SpaceInvading
Bridge House
Designer: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects, Inc.
Location: Marin, CA
The site is fifteen acres of wooded grasslands with a ravine running through. The house, a continuous twenty-two-foot-wide two-story bar, bridges the ravine from east to west.
→ saitowitz.com
Posted: 07/03/2009
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Puppet Theater
Designer: MOS (Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith)
Location: Cambridge, MA
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center, his only North American project, this theater was constructed within the sunken exterior courtyard for a puppet performance by the conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe. The organic form of the theater was built with 500 unique white polycarbonate panels diamond shaped interlock to become a rigid structure and are simply bolted together, in order to be easily assembled and disassembled.
→ mos-office.net
Posted: 07/02/2009
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Shelter House
Designer: Franklin Azzi
Location: Normandy, France
a sustainable design for a house in Normandy in Yport, where the structure is entirely made of wood, with water recuperation and solar panels for all domestic needs. The external skin will be made of a fabric, it's a convertible house.
→ mocoloco.com
Posted: 07/02/2009
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Bridge House
Designer: Max Pritchard Architect
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Image Credits: Sam Noonan
A narrow house form, spans over the creek. Glazing each side opens the house to views in both directions, giving the feeling of living amongst the trees.
→ archinect.com
Posted: 07/02/2009
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[AAPhD] Designated Graffiti Area
Designer: [AAPhD]
Location: London, England
Image Credits: Kirk Wooller
The PhD Programme exhibit for this year's AA Projects Review (opening tomorrow) plays on the tension between officially sanctioned architectural research (certified and library-catalogued AA PhD dissertations from the grand old days of yesteryear) and more recent, uncertified research-in-progress; research that, while perhaps considering itself as somewhat subversive, will more than likely end up becoming just another background tile on the wall of knowledge.
→ www.archinect.com
Posted: 07/02/2009
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