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For Sale: Smithsons Levitt House

Initially design by David Levitt with later additions by Alison and Peter Smithson, the house is described as one of finest architect-designed homes in Britain and in a perfect location - overlooking a lake and a 13th century church.

The character of the original design has been maintained, with the accomodation including two bedrooms (one with en-suite), entrance area, reception, kitchen/dining area, larder and plenty of garden, not to mention a separate Smithson-designed summer house/artist's studio and Smithson-designed poured concrete path that leads from the driveway, up the garden and to the front of the house.

In fact, the house is so significant, it even has its own archive at the V&A. £800,000 will get you ownership to this ‘lost Modernist masterpiece’ - a shrewd investment if you have money to invest.

(from Retrotogo)

 

As their greatest and most heroic project is about to bite the dust after decades of slow demolition by neglect, Alison and Peter Smithson’s remaining body of work increasingly looks like the Cheshire cat’s grin – exactly at the point when they seem to be vanishing they are also achieving a prominence they haven’t enjoyed in decades. Irony just isn’t a strong enough word to describe the situation where two highly influential architects who devoted most of their lives to developing models for social housing will end up being represented by a school, a number of delightful but unrepresentative middle class houses, an office building and finally a shed.

(from Adaptivereuse)

Low Cost House, by SOA Architectes

100.000 Euro House



Ce projet propose un modèle de maison individuelle conçue pour être assemblé en bande. Les volumes sont le fruit d’un jeux combinatoire entre modules pleins et vides par superposition ou juxtaposition. La structure peut alors s’affirmer en tant que telle, se dévoiler dans les espaces vides ou être totalement revêtue par différents panneaux de remplissage.

À partir de la contrainte d’un axe structurel mono-directionnel, la création des espaces s’inspire de la richesse topographique des jeux de casse-tête en bois.

L’association de ces deux principes permet pour chaque maison d’adopter de multiples orientations et volumétries en jouant sur la longueur de l’élément standard.

Des panneaux de façade, des éléments horizontaux déclinés, permettent aux utilisateurs de personnaliser leurs logements et d’adapter les séparations avec le voisinage en fonction de l’intimité recherchée. Le lotissement pourra alors, au gré des personnalisations, adopter un caractère vernaculaire.







From SOA

Light Space, by Do-Ho Suh

Do-Ho Suh is a korean painter and sculptor. After having a basic art education he continued his studies in the USA. Such "transcultural" experience and loss of touch with parents influenced deeply on Suh's creative works. In his clear, expressive and large-scale works the space and psychology are the main themes. Do-Ho Suh explores thin border between masses, power of numbers and similarity. The explorations often assume urgent social forms. Many of the works consist of multiple repeating elements that represent separate independent objects. (from ONEOFF, Designboom)

the perfect home II (detail), 2003

installation at the gallery lehmann maupin, new york

image courtesy gallery lehmann maupin

‘screen’, 2004

installation at the museum for world culture in gothenburg, sweden

image courtesy gallery lehmann maupin, new york

Psycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture

Designer: Ernesto Neto, Do Ho Suh, Mike Nelson & Atelier Bow-Wow

Location: London, UK

Image Credits: Do Ho Suh

A cabin in a loft

A Cabin in a Loft in Brooklyn is a two-bedroom loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn, designed and built by Katz Chiao.

Conceived of as houses within houses, the cabin and treehouse serve as private sleeping cabins, each with its own semi-private garden set off from the shared living space.

The cabins are located in a former textile factory building with exposed brick walls and large windows. Rather than building floor-to-ceiling walls to divide the apartment into two bedrooms, the pitched roof of the cabin and elevated floor of the treehouse maintain the openness and character of the loft while also allowing sunlight to fill the entire space. As a result, living in the space can feel like living outdoors, in a small community of two houses. Windows in the cabin and treehouse ventilate the rooms and offer views to the rest of the apartment. The large entrances to both cabins, set slightly back from the building’s windows, look out to the sky and down the street.

The treehouse is lofted above the ground and houses a study and storage area below. The cabin has a storage space built into the raised floor. A garden and a place to hang clothes occupy the small semi-private area that is formed between the cabin entrance and the windows.

The shared open space of the loft, between the two houses, consists of a living area, kitchen, and large table for eating and working.

Dovecote Studio

A project by Haworth Tompkins 

A large north light roof window provides even light for artists, while a small mezzanine platform with a writing desk incorporates a fully opening glazed corner window that gives long views over the marshes towards the sea. The single volume will be used by artists in residence, by musicians as rehearsal or performance space, by staff for meetings or as a temporary exhibition space. 

