Pinch Public Library Unveils a Sweet Rooftop Playground for Kids in Yunnan Province, China Pinch Public Library by Olivier Ottevaere & John Lin - Gallery Page 7. The library itself sits against a retaining wall, and the roof takes a twisted path from the elevated path down to the memorial. The library itself sits against a retaining wall, and the roof takes a twisted path from the elevated path down to the recently built memorial plaza. Apart from a place for kids to play, the roof offers villagers a place to look out over beautiful views of the valley, or use it as a bridge to get from one area to another. ”Although the government provided an open plaza for the reconstruction, we wanted to help introduce a program which would activate the site,” Lin told Dezeen.
Related: Colorful Sra Pou Vocational School is Hand Built Using Local Materials in Cambodia Inside the library, trusses that provide support also extend downwards to form a simple floating bookcase that supplies the locals with free reading material. . + University of Hong Kong Via Dezeen Images by University of Hong Kong. The Death of Authorship | Yoon Her. The book once stored all the knowledge, or one’s authorship.
However, in the 21st century, we no longer need tangible material—that is, the paperback book—to hold authorship. People are sharing ideas without noticing that he/she is violating one’s asset on their screen. Libraries were once the storage of authorship since books were incarnations of author’s original work. However, books no longer secure one’s authorship, and we need to think about how to preserve the idea of one’s originality. Courtesy of Yoon Her The site is analyzed, and dissected by infrastructure and movement path lines. Name: Yoon Her Project title: The Death of Authorship School: (USC) University of Southern California- Los Angeles, CA, US Professor(s): Alvin Huang Arch2o has received this project from our readers in order to participate in the Students week 4 event, you may submit your own work for publication in the Students Week 5 by sending it to igraduate@arch2o.com.
Sala de concertos insuflável. Por ArchReady - 27/set/2013 Inaugurou hoje a primeira sala de concertos insuflável do mundo, uma enorme estrutura roxa erguida no parque da cidade de Matsushima no nordeste do Japão, criada especialmente para o Festival de Lucerne Ark Nova 2013. A iniciativa visa proporcionar apoio através da música para as áreas sinistradas de Tohoku, no Japão, que foram atingidas pelo devastador terramoto seguido de tsunami em 2011. A estrutura chama-se ARK NOVA, foi criada pelo escultor britânico Anish Kapoor e pelo arquitecto japonês Arata Isozaki, e consiste essencialmente numa membrana insuflável revestida a poliéster que pode ser facilmente esvaziada e transportada por toda a região, permitindo a realização de eventos que “ajudem a unir as pessoas”, de acordo com o comunicado de imprensa.
O Festival de Lucerne Ark Nova 2013 foi iniciado imediatamente após o grande desastre no Japão em 2011, pelo Lucerne Festival, o festival internacional de música da Suíça. Saiba mais em: ark-nova.com. Terreform. Menjarosa by Dooa Arquitecturas. Spanish studio Dooa Arquitecturas have completed an extension to a school in Torrevieja, Spain, with a blackboard as a wall. Called Menjarosa, the aim of the project was to minimise the loss of playground space. The blackboard-wall separates the canteen from the classrooms and the surrounding magenta aluminium-mesh fence reconciles the old and new parts of the school. Photographs are by Pepe Pascual Fuentes. Here's some more information from the architects: MENJAROSA (Virgen del Carmen school’s canteen, Torrevieja, Alicante, SPAIN) Do you remember those unforgettable moments playing with your friends at school in the courtyard?
The project tries to minimize the loss of playground surface, becoming an extension of the children area, able to interact with them. The existing trees have been preserved and they seem to penetrate into the building with the only impediment of a glass wall that allows children to have lunch almost in contact with the vegetation. Click for larger image See also: A simple elegant apartment building. | DETAIL daily. This apartment block in the Naebalsan-dong district of Seoul, aims to redefine the quality of housing in a city where much of it is nondescript. The block is designed by Office For Beyond Boundaries Architecture, (OBBA) who took time and trouble to understand their task with thorough analysis of the district, before finding disarmingly simple design solutions. The key features are simplicity of design, and some exceptional brickwork.
The brick roof pitch, is something I do not believe I have seen before. It gives a continuity of material around the roof wall junction, and a very solid appearance to the building. It is also unexpected. The perforations of missing bricks is a detail repeated in most countries of the world that use brick construction, but it is seldom done with such elegance. Gratitude to iGnant. Cramped Or Not, I Want To Live in These Tiny Japanese Houses. At the same time, clutter irritates me. Gotta find that happy medium. You can have less space without clutter. Definitely this. I live in Kanda, literal minutes from Akihabara to the north and Tokyo station to the south.
