Showing posts with label urbanscape. Show all posts
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Building Houses
This project proposes a responsible urbanism based on the heterogeneity of the program, on the urban porosity and on the adaptability to the different situations and events.
We didn´t want an intervention that was working only in moments of concerts and festivals, we wanted a fabric that was forming a part of the day after day of the city offering daily spaces to the habitants of Kaohsiung..."
images & passage via Archidaily
Building Houses
"Sydney-based Mark Tyrrell Studio has collaborated with Daniel Griffin to create a first prize winning entry to the 2011 international design competition Ideas on Edge Parramatta. The competition received over 150 entries, 40% international and the remainder from around Australia. There were 3 equal winners.Tyrrell and Griffin’s concept focuses upon blurring the physical and metaphysical boundaries between the local culture of Parramatta, and its local ecosystem, finding moments of architectural drama at their junction..." to find out more...
Images & Passage via Bustler
Interior Design
" The project proposes a global system of levees, serving also as a new brand of urban farms at the city's edge, preserving local ecologies while protecting cities from emerging dangers. Each stage of the levee supports the next. Clippings, compost, and surplus crops from farming levels are used as nutrients and food for a series of fish farms, marshes, and restorative dune ecologies. Waste from marine life and nutrients from algal habitats are then used to fertilized farm levels, making the levee a complete ecology..." to find out more...passage & images from Bustler
Interior Design
"The ‘Shuffle’ proposal by young Norwegian Eriksen Skajaa Architects for the revitalization of Oslo’s Haugerud suburb has recently won the EUROPAN 10 contest for Oslo, Norway.The project is exploring low rise/high density urban planning as a way to reinforce local identity and making use of passive-house concepts to shape the buildings.
Here’s a detailed description of the concept we received from Eriksen Skajaa Architects:
Weave, Shuffle, Flip, Intensify….Study area strategy
The main challenges in the study area are the homogenous zones that undermine cross connections and permeability. In the perspective of sustainability and ecology, large areas in the study area are under-utilised. We have developed three main strategies to facilitate a new development in the study area..."
Weave, Shuffle, Flip, Intensify….Study area strategy
The main challenges in the study area are the homogenous zones that undermine cross connections and permeability. In the perspective of sustainability and ecology, large areas in the study area are under-utilised. We have developed three main strategies to facilitate a new development in the study area..."
image & passage from Bustler
Interior Design WORK Architecture Company Wins Competition to Redesign Shenzhen’s Hua Qiang Bei Road
Interior Design
"WORK Architecture Company, in collaboration with Zhubo Architecture Studio, ARUP and Balmori Associates has won the international invited competition to redesign a 1-kilometer section of Hua Qiang Bei Road. This project offers Shenzhen a solution to Hua Qiang Bei Road’s traffic congestion while creating a series of new contemporary public spaces for the city. The proposal consists of five above-ground mixed-use public facilities, a new streetscape and traffic design and an underground boulevard connecting four new metro lines to the street and neighboring buildings.Hua Qiang Bei Road has emerged naturally from an industrial district to become Shenzhen’s premier shopping and electronics Street. This success has unfortunately also created traffic problems, for cars and buses as well as congestion for pedestrians. In addition, HQB finds itself today in need of a new contemporary expression to reflect its destination status, without overwhelming its existing character..."
image & passage from Bustler
Interior Decoration
"The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), in collaboration with Shenzhen-based architects Urbanus, has been awarded first prize in the design competition for a major new cultural center, transport hub, and public landmark in the heart of the city of Shenzhen, southern China. The design, led by OMA partner Ole Scheeren, was selected from 32 entries by an international jury.The scheme builds on Shenzhen’s newly acquired status of “City of Design”, awarded by UNESCO in 2008, and proposes for the city’s Crystal Island project the formation of “Shenzhen Creative Center”: a focal point for the city’s creative industries in front of Shenzhen’s iconic city hall.
Above ground, Shenzhen Creative Center consists of a 20-hectare landscape of parks and gardens, populated by clusters of pavilions and small buildings – “Design Villages” – that form a vibrant micro-urbanism of public activity. The site is encompassed by an elevated pedestrian “Ring Connector”, an urban walkway joining its multiple elements and infrastructures..."
