November 22, 2009
Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+eu:abierto
This post is by you.
Hi,
I am an architecture student from Germany and would like to share my last semester\’s urban design project with you. It was a group work focusing on the revitalization of a city quarter in the UNESCO-listed Old Town of Damascus, Syria. We proposed up-to-date housing in the traditional courtyard houses and a new cultural center on what has been urban wasteland for centuries. continue reading
October 23, 2009
This interview is in the framework of a Phd research about new technologies and hybrid cities. It aims to demonstrate how this new tools can revitalize public spaces at the city. continue reading
October 22, 2009
The exhibition What if…? cities is ongoing until the Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen. Meanwhile the staff of Louisiana organise workshops with several schools from Denmark. continue reading
October 14, 2009
…and now we start with our weekly homemade playlists…
spotify:user:eiza1980:playlist:6G2Z28SrMPugyE2azJ0zDL
October 7, 2009
In a recent visit to Paris, I bought a French trade magazine that made references to “eco-neighbourhoods” built in northern Europe. Some, like BedZED, are already commented on this blog. Others were a total discovery for me. It is necessary disseminating these performances, some very good, so we can learn from these experiences. For a neighbourhood to convert into an “eco-district”, sometimes you only need a politician illuminated with appropriate buzzwords. Other times it is a collective work which has required joint efforts on the part of the public initiative, private, and of course some architects have responded to these concerns. continue reading
September 25, 2009
Today we present the work by Pablo Rica: Compact – Fabric Forming Component .
Fabric is a flexible and adaptable material with a soft appearance. In combination with a fill in material, the properties change from supple to hard, gaining structural and thermal qualities. The hardened material turns to have a soft appearance in reverse. This is where the ambiguity and discrepancy from solid fabric to elastic stone becomes interesting. And in that process of changing condition is where new possibilities of design arise. Compact is a research project about examining the potential of fabric as a construction technique and developing a modular system, in which material properties and environmental aspects are involved. continue reading
September 18, 2009
Today we present the work by Brynhildur Guðlaugs, an architect from Reikiavik, Iceland. Her proposal, called Sensual landscape, is a bathing facility for the hiking people who travel around the Torfajokull region in Iceland, an uninhabited area in the south and one of the most powerful thermal areas in the country, named after a glacier, Torfajokull. The structure of the facility is an adaptation of the already existing hot springs that are situated all around the area. continue reading
September 17, 2009
Competition to Tap Global Design Community to Develop Sidewalk Shed of the Future
Finalists to Receive $25,000 in Awards and Winner to See Design Built in Lower Manhattan
The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) and the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) today announced the launch of the urbanSHED International Design Competition with support from the Alliance for Downtown New York, ABNY Foundation, Illuminating Engineering
Society New York City Section (IESNYC), and the New York Building Congress. continue reading
September 15, 2009
Next 21th of Septembre [ecosistema urbano] will give a lecture in Paris, at 19.00 in Le Palais de Chaillot.
For more information see below.
August 26, 2009
Last July we presented a proposal for the new municipality of Eilat (South of Israel), invited by the Israeli architect Peter Keinan. It was very interesting to develop an office building with an open space in extreme weather conditions as South of Israel. We give you all the details of this project. continue reading
