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Decorated cement tiles are a benchmark of 20th century Tel Aviv interior design

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Ran Morin's 1993 floating orange tree in Jaffa

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Reversible Destiny Lofts - Declaration of the Right Not to Die, by Madeline Gins & Shusaku Arakawa, creators of Architecture Against Death

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Reversible Destiny Lofts - Declaration of the Right Not to Die, by Madeline Gins & Shusaku Arakawa, creators of Architecture Against Death

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Lofts with uneven terrain, shapes, and colors that prevent the body from creating habit and being unmindful even in daily tasks like walking to and from the kitchen. In that way the conceptual artists hoped to combat physical and mental ageing by keeping us always aware and active.

https://www.archdaily.com/tag/architecture-against-death
https://slought.org/resources/reversible_destiny
architecture for the senses - https://www.archdaily.com/903925/touch-it-smell-it-feel-it-architecture-for-the-senses

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For privacy, to reduce noise from the adjacent shuk and bus station, and to maximise wind flow from the sea, the park has curved walls on the nothern and southern sides. Tree coverage will provide shade and cleaner air in the Israeli heat.

The north western side of the park will have an social exercise equipment while the north eastern side will have life-sized chess/checkers boards, an infinity puzzle, and a sand scraping garden all to encourage movement balance and thinking. These activities will be spaces throughout uneven terrain to encourage more balance training and mindful stepping even between the equipment.

The southern half of the park will be a flat open ended space with seating and the monument.

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מצילים את גן הכובשים

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https://www.superblue.com/projects/koo-jeong-a-otro/

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* went from walking to shuffling (the floor enables it, vs a floor that forces you to consciously move)
* leaning forward - offsetting the centre of gravity
* harder to build muscle
* focus on upper body too so they can lift up
* group vs individual / trained vs self training and how that translates into the built environment
* need for privacy, for hardness/softness, a wall, "screening" --> an anti younger person space
* tap into culture - culturally played games translated into workouts/training/outside
* focus on primary research --> drone shots, ground shots, route maps,

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Create a playground/exercise park for older adults of Tel Aviv targeting balance, mobility, and community building.

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Ferdinand Cheval (19 April 1836 - 19 August 1924) was a French postman who spent thirty-three years of his life building Le Palais idéal (the "Ideal Palace") in Hauterives. The Palace is regarded as an extraordinary example of naïve art architecture.

Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, also known as Facteur Cheval (Postman/Mailman Cheval) was born in Charmes-sur-l'Herbasse into a poor farming family. He left school at the age of 13 to become a baker's apprentice, but eventually became a postman.

In 1858, Cheval married his first wife, Rosaline Revol. Together they had two sons, Victorin Joseph Fernand (1864), and Ferdinand Cyril (1867). Victorin died in 1865 just a year after he was born. His first wife Rosaline died in 1873. Five years later Cheval met and married Claire-Philomène Richaud. Because of his marriage to Claire, the new couple found themselves with a dowry that accompanied some land on which the Palais Idéal stands today. Later that same year, Claire gave birth to their daughter Alice-Marie-Philomène. Alice died in 1894 at the age of 15. Alice's death hit Cheval the hardest and she was the last child he would have. Eighteen years later, his son Cyril and his second wife, Claire, would die within two years of each other in 1912 and 1914 respectively.

Palais idéal

Cheval began the building in April 1879 when he was 43 years old. He reported:

I was walking very fast when my foot caught on something that sent me stumbling a few metres away, I wanted to know the cause. In a dream I had built a palace, a castle or caves, I cannot express it well... I told no one about it for fear of being ridiculed and I felt ridiculous myself. Then fifteen years later, when I had almost forgotten my dream, when I wasn't thinking of it at all, my foot reminded me of it. My foot tripped on a stone that almost made me fall. I wanted to know what it was... It was a stone of such a strange shape that I put it in my pocket to admire it at my ease. The next day, I went back to the same place. I found more stones, even more beautiful, I gathered them together on the spot and was overcome with delight... It's a sandstone shaped by water and hardened by the power of time. It becomes as hard as pebbles. It represents a sculpture so strange that it is impossible for man to imitate, it represents any kind of animal, any kind of caricature. I said to myself: since Nature is willing to do the sculpture, I will do the masonry and the architecture.

