Competitions The fairytale wouldn't be complete without the "Hortus Conclusus Andersen" from the Hans Christian Andersen Museum's House of Fairytales competition. Designed by Transborder Studio of Oslo, the proposal was the lucky first-prize winner of the international ideas competition that drew in nearly 500 entrants.These results are only the beginning, as the H C Museum plans for a more restricted design competition for the House of Fairytales. — bustler.net The winners of the 16th annual international BERKELEY PRIZE competition were just announced. Every Monday, we highlight some of the most recent competition-winning projects, commissions, and awards on Bustler from the previous week that we think are worth checking out.Check out Recap #3 for the week of March 31-April 4, 2014:Peter Zumthor selects 4 architecture finalists for Rolex Arts... View full entry »
Illuminating Engineering Society The Advanced Energy Design Guide series provides a sensible approach to easily achieve advanced levels of energy savings without having to resort to detailed calculations or analysis. The four-color guides offer contractors and designers the tools, including recommendations for practical products and off-the-shelf technology, needed for achieving a 30% energy savings compared to buildings that meet the minimum requirements of ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999. The energy savings target of 30% is the first step in the process toward achieving a net-zero energy building, which is defined as a building that, on an annual basis, draws from outside resources equal or less energy than it provides using on-site renewable energy sources. These guides have been developed through the collaboration of ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), and the U.S.
SOCKS – An online magazine of Art, Architecture, Media, Culture, Sounds, Territories, Technology) Bricoleurbanism BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group Touchscreen Landscapes [Image: Screen grab via military.com]. This new, partly digital sand table interface developed for military planning would seem to have some pretty awesome uses in an architecture or landscape design studio. Using 3D terrain data—in the military's case, gathered in real-time from its planetary network of satellites—and a repurposed Kinect sensor, the system can adapt to hand-sculpted transformations in the sand by projecting new landforms and elevations down onto those newly molded forms. You can thus carve a river in real-time through the center of the sandbox, and watch as projected water flows in— [Image: Screen grabs via military.com]. —or you can simply squeeze sand together into new hills, and even make a volcanic crater. The idea of projecting adaptive landscape imagery down onto a sandbox is brilliant; being able to interact with both the imagery and the sand itself by way of a Kinect sensor is simply awesome. Watch the original video for more. (Spotted via the Quartz Daily Brief).
Interview with Peter Eisenman: "I Am Not Convinced That I Have a Style" As one of the most revered and often reviled architects of the latter part of the 20th century, Peter Eisenman has courted controversy throughout his 50-year career, often attempting to distance himself from the work of his contemporaries and standing in firm opposition to popular trends. In this interview, Eisenman elaborates on his beliefs about architecture and the new direction he has taken in recent years – while simultaneously pulling no punches when discussing the work of others, including Rem Koolhaas, Richard Meier, and even his younger self. The interview is a shortened version of the latest of three interviews with Peter Eisenman (from October 2003, June 2009, and February 2016) that comprise the upcoming book by Vladimir Belogolovsky “Conversations with Peter Eisenman.” Peter Eisenman: Yes. VB: Right after my return from Santiago, I told you that I read the complex not as an architectural project but as a text, a novel. PE: Yes, I agreed. PE: By language, I mean text. PE: No.
Architecture Big Dig Building Cambridge, MA | 2005 [ Metropolis Next Generation Prize, Holcim Sustainable Construction Award ] Most are familiar with Boston's ongoing "Big Dig." Few, however, give thought to the massive amount of waste that accompanies construction on this scale, namely the dismantling of the existing and temporary roadways. The Big Dig Building proposes to relocate and recycle these infrastructural materials as building components, adapting them to uses ranging from structural members to cladding. From Highway to Housing: What happens to the millions of tons of discarded materials from obsolete infrastructures like Boston's Big Dig? Load Comparisons: Standard framing (left) can withstand 40 psf – only standard residential objects and programs can be accomodated. Highway panels are shifted to create an elevation that reads as a vertical landscape. Like a prefabricated system, differing typologies from low to high densities can be created from the same salvaged infrastructural materials. print page