Cicada

Marco Casagrande: 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. The Cicada is situated on a site in central Taipei waiting for development. Mean while it acts as a public sphere for the surrounding neighborhood and as lounge for university workshops and other spontaneous activities – public space. As one enters the Cicada, the surrounding city disappears. The cocoon is an interior space but totally outside – it is breathing, vibrating, soft and safe. The space will swallow the modern man and will offer him a possibility to travel a thousand years back in order to realize, that the things are the same. Cicada is insect architecture and the space is a public sphere. 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 local knowledge that binds the people of Taipei basin with nature. The cocoon of Cicada is an accidental mediator between the modern man and reality. There is no other reality that nature.

Architect: Marco Casagrande
Project Managers: Delphine, Peng Hsiao-Ting / JUT Group
Nikita Wu / C-LAB
Casagrande Laboratory for Cicada: Frank Chen, Yu-Chen Chiu, Shreya Nagrath, Arijit Sen
Location: Taipei City, Taiwan
Measures: 34 m long, 12 m wide, 8 m high
Interior space: 270 m2
Materials: bamboo, broken concrete, broken glass, steel, earth, creapers
Completed: 2011
Text: Marco Casagrande
Photos: AdDa (more photos)

2 thoughts on "Cicada by Marco Casagrande"

  1. Ridhika says:

    Absolutely FABULOUS!

  2. Isabelle Vermeire says:

    We kunnen het eens zijn over de vraag of een computerspel,poplied of economische formule nieuw en dus creatief is, maar we worden het waarschijnlijk minder makkelijk eens over het vernieuwende aspect van een barmachtige daad of een inzicht in de menselijke natuur. (Creativiteit, over flow,schepping en ontdekking Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). I like this very much!

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