Above ground, Shenzhen Creative Center consists of a 20-hectare landscape of parks and gardens, populated by clusters of pavilions and small buildings – “Design Villages” – that form a vibrant micro-urbanism of public activity. The site is encompassed by an elevated pedestrian “Ring Connector”, an urban walkway joining its multiple elements and infrastructures..."
images and passage from Bustler
interior decoration
Interior Decoration
"The team composed of graduates of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and headed by Cesar Perez Becerril, has been announced winner in a national competition for a memorial to commemorate the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence. The design proposes a vertical height of 104 meters of coated quartz and slender, which eliminates the role and obstruction of reform. “It’s simple and effective. As much as a light tower is innovative, it is simple, rational and appropriate,” said the jury that chose Perez Becerril, among the 35 proposals which were presented at the National Bicentennial to build the Arch..." to find out more...image and passage from Bustler
interior decoration
Interior Decoration
Archiprix International 2009 recently announced the winners of the world’s best architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture graduation projects in Montevideo, Uruguay.The international jury reviewed 218 submissions from 66 countries, nominated 24 finalists, and selected 8 winners. The jury comprised Salvador Schelotto (Dean farq, UdelaR, Uruguay), Mario Schjetnan (Mexico), Anne Lacaton (France), Juan Herreros (Spain), Sou Fujimoto (Japan).
Below one of my favourite among the winning designs: Stacking pencil buildings by using MAby Ryo Kitazawa.
"In Tokyo, the relationships of urban buildings are complex and various. I surveyed them with a view to slotting them into a new building system. Through my research, I found particular space, which I called ‘urban MA’, between slender buildings in Tokyo. Such buildings are called ‘pencil buildings’ in Japan: middle-rise buildings with maximum volume on a small footprint, built in high-density areas. ‘Urban MA’ gives us a sense of proper distance and generates interaction between us. ‘MA’ is a concept peculiar to Japan, based on the refined sensitivity of the Japanese. It is different from ‘void’ or ‘empty’. Taking the research results, I concluded that the essential elements of ‘urban MA’ are the openings on the dense façade. I propose MArchitecture, instead of Architecture, by means of the insertion of ‘urban MA’. By stacking the pencil buildings, ‘urban MA’, which had been two-dimensional, is transformed into a three-dimensional structure. And a multilayered window facing this place makes the area of perception and interaction more complex. The exterior space that connects pencil buildings is full of diverse ‘urban MA’. And this space will form communities to provide space for socializing. This will generate a wide range of activities and attract many people to the area. The interior enables people to sense the presence of others, yet help maintain an appropriate feeling of distance between one another at all the times by adjusting the layered openings. The circulation becomes much complicated on going through the pencil buildings, and enables the people to move around as if strolling about through a city. MArchitecture harmonizes with the finely honed sensitivity of the Japanese and uses it to its full extent. This prototype can be adapted to different building types."
passage and images from Bustler
Interior Decoration
An interesting 3-day workshop by MAD! Together with the 11 young famous architects, the mission was to create an experimental urban vision for Huaxi. Each proposal provided a unique design for a single part of the masterplan, based on their own understanding and interpretation of the local natural and cultural elements.
"...The result is a series of organic individual buildings, growing from the natural environment, and working together to produce a compound of diverse urban activities The site of Huaxi is famous for its dramatic and beautiful landscape, as well as a diverse mix of minority cultural inhabitants during its history. Its future is defined by the local government's urban planning as a new urban centre for finance, cultural activities and tourism. ... In this high density urban environment, the limits of urbanization are controlled and set by nature; the buildings take on the dynamic topography of the site, touching the landscape in a more interactive way. Generic verticality is replaced by a complex taxonomy of urban activities, defined by a multiplicity of connections, detours and short cuts. The natural and the artificial are fused together, revealing an image of a future architecture..." to find out more...
Of course, the participating architects were: Atelier Manferdini (USA), BIG (DENMARK), Dieguez Fridman (ARGENTINA), EMERGENT/Tom Wiscombe (USA), HouLiang Architecture (CHINA), JDS (DENMARK/BELGIUM), MAD (CHINA), Mass Studies (KOREA), Rojkind Arquitectos (MEXICO), Serie (UK/INDIA), Sou Fujimoto Architects (JAPAN).passage and images from i-mad.cominterior decoration
Interior Decoration
"Commissioned by the global networking company Cisco to investigate how ‘connected’ the British public feel to their local communities, the ‘Urban 2020’ survey found that 87 per cent of the respondents believe that it’s the people that live there that make a community, while 64 per cent also believe it’s primarily the responsibility of the local residents, rather than the government or the local council, to make their communities better places to live..." to find out more...