For the next thirty-three years, Cheval picked up stones during his daily mail round and carried them home to build the Palais idéal. He spent the first twenty years building the outer walls. At first, he carried the stones in his pockets, then switched to a basket. Eventually, he used a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.

The palace materials mainly consist of stones (river washed), pebbles, porous tufa and fossils of many different shapes and sizes. When a visitor first comes up on the palace, the first face they see is the southern facade. This is approximately 26 metres long and up to 10 metres high. The decoration resembles aspects of both the Brighton Pavilion and Gaudí's Sagrada Família. Cheval did not travel and he had even given himself the title of peasant, so even though the qualities resemble those pieces of art, he had never seen them. Three giant stones, each with doll-like faces, standing about 10.5 high, serve not only as decoration but as a support system for the Barbary Tower, with an elegant spiral staircase lined with swans made of cement leading up to it. The tall stones were named Vercingétorix, Archimedes and Caesar. Cheval hand-carved the names into each individual figure.

The north face exhibits a long path dotted with large openings to provide plentiful light leading into the heart of the palace itself. This facade is very forest-like with walls coated in moss and massive seaweed. The ceiling, swirling patterns of pebbles and shells that outline the chandeliers. Upper walls are lined with horizontal bands with animals carved into them in an Egyptian-like style. Other animals on the north face facade include two ostriches (presumably mother and father) and an ostrich chick, a 1.2m tall camel, flamingos, octopi, lions, dragons, and a polar bear.

The east facade took the longest to build before, a shocking 20 years. This face includes 'The Temple of Nature', an Egyptian style temple-like structure supported by large, thick sandstone columns. It includes two waterfalls called the Source of Life and the Source of Wisdom.

The Palais is a mix of different styles with inspirations from Christianity to Hinduism. Cheval bound the stones together with lime, mortar and cement.

The palace is sprinkled with short quotes and poems hand-carved by Cheval himself. Some examples being "If you look for gold you will find it in elbow grease.", "The Pantheon of an obscure hero." "The work of one man", "Out of a dream I have brought forth the Queen of the World", "This is of art, and of energy", "The ecstasy of a beautiful dream and the prize of effort", "Dream of a peasant", "Temple of Life", and "Palace of the Imagination". Perhaps the most iconic phrase he inscribed on the wall reads "1879-1912 10,000 days, 93,000 hours, 33 years of struggle. Let those who think they can do better try."

Cheval wanted to be buried in his palace. Because that is illegal in France, he spent eight more years building a mausoleum for himself in the Hauterives cemetery. He died on 19 August 1924, about a year after he had finished building it, and is buried there.

Just before his death, Cheval received recognition from figures including André Breton, Bernard Buffet, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Doisneau, and Pablo Picasso. His work is commemorated in an essay by Anaïs Nin. In 1932, the German artist Max Ernst created a collage titled The Postman Cheval. The collage belongs to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and is on display there. In 1958, Ado Kyrou produced Le Palais idéal, a short film about Cheval's palace.

After admiring Cheval's work, Picasso created a series of drawings telling a narrative, in a cartoon fashion, which is now recognized as Facteur Cheval sketchbook in 1937. Picasso drew him as twisted, hybrid-like creature (or beast), carved with the initials of the French postal service (P.T.T) on his skin, dressed in typical postman's attire, holding masonry tools and a letter. The creature was standing in front of his creation. In the drawing, Picasso took a humorous route sketching Cheval's body in the shape of a horse and his head that of a bird. Picasso did this in an effort to make a sort of pun about Cheval's name and career given birds are messengers (as Cheval was a postman) and the meaning of Cheval is horse.

In 1969, André Malraux, the Minister of Culture, declared the Palais a cultural landmark and had it officially protected. In 1986, Cheval was put on a French postage stamp.

In 2018 French director Nils Tavernier released the feature film L'incroyable histoire du facteur Cheval, English title: Ideal Palace, about Cheval's life and work, with Jacques Gamblin starring as Postman Cheval.

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https://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/en/abouttheCity/Pages/CityinNumbers.aspx#:~:text=Household%20and%20Population%3A,Jews%20and%2044%2C320%20non%2DJews.

