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Residência de estudantes para a Universidade Corunha JAHB Arquitectos http-~~-//www.casadavizinha.eu/spp/architects/68/projects/50/1196701544_jahb_03_corunha_resid__ncia_universit__ria_eco-conceitos.jpg http-~~-//www.casadavizinha.eu/spp/architects/68/projects/50/1196701558_jahb_04_corunha_resid__ncia_universit__ria_implanta____o.jpg O lugar ocupa um vale nas imediações da cidade, entre as encostas de cultivo e pequenos aglomerados, diluído no recorte da costa galega. A cidade perfila-se no horizonte, toda península e o seu imenso porto, estende-se até nós em longos braços: avenidas, caminhos-de-ferros, armazéns, refinarias. O campus universitário surge em continuidade, ocupando os sopés das encostas, organizando os seus longos volumes sobre os antigos campos. Há um sentido inevitável de conflito de escalas a que implantação massiva de um novo uso influi sobre as estruturas rurais, resultando como é o caso, numa leitura decomposta de episódios urbanísticos, sobreposição de escalas e formas e de uma manipulação mais intensa da morfologia dos terrenos. Nesta efervescência, entendemos que a proposta deverá assumir a sua condição de elemento mediador, criando uma relação de continuidade em conformidade com todo o vale. A manipulação do espaço é encarada como uma sugestão formal da topologia do lugar, mantendo o enquadramento e diluindo o impacto visual da edificação. O sentido do projecto é a de propor uma ideia de paisagem unificada, definida na adaptação ao território e potenciando um estilo de vida ligado aos valores de partilha social e usofruto da ecologia. Deste modo, a forma segue os predicados do lugar, a arquitectura insinua-se silenciosa e aposta nas qualidades relacionais com o território. Neste contexto multireferencial centramo-nos em alguns elementos tradicionais da organização espacial do mundo rural (o muro, a estrutura ecológica, os espaços de cultivo, e a acopolação ao terreno), compondo uma hierarquia posicional para as diferentes funções da residência universitária. Por outro lado, foi necessário afirmar pontos de contacto e de comunicação com a envolvente, criando-se para tal elementos referenciais (torre de monitorização) ou espaços de destaque (praça de acolhimento, auditório natural). Ler mais sobre o projecto: http://www.casadavizinha.eu/projectos/residencia-de-estudantes-da-universidade-da-corunha-50.html

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Desenhos na areia http-~~-//www.jimdenevan.com/images/b2.jpg http-~~-//www.jimdenevan.com/images/5.jpg http-~~-//www.jimdenevan.com/images/cross.jpg http-~~-//www.jimdenevan.com/images/surfers_walking.jpg http-~~-//www.jimdenevan.com/images/IMG_5784.jpg http-~~-//img258.imageshack.us/img258/7359/57929861qp4.jpg http-~~-//img258.imageshack.us/img258/2314/dsc0103mt0.jpg Por Jim Denevan Para ver mais: http://www.jimdenevan.com/images.htm

Aqui está um tópico semelhante: http://www.arquitectura.pt/forum/f101/a-melhor-faculdade-de-arquitectura-4486.html Podes ainda consultar outros tópicos com informação semelhante aqui: http://www.arquitectura.pt/forum/d-vidas-ensino-acesso.html

