Le designer graphique italien Lino Russo a fait une série intitulée « Skymetric », minimaliste, colorée et très graphique. Le mot-valise « Sky-metric » introduit la dimension géométrique de la série, avec le ciel bleu, toujours présent dans les compositions des images : mélange de la nature avec l’architecture.
The Propagate Tower explores carbon-capturing technology that would allow harmful greenhouse gases to be converted into usable building materials! It starts as a simple vertical scaffold of carbon-capturing material. Required ingredients for propagation are supplied through the scaffold, while its actual pattern of growth is defined by environmental factors such as wind, weather & the saturation of carbon dioxide within the immediate atmosphere. Each resulting structure is sui generis in its formal expression, while maintaining a regular spatial organization for ease of adaptation.
Designers: YuHao Liu & Rui Wu
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Seven concrete fins provide a green roof that collects rainwater at this new engineering facility for a wastewater treatment plant in Portland, Oregon, by local firm Skylab Architecture (+ slideshow).
The Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant was built in 1950 to process the Portland’s combined wastewater and stormwater, and now serves 600,000 residents. Skylab Architecture was tasked with creating new office facilities for the plant’s engineers and public reception areas.
The single-storey structure has a curved plan designed to trace the path of the sun. The seven roof fins form a linear sequence over the top, turning the building into a series of angular grass-covered hills that appear to fold up from the landscape.
Each of these fins features an integrated collection system that channels rainwater down to the nearby Columbia Slough waterway.
“Inspired by the native landscape and its industrial past, the building is an elegant combination of landform, indigenous planting, formal geometry, and durable construction systems that support staff and the public interface,” explained the architect.
In contrast with the plant-covered southern facade, the building’s northern elevation comprises a glazed curtain wall with a serrated surface.
Workspaces for up to 36 engineers are located just behind, replacing the mobile units that had served as offices for the previous 16 years. South-facing clerestory windows bring light into these spaces from above, filtering through steel louvres.
A new reception welcomes guests to the plant, while meeting rooms accommodate talks and other public events. These spaces lead out to a grass lawn that functions as a common space for staff and visitors.
Here’s a project description from Skylab Architecture:
The Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant Engineering Building
The Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant was constructed in 1950 as an industrial site to treat the city’s combined wastewater and storm water now serving 600,000 residents in Portland, Oregon. In recent times, this municipal works project has become increasingly public through efforts to highlight the importance of sustainable infrastructure. Over the past 16 years, engineering staff on site worked out of portable trailers that became unsuitable for occupation.
The new 11,490 square-foot Engineering Building and site development project was proposed to create replacement office space while also establishing a new public interface for the Plant. The program included office space for 36 engineers and construction management staff, a visitor reception space and public meeting spaces all to be developed within a sustainable landscape.
The new single-storey building was oriented along the path of the sun featuring seven folded cast-in-place concrete roof forms that channel storm water sustainably through the eco-roof. The storm water then drains along the berms into a visible storm water collection system leading back to the Columbia Slough.
As an intentional demonstration, the building and its immediate landscape employ signage and educational elements to celebrate the Columbia Slough ecosystem where the project is located as well as share information about the regional watershed. Inspired by the native landscape and its industrial past, the building is an elegant combination of landform, indigenous planting, formal geometry, and durable construction systems that support staff and the public interface.
The site development transformed and redefined the transportation traffic flow to create a newly formed pedestrian central green space used for educational tours of the plant and as a commons for the overall plant staff. This commons space replaced the original axial road leading into the plant improving vehicular circulation, plant security, parking organisation to create a shared central gathering space.
Juxtaposing the soft, vegetated southern edge, the building’s northern facade is a dynamic, serrated curtain wall that tracks the circular path of the commons. Exterior stainless steel solar shades and a system of clerestory windows create modulated day lighting in concert with a fully glazed operable north facade connecting the interior spaces with the central green space.
The mechanical system is a heat pump system that taps into the plant’s process water source for heating and cooling. While the building has a photovoltaic system it also benefits from an on- site co-generation plant for power.
Owner: City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
Architect: Skylab Architecture
Contractor: Skanska USA Building
Engineer: Solarc Architecture and Engineering, Inc.
Engineer: Catena Consulting Engineers
Landscape: 2-ink Studio Landscape Architecture
Lighting: Biella Lighting
Civil Engineer: Vigil-Agrimis Inc.
Environmental Graphics: The Felt Hat
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L’architecte Bernd Riegger a construit un refuge en bois au milieu de la forêt de Wolfurt en Autriche. La façade faite de sortes de casiers sans fond et d’une fenêtre panoramique permettent une très bonne diffusion de la lumière. Les photos d’Adolf Bereuter sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Kuala Lumpur’s Menara Bunga Raya was designed for “people, profit & planet” – reflecting an emerging awareness that our most visible buildings must deliver value beyond simple economics & speak to higher aspirations. 2.5% of the tower is allocated toward public-uses, including a sculpture park, outdoor performance space, & a museum. The inside of the tower is devoted to the guiding principles of the Rukun Negara, including a Sky Walk cafe atop the tower, & a 20 story tall Hall of Hibiscuses- a vertical, living garden celebrating the national flower of Malaysia.
Designer: RAFT Architects
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Sur les terres cultivées de Victoria en Australie, la firme australienne Branch Studio Architects a converti une vieille cabane en maison viable minimaliste et moderne faite de bois. La maison appelée « The Pump House » se situe près d’un lac et possède un intérieur charmant et chaleureux. Une cabane singulière à découvrir.
