“Eco-Pak” expands on shipping container houses. The original prototype Eco-Pak house constructed in Turkey Image Gallery (7 images) Thanks to their size, strength and ease of transport, shipping containers have been embraced by architects who have turned them into everything from restaurants and off-grid homes, to school classrooms and modular, portable hotels. The “Eco-Pak” home doesn’t just renovate the inside of a shipping container, but uses a shipping container as an integral part of a larger building, with all the structural components contained within it so it can be delivered just about anywhere in one convenient package.
View all The “Eco-Pak” home is the brainchild of aircraft structural engineer James Green of Building Container LLC, who was recently granted a U.S. patent for the concept, with international patents also pending. His idea was to include extended framework transported within the container to form the structure of the house. Source: Coates Design, Building Container About the Author Post a CommentRelated Articles. Capsuleinn.com |. The Capsule hotel is a unique style of accommodation in Japan. Reaction system promises versatile, cost effective emergency housing. In a world where millions of people are forced from their houses every year because of natural disasters, there is an ongoing need for huge numbers of decent mid- to long-term temporary housing units that can be swiftly delivered to the affected area. The Reaction Housing System has been developed to make the wait as short as possible. View all Six months after Hurricane Katrina, just over 15 percent of the 92,000 temporary housing units required (the infamous Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailers) had been supplied to displaced Louisiana citizens.
Even the largest economy in the world required more than a year to complete the task of providing temporary housing following this disaster. The situation is worse in less-developed countries. The Reaction Housing System has been developed with this reality in mind. The Exo is delivered in two components, a base plate and an upper shell. The installation process requires about two minutes per housing unit. 12 Most Amazing Secluded Houses. Really lonely house on one of the isles of Vestmannaeyjar.Shot through a plane window.Elliðaey, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. At a height of 4,003 meters on a rocky ridge of the Matterhorn, Switzerland's iconic, triangular peak, is the Solvay hut, managed by the Swiss Alpine Club.
It has room for only ten daredevils who will have to venture uphill through the most inhospitable terrain. The steep, icy paths and frozen breath and sweat will improve your appetite considerably. Tired of those pesky neighbors? Here's the solution! Photo by Ian Coristine. As you drive for the first time over the Passo Pian delle Fugazze in Italy, between Vivenza and Rovereto, you are due for something of a surprise. One hundred and twenty meters up a cliff face, seemingly carved into the side of the deep valley, the Hermitage is in clear view. The Holy Trinity Monastery is an Orthodox monastery in central Greece. In the old days, access to this monastery was via a net and rope ladder. This is Katskhi Pillar. Creative Architecture Ideas. Today’s collection is going to be a mix of amazing exterior and interior architecture designs.
For most of us villas featured are out of reach .) but at least we may admire the creativity and luxury. And of course, we always may get inspired, right?! .) What about a cool contemporary beach house? Check The Desert Villa by Studio Aiko. Glass Bottom Pool by The Holiday Inn Shanghai Buit in Cabinetry by Idhea Deer Shaped Pylons by DesignDepot VitraHaus @ Weil am Rhein, Germany by VitraHaus Casa Finisterra by Rees Roberts Skateboard House by PAS Living Wall by Patrick Blanc Interior Studio by Ina Matt Elevator Room by OMA Terraced House in Casavells by 05 AM Arquitectura Plantagon Vertical Greenhouse by Plantagon Lego Development Office by Rosan-Bosch Floating Fountains by Isamu Noguchi Corner Bookshelf by Factor Architecture 36 Clipper Bay Home by FGR Architects Clifton House, South Africa by SAOTA Waccabuc House by Chan Li Lin Las Palmeras Beach House by Greg Wright Architects 55 Blair Road by Ong & Ong. 12 Most Creative Closet Designs.
Sarah, the Thrifty Decor Chick, wanted to find a good use for an empty closet in her house. With some careful planning and carpentry, she turned it into a reading nook for her son. Now the little reader has a special place to go enjoy his books. If you lack space but not creativity, this headboard closet is an amazing idea. Wondering what to do with all of your old Boyz II Men and New Kids on the Block tapes? Elsie's most amazing closet! This family may not have a big entryway but they have a wide staircase which they turned into a mudroom of sorts with tons of storage for every family member. Closet + Office = Cloffice This closet is inspired by that old-school magician sword trick. Chair closet. At first glance this just appears like a well-organized wardrobe closet, but if you take a closer look you'll see one of the most creative closets ever!