Not "in the Kanda area" but right smack on commerce drive, three stacked highways converging 30 seconds out of the station, jammed in between office buildings in one of the narrowest apartment complexes you've ever seen. Zero clutter. Honestly, a lot of times, clutter is indicative of too much stuff. You live in a tiny space with no clutter as long as your stuff doesn't exceed your ability to store and organize it.
Miami Chapel based on a flowing dress by FREE. Mexican firm Fernando Romero EnterprisE (FR-EE) has won a competition to design a chapel in Miami with plans modelled on the pleated fabric gown of religious figure the Lady of Guadalupe. As a Roman Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary, the Lady of Guadalupe is a popular image in Mexican culture and the architects explain how they were invited to design a Catholic Church devoted to her image. The proposals show a billowing concrete structure with an undulating skirt of 27 clearly defined pleats. Above: the Lady of Guadalupe and all 27 Latin American virgins - click above for larger image Inside the building, small sanctuaries will be framed within these pleats, each containing an effigy of one of the other 27 Latin American virgins.
Above: concept - click above for larger image and key A twisted tower will provide a spire over the chapel's altar and will feature a stained-glass skylight decorated with an image of the Lady of Guadalupe. Above: plan concept - click above for larger image and key. Paramount Residence Alma Italian house by Plasma Studio. This slatted structure by architects Plasma Studio looks like it's crawling over an apartment building in the Italian Dolomites (+ slideshow). Plasma Studio were faced with the dual tasks of adding a circulation space and a new family home to an existing block in the South Tyrol village of Sesto, close to the Austrian border. "An under-utilised roof space gave way to an angular crown, connected to a ground floor reception space and architectural office by the host’s renovated spine," said the architects.
Parametric software created an angular shape that folds around and on top of the original cuboid form, covered by thin strips of larch wood similar to the Strata Hotel the studio designed just down the valley. The structure appears to grow out of the hillside, snaking up the back of the building as a series of faceted planes. Inside, bedrooms face on to a corridor lit by a glass chasm that extends up and over the building. Photography is by Hertha Hurnaus.
Paramount Residence Alma. The Velvet State / Shjworks Architectural. Architects: Shjworks Architectural Location: Darupvej, Roskilde, Denmark Architect In Charge: Simon Hjermind Jensen Design Team: Christian Bøcker Sørensen Photographs: Simon Hjermind Jensen, Christian Böcker Sörensen, Lasse Ryberg From the architect. The Velvet State came up as an ambition to combine performance and architecture in a project at the Roskilde Festival 2013. The core of the project emerged via an ongoing dialogue between the performers and the architects, adopting and merging the two disciplines into one universe. Simon Hjermind Jensen from SHJWORKS (DK) was the architect behind the concept and the design of the building. The performance part was developed in a dialogue between Fiction Pimps (DK) and Collective Unconscious (UK), and directed by Inga Gerner Nielsen. The performance explored the idea of a sensuous society – a possible society where the sensual and poetic perception of the world is at the center.
The stage was unconventional in the festival setting. Ordos 100 | ArchDaily - Part 2. 13:100 - Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos. The Ordos 100 is a new residential development in the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. One hundred emerging architects from around the world have each been invited to design a 10.700 square foot villa on lots ranging from a quarter to a half acre.
With a master plan by artist Ai Weiwei and architect selection by Herzog & de Meuron, the Ordos 100 challenges conventional ideas about urban design, placemaking, and context. Criticized by some for its scale and environmental impact, applauded by others as a form of art practice, Ordos underscores and intensifies the complexities of contemporary architectural practice.
This exhibition of the designs by the thirteen New York-based firms working in Ordos will explore the unique process of the undertaking and provoke a conversation about the role that design is playing in the development. Installation Design: Project_ (Ana Miljacki and Lee Moreau with Benjamin Porto and Daniel Sakai)Konuyla İlgili Linkler. GNRation / Atelier Carvalho Araújo. Architects: Atelier Carvalho Araújo Location: Braga, Portugal Design Team: José Manuel Carvalho Araújo, Joel Moniz, Pedro Mendes, Filipa Casaca, André Torres, Leandro Silva, Ana Vilar, Sandra Ferreira, José João Santos, Carlos Vinagre Structural Engineering: Pedro Alves Year: 2013 Photographs: Hugo Carvalho Araújo From the architect. The intervention in the former building of the GNR (military police) brings together all the concept of dynamism of Braga European Youth Capital 2012. The project uses the concept of occupation as motif. The occupation by man and nature.
