Another Architecture Student
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Timber-framed cabin by Hanna Michelson stands on stilts to peep over the treetops of Swedish mountain
Swedish architect Hanna Michelson has completed a stilted timber cabin overlooking the Åsberget mountains, as the first of four getaways being built for the Bergaliv Landscape Hotel. The Stockholm-based architect, who works for Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, was commissioned by Bergaliv to build the 10-metre-tall heart-pine and spruce Lofthuset (loft house) on a former ski slope in Vallsta as a retreat for up to two people.
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Dorte Mandrup - Wadden Sea Centre, Ribe 2017. Via divisare, photos © Aldo Amoretti.
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Jan Henrik Hansen - Mobile wood pavilion, Schwyz 2017. Via prix, photos © Roger Frei, the architects.
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Costa del Sprawl Pavilion
Estudio ESSE
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Costa del Sprawl Pavilion 2018
Were it not for the financial crash, the sprawl of speculative construction would have continued to consume the landscape of the Costa del Sol. Along side the scattering of gated communities that cover the hills rising up from the Mediterranean are concrete relics that make tangible the moment the bubble burst. An edge condition that appears at first to be one of abandonment but after closer observation reveals itself to be a setting for slow, subtle and often unconscious subversion of the ideals that initially brought about the situation. Nature works its way back over the concrete slabs that were set to host dream holiday homes, refusing to accept its previous destiny as commodity for consumption. Dogs and their owners have made these spaces part of their daily routine, enjoying a freedom and informality that cannot be founded within the fences that wrap around their apartment blocks. The Costa del Sprawl Pavilion is a small step towards the legitimisation of informal spaces that mark the edge of the sprawl. It is a gathering place that encourages spontaneous interaction in a context where such possibilities are scarce. It is a provocation.
When arriving to the Costa del Sol by plane the arial view highlights a key element of the area’s self image; the swimming pool. We immediately think of David Hockney arriving in California. These suggestive blue dots are much more than a place to cool oneself on a hot summer day, they are symbols of leisure and desire, an expression the lifestyle one wishes to be seen to be leading, arenas for all manner of social interaction. The pool as a potent image and place for gathering was therefore the starting point for the pavilion’s design, transplanted from its usual context of verdant, highly maintained, securely enclosed gardens, and placed in another of disregard, entropy and latency. Using materials, colours, forms, and structural compositions the design of the pavilion references and condenses both the immediate and wider cultural contexts into a practical structure which enriches the rhythms and experiences of the terrain vague.
The pavilion was pre-fabricated and assembled on site our team of team of 3 designers within a 2 week period. Primarily composed of OSB sheets, pine battens and terracotta bricks, the self-initiated project was constructed for a budget of €800 raised by a crowd funding campaign. This is the first built project by Estudio ESSE, a team of 3 recent graduates and students from TU Delft - Ecaterina Stefanescu, Sam Eadington and Matt Grimshaw - and was conceived as a physical manifestation of years of research into the area which has seen their work exhibited locally on multiple occasions, initially facilitated by a scholarship awarded by the West Yorkshire Society of Architects.
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Modern Relics: A Retrospective of Ruin Interventions
Ruins and dilapidated structures are often celebrated because, apart from nostalgic value, the natural dilapidation itself over time may offer a sculptural aesthetic to the structure. This phenomenon is unique due to its temporality. often, in restoring these structures, architects incorporate crisp, contemporary materials to contrast the ruinous elements. Celebrating the original structure in this way serves to highlight the ragged edges and deterioration. in other instances architects have approached the task of renovation with a more traditionalist philosophy, respecting or replicating the archaic materiality.
designboom revisits the ruin renovations and interventions covered in the past to investigate these different approaches. Follow the source link to learn more about each project. Identified from the top:
- Church of Corbera Ferran Vizoso
- Cave House hyperSity
- Aloni decaArchitecture
- Pi des Català Marià Castelló Martínez
- Ping Village Bookstore 3andwich
- Kalø Castle MAP Architects
- La Ruina Habitada Estudio Castillo
- Astley Castle Witherford Watson Mann Architects
- Church of Vilanova de la Barca Aleaolea
(vía archatlas)
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Buchner Bründler Architekten - Kirschgarten house, Binningen 2018. Via afasia, photos © Georg Aerni.
(vía abuildingaday)
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Wolterslaan Row House / RAAMWERK
Photos © Stijn Bollaert
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