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shape, form, coherence could be imposed on the violent surf of information that washes over us daily.

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-RemmentLucas Koolhaas-

REM KOOLHAAS the "The word 'architecture' embodies the lingering hope that

Biography
His real name is Remment Lucas Koolhaas Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands on 17th November 1944 and lived in Indonesia from 1952 to 1955 He was educated in Amsterdam and studied at the Architecture Association School in London, England from 1968 to 1972 He worked as a freelance screenplay writer as well as a journalist for the Dutch newspaper Haagse Post and continued to work with architect O.M Ungers at Cornell University from 1972 to 1975 He is a co-founder of the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) along with his wife Madelon Vriesendorp, also an architect and two friends, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. They were later joined by one of Koolhaas's students, Zaha Hadid - who would soon go on to achieve success in her own right He was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York since 1973 and taught at the Architecture Association School until 1980.

Rem Koolhaas . Biography

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He has won several awards such as : Progressive Architecture prize "Nobel of architecture prizes. Pritzker Prize (2000) Chevallier de Lgion d'honneur (2001) Praemium Imperiale (2003) Royal Gold Medal (2004) Doctor honoris causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2007)

He has wrote a few numbers of books. Some of them are Delirious New York : A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Thames & Hudson, 1978 (original), S,M,L,XL with Bruce Mau in 1995, OMA 30 : 30 Colours in 1999, Rem Koolhaas/OMA : Essays in Architecture , Unveiling the Prada Foundation in 2008, Al-Manakh : Gulf Continued in 2010 Hes capable of challenging everything. He's one of the great thinkers of our time.' -Frank Gehry

Rem Koolhaas . Biography

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Delirious New York is a polemical investigation of Manhattan: it documents the symbiotic relationship between its mutant metropolitan culture and the unique architecture to which it gave rise though this book argues that it often appears that the architecture generated the culture. This book exposes the consistency and coherence of the seemingly unrelated episodes of Manhattan's urbanism: it is an interpretation that establishes New York as the product of an unformulated movement, Manhattanism, whose true program was so outrageous that in order for it to be realized it could never be openly declared. Delirious New York is the retroactive manifesto of Manhattan's architectural enterprise: it untangles theories, tactics and dissimulations to establish the desires of Manhattan's collective unconscious as realities in the Grid.

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This massive book is a novel about architecture. Conceived by Rem Koolhaas author of Delirious New York and Bruce Mau designer of Zone as a free-fall in the space of the typographic imagination, the book's title, Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large, is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. The book combines essays, manifestos, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the ground of contemporary city, with work produced by Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today its splendours and miseries exploring the revealing the corrosive impact of politics, context, the economy, globalization the world.

Philosophy and Influenced


Philosophy - "views the metropolis of the 20th century as the dominant area of experience in contemporary life," True post-modern architect challenging old beliefs and methods of design Very much influenced by De Stijl movement and Bauhaus

Also been influenced by some architects such as Daniel Liebeskind and Raimund
Abraham combines a balance of history and modernism His work is characterized by asymmetrical and abruptly changing forms with a vibrant use of colour.

Deconstructionist influenced ultra-modern buildings with the use of construction materials like steel and glass for aesthetics

Rem Koolhaas . Philosophy and Influenced

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Has been entitled as the guru of contemporary architecture

He also has been described as a pop star of architectural world His constant changing and rethinking of his architectural plans makes people labelled
him as an exciting architect

He has pioneered many ideas of urban architecture


"Urbanism doesn't exist. It is only an ideology in Marx's sense of the word. Architecture really exists, like Coca-Cola: Though coated with ideology, it is a real production, falsely satisfying a falsified need. Urbanism is comparable to the advertising propagated around Coca-Cola - pure spectacular ideology. Modern capitalism which organised the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, is incapable of presenting any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. Its urbanistic dream is its masterpiece. Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas . Philosophy and Influenced

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Kunsthal
Rotterdam Netherlands (1993)

De Kunsthal Rotterdam is an exhibition building in which some 25 expositions are organised annually. The Kunsthal shows culture in the broadest sense of the word: classical art, contemporary art, design and photography, from elitist to popular. The available exhibition space totals 3,300 square meters. The building may seem compact, but it offers surprisingly much exposition space. The 3,300 square meters are divided into three main galleries, a photo gallery and a design gallery. This allows the Kunsthal to mount no fewer than five to six exhibitions at the same time. A spacious auditorium, a caf-restaurant, a book shop and a VIP room complement the facilities.