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Tel Aviv was founded on April 20, 1909. Jaffa is over 3,000 years old. In 1950, the two cities were united under one municipal entity, Tel-Aviv-Yafo. I. Statistical Data
The Tel Aviv Metropolitan area has a radius of 60 km and includes 3.9 million people amounting to 44% of the Israeli population (2018)

Municipality Jurisdiction: 52 km ² (Jerusalem 125 km ², Haifa 65 km ²) - density (persons per km ²) is 8,600 in Tel-Aviv-Yafo (2018).

Climate: on average 328 clear sunny days with 484 mm rainfall per year.

Household and Population:
Tel-Aviv-Yafo population In Dec. 2018: 451,520 residents - 407,200 Jews and 44,320 non-Jews.

Households (2018): 199.7 thousand households in Tel-Aviv-Yafo, with an average of 2.2 persons per household. 58% of households are Family households
25% of households include children aged up to 17
25% of households include persons aged 65 and over
85% of the households are connected to the Internet (2017)

Marital Status (2017): 45% of the men and 38% of the women are single

Labor and Employment (2018): total employees 424,800 (11% of all employees in Israel) 39% of the employees are city residents and additional 53% live in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area (8% of the employees live outside the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area).

Employment by economic branch (2018): 16% in professional, scientific and technical activities, 12% in information and communication, 9% in wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and 8% in financial and insurance activities.

74% of the Tel-Aviv-Yafo residents aged 15 years and above participate in the workforce.

Tourism (2018): 78 Tourist hotels with nearly 8,500 hotel rooms, over 1.5 million gues and over 3.6 million overnight stays.

Transport (2018): there are 287,320 registered vehicles in the city ( this is according to the owner's registered address so many of those vehicles are registered to the state of Israel and various other entities as firms and organizations). Tel Aviv-Yafo has 137 km of bicycle trails. The total number of travels from and to Tel-Aviv-Yafo railway stations in 2018 was about 41.6 millions.

Monthly Income per Household in Tel-Aviv-Yafo (Whose head is an Employee) in 2017: 24,410 NIS (Gross Income), 9% higher than the average income in Israel which is 22,461 NIS

Housing (2017): 47% are home owners, compared to 67% home owners in Israel

Education (2018/19): 26,000 students at Tel Aviv University, 12,500 students at academic colleges

Museums (2018): The number of attendances was about 2.1 million.

Music (2018): 3 of the biggest music institutions in Israel are in Tel Aviv-Yafo. In 2018, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , The New Israeli Opera and the Israel Chamber Orchestra held concerts for 464,500 listeners

Theatre (2018): 5 of the biggest theaters in Israel are in Tel Aviv-Yafo. Total annual attendances in 2018 were about 1.7 million.

Libraries (2018): 22 libraries with approximately one million books.

Social Services (2016): 38,280 residents receive assistance from the social services (9% of the city's residents).

2018 City Budget: 6.8 billion NIS (approximately 1.8 billion Euros), which is the total budget (ordinary and extraordinary budget). 2018 ended with an 9 million NIS surplus. 69% of all city property tax is paid by businesses (not residents).In the course of 1998 to 2018, there was a rise of 110% in the city's income and 96% in the city's expenditure (whithin the ordinary budget).

Elections and City Council: In 2018, the last election campaign for the Mayoralty and the City Council of Tel-Aviv-Yafo Municipality, 46% of the total citizens eligible to vote did so. The City Council has 31 members.

Municipality Employees (2018): 9751 municipal employees

II. Description of the statistical data
Area
Tel Aviv-Yafo's municipal jurisdiction covers an area of 52 square km. The latest data from 2018 shows that about 23% of its total area, approximately 12 square km, is an "green" area (parks, groves, and gardens).
Demographics, Population and Households
In 2018, the population of Tel Aviv-Yafo totaled 451,520; this figure did not include the tens of thousands of foreign people lacking of civil status (legal and non-legal migratory workers, asylum and refugee seekers) who live in the city.

