PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2018/05/08 The Architecture Student Blog
"AMAZONIA PIER:
Manufacturing an Architecture of Pleasure"
Project feature & interview with Julien Nolin.
2018/05/09 IdN v24n5: Infographics & User Interfaces
"Crossing All Borders and Ticking All Boxes"
"If you really stop to think about it, all design-related works could be categorised under the heading of “infographics”, which is essentially just a matter of combining graphics with information. Whether the information appears by way of text or numerals, it has to be visually arresting to draw the viewer’s eye to it.
This is not our first issue dedicated to infographics and user-interface (UI) design. But we are always amazed that so many inspired infographic works are springing from this relatively new design field. In the digital world that we all now inhabit, apps have become ubiquitous and many of them can be classified as infographics. Most sites’ interfaces combine shades of both info and graphics — and every click you are about to make has been meticulously designed."
2018/03/01 Storytelling Architecture:
Blank Space
"Tales of inhabitation and existence, architectural visions – and warnings – imagined for the future of our built world.
Over the past five years, the Fairy Tales architecture competition has captured the imagination of thousands of participants from around the world – from students and aspiring architects to multinational firms and Pritzker prize-winning architects. The competition has become a repository for the social and environmental issues that are at the forefront of architects’ minds and captures the zeitgeist in highly imaginative and sometimes ironic ways. For the first time ever, the winning stories and favorite projects from all five years – thousands of entries – have been compiled into a high-quality publication.
2017/06/17 Wired UK
"If Architects Designed a Sci-fi Future, it Would Look Like this"
"The Blank Space competition challenges designers to imagine landscapes for an alternative reality.
Deep in the Amazon lies an improbable theme park. Created by artist Julien Nolin, the bustling illustration shows a world of towering roller-coasters where production lines and amusements run side by side. Visitors are expected to be cogs in a giant machine that churns out fizzy-drink cans and candy canes."
2017/06/01 Print:
Wired UK: How Russia Hacked the Intenet - June 2017 Issue
"The Architecture of Fairy Tales" - p.67
"Deep in the Amazon lies an improbable theme park. Created by artist Julien Nolin, the bustling illustration shows a world of towering roller-coasters where production lines and amusements run side by side. Visitors are expected to be cogs in a giant machine that churns out fizzy-drink cans and candy canes."
2017/01/15 Print:
MAKING: Alternative Designs for Factories - The Book
In June 2016 Non Architecture launched its second competition, “Making – Alternative designs for factories”, asking creative people from all around the world to produce innovative design concepts for production spaces. Their work was enriched with additional material, gathered with an open call for articles and visuals on the same topic. The results of this process have been selected and rearranged by the Non architecture editorial team, and it is now presented in this book as the result of an open source research on the factories of the future.
"[...] Through an extremely meticulous drawing style, the project criticizes and introduces a solution to the delicate debate concerning the industrial presence of free trade zones. I was especially fascinated by the fact that the innovation of this proposal is not driven by technology or robots but by the liaison between people and architecture. Factory and costumer change their relationship through an inventive and creative solution [...]"
2016/11/15 Print:
BURRASCA MAGAZINE #5:
5th World
"The ideal model of a tight partition of world’s economies and politics known as Three-World Model becomes obsolete and ineffective right after the defining of the Fourth World. There will never be a Fifth World.
This publication aims to shift the point of view on this issue. Rather than focusing on socio–political aspects and strict categorizations, we sought for speculation on what a Fifth World might be[...]"
Dimensions : 21 x 27,5 cm
Circulation : 100 numbered copies
Pages : 60 full CMYK color
Poster: artwork by Julien Nolin
2016/11/22 SuperArchitects
Amazonia Pier
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S//A : What’s the most important aspect of this project that we should be aware of?
Julien Nolin_ Concurrent with the understanding of pleasure piers as places of learning turned places of consumerism, Amazonia Pier is concerned with implications of manufacturing of goods in the context of the artificiality of the theme park model.
The double aspect of the Critique which on one hand critiques the free trade zone in Manaus, which in shines a light on the harmful side effects of globalisation, but on the other hand, the project also critiques our role as consumers, our relationship to products to the process and how detached we are.
2016/10/02 KooZA/rch
Playing With The Viewer’s Expectations
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"Who influences you graphically?
