Fibrous Tower, by Kokkugia
This fibrous concrete shell was erected as an exoskeleton construction with a load-bearing shell and thin floor plate and column free. The shell is based on structural and tectonic hierarchies and a contemporary design, its articulation as a single self-organized structure responds to common conflicting design criteria. Pretty funky I think.
Aircruise Concept by Seymourpowell
London, UK, Leading design and innovation company Seymourpowell is today unveiling full details of its visionary transportation concept, Aircruise – a giant, vertical airship powered by natural energy and designed to carry travellers in style and luxury.
Originally a self-generated project, Seymourpowell’s Aircruise is the concept design for a hotel in the sky, with low passenger numbers and huge internal spaces offering room for living, dining and relaxing, as well as scope for dramatic and inspirational public spaces. The initial design proposes a bar/lounge zone, four duplex apartments, a penthouse and five smaller apartments.
The concept subsequently captured the imagination of Korean giant Samsung Construction and Trading (C&T). Driven by its interest in new materials for building, Samsung C&T appointed Seymourpowell to refine the idea and produce a detailed computer animation of the proposed experience to illustrate this visionary approach to the future.
From the docking rig at the base to the tip, the ship is 265 metres tall. Hydrogen, the lightest gas, is used as the lifting gas, and is capable of lifting around 1.2Kg per cubic metre of volume. Large PEM hydrogen fuel cells will provide on board power and some drinking water.
Boston Arcology “BoA,” Project by E. Kevin Schopfer
Designed by E. Kevin Schopfer, AIA, RIBA , the Boston Arcology “BoA”is designed to provide safe and dry living space to over 15,000 people after rising oceans swallow the cities in which we live today. The floating city will provide housing distributed in hotels, offices, retail, museums, condominiums and a city hall. And while the design seems pretty incredible and maybe even impossible, it’s a spectacular mix of architecture and ecology.
To be located on a buoyant platform of concrete cells right in the Boston Harbour next to down town, BoA would sit perpendicular to the waterfront, thus minimizing the view sheds of existing buildings onshore.
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January 28, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Latest, Project - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 4
Glass Home Concept by Santambrogiomilao Group
Designed by the Santambrogiomilao Group, this concept home is made entirely from glass including the exterior, furniture and accessories. The glass house is quite stunning in its aesthetics but who would want to have a permanent the view of world at 360 degrees without a care for privacy.
The glass home is a collaboration between founder Carlo Santambrogio and designer Ennio Arosio featuring a series of iconic furniture pieces, beds, sofas and bookcases, along with architectural elements such as staircases and kitchens.
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ECO Building by Igor Davydov
Eco-minded designer Igor Davydov has designed a mixed-use environmentally friendly building that will cover a land area of just 10-square-feet. This space saver and eco-friendly building can be an exhibition area for companies that are engaged in high technology in construction, medicine and healthy lifestyle. In addition, the eco-building also carries an eye-catching outer appearance making this building to be one of the tourist attractions in the future.
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Eco-pods Project by Howeler + Yoon Architecture & Squared Design Lab
Howeler + Yoon Boston based architects and Squared Design Lab from Los Angeles have designed a conceptual structure for Boston, where an unfinished building would be covered in modular pods growing algae for biofuel.
The pods would be continuously rearranged by robotic arms (powered by the micro-algae produced) to ensure the optimum growing conditions for alage in each pod. The designers intend to use the structure, called Eco-pods, to inform the public about the potential of micro-algae, a bio-fuel that can be grown vertically. The pods could also house research projects.
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Amphibious Pavilion Submitted by Peddle Thorpe Architects for the International 2012 World Expo
Melbourne-based Peddle Thorpe Architects (PTA) has designed this amphibious pavilion as a submission for the international competition for the thematic pavilion of expo 2012 . The pavilion is designed as an environmental statement, to survive the world expo. It is essential to keep on promoting ocean conservation beyond the world expo period through a planned exhibition program.
It’s a prototypical architecture, drawing from the multidisciplinary source of product design, urban planning and architecture & naval design. The pavilion is resolved as a floating exhibition space that can be sailed to other cities.
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Healthcare Center Competition Won by NORD Architects
Copenhagen dedicated €5.4million and outlined a design competition to build a Healthcare Centre for cancer patients in the city to be run in collaboration with the Danish Cancer Society. NORD Architects have just been announced as the winners with a design that utilises, space, natural light and outdoor gardens to encourage a positive mind.
Deyan Sudjic had said of a Maggie’s Centre, “This is a place that feels as if it’s about life, rather than death…it’s a place of reassurance and respite,” and this is the principle of the design.
55 Blair Road by Ong & Ong
This is an awesome juxtaposition of a contemporary, refined interior into a historical. 55 Blair Road by Ong & Ong is a renovation and restoration to a traditional art deco style shop house. The new owner however believed it was too dark and desired more light in the living spaces. This residence brings a balance between nature and contemporary living in a renovation of an Art Deco style terrace.
Harvest Green Project by Romses Architects
Winner of “The 2030 Challenge” organized by the City of Vancouver “to address climate change plans and to guide greener and denser development, reducing carbon emissions for the future,” the “Harvest Green Project’ by Romses Architects will grow vegetables, herbs, fruit, fish, egg laying chickens, and a boutique goat and sheep dairy facility through the vertical farming. Featuring a green design, the structure will harvest renewable energy with photovoltaic glazing and small and large-scale wind turbines to support the solar and wind-farm infrastructure.
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Tamayo Museum by Rojkind Arquitectos and BIG in Mexico City
Danish architects BIG, together with Michel Rojkind Arquitectos, have won the competition for the New Tamayo Museum which is to be build right outside of Mexico City.
The cross-shaped museum will occupy a hillside above the city and incorporate a large viewing platform on the roof.
Sky-Terra Towers Sprout Cities in the Skies
As urban areas become more congested and dense, it becomes more challenging for city dwellers to spend time outdoors, exercise and relax. Buildings tower over public parks, blocking out the sun, while city streets are polluted with particulate matter and exhaust from vehicles. To cope with the growing need for green urban space, San Francisco-based designer Joanna Borek-Clement has envisioned these eye-popping Sky-Terra skyscrapers – not just a single building, but a network of interconnected towers that are inspired by the shape of neuron cells. This skyscraper superstructure provides a new city layer – one covered in public parks, amphitheaters, fields, and public pools and bathhouses.
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April 27, 2009 - Category: Architecture, Latest, Project - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 3
