Una nueva casa contemporánea para una joven familia que se muda de una ajetreada ciudad a la Península de Momington. La casa está construida principalmente con paneles de cedro y tierra aglomerada (rammed earth), una mezcla de tierra, cemento y agua que se moldea con encofrados. La forma elemental de la casa está enriquecida por una selección de materiales, texturas y colores que se intersecan y..
client : straco Corporation, C.Clerico architecte : as.architecture-studio architecte d'intérieur et signalétique : as.design-studio superficie : 5500 m² Coût : 2,5 M € date de début d’étude : septembre 2006 date de livraison : permis de construire en cours activité : complexe restaurant-cabaret avec terrasse dans l’ancien bâtiment de la banque HSBC emplacement : 12 on the Bund Shanghai Chine Ci..
Japanese architects SANAA will create an installation at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, Spain, this month. The project will consist of acrylic curtains arranged in a spiral within the pavilion, reflecting and distorting views through the structure. “We decided to make transparent curtains using acrylic material, since we didn’t want the installation to interfere in any way with the..
La parcela es rural, con huertos, senderos cercados con rústicos muros de piedra y casas dispersas, desordenadas. Es una pendiente escarpada de cara al sur sobre el valle surcado por un arroyo desde el que se yergue la montaña que remata la vista. Es en rampa en la parte superior y escalonada en la inferior. En la zona intermedia hay un tanque de riego y un nogal. “The house develops in an intim..
1. ABOUT Concrete Canvas Shelters are rapidly deployable hardened shelters that require only water and air for construction. The 16m2 variant can be deployed by 2 people without any training in under 40 minutes and is ready to use in only 12 hours. The key to CCS is the use of inflation to create a surface that is optimised for compressive loading. This allows thin walled concrete structures to ..
Parkour is a sport on which you have to go from one point of the city to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, overcoming any obstacles in your way: walls, fences, trees, etc. This has made Parkour THE urban sport, included in recent pop culture music videos. Danish film maker Kaspar Astrup Schröder is currently finishing MY PLAYGROUND, a documentary on movement, tricking, freerunning ..
Dutch architects UNStudio have sent us these images of a planned arts and retail complex in Dubai, UAE, to include the Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art. The 25,000 square metre project will house a number of museums, including the Museum of Middle Eastern Art, as well as performance areas, a hotel, and a shopping centre. The complex will form part of Dubai’s ‘Culture Village’ with constructio..
Mind the Gap is an interactive installation that involves the spectator and affects our perception of space. When visitor move across the room, the wall changes and forms new patterns. The optical play challenges our expectation and appeals to our senses.
Hudson River Park Trust Commission Hudson River Piers 26 and 25, New York, New York, 2006 33 units 9’ wide Marine vinyl, steel, polycarbonate plastic, foam. Hudson River Park Nature does not stop in the city. The Hudson River, brushing against the concrete and glass of the urban fabric, rises up and down twice a day with the eternal clock of the tides. This tidal activity connects us to the ocea..
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia PA, 1990. 275’ x 150’: 3’ blown-glass rain gauges mounted on 18’ galvanized steel poles with 11’ pollen-yellow windsocks, 2’ x 2’ sandblasted slides of pollen samples set into 8’ x 4’ x 2’ steel booths, mowed trail connecting the four slide booths and five windsock/rain gauge poles. Installed from July to December. This piece explores the natural forces which have cr..
