Mobility: A room with a view (Rotterdam Biennale 2003)

Official Website

http://www.iabr.nl/2003/

1st International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

Rotterdam will hosted the first International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam from

7 May - 7 July, 2003. The first Architecture Biennale focused entirely on the theme of mobility, examining the issue of modern-day mobility and the consequences for architecture and urban development. Architects, civil engineers, urban planners, traffic experts, landscape architects, students, filmmakers and photographers from around the world spent two months presenting plans and exchanging ideas in the form of exhibitions, lectures, publications, debates, films and excursions. The curator was Francine Houben, partner in the Mecanoo architecture firm and professor at Delft University of Technology.

Urban movement scripts

 

Scripts in the journey of metrobus and taxi, showed urban spaces encountered. I transfered this sequence of urban images into series of spaces in smaller scales, which might be integrated with local life in function, like teahouse. In this method, I hoped spaces under the highway which were underutilization could attract more citizens to visit and use.

Scripts of Galata bridge

 

sketches of sceneries in Galata bridge in every six seconds, comparing sceneries on tram and bus.

gaps of transportation

Transportation system connects different parts of the city but also disconnected some parts. One of the most apparent examples are spaces under highways, which are low efficient. Another example is the main car road along the Golden Horn, which decreases the link between two sides of the road. On one side, there are lively gattos, on the other side, there are grassland along the waterfront.

illusions

 

layed images of istanbul on vehicles.

Experimenting speeds

 

Modern technologies afford us with a wide range of choices to exprience the city on different vehicles. They are not only considered as some machine which carry passengers, but also means of observing the city and urban life. We manage to travel in different layers of the city, reaching somewhere far away that we haven't expected. Accelerating speeds even changed our sensitive experiences of urban spaces. By controling speeds of our trip, we can even change our feelings of the city. This short vedio is a basic experiments of Istanbul at different speeds. I am trying to explore the idea of speed and space by changing the playing speed of the original vedio. The moving vehicle is also like a object where I am hiding and observing local life without being noticed.

Journey from west to east

The journey from west to east. We took a tram to a transition station of metrobus and then travelled by metrobus across Golden Horn and Bosphorus, arriving at Kadikoy. Then we went back to Sisli and travel to Taksim by metro, where the old tram started. At the same time, another ferry trip started in Kabatas.

Passing Galata bridge at different speeds

 

This vedio shows experiences on Galata Bridge at different speeds and diffrent time. At the end of the vedio, vedios on buses, trams and taxis are compared together. Better quality please click the vedio and connect to Youtube.

Istanbul on vehicles

My exploration in Istanbul began with different kinds of vehicles. There a variety choice of vehicles in Istanbul, trams, buses, metros, ferries, metrobuses, suburban trains, taxis and old tram. They run in different layers of the city but connect and overlap, which offer with us another dimension of experiencing the city. The city would be different once I boarded on a different vehicle. I may come across surprises when moving in the city.

Adventure routes

tram: between Kabatas and Zeytinbumu

Old gram: between Taksim and Tunel

metro: between Sisli and Taksim

suburban train: between Sureyya Plaji and Haydarpasa, between Sirkeci and Yenikapi

bus：round trip in Eminonu, between Emirgan and Bosphorus Bridge

metrobus：between Cevizlibag AOY and Sogutlucesme

ferry: Bosphorus-between Kabatas and Emirgan, between Eminonu and Kadikoy, between Haydarpasa and Karakoy. Golden Horn-between Eminonu and Eyup

taxi: between Eminonu and Halic Bridge, between Bosphorus bridge and Cemberlitas

The Future Chasing Past the Present by Gabriel Lester

 

Gabriel Lester's exhibits a model of city on conveyor-belt and projects shadow on walls. With the movement of the belt, the shadow of the city is continuously changing.

related link: 

http://gabriellester.com/cms/chronicle/?p=1687