Your bags also deserve a distinctive place in your home (Kate Spade London Store). How adorable is this little girl's closet? Lofty Ambitions for Cross-Laminated Timber Panels. William Pryce WITH THE GRAIN, AGAINST THE GRAIN At the nine-story Graphite Apartments in London, structural elements involve many layers of spruce fused together. But it’s what’s underneath this cladding that makes the 29-unit building truly different. From the second floor up, it is constructed entirely of wood, making it one of the tallest wooden residential buildings in the world. It was built three years ago using laminated spruce panels, up to half a foot thick and 30 feet long, that were fabricated to precise specifications in Austria, shipped across the English Channel and bolted together on site to form the exterior and interior walls, floors and roof.
Even the stairwells and elevator shafts are made from these solid panels, called cross-laminated timber, which resemble supersize plywood. The panels use a lot of wood: A typical eight-foot-high wall can contain more than six times as much as one made with conventional framing using two-by-fours. Architectural Canopy Shines in Battery Park City.
Richard Perry/The New York Times The canopy designed by Preston Scott Cohen covers North End Way, a pedestrian alley in Battery Park City. The angular glass canopy, commissioned by Goldman Sachs for its headquarters, elevates a gap between two buildings into something almost as inspired as the nave of a Gothic cathedral. Designed by Preston Scott Cohen, the canopy covers 11,000 square feet of an easement in Battery Park City; effectively, North End Way is a north-south passageway or alley, lined with shops and restaurants. Part of what makes this a notable public space is the quality of construction: the granite sidewalk, the lighting, the stainless-steel and glass storefronts, the street furniture.
Goldman Sachs, whose headquarters at 200 West Street backs onto North End Way, owns and developed the arcade, which is zoned for public use. That’s the power of architecture. I’ve stopped by on different days, morning and evening. But mostly everybody gawks at the canopy. Mr. Mr. Forget Big-Box Stores. How About A Big-Box House? Hide captionThe architecture firm HyBrid, which specializes in designing buildings from recycled shipping containers, created this solar-powered house for Sunset Magazine. Amy Eastwood When it comes to architecture, sustainability and affordability can mean many things: Salvaged wood becomes new flooring, old newspapers are shredded into insulation. But a few architects are taking green building one step further: creating entire homes and businesses out of discarded shipping containers — an approach some have dubbed "cargotecture.
" Approximately a quarter-million shipping containers pass through Oregon's Port of Portland each year. These are big boxes — 40 feet long and weighing thousands of pounds. "As you look across the container terminal here, they look like giant, multicolored Legos stacked up out there," says port spokesman Josh Thomas. Each one is full of cargo moving in or out of the Portland region. And some become buildings — like taquerias. Portable Buildings With A Story. My other bicycle club has a velodrome for a roof. In a move likely to inflict a sudden pang of inadequacy in bicycle clubs the world over, NL Architects has cooked up a concept both radical and supremely simple: a bicycle club with a velodrome on the roof Image Gallery (11 images) In a move likely to inflict a sudden pang of inadequacy in bicycle clubs the world over, NL Architects has cooked up a concept both radical and supremely simple: a bicycle club with a velodrome on the roof.
View all Architects are under increasing pressure, it seems, to come up with innovative uses for the roofs of the buildings they design. Where once it was perfectly acceptable for building tops to merely keep out the rain, or perhaps, at a push, prop up an air conditioning unit or two, they are now expected to combat climate change, generate energy, and if possible, provide functional living space. Architizer reports that the bicycle club-cum-velodrome could be built before the year's out. Source: NL Architects, via Architizer About the Author.
10 Weirdest and Uniquely Shaped Buildings. The Hashtag Tower (Seoul, Korea) Now this is something to talk about: Danish architects BIG have designed an apartment tower complex that looks like a hashtag. The Cross # Towers constitute a three-dimensional urban community of interlocking horizontal and vertical towers. Three public bridges connect two slender towers at different levels – underground, on the street and in the air. Catering to the demands and desires of different residents, age groups and cultures, the bridges are landscaped and equipped for a variety of activities traditionally restricted to the ground. The resultant volume forms a distinct figure on the new skyline of Seoul – a “#” that serves as a gateway to the new Yongsan Business District, signaling a radical departure from the crude repetition of disconnected towers, leaning towards a new urban community that populates the three-dimensional space of the city. Elephant Building (Bangkok) Meet the Elephant Building in Bangkok, Thailand.
