Overview
- how can imported high-tech be combined with regional low-tech?
- the process of building a large and demanding structure in a totally foreign context is presented
- students of Wolf D. Prix’s Studio a3 designed and built themselves a community centre in Mexico
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"The Mexican Roof”, built as an architectural signal for an organisation promoting sustainable agriculture, is one of the few examples where a very ambitious project, conceived in the architecture design studio at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, has been successfully translated into reality. Executed by the students themselves in a remote province in Mexico it is basically a roof made out of bamboo that shelters the new community from the sun and collects water, the basis of any kind of growth. It is a conspicuous landmark that also serves very practical functions. The book presents the building process in Mexico starting with the finished roof and going back in time as well, an index that lists the various notions of the conceptual work in Vienna. Special attention is given to a specific method of teaching that encourages students to go for their visions, even if difficult, by providing methods, experience and determination necessary to solve the problems associated with this endeavour.
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WOLF D. PRIX. Studied at the Technical University, Vienna, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles and the Architectural Association in London, England. Founder member in 1968 of the architectural office Coop Himmelb(l)au; head of the Studio a3, School of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prinz Eisenbeton 5: techo en mexico / the mexican roof
Book Subtitle: 96° 13' W. 16° 33'N
Authors: Wolf D. Prix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-211-38029-9
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 144
Topics: Building Types and Functions, Landscape Architecture, Cities, Countries, Regions