City On A Roof

Dear COAR Teams,

Our initiative group has studied the proposals and ideas and have come up with some suggestions and directions.

We will sent each team their personal suggestions but there are some general comments to make.

First of all we are very enthusiast about the ideas and the amount of
thinking/work that has already been done. We think all the teams will be
able to realize their project on the rooftop one way or another.

For the oncoming weeks until monday the 31th of juli we want all of you to
work on the following aspects of the project:

1. HARWARE
The hardware-people of all the teams need to focus on materials and the way
they want to construct the hardware. Keep in mind that this is not about
experimenting but about prototyping.

2. SOFTWARE
The software-people of all the teams need to focus at their role as end-user
and push the hardware-people to meet their requirements/ understand their
needs. Keep in mind that this is not about experimenting but about
prototyping. Your needs are real and you/ the people you invite will be
working/living on the roof!

3. CONNECTING
Hardware- and software people need to meet each other, phone or email.
If you can't get in tough phone David Inden at +31(0)627004859.
The forum will be more and more the place you will present your ideas together.
But everyone needs to get in tough to come up with a combined proposal.

On monday the 24th we really need the following additional information from each
team (software and hardware together):
- a description of the software functions that each team has chosen
- a description of the hardware-concept that each team has chosen
- a description of the innovation-aspects and the way its build
- a description of the way you meet the requirements of the roof
- a description of the way the hardware meets the requirements of software
- an explanation of the design
- a rough list of the materials being used to build the hardware
- how you are planning to get these cheap/costless materials
- the part we can play in transporting them/ organise you getting it
- what budget you need for specific things that are not for free
- the way you will construct
- which team members will be constructing
- a rough list of the 'software' materials/machines
- how you are planning to get these cheap/costless materials/machines
- the part we can play in transporting them/ organise you getting it
- what budget you need for specific thinks that are not for free
- which team members will participate in the software
- explain how all this will interact with your neighbours
(as short and realistic as possible)

additional thoughts....

working on this project is in some ways no different to earlier projects in Groningen :

VIDEO PAVILION'S
- Bernard T
- OMA - bus stop
- Zaha Hadid
- video tower
- A STAR IS BORN PAVILION'S
- MAKI - boat

Rem Koolhaas' serpentine pavilion is spot on Toyo Ito, Daniel Liberskind also designed good pavilions for the serpentine....
http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architect … /index.htm
Renzo Piano's beautiful IBM pavilion
Simon Whittle's pavilion (currently outside the AA in London)

The only difference in our case is that these enticing (prototype) pavilions or 'neurons'
need turn into something more clever so that they can spin out 'axon's' and engage with their neighbours....

TEAM 1 - Balloon - how does this stretch or inflate to habitation ??
TEAM 2 - Catapult - could this morph into a kind of robot house ?
TEAM 3 - ? - a hang out (or escape) for smokers ....got a light ?
TEAM 4 - Space-Frame - latest plastic/ply exp getting closer to the spirit of sails (still needs work)
TEAM 5 - Kite - need to translate this into a pavilion while hanging onto the spirit of kiting
TEAM 6 - Urnbuilding + Audiovisual wall + fitness ? (need to resolve...either could be interesting)
TEAM 7 - invisible software needs structure (team up with TEAM 8)
TEAM 8 - how to house invisibility ? (team up with TEAM 7)

Each team posts will be shortly after this...

David Inden