1995 Le Balloir [Charles Vandenhove] BIZARRE COLUMNS 64

El belga Charles Vandenhove podría ser considerado como uno de los arquitectos que realiza un FREE STYLE CLASSICIM más depurado... en este caso, su clásico (repetido en varios de sus edificios) orden dórico reinterpretado, como diría Jencks, utilizando la tecnología de su tiempo... BIZARRE COLUMNS!!!

The Sixth Order THE TALKING ORDER [John Outram] BIZARRE COLUMNS XXVI

THE 'TALKING' ORDER

El orden "Talking" reivindica nuevas posibilidades de belleza tecnificada... Outram habla de la posibilidad de imprimir todo tipo de exhuberantes patterns en sus columnas que abaraten los costes de las mismas sin perder un ápice de los antíguos mosaicos colorados...

Proyectos:

1995 - Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge.

2000 - Retail Development, The Old Town Hall, The Hague.

"The next to be created, as an idea, was the 'Talking' Order. This can be dated to the New Laboratory for the Consumer's Association, in Milton Keynes. The design of this project was taken to complete production drawings and Tender before aborting due to the 1991 property value crash and the boiling-up of consequent re-location policy disagreements within the C.A. The interior had been designed to a high level. More importantly, JOA had, by the cancellation, done enough work on techniques of iconic engineering to be confident that there was more than one cheap, quick and technically-intensive way to inscribe bespoke patterns, colours and images on internal surfaces, even curved ones. We can date the invention of the 'Talking' Order to 1990. It corresponds to the third of the Vitruvian Triad, of Venustas, Englished as 'Delight'."

The Sixth Order THE WALKING ORDER [John Outram] BIZARRE COLUMNS XXV

THE 'WALKING' ORDER

El orden "Walking" reivindica un funcionalismo de la columna a través de su conversión en elemento de paso... ya sea como ascensor o escalera a través de distintos niveles o funcionando como puerta de paso entre distintos ambientes...

Proyectos:

1997 Computational Engineering Faculty, Rice University, Texas.

"The third of the triad, the 'Walking' ('Walkin'" or 'Walk-in') Order is the most novel. Serviced columns and surface-decorated columns, while uncommon, are not entirely unknown. But we have to look very far afield, to sites like Angkor Thom, to find a prior version of the 'Walkin' Order, with a Podium that is also a 'Camera Lucida' - a room through which one can walk. Not only is a column of this sort entirely unkown in Western Architecture, but it also corresponds to the most important of the Vitruvian categories, the central one of Commoditas. This is the category most abused by 20C architecture. Which is to say that 20C 'Functionalist Planning' is the practice that both seeks to descend from it yet most travesties its genealogy."

The Sixth Order THE WORKING ORDER [John Outram] BIZARRE COLUMNS XXIV

El gran John Outram, que una vez fue alumno de Warren Chalk en la AA y colaboró con sus proyectos teóricos en varios números de la revista Archigram, años después cruzó al "lado oscuro" y desarrolló toda una teoría sobre un sexto orden y otras innovaciones fundamentadas en un postmodernismo delirante... Aquí van los distintos órdenes en los que se fundamenta su sexto orden para una "Nueva Arquitectura"

THE 'WORKING' ORDER

Básicamente, el orden "Working" consiste en el uso de tecnología en el interior de las columnas o entablamentos... desde Iluminación a cuadros eléctricos... También aparecen términos como "Robot Column" o "Robot Entablature"...

Proyectos:

1995 The Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge University, England

1999 The Millenium Pavilion, an addition to The New House, Sussex

"The 'Working' Order was the first to be invented, dating from the very beginnings of JOA, in the Christofides Interior, back in 1973. We have used it on virtually every project since that date. It corresponds to the Vitruvian category of Firmitas - translated in to English as 'Firmness'. We roll all of the physical 'supports' of a modern buiding into this single category, and bury them all within the 'Robot Column' and the 'Robot Entablature', or Beam. We derived from this invention, in 1983, the name Ordine Robotico, or 'Working Order', which we have used ever since as the generic name of the whole JOA Order."