ARCHITECTURE

[CityonSMASH]

thast is not architecture that is third world

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thast is not architecture that is third world

 

It's environmental design.

[CityonSMASH]

its enviromental disease

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Totally. I love looking at it tho and just thinking of how they came to design cities and real estate like that, and all the things I would do differently.

[CityonSMASH]

dude you edited your post you had a pic of a nairobi ghetto 10 minutes ago and now you have an asian cubical society of lost souls built by Chi-kea the chinese cheaper counterpart to swedens ikea.

 

make up your mind motorbike mullet man. eggrole or tajeen.

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Hahahahaha

Naw dawg i just added more.

Its still there. (haiku)

 

 

And fuck what any yall think architecture is or isnt. lol.

 

 

 

 

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http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/08/tram-stop-by-subarquitectura/

 

 

http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/sketchup/10902-plants-green-roofs-rooftop-gardens-more.html

 

http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3039

 

 

http://www.dezeen.com/

 

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Zaha Hadid

[beardo]

I'm all for brutal simplicity, but that site is just a piss poor representation of her studio's work.

[Spitfire15]

Not too sure where to post this but from Gizmodo...

 

 

A new jail opens in Norway on the 1st of April, which is incredibly modern with Banksy-style street art everywhere, natural lighting courtesy of Philips, and even a music studio. It looks nicer than some people's houses, needless to say.

 

It'll contain 252 inmates when it opens next month, and will be the second-largest prison in Norway—situated near the Swedish border on 300 acres of land. Over 1.3 billion kroner (about $217m) was spent constructing it, with six million kroner ($1m) spent on the artwork alone, which was daubed by the Norwegian street artist Dolk

 

 

 

http://gizmodo.com/5482559/if-i-ever-get-sent-to-jail-i-hope-its-to-norways-halden-prison-gallery//gallery/3

 

 

I need to go to jail in Norway...

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You're right, Mr. Jangles.

I found a book of her work back in the Olden Days of the Dewey Decimal System and card catologs. It influenced my work a lot growing up. The internet just doesn't really do her justice. but I'll try to dig up some images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I like Zaha's stuff, and I respect her as an architect, an artist, and somewhat of a sociologist/cultural theorist, but I respect this kind of work a lot more. Zaha's stuff is very much FOR architects and engineers to geek over, but the cultural/psychological/humanitarian aspect of architecture is really what grabs me.

 

http://oaklandnorth.net/bay-bridge-to-nowhere/bayline/

 

 

 

 

And this amazing video: Alex Roman's The Third and the Seventh.

 

 

 

 

Also, if anyone has any info on who/what/where this is,

thanks.

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Im gonna start doing people you need to know.

Louis I. Kahn

Salk Institute, San Diego CA

Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban/The National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, built in the 1960s.

 

 

Library, Philip Exeter Academy,New Hampshire

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Steven Holl

 

CHAPEL OF ST. IGNATIUS

Seattle, WA, United States, 1994-1997

 

 

Simmons Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Looped Hybrid House, Beijing

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I know we have fans of the micro home

http://www.kurosakisatoshi.com/

[beardo]

that last spot is D O A P

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there we go.

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http://www.iwan.com/photo_index.php?category=photography

 

 

http://www.iwan.com/photo_index.php?category=photography

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More info on that underground house - http://www.architonic.com/ntsht/camouflage-architecture-underground-buildings/7000497

 

And here's something amazing:

'Harmonious Anarchy': revisiting Hak Nam, Hong Kong's slum city

 

When photographer Greg Girard decided to visit the notorious, citadel-like 'Walled City' slum in Hong Kong's Kowloon, where the daily lives of 35,000 people played out, he was told he may not come back alive. Luckily for him, he did. And, luckily for us, he brought with him a series of compelling images, showing just how close the relation between architectural space and social behaviour can be.

In his 1972 novel 'Invisible Cities', Italo Calvino uses the conceit of the explorer Marco Polo describing the :o the workings of imagination itself. Fantastical urban scenes are described, such as the city that is a thin as a sheet of paper, but which 'seems to continue, in perspective, multiplying its repertory of images', or the city that consists merely of the props of its construction (cranes, scaffolding, 'beams that prop up other beams') and nothing else.

 

 

Hak Nam, the giant slum city in Hong Kong's Kowloon that was torn down in 1993, could almost be one of Calvino's urban dreams. Like a depiction from the Middle Ages of some ancient, towering city, the structure was at once awe-inspiring and unnerving in its scale and squalor. With 35,000 people living in a series of cheek-by-jowl buildings up to 14 floors in height, circulation permitted by labyrithine passageways full of rubbish, 'the Walled City', as it was known, would have tested even the most enthusiastic of those early-20th-century Modernist proponents of 'Existenzminimum'.

 

 

Vancouver-based photographer Greg Girard visited Hak Nam several times in the late 1980s, in spite of warnings that he was putting his life in danger (the place was renowned for its criminality), recording both the physical and the social fabric of the settlement, and the relation between the two. The fact that Hak Nam, in architectural terms, grew organically over time according to its inhabitants' needs, as opposed to being constructed according to a pre-existing blueprint, made the city's take on ordered chaos particularly compelling. As new-comers arrived, changing the social make-up of the community, so their built environment changed.

