Off the Grid:Sustainable Habitat 2020 Today, our habitat is very dependent on the international grid of energy &water. Energy crisis, clean water shortage, global warming and environmental pollution are worldwide problems. Understanding cities as dynamic and ever-evolving eco-systems can help us to formulate strategies for a sustainable urban future. The whole project is based on the the brief t..
Bühnenbäume 2003 - 2006 Küchwaldpark 24, 09113 Chemnitz Bauherr Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz Projektleitung Susanne Hofmann Baupiloten Hendrik Bohle, Kai Grüne, Stefan Haas Entwurf Eine Baumlichtung Die Chemnitzer Parkeisenbahn feiert Ihr fünfzigstes Jubiläum ganz besonders: Im romantischen Küchwaldpark der Stadt wird eine neue, überdachte Kleinkunstbühne mit 120 Zuschauerplätzen eingeweiht. Das Bahn..
TRAM STOP Sergio Cardell Plaza. Alicante. SPAIN Light Light Alicante is a 400.000 inhabitants city of the southeast mediterranean spanish coast. Over the last years, there has been building a new tram infrastructure, using the old rails of the local train. This line connects all the towns of the coast, ending in Denia, a northern city of the province, where ships departure to Ibiza. This stop, i..
VTOL - Vertical Take Off and Landing, an installation by designers Kram/Weisshaar, went on show outside the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna this month. The 1.3cm thick concrete installation is part of Vienna Design Week, which runs until 12th October. Photography courtesy of Ditz Fejer. The following is from Kram/Weisshaar: – At the invitation of the Vienna Design Week, Clemens Weisshaar and Reed..
Architects: oficina de arquitectura - Emilio Marín, Nicolás Norero (competition phase) Location: Paseo Altamirano, Camino la Pólvora, Valparaíso, V Región, Chile Collaborators: Diego Rossel (development phase) Structural Engineer: INGEVSA S.A. Project year: January - March, 2007 Construction year: April - October, 2007 Materials: GRAU concrete ground slab, Concrete, galvanize steel In December 2..
House Place Jordan / Heri & Salli The “House Place Jordan “contains structural interferences in an existing garden plant of a single family house in Klagenfurt - Viktring (Kärnten/Austria). Geometrical existing ways leading through the garden and extended in their function of ways - understood as linear surfaces of spatial possibilities - detaching, consolidating themselves, forming spatial comp..
Alex Dragulescu's «Spam Architecture» project designs virtual houses by mapping the content of incoming spam to structural and decorative elements. «The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.»
When artists design hotel rooms their focus is very different from that of the architect. Their curiosity, visions, objectives and their implementation are influenced by other factors than architectural ones. The coherence of the whole (the priority of art) is of central importance. As a result there are no reservations that perhaps too much is being expected of the hotel guests. The Swiss artis..
Lilas PROGRAM: Temporary tensile fabric Installation consisting of 3 parasols for the Serpentine Gallery’s Summer Party located in Kensington Gardens. CLIENT: Serpentine Gallery ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher Project Architect Kevin McClellan CONSULTANTS: Structural ARUP Steel Fabrication: Sheetfabs Ltd. Membrane Fabrication: Base Structures Ltd. Lighting design: Zumbotel Fu..
Designersblock have curated seven window installations by designers KithKin, Postlerferguson (above), Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and other at Selfridges department store in London. The installations, on the store’s Duke Street frontage, will be in place until October 23rd. above: Postlerferguson above: Charlie Davidson above: Jim Rokos & Toby Summerskill The following is from Designersblock: – Se..
