‘South Pond’ by Studio Gang (US. 'South Pond' by Studio Gang, photo by Steve Hall ©Hedrich Blessing The Chicago based Studio Gang realised this boardwalk for the redesigned ‘South Pond’ of the Lincoln Park Zoo. Made of recycled plastic milk bottles the pavilion circumscribes the pond and passes through different educational zones describing animals, plants and habitats and provides shelter for open-air classrooms on the site. Their structures, inspired by the tortoise shell, consist of a series of pre-fabricated wooden members interconnected and milled to give global curvature to the surface, creating a column-free space for gathering. “Lincoln Park Zoo wished to increase its visibility by improving the South Pond and maintaining its image as a safe, clean, environmentally responsible institute that is committed to education. The design transforms a dilapidated, 19th-century urban park pond fed by city tap water into a natural habitat and an exhibit on “pond life” for the zoo.
To the Studio Gang profile @ Architonic. Appendix 3 - A Guide to Parking Standards for New Developments in Mansfield District (Mansfield District Council) Section 1 Interim Parking Standards Pending the receipt of detailed national and regional guidance relating to parking standards in accordance with the aims of PPG6 and PPG13, Nottinghamshire Council has prepared Interim Parking Standards which take the existing Guide to parking standards for new developments in Mansfield District as REFERENCE STANDARDS. Basis of Interim Parking Standards 1. The existing Guide to Parking Standards for new developments in Mansfield District are taken as REFERENCE STANDARDS. 2. The reference standards for the NON-OPERATIONAL ELEMENT for non-residential are reduced by a general 10%. 3. 4. Mansfield, Mansfield Woodhouse including Forest Town: 10% + 5% = 15% reduction Elsewhere in the District: 10% reduction 5. 6. Basis for Commuted Payments 1. 2. 3. 4. 2,400 sq.m. office development in an urban area outside the Greater Nottingham conurbation.
Therefore, the development may have a maximum of 102 spaces and will be required to provide a commuted payment of £24,000. Seven Modular Housing in Covas / Salgado e Liñares Architects. Architects: Salgado e Liñares Architects Location: Bertamiráns, Ames, Spain Architect In Charge: Alfonso Salgado Suárez, Francisco X. Liñares Túñez Project Management: Alfonso Salgado, Francisco Liñares Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Héctor Santos-Díez Project Area: 208,75 sqm Collaborators: Carla Agra, Miguel Raposo, Sergio Sánchez ADDOMO is the result of the collaboration of Iglesias Mera Constructions and Salgado e Liñares architects looking for a constructive innovative system that configurates more rational and efficient housing.
This means the reinterpretation of the traditional construction adding solid materials and optimizing the process. This is an experimental pre-fabricated housing combination. The interest resides in the simplicity of the construction system that allows a quick assembly and low-cost. . * Location to be used only as a reference. Housing Vitrolles / MDR Architectes. Architects: MDR Architectes Location: Vitrolles, France Design Team: Matte Devaux, Frédéric Devaux, Arnaud Rousseau Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 5315.0 sqm Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau The project is located in the western outer rim of the town, next to the A7 freeway in the Petite Garrigue neighborhood. The environment on the Eastern front all along the Paul Guigou boulevard is scarcely populated with a few isolated apartment buildings. The 58 living units are spread out into 4 distinct buildings each with 15 living units. The implantation of these buildings optimizes the topographic specificities of the landsite.
In fact, their exact implantation is located at the height of the embankment, keeping them at a nice distance from the street. The buildings are directly accessible from the boulevard by pedestrian lanes between the buildings in order to access the gardens and green areas. Each of the four building is unique. 38 Social Housing in Eaubonne / LEM + Architects: Agence LEM + Location: 32-34 route de Margency, Eaubonne, France Area: 3,186 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Julien Lanoo, Thierry Ardouin Engineering: Ibat, Bethac, Becri, Babylone (landscaping) Client: Opievoy Budget: €4,758,500 excl. VAT Positioned at the interface between suburban housing to the west and a large housing block to the east, the scheme designed by Pierre Lepinay and Bertrand Meurice of the LEM + architectural firm integrates two buildings that successfully create a true urban setting. Their project breaks down the wall-like effect of the linear blocks with their blank gable ends and creates a transition between them and the nearby suburban housing.
The architects propose opening the public space towards the existing park by operating a transition of scale through the well thought-out siting of a first building built up against one of the existing blocks. . * Location to be used only as a reference. 7 Units Housing Building / Metaform Architecture. Architects: Metaform Architecture Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg Area: 1,200 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Steve Troes A discreet and reduced architecture with hidden openings based on a compact and pure volume. One of the main intentions of the project consists in the insertion of a residential building with 7 living units in its direct surroundings, marked by detached and solitary buildings in an suburban context.
The use of a single light coloured material (fibre-cement panels) for the façade gives the building a monolithic aspect and preserves the quiet appearance. The composition of the different volumes merged to the continuous grid of the façade blurs the clear differentiation of the stacked floors, indeed often characteristic for an multi-storey housing project. Each window has been individually conceived in order to frame different viewports or to manage the supply of natural lighting for the interior spaces. . * Location to be used only as a reference. Housing Development / kit Architects. Designed by kit Architects, in collaboration with schibliholenstein architekten, the winning proposal for a 33 apartment housing development in Nuerensdorf, Zurich, Switerland consists of six buildings, which occupy the land equally.
The loose alternating arrangement allows multiple connections to the open countryside in the north and to the garden framed single and multi-family dwellings in the immediate neighborhood. More images and architects’ description after the break. With their windmill-like floor plan the buildings fit the scale of the existing context. A seven and a four unit house are the two basic types, both combining duplexes with detached character, ground floor apartments and penthouses.
All dwellings are dual aspects with private outdoor spaces along the recessed corners – on ground floor level as perches followed by private gardens, on first floor level as loggias and on the attic floor as spacious terraces.
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