Algae Power http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2068221159_f1484f28b8_o.jpg [image: Algal balloon communities in Iceland by the Philadelphia-based 202 Collaborative]. A few years ago I audited a course about Archigram at the University of Pennsylvania, just something to do on a Wednesday morning before I went to work – but one of the things that indirectly came out of that experience was BLDGBLOG. It's interesting to note, then, that one of the other people in that class now writes Brand Avenue; another's work was featured here on BLDGBLOG last year; and, this morning, another course attendee emailed to point out a proposal that he's helped assemble and conceptualize, about hydrogen-powered urban design in Iceland. http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2068221157_4b6035ca1d_o.jpg [image: Algae balloons and the houses they serve, by the 202 Collaborative]. That project, originally intended for a design competition, imagines carefully engineered algae ponds and balloons of hydrogen gas fueling the Icelandic city of the future. It's Icelandic New Energy (INE). http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2188/2068259429_35f947791e_o.jpg [image: An Icelandic hydrogen economy, outlined by the 202 Collaborative; view larger]. As the designers note:It has long been known that algae produce small amounts of hydrogen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. In 1999, researchers in Berkeley observed that algae alternate between hydrogen production and normal photosynthesis depending on the chemical environment. Depriving algae of oxygen and sulfur, the researchers greatly increased the hydrogen production and triggered the algae to produce hydrogen for an extended period of time. Another research group also discovered that algae will sustain simultaneous production of hydrogen and oxygen from water by illuminating the algae and depriving it of carbon dioxide and oxygen. Researchers estimate that a small pond (1.5 acre or 10 meter diameter) will produce enough hydrogen on a weekly basis to fuel 12 cars.Of course, a part of me wonders if this whole thing would be easier to solve if we just got rid of those 12 cars – but I understand that that wasn't the point of this design exercise. http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2284/2068259425_d36e3feb56_o.jpg [image: 202 Collaborative]. However, referring to things beyond the scope of this project, a part of me does find it a bit depressing that we'll go to all these lengths – that we'll totally redesign the industrial base of society – only then just to jump back into our Escalades and buy organic cotton Christmas mittens at the local Baby Gap. It seems like an awfully long distance to go to get nowhere, in other words. After all of this, we'll do the exact same things, outshopping one another on greengoods.com and parking our solar-powered sustainable sports cars somewhere in that sprawling tangle of garages and freeways out back. Everything will be recycled, yet everything will be the same. We'll watch internet sitcoms and judge each other's social value by the hemp dresses that our girlfriends wear. In any case, that's a pet peeve of mine that deals with things well outside of the project featured here. http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2316/2068259445_974a6cb2ef_o.jpg [image: A broader view of the plan by the 202 Collaborative; view much larger]. These renderings are gorgeous, meanwhile, and they lead me to wonder what Archigram would be doing today, if they had grown up designing in a world powered by alternative fuels. What strange new worlds of hydrogen balloons and algae ponds extending off past the urban horizon might we then see? Crops harvested from the roofs of brick tenements in north Philly. Steel frameworks of solar concentration arrays visible in the cracks between buildings as we step over bio-boulevards and water filtration systems on our way to work. Vast harddrives made entirely from milled crystal move glass elevators floor by floor through the environment ministry, carrying cloned medicinal plant samples up to their examination chambers... All narratives of the future are fair game when you're talking about architectural design. Anywho, although their site is still under construction, be sure to stop by the homepage of the 202 Collaborative. (Thanks, Patrick!) Ler artigo...

