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Sunday, 16 September 2007 | Levent OZLER
Evolver: Online Conceptual Architecture Magazine
Evolver is an online conceptual architecture magazine by Thinkrbell Design Lab. you can easily be a part of.
In every issue, there is a theme to get "evolved" by you.You take the theme (e.g. an object, a phenomenon, a philosophy, etc.), analyze it, render the main data and form it into a piece of architecture. The scale of the piece is not important; it could be a new urban area or a door handle.
The evolving process is not about turning an object into a building form. You're expected to break the theme, look into its history, its etymology; associate it with whatever you can associate, or divide it; follow the path of unlimited thinking and show it. [This is a bad example for the theme but will help you to get the idea: "Art". Don't come up with a palette shaped artist's studio, dive deep into art. Look into its bonds with politics, religion, the artist himself; discuss the liberalization and the limitation of art, art forms; decide on one, or better, show us the discussion in your design!]
Why Evolver?
The main idea is simply to exercise. Whether you're an architecture student, or a graduate in practice, or just someone interested in architecture; "evolver" is to sharpen your mind, improve your conceptual thinking. It is not a competition, every work is to be published; "evolver" is to see the furthest we can think of, to break the rules of the old-fashioned architecture. It's to widen our vision and annihilate the limits.
Remember, "evolver" is a think-tank project as all the other Thinkrbell projects; we aim nothing but to make ourselves (members of the architecture community) better in what we do.
How to Participate?
You're as free in the method of presentation as you're free in the whole process.
Just make it fit into landscape 1000x707 pxls, or portrait 500x707 pxls on a 72 dpi still image(jpg, png..) in the end, so we can catalog it, and have all the projects in the same format.
It's recommended to work on much bigger sizes. If your work gets spotted here and selected for an exhibition, you should at least have it in a reasonable size to print.
You can use a 3d computer modelling software and/or your children's crayons. Don't waste your time making it into a final project; for "evolver" sketches are better.
Easier to read, easier to understand. We want to get the idea, we want to see how your mind works, not only the product.
Theme
"obscurity". Use the word in every way you can. We don't to give much tips about the theme not to limit you.
Deadline
Send your work about "obscurity" to evolver  thinkrbell.com before October 1st 2007.
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