Rem Koolhaas . Kunsthal , Rotterdam (1993)

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DESIGN STRATEGY
3 spaces need to be considered ; major exhibition space, an auditorium and an independently accessible restaurant Site presents a dual condition : the southern edge is bordered by Maasboulevard and westhern part is the Museum Park

Busy urban element

Peace required space

The use of ramp creates a smooth transition without heavy resistance Connect building to city: Glass wall Continuity of materials Duality of site Different perspectives The challenge : how to design a museum as four autonomous project how to imagine a spiral in four separate squares

Rem Koolhaas . Kunsthal , Rotterdam (1993)

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

2 3 4 5 6

Plaza Ramp outside Main entrance Ticket office Entrance hall/auditorium 7 Hall 1 8 Lower gallery 9 Ramp inside 10 Staff entrance

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

3 9 11 12 13 14

Ramp outside Ramp inside Dike Hall 2 Upper gallery Roof garden

Building concept :
continuous circuit

The pedestrian ramp is split with a glass wall, separating the outside from the inside which is part of the circuit

A second ramp, running parallel and reversed, is terraced to accommodate an auditorium and beneath it is the restaurant

Rem Koolhaas . Kunsthal , Rotterdam (1993)

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Internal Pathway Cafe Auditorium Gallery Lobby

Maison Bordeaux
Bordeaux France(1994 - 1998)

DESIGN STRATEGY
A house is a machine for living
A wealthy married couple with three children lived in a very old and beautiful house in Bordeaux in France. For many years this family was thinking about building a new home, planning how it could be and wondering who the architect would be. Suddenly, the husband had a car accident and almost lost his life. Now he needs a wheelchair. The old beautiful house and the medieval city of Bordeaux had now become a prison for him. The family started to think about their new house again but this time in a very different way.

Contrary to what you would expect. I want a complex house because the house will define my world. the owner

Accessibility

Mobility

The ground floor, half-carved into the hill, accommodates the kitchen and television room, and leads to a courtyard. The bedrooms of the family are on the top floor, built as a dark concrete box. In the middle of these two levels is the living room made of glass where one contemplates the valley of the river Garonne and Bordeaux's clear outline.
5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (main house); 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (guesthouse); (total area: 500m2)

Rem Koolhaas . Maison Bordeaux , Bordeaux, France(1994 - 1998)

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The top floor rests on three legs. One of these legs, a cylinder that includes the circular staircase of the house, is located off-centre. Although this displacement brings an instability to the house, it gains equilibrium by placing a steel beam over the house which pulls a cable in tension. The first question that the visitor asks is: what happens if the cord is cut? Koolhaas has created a structure which, equal to the life of the client, depends on a cable.

This arrangement provides the middle level with an uninterrupted view over the surrounding landscape, and an effect that is intensified with the highly polished finish of the stainless steel cylinder which incorporates the stairs, and makes it disappear into the landscape.
The middle level is a balcony where the top floor floats above. It is a glazed space which allows the wheelchair to confuse the nature outside with the interior of the house. In contrast, the same landscape receives another treatment from the top floor. The view appears restricted and predetermined, framed by circular windows placed according to whether one stands, sits or lays down. Inside the house the family experiences Koolhaas's interpretations of life's instability and dualities. In regards to the husband, he has experienced this instability and is now part of his own self. In the same way that the umbilical cord belongs both to the mother and the baby, and gives it nutrition; the elevator platform connects the husband to the house and offers him a liberation.

Rem Koolhaas . Maison Bordeaux , Bordeaux, France(1994 - 1998)

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Koolhaas designed a complex house in itself and surpassed the conventional, in every detail.

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Rem Koolhaas . Maison Bordeaux , Bordeaux, France(1994 - 1998)

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Materials and Light Conditions Glass wall Concrete walls Steel stanchion Cylinder of spiral stair is clad in highly poished mirror-like stainless steel

Section

Rem Koolhaas . Maison Bordeaux , Bordeaux, France(1994 - 1998)

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North-east elevation

South-west elevation

Rem Koolhaas . Maison Bordeaux , Bordeaux, France(1994 - 1998)

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Seattle Central Library


Seattle Washington (2004)

DESIGN STRATEGY
Seattle-born, Joshua Ramus received news from a family member of the competition announcement in the Seattle Times. He flew in from Rotterdam and entered OMA's enrollment for the competition the following morning. Then he and Koolhaas began work on the firm's proposal. They only have to submit the idea not the model for $165 million library.

Instead of drawings and models, the architects presented a concept book. In it, they wrote: "new libraries don't reinvent or even modernize the traditional institution; they merely package it in a new way. The concept is the reinvention of the library as an access point to information presented in a wide range of media. The firm's design solution proposed the construction of an "information warehouse that could adjust to the future expansion of the book and other nonprint materials collection and that incorporated an indoor public space to reduce "the accelerated erosion of the public domain."

