A House for Lebbeus Woods

A HOUSE FOR Lebbeus Woods

reflecting the temporal

Do we protocol our daily life? Things, commonly, reflects actuality, but don’t keep memory of it. So while disaster unfolds, we have no trace of the past.

not just a mirror

The essence of the architect’s creative process based on reflections on events So, Lebbeus drawings represents a remembrance of destructions by itself And Lebbeus spirit’ chamber bears the same fate

...whether counting shells or memorialising casualties.

Ivan Koloskov & Anastasiia Blinova

HOUSE FOR LEBBEUS WOODS

HOUSE FOR LEBBEUS WOODS

HOUSE FOR LEBBEUS WOODS

INHABITING THE VOID

A destroyed building loses its use as a stable structure- however, instead they can exist to signify the violence and chaos of war. Inspired by the process of propping and shoring buildings during deconstruction, a steel lattice ties the building fragments together within a dense network of beams and columns. The fragments are suspended to trace the configuration of the original building. The void between each piece reveals what has been lost. However, the building is not a mere preservation of a structure which has been destroyed in war. Rather, the building explores a way of inhabiting this void left by war. A series of platforms and walkways are suspended within the steel lattice, creating a sequence of spaces which weave through the void and the fragments.

Takuro Shirasaki

RECYCLED HOUSE

Capitalizing on the continual change that is inherent in the urban environment, this project imagines the reuse of discarded materials. Further, it examines the obsolescence of architects (and architecture) due to technological advances. It is a dwelling made of recycled components from demolished homes that is designed and constructed by its occupants. The material may come from sources that range from the remnants of war to salvage discarded from the gentrification process (these are of course related). Citizens would use this material with drawings and construction instructions generated from AI and other tech that facilitates the dissemination of information.

The use of recycled materials in the construction of this house helps to reduce waste and the demand for new resources, making it a sustainable method for increasing access to housing and the density of cities. The elimination of architects and other bureaucracy will make production faster and more efficient, allowing for housing needs to be rapidly solved.

The intent is to deploy this methodology in a manner that will shift and adjust to a changing landscape as much as it will be modified by that changing landscape. The map will be remade as cities and in fact entire nations continue to evolve. The new landscape will be more equitable, accessible, and sustainable.

The Architect and The Mechanic

Lebbeus Woods requests a dwelling for unconventional living from the Architect. The Architect knows he will certainly fail. He will always design in the same way. He is trained to satisfy a fixed nomenclature of spaces: the bedroom, living room, toilet, kitchen, etc. As his predecessors have failed for several millennia, he knows that he too will never be able to break this cycle on his own.

He asks the Mechanic for help. The Mechanic shows him the schematics of a car engine, and there he discovers hidden geometries within the car engine, created by the pure human instinct of the Mechanic. Using the hidden geometries, the Architect has created unconventional spaces. Yet, he still asks himself: “How can people live and work in these slopes and curves?”

Mok Ze Chun

HOMO LUDENS

Stage 01 – Homo Sapiens

The House serves as a prototype for Woods to learn to make use of the unconventional geometries. The survival instincts of the Homo Sapiens help him to make sense of a typical daily life within his new dwelling. However, he finds himself unable to reinvent his way of living.

Stage 02 – Homo Deus

Woods requests a new dwelling from the Architect. Referencing Woods own work, the Protestor is built entirely from the rubble of destroyed Ukrainian buildings and serves as an inspiration for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Beyond basic living, Woods continues his search for a new purpose, perhaps a new hobby within the dwelling. Now a Homo Deus, he becomes a message of hope for the people of Ukraine, that although their past lives are gone, a new future awaits.

Stage 03 – Homo Liber

The Mediator is a tube inserted through a wall. It becomes an in between space, an extension of freedom. Woods becomes a man who can travel freely through the West Bank Barrier, a Homo Liber. He starts a coalition between the children of Israel and Palestine. He is surprised to see the capabilities of the children to play within his small dwelling.

Stage 04 – Homo Ludens

“From the moment we enter this world, we instinctively invent ways to have fun, and share our inventions with those around us. We are not asked to do this, nor do we need reasons to create. It is simply who we are. We are Homo Ludens. We are those who play.” - Kojima Productions.

Mok Ze Chun

Woods reminisces his childhood; he was once a Homo Ludens. There was a time where he could make any space his playscape. Woods requests one final dwelling from The Architect. However, he does not give this dwelling a purpose. It is a free-floating structure with no fixed orientation and location. Observers claim that the activities done by Woods in his travelling dwelling are simply undefined. Only Woods knows the purpose of the spaces and understands the activities he performs.

