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Bike Arc Products :: House Arc. A product of the Bike Arc, the House Arc is a modular off-the-grid housing solution that represents a new model for compact living. Born from a modular system of bent steel tubes, the House Arc was created as an environmentally sensitive and affordable method of housing people in a beautiful, functional, and adaptive way. Designed to be flat-packed and shipped in a 4' x 10' x 3' box, the House Arc is easily assembled on site. Upon assembly, the House Arc becomes a curvaceous 150 square feet and weighs just 3,000 pounds because of its lightweight frame constructed of steel tubes. The House Arc can withstand tropical winds and weather and also features a roof designed to support solar energy-generation. Architect Joseph Bellomo says of the House Arc, “We designed it to be a kit of parts house that can be assembled quickly–like prefab furniture.”

Download Fact Sheet. [INFOHIGHTECH] FAT Architecture. Bryden Wood. Home | Snoozebox. How it Works. VOILE - Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab | VOILE - Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab | Développement durable, de l'Innovation, de la recherche. L'immeuble du futur : un écosystème au service de l'homme. Depuis l'antique Rome, les humains ont utilisé la superposition des habitations pour concentrer en un même lieu les citadins. L'immeuble n'a été jusqu'ici que cette simple superposition. A l'avenir, l'immeuble devra avoir des fonctionnalités plus variées. Il deviendra un véritable écosystème complexe pour le confort de ses habitants. Quelques précisions préalables: Dans cet article, nous ne nous intéresserons pas aux constructions neuves, qui répondent à d'autres objectifs, qui sont laissées à la créativité des architectes et qui, surtout, seront limitées par la densité actuelle des agglomérations.

Nous nous interrogerons plutôt sur la transformation des immeubles existants qui devront répondre à des exigences et à des contraintes nouvelles à cause des nouveaux enjeux économiques et écologiques. Cette transformation ne pourra se faire que sur des immeubles ayant des fondations et une structure en béton armé. Phase 1 de la transformation, la surélévation: Phase 3: l'aménagement des sous-sols. Architecture, urbanism, design and behaviour: a brief review | Design with Intent. By Dan Lockton Continuing the meta-auto-behaviour-change effort started here, I’m publishing a few extracts from my PhD thesis as I write it up (mostly from the literature review, and before any rigorous editing) as blog posts over the next few months. The idea of how architecture can be used to influence behaviour was central to this blog when it started, and so it’s pleasing to revisit it, even if makes me realise how little I still know.

“There is no doubt whatever about the influence of architecture and structure upon human character and action. We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.”Winston Churchill, addressing the English Architectural Association, 1924 In designing and constructing environments in which people live and work, architects and planners are necessarily involved in influencing human behaviour. Two examples of pattern 53?

Table 1. Layout of physical elements Emergence, desire lines and predicting behaviour References. Landscape Urbanism | a site for landscape + design + cities. Repenser l'étalement urbain au-delà du fatalisme. Urbanisme Étalements Urbains. Critique sociale d'une fatalité spatiale Éditeur : L'Harmattan Discours, constructions sociales et étalements urbains La démarche d’Emmanuel Amougou s’attache, dans un premier temps, à nous montrer les étalements urbains sous le prisme des discours développés par les acteurs locaux, discours insufflés et portés par l’État. De l’étude de ces discours, l’auteur nous montre avant tout la vision consensuelle de l’étalement urbain comme une fatalité. Et c’est là où l’ouvrage d’Emmanuel Amougou est particulièrement intéressant : il révèle la pensée des élites qui, se voulant "humanistes", véhiculent une vision technocratique et quasi totalitaire de l’urbanisme. En réalité, l’habitant n’est responsable en rien : peut-on reprocher à quelqu’un de vouloir s’installer dans une maison individuelle pour bénéficier d’un meilleur cadre de vie ?

L’auteur nous fait remarquer à juste titre qu’on parle aujourd’hui de périurbanisation, et non plus de rurbanisation. Rolling Master Plan Comes in Third in Åndalsnes Competition. This morning, we published the shared First Prize winner of the Norwegian master plan competition for the city of Åndalsnes by Danish JAJA Architects. Here is now also the exciting entry by Jägnefält Milton that was awarded a respectable Third Prize.

Their concept proposes to have buildings roll through the city on rails. Click above image to view slideshowA rolling hotel atop the old railway tracks The jury awarded the Swedish office for a proposal where existing and new rail roads would provide the base for a host of new buildings that could be rolled back and forth depending on seasons and situations. Click above image to view slideshowVisualization "We are really happy that the jury took our proposal serious, its not only a good proposal which we are very proud of, it´s also fully doable," says Carl Jägnefält one of the two founders of Jägnefält Milton.

Click above image to view slideshowExploded axonometric drawings of typical rolling building types. Rotor. Featured projects A Critical Look at Sustainable Architecture through 600 Objects The book Behind the Green Door is a richly illustrated critical portrait of the concrete consequences and paradoxes of sustainability as a dominating paradigm within architecture and urban planning(...) > more... Architecture and the Desire for Sustainability / Oslo Architecture Triennale 2013 _Every so often society experiences a profound shift in its model of perceiving the world(...) > more... (Mode & Design Brussels) Project for a design and fashion Centre in Brussels conceived in a joint team with the architecture office Vplus(...) > more... Care for the environment, first an activistic concern, then a civil movement, is now being embraced by governments. > more...

Barbican Art Gallery, London > more... Belgian pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale Rotor represented Belgium's French Community at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia(...) > more... Featured resources. Alain Bublex. Artiste français, né à Lyon en 1961, Alain Bublex propose un travail conceptuel et plastique inclassable, qui emprunte à la fois au carnet de voyage et à l’utopie. Pour comprendre le travail d’Alain Bublex, il faut avoir connaissance de son expérience dans le design automobile, à la sortie de son école d’art. Cette expérience dans l’industrie le laissera déçu, mais marquera l’ensemble de sa pratique ultérieure. Tout commence chez Alain Bublex par le déplacement, et la voiture fait ici office de médium, au même titre que l’appareil photo, pour rendre compte des visions fugaces et fragmentées du voyage.

Alain Bublex, Paysage P58 Mont Fuji Ienissei, 2009. Épreuve chromogène laminée diasec sur aluminium, 173 x 223 cm © Alain Bublex, courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Alain Bublex, Paysage P41 Mont Fuji Jonction, 2009. Epreuve aux encres pigmentaires sur papier, 20 x 26 cm © Alain Bublex, courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois. Urban Camping by import.export. Belgian architects import.export have created a mobile multi-storey structure that allows people to camp in urban areas. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. Urban Camping is a steel structure supporting four platforms on which tents can be pitched. The structure was inaugurated in Antwerp last month and will move temporarily to Copenhagen next month.

Images are copyright Filip Dujardin/OWI and used with permission. Here's some text about Urban Camping: Camping is defined as 'getting away from an urban area, and enjoying nature, spending one or more nights on a location'. Import.export ARCHITECTURE (Oscar Rommens en Joris Van Reusel, architecten) designed a new type of ‘small scale’ urban camping. From 24th April until 24th May 2009, UC was constructed for the first time on the Antwerp shores of the Scheldt, for the Kaailand Festival exhibition on mobile architecture. (English version) UC / URBAN CAMPING Project description.