Réalisation de l’agence autrichienne Alles Wird Gut (Tout Ira Bien); le turnon
Le principe est un gain d’espace, en une optimisation des fonctions de l’habitat concentrées alors en un cylindre que l’on peut faire tourner afin d’y accéder. Une infinité de cylindres potentiels existent alors et ils sont choisis par l’habitant. (ne pas hésiter à cliquer sur les photos pour les agrandir)
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Remember this article about DESA, Gaëtan Kohler and Alexandre Pachiaudi awarded in Le Festival des Architectures Vives de Montpellier ? Their abri n°177 is exhibited in Ivry for the week end. You can still see it for Pleins Feux 2008 today at 31st rue Raspail (200m south of City Hall). You can also visit their website OzCollective.comPosted in Architectural Projects, Small
I found this little territory work on Pruned and Building Blog. It’s called Microcoasts and is situated in Vinaros (East of Spain). You can visit the whole Vicente Guallart’s office’s website at Guallart.com
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Un très grand bravo à nos amis Pico et Gaëtan qui ont remporté le prix du festival des architectures vives de montpellier grâce à ce superbe “abri 177″ fabriqué à l’atelier bois de l’ESA !
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That is how ends our thematic about SMALL. We’re a bit sorry not to have found a real coherency with it, but what we can extract from this, would probably be that SMALL is definetely a human scale which can possibly be built by a small group of people trying to express their creativity. Size, economy, technicity, involvement are issues which can, most of the time, be proceed by a small amount of persons and therefore can make a lot of projects happenning. SMALL in public space can thus, be a sum of discreet participation of people to the democratic construction.
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Luz intima is a guerrilla intervention in la calle del Pez in Madrid where the collective, Luzinterruptus installed twenty six domestic shades on urban lights. This operation lasted for one night. It is a quite discreet appropriation of public space which I hope would give some motivation for other people to act on commun space.
found on dezeen
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Local river is the last published project of paris based office Matthieu Lehanneur (with Anthony van den Bossche), which proposes a “locavore” (people who only eat food produced in a radius of 100 miles of them) tool of producing local fish food and vegetables with an absolute control of its owner. Beyond the beautiful design, I do suspect it to be full of irony (at least I hope), by giving such a litteral and luxurious proposition.
It was exhibited this year in Artists Space in New York.
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Ballule
Gilles Ebersolt is a French architect, particulary interested in small often inflatable structures created either for landing on an amazonian canopee, living above an abyss or rolling down a mountain (Ebersolt was in fact asked by Jackie Chan to film his ballule in one of his movie).
More pictures and videos on official website.
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Camelbackshotgunspongegarden is a project created by the San Francisco based office Anderson Anderson Architecture after New Orleans’ catastrophe in order to prevent floods by swallowing – at least in a certain amount – additionnal water.
The project is here exhibited in Venice’s Biennal 2006 and it may be not so easy to see on the lowest picture but the device is partly within the water.
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Before a longuest article about Usman Haque‘s work very soon, here is one of his little creations: the Configurable T-shirt.
This is a t-shirt for which the wearer designs what goes on the front, a further experiment in how to design low-tech systems that are open enough to allow for other people’s designs yet specific enough to provide an intriguing starting point. It’s often difficult to design on a completely blank canvas, so this t-shirt provides a matrix of pixels that can be coloured in with a black felt-tip pen in order to turn them “off”.
The t-shirt is printed with rubber foam ink so that the black pen ink soaks in really well. As the t-shirt fabric colour is already black it doesn’t matter if people go out of the lines or if the pen is too fat: it won’t show up. As long as an entire pixel is coloured-in, it will look neat and tidy, just like a professionally designed and printed t-shirt.
see official page
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The one square-meter house, designed by le bureau des mésarchitectures (Didier Fiuza Faustino), materializes the pressure of real estate. In fact, this house occupies only one square meter on the urban land, in order to optimize it. This project reveals interesting informations about Didier Faustino’s work which link architecture, art and a bit of cynism which play with an disturbing ambiguity.The one square-meter house has been built as a piece of art in Porte d’Ivry in Paris…
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Ring Dome is a pavilion created by the Korean office Mass Studies and set up in New York, in Kitakyushu and in Milan. This small architecture is created by a thousand of hoola hoops, randomly layered, fastened together by about 10,000 zip ties, increasing structural integrity until a dome is formed .Posted in Architectural Projects, Small
Here is a small landscape project just delivered by the Paris based landscape designer office BASE (Bien Aménager Son Environnement).
This project is situated in the public park of Belleville (19e district, in the north of Paris), the wood landscape is really well adapted to the steep topography of the park.
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Baumraum is a german architecture office that is specialised in tree houses. They do it with a with a high standard of detailing, and they always try to adapt their structures as much as spossible to the surrounding trees.
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Here is one emergency architecture designed by Technocraft you can find in the book Design like you give a damn (see also a previous post about Concrete massonry units by Sistema Arde).
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The REPRAP project started two years ago, the project is based on the idea to create a machine that can reproduce itself.
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Bow Wow’s Pet architecture guide book repertoriates small buildings in Tokyo which succeed to insert itself into what Exyzt calls RAB (read yesterday’s post), a small parcel of waste urban land.Posted in Architectural Theories, Books, Small
Here’s some pictures of the work of the designer Tom DIXON.
This serie of furnitures has been inspired by electric pylons, the lightness of the structure, is unusual at this scale and create an interesting contrast with daily life objects.
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Exyzt is a parisian architecture office applying some of Patrick Bouchain‘s theories (and also developping their own) about a certain way of designing architecture. Here is their first work in 2003:
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