Mok Ze Chun

HOUSE FOR LEBBEUS WOODS

A House on the 13th Floor

Lebbeus woods once lived in an apartment on the 13th floor. Within this Manhattan apartment he lived, drew, and wrote, reflecting upon what he observed through his singular view of Manhattan. “A House on the 13th Floor” re-enacts these fruitful conditions that fueled Lebbeus’ creativity for eight years. Now with a view of Kharkiv, Lebbeus Woods can pursue his top secret research and development with the site of his proposal within sight.

Existing in limbo between the current reality and the future revived one, the house on the 13th floor acts as a cast, immobilizing the present condition of a bombed out apartment so healing may begin.

A House for Lebbeus Woods in Ukraine, ICARCH, 2022

“A House on the 13th Floor”

Connery Friesen

Connery Friesen

New World

My submission, “New World” was largely inspired by a quote from L. Woods which states, “Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.” “New World” is a result of seeking what Lebbeus Woods sought and conceptualizing many of his ideas. This project explores new scientific rules and ways of being human at beyond a global scale.

In this concept, surviving climate change downfalls has brought out the worst and best in humans, resulting in a world war, catastrophic events and scientific, technological and architectural ingenuity that rebuilt a new world. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation was enhanced as gravity in under human control. Geothermal energy, directly from the earth’s core fuels, and is intertwined with, a healed and thriving planet that balances destruction with life. A ring city encircles the earth, in a scientifically expanded troposphere, to support population growth. Architecture extends beyond the sky along with humanity.

Under this scenario, the conventional house no longer exists. Lebbeus would be free to effortlessly travel to many dwellings all over the new world. He would have spent most of his time in the observatory of his penthouse apartment in a white tower above the north pole, contemplating how to again redefine human existence with architecture.

Salinas Javier

THE WAR WITH NATURE

In Azerbaijan a location 50 km away from the Apsheron peninsula is the center of Baku oil a total of 200 km of metal bridges are stretched to connect the various islands which now extend over an area of 70,000 square meters. First geological expeditions began 1948.The first indicator of large hydrocarbon deposits in the subsoil where the rocks that were covered in with dark crude oil. But shortly after the first platform with oil was erected 1949 the battle with the location on the high sea began and in just seven month 100 tons of oil spill per day devastated the platform as it broke.Nature suffered its first defeat and could not stop humans for engaging more in their hunt for territory but as the discoveries of dozen of areas of rich oil where found.

The war with the sea was proclaimed by humans with the erecting of the build base of the city of Neft Daslari. As a sign of war towards nature ships where sinked to obtain a stable platform for the next stages of work. By 1950 in the first two years of the conflict with the high sea a landing for oil tankers was build and one year later already after losing millions of tons of oil before humans where able to ship some of the cargo oil back home on land.

Stefan Felix Ioanesi

The ideological craziness of this project manifests the nature humans developed in the 20th century seeing their ability to export something they believed was essential for social wellbeing. Nature as an opponent had no short time methods of defense it this battle. As new platforms where erected and bridges for connection where build the war seemed to have a clear winner. Also the advancement in underwater mining that the invaders studied and gave the success they celebrated on land harmed the sea. After 12 years of occupation the sea side the strategic importance was recognized and the construction of a city like structure began. Millions of cubic meters of sand and rocks where thrown into the sea to erect artificial land and not only having metallic structures in the middle of the wide Caspian sea. The housing of the workers are replaced by more comfortable buildings, an autonomous power plant was designed , hospitals, ovens, bakeries and even a city park are being built. Shortly after Hotels, cultural centers and recreation centers are erected. The highlight was the creation of first helicopter landing pads and a lemonade factory for the consumption of the growing population of almost 200 people.

Even if humans started this war with the scope to make their own territory on sea there will be no longer a reason for this town to exist as the black gold rush has stopped. The predestination of being a ghost town could have been visible sine it was built in a constant battle with itself. By its creation itself it is an example of a place that needs a preservation or changesets in future.

Stefan Felix Ioanesi

HOUSE FOR LEBBEUS WOODS

“Architecture is war. War is Architecture.” A house is a weapon. A weapon is a house.

LEBBEUS WOODS TOMB

Hey, Joe...

Hey anybody...

Hey ourselves

What is life ?

And how would life be possible without passion ?

Unfortunately it does seem to be possible, for so many people

But we invite you, now, towards PASSION

Nothing else but passion

PASSION, PASSION, PASSION

Let us not forget, for Frank Lloyd Wrong: CREATIVITY = EXUBERANCE

ICARCH