Darren Rayner et the Voleurz Family ont pu produire cette vidéo appelée “Science of Airborning”. Alliant des plans tout en se moquant des clichés des vidéos de sports extrêmes avec humour et intelligence, le rendu de cette parodie de Art of Flight est à découvrir dans la suite en vidéo.
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Tournée avec une caméra GoPro Hero 2, cette vidéo “New Lands” de Matthew Wainhouse a été réalisée au col de montagne Stevens Pass aux USA. Sur un morceau du groupe Justice, ces images de snowboard impressionnent. A découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Slideshow: the modular fenestration of this school building in western Switzerland was inspired by shapes from 1980s computer game Tetris.
Designed by Swiss architects ipas, the four-storey block is an extension to an existing secondary school and a glass bridge connects it to the main building at second-floor level.
Concrete steps lead up to the first-floor entrance and can also be used as bleachers when sports activities take place in the adjacent playground.
Differently coloured walls and floors inside the school differentiate between classrooms, the gym, bathrooms and the entrance foyer.
Dezeen visited Switzerland at the end of last year for an architectural tour of Basel and Zurich – listen to our podcast from the trip here.
Photography is by Thomas Jantscher.
The text below is from ipas:
Tetris
The building is located near the forest and its large windows fully open the school on its wooded surroundings. Imagine our children, perched in the wild beauty of foliage, about to sprout from vertigo that comes from the rise of knowledge ….
A place outside any, between heaven and earth, where reigns only the relentless beauty of a diaphanous light colored green, the sweet sound of singing of leaves blowing in the wind, a spellbinding atmosphere by its serenity in harmony with all the idea that there is a place of learning.
Imagine a school which draws its plastic aesthetics of the forest. A beauty who plays a musical symphony to the rhythm of chance and repetition, to capture, play, live emotions that nature gives us.
The building unfolds quietly because dialogue with nature, respect for the latter, out of modesty, its footprint is minimal: as a result of deforestation is reduced, the search also.
The repeating pattern used for the definition of the openings of facade has its roots in the plant environment that characterizes the place. Zoom on the macroscopic foliage delivers us a pixelization constituting the frame in which the openings take place.
The famous arcade game Tetris animates the facades and makes light of the serious idea of a school to give it a more playful.
A door-to-north false facade welcomes the entry of the new school which is in turn connected to the existing complex through a large entry step outside that can serve as bleachers for outdoor sporting activities. A glass bridge, geometry broken, connects the two schools.
The program follows a hierarchical organization clear down the access and sport, the top areas of learning, this spatial arrangement is enhanced by the multiple external environments and their lights.
The circulation spaces are generous because we must accommodate students, create meeting places and provide surfaces for new teaching methods.
The colors also draws its source in the nearby forest by restoring a concrete-colored brown, evoking the tree trunks. Inside, the chromatic variations borrow light of the four seasons, autumn orange for the lower level, the winter-brown at the entrance, spring green on the first floor and was green-blue in the second floor.
The bathrooms are blue, penetrates to the wood walls and ceiling of the gyms where the soil reflects the blue sky.
The building uses the principle of large spans, two concrete walls 40 inches thick and encompassing two levels of classes materialize an arc of 32 meters in length through which the gym is divisible released any intermediate support.
In terms of sustainability, maintenance, materials which constitute the outer shell provide durability that resists the vicissitudes of time: an inert material such as concrete, and a compact roof completely resistant to ambient humidity generated by the near the forest
Architectes: ipas architectes sa
Competition: 1st prize
Planning: 2004, 2005-2007
Owner: Commune de Genolier
Team: Michel Egger, Eric Ott, Salvatore Chillari, Delphine Jeanneret-Gris, Gilles Batista, Michael Desaules
In collaboration with: Daniel Schlaepfer, Lausanne, artiste
Réalisé par Andreas Nilsson, le nouveau clip de Miike Snow pour illustrer le morceau “The Wave” se dévoile. Avec une ambiance étrange et des personnages fantasques, le résultat oscille entre comique et inquiétant, autour de personnages ayant un faciès pour le moins spécial.
