Ricefield Origami - Normal Group for Architecture

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Ricefield Origami

Aomori, Japan. Competition entry, Northern Style Housing, 2001

Come in.

You see streets, many doors, folded surfaces, rice fields...and the city.

Today in the age of compressed distances, we propose a housing complex with both
urban density and integrated landscape, a mélange of cities and nature, some
places prepared and polished, some remain from the years before and
folded into many stories.

Origami too can fold in and out, then they carry the folds even when
unfolded, you can keep them or throw them away.

If a house is made like an origami, folded from a square to the program necessary,
one side the city, the other side nature, the figure will contain both.

The depth of the shallow-planted, modern rice field is 8cm, rice ditches
are 36 cm. As thin as the layer of water, the floors will float over
the beams of the building origami. Rice planted in shallow water,
people living on field-like floors.

Aomori Bay and the city will appear, both in reflection and on the horizon.
Walk up the ramping street, besides the rice field, to your door.

Come in and be outside.

Normal Group for Architecture was founded in 1998 by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Sabine von Fischer after they won second prize in the competition for the Foundation Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona (BLUR - 2G International Competition). Commissioned by Thread Waxing Space, a non-profit art organization from New York, to design and oversee the execution of their new offices, Normal Group opened its office and since then works on design projects in various fields of architecture.

Projects by Normal Group include Rubber-Bar, coffee-bar and info-desk in Swiss Institute New York (to be built until the end of 2001), Kollektiv, competition for a school in Liechtenstein (2nd stage, 2000), Blur, 2G International Competition for Mies van der Rohe Foundation (2nd Prize), Stage, TKTS Competition (New York, 1999), Thread Waxing Space, non-profit art organization in New York (completed 1999), Hotel Normal, Open Competition for a hotel in Belgrade, (Honourable Mention, 1998) and others. In 2001 Normalgroup was recommended for the Borromini Award for Young Architects.

address: Normal Group, 147 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002, tel. 1-212-645-6611, fax. 1-646-486-1243, s+s@normalgroup.net


.	Ricefield Origami Aomori, Japan. Competition entry, Northern Style Housing, 2001
	Come in. You see streets, many doors, folded surfaces, rice fields...and the city. Today in the age of compressed distances, we propose a housing complex with both urban density and integrated landscape, a mélange of cities and nature, some places prepared and polished, some remain from the years before and folded into many stories. Origami too can fold in and out, then they carry the folds even when unfolded, you can keep them or throw them away. If a house is made like an origami, folded from a square to the program necessary, one side the city, the other side nature, the figure will contain both. The depth of the shallow-planted, modern rice field is 8cm, rice ditches are 36 cm. As thin as the layer of water, the floors will float over the beams of the building origami. Rice planted in shallow water, people living on field-like floors. Aomori Bay and the city will appear, both in reflection and on the horizon. Walk up the ramping street, besides the rice field, to your door. Come in and be outside.

	Normal Group for Architecture was founded in 1998 by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and Sabine von Fischer after they won second prize in the competition for the Foundation Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona (BLUR - 2G International Competition). Commissioned by Thread Waxing Space, a non-profit art organization from New York, to design and oversee the execution of their new offices, Normal Group opened its office and since then works on design projects in various fields of architecture. Projects by Normal Group include Rubber-Bar, coffee-bar and info-desk in Swiss Institute New York (to be built until the end of 2001), Kollektiv, competition for a school in Liechtenstein (2nd stage, 2000), Blur, 2G International Competition for Mies van der Rohe Foundation (2nd Prize), Stage, TKTS Competition (New York, 1999), Thread Waxing Space, non-profit art organization in New York (completed 1999), Hotel Normal, Open Competition for a hotel in Belgrade, (Honourable Mention, 1998) and others. In 2001 Normalgroup was recommended for the Borromini Award for Young Architects. address: Normal Group, 147 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002, tel. 1-212-645-6611, fax. 1-646-486-1243, s+s@normalgroup.net