I LIKE EVERYTHNG ALL THE TIME
I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
— Charles Bukowski (via mishproductions)
(Source: quotemadness.com)
Welcome to the 5th Facade Olson Kundig
The biggest change to my old neighborhood occurred where the buildings met the sky. The instructions on my headset led me up the main stairway to an entirely new urban layer.
“Welcome to the Fifth Façade. This is where you will live and work.”
During the decades that I slept, the rooftops of Seattle had changed. The grey waterproofing membranes, HVAC equipment, elevator machine rooms, long-empty water towers, and miles of ductwork were replaced with a vast pastoral landscape. Rolling green hills, public parks and swimming pools, pastures with livestock, and vegetable farms were joined by enormous water collectors, solar arrays, and wind energy turbines. Bridges, like connective tendons, unified the separate buildings into a continuous landscape. I could wander anywhere, and I did.
Blank Spaces’ Fairy Tales First Prize goes to Olson Kundig – Alan Maskin, Jerome Tryon, Kevin Scott, Gabriela Frank & Katie Miller, the Seattle-based firm founded in 1966 and winner of the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award for their story titled “Welcome to the 5th Facade”. The team, led by Principal Alan Maskin, crafted a beautifully rendered story that launches us headlong into the future – a future that is similar enough to our own, yet ripe with new challenges, opportunities, and issues. “Our Fairy Tales 2016 submittal became a tangential detour from Olson Kundig’s ongoing investigation into urban rooftops, the largely neglected uppermost layer of cities. The idea of applying a narrative filter – to both built and conceptual projects – became another way to look at and critique design ideas. “Welcome To The 5th Facade” used science fiction as it is traditionally used – as a modality to visualize and imagine a particular future in terms of both the pitfalls and the potential.” ~ Alan Maskin, Principal at Olson Kundig
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