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Danubian Dreams gathers five European architects and designers: Odile Decq(F), Peter Cook(GB), Matali Crasset(F), Medusa Group(PL), Helen & Hard(NO) and Vallo & Sadovsky(SK) who were invited to create their own "shed". This project re-questions the idea of the hut as the first habitat and re-proposes this notion to live in the 21st century.
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Odile Decq (France)
a) Profile Born in 1955, France In 1996, the agency Odile Decq and Benoît Cornette obtained the LION D'OR at the biennial of architecture in Venezia. Three projects appear as founders of the agency: the seat of the Popular Bank of the west (Rennes), then the installation "Hypertension" in Grenoble, and the project of the pub Renault for the Champs Elysées in Paris. The project of Odile Decq was kept for the Macro (Museum of contemporary art) in Rome that is currently in construction course. Multiples projects are in realization course: residence and commerces in Florence, Museum for the Collection Liaunig (Austria), FRAC Brittany… Since 1992 Odile Decq is Professor in Special School of architecture in Paris. 
4m x 8.75m ed. 8+2 AP, 2006 b) Project for Danubian Dreams : "OPEN TIPI" "My project is a tipi. It is opened - not a cocoon; it communicates and opens to the surrounding world". The elements that compose its partitions can take different configurations and also reorganize the space to transparent, while stripping the leaves off itself it gives itself space and opens this one to the exterior one. Simple, technological and recyclable. It can be manufactured very simply: - the perches will be on aluminum or on carbon fiber - the elements partitions can be simple textile, or plastic one, of canvas of covers that has tarp, of felts, etc… - certain partitions will be done several beds of materials. |
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Peter Cook (United Kingdom)
a) Profile Born in 1936, United Kingdom, he lives and works in London. He is the co-editor of the magazine "Archigram" that influenced a generation of architects. It essentially published manuscripts on the theory of the architecture Spacelab (Peter Cook with Colin Fournier) realized the Museum of modern art of Graz in Austria. Peter Cook is currently instructor at the Bartlett school of architecture, university college London.
material: coat - 12mm blackboard, hat - plastic+ekostyren
2,14 m x 1,84m x 2,32m ed 8+2 AP. 2006 b) Project for Danubian Dreams : "HAT AND COAT KIOSK" Peter Cook proposes to install different colored kiosks by the Danube called "Hat and Coat" for there to sell ice creams or fruits. The roof (Hat) is composed from a comforter waterproof to the ballasted edges. The partitions (coat) in MDF treated (fibers of average density) on wood, framed edges with a big variety of colors. A basis in "caillebotis" separates the kiosk of the ground.  
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Matali Crasset (France)
a) Profile Born in 1955, France Collaborator of Denis Santachiara and Philippe Starck, the designer Matali Crasset creates her own company "matali crasset production" in 1998. 2002 and 2003 are rich years in expositions, of which were retrospective ones to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. To the same era, Matali Crasset acts in scénographe for the Hi Hotel of Nice and draws the body of the furniture and most of the objects that define the space. For 2006, Matali prepares a personal exhibition at the National cooper-hewitt Museum of Design New York. The designer has just conceived the installation of a museum in the Netherlands it "SM's" and was elected "Creator of the year" by the Parlor of the Paris furnishing.
material: wood + plstic
2,33 m x 2,85m x 2,85m ed 8+2 AP. 2006 b) Project for Danubian Dreams: "KLOROFIL" |
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Medusa Group (Poland)
a) Profile Young Polish agency created by Pzermo Lukasik and Lugasz Zagala After a passage in Paris in the agency Nouvel and the one of Odile Decq and Benoît Cornette, Medusa Group installs itself in Silésie (Poland) and realizes their Kolko Loft, "a house of manifest". They obtain the Grand Prix award for the better building of Silésie in 2003 for the modernization and enlargement of the Wasko headquarters. Their Kolko Loft and their single-family house are nominated for the prestigious price Mies Vans der Rohe in 2004.
2,4 x 5,07 x 2,4m, ed 8ex+3AP. 2006
b) Project for Danubian Dreams : "EUR SHED" EUR Shed is an answer of how we imagine contemporary pavilion corresponding to the universal context. We tried to find out what is the universal context for the modern shed and what we got was the lack of context. But in some way lack of context is still a context. The context of uniformed and global world obsessed by consumption, transport and market. The EUR Shed is referring to those factors. We did use the uniform transportation palette as the repetitive basic element of the pavilion and the common plastic band used in shipping goods. This element is a part of mentioned above global context. Its an icon of the transport era and is easy recognizable in almost every country. Thus the EUR Shed fits different locations and due to its uniform character could be applied to any context. At the same time it represents also the most important for us features in designing space : its cheap, easy to install, flexible and recyclable. It could be easily mounted by two people, and the construction materials could be bought at the destination place and than could be sold after deconstruction without big loss of value. In a sense the transport of the shed is more transporting the user manual and the know-how than transporting real construction materials. This is also an open project that leaves a margin for individual modification concerning the shape, cover, roof protection and the flooring. The presented version is more a design manifesto representing our approach to designing than a real specified functional object. design and text: medusagroup |
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Helen & Hard (Norway and Austria)
a) Profile The Helen & Hard agency was created in 1996 to Stavanger in Norway by Siv Helene Stangeland (been born in 1966 in Norway) and Reinhard Kropf (been born in 1967 in Austria). The Helen & Hard agency presents a very creative work all while retaining impregnated traditions (wood), feelings (the nature), usages (the social exchanges, the communautarisme), and of the imperative contemporary one nordic countries: to obtain the light and the landscape, look for the balance between the ecology and the invention of the forms. Their realizations recently were presented in the architecture Gallery of Paris. The construction the more known today is the one of two houses in the historic center of Stavanger. Stavanger will be in 2008 the one of the two European capitals of the culture with the British city Liverpool.
