the Nomadic Museum, Ban Shigeru
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Green Green Episode 8 Uncensored
Gregory Colbert, photographer.
was late 2003 when Shigeru Ban, the Japanese architect known for its construction with cardboard tubes, was commissioned incredible: to imagine a mobile museum.
The museum had to travel around the world to images show that the Canadian photographer Gregory Colbert has taken over thirty-three expeditions to unusual places in the world. L as pictures meet the criteria to find those original relationships between animals and people that modern man has lost.
precisely the same notion of traveling with the camera was that Colbert wanted for his museum. The construction would have to move, would have to travel around the world p rovocar between us s visitors with a strong commitment to the environment.
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During the past thirteen years Gregory Colbert has traveled with his camera to exotic places in India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, Namibia, Tonga, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, the Azores Islands and Antarctica, to explore the primary interaction between humans and animals. Significantly, the photographs capture the animals in broad daylight, and none have been tampered with or superimposed later. This has been a patient, as Colbert explains: "I'm interested in exploring wonder integrated as mporal is , so there is no urgency. Five years, ten, fifteen, would not have been done differently, because what was done was completely timeless. "It continues:" We would have expected for months. With the whales were working for six weeks without shooting a single frame. There are days of miracles, and there are days when you just think of them. But the forces. Decided elephants, whales decided. "
More than one hundred photographs of large format, 180x270 cm, printed on Japanese paper that has been colored with pigment ments plants following craftsmanship of over three hundred d dren and old. Were shown for the first time in the Arsenal of Venice in the summer of 2002 under the title "Ashes and Snow." The exhibition was excellent and was organized over a whole yard of the fifteenth century, belonging to the Italian Navy, which is more than a mile long. The public response was amazing. The images were viewed by over a hundred thousand people and the collection was purchased in s entirely by the Company or Rolex, which still acts as a major sponsor of Colbert.
When to enumerate the list of needs is for the new museum that would house his collection, Gregory Colbert called for a space he could organize freely, also can send, ju nt their images, to places as remote as Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, during the migration of animals, or installed in the Bering Sea when it freezes. This meant e qu whole building had to be recyclers lable and easy to assemble and disassemble.
The Nomadic Museum
His experience with mobile architectures and recyclable building components was a decisive factor for Shigeru Ban been commissioned to develop this new concept of museum.
Ban became interested in the freight container as a potential building material had already intrinsic nature or the idea of \u200b\u200bthe trip: "While traveling around the world each container has its own history" . The containers, also incorporating also other qualities such as ease of assembly and stacking could transp ortar the m useum full and change available in each location.
The architect estimated would need one hundred fifty-two containers to create a structure that would close 4,180 m2 occupied the Nomadic Museum. Since exposure required only packed the eight containers that travel to complete the structure of the museum would borrow other containers in each new location. would, therefore, essential that the architectural drawings of architect Nasen accompanied the exhibition at all times, although the terminal building could alter slightly depending on the available s different conditions.
containers are stacked along a picture of a checkerboard and create a front of 10'2 feet, and to keep the wind that blows between the grid container, closed the openings with a cloth membrane so inclined.
As for the interior, along with his interest in the use of recyclable materials with which it is easy to build and also obtain in each place, Shigeru Ban has designed its roof and the columns that support with cardboard tubes. Pa ra water protection and comply with fire regulations, the pipe, in addition to being sealed, include a waterproof covering internal and external. The framework deck is constructed with pipes of 30 cm in diameter resting on the container and enta countries and four columns of tubes of 60 cm in diameter.
Visitors enter and n the gloom of the museum's exhibition space by a curtain across twelve meters long and is made with a million bags pa pel area from Sri Lanka. Then a magnificent view is to ber in front of them: a long walk into a screening room runs between the collection of photographs Colbert. The simple design of the gable roof reinforces the perspective effect and dramatizes the space where the pictures stop central float between the columns to be hung with fine wires. It is as if they came into a sanctuary where no words or text, just pictures: a peaceful man and animal scenes that make us think.
Colbert's works are authentic testimonies that show that our primordial sentiments with animals have not completely lost. In a world of industrial excess, animals should not be defined simply by their degree of domestication or aggression. They also embody an unforgettable peace. Colbert's photographs have a relationship of respect and quiet where no one dominates the other, a gesture that the Nomadic Museum helps you install between people wherever they are seated, all in an atmosphere of solemnity created with recycled building materials.
Photo: © Ashes and Snow
Captions:
a. Shigeru Ban (b. 1957), architect.
b. The Nomadic Museum exhibition shows the extraordinary Colbert, "Ashes and Snow", a title that suggests beauty and renewal, and where nothing is manipulated digitally. C.