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Réalisé par Tim Pierce, From Winter of Wells : The Documentary a pu notamment suivre Jossi Wells et ses performances en ski. Des images splendides en vidéo, sur une musique de The Checks qui donnent envie de découvrir le documentaire. Trailer dans la suite de l’article.
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Une très belle série par l’artiste Sonja Hinrichsen avec “Snow Drawings”. A la manière des Crop Circles, voici des dessins et des immenses cercles inscrit dans la neige à Rabbit Ears Pass dans le Colorado. Un concept à découvrir en images et en vidéo dans la suite.
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En 2004, Josh Dueck s’était tragiquement accidenté en voulant faire un backflip en ski. Paraplégique il a décidé de retenter cette figure 8 ans après, avec l’équipement nécessaire. Un superbe exploit capturé en vidéo par Salomon Freeski. A découvrir dans la suite.
This scaly apartment block in alpine Slovenia appears to have had its corners sliced away to create triangular balconies.
Completed by Ljubljana studio OFIS Arhitekti, the three-storey-high building contains six studio apartments on its upper floors, as well as a pharmacy at ground level.
Each apartment has a private balcony, where recessed larch walls contrast with the cement shingle-clad shell that encases the majority of the building.
Locally sourced stone walls frame the entrances to both the residential stairwell and the pharmacy, which are set back from the facade and sheltered by the floors above.
We’ve published a few projects by OFIS Arhitekti over the years – see them all here, including a social housing development inspired by computer game Tetris.
Photography is by Tomaz Gregoric and Jan Celeda.
Here’s some more text from OFIS Arhitekti:
Alpine Ski Apartments
invited competition
2007-2011
The project is located in the Slovenian alpine town Kranjska Gora on the north western corner of the country. The brief required a public ground floor and small apartments on the upper floor that could be converted into bigger units.
Concept design-initial urban cube-cutout the cube in vertical and horizontal planes.
The concept design was initially dictated by strict local building regulations, height and footprint plot limit which partially led to the building form.
The first step was pasting maximum volume on the site -a cube on the allowed urban footprint. The final form derived from cutting the cube in the vertical and horizontal planes.
Horizontal cut – pitched roof with flat top to hide service ventilation pipes and chimneys.
Vertical cut – angled corners with inserted wooden balconies allowing the building a softer, less substantial volume appearance.
Program organisation
The pharmacy is located on the ground floor with larger glazed elements and a recessed entrance creating a more open and inviting level for the public space.
First and second floors contain 6 studio apartments of different sizes, each with own balcony and large glazed opening affording views towards the surrounding mountains.
The basement level is a communal space with a shared area, sauna and leisure room.
The materials used have also been chosen as a response to the local historical tradition, using materials to emulate those of the existing building environment.
Cement tile cladding as the principal material which visually gives the impression of a tiled roof, however provides continuous skin which is used on both the roof and walls to emphasize the form of building further.
Larch is used for the balconies on the corners of the building in order to indicate the location the buildings form has been cut to reveal external spaces for the apartments.
Natural stone from the region is used as a material for the ground floor to indicate the entrance and difference between private and public areas.
Both these materials have been chosen due to their use historically in local traditional architecture.
Location: Kranjska Gora
Type: Housing apartments
Client: GRADIS G Group d.d
Site Area: 462 m2
Bldg. Area: 177 m2
Gross Floor Area: 457 m2
Coverage Ratio: 0,38
Gross Floor Ratio: 0,98
Structure: reinforced concrete and steel
Max. Height: 11.7 m
Landscape Area: 180 m2
Inner space: 439 m2
Design team: Rok Oman , Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric , Janja Del Linz, Anna Breda , Janez Martincic, Katja Aljaz
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Following our recent roundup of stories featuring ice and snow, here’s a timber lodge outside Prague that was photographed days after a blizzard.