material: airbeds, ed. 8+2 AP, 2006
b) Project for Danubian Dreams "air force take away" technical equipments, space games, more intimate spaces, of expression, of relaxation…) are linked to the rug to the assistance of zips, scratches or of pockets, they are constituted to some sandwich like do a box that is surrounded by parts and of other by a solid board "tech-wood". The "techwood" is completely recyclable, it is constituted to 70% of wood fibers encapsulated in a resin thermoplastic. © Images are courtesy of gandy gallery, BratislavaThe project of Helen and Hard is done with two different methods of nomadic spatialisation: to occupy the territory with a rug and personalize this territory with our own goods and personal objects. - The rug can be unfolded on the ground or on the water. It is inflatable, lucid and interactive made of EFTE (EthyleneTetraFluorEthylene). This material is ecological and for practically completely recyclable, it possesses insulation qualities thermal, phonic, of luminous transmission. - The goods are more personal, more flexible and lighter, (arrangements, movable, technical equipments, space games, more intimate spaces, of expression, of relaxation…) are linked to the rug to the assistance of zips, scratches or of pockets, they are constituted to some sandwich like do a box that is surrounded by parts and of other by a solid board "tech-wood". The "techwood" is completely recyclable, it is constituted to 70% of wood fibers encapsulated in a resin thermoplastic. |
A book will be published at this occasion and a photoreport will be made by Deidi von Schaewen.
© Images are courtesy of gandy gallery, Bratislava
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Markus Hansen (D)
Crisis Cabin Markus Hansen's 'crisis hut' is reminiscent of the huts of the Black Forest.Without a nail, screw or glue, every piece slots together to facilitate it's mobility.It's exterior is covered with feathers to protect against the rain. Made of 22mm plywood it has a system of shelves on the inside that slot into the rest of the structure.The books that fill the shelves isolate against the cold and are the source of reinvention and regeneration. The cover of feathers remind us of the necessity of a dialogue with nature for survival whilst the lining of books serve as the resource of the past for the future. The 'crisis hut' is both a primitive and sophisticated response to the demands generated by a crisis.  
     
     
  
CRISIS CABIN, 2009, 2.80 x 2.80 x 3.26 m.
Edition original multiple 8 + 2a.p
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OLGOJ CHORCHOJ (CZ)
A shelter for survival Shelters for victims due to natural or human catastrophes are carried out in these two ways. The first one, the fastest, the most operative and the cheepest is a tent. It is not demanding for stocking, the construction lasts for one couple only several minutes. Its disatvantages present its little inner space- mostly its height, little privacy- mostly due to its missing soundproof caracter and transparence in the evening and almost no security- anyone can get in in several seconds. It is proper for using for a long time only in the most crictical situation. The seconde one-slow, demanding for logistics, mechanisation and financial assurance is constructed as a flat or another prefabricated shelter. It solves all the imperfections of the first shelter. It is not limited by time, but in case of catastrophe, in general it is not available or we can't fold it up nowhere or eventually it misses any mechanisation for its transport and location. It is very demanding for stocking. We tryed to create an object which could be a compromise between two objects. I is made of available materials and construction elements by using current manual technologies. The construction of the shelter is to carry out by 4 people and could be finished during one day. The object provides minimally a shelter for 2 people or eventually the object could be modified in two flats for 4-5 people. The basic construction presents the floor situated and pressed among 4 wooden posts connected by crossed and tightened ropes at the top and at the bottom.The posts are slighty spaced and crossed by the ropes which are joint properly and therefore this little interior could be aered sufficiently. Tho top of posts are fastened by waste pipes which strenghten the borders of the “roof”. The walls and the ceiling present two layers of the white sheets between which is a mineral thermal isolation. The whole object is tied by a rope. We can enter the object from the bottom through a reclined floor which serves also as a ladder. Due to the elevated position of the shelter above the ground the shelter acquires more security and have no problems with wet and muddy ground. Aeration and illumination are assured by a round hole int the middle of the roof which is in the middle promoted by a swimming ring.The hole is covered by a transparent umbrella. The shelter provides a protection agains the rain, partially against the temperature changes and provides a security thought not perfect, we can close it and it provides a privacy.   
A SHELTER FORT SURVIVAL, 2009, 4.50 x 3 m. Edition 8 + 2a.p
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