ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月18日 04時02分

The architect and urban planner #LeCorbusier famously called the modern house “a machine for living.” But it’s unlikely that even he envisioned a place as machinelike as this Zurich apartment building, designed by @manuel.herz. The building — photographed for @tmagazine by Valentin Jeck — is called BalletMécanique for its panels that open and close hydraulically, like massive petals. Modernist architects have long been intrigued by the promise of buildings that move. In 1931, Angelo Invernizzi positioned his Art Deco Villa Girasole outside Verona on a circular track; propelled by diesel engines, it rotated with the sun. And after WWII, revolving restaurants became a tourist staple. Advances in technology and increased concerns about energy efficiency fueled the drive to hyper-mechanize in a way that was more useful, if less entertaining. In the 1980s, Jean Nouvel built the Institut du Monde Arabe, a Parisian cultural center with a glass wall behind which 240 photosensitive apertures open and close like camera lenses to control the sun’s heat and light. But @manuel.herz sees Ballet Mécanique more as a lighthearted ode to the Rube Goldberg tradition than as an milestone of eco-automation. “It’s not a high-tech robot thing,” he says. “It has a sense of humor.”

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