Olivier Ottevaere et John Lin de l’université de Hong Kong ont imaginé The Pinch, une bibliothèque et centre située dans le village de montagne de Shuanghe en Chine. Avec un toit courbé, il propose à la fois un lieu de culture et d’évasion pour les enfants de ce village dévasté par un tremblement de terre.
A clay-based black paint forms a protective layer across the facade of this woodland cabin in Finland, designed by Playa Architects as the second home for a Finnish family living abroad (+ slideshow).
Finnish architect Tuukka Vuori of Playa Architects designed the house for friends who want to spend their holidays in their home country.
Named Villa Kettukallio, the 122-square-metre house is located on the edge of a lake in Hirvensalmi, on a spot where the family used to take forest walks. It will be visited throughout the year, so needed to be accommodating in all seasons.
“Winters can be very cold, sometimes minus 30, then in summer there’s daylight around the clock, so it had to work in both of these circumstances,” Vuori told Dezeen.
“The main brief was to take in these surroundings, so we added big glazed openings facing towards the lakeside,” he added.
Birch clads the exterior and has been coated with a black distemper paint that is typical of Scandinavian dwellings. This will help to protect the building from ageing.
Living and dining rooms take up around half of the house’s floorspace, encouraging the family to spend more time in communal areas rather than in the bedrooms.
A sauna sits on the north side of the site on the opposite side of a veranda, creating a protected seating area where residents can cool down. An entrance then leads directly back into the house via the shower room.
“Traditionally lakeside homes have separate saunas, but the family didn’t want it to be separate,” said Vuori. “This meant we could avoid building extra shower spaces, which also deals with some environmental concerns.”
A second terrace on the south side of the building gives the family a sunny space for dining outdoors.
Walls and ceilings inside the house are lined with birch and alder. The floors are pine and feature stripes created by the family’s own sawmill.
“With pine you usually get this really strong texture in the wood, these horizontal sections,” explained Vuori.
Heating is provided by a wood-burning stove that sits between the kitchen and the living room. Constructed from brick, this is coated with grey plaster to give it the appearance of polished concrete.
Photography is by Tuomas Uusheimo.
Here’s more information from Playa Architects:
Villa Kettukallio
The villa is the all-year-round base in Finland for a four-person family currently living abroad. The site between cliffs and a fairly steep lakeside beach was chosen during the family’s forest walks. The place overlooks a narrow strait and far out to an open expanse of the lake. In accordance with the site conditions, the building is relatively closed off towards the forest while opening up generously in the direction of the lake.
The house is split by an atrium yard and a covered terrace, on one side of which are small bedrooms and the other more generous living spaces. During the summer the floor layout allows for “complete circulation”. Instead of a separate shoreline sauna building, a sauna was built in connection with the house itself. A covered veranda for cooling off after the sauna separates the sauna from the rest of the building.
In painting the facade with black distemper paint, the building blends with the shadows of the pine forest when viewed from the direction of the lake.
In the interior, the surfaces are mostly untreated domestic wood: birch, pine and common alder. The wood floors are built from vertical-grain pine boards from the family-owned sawmill.
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Pour ce deuxième best-of du mois d’avril, nous avons réuni, pour vous, le meilleur du timelapse : cette jolie technique qui permet d’accélérer le temps pour le voir passer et qui permet aux paysages, aux fleurs, aux gens et aux villes de se mouvoir. La sélection est disponible dans la suite.
Infra Red Timelapse by Glen Ryan & James van der Moezel.
Malaria Illustration by Edson Oda.
Mauna Kea Heaven Timelapse by Sean Goebel.
Melancholia Timelapse by Enrique Pacheco.
Mirror City Timelapse by Michael Shainblum.
Beyond Nature Iceland by AprilGarden.
City Lights by Colin Rich.
Dan Black – Hearts by Chic & Artistic.
Death Valley Dreamlapse by Sunchaser Pictures.
Dreamscapes by Jonathan Besler.
Family Portraits Timelapse by Anthony Cerniello.
First Footprints by Murray Fredericks.
Flowers Timelapse by Katka Pruskova.
Heild Timelapse Trailer by Trailperpark Studios & Petur K. Gudmundsson.
Landings by Cy Kuckenbaker.
Limitless Graffiti Timelapse by Selina Miles.
Radiance by LakeSuperiorPhoto.
Rumble and Sway NY Timelapse by The Seventh Movement.
Into The Atmosphere by Michael Shainblum.
Supercell Thunderstorm Time Lapse by Mike Olbinski.
The World Outside my Window by David Peterson & Random Photons Productions.
The Making Of Design Fu Mural by YIU Studio.
This is Shanghai by Rob Whitworth.
Welcome Home Timelapse by Michael Shainblum.
White Noise Movie by TimeLine Films.
Cityscape Chicago by Eric Hines
Yosemite Timelapse II by Colin Delehanty & Sheldon Neill.
Adventure Is Calling by Shane Black.
Alchemy Nature by Evosia Studios.
Disneyland Timelapse by Matt Givot & Dan Douglas
Le directeur artistique Robert Jahns a retouché une série de photos surréalistes de Venise en rassemblant des photos d’Italie prises par Luis Manuel Osorio Fernando avec les photos de lacs glacés de Russie prises par Daniel Kordan. Robert Jahns voulait montrer à quoi ressemblerait le canal de Venise s’il était gelé par l’hiver.
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