Dutch Design Week: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bas van der Veer has won the prize for best project at the school’s Graduation Galleries exhibition, which opened in Eindhoven yesterday. Van der Veer presented two projects: a rainwater storage butt with an integrated watering can called A Drop of Water (top and below), and a biodegradable packaging system for plants called Bioplastic Planter..
Housing Unit . Facade Component . Cluster . Neighbourhood Last week I attended the presentations of the associative design 2nd year at the Berlage research studio synthetic vernacular. Led by Peter Trummer and assisted by our fellow dysturb evangelist Martin Sobota, the class investigated traditional chinese building typologies. The principles found in the analysis were us..
Architects: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Location: Milan, Italy Food and restaurant consultant: Ford McDonald Consultancy Lighting consultant: Equation Lighting Design Cost consultant: Davis Langdon Mechanical engineer: BRE Enginnering s.r.l. Electrical engineer: CS Progetti Main contractor: Impresa Minotti s.r.l. Feature ceiling sub-contractor: Camagni Arredamenti s.r.l. Project Area: 1,900 sq..
Students of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany have won the Solar Decathlon competition to design an energy-efficient solar-powered house. Twenty teams of students from international universities competed to design and build solar-powered houses, which were constructed and exhibited at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Teams then competed in ten contests to gain points. The winn..
Architects: stación-ARquitectura Arquitectos Location: Monterrey, México Associated Architect: Armando Cantú Project team: César Augusto Guerrero Rodríguez, Armando Cantú, Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal, Carlos Raúl Flores Leal, María Sevilla Gómez Programme: Showroom and design room for furniture Client: Ofimodul S. A. de C. V. Size of the project : 272 sqm Project year: 2008 Construction: 2008-2..
Architects: ADD+ Arquitectura - Manuel Bailo Esteve, Rosa Rull Bertran Location: Igualada, Spain Collaborators: O.Florejachs, N.Canas, D.Franz, E.Grammont, M.Hita, P.Juarez, J.Maroto, A.Romero, M.Rull, M.Cabestany, J.Vives Client: Godo Family Constructed Area: 200 sqm Budget: US $627,000 Project year: 2003 Photographs: Jose Hevia The house has been designed in a parcel with extremely high topogr..
Various Architects is a collaborative design office based in Norway, and they shared with us a very innovative project: a Mobile Performance Venue. Designed to host the performance “ID - Identity of the soul” (touring worldwide in 2009), the client requested a unique and iconic structure. Also, this venue needs to be mobile, so volume/weight were key on this design developed as a flexible ellips..
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Architects: Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, led by Professor Frank Flury Local architect: Ecker Architekten Location: Boedigheim, Germany Client: Protestant Church of Bödigheim Project year: 2009 Photographs: Robert Piotrowski, Dea Ecker, Klaus Hilger & John Ruffalo, Brigida Gonzalez Website: Flurkapelle Buchen/Bödigheim The Field Chapel is a proj..
Paris architects Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix have completed a holiday home and guest house in Siwa, Egypt. Called Ecolodge and situated overlooking the desert, the building is constructed from locally-available materials including mud, sun-fired bricks, palm wood, reeds and stone. The walls are made of a traditional local building material called kershef that consists of mud, sand and ..
