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LIFE HISTORY

• James Wines (born 1932) is an American artist/architect associated with Environmental design.

• Wines is founder and president of SITE, a New York City -based architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in 1970.

• The main focus of his design work is on green issues and the integration of buildings with their surrounding contexts.

PHILOSOPHY ON HAND DRAWING

• Wines strongly advocates hand drawing as a key to conceptual processes, along side computer-aided tools.

• For most architects graphic representation is notional, technical, or illustrative and mainly used as an analytical tool to record design intentions, but he considers drawing more as a way of exploring the physical and psychological state of inclusion, suggesting that buildings can be fragmentary and ambiguous, as opposed to conventionally functional and determinate.

• The fluidity of connection between mind and hand determines the quality of the architect you become.

• It shapes your thinking and, therefore, the kind of firm in which you practice, including the creative level of people with whom you choose to associate.

• A high aptitude in hand drawing influences the character and innovative level of the work you produce.

• A number of his drawings explore the integration of architecture and landscape. As a result, buildings often appear to be consumed by their own environment—or, seen more perversely, as victims of nature’s revenge.

• In other examples, the renderings describe the need for more forested areas, water sources, and urban agriculture in the cityscape.

• The primary purpose is to explore the integration of architecture with context to a degree where it becomes difficult to discern where a building ends and the environment begins.

• In this way, vegetation, topography, and climatic conditions can become as much a part of the aesthetic/functional fabric of a structure as masonry, glass, and steel.

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• The BEST Products Company of Richmond, Virginia - a retail merchandiser of hard goods in the USA. The Peeling Project showroom was first of nine commercial buildings designed for the company.

THE BEST PRODUCTS COMPANY

• Portions of the brick veneer of the facade are peeled away precariously into space, revealing the beyond.  This sculptural innovation produces the effect of architecture in a state of tentativeness and instability.

• Since the project is not about formalist design, it explores the alternative relationships between art and buildings.

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• The Peeling Project was followed by a series of eight more retail showrooms.

• Each of these architectural concepts treated the standard "big box" prototype as the subject matter for an art statement. 

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• By means of inversion, fragmentation, displacement, distortions of scale, and invasions of nature and by engaging people's reflex identification with commonplace buildings, the BEST showrooms also explore the social, psychological and aesthetic aspects of architecture. 

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• This small food kiosk is designed for the historic Madison Square Park in New York City.

• The concept responds to several important features of the surrounding community - the triangular shape of Daniel Burnham’s Flatiron Building, the plan of the historic park, the profusion of vegetation, and the festive atmosphere that prevails during all seasons.

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• A large shade trellis, overgrown with English ivy, covers an inclined roof and the entire back wall of the five hundred sq. ft. building.

• The general intention of the design is to provide a food kiosk for Madison Square Park that becomes a miniature garden in itself, thus, making it a part of the surrounding enviornment by following his philosophy of integrating architecture with enviornment.

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• This environmental center explores all aspects of water-related science and culture.

• The concept, entitled “AQUATORIUM” is intended to inspire a profound appreciation of humanity's relationship to the earth's most precious resource.

• By means of sight, sound, and touch, the building and its exhibition spaces are designed to tell the story of water and people.

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• Located on top of hill, this new facility is integrated with its circular site as an over and underground experience.

• The building is composed of lateral information walls that carry the exhibitions from interior to exterior and fuse with the surrounding topography.

AQUATORIUMCONCEPT

• These animated walls divide the sections of the museum into culture, science, habitat, technology, and agriculture, using such exhibit devices as video, water events, virtual reality experiences, gardens, natural phenomena and hands-on displays that explain the value of water in the history of civilization.

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