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2010-05-28T11:15:00.008+02:00

co2morrow - Royal Academy of Arts London
Earth: Art of Changing World

Team:Alessandro MarianantoniMarcos LutyensRoberto Castellani and Lucia Barna begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting Architects at SS67 ArchitettiFrancesco Chiesi Structural EngineerRiccardo Bagagli Composite EngineerMarco Piana Energy Engineer at Ghigos EnergyDaniela Pangallo Project Manager at Ghigos Energy

Between art and technology, the green project CO2morrow gathers and visualizes greenhouse gases data on a nine-meter tall interactive sculpture. The sculpture will be exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Co2morrow is a green project on climate change awareness. It consists of two phases: the first one gathers greenhouse gases data through four sensor towers located for this initiative in the United Kingdom. The second one visualizes the greenhouse gases data on an interactive sculpture, made of carbon fiber, aluminium, LEDs, and structurally inspired by the scrubber molecule, which is appointed to catch carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air. The piece will be placed at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, from December 1st to January 31, at the event Earth: Art of a Changing World. Afterwards it will be shown at various National Trust properties as in an ongoing exhibition. At the end of the sculpture's life cycle, Karborek, a world leader in the composite recycling process, based in Martignano, Puglia, Italy, will redesign and recycle the materials and have them reused in a new piece. The data gathered will be used by the climate scientist Andrew Manning from University of East Anglia, UK, to research on greenhouse gases effects. CO2morrow was commissioned by the National Trust and sponsored by Siemens that provided the sensor towers and the lighting. Simon Jenner, owner of Full Bar Composite, leader in carbon fiber structures, has donated the fabrication of the sculpture.

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2010-05-28T10:59:00.003+02:00

Re.Mi. - Rimini Italy

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Natural History Museum

2010-05-28T10:57:00.005+02:00

Natural History Museum - Siena Italy

Accademia dei Fisiocritici

The History

The Accademia of  Fiosiocritici -  Museum of Natural History - was founded in 1691 by the  scholar Pirro  Maria Gabbrielli,from Siena, with the aim of spreading  scientific  culture.

The  Museum
Today the Accademia of the Fisiocritici extends to three   floors, two of them face a yard with a well from the XVI century. The   Accademia owns , on the ground floor, a Reception Room able to welcome   150 people and built in mid nineteenth century in the neoclassical   taste; on the first floor, there is a Room dedicated to Paolo Mascagni, a   scientist from Siena, popular throughout Europe for his studies on   anatomy at the end of the XVIII century, and the Library, that contains   more than 6.000 volumes, most of them on natural sciences from the XVII   century to the XIX.

The  Project

When, in  1996, the Museum became part of the Musei Senesi, a  large amount of  renovation was required. The architect Adriano Perra  first, and then  the architect Roberto Castellani renewed the expositive  areas,  developed and renovated the Museum and the Accademia of  Fisiocratici to  make it suitable for didactic and cultural purposes. The  project was  divided into two stages: at the first stage it built a  vertical  connection to make the structure accessible to the disabled and  a  Didactic Centre, polyfunctional and interactive. Then, at a second   stage, it built a new library and covered the yard with a glass roof to   make it suitable for exhibits.

The entire basement, whose space is undervalued and used as a   warehouse, has  been renovated and directly connected to the main   entrance of the Accademia, adding, in this way, another level to the   museum.

During  the  renovation work, in the basement, ancient caves, excavated from  the  tuff, were discovered and connected to the old warehouse. The  result was  a strong sequence of  heterogeneous spaces, characterized by  the  striking differences of the various levels, but, at the same time,   linked through a fluid track that emphasizes the complexity of space   organization of the museum.

The  latest  works are the restoration and the widening of the expositive  rooms  dedicated to the scholar and scientist Paolo Mascagni. The space  in the  room is freed by the old superfetations giving a new value to  the  trusses, almost dematerializing the heavy cover of the room. The  project  of the new spaces thoroughly illustrates  the ability of an  ancient  building  to accept new uses. The goal is to create a unitary  system,  easy to understand but, at the same time, well-constructed and   narrative. The space is continuous, with no interruptions: the   architectural elements introduced, necessary for the reuse of the   building, are considered like objects inserted into the historical   building, they do not damage the old structure, do not interfere either   with the building systems or with the already exisiting material.

2010-05-26T09:12:00.021+02:00

Installation of co2morrow
Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland, UK

Team
 Marcos Lutyens
Alessandro Marianantoni
Roberto Castellani and Lucia Barna Architects at SS67 Architetti
  Francesco Chiesi Structural Engineer
  Riccardo Bagagli Composite Engineer
  Marco Piana and Daniela Pangallo at Ghigos Energy
  Heather Poon Additional Design
  Rae Solomon Additional Design
       
CO2morrow was recently shown at the Royal Academy of Arts, London  at the exhibit: 'eARTh: Art of a changing world' and is now going to be  on show at Seaton Delaval Hall.
  This singular property is a Grade I listed country house located near  Blyth. it was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1718 for Admiral George  Delaval.
 
Interactivity  In terms of CO2morrow's relationship to the idea of Interactive  Architecture, all too often one thinks about immediate feedback loops  based on gesture and technology as well systems that respond directly to  local conditions such as sun/shade, etc.
  Although CO2morrow does involve a relatively down-to-earth method of  using data and feeding them into a visual array to promote awareness of  'Climate Change' CO2 levels in the atmosphere, the real interactivity  happens on a bigger feedback loop:
  what I would call 'Extra-active Architecture'.
   These kinds of feedback loops are altogether longer and larger than say a  sensor which changes the shutters on the outside of a building. The  feedback loops in CO2morrow's case are to do with man's effects on  weather and how these come to impact architecture in the longer term.  Our project was inspired by Sarah Staniforth's research on the impact of  Climate Change on National Trust properties, and reflecting this  concern, the NT sponsored our project.
   This kind of 'extra-active' architecture is something that needs to be  considered increasingly, as we discover that that the projects we embark  on have a myriad of different longer term feedback loops and effects.
   From a conceptual point of view, we can imagine a time-line upon which  we can chart the different types of interactivity, ranging from the  immediacy of a glass door sliding open when someone approaches, to the  medium term programming of Seasonal Adjustments in heating or plant  watering cycles in a building development, to the longer term loops of,  say, human-made pollution to climate change to its impact on buildings.
   In short, Interactive Architecture is a kind of anticipation of dynamic  behaviours revolving around built structures, and in CO2morrow's case we  are encouraging the perspective of interactive design to be raised to  include longer time spans and powerful feedback loops that sometimes lie  almost beyond our capacity to control or corral them.

ML May 2010

Sponsors
PRESENTING SPONSOR: National Trust
Tom Freshwater, Contemporary Arts Programme Manager
Catherine Atkinson, Property Manager, Seaton Delaval Hall

TECHNICAL SPONSOR: Siemens & Traxon Technologies

COMPOSITE SPONSOR: Full Bar Composite

CO2 and Climate Scientist
Andrew Manning NERC Advanced Research Fellow
Lena Kozlova PhD Student

co2morrow is also supported by:
London Metropolitan Works
Karborek S.p.A.