Urban Aqualoop - Société d'architecture de travail. Urban Aqualoop is public space created from infrastructure and natural cycles, creating spaces for lounging, eating, playing and physical relaxation in combination with a living, working hydroponic fish farm. Urban Aqualoop celebrates the cycles of organically feeding, growing and eating fish through an exchange of nutrients with plant life – all within a sinuous loop of a soft that bends around itself to create different spaces for lying upon, passing through, walking under, cooking on, or sitting at for a meal.
Elements include the WATERBED for lounging and massages, an arch-shaped FOUNTAIN for kids, the FISH CAFÉ and the PLANT TOWER, which cleanse the water and provide food for the fish through a “hydroponics” system. The entire system therefore –fish and plants, but also systems of cooking and eating, lounging and massaging, playing and learning – act as a series of interrelated cycles, reflected by the shape of the installation. Living with Water - Building Futures. Should there be a longer-term vision for the Thames Gateway? Should we curb future development in the Thames Estuary and learn to embrace flooding? As part of a broader programme of work by the RIBA looking at the architectural response to climate change, the Building Futures publication brings together five essays from leading professionals and futurologists. They each provide new understanding and insight into the debate, highlighting the opportunity to inject long-term vision into the development of the Thames Gateway.
Our development horizon is stretching further into the future than ever before, largely in response to the challenges of climate change. This publication asks, what the benefits and opportunities are of such a long term vision, and what must be done now to ensure our future communities take full advantage. Contributors include: For more information on this project please contactbuildingfutures@riba.org. The Chongming Bicycle Park / JDS Architects. JDS’s proposal for the Bicycle Park in Chongming, China, consists of three landmark buildings, each portraying different aspects of the culture of cycling. With their spiraling shapes and sloping sides, the structures are accessible by bike, and offer a varied experience to visitors. The Park aims to inform and stimulate biking as an expression of social awareness, while illustrating the relationship between sport and technology through its distinctive architecture. The Visitor Center acts as an entry landmark, serving as main access point and providing information about the park.
The Bike Museum is a double helix, with its exterior portion used for the ride downwards. Swirling ramps provide excellent views of the surroundings, while the interior leads the visitors on a tour through the historical development of the bicycle. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. Creative Zone.