passage and image from bustler
Interior Decoration
Antoine Grumbach, Agence Grumbach and associates team
IRoland Castro, Ateliers Castro/Denissof/Casi team
IRoland Castro, Ateliers Castro/Denissof/Casi team
"From April 29 to November 22, 2009, the “Le Grand Pari de l’agglomeration parisienne” exhibition will present the results of the consultation. The proposals of the ten multidisciplinary teams – selected as part of the consultation and working in partnership with architects and urban planners – will be presented at Musée de la Cité...for a day-long public debate in the great hall of Théâtre national de Chaillot. The teams will be invited to compare their proposals in areas like the environment, economics, social balances and mobility. Actors from other major “metropolitan projects”... " to find out more...
images and passage from Bustler
Interior Decoration
"One million square meters. That is the program BIG has added in a masterplan to a small island in the Caspian Sea called Zira. Being located right for the coast of Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, the island is expected to attract massive crowds. To accommodate the million BIG resided to a metaphor that is all about mass: the mountain.
For the island BIG proposes a set of seven different buildings, whose form is derived from seven peaks of Azerbaijan. Each measuring about 130.000 square meters, the buildings are huge. Monstrous almost. Everything is set in place to only reach one goal: to build a carbon neutral neighborhood. In an emerging oil-country..."
For the island BIG proposes a set of seven different buildings, whose form is derived from seven peaks of Azerbaijan. Each measuring about 130.000 square meters, the buildings are huge. Monstrous almost. Everything is set in place to only reach one goal: to build a carbon neutral neighborhood. In an emerging oil-country..."
Although very admired BIG works that express their bold ideas and strong architecture statements, this "BIG Mountains" seems to be a bit controversial. No doubt that the "BIG" way to create iconic style with geometrical impacts and the "zero" sustainability idea are great, however, do the mega scale and dense comminity really reflect the sustainable environment? what do you think? to find out more...
images & passage from www.eikongraphia.com/ and www.big.dk
Interior Decoration
Toronto-based architecture and landscape design firm gh3 have been awarded with the first prize in the international design competition for Torontos June Callwood Park.
"A Voice in the Forest. The starting point of our design takes a voice sampling of June's own words—“I believe in kindness”—physically mapped onto the site, its undulations creating the abstract geometric pattern of openings and clearings within the dense groves of the Super-Real Forest. June spoke of kindness as “the god in our machinery,” believing in kindness rather than organized religion or God; these words are taken from her last interview expressing that core idea. The edge of this voice wave pattern creates a sinewy path that runs north to south through five clearings in the forest, connecting Lakeshore to Fort York, its black granite planks touching the edges at several points to provide east-west community access into the park..." to find out more...
Images & passage from bustler
Interior Decoration
"How do you turn the problem of a polluted site into an architectural potential?A third of our budget was allocated to remove our polluted topsoil. By covering the site with a wooden deck we could leave the soil where it was and invest the money on the building rather than the site’s polluted topsoil. The result is a public landscape of social functions surrounded by water on all sides...Two very different users had to share the facilities: a sailing club and a youth centre with conflicting requirements: the youth centre wanted outdoor space for the kids to play; the sailing club required most of the site to moor their boats. The building is the result of these two contradictory demands: The deck is elevated high enough to allow for boat storage underneath while providing an undulating landscape for the kids to run and play above..." to find out more...
images & passage from http://www.archdaily.com/
Interior Decoration
Urban bathing: new type facilities with new urban social interaction, sense of place, faster and easier pool construction, closer to the nature...i think it is cool and going to be the new urban form for the water edge.
1. Kastrup Sea Bath / White arkitekter AB"Reaching out into the Øresund from Kastrup Strandpark in Kastrup, Kastrup Sea Bath forms a living and integral part of the new sea front...A wooden pier leads the visitor round to a circular construction, gradually elevating above the sea surface, and ending in a 5m diving platform. The building material is Azobé wood, chosen for it’s durability in sea water...The Bath is conceived as a sculptural dynamic form, which can be seen from the beach, the sea and the air. It’s silhouette gradually changes as the beholder moves around it..." to find out more...
2.Copenhagen Harbour Bath / PLOT "People go to the Harbour Bath in the way that people go to the beach rather than the indoor swimming baths. Not necessarily to exercise, but primarily to socialize, play and enjoy the sun. ...With an indoor swimming bath you have some land and have to design the pools. With the harbour, we have some water and have to design the land; a swimming bath in reverse. Since land is a factor we have influence on as architects, it is in the interface between the two that we can create desirable conditions. In a way, reinterpreting the water that is there by adding land..." to find out more...
images and passage from http://www.archdaily.com/
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