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Floating concrete houses proposed for areas at risk from rising sea levels

May 28, 2020 India Block 0
Modular Water Dwellings by Grimshaw Architects

British architecture studio Grimshaw and Dutch manufacturers Concrete Valley are developing Modular Water Dwellings that could be built in places at risk from climate change. The floating houses would mitigate the risk of living in places that could be flooded as rising temperatures melting the ice caps. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sea

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Rethinking the Collective / Rural Urban Framework, The University of Hong Kong

May 28, 2020 Collin Chen 0

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Over a 1000 years ago, large introverted earthen buildings (tulous) of the Hakka culture emerged in southern China in a fiercely combative culture. Extended families built thick earthen walls for collective defence, while maintaining a shared open space for farming activities in the centre. Each family in the traditional tulou live in a vertical section of rooms, accessed through a shared corridor and balcony. Thus, the building establishes a specific relationship between a number of individual spaces and a collective space.

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Lake Huron House / SAOTA

May 27, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

This summer house is set on the banks of Lake Huron in a small, remote Canadian town about an hour’s drive from London, Ontario. While the architectural context might be characterised as somewhat conservative “cabin country”, this house attempts to extend the possibilities of the traditional lakeside family retreat through a contemporary architectural approach, harnessing recent developments in design, technology and sustainability to connect meaningfully with its beautiful natural setting while exploring new ways of enhancing the lifestyle experience of the family summer getaway.

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Reception Center of Chengdu Xindu Cultural Center / DAGA Architects

May 27, 2020 罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo 0

Chengdu has been known as “Tianfu” since ancient times, and it is one of the earliest developed areas in the southwest. It has a history of more than 2,300 years. In the ancient times, the Chengdu Plain was the main capital city of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period, and it is the precipitation place of ancient and modern cultures for thousands of years. Today, Chengdu has developed into a financial, commercial, and educational center and transportation and communications hub in southwest China. The project address is located at the core of Xindu District in the north of Chengdu.

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El Quincho guesthouse in Córdoba is designed for asado and family gatherings

May 27, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
El Quincho by Lalo Carrillo, CaSA and SY Arquitectos

Architect Lalo Carrillo worked with firms Colombo and Serboli Architecture and SY Arquitectos to design this guesthouse for his family in Córdoba, Argentina. Carrillo worked with local firm SY Arquitectos and Barcelona practice Colombo and Serboli Architecture to design the 140-square- metre guesthouse for his family, who live in the neighbouring residence from the 1960s.

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House 1559/36 D / Studio Ardete

May 27, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

The House 1559/36D is 836 sqm residential project in one of the privileged locations of Chandigarh flanked with green belt on one side and a view to the Shivaliks, juxtapose against an urban landscape. Our primary design response was to encourage the occupant of the space to be in a constant dialogue with either nature or art and sometimes with both. In response to David Craib’s quote “Design should never say, Look at me! It should always say, Look at this!” the most irrefutable thing was to raise the common leisure zone to the top of the house.

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Vehicle Assessment Drive-Thru / STUDIO MOVE

May 27, 2020 罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo 0

The project location is along the national highway in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture. Our client for the project is IDOM inc., a company under “Gulliver” that operates used vehicle nationwide. With the request of efficiency, and a contactless service to support the Epidemic Control. The goal is to develop a new drive-way system using technology, art, and architecture.

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Invisible Studio “started as a voyage of self-build discovery” says Piers Taylor in film for VDF

May 27, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

In the second part of our VDF collaboration with film-makers Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, we screen the first episode of the duo’s Practice series, in which architect Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio explains why he built his own house in the woods. Mark and Stephenson’s documentary series Practice focuses on the process of making

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