Austrian designer Christian Precht has designed a compact living environment called OrganiCube. The conceptual nine square metre apartment is made of Corian and comprises facilities for living, sleeping, working and bathing. Here’s some more information from Precht:–OrganiCube explores the creative potential of the material world on the one hand and a study of living in a limited space on the ot..
The Cornerstone Arts Building at Colorado College was conceived from the Colorado Arts Initiative (CAI), which began as a series of conversations and brainstorming sessions among faculty in the arts and humanities as a way of living in the creative arts. The goals of the CAI evolved into the creation of a relationship where artists are brought together for the production, presentation and discus..
The journey into the site begins with a spatial contraction where aspens grow denser. The house settles into the site as if becoming displaced strata, inscribed by adjacent origins from the land. Spatial faults and outcroppings are heightened as hidden copper planes refract light, suggesting the landscape’s dynamism by transforming the interior space throughout the passage of the day. A sheltere..
Architects Aboday have completed a holiday home called Villa Paya-Paya in Bali, Indonesia. The two-storey building is arranged around courtyards and surrounded by water of varying depth, which creates a shallow pond at the entrance, jacuzzi and large swimming pool. The building itself consists of a concrete, box-shaped facade with a separate master bedroom, made using traditional wooden construc..
XTEN Architecture have designed Sapphire Gallery, an extension to a house for art collectors in Los Angeles, USA. Cantilevered above the existing 1960’s house, the structure is clad in perforated aluminium to protect the artwork from direct sun but allow views of the gardens beyond. Solar cells are arranged in a similar pattern on the south facade and sloping roof. Radiant heating and cooling sy..
Swiss designers Tina Stieger and Annina Gaehwiler of Pour les Alpes have designed a collection of furniture called Echos. There are three pieces in the range, all created in collaboration with traditional, local artisans in the Swiss Alps. Neugierde (top image) is covered with hand-cut spruce shingles, referring to a local roofing technique, while the inside is coated in luminescent red paint. E..
Ruta del Peregrino - HHF Lookout Point State of Jalisco, Mexico, 2008 - Client Secretaria de Turismo, Gobierno de Jalisco Official project Site: http://rutaperegrino.wordpress.com/ List of Architects HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER with Alexa den Hartog, Janna Jessen Team HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER with Alexa den Hartog, Janna Jessen The other Architects and Designers involved in the Project ar..
Architect: Smiljan Radic Clarke Location: Los Lirios, Rancagua, Chile Collaborators: Danilo Lazcano, Gonzalo Torres Structural Engineer: Claudio Assar Olguín Technical Inspection: Smiljan Radic Contractor: Eugenio Durán Constructive System: Masonry Project Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006 Site Area: 1600 sqm Constructed Area: 210 sqm Photographs: Gonzalo Puga These two houses -actually there´s..
Architects: Shuhei Endo Location: Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan Structure System: Suspended Steel Sheet Project year: 2005 Principal use: Public Lavatory Site Area: 580 sqm Constructed Area: 103 sqm Photographs: Shuhei Endo
