캔의 재발견 흔히 우리가 버리는 캔을 재활용 하여 외피시스템으로 구현하였네요. 캔 재질이 알루미늄이라 한번쓰고 버리는 일회용이라는 것이 상당히 낭비죠. 물론 2차, 3차 가공을 통하여 다른 형태로 구현되는 것도 좋은 방법이지만 현재 가지고 있는 형태를 재활용하여 만든 시스템이 돋보입니다. 재활용센터에 가보면 캔을 찌그러뜨려서 블록으로 만들어 놓은거 보셨나요? 마치 개비옹 옹벽을 만든 것처럼 재활용 할 수 있을 것 같아요 ^^ Can Cube’s facade is a system of aluminium carbonated drink cans which are enclosed in an aluminium frame. The façade saves the energy wasted during recycling..
Currently a hot contender in the running for the new V&A at Dundee building, New York-based practice REX was asked to design a residential complex in Songdo Landmark City, Incheon, Korea in which every apartment offers direct southern exposure, cross-ventilation, and views. Korean zoning guidelines and local building practices typically produce towers that fail to provide these three key, locall..
Gaeta Springall Architects designed the 4 Casas (4 houses) project in Mexico City, Mexico. The project involves two towers that each contain two houses that have been built on the side of a steep ravine. from contemporist
Architects: Maxwan Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Project Team: Nobuki Ogasahara, Artur Borejszo, Jason Hilgefort, Nara Lee, Michiel Raats, Rene Sangers Client: NAi + Ymere + City of Amsterdam Program: Housing, Office, Fitness, Public program, Park Site Area: 17 ha Total Floor Space: 8700 m2 Photographs: Courtesy of Maxwan The Albino Alligator is a progressive live/work development to init..
Cattani Architects have designed the recently completed Cité A Docks student housing project, located in Le Havre, France. The housing consists of 100 apartments made out of old shipping containers. The new town is the result of the transformation of old containers in modular housing units equipped with every comfort. Mounted on a metal grid, the containers have given shape to a four-story build..
What do you think of Tony Owen Partners’ latest luxury apartments? The design will shortly enter its construction phase on Elizabeth Street in Sydney’s CBD in prestigious Hyde Park. With only 19 apartments, this exclusive development intends to define the new standard in luxury and contemporary design for Australia. On the exterior, the units’ varied facades are the product of parametric exercis..
Here's the fascinating entry "Slow Up-rising" by Canadian firm Ja Studio to Solar Park South, the international ideas competition in Calabria, Italy. The competition brief called for a 'Solar Highway' by re-using Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway sections between Scilla and Bagnara to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways Authority. As Ja Studio partner Behnaz Assadi tells us: "Our response wa..
Yaohua Wang shared with us his project An Open Appeal for China, designed along with Scott Chung, Jiaohao Lu, Xiaoxuan Lu, and Lennard Ong. They recently received 2nd Prize in the AIM International Architecture Competition. More images and architect’s description after the break. The problem of architecture in the role of artistic production is that there are none. Modern artistic practices have..
Project name: Park Life Client: Eurocol Assignment: Master plan Location: Tirana, Albania Size: 51,300 sqm + 14,000 sqm parking garage Status: Invited competition, 1st prize, realisation 2010 - 2012 Principal architect: Marc Joubert Project team: Jeroen de Loor, Marian Dusinsky, Alessandro Guida, Kim Byungchan JA Joubert Architecture, a Rotterdam-based architectural office, has won first prize i..
Desitecture, a British Architecture Collective, have recently been shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival in the future project-experimental category for their Vertical City in Venezuela. More images and architect’s description after the break. Originally 23 de Enero was designed to become a mass housing block for residents of the city to live and work in. On January 23rd, 1958, when the..