The city population is growing increasingly for the last three decades with an average population growth of 1.1% per year, since the last population census from 2008.
Age Structure and Family Status
The number of households in Tel Aviv-Yafo in 2018 was 199.7 thousand households, with an average of 2.2 persons per household, compared to the national average of 3.3 persons per household. Average household population in the city has been declining since the beginning of the '60s.

An estimated 62,900 of Tel Aviv-Yafo's residents in December 2017 (some 14% of the total) were new immigrants who had arrived since 1990; most of them live in the city's southern neighborhoods. On average, the new immigrants are slightly older than the general population of the city.

According to the latest data of 2018, the average age of residents is relatively advanced, with a low proportion of children (19% between the ages of 0-14, compared with a national average of 28%) and a higher proportion of senior citizens aged up to 65 years (15% as compared with the national average of 11%). However, Tel Aviv-Yafo has a prominent number of youths aged 20-34 (25%) that contribute to the city's urban vibe, economy, culture and services (in Israel the same group is 21% of the population).
Tel Aviv-Yafo as an Employment Center
The proportion of single-parent families in Tel Aviv-Yafo is high - according to social security data, 24% of all families with children in December 2018, as compared with a national average of only 13%. In fact, since the beginning of the '90s, the number of single-parent families in the city has more than doubled.

In comparison with other Israeli cities, Tel Aviv-Yafo is home to a large population of unmarried men and women: 45% of the men and 38% of the women in 2017, as compared with a national average of 35% and 28% respectively.

The number of employed persons in Tel Aviv-Yafo reached 425,000 in 2018. The city is a national employment center - 11% of all those employed in Israel in 2018 worked in Tel Aviv-Yafo, as compared with the other two big cities - 9% (348,800) in Jerusalem, and 5% (178,600) in Haifa.

Relatively, a high concentration of employed persons in Tel Aviv-Yafo are employed in 2018 in the following economic branches: professional, scientific and technical activities (16%), information and communication (12%), wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles (9%) and financial and insurance activities (8%).
* Statistics Provided by the Center for Economic and Social Research of Tel-Aviv-Yafo Municipality
As compared with Jerusalem, Haifa and Israel, employment data clearly highlights the status of the city as a national financial-economic center, with focus on professional and communication activities: of all employed nationally in 2018, the following were employed in Tel Aviv-Yafo: 28% in financial and insurance activities, 25% in information and communication and 23 in professional, scientific and technical activities.

In 2018, 39% of those employed in Tel Aviv-Yafo were city residents, 53% lived elsewhere in the greater metropolitan area and 8% commuted from beyond the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv. The two most dominant economic branches that city residents worked in in 2018 were: professional, scientific and technical activities (16% of those employed) and information and communication (11% of those employed). The proportion of city residents employed as blue-collar workers is relatively low.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Babylon_(Constant_Nieuwenhuys)

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New Babylon is an anti-capitalist city perceived and designed in 1959-74 as a future potentiality by visual artist Constant Nieuwenhuys.

Initially known as Dériville (from "ville dérivée", literally, "drift city"), it was later renamed New Babylon. Henri Lefebvre explained: "a New Babylon -- a provocative name, since in the Christian tradition Babylon is a figure of evil. New Babylon was to be the figure of good that took the name of the cursed city and transformed itself into the city of the future."

The goal was the creating of alternative life experiences, called "situations", Sarah Williams Goldhagen explained:

[In the 1950s, Constant] had already been working for years on his "New Babylon" series of paintings, sketches, texts, and architectural models describing the shape of a post-revolutionary society. Constant's New Babylon was to be a series of linked transformable structures, some of which were themselves the size of a small city--what architects call a megastructure. Perched above ground, Constant's megastructures would literally leave the bourgeois metropolis below and would be populated by homo ludens--man at play. (Homo Ludens is the title of a book by the great Dutch historian Johan Huizinga.) In the New Babylon, the bourgeois shackles of work, family life, and civic responsibility would be discarded. The post-revolutionary individual would wander from one leisure environment to another in search of new sensations. Beholden to no one, he would sleep, eat, recreate, and procreate where and when he wanted. Self-fulfillment and self-satisfaction were Constant's social goals. Deductive reasoning, goal-oriented production, the construction and betterment of a political community--all these were eschewed.