Unknown futures

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Protect public space

Adapt to changes

Rem Koolhaas . Seattle Central Library , Seattle , Washington (2004)

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"The stacks, arranged along a continuous spiral ramp contained within a four-story slab, reinforce a sense of a world organized with machine-like precision. - Nicolai Ouroussoff-

The library houses:

Main collection of books Government publications Periodicals Audio visual materials Technology to access and distribute information from the physical collection online

The building is divided into eight horizontal layers, each varying in size to fit its function. A structural steel and glass skin unifies the multifaceted form and defines the public spaces inbetween. Situated on 362,987-square-foot (33,723-square-meter) on a sloping site between 4th and 5th street the new library will have entrances on both street levels. The entrance level on 4th Street, one of Seattle's main thoroughfares, houses the Children's Library and foreign-language resources.

Rem Koolhaas . Seattle Central Library , Seattle , Washington (2004)

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Rows of escalators lead to the 5th Street "Living Room" lobby located under a 50-foot-high sloping glass wall. The lobby can also be reached directly from a covered walkway than runs the length of the 5th Avenue facade.

Rem Koolhaas . Seattle Central Library , Seattle , Washington (2004)

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The carpeted "Living Room" contains the fiction stacks while non-fiction are located on the "Dewey Ramp"; a four-story ramp that allows people to browse through books in a continuous sequence. The Reading room, on the top floor, has views of Puget Sound and the surrounding mountains. Koolhaas sees the new library as a custodian of the book, a showcase for new information, a place for thought, discussion and reflection - a dynamic presence.

Rem Koolhaas . Seattle Central Library , Seattle , Washington (2004)

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"Although the library is sculptural, it is not in any way an attempt to make a form. The library's appearance comes from pushing boxes around to stay within the height and setback restrictions and zoning codes. - Joshua Ramus , Rem Koolhaass partner-

Site plan

First floor plan

Second floor plan

East elevation

Section

Shelving area Reading

CCTV (China Central Television)


Beijing (2004 - 2009)

DESIGN STRATEGY
One of the largest office buildings in the world. Who says that structures should be reinvented? Who says that reinventing structure cannot be creative? -Rem Koolhaas All facilities should be housed in one site but not necessarily constrained in one building

To mix and produce a better end- product more economically and efficiently.
Combines administration and offices, news and broadcasting, programme production and services the entire process in a single loop of interconnected activities. The public facilities included in the project are located in a second building, the Television Cultural Centre (TVCC); both buildings are serviced from a single support building which houses major plant as well as the site security. Challenge - there was no precedent for such a building.

Concept - The new building consists of two high L-shaped towers joined at the top and the bottom at an angle to form a loop, which has been described as a cross Z.

Rem Koolhaas . CCTV (China Central Television), Beijing (2004 - 2009)

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The entire CCTV development has a site area of 187 000m2 and will provide a total of 550 000m2 gross floor area.

The project includes:


the China Central Television headquarters building (CCTV building) the Television Cultural Centre (TVCC) a service and security building a landscaped media park with external feature s .

Early design sketches

The 450 000m2, 234m tall , CCTV building consists of a nine-storey Base and three storey basement, two leaning towers that slope at 6 in each direction, and a nine to 13-storey Overhang, suspended 36 storeys in the air, all combining to form a continuous tube.

Superstructure of the continuous tube - This tube is formed by fully bracing all sides of the faade

Principles of the tube structure: regular grid of columns and edge beams + patterned diagonal bracing = braced tube system.

Internal columns starting from pile cap level.

Internal columns supported on transfer structures .

The foundation system.

For the base plus three - storey basement, a traditional raft foundation is used, with tension piles between column locations to resist uplift from water pressure acting on the deep basement.

Section

The basic qualitative performance objectives were :


No structural damage when subjected to a level1 earthquake with an average return period of 50 years (63% probability of exceedance in 50 years)

Repairable structural damage when subjected to a level 2 earthquake with an average return period of 475 years (10% probability of exceedance in 50 years)
Severe structural damage permitted but collapse prevented when subjected to a level 3 earthquake with an average return period of 2500 years (2% probability of exceedance in 50 years) Construction issues - The buildings unique form necessitated careful consideration of the construction method throughout the design process.

Rem Koolhaas . CCTV (China Central Television), Beijing (2004 - 2009)

Ku Hasna Zuria bt Ku Zainol Abidin. Bea 090008. Semester 2 . Theory of Architecture . University of Malaya

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