NoRA

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Designed by students from Aalborg University Architecture & Design program, NoRA is an interactive pavilion created for the Venice Architecture Biennale [2006]. The theme of the Biennale, ‘Meta-Cities’, inspired the students to create the pavilion as a proposed inhabitant of urban ‘in-between’ space, whose program and occupants would be of a transitory nature.

Today the physical and the social changes in the city allow an outline of the characteristics for a new civilian agglomeration; a meta-city, which is an accumulation extended beyond its traditional shapes and concepts of the city. Meta-Cities thus concern the changes of the transitions which our future lifestyle will be a part of [from the NoRa project's site].

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The design concept for NoRA was initiated through fluid dynamics software absorbing site characteristics as cultural movements, light and shadow into the organic mass. As a build structure NoRA was transported to the Island of San Servolo in Venice and programmed to release its variable sound and light scheme according to the movements of people around the building as well as a acting as a medium and stage setting for the users of the program facilities to project into the urban environment [from Interactive Architecture dot Org].

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images from the NoRA websites

article via Interactive Architecture dot org

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Posted: February 9th, 2007
at 12:03am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture

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