Nieuwenhuys' New Babylon was based on the idea that architecture itself would allow and instigate a transformation of daily reality. As Nieuwenhuys wrote:

It is obvious that a person free to use his time for the whole of his life, free to go where he wants, when he wants, cannot make the greatest use of his freedom in a world ruled by the clock and the imperative of a fixed abode. As a way of life, Homo Ludens will demand, firstly, that he responds to his need for playing, for adventure, for mobility, as well as all the conditions that facilitate the free creation of his own life. Until then, the principal activity of man had been the exploration of his natural surroundings. Homo Ludens himself will seek to transform, to recreate, those surroundings, that world, according to his new needs. The exploration and creation of the environment will then happen to coincide because, in creating his domain to explore, Homo Ludens will apply himself to exploring his own creation. Thus we will be present at an uninterrupted process of creation and re-creation, sustained by a generalized creativity that is manifested in all domains of activity.

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New Babylon (Constant Nieuwenhuys) - Wikipedia

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New Babylon is an anti-capitalist city perceived and designed in 1959-74 as a future potentiality by visual artist Constant Nieuwenhuys. Initially known as Dériville (from "ville dérivée", literally, "drift city"), it was later renamed New Babylon. Henri Lefebvre explained: "a New Babylon -- a provocative name, since in the Christian tradition Babylon is a figure of evil.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Z8XrNB_ug

"reawakening those long dormant neuromuscular pathways" ... will help senior recover when they fall

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Seniors Play Fitness Game To Prevent Falls

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJzhxU6fNxM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84rXHqjltjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjnlSSt5K4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=603tR8PFI3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqAYTTtsszE

Aussie @ Temple of Heaven Beijing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA7E1xXeIH4

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Zen Clash with Color Cairn/terrain forms

Life Sized Fidget spinner forms

Orimagi forms

needs to be functional, fun, whimsical, colorful, community/group/interaction facilitator

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Windows & Pain Relief - health & architecture

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Windows & Pain Relief - health & architecture

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Urban Development, University of Taipei, No.101, Sec. 2, Zhongcheng Rd., Taipei, Taiwan.

² College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Xing St., Taipei, Taiwan.

³ School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 611 Lorado Taft Drive, Champaign, Illinois, USA.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urban Development, University of Taipei, No.101, Sec. 2, Zhongcheng Rd., Taipei, Taiwan.

² College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Xing St., Taipei, Taiwan.

³ School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 611 Lorado Taft Drive, Champaign, Illinois, USA.

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the impact of urban landscape from window views on quality of care for women who underwent Cesarean Section (C-section) in Taiwan.

Design: The participants were randomly assigned into 46 different hospital rooms to see the effects of various window views and daylight exposure on women's recovery from post C-section care.

Setting: We carried out this study in the obstetrics departments of three tertiary hospitals located in two major cities of Taiwan: Taipei City and New Taipei City.

Participants: A total of 296 women who underwent C-sections and used patient-controlled analgesic (PCA) for pain control after their surgery during the 10-month data collection period were recruited for this study.

Intervention: The 46 different patient rooms provided diverse window views and different daylight exposure for the participants.

Main outcome measures: Recovery for the women who underwent C-sections in this study was defined as PCA usage and perceived pain measured by Brief Pain Inventory (BFI).

Results: Higher satisfaction of window view significantly decreased analgesic usage (P = 0.057), reduced the scores of overall perceived pain (P = 0.046), pain severity (P = 0.004), and 'pain's interference with relations with others, enjoyment of life, and mood (REM).' (P = 0.095).

Conclusions: To maximize benefit and well-being of patients recovering from surgery, health care architects should design patient rooms to create maximum satisfaction with visual impacts and optimize window views. By doing so, it may decrease the use of pain medication and substantially reduce healthcare costs.

Keywords: healthcare architecture; quality of postpartum care; urban landscape; window views.

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Ernesto Neto - Madness is a part of live

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Ernesto Neto - Madness is a part of live

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Okay, folks. We've found the funnest thing to do in Tokyo right now and best of all, it's right in the center and it's even artistic.

Head on down to the Louis Vuitton store on Omotesando, where on the top floor there is an art gallery called Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo. There LV holds regular exhibitions with international and Japanese artists.

