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email: traeinfo@traeinfo.dk
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Lundgaard og Tranberg Arkitekter A/S har vundet konkurrencen ” Törnrosen tower – an urban landmark” i Malmø.
April 04
Lundgaard og Tranberg Arkitekter A/S har vundet konkurrencen ” Törnrosen tower – an urban landmark” i Malmø.
Projektet skaber fortætning i Rosengårdskvarteret i Malmø i form af et tårn, lavere ny bebyggelse samt nye by – og haverum.
Introduction / Vision
Our proposal to transform Rosengård into a revitalized, dynamic, urban neighborhood is rooted in the desire to activate the district’s social potential through the concentration and integration of new building forms, urban rooms, and landscapes into the existing monolithic urban structure. The variegated and rich layers of historic city centers provide the inspiration for a gradual concentration of the spatial, social, and functional layers necessary for an attractive and dynamic urban quarter.
Rosengårdstråket is transformed into an articulated urban promenade; a folded boardwalk that unites the neighborhood and takes its place in an overall strategic plan for Malmö as part of chain of public spaces and paths that connect to the city center.
The new boardwalk acts as a connector and catalyst within the city. The boardwalk is an expansive, paved, folding urban surface that follows Rosengårdstråket, forming the backbone for activity and densifi cation. The boardwalk rises up and down, creating a series of new urban spaces, overlooks, and gathering spots, interweaving existing buildings with new building types, functional urban hybrids, and exciting scalar jumps.
At the intersection of the Västra Kattarpsvägen and Rosengårdstråket, where the Rosengård district crosses the city thoroughfare, Rosengård Tower rises as a symbol of diversity and openness – a vertical manifestation of the vital and dynamic city district. The tower is a vertical continuation of the boardwalk, folding and reaching upward, like a narrow winding street in a mountain village, with stairs, small public squares, and public functions looking out over Malmö and uniting a community in Rosengård’s Culture Casbah.
http://www.ltarkitekter.dk/da/news/archive/2012
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Under Pohutukawa Beach House by Herbst Architects
Under Pohutukawa Beach House by Herbst Architects
Sunday, 23 October 2011 17:26
Auckland-based architectural studio Herbst Architects has designed this stunning two-story beach house, Under Pohutukawa in Piha North, a coastal area in northern New Zealand. Built on a site covered with mature Pohutukawa trees, the residence is designed to resonate with the surrounding trees.The house is spectacular both inside and out, especially the inside living room which opens up to the forest allowing natural light and air circulation inside the house.
The main structures of the house are two towers "which are construed as freshly sawn stumps of the trees that were removed." One tower houses the bedroom while the other serves as a garage.
A large public space with a living room, dining area and a kitchen, connects the two towers. The roof of the public spaceis supported by a series of elements which are inspired by the tree trunks and branches.
The Under Pohutukawa beach house has won the NZIA Auckland architecture award 2011.
Photography: Patrick Reynolds,
Via: HomeDSGN
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Reflection of Mineral / Atelier Tekuto | ArchDaily
"Reflection of Mineral / Atelier Tekuto"
Atelier Tekuto © Makoto Yoshida
Modern Okurayama Apartment Design by Kazuyo Sejima | Home and House Design
"Modern Okurayama Apartment Design by Kazuyo Sejima
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Located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, architect Kazuyo Sejima has designed a three-storeys apartment building design which built with reinforced concrete structure. The apartment building exterior is designed with sinusoidal pattern, creating such a dynamic wave forms."
Modern Okurayama Apartment Design by Kazuyo Sejima | Home and House Design:
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STAR WHEEL HORIZON
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[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods
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STAR WHEEL HORIZON
After posting a project by Jimenez Lai back in January, Lebbeus Woods got in touch with an earlier project of his own, called Horizon Houses (2000).
In his own words, the Horizon Houses are "are spatial structures that turn, or are turned, either continuously (the Wheel House) or from/to fixed positions (the Star and Block Houses).
They are structures experimenting with our perception of spatial transformations, accomplished without any material changes to the structures themselves. In these projects, my concern was the question of space. The engineering questions of how to turn the houses could be answered by conventional mechanical means—cranes and the like—but these seem clumsy and inelegant. The mechanical solution may lie in the idea of self-propelling structures, using hydraulics. But of more immediate concern: how would the changing spaces impact the ways we might inhabit them? These self-transforming, perpetually off-kilter structures would, in a sense, contain their future horizon lines within them, as they rotate through various, competing orientations, both always and never completely grounded.
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[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods
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Each house in the series thus simultaneously explores the visual nature—and spatial effect—of the horizon line and the vertical force of gravity that makes that horizon possible.
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[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods
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As Woods phrases it, "Gravity is constantly at work on the materials of architecture, trying to pull them to the earth’s center of gravity. An important consequence is that this action establishes the horizon." However, he adds, "in the absence of gravity there is no horizon, for example, for astronauts in space. It is from this understanding that Ernst Mach developed his theory of inertia frames, which influenced Albert Einstein’s relativistic theory of gravity"—but, that, Woods says, "is another story."
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[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods
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It also compels the house always to be on the verge of moving again, unlike the jagged, semi-mountainous points of the Block and Star Houses.
The Block Houses appear to be in a state of barely stabilized wreckage following an otherwise unmentioned seismic event—which is fitting, as the rest of Woods's descriptive text (available on his website) offers seismicity as a key force and generative parameter for the project. If the earth itself moves, what sort of architecture might embrace and even thrive on that motion, rather than—unsuccessfully—attempt to resist a loss of foundation?
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| [Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods]. |
To say that these buildings thus exist in a state of ongoing catastrophe would be to fixate on and over-emphasize their instability, whereas it would be more productive to recognize that each house rides out a subtle and unique negotiation of the planet—where "the planet" is treated less as a physical fact and more as a gravitational reference point, an abstract frame of influence within which certain architectural forms can take shape.
In other words, the urges and pulls of gravity might nudge each house this way and that—it might even pull them over into a radically new orientation—but the architecture remains both optically sensible against its new horizon line and, more importantly, inhabitable.
Taken together, this family of forms could thus roll, wander, and collapse indefinitely through the gravitational fields that command them.
For a bit more text related to the project, see Woods's own website.
From: bldgblog.blogspot.com
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