Ren Building (Shangai) Tall, red and green: Social housing scheme sells energy back to the grid. Look up this project on the website of its architects, ACXT, and you will find that it goes by the rather understated name of 242 Affordable Housing Units in Salburúa (Salburúa being a neighborhood in the Basque city of Vitoria-Gasteiz). In many ways the downplaying of the name is in keeping with ACXT's quiet approaches to sustainable design. Though there may be no obvious green bells and whistles such as wind turbines or photovoltaics, passive architectural methods combined with on-site generation contribute to what ACXT claims is a "considerable reduction" in the building's carbon dioxide emissions.
View all Though largely a residential development the building, completed in 2011, incorporates nine shops at ground level. From there, it's social housing all the way up: between four and seven stories for the horseshoe-shaped block that forms the building's footprint, rising to 21 stories for the tower that rises above one end of that horseshoe. Source: ACXT via Architecture Today. Bizarre CCTV headquarters seems to defy gravity. CCTV's Beijing headquarters (Photo: OMA / Iwan Baan) Image Gallery (18 images) Office buildings have traditionally been so staid that whimsical departures from the norm still trigger a strong response, both good and bad. The latest member of the avant-garde architecture club, the estimated US$1.08 billion, 44-floor, 768 ft (234 m) CCTV headquarters building in Beijing (already so iconic it's part of a board game for architecture groupies) is now finally complete - after nearly eight years of construction.
View all With its five million square feet plus (473,000 sq m) of floor space, the voluminous OMA-designed China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters is comprised of two leaning towers connected by an innovative 246 ft (75m) cantilever that appears to defy physics to form what is essentially a linear loop. An adjacent tower, the Beijing Televison Cultural Center (BTCC) was scheduled for earlier completion but caught fire in 2009 - apparently due to wayward fireworks. About the Author. Historic L.A. hospital site to be turned into senior apartments.
A historic — and some say haunted — Los Angeles hospital that has been closed for two decades is set to be converted into apartments for low-income seniors in a $40-million makeover. Linda Vista Community Hospital is an imposing relic from the days when railroads took care of their sick and injured employees in company facilities. Originally known as Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital, it was built for employees of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Boyle Heights, a blue-collar neighborhood east of the city's rail yards and home to many railroad workers. The original hospital opened in 1905. It was razed and rebuilt on the same site in the mid-1920s, and additions were made through 1939. PHOTOS: New life for hospital Although the hospital closed in 1991, the six-story complex survives with its dignity mostly intact — with peeling paint and roosting pigeons adding to tales of sudden chilly drafts and paranormal activity inside. And Linda Vista is a lulu of an abandoned property.
Future Living - Housing Project by Various Designers & Yanko Design. This is Future Living The Future Living house is a testament to the will of design. It took twenty six designers (a feat in itself) to create it. Every technologic leap was analyzed to make sure anything proposed was possible by 2050. It’s a paradigm shift in home resource creation and location.
Design Team: Cornelia Bailey, Tanushree Bhat, Marilee Bowles Carey, Anthony Caspary, Eric Diamond, Xiaonan Huang, Reenu John, Na Rae Kim, Paolo Korre, Eugene Limb, Hsin-Cheng Lin, Miguel Angel Martinez, Nikhil Mathew, Elise Metzger, Mahdieh Salimi, Kshitij V. Architectural Types - Styles - Historical Periods - The Great Buildings Collection. Architects transform submarine into a bar. Two hundred and fifty years ago, brewer Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease for his St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. To commemorate this event, the Guinness company could have rolled out a stretch limousine, but it decided to go one better by launching a “deep-sea bar” in the chilly waters of the Baltic off Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by London-based Jump Studios, the modified tourist submarine was commissioned as part of the Guinness Sea Experience competition, that included an underwater trip inside the Guinness sub as a prize.
View all Jump Studios was given the brief of redesigning the interior of the submarine to reflect the Guinness slogan “Alive Inside,” and with the help of carpentry and engineering specialist Nicholas Alexander created a GRP (glass-reinforced plastic) shell that fits inside the passenger compartment of the submarine. The submarine posed a number challenges for the team. Source: Jump Studios via Arch Daily. Martin. Finnish micro house is small enough to build without a permit - Images. Wonderwall. WikiHouse: Get ready to design, "print" and construct your own home! - StumbleUpon. "It Will Be a Landmark That Pushes London": Anish Kapoor Collaborator Cecil Balmond on London's New Icon. 15 Weirdest Toilets and Urinals. Heroic Architecture Fanatic Buys Frank Lloyd Wright House for $1 — But Has Only Two Weeks to Save It.
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