I grew up reading cartoons/comics like Tintin, Astérix & Obélix, and others, so that style and format have always influenced me greatly. With this project, I spent a lot of time revisiting that style, this time looking at artists like ..."
2016/09/25 Bored Panda
The 15 Most Revolutionary Designs Of Factories
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"This was the second of a series of nine competitions, oriented at pushing architects and designers to rethink traditional architectural typologies. In this case factories – intended as building or a group of buildings where goods are manufactured – have been reinterpreted by participants from all around the world. The challenge was to develop an unconventional design for a building to make, with absolute freedom of location, scale and program dimensioning."
2016/09/24 E-architect
Making – Alternative design for factories Design Competition Winners
"THE 15 MOST REVOLUTIONARY DESIGNS OF FACTORIES
The winners of the second Non Architecture competition (www.nonarchitecture.eu) “Making – Alternative design for factories” have been unveiled, showing some absolutely innovative concepts for factories designs."
2016/09/24 Archi-ninja
Amazonia Pier; Manufacturing an Architecture of Pleasure
"I have recently been chatting with graduate and all round legend, Julien Nolin. I came across his amazing portfolio and wanted to share one of his projects entitled Amazonia Pier."
2016/09/19 Next Top Architects
Amazonia Pier
Thesis Project by Julien Nolin
Amazonia Pier
Thesis Project by Julien Nolin @julnol MArch
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
“Come experience the Amazon, without ‘going into’ the Amazon!”
2016/07/04 VOLA Prize Recipient
2016/03/01 Print:
Tidsskriftet Grønland - Greenland Design Magazine
2016/03/01 Print:
Architecture and Extreme Environments, THE ARCTIC - KADK 2015
"This Master programme pursues to explore the intersection between architecture, technology, culture and environment. Through a site-specific approach, we aim to respond to present and future global challenges through research by design and direct on-site involvement in the form of active expeditions to remote world locations"
2015/12/18 ISArch Architecture Competition 2015 News
"The ISARCH Awards are international awards targeting students of architecture. The aim is to provide a platform for debate surrounding the architecture solutions students contribute within the framework of their university studies."
"Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, along with Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) (Lee Wai Lee) present The Arctic: Architecture and Extreme Environments until February 2016"
2015/10/15 Perspective Global
"Bio-Rig is the new setting for the new energy sources designed by Julien Nolin"
2015/04/25 World Architecture
2015/04/15 Super Architects Publication
"A paradigm shift is taking place - new architecture - soon the unknown potentials for architecture and its' trained subjects will have a greater impact on/within the contemporary city, culture, and if not, the world."
2014/10/05 Print:
Building 22 Edition 14
"Building 22 is an annual student-initiated publication showcasing work coming out of the school of architecture at Carleton University. Each year the publication samples projects from all levels of the program, inspiring the younger students and challenging the more experienced..."
2014/05/10 Carleton University Student Showcase
2013/10/02 Print:
Building 22 Edition 13
"Building 22 is an annual student-initiated publication showcasing work coming out of the school of architecture at Carleton University. Each year the publication samples projects from all levels of the program, inspiring the younger students and challenging the more experienced..."
2013/07/12 Scanlab @ The Bartlett School of Architecture
EXHIBITIONS
2017/09/07 - 2017/12/03 KADK Casts the Spotlight on Circular Economy with an Exhibition
The exhibition opens on 7 September, presenting a total of 14 ideas for innovative architecture and design in an attempt to contribute to the conversion from linear to circular economy, offering new solutions and strategies that draw on principles of recycling and recirculation, and the development of new sustainable materials.
2016/02/12 THE AMAZON: Architecture and Extreme Environments Exhibition
2015/10/23 - 2016/02/22 Hong Kong Design Institute
The Arctic- Architecture and Extreme Environments
Venturing into storms, sub-zero temperatures and endless winter nights in the Arctic regions, from Greenland to Iceland and Svalbard, 28 Master‘s students at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture (KADK), The Institute of Architecture and Technology explored new forms of spatial languages to enrich our built environments and daily lives through their own constructions and prototypes.
2015/03/06 THE ARCTIC: Architecture and Extreme Environments Exhibition
2014/09/02 - 14 AECOM Urban SOS Exhibition
AECOM - Towards a New Industry
Each year, AECOM holds an annual student competition, Urban SOS, which is open to currently enrolled students in design, architecture, landscape, planning, engineering, and environmental studies. Students are called to answer a specific brief around urban sites in distress.