Showing posts with label vernacular. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vernacular. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Building Temporary Dormitories With Local Recycled Timber and Renewable Bamboo in Thailand
0 comments Posted by swl at 1:01 AM
The interior layout ensures an open and airy space that offers semi-privacy and includes storage space for each student. The main cost of the buildings is the timber structure, which represents 70% of the total cost. Bamboo, thatch and eucalyptus are used for walls, floor and roof. Though these materials are not prepared to last over two years without any previous treatment, they are all easily available every season and the cost is affordable and stable for the local people..."
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Images & passage via a.gor.a
Saturday, August 10, 2013
HASSELL + Herzog & de Meuron Win Flinders Street Station Competition
0 comments Posted by swl at 12:29 AM
"The Jury of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station competition was unanimous in the highly anticipated selection of the final winner: the beautiful vaulted roof-scape designed by Australian/Swiss team HASSELL + Herzog & de Meuron with London-based Purcell as heritage consultants. The entry by Eduardo Velasquez, Manuel Pineda and Santiago Medina was announced as Winner of the People's Choice Award.
The project will turn the station into a modern 21st century transport hub while retaining its best known heritage features and buildings. It transforms the site into a new civic precinct with a major public art gallery, a public plaza, an amphitheatre, marketplace, and a permanent home for arts and cultural festival organisations..."
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Images & passage via Bustler
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Located on the site of a former factory, Garden Terrace Miyazaki comprises a single two-storey building that features bamboo-clad walls and a large sloping roof with overhanging eaves...
Kengo Kuma and Associates designed this space as a "calm and tranquil environment", where a landscape of bamboo trees and pools of water provide a scenic setting to the glazed wedding chapel at its centre..."
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Images & passage via Dezeen
Monday, April 2, 2012
"The winners of the 2012 Housing Tomorrow competition were just announced. The annual competition promotes the exploration of contextual, cultural, and life cycle flows that offer new housing strategies for living in the future.
Sponsored by New York-based d3, the competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects..."
images & passage via www.d3space.org
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