Location: L.E.S., New York Program: New building with art gallery and 5 apartments. Area: 14,000 sf Completion: 2004-2007 Consultants : Sharon Engineering Team: Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang; Daniela Zimmer, Jorge Pereira, Takuya Shinoda. Client: 109 Norfolk, LLC Contractors:Builders & HVAC; George Dimizas/G&G Metal (steel packages and facade) Switch Building is a 7 storey apartment and art gallery bui..
Design Concept The Cardboard House represents the reduction of technology and the simplification of needs. By demonstrating that we are able to recycle 100% of the building components at extremely low cost, the Cardboard House is a direct challenge to the housing industry to reduce housing and environmental costs. Stutchbury and Pape, working in association with the Ian Buchan Fell Housing Resea..
Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Design Year: 2005-2006 Construction Year: 2006-2007 Design Team: Martina Lipicer - udia, Nejc Batistic - udia, Andrej Gregoric - cand.arh, Ana Kosi - stud.arch. Programme: Social apartments with parking Client: Gradis G group, Ljubljana Constructed Area: 5,000 sqm Nº of floors: 4 floors + 2 underground parking Budget: Construction: 650 EURO..
Windshape was an ephemeral structure commissioned in 2006 by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) as a gathering space for students and as a venue to host events in their Provence campus in Lacoste, France. Windshape became the main public meeting space in the small town, and hosted concerts, exhibitions, and ceremonial gatherings throughout the summer of 2006. The project was designed by..
Technicolor Bloom is an architectural installation constructed from 1400 flat plywood panels to form a double-curved perforated tunnel. Designed by Brennan Buck with Rob Henderson and students from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, the project is currently on show at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna. Buck is assistant Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vien..
Paulo David - Centro das Artes [Casa Das Mudas] in Calheta, Madeira Paulo David’s Centro das Artes, Casa das Mudas is based in Portugal’s Madeira island. It remains the memory of the unexpected angles, the cut of the volumes against the loaming landscape, the frames resting on the interior light, the strength of the texture and richness of the stone, the confrontations between the opaque darknes..
Patternity describes a research process investigating the topological properties of epithelia. In living organisms, these membranes constitute reactive borders between two environments and have specific functions: movement, exchange, selective permeability, mechanical and chemical protection. By considering the ability of these membranes to generate types of multifunctional and relational patter..
Proyecto. Casa en Cobena, Madrid. Una familia recien estrenada quiere una casa en un pueblo del area metropolitana de Madrid que pasa por ser el lugar de Espana donde mas pilotos de lineas aereas residen, Cobena, entre la Sierra y Barajas. Cobena se expande en plena burbuja inmobiliaria, y cerca del centro de la localidad, de su iglesia y de su ayuntamiento, consiguen hacerse con un solar de uno..
The planimetrica plate, on only one floor above ground, meets the requirement of a rational organization of the library and at the same time promotes the creation of a public space that reproduces the suggestion street pedestrian deck. The informal path between the two cities dense is absorbed by the new construction with the result to include pedestrian flows, directed towards the underpass of ..
Belgian designer and artist Arne Quinze created a temporary installation at five-star Parisian hotel Le Royal Monceau last month, before the hotel’s closure for a year-long reburbishment. The installation, called Rebirth, lasted just one night as part of Demolition Party, a VIP event on 26 June at which guests were invited to help destroy fixtures at the hotel. Le Royal Monceau will reopen next ..
