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Farshid Moussavi

  • Site : https://www.farshidmoussavi.com/
  • Adresse : 130 fenchurch street ec3m 5dj London
FARSHID MOUSSAVI OBE RA BSC ARCH, DIPL. ARCH, M ARCH II HARVARD, RIBA Farshid Moussavi OBE RA is an internationally acclaimed architect and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Moussavi’s approach is characterised by an openness to change and a commitment to the intellectual and cultural life of architecture. Alongside leading an award-winning architectural practice, Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she lectures regularly at arts institutions and schools of architecture worldwide and is a published author. Moussavi was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to architecture. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2015 and Professor of Architecture at the RA Schools in 2017. At FMA, Moussavi’s completed projects include the acclaimed Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, USA; La Folie Divine, a residential complex in Montpellier; a multi-tenure residential complex in the La Défense district of Paris, and flagship stores for Victoria Beckham in London and Hong Kong. Previously Moussavi was co-founder of the internationally renowned London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA) where she co-authored many award-winning international projects including the Yokohama International Cruise Terminal and the Spanish Pavilion at the Aichi International Expo, London’s Ravensbourne College of Media and Communication and the Leicester John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex. Moussavi’s ideas and work are at the forefront of critical debate about architecture. In 2017 she was Architectural curator of the Royal Academy Summer Show where she proposed a highly original approach, showing the internal mechanisms and construction process that underpins architecture. Her work is deeply rooted in critical research which she carries out through FunctionLab, the research branch of FMA. FunctionLab explores cultural questions that find actualisation in the building commissions of the office, allowing for informed and innovative results. With the influential series of books that Moussavi published with Harvard, The Function of…, she has explored the theory and built history of ornament, form, and style. Educated at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, University College London and Dundee University, Moussavi has taught and served as External Examiner in academic institutions worldwide. She was the Chair of the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004, and a member of its Steering Committee between 2005 and 2015. She continues to be a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery since 2009, and since 2018, a trustee of the Norman Foster Foundation London and New Architecture Writers (NAW) which focuses on black and minority ethnic emerging writers who are under-represented across design journalism and curation. Moussavi also serves on the Academic Court of The London School of Architecture.

Yokohama International Port Terminal

The Yokohama International Port Terminal disrupts the sense of monumentality that typifies passenger port terminals and contributes to their isolation from daily life. In order to combat this, the terminal has been designed to merge with the landscape of the city’s harbor and serve as a public space. Instead of providing the specialized and isolated routes that are normally found in terminals, which prioritize passenger way-finding and discourage or eliminate other choices, the circulation system consists of a series of interlocking paths, designed to increase opportunities for exchanges between individuals and present them with choices. Some routes lead directly to the ships while others lead to the roof plaza or the multipurpose hall, or to the customs and immigration halls via the parking area when it is being used for public events rather than passenger handling.

Instead of a typical post-and-beam structure of the kind that is easily repeatable in a long building, the terminal is constructed as a long-span, arched steel structure. The result is a flexible, column-free space with a seamless transition between the interior and the exterior. This allows it to be used as a covered public space and for a variety of purposes beyond that of travel. In this multi-use space, all mechanical plant and luggage-handling units are designed to be concealed within the structure and the raised wood-flooring system. The kiosks function as immigration “borders” and are assembled as mobile units on wheels, inverting the typical rigidity of border control arrangements and enabling the terminal to act beyond its usual functions. To further enhance the continuity between interior and exterior, only three material finishes are used throughout the entire building. As a result of this assemblage of structure, circulation, mechanical services and material finishes, the terminal transmits the affects of flatness, openness, axiality and efficiency in the parking areas; arching, pleating, diagonality, asymmetry and purposefulness in the terminal floor; and undulation, smoothness, landscape, valley, mountain, and perambulation in the plaza.

These clusters of affects, produced by the intersection of provisions for travellers and non-travellers, are appropriated by passengers and citizens in ways that are not usually found in a passenger port terminal. The open and flexible terminal floor is used for pop-up concerts, markets, fashion shows, and book fairs, while the roof plaza is used for gatherings, car shows, beer festivals, New Year fireworks parties, weddings, and outdoor concerts. The parking areas can be used for a flea market. At a number of locations on the roof plaza the clustering of affects of enclosure and openness often inspire members of the public to just sit there and make drawings. Rejecting the traditional monumentality of port architecture has therefore not only altered the way people think about travel when visiting the terminal but has also inspired them to engage with the physical environment of a terminal in unexpected ways.

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