‘City in the Desert’, UAE - Reinier de Graaf

Reinier de Graaf's lecture, "City in Desert", was held last Thirsday.
I could not be there, though....
As you know, Reinier de Graaf is Partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
The definition in OMA web site

Everyone should watch the following movies.

OMA City in the Desert - part 1 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.


OMA City in the Desert - part 2 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.


OMA City in the Desert - Part 3 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.


OMA City in the Desert -part 4 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.


OMA City in the Desert - part 5 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.


OMA City in the Desert -part 6 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.


OMA City in the Desert - part 7 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.


OMA City in the Desert - part 8 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.


OMA City in the Desert - part 9 from Javier Vergara Petrescu on Vimeo.

[Lectures]

5in1 hotel workshop intermediate presentation

We had the intermediate presentation.

a kind of our tutor "Rem Koolhaas"

We watched a film "A Kind of Architect".
It was a documentaryof Rem Koolhaas.
We learned a lot of his words...
for example........

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Workshop "5in1 Hotel Stack"

Introduction

Workshop "showroom"

24 - 27 Oct. 2008
We had a workshop from the next day of hotel presentation....
We had a guest tutor, Harald Trapp, from TU Vienna.

Introduction of the workshop


We made quick models...



And we also made a movie.


The last image is a picture of the final presentation which was called "Unit 9 Film Festival"

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My sleeping out

It is a hotel study.
The hotel I chose was Yotel Heathrow.
I was trying to record my stay.
This is the movie you have seen at the presentation.
It shows site context, clearly.

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