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WORKSHOP AT COPENHAGEN ARCH. SCHOOL by David A. Garcia Introduction: From the thousand year old umbrella and all the way to un-foldable space stations, the built environment has accumulated a catalog of folding and unfolding capabilities. Spatially, the two extreme stages of the deployment/collapse are less important than all the stages in between. This middle range is malleable, it can take various routes, and its elements change their interrelation from one second to the other. Students of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

WORKSHOP AT COPENHAGEN ARCH. SCHOOL by David A. Garcia Introduction: Continuously avoided by the architectural discipline, the energy systems, services and general “arteries” of any built environment, have been hidden, masked or even ignored. Different movements in the architectural tradition have embraced the spacial potential hidden/ignored in these systems. A vital example is Center Pompidou, where ventilation systems become external elements of the facade. What if this attitude was extended to all the elements of a built environment? What if electric systems, solar panels, ventilation, sewage etc... become the architecture, the spaces we inhabit, with out hiding or masking them? Students of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

The competition guidelines called for "An environmental zoo where consideration should be given to a symbiotic environment that includes the activities of humans with animals." The proposal aimed to enrich both humans and animals by closer contact, while using the same environment. If the contemporary aim of zoos is to understand how animals and humans can be enriched by each other, then the proximity between animals and people is essential. This can be done by sharing simple rituals, like eating, resting or training. If these activities are done in the same architectural space, the spatial environment becomes important to both, animals and humans. Architecture is the perfect language to solve the physical challenges of such a proposal. This has to be understood as a serious undertaking and a way to enrich each other’s social necessities while creating new spaces. Imagine your self, reading in a cloud of butterflies in the central library, swimming with dolphins in the publi...