Study in Mass http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2306/2059229058_02aed71d96_o.jpg [image: Boutique Monaco by Mass Studies; view larger]. I've mentioned architect Minsuk Cho, of Mass Studies, on BLDGBLOG before: he designed the so-called "ring dome" for the Storefront for Art and Architecture's Z-A event last month in New York City, and he collaborated with Jeffrey Inaba's SCI-FI studio to propose an "urban district above the water" in Seoul. I'd say that Mass Studies is hard to beat for sheer spatial interest and originality; witness their Torque House, Pixel House, or Cheongam Media Headquarters, for instance – let alone the famously freaky Seoul Commune 2026. http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2080/2060413286_ecc8b75f7f_o.jpg http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2060413256_7ac449d04b_o.jpg http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2060413204_ffe42c083f_o.jpg [images: Three rendered views of the building's lobby and ground level exterior]. Or take a look at the Boutique Monaco, pictured here. The Monaco is "a high-density, massive building for residential/office/commercial/cultural activities to be located in the heart of the Seoul metropolitan life, the area around Gangnam station." http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/2059229100_13d0ec8145_o.jpg http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2200/2058443261_750c512490_o.jpg [images: Day and night renders of the project's exterior, complete with punctuated vertical bays of greenery and residential terracing; view both the top and bottom images larger]. As Mass Studies explains:Unlike the existing high-rises where one is segregated from the outside world as soon as he [or she] leaves the ground floor, Boutique Monaco will be a building where at each level will be a vertical open space accessible from different spots in the floor. The exterior, designed in an orthogonal pattern in the interest of efficiency in space allocation, is intended to strike a balanced harmony with the surrounding box-type high-rises.Further: "In the plan for Boutique Monaco, around 172 units are created in 49 different types and sizes and interconnected as if in an enormous puzzle. At the same time, different types of internal/external, private/public areas are to be installed." You can see some of the building's floorplans here. http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/2059632891_c8071dbf01_o.jpg [image: A kind of rooftop park and bioscape, complete with what appears to be a helipad]. The project can be seen in renderings, drawings, and diagrams on the Mass Studies website – but also now in photographs. The building is under construction even as this post is being written, and it should be open for inhabitation by late summer 2008. http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2135/2058443121_e6036c38b6_o.jpg [image: The Boutique Monaco under construction; view larger]. Meanwhile, I don't mean to uncritically promote the actions of a property developer in Seoul; nor do I wish to suggest that because this building has a few trees growing out of it that it's "green." But I do have to say that I like 1) the project's use of materials (the wood cladding inside the vegetated nooks is especially brilliant), 2) the punctuated bays themselves, which break up the facade in a really great way and add a spatially and experientially inspired dimension to the project, and 3) the diagonal bracing, however ornamental and non-structural it may be, of the podium. We may be seeing more and more of these sorts of structural weavings – but that's because they're cool. http-~~-//farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2059229032_d6b24e5c08_o.jpg [image: Bracing at the base of the Boutique Monaco; view larger]. For other projects by Mass Studies, check out their archives. Ler artigo...

Msilva a versão de que os seus colegas fala acima já suporte o 3D Studio Max 2008.

Novo gabinete adicionado por dasviroten: BVAU, Barros Virote - www.bvau.pt

Hernandezz aqui fica um artigo publicado pelo BLDBLOG ontem, espero que ajude: http://www.arquitectura.pt/forum/f27/bldgblog-mobile-minimalism-8732.html

