The procedure is performed in a small place of historic Toledo, raised a meter with respect to a tiny square and attached to it via a stairway.
You will remove the property from all secondary and oblivious to what was originally a carpenter’s workshop: partitions, false ceilings and coatings are demolished . The inside is opened to the square with a large glass door. The soil is at the eye level of pedestrians, with the local participating in the street. Finally, the property is objectified by the extensive use of a single color, or lack thereof, gray.
Once we have approached a more neutral space, despite the singularity on the other hand, the construction is projected inside another one.
Do not need anything more than a work surface and storage, the larger the better. These requirements take shape in the drawing of a section. The extrusion of this section comes an item that fills the space, and is a working machine, without distinctions or hierarchy. It could be any size, is as large as the space in which it is located permits. This element has its own floor and has all the facilities necessary for its operation. Built like a ship, could one day leave the place where it was born, to occupy other places.
A translucent and satin acrylic fur is displayed on a wooden skeleton. This fur condenses the light, doesn’t cast shadows, and shows its structure and confined objects without counting everything.
Rehabitat is a new vertical housing development designed by Robert Cardenas, Andres Fuentes, and Barkev Daron at Sci-Arc for the city of Jakarta. The main idea is to relocate the people living in Jakarta’s “kampongs” and to provide them with cultural and recreational facilities. The building is designed as a series of stacked boxes attached to a central core. Between each cluster there are leisure areas and outdoor gardens. Each of the housing boxes is perpendicular to the one on top to create different types of units and benefit from multiple panoramic views. Rehabitat is a designed as a green community with a recycle center that processes a great portion of Jakarta’s waste. The main structure is parametric and will be constructed offsite and transported by train which is a mere 200 ft from the site. Other green elements include solar panels and water collection systems.
Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan, Ayu Diah Shanti, Leonardus Chrisnantyo Indonesia
The city of Jakarta, Indonesia, was originally designed in the confluence of thirteen rivers which were used for transportation and agriculture. The largest of its rivers is The Ciliwung River, which has been extremely polluted during the last couple of decades, characterizes by hundreds of slums inhabited by thousands of people in marginal conditions.
The Ciliwung Recovery Program (CRP) is a project that aims to collect the garbage of the riverbank and purify its water through an ingenious system of mega-filters that operate in three different phases. The first one separates the different types of garbage and utilizes the organic one to fertilize its soil. The second phase purifies the water by removing dangerous chemicals and adding important minerals to it. The clean water is then fed to the river and to the nearby agricultural fields through a system of capillary tubes. Finally in the third phase all the recyclable waste is processed.
One of the most important aspects of this proposal is the elimination of the slums along the river. The majority of the people will live and work at the CRP which could be understood as new city within Jakarta. The CRP project will be a 100 percent sustainable building that will produce energy through wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems.
For the contest Evolo 2010, the agency Parisian architecture DCA / Crew Design for Architecture has designed the tower ecosystem, vertical greenhouse to produce fresh water from sea water and mangroves. A project that was awarded a special mention by the jury.
On this project, DCA / Architecture Design for Crew says:
“Skyscrapers are urban icons. In collective imagination, “skyscraper” means “city” because it is a solution that was invented to meet density issues in big cities. As we were looking for the redefinition of the term “skyscraper” through the use of new programs, we decided to look for somewhere else to implement a skyscraper. Obviously, it has to be the countryside. The main question we had to answer then was: why would we build a skyscraper in the countryside? What issue could justify the need to build skyscrapers in the countryside? (more…)
It suggests a travel in time that immerses to the visitor in 60 sq.m. of a forgotten, lost landscape that 8000 years ago was natural, but has been dramatically transformed into architecture by human beings…
GreenPix is a groundbreaking project applying sustainable and digital media technology to the curtain wall of Xicui entertainment complex in Beijing, near the site of the 2008 Olympic Games. Featuring the largest color LED display worldwide (back in 2008) and the first photovoltaic system integrated into a glass curtain wall in China, the building performs as a self-sufficient organic system, harvesting solar energy by day and using it to illuminate the screen after dark, mirroring a day’s climatic cycle.
The Media Wall provided the city of Beijing with its first venue dedicated to digital media art, while offered the most radical example of sustainable technology applied to an entire building’s envelope to date. The building opened to the public on June 24, 2008, with a specially commissioned program of video installations and live performances by artists from China, Europe and the US.
The display requires zero external energy, as the facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark. the display comprises of 2,292 color (RGB) LED’s light points comparable to a 24,000 sq. ft. (2.200 m2) monitor screen for dynamic content display.The polycrystalline photovoltaic cells are laminated within the glass of the curtain wall & placed with changing density on the entire building’s skin. the density pattern increases building’s performance, allowing natural light when required by interior program, while reducing heat gain & transforming excessive solar radiation into energy for the media wall.
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