The current show is "Madness is part of Life" [sic] by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, who is known for his organic 3D works.

The main piece is a huge hanging canopy, a sort of hammock-like quasi-zoological sculpture, which you can walk up onto and then along till you reach this snug nest-like section where you can lie down and relax.

Press materials say that it "deals with stability, as well as discovery of how we move, desire, fear, and most importantly, of the fact our existence itself is part of a body that is 'Life'."

We're not sure about that but it is certainly very organic and made us think of children's ball pits, jungle ropewalks, a rainforest canopy, wombs, snakes, sperm... Well, let's just say it is an extravaganza of motifs but walking along the hammock tunnels is indescribable fun!

Since the Espace gallery also features these massive glass windows, you can get great views of central Tokyo.

Not surprisingly with its location and child-like (and child-friendly) interactiveness, the show is proving a bigger hit than even the events at the more famous commercial galleries and art museums in Tokyo.

"Madness is part of Life" ends January 6th. Entry is free.

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Ernesto Neto in Tokyo: Walking on the urban jungle

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Okay, folks. We've found the funnest thing to do in Tokyo right now and best of all, it's right in the center and it's even artistic. Head on down to the Louis Vuitton store on Omotesando, where on the top floor there is an art gallery called Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo.

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Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam's "Woods of Net"

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Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam's "Woods of Net"

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During this last few months we have presented you several works by the japanese office Tezuka Architects. The houses have very strong concepts, tied to different ways of inhabiting these projects designed specifically for each client.

Now we present you Woods of Net, a permanent pavilion for japanese net artist Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam, in collaboration with structural engineers TIS & PARTNERS.

The pavilion is located at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, a unique open museum located in one of the most visited tourist spots in Japan. Woods of Net was added to the collection of art works as part of their 40th anniversary.

After the break, the architects description of the pavilion with photos by Abel Erazo.

This is a permanent pavilion for a net artist, Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam. The artist knitted the net entirely by hand, which is designed for children to crawl in, roll around, and jump on the net. It was easy for us to see the artwork being outside even when it cannot be exposed to rain or ultraviolet light. We wanted to design a space as soft as the forest where the boundary between outside and inside disappears. The space attracts people like campfire. The children play inside of the net just as fire and parents sit around and lay on the woods.

The structure is entirely composed of timbers without any metal parts. 320 cubic meter of timber members are used and there is nothing same among all the 589 members. The latest structural program was developed for the pavilion, but the joint techniques are derived from thousands years old Japanese wooden temples in Nara and Kyoto. As long as the proper maintenance is done, it is capable of existing over 300 years. This is the oldest and the latest structure in the world.

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During this last few months we have presented you several works by the japanese office Tezuka Architects. The houses have very strong concepts, tied to different ways of inhabiting these projects designed specifically for each client. Now we present you Woods of Net, a permanent pavilion for japanese net artist Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam, in collaboration with structural engineers TIS & PARTNERS.

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Potential Form for a Bosu circle?
Facilitate conversation and group exercise by using a circular form instead of rows or single person exercise equiptment.

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"if you stay at home you might not feel any pain, but after a couple of days you can barely move" - Frenchesca guererra, 84

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It's spring and kids in some parts of the world at least, are heading outside and playing in parks and on jungle gyms.

In Spain, they're often with their grandparents. But these days the older folks aren't just sitting around feeding squirrels.

They're playing too. And exercising. On hundreds of specially designed outdoor circuits for the elderly.

On one recent morning, in the Spanish coastal town of Vilassar, a kiddy park with its slides and seesaws is empty. But right next to it, 20 retirees shout out during roll call. Then they take up positions by tiny balance beams, elevated walkways, pedals fixed to benches and twisting metal bars.

The day's workout session begins.

63-year-old retiree Manuel Francisco Martin spins a suspended metal disk with two hand cranks, while walking in place.

"The point is to be able to keep going, he said. "To never stop. Because once you stop moving, things go badly."

Several grey heads nod in agreement.

"If you exercise you feel better," he says. "When you go up a couple of steps you don't get out of breath. When you walk for 10 minutes you feel calm and relaxed."

The body is like everything else, he said: any parts that aren't used eventually break down.

