE

HOUSING FOR THE MACEDONIAN ARMY, SKOPJE 2010 LONG HOUSING BLOCK THAT CREATES IN-BETWEEN SPACES, VIBRATING FIELD OF GREEN OASIS

SOCIAL HOUSING, SKOPJE 2009 INTEGRAL HOUSING BLOCK IN FRAGMENTED HOUSING AREA

MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF HOLOCAUST, SKOPJE 2008 MUSEUM WITH INNER VOID CUT - OUTED FROM THE SOLID. ARCHEOLOGY OF ABSENCE

MUSEUM OF MACEDONIAN FIGHT, SKOPJE 2007 MUSEUM ASSEMBLED FROM VERTICAL CORES DEDICATED TO CONCRETE PERSONS OF MACEDONIAN HISTORY

MACEDONIAN NATIONAL THEATER, SKOPJE 2007 THE THEATER PENETRATES THROUGH THE BODY AND FRAGMENTS ITS HYBRID PROGRAM

ORTHODOX CHURCH, SKOPJE 2008 INTEGRAL VERTICAL SPACE FROM WHIRLING OCTAGONS

COMMERCIAL CENTER MACEDONIA SQUARE, SKOPJE 1999 - 2007 BUILDING WHICH FOLDS AND CREATES CONTINUOS PUBLIC SPACE

MACEDONIANITALIAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER, SKOPJE 2007-2008

PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE ON THE RIVER VARDAR, SKOPJE 2011 INVISIBLE BRIDGE MADE FROM A PRESTRESSED BAND. LENGTH 100m THICKNESS 30cm

STOBI VINERY, GRADSKO 2008 - 2010 A BUILDING FOLDED IN TOPOGRAPHY

CIP - Каталогизација во публикација Национална и универзитетска библиотека "Св. Климент Охридски", Скопје 72.01(06.064) #A #PERSONAL manual for making architecture / [Minas Bakalčev ... [и др.] ; prevod Taše Strezovski]. - Skopje : M. Bakalčev, 2011. 144 стр. : илустр. ; 15 см Превод на делото: Личен прирачник за архитектура ISBN 978-9989-57-775-8 1. Bakalčev, Minas [автор] а) Архитектура - Каталози од изложби COBISS.MK-ID 89216778

METAMAK ARCHITECTURE COLLECTIVE MBMHP = MINAS BAKALČEV + MITKO HADZI - PULJA VIOLETA BAKALČEV SAŠA TASIĆ ALEKSANDAR RADEVSKI VIKTORIJA STAVRIĆ NIKOLA STREZOVSKI BETIM ZEQIRI BESIAN MEHMETI MIHAJLO ZINOSKI DIMITAR PAPASTEREVSKI DAMJAN MOMIROVSKI