The two-storey house was designed by Czech architect Martin Cenek and was completed this time last year.
Larch batons clad the upper level and also create brise soleil shutters across windows on the south-facing elevation.
A living room occupies one half of the ground floor and opens out to a wooden deck at the rear.
Elsewhere, steel rods suspend a staircase that leads up to bedrooms and bathrooms on the first floor.
You can see more projects from the Czech Republic here, including a tea house with a tall roof and a combined art gallery and shoe store.
Photography is by the architect.
Here’s a detailed description from Cenek:
House on the outskirts of Prague
Zdiby, Czech Republic
The plot on the outskirts of Prague, protected by a forest from the north and sloping very gently into the fields to the south, seemed ideal for an energy efficient house.
The final design that was developed for this young family of 3 (planned to grow to 4) is a timber house, energetically very close to the passive house standard, employing natural materials, but mainly trying to be as simple and rational as possible. These two are for us also very important aspects of sustainable architecture.
The house is oriented parallel to the neighboring “catalogue” house and creates a clear contrast to its pitched roof and pseudo-classical details, but its ambition is not to overshadow it or criticize it. By its orientation on the plot the house creates a natural barrier between the road to the north and spacious garden on the south side.
The concept was based on a composition of simple volumes arranged into a compact and clear shape. The whole first floor is clad in larch battens which are also used on the shading panels that slide in front of south and east oriented windows and on the balustrade of the first floor terrace (above the carport). This wooden “basket” of the first floor rests on two transverse grey walls – one on the west side and the other east side of the house.
The ground floor volumes – of the day zones of the house itself as well as the one of the garden storeroom are inserted between the two grey outer walls and are finished in reddish rendering. The space between these volumes creates the carport and allows passage between the garden and the road.
The house opens to the south with a terrace directly extending from the living room and connected with it thanks to the extensive glazing of the south wall (glazed in its full length) shaded by means of a wooden brise-soleil. In the future the terrace should grow further to the south and a swimming pool of the same width is also planned.
The north side of the house is more compact and its main feature is a strip window above the level of the flat roof which provides zenithal light to the bathrooms. This sloping part of the roof also serves to mount solar collectors.
The interior layout tries to open up the living (day) zones of the house as much as possible. Sliding floor to ceiling doors then allow different options of connecting or closing the various zones of the house (living and work/service on the ground floor, children and parents on the first floor). The aim was to minimize corridors and lost spaces. The main feature of the central part of the house is a very light staircase suspended on steel rods from the ceiling.
All the built in furniture is simple and white, the aim of the design being to let it blend into the walls and thus give more importance to the occupants of the house and their life.
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The structure of the house consists of very simple two-by-four timber framing, with all constructions open to water vapor diffusion. All glazing is made of insulated triple window panes in wooden frames (or frameless in case of the living room).
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Heating – a simple small electric boiler and low temperature floor heating on the ground floor, very simple radiators on the first floor in combination with air heat recovery system. Water is heated using the thermosolar collectors and an integrated heat storage tank. As the heat losses of the house are relatively low, the fireplace in the living room is purely an aesthetical feature.
Architect: ing.arch. Martin Cenek (*1982)
Completed: 2010
Project: 2007-2009
Total floor area: 145m2 + carport 20m2
Built-up area: 120m2 (including garden storeroom and carport)
Energy losses: 3,5kW
Collaboration:
ing.arch. Vitezslav Cenek (garden design, supervision of construction site)
ing. Martin Trmal, ing. Martin Ruzicka – Penatus (production drawings)
ing. Jan Margold, ing. Roman Forfera (structure)
ing. Roman Schneider (heating)
ing. Martin Janko (ventilation)
Jiri Holub (water and waste management)
Petr Manek (electrical)
Selected suppliers:
Penatus s.r.o. (main supplier)
Kauri – Pavel Mikes (staircase)
Jiri Malek and Vestavstyl (built-in furniture)
Esentier s.r.o. (bathroom equipment)
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