This outdoor exercise park was designed somewhere with a decidedly short season for parks: Finland. The company behind the project was Lappset and they've sold tens of thousands of these parks worldwide.

But Spain has been an especially good market. It has 600 already and orders in for hundreds more.

Each time a new park opens here, Lappset physical therapist Paz Vidal shows up to explain how each station works. They're not overly complicated. But Paz said the seniors generally need a walk-through. And encouragement.

"People's first impression is always, 'huh, what are we going to do here?'" she said.

But she said they come around quickly - and to their benefit.

"Most are used to strolling," she said, "but not stretching, much less using all their different muscles."

"It is very healthy and important," said Juan Masi, 70, while pushing a rubber tube back and forth along a bar. Then he loses his breath and laughs.

"This is what happens when the years pass," he said. "You'll see one day."

These parks aren't just about getting winded. They're designed for the mind too. A few of the stations are in fact games, where you match colors, or shapes, or numbers.

Barcelona's Josep Sole has bought some 300 elderly parks for the greater Barcelona area. That's about one for every town in the district. Sole said the million-dollar-plus price-tag is worth it.

"We loved the idea of creating spaces in public to encourage the elderly," he said. "We value these for the exercise, but the key is that it's not in a gym, not in a retirement home, but outside."

The point of these outdoor exercise spots isn't just to give elderly folks something to do. Officials say it makes good fiscal sense as well.

Analysts estimate that 40 to 45 percent of the population in Spain will be retirees by 2050. Spending a few bucks on parks to keep that population alert and healthy, the thinking goes, could save a lot in expensive health care costs.

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Playgrounds are a big hit with Spain's elder set

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It's spring and kids in some parts of the world at least, are heading outside and playing in parks and on jungle gyms. In Spain, they're often with their grandparents. But these days the older folks aren't just sitting around feeding squirrels. They're playing too. And exercising.

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Using mismanaged/under-utilised city spaces for community engagement

https://www.archdaily.com/966152/serena-confalonieri-transforms-abandoned-parking-lot-in-milan-into-a-graphic-urban-playground?ad_source=search&ad_medium=projects_tab&ad_source=search&ad_medium=search_result_all

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Serena Confalonieri Transforms Abandoned Parking Lot in Milan into a Graphic Urban Playground

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Serena Confalonieri has created “Quadra”, a graphic installation that is part of the initiative “Piazze Aperte” promoted by the Municipality of Milan.

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Amanda Sturgeon - Biophillic design to heal 

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Amanda Sturgeon - Biophillic design to heal 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAmbZCtNC9U

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Using biophilic design to heal body, mind, and soul

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vikIWEnLK04&list=PLX6Z7RcjSi4Sxy7M8fDqlsRHGvOyXqzaV&index=15&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxflcCxqebU&list=PLX6Z7RcjSi4Sxy7M8fDqlsRHGvOyXqzaV&index=14

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECP8S-Z7xe8&t=6s

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Building communities through architecture: Jeanne Gang at TEDxMidwest

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Architecture Against Death - Arakawa & Madeline Gins:  

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Architecture Against Death - Arakawa & Madeline Gins:  

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Uneven Terrain in a built space = youth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ppyREetnkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY8zk6FEAgw; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1uBml3Rdo;

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Never Too Small Series: We need to enable cities to remain diverse and inclusive (not pushing people to the fringes due to rising costs) by rethinking the infrastructure and social spaces we are developing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wdl0-F00IU&list=PLX6Z7RcjSi4T_76PNF-tFtme6a147XjrY&index=5&t=3s

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Rethinking Affordability - SMALL FOOTPRINT - Ep 4

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textured bioplastic bosu rubber replacement

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7Vh3sSfFE&list=PLX6Z7RcjSi4QpqMrwYv6gMODK1RFnfjdX&index=4&t=260s

remember to include railings for support

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc8DBjc95SA&list=PLX6Z7RcjSi4QpqMrwYv6gMODK1RFnfjdX&index=5

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rock textured bioplastic I created....perhaps this could be a template for making the classic rubber bosu ball appear more rocklike?

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bulbous texture study

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Derive practice Baja California, Mexico

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My partner stacking

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Gathered as part of my derive practice in northern California