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Architects: decaARCHITECTURE
Location: Antiparos, Greece
Project Team: Alexandros Vaitsos, Carlos Loperena, Elena Zabeli, Kyle Gudsell, Katerina Chryssanthopoulou
Owner: Oliaros AE (Antiparos Design Projects)
Structural Engineers: KYMA / Manos Kyriazis
Mechanical Engineers: TEKEM / George Kavoulakos
Contractor: Kataskevastiki Topometriki Parou ABETE / Nikos Kaggelis
Landscape Designers: Doxiadis+ / Thomas Doxiadis
Project Area: 237 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Erieta Attali, Ed Reeve, decaARCHITECTURE

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To combat the Sahara Desert’s ongoing growth, student Magnus Larsson has proposed a 6,000km wall that will be-wait for it-constructed by letting a bacterium have its way with the sand, forming sandstone.

The bacterium, bacillus pasteurii, turns sand into firm sandstone structures very quickly, and the proposed wall could house a sort of lengthy oasis of water and vegetation, to be used by refugees for housing. It’s trying to kill two enormous birds with an equally enormous stone: Combating desertification and providing mass amounts of housing for those who need it. The proposal won a prize for sustainable agriculture, but nothing this outrageous is without its problems.

This kind of bacterial change has been performed in very small environments, but has never been tried in as large a scale as the Sahara Desert. Besides the practicality of the project, there are also environmental concerns: This massive a change to the ecosystem could cause problems we can’t even foresee, from species extinctions to water shortages. Not to mention a problem that wasn’t brought up in the article: How do we get this thing to stop making sandstone? I’m pretty sure experiments with ice-nine didn’t turn out so hot.

text: gizmodo
obr: flickr

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Plasmastudio has recently won the competition to develop the building and landscape design for Horticultural Expo in Xi’an, China. The project comprises 15,000 exhibition hall building, a series of conservatories, a 37Ha park around an artificial lake as well as ancilliary buildings. The next stages of development will take place during the next months with the collaboration of Plasmastudio (buildings) and Groundlab (landscape urbanism).
Xi’an is a city based in thousands of years of ancient culture. As the home of the Terra Cotta Army and the beginning of the Silk Road, Xi’an has claimed its place in China’s eternal history. In this tradition, Flowing Gardens is a harmonic relationship between Xi’an’s wondrous past and its exciting future; horticulture and technology; landscape and architecture. Flowing Gardens enhances the inherent beauty of Xi’an by intensifying the characteristics of the existing fabric while creating a self-sustainable landscape for the future.

Flowing Gardens begins from a single line — an axis extends from the Gate to the Greenhouse, traveling through the East and West Hills and over the lake, while extending into many sinuous paths, creating a network of intermingling circulation, landscape and water. Much like the legendary Silk Road, Flowing Gardens is connectivity, circulation, rejuvenation, and elegance.

zdroj: aa landscape urbanism

jo nagasaka + schemata architecture office have just developed 
’paco’ an all in one unit. 

paco is a box that measures 3m x 3m x 3m. 
it has the minimum equipment needed to live despite its size. 
they produced it as a conceptual model to imagine a new lifestyle.

zdroj: designboom

for their design of house in never, never land they made four major decisions; 

to minimize tree and shrub removal or pruning on the allotment, raise more than 80% of the building mass on piles to avoid any sort of disturbance on the ground  (paving, crops, watering or other input) which might eventually alter its properties, clustering all the waste filtering and treatment equipment and compensating for the amount of substrate affected by the foundation by including an equivalent mass of substrate in various parts of the skin around the buildings, mixed with a water-retaining gelatin to reproduce the moister of original soil in shallower conditions. the design work began with phase 0, consisting on the close scrutiny and mapping of every tree and shrub. the geometries of the project were  then adapted correspondingly and the construction was inscribed in the space 
available in between the threes, which thus flow through the building interiors.

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For Hargreaves Associates, the sweeping monumentality of agricultural landscapes finds expression through their signature style — the braided topography — by which all activities and spaces are organized. 

From their project statement:

We have approached the site by examining the site-specific qualities that make it a beloved destination today: expansive fields, sweeping views, spectacular sunsets, rolling hills, nestled lakes, extensive walking trails, equestrian trails and events, farm lands, hands-on learning about agriculture and nature, a country drive, and bottomland forests. There is much at Shelby Farms Park to be discovered. 

