Monthly Archive for September, 2010

From Dezeen…

Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects are exhibiting these houses with sandy floors, photographed by Nelson Garrido, at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. Called Casa Areia, the project comprises seaside accommodation made of wooden frames covered in natural fibres, with  sand covering the floor in the kitchen and living space, connecting them to the beach and landscape outside.

This construction is composed by 4 little houses in a place near the sea. They where reconstructed with traditional methods using wood and a traditional stem. The project was build on the sand that is a natural and abundant material that was transported to the interior of the common places (the living room and the kitchen) giving this way the connection between the environment and the new and totally integrated construction. More…

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Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar have suspended a cloud inside the Arsenale exhibition space at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Called Cloudscapes, the installation is created by pumping three layers of air into the space: cold dry air at the bottom, hot humid air in the middle and hot dry air at the top. More…

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For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition Hylozoic Ground transforms the Canada Pavilion with an immersive, interactive environment made of tens of thousands of lightweight digitally-fabricated components fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors. The glass-like fragility of this artificial forest is built of an intricate lattice of small transparent acrylic meshwork links, covered with a network of interactive mechanical fronds, filters and whiskers. The environme