Mobile Minimalism Flavio Galvagni of Lab Zero has pointed out a few of his projects that I think deserve mention here. [image: The solar-powered Minimum Mobile Module by Lab Zero]. Let me say right away, though, that I know a lot of people are tired of shipping container architecture – in fact, I think most people are tired of shipping container architecture – yet I have a fairly limitless patience for this sort of thing. Actually, I love shipping container architecture. But the same questions inevitably arise whenever things like this re-appear in the blogosphere: Are shipping containers comfortable? Is reusing them as a form of readymade architecture even structurally realistic? Would anyone really want to raise a family inside one of these things? And does the appeal of such designs actually cross cultures and income levels and ethnicities and, more important, climates? Sure, these might work in Santa Monica – but would they work in Minneapolis-St. Paul? To which I would have to say that the answer is: no, they probably aren't that comfortable when it comes to raising two and a half kids – and they probably don't equally appeal to, say, bedouins, Russian oil tycoons, Detroit's inner city poor, suburban parents, or even BLDGBLOG readers. But I don't think those are the right questions to ask. I don't think the point of cargo container architecture is for us to pretend that it's a universally appropriate design solution for every situation that could possibly exist in the world today – because it isn't. Then again, nothing is universally appropriate in architecture. What I think is, actually, the point of reusing shipping containers as architecture is: 1) when you can, you should reuse existing materials for somewhat obvious environmental reasons, and 2) the spatial, logical, and combinatorial systems that cargo containers imply are simply awesome. The possibilities excite me. Container-made buildings are fun to look at, they're fun to render, and they're fun to imagine forming new architectural reefs and Tetris cities, interlocking in a sci-fi future coming soon to a landscape near you. Whole new outer districts of London made from shipping container towers! [image: The Minimum Mobile Module by Lab Zero; view larger]. So arguments about the architectural reuse of shipping containers shouldn't be based on the claim that it's all or nothing; it's not either we replace all existing architecture in the world with cargo containers and then force everyone to live in them or we never construct a single cargo container building anywhere ever again, even for something as simple as a meditation retreat in your own backyard. Maybe only one cargo container building will ever be built again – or maybe none will – but that doesn't mean we can't still screw around for hours on end with them on our home computers, virtually assembling weird new unfolding structures or houses with legs or helicopter-borne instant cities simply because it's fun and a way to kill time. In other words, even if these plans serve as nothing but design exercises – studies in volume, combination, and color – then that's fine with me. We can be done with the ongoing arguments and just enjoy looking at cool imagery. But I digress. Lab Zero has put together a number of cool projects, including the solar-powered Minimum Mobile Module, pictured above, and the Carapace House, below. [image: The Carapace House by Lab Zero; view larger]. The Carapace House – a larger diagram of which can be seen here – is intended for use in "challenging natural environments." Similar to Lab Zero's own Drop Off Unit, the Carapace House is temporary, mobile, and easy to "drop off" in a variety of locations. [image: The Drop Off Unit by Lab Zero; view larger or in more detail]. All of which brings us to the Jellyfish House – not that Jellyfish House – a kind of floating tower perfect for those of us interested in "spatial delocation." You can drift around the world's oceans in it, reading William Gibson. [image: The Jellyfish House by Lab Zero; view bigger]. The Lab Zero website is still apparently under construction, meanwhile, but keep your eye out for more of their work in the future. They were featured in Actar's recent book Self-Sufficient Housing, for instance, and will no doubt be popping up elsewhere soon. And for more cargo containers on BLDGBLOG see Container Home Kit or even Project Blackbox. Ler artigo...

Apoio a Banhos de Mar - Carlos Mourão Pereira Antes do projecto: http-~~-//www.casadavizinha.eu/spp/architects/52/projects/39/1195660428_1.jpg Projecto: http-~~-//www.casadavizinha.eu/spp/architects/52/projects/39/1195660473_2.jpg Numa perspectiva de projecto inclusivo, procura-se proporcionar banhos aquáticos adaptando funcionalmente áreas com potencialidade balnear. A costa ocidental portuguesa, banhada pelo Atlântico, permite uma fusão sensorial de um limiar entre o mar e a terra. As ondas, a areia, as rochas, as espécies marinhas, vegetais e animais, encontram-se num campo de ênfase de sensações acústicas, olfactivas, tácteis e visuais, capazes de transformar as praias em espaços termais. O projecto apresenta-se como um estudo de caso na Praia de Paimogo, convertendo os viveiros abandonados existentes em tanques de retenção da água do mar. As pré-existências, construções de meados do século XX, aproveitam a orografia da costa, funcionando como reservas de peixe e mariscos. A proposta organiza-se num tanque táctil principal, que inclui outros tanques secundários, enriquecidos sensorialmente pela envolvente. Pretende-se uma complexidade formal com texturas e concavidades capazes de permitir a apropriação de espécies marinhas. A materialização dos tanques equaciona uma premissa de durabilidade procurando-se a quase ausência de manutenção nestas construções, recorrendo-se a betão “in situ”, reciclado. Procura-se com as ondas e as marés uma reciclagem passiva e agitação da água, essencial para a vida das espécies marinhas. O espaço organiza-se num plano de água, acessível por rampa, onde se incluem diversos tanques para recreio infantil, outros para adultos, e receptáculos tácteis com espécies animais marinhas. Ler mais sobre o projecto: http://www.casadavizinha.eu/projectos/39-apoio-a-banhos-de-mar.html