We have integrated those elements by creating a multi-layered design that intertwines the various existing areas of the park. A network of landscape and movement systems provides for recreation and access by foot, by bike, by horse, by shuttle…and by boat. A system of beautiful lakes that reflect the memorable Memphis sky allows a connection to the river — both real and metaphorical as well as a whole new movement system on the site.…

Whereas Field Operations makes use of the grid and compartmentalization, Hargreaves Associates prefers terraforming.

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house C has been designed by hiroshi nakamura and NAP architects.
located in minamiboso, japan, the house is situated between mountains and the sea,
the roof is insulated on the outside by using soil as a protective layer and cladding,
where seeds of grass have been sown to prevent runoff. to prevent salt damage
of the outer walls the reinforced concrete structure of the house has been coated.

zdroj: designboom

The project explores how new forms of habitable infrastructure might be extrapolated from a geopolitical agreement – in this case, materializing architectural form from the legal interstices of the Oslo Accords.
The result is a fantastic example of architectural speculation: genuinely massive – and impossibly cantilevered – bridges used as transport links, aerial housing, and skyborne agricultural complexes, all in one.

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Architects: Pushak
Location: Lillefjord, Finnmark, Norway
Project Year: 2006
Client: Norwegian Road Administration, The National Tourist Road Project

zdroj: archdaily

Architects: astearchitecture
Location: Stubai Glacier in Tyrol, Austria
Project year: 2008
Design Team: Arch.DI Kathrin Aste, Arch.DI Frank Ludin, Thomas Feuerstein
Client: Wintersport Tirol AG & Co, Stubaier Bergbahnen KG
Construction Engineer: aste construction
Soil Mechanics Engineer: Ingenieurbüro Wietek
Photographs: astearchitecture

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Architects: Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement
Location: Quebec, Canada
Project Team: Réal Lestage, urban planner, principal in the project team, Renée Daoust, architect, urban planner, principal / Caroline Beaulieu, architect / Lucie Bibeau, landscape architect / Martin Adam, b. arch. / Maria Benech, b. arch. / André Nadeau, landscape architect / Simon Magnan, landscape architect / Rachel Philippe-Auguste, architect / Catherine St-Marseille, m. arch. / Hubert Pelletier, m. arch. / Nelson Couture, architect / Jacques Michaud, tech. arch.
Project Year: 2008
Engineering: GENIVAR and SNC-LAVALIN
Contractor: POMERLEAU
Client: Commission de la Capitale Nationale du Québec
Lighting Consultant: ÉCLAIRAGE PUBLIC
Constructed Area: 2,5 km long

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These Chilean landmark/benchmarks are as much art installation as they are civic architecture. Three architecture students, R.Hernández, M. Valdés, and O. Véliz created these pieces as a means to delineate an ancient path. These modules give visitors a direction, as well as a place to sit. The pieces themselves are all built from small sections of wood, none larger than 16 centimeters. 

