prefab: pinc house sport
March 2, 2008- Via Matrialicious
“ The SPORT is the original model from the awesome Swedish prefab company Pinc House. Some call it a sports cabin, some call it a classic Swedish bungalow. I don’t care what they’re classified as, I think they’re terrific. Shown here are random images from several houses in different locations. The SPORT range features houses, in various configurations, in two categories: Leisure and Residence, in sizes ranging from 20 to 160 m2.
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Steven Holl Architects To Build A ‘Sliced Porosity Block’ In Chengdu, China
February 26, 2008- Via Archinect
“ Steven Holl Architects (SHA) has recently been commissioned by CapitaLand China, to realize, a large mixed-use complex in Chengdu, China. Scheduled to open in late 2010, this “giant chunk of a metropolis” houses a hybrid complex of generous public spaces flanked by five towers with offices, serviced apartments, retail, a hotel, cafes, and restaurants. The 105,000 square feet site is developed to maximize public open space and to stimulate micro-urbanism….
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New House, Tasmania
February 24, 2008- Via Wallpaper
” The New House in Kingston occupies the bush block in this Hobart suburb. A slope of twenty-five degrees may have been one reason the site remained vacant for so long, but with panoramic views stretching from Mt. Wellington to Kingston beach, the property was calling out for something quite special. ‘Our clients wanted a house that was calm and tranquil, a place to retreat at the end of each day,’ says designer Aaron Roberts, who worked closely with founding member of Room 11, Thomas Bailey, along with colleagues Nathan Crump and James Wilson.
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A Garden Blooms in Queens
February 23, 2008- Via Metropolis
In 1999, when the Queens Botanical Garden began planning its new visitors’ center, the LEED program that is now the currency of the green-building movement was still a nascent tool. New York City, meanwhile, was in the process of creating its own guidelines for “high-performance” buildings. Especially in the realm of publicly financed projects, the era of green architecture was just dawning.
“ One of New York’s lesser-known botanical gardens emerges as a leader in sustainable design.
By Fred A. Bernstein
In 1999, when the Queens Botanical Garden began planning its new visitors’ center, the LEED program that is now the currency of the green-building movement was still a nascent tool. New York City, meanwhile, was in the process of creating its own guidelines for “high-performance” buildings. Especially in the realm of publicly financed projects, the era of green architecture was just dawning.
Skyline Residence, Los Angeles, Ca By Belzberg Architects
February 22, 2008
” Perched atop a ridgeline in the Hollywood Hills, the presence of the Skyline Residence represents an honest approach to creating an environmentally sensitive building without sacrificing beauty nor budget. The pre-existing site presented a challenge in terms of constructability, the client presented the challenge of limited allowable expenses, and the architect was resilient to marginalize beauty and originality. The requirements of an architecture to satisfy each of these constraints are found in that which is constant and continuous at a given site.
Capitalizing on and working within the physical, visual, and psychological characteristics of a given site fosters value in the relationship between building and site. Beyond incorporating various sustainable strategies out of pure concern for the environment, the budgetary limitations imposed on material choice forced the architect to implement strategies for using resources in close proximity to the site. While the building is not fused with the ground formally, it’s relationship to ground, sky and the elements through a comprehensive understanding of locality is symbiotic.
Library Park - Spain
February 20, 2008- Via Plataforma Arquitectura
Architect: Giancarlo Mazzanti
” The mountain edge of the city is made up of an intrincate network of footpaths product of the displacement in a topography and of remainders of green space as a result of the impossibility to construct in her, this network works as small places of encounter. One looks for to harness the encounter places and to moor the network of spaces public proposed to way of a great “urban wharf” that serves like balcony towards the city, connecting the project, the viewpoints developed by the EDU and the station of the meter cable thus to increase to the amount of urban connectivities and places of encounter in the city.
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Brio54
February 17, 2008- Via Inhabitat
” ….A young, design-driven development firm, Brio54’s mission is to provide sustainable, affordable design while delivering high quality construction. Home buyers of all types will delight in Brio54’s wide variety of offerings - whether you live in a suburban area, are looking to refurbish or rehab, or have an empty urban infill lot. Brio54’s first prefab prototype, the H1, (pictured above) is currently in the final stage of planning, and construction is slated to begin production in the spring of 2008.
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Casulo: An Entire Apartment’s Furniture in One Small Box
February 14, 2008- Via TreeHugger
” It might not look like it, but inside this box, there’s an armoire, a desk, a height-adjustable stool, two more stools, a six-shelf bookcase, and a bed with a mattress. Casulo , the brilliant, modular setup designed by Marcel Krings & Sebastian Mühlhäuser, hides furnishings enough for an entire room — or, heck, an entire apartment — in a small 80 cm x 120 cm box.
Villanueva Public Library, Casanare-Colombia
February 14, 2008- Via Noticias Arquitectura
” Villanueva’s public library is the result of a national contest summoned by the Colombian Architect’s Society where the winners Miguel Torres, German Ramirez, Alejandro Piñol and Carlos Meza, architects from the Javeriana University Bogota-Colombia, all below 27 years of age, won first prize in this contest, and designed 3000 square meters for reading rooms, an auditorium, a kid’s library, staff offices, the building’s functioning facilities and an open space for social interaction.
Betting a Farm Would Work in Queens
February 10, 2008- Via New York Times
A model of the proposal by Work Architecture that won this year’s Young Architects Program at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center in Long Island City, Queens.
“One can only imagine how the judges reacted when the architects walked in lugging the kind of hulking concrete-pouring cardboard tubes used at construction sites filled with flowering heads of cabbage.
