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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Architects: Hidalgo Hartmann - Jordi Hidalgo Tané & Daniela Hartmann
Location: Girona, Spain
Project year: 2004
Technical Architec: Mateu Batlle
Client: Lluis and Montserrat
Contractor: Constructions Santa Pau S.L.
Constructed Area: 375 sqm

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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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the danish architects at BIG (bjarke ingels group) have teamed up with the swedish landscape firm NOD for their latest project in stockholm. the project is a revamping of slussen, one of the busiest intersections in downtown stockholm. one of the city’s key goals for the project was reconnecting the historic gamla stan district with södermalm. however the project wasn’t as simple as building a bridge because the slussen is used by cyclists, pedestrians and drivers as well as housing the subway, train and connections to boat lines. the architects needed to find a unifying structure, which could house all these facilities in a layered approach. despite heavy traffic, the new slussen will house rest areas and create a public space on the upper most level. all the levels are connected through ascending a descending ramps, allowing people to move freely between the levels. 

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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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Architekt: KWK PROMES
Míszo: Opole, Poland
Hlavní architekt: Robert Konieczny
Spolupráce: Marlena Wolnik, Łukasz Prażuch
Projekt: 2002–2003
Realizace: 2003–2006
Plocha pozemku: 10,057 sqm
Podlažní plocha: 660 sqm
Fotografie: KWK PROMES

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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

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

zdroj: Bellow The Clouds

místo: Gudbrandsjuvet, Norsko
typ: hotel
klient: Knut Slinning
cena: 1 mil. euro
plocha: 800 m²
realizace: 2007-08

Architects: AFGH
Location: Scheidegg, Switzerland
Clients: Andreas Fuhrimann, Gabrielle Hächler, Pius Sidler
Wood planner: Peter Camenzind AG, Gersau
Project year: 2002–2003
Construction year: 2003–2004
Area: 242 sqm
Budget: 580,000 CHF (USD$465,000)

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Architects: Snøhetta
Location: Alstahaug, Norway
Project year: 2001–2007
Collaborators: Kjetil Traedal Thorsen, Tarald Lundevall, Astrid Renata Van Veen, Jim Dodson, Bartek Milewski, Maria Svaland, Jenny B. Osuldsen, Lars Jørstad Nordbye, Heidi Pettersvold
Client: Alstahaug kommune
Constructed Area: 1350 sqm

The chapel is located 64 kilometers from Osorno, Chile, near the Rupanco Lake. Designed by F3 Architectos, it’s a little construction, about 20 square meter, made entirely from wood.

Glencomeragh House Retreat Center is located in a valley between the Comeragh Mountains and Slievenamon. The campus is bounded by a river to the south, and mature woodland to the west. The Poustinia are located on the Northern incline of the campus and are positioned close to existing plantings of mature broad-leaf trees, which form their entrance and terrace spaces. Each Poustinia is orientated to capture different views over the surrounding countryside and to give a variance in sun light as the day progresses. They are set into and over the hillside, which has been planted as a wild flower meadow with a variety in the mix that will create seasonal blooming. A circular path connects the Poustinia to the Main House and a network of paths and ponds that also lead to riverside and woodland walks. The building’s form creates its own trapped space of the site’s limestone. With the window shutters closed an inner space is created to encourage contemplation and meditation. A day bed opposite the window overlooking the wider landscape, allows rest to be enhanced by the enjoyment of the view. The locally sourced timber cladding in alternating strips of smooth sawn larch and rough sawn douglas fir contrasts with the minimalist interior with its bespoke furniture and suggests the conjunction of the temporal and the transcendent to which the retreat tradition is devoted.

Area — 40sq.m Completed Spring 2005.

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Architects: ARX PORTUGAL - José Mateus y Nuno Mateus
Location: Romeirão, Ericeira, Portugal
Project team: Paulo Rocha, Marco Roque Antunes, Susana Ferreira
Project year: 2001– 2002 
Construction year: 2002– 2003Constructed area: 340 sqm

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