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January 23, 2013

NCR-08 [Architecture]: Adhocracy Projects

More Adhocracy projects with instructions: How to curate an extemporary show of Yona Friedman in the city of Istanbul, Re-reading Giancarlo De Carlo, How to build your own House in six Steps, Immanent Testimony

How to curate an extemporary show of Yona Friedman in the city of Istanbul by Maurizzio Bortolotti
The following instructions are for building an exhibition of the architect Yona Friedman’s work, regarding two of its main concepts:
1- The idea of the production of architecture/art by people.
2- The idea of art/architecture as unpredictable processes, in which creativity and social communication are connected to each other, enabling inhabitants to dwell and live the contemporary city. Therefore, if art and architecture express an idea of contemporary culture, Yona Friedman’s idea of the production of culture is though participation.

Instructions
1. Find a public passage or a small square.
2. Look around for very simple materials like cardboard, wire or plywood.
3. Look at Yona Friedman’s drawings published on the web (especially from his book Pro domo).
4. Set up a display or show looking at the pictures and using these materials to build unpredictable architecture made by people.
5. Invite street artists to make their interventions inside these unpredictable architectures and you’ll have a Street Museum.


Re-reading Giancarlo De Carlo by Autlab
Who is GDC? Giancarlo De Carlo (1919-2005) is an Italian architect. Why GDC? GDC is member of the Team X, which pretends a new type of architecture, more adaptable to social and environmental conditions. For him the Man is not reduced to an abstract figure or to a set of standard measures but an active figure which has to take part to the decisions that influence his personal life and society.
Re-reading: how? AUTLAB, Collective of Students of the Architecture Faculty of Roma Tre, has adopted the self-formation process as one of the cornerstones of the laboratory: the re-reading of GDC, as he would also had preferred, not accepting his words as dogma but using them as departing points to a deeper reflection upon the complexity of the spatial and social main themes. For AUTLAB, GDC is The Architecture Partisan.

Instructions / Key Concepts
What is Context?
“The architectural process should be based on the existing situations which are much different in every city and in every part of the world. On the other hand Architectural discipline cannot become Authority, that wields its control with external rules on men’s life”.
A Lesson of Urban Planning is an ironic critic of the problems deriving from the stereotyped approach of technicians and experts. The intention is to urge the ordinary man to react to easy authoritarianisms. The revolutionary concept of participation is introduced.
What is Participatory Process?
The Villaggio Matteotti (Terni, Italy) is a neighbourhood built by the Steel Factory for its workers.
GDC accepts the commission for the Villaggio Matteotti only provided that the participatory process within the Steel Factory workers (the future incomers) would take place. GDC and his team organize meetings and exhibitions concerning the design project for the future inhabitants. This process involves the population—the workers—which at the end show a strong acquisition of civic and political awareness about their rights to the Space: in 1974 the Factory Committees request to be involved even in the decisions about the restoration of the working spaces.
What is Bureaucracy?
“Bureaucracy intends to control the organization of space because it is the only social congregation which supports the existence of interrelations between the quality of physical space and the behav-iours of society. Bureaucracy is teased by Processes as a matter of fact that bother it, because they put too many variables at stake, stimulate critique, encourage participation”.
AUTLAB: Natalia Agati, Daniele Burattini, Emanuele Caporrella, Olimpia Fiorentino, Daniele Presutti, Renzo Sgolacchia


How to build your own House in six Steps by Rot Ellen Berg
To Ziya Şanlı, Ece Elbirlik, Cassandra Mehlhorn and all the other warm people we’ve met in Istanbul during our short trip in October of this year. To everyone who needs a shelter, a place to feel at home: how to build your own house, in 6 steps.

Instructions

1. Sign the papers for the purchase of a house that has gone to ruin, or look for a house to tear down. Don’t mind not knowing what you’re getting into.
2. Take enough time to find out what you want or don’t want. This could be the time to look for an architect, make sure you connect with him (or her). Tell him you don’t have the budget, but you do want the space. Hope he still thinks your project is interesting.
3. Call friends and family for help and start by emptying and stripping the house. Tear down all unnecessary inside walls, remove dead pigeons, take out the collapsing roof and the three growing through it. Keep on going, until only the outer walls are standing.
4. Build a house of glass within the old house. This way, sunbeams can fall through the highest window and provide light from the top floor down to the lowest living areas. Choose a new horizontal and vertical layout for your house, ignore the original structures and divisions. By doing so, several windows could serve multiple levels.
5. Choose sustainable materials such as: concrete, wood, flax fibers, curtains of wool, also add a frivolous touch: concrete beams imprinted by grain and gnarl from wooden planks, mirroring chapels, a thinking tower, tiles with added stone pattern… Create playful ‘trompe l’oeil’ effects.
6. Put a 2 ton fire-resistant concrete stove in the middle of the ground floor to get radiant heat in winter. Keep the rest of your house in a state of ‘almost finished’. Move into the house, smile and be happy. Invite friends.
For and behalf of ‘architects de vylder vinck taillieu’. The owners and self builders of the house ‘Rot Ellen Berg’, Belgium, Piet Bodyn & Ellen Meurez


Immanent Testimony by HS Mimarlık
The game of “find-deconstruct-construct” in the context of Adhocracy.

Instructions
Find
1. Choose a space where a public function, action or activity is maintained. In this space, the decisions of form and content should be defined from top to bottom, not the opposite.
2. In this public space, observe how the hierarchical relations between individuals and public are built.
3. Sift through the local and global scale structures of the spacial interpretations of this function. Try to find the traces/sanctions of this hierarchy in the public life or in the process of the individual’s self realization in this space.
Deconstruct
4. Identify three directly related actors of the space:
a- Person(s) who has designed the space.
b- A social scientist who is expert on the function of the space.
c- An Individual(s) who use the space and has the capacity to make a critical analysis of it.
Prepare questions for the actors. Interview them. Record the interviews in order to be shown in your exhibition.
5. Your inferences from these interviews should determine the concept of the space you will design to exhibit your work. See your curator in order to choose the conceptually suitable space in the exhibition hall.

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