Extreme Housing by Singapore-based LOOK Architects Pte Ltd. Extreme housing call for extreme design strategies and ecological sensitive solutions. It can be learnt from Nature which is intrinsically vital for species survival.
What if you could have your won "portable", well the Terrain Vague, by Architectures David Tajchman, is a house that can be placed everywhere, any way.
Parcel 9, HX Urban Centre by Chris Lee and Kapil Gupta /Serie Architects
Design Team: Chris Lee, Bolam Lee, Udayan Mazumdar, Kevin Hung
"Our proposal draws together two parallel ideas, one typological, and the other from the indigenous landscape of Guizhou. The project begins with the typological transformation of the Hakka/Tulou House. Drawing the intelligence of the circular courtyards, our proposal puts forth an organization that combines shared circular courtyard that binds together a series of smaller private courtyards."
Apprentice Formation Centre in Saint Maur des Fossés, France, by AIR Architects. The project is an economical extension of the college, with an environmental approach. The extension of the CFA is a compact and economical building that just completed all of the Chamber of Trades. It has a clear identity defined by its facade of tinted yellow concrete, which turns on the ground to establish a liaison, a generous space between 2 buildings.
The 220,000 square meter pedestrian-oriented Linked Hybrid complex, sited adjacent to the site of old city wall of Beijing, aims to counter the current urban developments in China by creating a new twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. Filmic urban public space; around, over and through multifaceted spatial layers, as well as the many passages through the project, make the Linked Hybrid an “open city within a city”. The project promotes interactive relations and encourages encounters in the public spaces that vary from commercial, residential, and educational to recreational. The entire complex is a three-dimensional urban space in which buildings on the ground, under the ground and over the ground are fused together.
The planned mixed-use development of the new building "Sonnenhof" provides for an allocation of land in industrial, office and residential use. This accounts for approximately 15% commercial, 40% on office and 45% on residential areas. The basic idea of the courtyard as a vibrant urban area, following, are in the ground floor areas of all commercial buildings provided by the public. Building 2 will include the ground floor of the premises advising customers of the WG Carl Zeiss.
