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Casagrande Laboratory

Profile of Casagrande Laboratory, headquartered in Finland. Five projects submitted by Casagrande Laboratory have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: Marco Casagrande – © Casagrande Laboratory

Principal

Marco Casagrande

Brief description

Casagrande Laboratory is a Finland based international co-operative of architects, urban planners, artists and scientists of various disciplines. The mobile working crew is involved with cross-over architectonic projects around the world. C-LAB is known of interdisciplinary work commenting on social and ecological questions within the framework of built human environment. Focus in ruining the industrial city. Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

C-LAB runs independent research units in the Tamkang University department of architecture in Taiwan and SGT Sustainable Global Technologies of Aalto University in Finland. The theory of the Third Generation City views the post industrial urban condition as a machine ruined by human nature and architects as design shamans merely interpreting what the bigger nature of the shared mind is transmitting. Other research focuses in developing the theories and design methodologies of Ultra-Ruin, Urban Acupuncture and River Urbanism.

In search for subconscious architecture, real reality and connection between the modern man and nature. Casagrande believes that one shall not be blindfolded by stress, the surroundings of economics, the online access to entertainment or information. What is real is valuable.

Published projects

: Cicada by Casagrande Laboratory Cicada is an organic void in the mechanical texture of modern Taipei, a cocoon for post-industrial metamorphosis for industrial insects. The architecture is...

: Potemkin - Post Industrial Meditation Park by Marco Casagrande + Sami Rintala Potemkin stands as a post industrial temple, the Acropolis to re-think of the connection between the modern man and nature. I see Potemkin as a cultivated junk...

: Ruin Academy by Casagrande Laboratory Ruin academy is set to re-think the industrial city and the moden man in a box. It organizes workshops and courses for various Taiwanese and international...

: Public Attic by Casagrande Laboratory A Public Attic for Helsinki facing the Parliament of Finland. Attic is the memory of a house. In attic the time is different – time is real. Attic has no...

: Chen House by Casagrande Laboratory The house is realized on an old Japanese cherry-farm in the Datun mountains of North-Taiwan. It is designed as a vessel to react on the demanding wind,...