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Archive for the 'houses' Category
prefab: pinc house sport
March 2, 2008- Via Matrialicious
“ The SPORT is the original model from the awesome Swedish prefab company Pinc House. Some call it a sports cabin, some call it a classic Swedish bungalow. I don’t care what they’re classified as, I think they’re terrific. Shown here are random images from several houses in different locations. The SPORT range features houses, in various configurations, in two categories: Leisure and Residence, in sizes ranging from 20 to 160 m2.
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New House, Tasmania
February 24, 2008- Via Wallpaper
” The New House in Kingston occupies the bush block in this Hobart suburb. A slope of twenty-five degrees may have been one reason the site remained vacant for so long, but with panoramic views stretching from Mt. Wellington to Kingston beach, the property was calling out for something quite special. ‘Our clients wanted a house that was calm and tranquil, a place to retreat at the end of each day,’ says designer Aaron Roberts, who worked closely with founding member of Room 11, Thomas Bailey, along with colleagues Nathan Crump and James Wilson.
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Skyline Residence, Los Angeles, Ca By Belzberg Architects
February 22, 2008
” Perched atop a ridgeline in the Hollywood Hills, the presence of the Skyline Residence represents an honest approach to creating an environmentally sensitive building without sacrificing beauty nor budget. The pre-existing site presented a challenge in terms of constructability, the client presented the challenge of limited allowable expenses, and the architect was resilient to marginalize beauty and originality. The requirements of an architecture to satisfy each of these constraints are found in that which is constant and continuous at a given site.
Capitalizing on and working within the physical, visual, and psychological characteristics of a given site fosters value in the relationship between building and site. Beyond incorporating various sustainable strategies out of pure concern for the environment, the budgetary limitations imposed on material choice forced the architect to implement strategies for using resources in close proximity to the site. While the building is not fused with the ground formally, it’s relationship to ground, sky and the elements through a comprehensive understanding of locality is symbiotic.
Atelier Workshop’s Port-a-Bach portable cabin in a container
December 27, 2007- Via Materialicious
” …Here’s the Port-a-Bach, from Atelier Workshop in New Zealand! It reminds me of BARK’s All-Terrain Cabin, in that it is created from a 20ft. shipping container. The Port-a-Bach portable cabin sleeps two adults and two children, is power, water and sewer independent, has one wall that folds down to create an open living space and folds back up to secure the unit for storage or relocation. It has a kitchen and complete bath, and can be hooked up to external services, as well. Awesome.
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Residence Schnitzer-Bruch, Austria by maaars architektur
November 17, 2007- Via noticias arquitectura
“ A radical reinterpretation of the classic alpine massive-wood block-technique.
A single levelled prefabricated Hull made of massive wood fins was situated on a concrete basement, wich overhangs at the southside. It includes the technical rooms and the storage. For the wall construction, wood fins with spigots and sockets are stapled to the needed height, a pair of dried wood dowels is shot through the wall each 30 centimeters and fixes, after the maceration of the dowels through the airhumidity, each fin on its vertical position.
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Project7ten, The Real Green Deal
November 10, 2007- Via Jetson Green
” We’re no longer in rendering stage, this is the real deal. Project7ten is built and ready for viewing. Actually, it’s ready for sale if: (1) it hasn’t already been sold, and (2) you’re in the market for one of the greenest, most modern homes in California. Interestingly, this house is the first conventionally- constructed LEED Platinum home in the state.
eXtra-eXtra-Small House
November 3, 2007- Via Arkinetia
design team: Aljosa Dekleva, Tina Gregoric
” eXtra-eXtra-Small House is located in Krakovo, the very centre of Ljubljana and at the same time in a historical village - once (in the Middle Ages) supplying the nearby monastery with fresh food - today highly protected historical area. The basic dimensions of the new house were already defined by law according to the volume of the pre-existing house.
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Villa Bio, Llers - Girona (Spain) / Cloud 9 - Enric Ruiz-Geli
October 21, 2007- Via Noticias Arquitectura
” Contemporary architecture is THE PLATFORM on which culture and contemporary art rest. Living in an exciting platform can become an art form: THE ART OF LIVING.
We conceived this platform as a LANDSCAPE OF LINEAR EVENTS. The landscape folds itself within the site and forms a growing SPIRAL. The platform is a LINEAR STRUCTURE made of concrete of constant section in the shape of a “C”. The longitudinal blind FAÇADES function as BEAMS and create a 15m. projection.
The Simple House by Architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus
October 11, 2007- Via Arkinetia
“Along this part of the Alentejo Coast various abandoned houses exist scattered across the landscape. Traces of whitewash still cling to many of them, covering the thick walls, supported by counterforts disproportionate in relation to the constructions’ modest proportions. They are simple volumes with few openings that establish a totally reciprocal relationship with the landscape, possibly like the people that live inside them. It could be said that in their laconic abandonment, they are as distant as possible from contemporaneity, the latter often associated with technologically sophisticated, diaphanous constructions in glass. The house designed by architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, being unequivocally contemporary in its qualities and limitations, is the result of an attentive and not at all nostalgic view of this secular form of inhabiting the landscape.
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House HB - Ljubljana Pirniče - Slovenia
September 23, 2007- Via Arkinetia
” The architectural concept of the house HB was determined by the location of the property on the prominent part of the landscape. The site is extremely picturesque, while being at the same time a typical Slovenian suburban situation, surrounded by accumulation of anonymous cliché two story individual houses, typical of postwar central European architecture. The project attempts to define another kind of domestic environment. The house HB is a redefinition of a specific from of traditional house, of low and elongated rural typology.
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