tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68140355694533428192012-02-16T11:04:42.192-08:00Urban Acupuncturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698808829832462739noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6814035569453342819.post-49074045414828509772011-04-20T04:20:00.000-07:002012-01-26T05:21:19.123-08:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wZx366khbU0/TwalsJ3xfgI/AAAAAAAABGo/q04BD6H9TeU/s1600/Cicada%2Bby%2Bnight_Casagrande%2BLaboratory.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wZx366khbU0/TwalsJ3xfgI/AAAAAAAABGo/q04BD6H9TeU/s400/Cicada%2Bby%2Bnight_Casagrande%2BLaboratory.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694420956839247362" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OH1W2Dcg0a4/TwamTU7hnMI/AAAAAAAABG0/S9O95J8cNmk/s1600/Cicada%2Bwith%2Bmoon_Casagrande%2BLaboratory.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OH1W2Dcg0a4/TwamTU7hnMI/AAAAAAAABG0/S9O95J8cNmk/s400/Cicada%2Bwith%2Bmoon_Casagrande%2BLaboratory.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694421629822672066" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cicada is an organic void in the mechanical texture of modern Taipei, a cocoon for post-industrial metamorphosis for industrial insects. The architecture is based on the Local Knowledge of human scale flexible bamboo structures containing a high level of improvisation and insect mind - Open Form.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dQ_G_qcGUHM/TwaO_DfX_eI/AAAAAAAABFs/duGL-hMIkcc/s1600/Cicada%2B%2540%2BTaipei_Casagrande%2BLaboratory.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dQ_G_qcGUHM/TwaO_DfX_eI/AAAAAAAABFs/duGL-hMIkcc/s400/Cicada%2B%2540%2BTaipei_Casagrande%2BLaboratory.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694395992776375778" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RK4bDy3COiQ/TwaTlHzsT_I/AAAAAAAABGE/vUhj1G0cEgE/s1600/Cicada_Casagrande_Taipei.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RK4bDy3COiQ/TwaTlHzsT_I/AAAAAAAABGE/vUhj1G0cEgE/s400/Cicada_Casagrande_Taipei.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694401044816875506" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The Cicada is situated on a site in central Taipei waiting for development. Mean while it acts as a public sphere for the surrounding neighborhood and as lounge for university workshops and other spontaneous activities - public space.</div><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hCUwgkIM6u0/TwaIXjN6KDI/AAAAAAAABFg/LohPgB4DQKk/s1600/Cicada_interior_Casagrande.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hCUwgkIM6u0/TwaIXjN6KDI/AAAAAAAABFg/LohPgB4DQKk/s400/Cicada_interior_Casagrande.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694388717028517938" border="0" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TnGvyl_YskY/TwaUAOGen9I/AAAAAAAABGQ/SXntjKTL45I/s1600/Cicada%2Bwith%2Bcreapers_Marco%2BCasagrande.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TnGvyl_YskY/TwaUAOGen9I/AAAAAAAABGQ/SXntjKTL45I/s400/Cicada%2Bwith%2Bcreapers_Marco%2BCasagrande.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694401510362750930" border="0" /></a>As one enters the Cicada, the surrounding city disappears. The cocoon is an interior space but totally outside - it is breathing, vibrating, soft and safe. The space will swollow the modern man and will offer him a possibility to travel a thousand years back in order to realize, that the things are the same. Cicada is insect architecture and the space is a public sphere.<br /><br />Cicada is urban acupuncture for Taipei city penetrating the hard surfaces of industrial laziness in order to reach the original ground and get in touch with the collective Chi, the local knowledge that binds the people of Taipei basin with nature. The cocoon of Cicada is an accidental mediator between the modern man and reality. There is no other reality than nature.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K19l4xxfPRY/Ta7vMoB5lyI/AAAAAAAABFA/JXc-RzqmQ4c/s1600/Cicada_Marco%2BCasagrande_2011.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K19l4xxfPRY/Ta7vMoB5lyI/AAAAAAAABFA/JXc-RzqmQ4c/s400/Cicada_Marco%2BCasagrande_2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597674387050960674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Cicada. Drawing Marco Casagrande.</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Cicada</span><br /><br />Architect:<br />Marco Casagrande<br /><br />Project Managers:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Delphine, Peng Hsiao-Ting / JUT Group</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nikita Wu / C-LAB<br /><br />Casagrande Laboratory for Cicada:<br />Frank Chen, Yu-Chen Chiu, Shreya Nagrath, Arijit Sen<br /><br />Location: Taipei City, Taiwan<br />Measures: 34 m long, 12 m wide, 8 m high<br />Interior space: 270 m2<br />Materials: bamboo, broken concrete, broken glass, steel, earth, creapers<br />Completed: 2011<br /><br />Photos: AdDa<br /></div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XuQfrffiwTI/TwaUYfI5o2I/AAAAAAAABGc/0nYNSyOPOgM/s1600/Cicada_Plan_sketch_Marco%2BCasagrande.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XuQfrffiwTI/TwaUYfI5o2I/AAAAAAAABGc/0nYNSyOPOgM/s400/Cicada_Plan_sketch_Marco%2BCasagrande.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694401927253173090" border="0" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6814035569453342819-4907404541482850977?l=cicadataipei.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Urban Acupuncturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05698808829832462739noreply@blogger.com0