It explores the boundary between an abandoned existing structure and a new invasor construction who takes over the space. A space in constant regeneration, rather than a final object. The building should be central to the creative industries. Outside there are two types of intervention. In the corner of the facade a more abrupt cut suggests the break of the new development. Kiritoushi House / SUGAWARADAISUKE. Architects: SUGAWARADAISUKE Location: Oamishirasato city, Japan Design Development: SUGAWARADAISUKE + OSATO SOGOKANRI Area: 103.98 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Takumi Ota This house is designed for a married couple with two children, and is located in Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture.
The building provides an expansive view that allows the natural sunlight and fresh air in the house, so that the residents enjoy the life in the green ambience. The building sites on the borderline between the new residential area and the pastoral fields. The client’s goal was to link the interior of the house with the scenery outside, letting the family live intimately to the surrounding environment. The exterior is finished as a simple box, allowing the residence to blend in easily with the rest of the surroundings. The relativeness of the scenery, space, and body changes dramatically by moving from each space to space. Hundertwasserhaus. Coordinates: Hundertwasser House Vienna The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, built after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser with architect Joseph Krawina as a co-author.
This expressionist landmark of Vienna is located in the Landstraße district on the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse. Hundertwasser and architecture[edit] Friedensreich Hundertwasser started out as a painter. Since the early 1950s, however, he increasingly became focused on architecture, writing and reading in public manifestos and controversial essays (e.g. 1958 a ‘Mouldiness Manifesto.’ advocating natural forms of decay) In 1972, he had his first architectural models made for the TV-show ‘Wünsch dir was', in order to demonstrate his ideas on forested roofs, "tree tenants" and the "window right" of every tenant to embellish the facade around his windows.
Conflict and cooperation[edit] Court decision[edit] Pictures[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] C. F. Møller designs world's tallest wooden skyscraper. News: Scandinavian firm C. F. Møller has revealed proposals that could see the world's tallest timber-framed building constructed in Stockholm. As one of three shortlisted proposals in a housing design competition, the 34-storey Wooden Skyscraper is presented by architect C. F. Møller, architect Dinell Johansson and consultant Tyréns as a vision of future housing that would be cheaper, easier and more sustainable than typical steel and concrete constructions.
"The main reason it hasn't been done before is that concrete and steel have a big part of the market," C. He continued: "Construction accounts for around 30-40 percent of CO2 produced in the world globally and if you look at the CO2 released in the production of wood it is a lot better than steel or concrete. " According to Jonsson, using wood could even be a cheaper alternative, as it is a lighter material that costs far less to transport. "We have a long history of building wooden structures in Sweden," he explains. Berg | C.F. Tensioned Relaxations. Los angeles CALIFORNIA suckerPUNCH: Describe your project. Synthesis Design + Architecture (SDA): Tensioned Relaxations is series of temporary and rapidly deployable outdoor structures that aspire to reinvent the typical street fair tent through their combination of dynamic form, variable configurations, and optical effects.
Each structure is highlighted by a uniquely sensual and continuous form composed of a tensioned HDPE Mesh skin with bespoke artwork by the talented roster of urban artists at SA Studios / SA-UP Collective and a perimeter ring made of fibreglass rod. Conceived as an extension of the legacy of Frei Otto’s seminal lightweight tensioned membrane structures, it is the structures unique form that makes the structure both efficient and effective.
The form was developed through a parallel process of both analogue and digital form-finding to explore the material behaviours of composite tensioned membrane skins (relaxed meshes) and bending active frames. Client: Private. Stamp House. South Park. Uchronia | Arne Quinze. Ningbo History Museum. Arquitectura: dupla portuguesa distinguida com Badel Block. Bent perforated facade by Chris Kabel. UID Architects Archives. James May's toy Lego house. Previous Work « [Co] Existence : The Organism of Architecture. Spiral Gallery / Atelier Deshaus. Nowhere but Sajima by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects. Design and the Elastic Mind - MoMA. New York Cityvision Competition Winners. Keret House / Centrala. Convent de Sant Francesc by David Closes. New York City’s first Kahn Structure nears Completion.
Vânia Coelho Santos / Portfólio de Arquitectura. Claude Prouvé’s recently demolished Experimental Building of SIRH. Badel Block Complex Proposal / SANGRAD Architects + AVP Arhitekti.