   

The creative campus at Snape Maltings was founded by Benjamin Britten in derelict industrial buildings on the Suffolk coast. The Dovecote is part of Haworth Tompkin’s phased extension of the campus for Aldeburgh Music and inhabits the ruins of a dovecote overlooking the marshes. The new form expresses the internal volume of the Victorian structure as a Cor-ten steel ‘lining’, a welded monocoque that was prefabricated and craned into position.

  

Only the minimum necessary brickwork repairs were carried out to stabilise the existing ruin prior to the new structure being inserted. Decaying existing windows were left alone and vegetation growing over the dovecote was protected to allow it to continue a natural process of ageing and decay. The interior walls and ceiling of the space are lined with spruce plywood to create a timber ‘box’ within the Cor-ten shell.

Low cost low tech. Adamo Faiden in Buenos Aires

El trabajo realizado para la familia Núñez consistió en la transformación de un antiguo departamento en una casa urbana contemporánea.

El proyecto se resume en cuatro operaciones puntuales que buscan poner en relación la organización existente con el nuevo programa. La primera de ellas es la inversión de usos de los dos niveles de la vivienda. Mediante la incorporación de un baño y un vestidor en la antigua sala de estar se logra la ubicación de todos los dormitorios en el primer nivel, liberando así la planta superior y su terraza a los usos más públicos de la casa.

Da Plataforma Arquitectura 

Millennium Ecological City

from Dell

A greenhouse is generally considered to be a house for plants. But for Tokyo-based architect Hiroshi Iguchi, a greenhouse can be a very pleasant home for people, too, and he has built several such projects to prove his point.

"Architettura Low Cost Low Tech" su "Progetti e concorsi"

Architettura Low Cost / Low Tech

è uscito in due edizioni, italiana e francese, il libro

Architettura Low Cost Low Tech, Sassi editore

Architecture Low Cost Low Tech, Editions Actes Sud


recensioni e informazioni su:

"Domus Web" (www.domusweb.it/it/book-review/architettura-low-cost-low-tech/)

"Abitare" (www.abitare.it/tips/blum/low-cost-low-tech/)

Sassi editore (www.sassieditore.it/LOWCOST/LOWCOST.html)

Actes Sud (www.actes-sud.fr/catalogue/resultats?field_ref_coll_nid=3616) 

progetti di

A12 (Genova Milano)

Adamo Faiden (Buenos Aires)

Alejandro Aravena (Santiago de Chile)

Atelier Tekuto (Tokyo)

David Atkinson (Palo Alto)

Charles Barclay (London)
Davidson Rafailidis (Berlin)

Shuhei Endo (Osaka)
FARE Studio (Roma)

Bostjan Gabrijelcic, Peter Gabrijelcic (Ljubljana)

Vicente Guallart (Barcelona)

Rabih Hage (London)

Interboro (New York)

Junya Ishigami (Tokyo) 
JPRCR arquitectos (Caracas)

Totan Kuzembaev (Moscow)

Lacaton et Vassal (Paris)

David Mastálka/ A1Architects (Praha)
MOS (New Haven, CT)

Plan B (Medellìn)

Arne Quinze (Bruxelles)

Sanei Hopkins (London)

Elemental

Nel deserto cileno, il progetto ha lo scopo di rialloggiare un centinaio di famiglie che, per circa trent'anni, ha occupato quel terreno con baracche abusive. Si tratta di novantatre abitazioni di 25 e 36 metri quadrati (i materiali sono il cemento, i blocchi di cemento e pannelli di legno per i divisori interni) che si possono raddoppiare con l'autocostruzione. La tecnologia è semplice e molto economica, il finanziamento è quello concesso dalle politiche per la casa, un sussidio di 7500 dollari con cui bisogna pagare il terreno, le infrastrutture e l'architettura. Una cifra che, nell'edilizia cilena, corrisponde al costo di costruzione di 30 mq. Per alloggiare tutte le famiglie, si è scelto di utilizzare una tipologia più densa, rispetto alle case isolate, e meglio espandibile, rispetto alle case a schiera, dove l'aggiunta di una stanza toglie aria e luce alla casa e obbliga a usare una stanza come vano di passaggio. E vista l'insufficienza del budget, si è deciso di costruire soltanto la base e la copertura di un sistema che poi dovrà crescere in autonomia.

Low Cost / Low Tech

15 ottobre 2010, da oggi in libreria


Architettura Low Cost / Low Tech


un libro sull'architettura internazionale alla prova della sostenibilità, della convivialità e della riduzione delle risorse economiche.

Verde virale e architettura a bassa definizione

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Riccione, 17 marzo 2009


"Architettura a bassa definizione"

François Roche. L'architetto biomeccanico

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Politecnico di Milano, 3 novembre 2008











Alessandro Rocca


L'ARCHITETTO BIOMECCANICO


Politecnico di Milano
Facoltà di architettura e società
ore 10,00, aula C