Man and animal in complete peace.
d. The Nomadic Museum is to travel with their planes around the world.
e. The roof structure intensifies the effect of perspective and creates a feeling of entering a shrine with scenes that remind us of the fundamental relationship between those who inhabit the Earth.
f. recyclable materials incorporated Nomadic Museum in nature for the purposes of travel and memory. (© Michael Moran)
g. The first provision of the Nomadic Museum was held in the spring of 2005, in New York in the historic pier number 54 of the Hudson River, where they landed the survivors of the Titanic. His next stop was Los Angeles, then traveled throughout Europe and Asia. (© Michael Moran)
precisely the same notion of traveling with the camera was that Colbert wanted for his museum. The construction would have to move, would have to travel around the world p rovocar between us s visitors with a strong commitment to the environment.
Ce
niz to s Snow
During the past thirteen years Gregory Colbert has traveled with his camera to exotic places in India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, Namibia, Tonga, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, the Azores Islands and Antarctica, to explore the primary interaction between humans and animals. Significantly, the photographs capture the animals in broad daylight, and none have been tampered with or superimposed later. This has been a patient, as Colbert explains: "I'm interested in exploring wonder integrated as mporal is , so there is no urgency. Five years, ten, fifteen, would not have been done differently, because what was done was completely timeless. "It continues:" We would have expected for months. With the whales were working for six weeks without shooting a single frame. There are days of miracles, and there are days when you just think of them. But the forces. Decided elephants, whales decided. "
More than one hundred photographs of large format, 180x270 cm, printed on Japanese paper that has been colored with pigment ments plants following craftsmanship of over three hundred d dren and old. Were shown for the first time in the Arsenal of Venice in the summer of 2002 under the title "Ashes and Snow." The exhibition was excellent and was organized over a whole yard of the fifteenth century, belonging to the Italian Navy, which is more than a mile long. The public response was amazing. The images were viewed by over a hundred thousand people and the collection was purchased in s entirely by the Company or Rolex, which still acts as a major sponsor of Colbert.
When to enumerate the list of needs is for the new museum that would house his collection, Gregory Colbert called for a space he could organize freely, also can send, ju nt their images, to places as remote as Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, during the migration of animals, or installed in the Bering Sea when it freezes. This meant e qu whole building had to be recyclers lable and easy to assemble and disassemble.
The Nomadic Museum
His experience with mobile architectures and recyclable building components was a decisive factor for Shigeru Ban been commissioned to develop this new concept of museum.
Ban became interested in the freight container as a potential building material had already intrinsic nature or the idea of \u200b\u200bthe trip: "While traveling around the world each container has its own history" . The containers, also incorporating also other qualities such as ease of assembly and stacking could transp ortar the m useum full and change available in each location.
The architect estimated would need one hundred fifty-two containers to create a structure that would close 4,180 m2 occupied the Nomadic Museum. Since exposure required only packed the eight containers that travel to complete the structure of the museum would borrow other containers in each new location. would, therefore, essential that the architectural drawings of architect Nasen accompanied the exhibition at all times, although the terminal building could alter slightly depending on the available s different conditions.
containers are stacked along a picture of a checkerboard and create a front of 10'2 feet, and to keep the wind that blows between the grid container, closed the openings with a cloth membrane so inclined.
As for the interior, along with his interest in the use of recyclable materials with which it is easy to build and also obtain in each place, Shigeru Ban has designed its roof and the columns that support with cardboard tubes. Pa ra water protection and comply with fire regulations, the pipe, in addition to being sealed, include a waterproof covering internal and external. The framework deck is constructed with pipes of 30 cm in diameter resting on the container and enta countries and four columns of tubes of 60 cm in diameter.
Visitors enter and n the gloom of the museum's exhibition space by a curtain across twelve meters long and is made with a million bags pa pel area from Sri Lanka. Then a magnificent view is to ber in front of them: a long walk into a screening room runs between the collection of photographs Colbert. The simple design of the gable roof reinforces the perspective effect and dramatizes the space where the pictures stop central float between the columns to be hung with fine wires. It is as if they came into a sanctuary where no words or text, just pictures: a peaceful man and animal scenes that make us think.
Colbert's works are authentic testimonies that show that our primordial sentiments with animals have not completely lost. In a world of industrial excess, animals should not be defined simply by their degree of domestication or aggression. They also embody an unforgettable peace. Colbert's photographs have a relationship of respect and quiet where no one dominates the other, a gesture that the Nomadic Museum helps you install between people wherever they are seated, all in an atmosphere of solemnity created with recycled building materials.
Photo: © Ashes and Snow
Captions:
a. Shigeru Ban (b. 1957), architect.
b. The Nomadic Museum exhibition shows the extraordinary Colbert, "Ashes and Snow", a title that suggests beauty and renewal, and where nothing is manipulated digitally. C.
Man and animal in complete peace.
d. The Nomadic Museum is to travel with their planes around the world.
e. The roof structure intensifies the effect of perspective and creates a feeling of entering a shrine with scenes that remind us of the fundamental relationship between those who inhabit the Earth.
f. recyclable materials incorporated Nomadic Museum in nature for the purposes of travel and memory. (© Michael Moran)
g. The first provision of the Nomadic Museum was held in the spring of 2005, in New York in the historic pier number 54 of the Hudson River, where they landed the survivors of the Titanic. His next stop was Los Angeles, then traveled throughout Europe and Asia. (© Michael Moran)
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