Build by Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez in Portillo, Los Andes, Chile on 240 square meters surface in 2008, this Mountain Refuge C7 is located precisely at 2990 meters above sea level in the Andes Mountains. The house is on the south slope of the Inca Lake, just in front of the Portillo Hotel, a few kilometers away of the Argentinean border and Mount Aconcagua. The terrain surrounding this house is a steep rocky slope, facing the immediate view of the lake and the Tres Hermanos Mountains. Over this strong and harsh natural landscape the house disappears from its view uphill, without blocking the view to the lake. The strongest feature is the panoramic scenery of this harsh environment. To help getting the coldness entering the house, a good insulation’s installed and the interior design is added with wooden and plywood materials to bring the warmth atmosphere. This way you can stay warmth on the inside and cool on the outside. Visit dRN Architects website for further information.
Yin and Yang, Warm And Cold, Mountain Refuge C7 by Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez (2)
Yin and Yang, Warm And Cold, Mountain Refuge C7 by Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez (3)
Yin and Yang, Warm And Cold, Mountain Refuge C7 by Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez (4)
Yin and Yang, Warm And Cold, Mountain Refuge C7 by Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez (5)
Yin and Yang, Warm And Cold, Mountain Refuge C7 by Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez (6)
Yin and Yang, Warm And Cold, Mountain Refuge C7 by Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez (7)
Yin and Yang, Warm And Cold, Mountain Refuge C7 by Nicolás del Río and Max Núñez
As I gaze and wonder through each corridors on this Kindergarten designed by Hrvoje Njiric, suddenly there’s a funny thought came over me that I don’t think Barrack Obama’s Kindergarten look like this nice. It’s out of the question, and anyway this Medo Brundo Kindergarten is located in town called Zagreb, Croatia. The concept of this architectural design was to make a kindergarten on a small basis of living environment without neglecting the surrounding. Since it’s a kindergarten, else than space, traffic must be carefully configured while still maintaining the fun and attractive interior and outdoors aspects for kids to play around. The kindergarten is initially conceived as a single storey building with a bold compact, introverted and autocatalytic style. The outline of this building is continuous and closed. Such layout offers huge open air spaces. As you walk around this building you will find big at the back side. Interior is designed into such sequences where kids will have their urban experience just like normal everyday life. The interior designed is created in a theme of “The Children Street”. It’s a multitude of in-between spaces, supported by the intensive transparency and attempt to create a scene of a true living experience for the child. Architects: njiric + arhitekti
One voice of pro environment towards a better living is the aim of everyone now, turning things unused into useful things and recycling becoming more than just a task for each one of us to do. Fact that we should know that one tree can absorb 12 kg of glass house effect CO2 and able to produce O2 and this is sufficient enough for four people to breath in one year. Architects have been thinking how to make a green building design including the better use of landscape, replanting trees around the building, minimizing damage towards nature in each project and whole new kind of things being done. Including this new architect namely NL Architecture.
The building which is under construction is an apartment building rises in amsterdam which is definitely green. It’s not a normal rooftop that you normally see every day as the roof is wavy and unusual for a building also it’s green. This way hopefully the green apartment building will be much cooler. Imagine how cool can it gets when a house surrounded by greenies able to make it 3 degrees and up to 4 degrees Celsius cooler, and comparing towards this building which has the whole roof top being planted by greeneries certainly will be more than just 4 degrees cooler and will make a big impact towards its surrounding. It’s a big change for building now days. So let’s keep preserving, think green for the future.
esigned an inspiring modern office spaces for their own emerging architectural practice studio located in Noosa Heads, Queensland. This workhouse is a flexible spaces for a design team of five to six people, a house for two people and a comfortable combination of both at times.
The Studio is perched on only four steel footings in order to slot between two mature Australian Eucalypts, the modular 20 metre long structure of steel portal frames is encased with openable and fixed glazing on three sides, layered with operable blinds, framing the broad views of the Pacific coastline.
The main linear work space was conceived as an open veranda with compactly scaled service spaces ’plugging in’ along it’s length. These service spaces include Kitchen, Laundry, Bathrooms, File and Drawing Storage and vertical circulation.
From the main studio platform, folded plywood stairs ascend past the large ‘shopfront’ window box, displaying models of past and current projects to a mezzanine level which contains spaces for architecture books, quiet reading, sleeping and bathing.
This NOAH or New Orleans Arcology Habitat is a proposed urban architecture and ecology design concept created by E. Kevin Schopfer to be a habitat for 40,000 residents who can benefit from the planned residential units, school system, commercial, retail space, three hotels, casinos, parking for 8,000 cars, a district school system and health care facility and public works facilities.
NOAH is based upon the following preliminary program outline.
1. Residential Units / Rental and Condominium; 20,000 units @ average 1100 Sq ft 2. Three Hotels; Average 200 rooms plus associated services 3. Time Share Units; 1500 units @ average 1100 sq ft 4. Three Casino Facilities 5. Commercial Space / Rental and Condominiums; 500,000 sq ft 6. Commercial Space / Retail; 500,000 sq ft 7. Parking Garage / within foundation; 8,000 cars 8. Cultural Facilities; 100,000 sq ft 9. Public Works; 50,000 sq ft / includes storage 10. District School System; 100,000 sq ft 11. District Administrative Office; 50,000 sq ft 12. District Health Care Facility; 20,000 sq ft
Estimated Total Square Footage : 30 million
New Orleans Archology Habitat Design Challenge :
1. The first challenge is to overcome both the physical and psychological damages of recurring severe weather patterns. Though re-population has begun, the need to provide a stabilized and safe environment is paramount to a long term recovery and economic well being of New Orleans. 2. The second challenge is that New Orleans has too much water. The city has been built at and below sea levels which creates consistently high water table and makes it prone to flooding and storm surges. 3. The third challenge is that New Orleans is built on soil condition which consists of thousands of feet of soft soil, silt and clay. These conditions make building large scale concentrated structures difficult. Believing that NOAH is a viable plan, our solution to overcome these challenges is to take advantage of these seemingly conflicting issues with the introduction of a floating urban platform.
Eco-Highlights: The structure is designed to expand the horizon of sustainability and will seek LEED certification. It will eliminate the need for cars within the urban structure, and thus becomes a carbon neutral entity. Internal electric transport links, vertical and horizontal, create a pedestrian-friendly community, Some of these elements are secured wind turbines, fresh water recovery and storage systems, passive glazing system, sky garden heating/cooling vents, grey water treatment, solar array banding panels, and river based water turbines.
