Illegal Architecture

Hsieh takes his commands from the jungle. So does the Taiwanese citizen built illegal architecture. This architecture uses the “official” city as a growing platform and energy source, where to attach itself like a parasite and from where to leach the electricity and water. This is para-city.
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Designer: Hsieh Ying-Chun (Taiwan)
Inspired By: Taipei anarchist architecture
Material: scaffolding
Colours: white

Car Park

An old Mazda having a Driveabout in Melbourne. One of these days these streets are going to get organized. Marco Casagrande @ RMIT during the Sensoria Melbourne design festival.

Designer: Marco Casagrande (Finland)
Manufacturer: RMIT Architecture Department (Australia)
Inspired By: Walkabout
Material: Mazda, nature
Colours: white

Public Attic

A Public Attic for Helsinki.
Attic is the memory of a house. Also a city can have an attic. A public attic to reflect the collective subconscious.
People were bringing objects to our Public Attic and exchanging them for free. This became a small spontaneous community centre. Improvised architecture.

Designer: Casagrande Laboratory (Finland)
Inspired By: Andrei Tarkovsky
Material: recycled wood

Bug Dome

The building is an un-official social club for illegal workers from the Chinese countryside.

Designer: WEAK!
Inspired By: insects
Material: bamboo, wood, gravel, recycled concrete
Dimension: 120 m2

Yuo Yuan

Glass garden for Venice Biennale 2006.

Designer: Marco Casagrande (Finland)
Manufacturer: C-Laboratory (Taiwan)
Inspired By: Treasure Hill
Material: recycled glass

Land(e)scape

Three abandoned barn houses have risen on their legs and longing after their farmers they are now marching towards the cities of the south.

Designer: Casagrande & Rintala (Finland)
Manufacturer: Casagrande & Rintala (Finland)
Inspired By: desertation process of Finnish countryside
Material: wood
Colours: no

Post Industrial Fleet

Recycling strategies of ships in various sizes out of duty. Bio-Ship, Community Ship, Floating Village...

Designer: CREW*31 (Denmark)
Manufacturer: Martin Ross (United States)
Inspired By: Alang
Material: Steel
Colours: No
Dimension: Big
Price: 5.000.000 Euro

Treasure Hill

Rehabilitation, restoration and legitimazing process of an illegal community of urban farmers inside Taipei. Simultaneous ruin and construction site; Third Generation City.

Designer: Marco Casagrande
Manufacturer: Hsieh Ying-Chun (Taiwan)
Inspired By: Ruin. Jungle. River.

Floating Sauna

A Floating Sauna for Rosendahl Village by the Hardangerfjord in Norway. Glows like a lantern at night. Semi transparent walls shows when the things are cooking.

Designer: Casagrande & Rintala (Finland)
Manufacturer: Västlands Kunstakademiet (Norway)
Inspired By: Finnish and Norwegian cultures.
Material: Timber, construction plastic
Dimension: 5 x 5 x 3 metres
Price: 10.000 Norwegian

Chamber of the Post Urbanist

One has to die a bit to be reborne. City is dead, long live the compost. For my urban sins I needed Post-Urban Rehabilitation and for my sins they gave me one: the cave. Every time I wake up in this chamber the walls move a little bit closer. When I am here, I want to be in the city and when I am there all I want is to get back into the cave. - Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art

Designer: Marco Casagrande (Finland)
Manufacturer: Martin Metalgod Ross (United States)
Material: steel

Chen House by C-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, flooding and heat conditions on the site.

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature. With this house we were looking forward to design a ruin.

Designer: C-Laboratory
Manufacturer: C-Laboratory
Material: mahogany, concrete

Marco Casagrande