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workshops: Human Layer

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Torstai 5. helmikuuta 2009. Salaryman for wending machine. Student glued into department store structure. If you took off your shoes, can you still say the gound is stiff? Workshop for art students in Sapporo, Japan 2002. Tunnisteet: Casagrande and Rintala. Tilaa: Lähetä kommentteja (Atom). 60 Minute Man / Helsinki University of Technology. 7-ELEVEN Sauna / Shih Chien University. Anarchist Gardener / New School of Architecture. Anarchist Gardener / Ruin Academy. Bird Cage / various Japanese universities.

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workshops: helmikuuta 2009

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Perjantai 6. helmikuuta 2009. Helsinki University of Art and Design Department of Environmental Art, 2008. Workshop for Helsinki University of Art and Design deparment of environmental art. 60 Minute Man / Helsinki University of Technology. 7-ELEVEN Sauna / Shih Chien University. Anarchist Gardener / New School of Architecture. Anarchist Gardener / Ruin Academy. Bird Cage / various Japanese universities. Car Park / Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. CityZen Garden / Tamkang University. Quetzalcoatl...

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Human Layer_Helsinki: Herkkyyden diktatuuri alkaa!

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Tuesday, 18 November 2008. Tämä sanomalehti esittelee Human Layer Helsinki megastruktuurin ajatukset ja metodit. Over of the free newspaper "Ihminen". Public domain. Human Layer (Inhimillinen taso) on Casagrande Laboratorion Helsinkiin tuottama herkkyyden diktatuuriin tähtäävä kaupunkisuunnittelustrategia. Aiemmin inhimillisiä tasoja on tuotettu Brysseliin ja Lontooseen. Helsingin Inhimillisen tason ensimmäiset avaukset rakennettiin Helsingin juhlaviikoille elokuussa 2004. Inhimillinen taso on suunnitelt...

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workshops: Ultra Ruin

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Keskiviikko 19. elokuuta 2009. Design studio for Masters Class 1, Tamkang University Department of Architecture, Taiwan. Design classes in the Danshui campus and field-work at the T-Factory ruin in Sanjhih, Taipei County. The students were required to realize 1:1 scale personal shelters as their reaction to the ruin environment and live in these cocoons of architecture as a community. Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature. With this studio I wanted to ruin the students. Construction site / ruin.

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Cicada

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Cicada is an organic void in the mechanical texture of modern Taipei, a cocoon for post-industrial metamorphosis for industrial insects. The architecture is based on the Local Knowledge of human scale flexible bamboo structures containing a high level of improvisation and insect mind - Open Form. Cicada is urban acupuncture for Taipei city penetrating the hard surfaces of industrial laziness in order to reach the original ground and get in touch with the collective Chi, the loc...

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Installation 1:2001: Helsingin Sanomat:

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Casagrande and Rintala / Firenze Biennale 2001. Friday, 12 December 2008. Finnish work of art torn down during anti-globalization demo in Florence. A demonstration on Saturday evening by Italian activists opposed to globalization led to the destruction of a work of art set up in Florence by architects Sami Rintala and Marco Casagrande. The installation was made of about 15,000 books concerning various political and religious philosophies. Sami Rintala drove a van and trailer through Eastern Europe to Flo...

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Installation 1:2001

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Casagrande and Rintala / Firenze Biennale 2001. Thursday, 22 January 2009. Installation 1:2001 for the Firenzen Biennale of Contemporary Art 2001. Photo: Nathalie Pozzi, 2001. 15000 religious, political and philosophical books from all over the world in different languages used as bricks for a round wall. The installation in the Piazza Della Republica in the heart of Florence. This is the birh place of the Renaissance and also the. Architectonic installation for the Firenze Biennale 2001.

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Human Layer_Brussels

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Casagrande and Rintala / Change - Brussels Belgium 2002. Tuesday, 9 December 2008. Brussels is introducing a new layer to the city based on traditional humanistic values inherent in European culture. An organic matrix of democratic spaces is installed over the existing city structure into carefully studied crosspoints. Human Layer spaces are democratic offerings of the city of Brussels as an example of a modern European community. Small-scale encounters prepare for he coming together of cities and nations.

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Human Layer_London: British Architectural Foundation

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London Architecture Biennial 2004. Thursday, 8 January 2009. Human Layer London is a network of strategies aiming to reinforce primary human values within the context of the modern city as a human living environment. Withouth moving anything from the city or adding anything heavy but over-lapping a new layer of small scale interventions that tunes the urban psyche towards kindness and other values of real reality - values that cannot be speculated by economical or political means or otherwise.

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Human Layer_London

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London Architecture Biennial 2004. Tuesday, 18 November 2008. Greetings from London 2004. Introduction of the Human Layer. Cover of the free newspaper "Human". Public domain. Marco Casagrande. This newspaper describes the ideas and methods of the urban megastructure Human Layer for the London City. The Human Layer is developed by the Finland based architecture office C-Laboratory to contribute for the British Architecture Foundation's Greetings from London urban planning exhibition. Values that are total.