zdroj: World Architecture News

dedikováno zvláště  sl. Glötzerové

The place
In the southernmost part of Navarre, near the desert-like landscape of the Bardenas and surrounded by the green of the market gardens and orchards along the banks of the Ebro River lies Tudela, the second city in the region in terms of both size and importance and one of the main eolic energy producers in Europe.
The site for the four-star hotel is a wheat field, located 3 km from Tudela’s town center and in the limits of the Bardenas Reales de Navarra, a spectacular natural park with semi-desert landscape.
Commission
The clients, who had no prior experience in the hospitality business, commissioned a one storey hotel on the wheat field which is surrounded by an imposing landscape; the arid Bardenas on one side and the green cultivated fields, the Ebro River and Tudela on the other. A strong characteristic of the site is its exposure to very strong winds –hence the name of the hotel, meaning Air in Spanish– and the extreme temperatures.
Conditions established by the clients from the beginning of the project were for the new building to be built using entirely dry-construction and to work as much as possible with steel elements, as they counted with the collaboration of an excellent local metal worker.
Another determining condition was the limited budget and construction time. After initial meetings with the client, in order to meet the budgetary constraints, we decided to employ a system of metal sandwich façade panels with a rigid foam core, because of its fast assembly time, the metal fabricator’s prior experience in handling this material, its excellent thermal insulation qualities and because of its low cost.
The steel elements and façade panels were prefabricated at the metal shop while the site work, installations and concrete slabs were being completed, and later assembled on site extremely fast. The building was completed in 12 months.
The hotel
Given the site’s great views but its sometimes inhospitable conditions(wind, dust, high temperatures), we conceived the hotel as a succession of protected and comfortable interior spaces from which to contemplate the exterior.
The architecture, interior spaces and landscape design, seek to bring the dweller close to the rural and austere character of the surroundings by providing simple, generous and silent spaces.
Recycled, large wood containers typically found in Tudela’s crop fields for fruit and vegetable recollection and transportation were employed as windbreakers for the hotel’s outdoor spaces. They stop strong wind while allowing air to pass, need no foundations or fixings, are easy to move and were very economical. From the exterior, the hotel intentionally blurs with the surroundings. It presents itself as a lightweight construction that can be dismantled and recycled, recalling the local agricultural constructions, such as barns and vegetable coops found in the area.
The building
In its arrangement, the hotel keeps the forms of the noble constructions found in the riverbank area, the Ribera, which developed around a central court, offering climactic protection. The central court, generated by a series of orthogonal constructions, gives its back to the Cierzo (the strong north-west wind) and opens up to the southeast, where a plantation of poplar trees and the pool are located. The building is composed by a series of simple monochromatic cubic structures. Their dispersed arrangement allows views through the interstitial spaces, minimizing a massive appearance and generating an animated play of light and shadow.
Through an ordered plantation of white-flower cherry trees, one enters the hotel’s main body which houses the common areas — reception area, main hall, meeting room, bar and restaurant– and 10 rooms with private patios, each with a fruit tree. The rest of the rooms are freestanding pavilions with large projecting windows overlooking the open landscape. Access to these rooms is through an exterior walkway, providing them with a private and privileged character by their being right out in the wheat fields.
The treatment of the exterior spaces, translate the characteristic forms, colors and vegetations of the Bardenas desert and the surrounding irrigation fields: ordered plantations of fruit trees, vegetable gardens, scattered placement of aromatic plants such as rosemary and thyme.
Ground surfaces were covered with local reddish earth and boulders extracted from the site, which mark the limit between the wheat plantation and the hotel. Smaller boulders and pebbles were also used as aggregate for the exterior and interior polished concrete floors, resulting in particular terrazzo finish, close to the ground surfaces found on the Bardenas desert.
Rooms
Upon entering the rooms, separating the entry from the sleeping area, one finds a vestibule-like space with a freestanding and open furniture piece that offers a comfortable and generous place to leave belongings and avoid having them visually cluster the sleeping area. It also contains the mini-bar, safe and shelves with outlets for recharging electronic items. The toilet has its own separate space with door. The shower or bathtub is adjacent to a window (or a door in the case of the rooms with private patio) and to the bed area which is separated by simple airy white cotton curtains.
The bathtubs, shower plates, washbasins –fabricated in folded and powder-coated steel sheet– and most of the furniture (beds, tables, luggage furniture, armchairs in main hall, low stools…) were designed by us for this project and made by the metal fabricator who did the building.
Inhabitable window
To reinforce the idea of the rooms as protected outdoor-viewing devices, we created projecting windows with no visible glass frame from the interior.
The windowsill becomes inhabitable by the exaggeration of its depth and by lining its interior with plywood. This lining conceals the glass’ metal frame and the solar filtering devices that roll down electrically. The window is perceived as a simple unglazed opening that creates a false perception of thickness not inherent to the light construction employed.
These inhabitable windows become snug places to read or watch the TV, or simply to contemplate the views. It serves also as seating or as an extra bed for the rooms. Their orientation is mainly northeast to allow seeing the illuminated landscape, without receiving direct sunlight.

