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201812_1478 Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, theater

The City of Arts and Sciences (Valencian: Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències [siwˈtad de les ˈaɾts i les siˈɛnsi.es]; Spanish: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias [θjuˈðað ðe las ˈaɾtes i las ˈθjenθjas]) is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.

The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the end of the former riverbed of the river Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a catastrophic flood in 1957. The old riverbed was turned into a picturesque sunken park.

Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, the project began the first stages of construction in July 1996, and was inaugurated April 16, 1998 with the opening of L’Hemisfèric. The last great component of the City of Arts and Sciences, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, was inaugurated on October 9, 2005, Valencian Community Day.

Originally budgeted at €300 million, it has cost nearly three times the initial expected cost.

֍ L’Hemisfèric (1998) — an IMAX Cinema, planetarium and laserium. The building is meant to resemble a giant eye, and has an approximate surface of 13,000 m². The Hemesferic also known as the planetarium or the "eye of knowledge," is the centerpiece of the City of Arts and Sciences. It was the first building completed in 1998. Its design resembles an eyelid that opens to access the surrounding water pool. The bottom of the pool is glass, creating the illusion of the eye as a whole. This planetarium is a half-sphere composed of concrete 110 meters long and 55.5 meters wide. The shutter is built of elongated aluminum awnings that fold upward collectively to form a brise soleil roof that opens along the curved axis of the eye. It opens to reveal the dome, the "iris" of the eye, which is the Ominax theater. The City of Arts and Sciences is divided in half by a set of stairs that descend into the vaulted concrete lobby. The underground spaces are illuminated with the use of translucent glass panels within the walking path. The transparent roof is supported by concrete arches that connect to the sunken gallery. There is a miraculous echo inside of the building and if two people stay on the two opposite pillars inside of the eye they can seamlessly speak with each other.

֍ El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (2005) — an opera house and performing arts center. It contains four large rooms: a Main Room, Magisterial Classroom, Amphitheater and Theater of Camera. It is dedicated to music and the scenic arts. It is surrounded by 87,000 square meters of landscape and water, as well as 10,000 square meters of walking area. The Palau de Les Arts has four sections; the main hall, the master hall, the auditorium, and the Martin y Soler theatre. It holds many events such as opera, theatre and music in its auditoriums. Panoramic lifts and stairways connect platforms at different heights on the inside of the metallic frames of the building. The building has a metallic feather outer roof that rests on two supports and is 230 meters long and 70 meters high. One of the supports allows for part of the building to overhang. The building is supported by white concrete. Two laminated steel shells cover the building weighing over 3,000 tons. These shells are 163 meters wide and 163 meters long.

֍ El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe (2000) — Is an interactive museum of science that resembles the skeleton of a whale. It occupies around 40,000 m² on three floors. The hotch-potch of exhibits is designed more for ‘entertainment value’ than for science education. Much of the ground floor is taken up by a basketball court sponsored by a local team and various companies. The building is made up of three floors of which 26,000 square meters is used for exhibitions. The first floor has a view of the Turia Garden that surrounds it; which is over 13,500 square meters of water. The second floor hosts "The Legacy of Science" exhibition by the researchers; Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Severo Ochoa y Jean Dausset. The third floor is known as the "Chromosome Forest" which shows the sequencing of human DNA. Also on this floor is the "Zero Gravity," the "Space Academy," and "Marvel Superheroes" exhibitions. The building’s architecture is known for its geometry, structure, use of materials, and its design around nature. The building is about 42,000 square meter and 26,000 square meters of is exhibition space, which is currently the largest in Spain. It has 20,000 square meters of glass, 4,000 panes, 58,000 m³ of concrete, and 14.000 tons of steel. This magnificent building stands 220 meters long, 80 meters wide and 55 meters high.

֍ El Pont de l’Assut de l’Or (2008) — a white cable-stayed bridge crossing the dry Turia riverbed, connecting the south side with Minorca Street, in between El Museu de les Ciències and L’Agora. The tower of the bridge at 125 meters high is the highest point in the city.

֍ L’Àgora (2009) — a covered plaza in which concerts and sporting events (such as the Valencia Open 500) are held. The Agora is a space designed to hold a variety of events such as concerts, performances, exhibitions, conventions, staging of congresses, and international sports meetings. Many important events have been held in this building including the Freestyle Burn Spanish Cup in 2010 and the Christmas Special Program.

source: Wikipedia

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ellyotdesign · 7 years ago

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FEAR AND LOVE - THE DESIGN MUSEUM

Fear and love was one of those exhibitions that I don’t think the feeling of “okay I’m done here” would ever actually strike. Not only was each exhibit rich with conceptual and visual material that was genuinely worth considering and examining but also had a very individual style in terms of its visual aesthetic and presentation. Although I found each exhibit fascinating, I intend to shift my focus towards two.

As a whole I think the very intention of stepping back and examining the process of designing as a whole is a fascinating idea as well as give curators a really diverse subject matter to explore.

INTIMATE STRANGERS (IMAGE 2 AND 5)

Intimate strangers is a 20 minute documentary based off of the location based-based male dating app “Grindr”. The documentary not only covers the more technical aspects of the app (which pioneered the location-based dating app for many clones to copy) but also explores the ‘culture of casual sex based on convenience’ that the app has created. This unique blend of technological development combined with primal desire was visualised and explained in a very appropriate way in correlation to the subject matter. This wasn’t simply a single screen for viewers to gawk at but instead a multi walled, multi screened, and multi media display. Credits were shown on an ipad at one angle, next to it a sea of mobile phones each with information regarding the app as well as two differently shaped screen providing in sync or sometimes out of sync imagery, carefully designed for the audience’s attention to be whipped back and forth between the two. One couldn’t observe the documentary and keep their head still or let alone fit it into one field of vision. The engagement of the documentary was almost earned by the bystander as he was caused to engage with the work.

POTOCINEMA (IMAGE 3)

Not pictured is a small room dotted with analogue televisions each of which displaying media filmed by residents of the city of Cludad Bolivar in Columbia. The housing of the tvs is a scaled down replica of the nearby school built from local materials and the videos were created by teenagers of that school, told to document the “fear and love” of their city. The teenagers themselves are part of a new educational system based around the process of film making, providing them with a route in life stemming from creativity and not gang violence. To me where the work is impressive is not each video in isolation but instead the sense of immersion when in the room. The outer tv especially with the 360 display not only visibly caught the attention of many around, really gave you a true representation of the space being displayed. I think the video I recorded captures it perfectly. As the user sheepishly engages with the work, he is visually surprised by the feedback of the media.

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