 

 

'City of Darkness', a book of Girard's Hak Nam photographs, was published in 1993 (Watermark Publications), offering a series of compelling tableaux of life within the citadel. All of humankind could be found here, apart from the police. Their visits were few. Beyond the criminals, drug addicts and prostitutes, a micro-society operated with its own shops, doctors, factories and schools. And all under a pall of Dickensian darkness. As the book's blurb puts it: 'Through a continual process of demolition and rebuilding – with never an architect in sight – individual buildings gradually homogenised. Only at street level did the old grid of public alleyways still exist, but hemmed in and built over: dark, dirty and squalid.' Yet somehow it all worked.

 

 

Looking at Girard's Hong Kong photography here in the Architonic offices puts us in mind of Le Corbusier's city-in-the-sky building type, the 'Unité d'Habitation', first completed in Marseilles in 1947 and then reiterated over the next twenty years in Nantes, Berlin, Briey and Firminy. With its density of dwellings, 'internal streets', and accommodation of social and communal functions (such as nurseries, medical facilities and recreational spaces) in the housing block itself, here, too, are communities, albeit on a smaller scale, that are organised spatially and socially in a homogenous way.

 

 

The difference, of course, between the Swiss architect's highly ordered schemes and the Kowloon slum city is that latter seemed to privilege disorder. Yet, in its organic growth, it also followed a particular logic. It was just a different one. (Possibly a more democratic one?) Both the 'Unité d'Habitation' (now so highly fetishised in architectural-historical terms, particularly by the large number of its architect-occupants) and Hak Nam have their particular cultural signficances. Valuing one over the other is a futile exercise. The Walled City, for all its confusion, was a system that seemed to function. Daily lives were led there. As the the owner of a chemist's told Girard on one of his visits, Hak Nam was a place of 'harmonious anarchy'.

 

 

For more info check out Greg Girard's book "City of Darkness"

http://www.greggirard.com/cityofdarkness.html

 

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good stuff here from scandinavia

http://thedarkroses.blogspot.com/

[KM4RT]

Does anyone have much insight into the use of precast concrete for houses?

 

Basically suburbia here is all: wood frame, brick walls, colourbond steel roof (or tiles), and plasterboard walls.

 

Larger scale building construction typically makes extensive use of precast, pretty much doing away with significant frame structures and brickwork.

 

My question is why aren't we building houses out of precast? ie. similar to the microhomes posted up the page.

I've seen some places where the entire house goes up in 2-3 days. Versus the weeks of framework, and brick by brick walls.

Is it a cost issue? Or are people not going that route for aesthetic reasons?

 

Personally I think the house building could be done far far more efficiently (I'm not an architect) if we moved away from the traditional concepts.

Builders have standard house design they sell to people. Surely they could achieve great efficiencies if this moved to a production line process (precast).

 

Thoughts appreciated.

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Prefabricated concrete blocks with a layer of recycled insulation in between is great for any building almost anywhere. It's got great insulation, great sound cancelation, looks really moody and textured, makes building construction modular and fast, concrete itself is recyclable, etc. The only setbacks would be regional beurocracy like build codes and getting the town you're building in to accept a new style.

 

Out here it's fake ranch homes for days.

 

On the subject of smarter building materials, sustainable, modular, prefabricated building design... MY personal fave has always been straw bale. The straw bale itself is an agracultural waste product that you buy in 2 foot cubes from a farm for next to nothing. You stack em up any way you like, then use the local dirt to mix up a plaster and seal it all off. The straw bale itself is thick enough to hold up a second story, but build codes in california require a wood frame and chicken wire around the straw bale.

 

Heres whats cool about this shit:

-It's one of the oldest and easiest ways to build a house.

-You can basically do whatever you want with the walls. THey can be as curvy as you want. Stacking the bales and plastering is all done by hand so there's a lot of room for amateur builders to use artistic license.

-The plaster is made from regional dirt, so every house is a unique color. Kind of like how ancient cities were always made from a local quarry and therefore no two cities were the same color.

-Straw bale itself wont catch fire. It'll smoke forever, but completely flame retardent.

-Straw bale is porous yet hypoallergenic, allowing moisture vapor to travel through the walls without causing dryrot, fungus, etc.

-Termites and other insects hate straw bale.

-Straw bale is an amazing insulator and has been known to insulate a house against the hottest and coldest temperatures without affecting interior temp.

-The 2 foot thickness of straw bale means that all the windows in the house are inset, creating natural shading for every window.

-Straw bale is completely biodegradable, but will not biodegrade while it's plastered. Some of the longest-standing houses in the world (1000+ years old in egypt) are made of straw bale and being used.

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Singapore

The casino/the pool:

Concert Hall:

Art school:

Shopping mall/inside:

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Bump this thread.

[Qawee]

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Arts and Media Centre at the Doon School / Khosla Associates

 

NGPHOTO, AGI, STAR HOUSE, KUWAIT

 

Hacienda de las Flores / ETB

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http://unhappyhipsters.com

 

clever. very clever.

[RUSO]

know this book? Or anything good on contemporary home architecture,, http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/architecture/all/04444/facts.architecture_now_houses_2.htm

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Malibu 'Wing House' made of 747 plane parts http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/bizarre&id=8137232