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Proposal for Green Art-ecological landscape art exhibition in Finland. Shelter for kayakk paddlers, all necessary energy is taken from the river.
A project together with Janne Saario, student of architecture Helsinki.
Construction: 2007 summer.
Location: Halikko River Southwest Finland

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místo: Los Lirios, Rancagua, Chile
architekt: Smiljan Radic Clarke
spolupráce: Danilo Lazcano, Gonzalo Torres
stavební část: Claudio Assar Olguín
technický dozor: Smiljan Radic
konstrukce: Eugenio Durán
projekt: 2005
realizace: 2006
zastavěná plocha: 1600 m2
užitná plocha: 210 m2

zdroj: plataformaarquitectura

Architects: Hidalgo Hartmann - Jordi Hidalgo Tané & Daniela Hartmann
Location: Vall de Bianya, La Garrotxa, Spain
Project year: 2002
Construction year: 2002–2006
Client: Jordi Sala, Susanna Comamala
Contractors: Estructures Olot S.L. , Libra-S.L., Plantalech S.L., Fusteria Serra S.L.
Constructed Area: 362 sqm

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The ‘shell house’ by architect kotaro ide, is a sculptural shell-like structure which has been built in the woods of karuizawa, located in the nagano prefecture of japan. the house is meant to function as a vacation home, which is able to withstand the humid summers and cold winters of the region. to accomplish this, ide opted not to use the typical wood structure of villas in the area because of their susceptibility to decay easily. Instead, he used reinforced concrete to construct two elliptical shell forms which are supposed to represent a conch. From its profile, ‘shell house’ takes on a j-shape which is raised above the ground by 1400 mm resulting in the ‘floating’ masses. ulin wood is used to create terraces around the home with a courtyard into the centre of the main living areas. the villa’s simple aesthetic lends itself well to the traditional japanese landscape, creating a balance between the futuristic man-made structure and the environment which surrounds it. The entire project took more than 18 months to realize and two and a half years to complete.

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místo: Toten, Norsko 
investor: Kristin Rogstad a Trond Nygård 
plocha: 165 m² 
realizace: 2008 
architekti: Jarmund / Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL (Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg, Nikolaj Zamecznik)

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Architects: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
Location: Waren (Müritz), Germany
Architects team: Gert Wingårdh, Gunilla Murnieks, Therese Ahlström, Joakim Lyth, Ulrika Davidsson, Peter Öhman, Björn Nilsson, Liselott Jademyr, Maria Olausson, Anna Palm, Mats Bengtsson, Sara Helder
Construction Year: 2005–2007
Partner in Germany: DGI Bauwerk, Berlin Germany
Contractor: Landlord/owner — Landkreis Müritz
Landscape: NOD, Stockholm, Sweden
Constructed Area: 3,137 sqm

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Architects: KWK PROMES
Location: Ksiazenice, Poland
Project Architect: Robert Konieczny
Collaborator: Marcin Jojko
Structural Engineer: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Design Year: 2004
Construction Year: 2005–2007
Site Area: 1,440 sqm
Constructed Area: 180 sqm

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místo: Ras al-Khaimah 
účel: konferenční a výstavní centrum, hotel 
investor: Ras Al Khaimah
plocha: 270 000 m² 
projekt: podzim 2008 
architekti: Snøhetta

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projekt Tuath Na Mara
architekt: MacGabhann Architects 
tvůrčí tým: Tarla MacGabhann, Antoin MacGabhann, Niels Merschbrock & Barry Maguire
realizace: 2006–2007
ocenění: Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, Public Choice Award 
Best house 2008 Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, Irish Architecture Awards 2000

zdroj: Modern Residential Design

místo: Kandestederne, Dánsko
investor: Mads Møller
plocha: hlavní budova 92 m², objekt pro hosty 32 m²
realizace: 2000
architekt: Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller

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Architect: Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen
Location: Aurland, Norway
Client: The Norwegian Highways Department
Technical Advisors: Node AS, Bergen
Contractor: Veidekke AS, Sogndal
Road Engineer: Asplan Viak

Project year: 2005

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Location: Netherlands
Partner in Charge: Nanne de Ru
Project Team: Nanne de Ru, Charles Bessard, Alexander Sverdlov, Nolly Vos, Wouter Hermanns, Anne Luetkenhues, Bjørn Andreassen, Joe Matthiessen
Project Team: Nanne de Ru, Charles Bessard, Anne Luetkenhues
Project year: 2005 — 2008
Structural Engineer: BREED ID, Gilbert van der Lee
Contractor: Valleibouw BV Veenendaal
Lighting: LS2 and BEDA electro

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Architects: 70ºN Arkitektur
Location: Vestvågøy, Lofoten Islands, Norway
Client: Norwegian Public Roads Administration
Project year: 2005

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