About this event
Future Fest 2023: Architectural "Monsters and Mutants"
With Winka Dubbledam, Archi-Tectonics
For our third live talk of Future Fest 2023, we are thrilled to welcome Winka Dubbledam, Founding Partner of the A+Award-winning firm Archi-Tectonics. Winka will take us through the making of the innovative Asian Games 2022 Master Plan and Hybrid Stadium in Hangzhou, China, from concept to construction.
Archi-Tectonics recently won a design competition for the 2023 Asian Games with a bold and innovative design. Fusing landscape and building program into a tridimensional land-form, the park was considered an agent of environmental change for the city of Hangzhou. Archi-Tectonics designed the Stadiums as Hybrids as both an icon for the games and an active participant in Hangzhou's urban landscape that would generate new activities and uses once the games end. Learning from nature’s intelligence and resilience in environmental challenges, the buildings are designed with a taxonomy that creates a hybrid ready for another future reality.
During this talk, you'll learn:
- How a park can form a sponge city, and be an agent of environmental change for the future city.
- How Hybrid Stadiums can act as both an icon for sport and an active participant in Hangzhou's urban landscape.
- How architecture can learns from nature’s intelligence and resilience to environmental challenges as mutant structures.
About Winka Dubbledam
As the founder/principal of the WBE New York firm Archi-Tectonics [1994], Dubbeldam is widely known for her award-winning innovative buildings & masterplans. In 2018, Archi-Tectonics won the Asian Games 2022 Eco-Park Invited Design Competition, recently completed in Hangzhou, China, that recently won and the CTBUH award [2023] and the hybrid stadium won the Architizer A+Awards Innovation Award [2022]. Archi-Tectonics’ 4th book Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Things (Fall 2021) recently came out with ACTAR Publishers, Spain. For 10 years, Dubbeldam has also been the Chair and Professor of Architecture at the Upenn.
About Hannah Feniak
Hannah Feniak is Architizer’s Managing Editor. When she’s not leading our talented team of writers and interviewing the industry’s most innovative designers, Hannah is likely to be found exploring the latest exhibition openings. A trained art historian and educator with a focus on architecture and urbanism, Hannah holds degrees from McGill University in Montreal and NYU.
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