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Habitat'67 for sale

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cost: C$17,000,000. Habitat'67 began as a master’s thesis project prepared in 1961 by Mr. Safdie, then an architecture student at McGill University. He came up with the idea of a high density apartment building that would provide residents with privacy as well as peace and quiet. He was invited to develop his idea for Expo 67 and did so alongside engineer August E. Komendant. By the time the universal exhibition came round, the project was partially completed, and 26 apartments were reserved for the Expo. Read more
The idea of a tree — Winner at DMY

Austrian duo Mischer’Traxler won one of this year’s DMY awards last week in Berlin.
The idea of a tree is an autonomous, mechanical production process, which is a hybrid combination of natural input and mechanical process. It involves the translation of natural inputs through a mechanical apparatus in order to create one object a day. The recorder is totally dependent on sun light. Driven by solar energy, it reacts and incorporates the light intensity into an object.
The outcoming object reflects the various sunshine conditions that occur during a day. Like a tree the object becomes a three dimensional recording of its process and time of creation. For better understanding of the concept see the movie.
styrofoam turntable

Styrofoam Turntable DIY Kit. The basic idea behind this project was to design and engineer a low-cost do-it-yourself Turntable kit made out of high density styrofoam (Think styrofoam MDF!). teenage engineering
Red House — Home Design

Red House designed by group8 Architects, located in Crans-Près-Céligny, Switzerland.
The red houses place themselves in this type of problem, planting another object in this saturated suburban landscape. In this case, the purpose would be not to build an object but a small ‘ensemble’: a little community of individuals who can, through the new scale of the intervention, constitute a good mixture of urban and landscape architecture.
The geometry and the volume of each houses serves another purpose: to propose a rich typology, capable of creating an experience of diversity of spaces inside the appartments. The important loggias in each volume enhance this idea. Not only the villas possess exterior terraces but they also have these big loggias, and protected exterior space.

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Tsai residence — luxury home design

The four equal sized boxes are built as simple wood construction covered with corrugated metal panels on the outside and wood and gypsum panels on the inside. The floor plan is based on the needs of a traditional country house. Only partially the organization of the rooms is a direct consequence of the rigid outer form.

The Living Room focuses on the different light conditions needed for an existing and future art collection, while the great view into the nearby countryside is present without being dominant. The sequence of the different rooms reflects the idea of a private gallery. Natural light is coming into the spaces through the openings in between the outer boxes.

Architects : HHF Architects + Ai WeiWei
Location : Ancram, New York, USA
Design Team : HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER & AI WEIWEI with Bhavana Hameed, Tom Strub, Fumiko Takahama, Magnus Zwyssig
Structural Engineering : Crawford & Associates, Hudson, NY
Construction Management : Crawford & Associates, Hudson, NY
General Contractor : Robert Reed Construction, Germantown, NY
Design year : 2005-2006
Construction year : 2006-2008
Client : Private
Constructed Area : 375 sqm
Photographs : Iwan Baan, Nikolas Koenig

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the works

A manhole handrails can be appropriate for the home to hold things, another great idea from the resourceful High Tech, the Industrial-Style and Sourcebook for the Home. Thanks wary meyers.
Social Housing of T-Tree by Adil Azhiyev and Ivan Kudryavtsev

Project Description:

“For our T-trees social housing project we used the concept of a “tree”. It is not a totally new idea, others worked with the concept in the 70s and 80s. The whole visual image of a building is constructed with two interwoven design principles. The first is supporting a core — the central block that contains the elevator and the stairs. The second is the communication module. As the trunk of the tree, which is where the blocks are mounted a branch with leaves, in this project — it is communication modules.
With a future of increasing energy, living costs, climate change, high population density, urbanization it is no surprise that we are now seeking new solutions. Everyone wants to live in a green, sustainable environment in suitable house, with low construction costs.The basis of the apartment is a cubic shaped living module with 3m sides.At the request of the opportunities and possible variations of easy assembling, replacing, or adding extra module depenidng of a family needs, made in recycled materials (wood, plastic, glass, aluminium), each prefabricated module consist in build-in facilities, furniture, toilets, shower, kitchen etc. depending on function of each cell, also wind mills are additional modules on the top, produce energy which cover 25% of required energy.The module remains unchanged, which makes assembling easier. For people with disabilities, entrance in each floor will be aligned with elevator entrance.”
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Aldo Rossi 'Teatro del Mondo'

the venetian original
aldo rossi designed the ‘teatro del mondo’ orginally for the
venice biennale in 1979. the idea was to recall the floating theatres
which were so characteristic of venice and its carnivals in the
18th century. its ephemeral apparition, and its very transience has
become its ‘raison d'etre’. constructed in the fushina shipyards,
it was towed by sea (by a tugboat) to the punta della dogana
where it remained through the biennale.
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Portraits from telephone directories

Alex Queral’s Carved Phone Book Art
Alex Queral does these wonderful heads, carved out of phone books (then painted with acrylics). In his Artist’s Statement, he says: In carving and painting a head from a phone directory, I’m celebrating the individual lost in the anonymous list of thousands of names that describe the size of the community. In addition, I like the idea of creating something that is normally discarded every year into an object of longevity.
Rubber

Another industrial style idea for the house, the rubber mat surfacing. Images from Chareau's 1930's maison de verre and from the book High Tech.
Funny idea to plant flowers in the ladies shoes - 12
House on the Mexican Pacific Coast

House overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mexico, designed by Cadaval & Sola-Morales architects.
Details from the architects:

The main goal of the project was to create a low-cost and low-maintenance house that realised all the structural qualities of the material in which it was built to its full potential.

The design takes forward the idea of low-cost/low-maintenance, and applies this strategy to all the materials involved in the construction, while pushing to the limit both their technical and tectonic qualities: floor, windows, railings, etc., are done re-using materials that were previously used for pouring the concrete and for the rest of the construction process.
Perhaps, it is the space generated within inner and outer space what makes the house special. The house was designed to operate fully opened; it is then when the cantilever, this huge threshold, is fully occupied and becomes the central space of the house.

The house was awarded one of the 5 young architects honorable mentions (under 40 yr) at the Spanish Bienal of Architecture and were one of the 25th finalist including among others Nouvel’s Agbar Tower, Rogers’s Terminal 4, Miralles Santa Caterina Market or Chipperfield’s Americas Cup Building. We were also the youngest office awarded.

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