Actualité de la Recherche: Conférence de Robin Winogrond

Mercredi 13 mars 2019 à 12h15
Uni-Bastions, salle B214, rue De-Candolle 5

Inspiring Landscape
Five Practical Things We Know About Atmosphere 
Robin Winogrond

Work on the topic of atmosphere revolves mainly around a theoretical discussion. We are practicing Landscape Architects and hence, in our work, constantly searching for tools to help us grasp atmospheres. We believe that open space has always served such intangible objectives as "joy", "leisure", or "a sense of drifting", whether through companionship, voyeurism, active movement or the elementary act of strolling. The rich and complex aspects of atmosphere, such as sense of space and sense of movememt, are essential to our profession yet rarely discussed on hand from concrete projects. Under the following themes we show a series of projects and our attempt to grasp atmosphere in a deeper and more tangible way. 

1. Spatial Atmosphere: Forming Spacial Sensation 
Forming and choreographing space lets us sense space in, as Christian Norberg-Schulz says, prepositions such as up, down, next to, in between or opposite, which determine our spacial perception and experience. Our ultimate goal is not design itself but to create  worlds with inflected space-sensations. 

2. Atmosphere Underfoot: The Ground on Which I Move, Moves Me 
Of singular importance is the groundplane and the sensations it can create in us. It carries us forwards, interrupts movement, offers detours of our usual daily and purposeful urban movements. 

3. Atmosphere of the Mind: “Open-ended Stories”
The rational approach of forming space through the desire for hierarchy and logic has long been overrated. The subjective, not pre-interpreted perception is starting to find an echo as design generator. 

4. Social Atmosphere: The Vis-à-Vis Effect
The daily urban settings of most public space, apart from the beautiful and dense cities such as Rome or Paris, need help to become enlivened. In the Swiss suburban context, the centrality and enlivment can be rare commodities. So we need tools to create social atmosphere.

5. Atmosphere of Time: Constructing the Ephemeral
Time and nature meet where things not only grow but fall apart, disappear, change states and imagery. Working consciously with these aspects of our projects leads to atmospheres that can be both strong but also challenging. 

Bibliograhy :
Since 2014 Robin Winogrond is co-owner of Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH Zürich. Studio Vulkan deals with the landscape of every day life, it's diverse contradictions and requirements. Winogronds approach is based on her interdisciplinary education and her interest to perceive complexe phenomena of urban landscape from different perspectives. She was member of numerous selection committees and is published in a wide range of books and catalogues on contemporary landscape architecture. From 2008 to 2012 she was a member of the  Stadtbaukommission Luzern and recently joined the Stadtbildkommission Basel.
 

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Actualité de la Recherche: Conférence de Robin Winogrond
© Gerhard Richter, Venice (Stairs), 1985, 50 x 70 cm, from Gerhard Richter: Landscapes, Hatje Cantz 2011