Category: projects
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Spanning: Bridge Houses
A couple of projects, picking up on the recent post ‘A River Runs Through It‘, feature a pair of amazing buildings spanning waterways. I guess the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright is alive and well in architecture. The first via Arch Daily, is Bridge House, a design in Adelaide, Australia by Max Pritchard Architect. This…
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Urban Chickens Build – 5
Sort of a conceptual jump cut in the process, as two weekends of rain hampered plans to make progress on the Chicken Cube… but a big push this weekend (and a loaner of the wonderful compound miter saw that I am now officially) has yielded a vision close to complete. Not too many pics of…
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Local Flavor: OSC Revealed
Last week I posted about this local project, and the process in general. The end of the Phase I feasibility study for the Oregon Sustainability Center revealed a very integrated and transparent process culminating in a potential example of cutting edge Veg.itecture in Portland – albeit in need of some visual refinement. I usually turn…
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Seeing Daylight
The idea of daylighting streams is compelling as an urban intervention – unearthing the natural drainage from the buried pipes and. A new project from Seattle offers a unique vision of the potential in action. Some background: “A large, paved lot once devoted to overflow mall traffic and RV parking has been replaced with a…
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Take to the Streets
I just passed a milestone of sorts… topping out at 500 posts (not to mention a few on the new Veg.itecture blog…). Seems like just yesterday I was starting this humble outlet for collecting thoughts – fighting with time to blog amidst time to work and occupying all of grey area in between. Often times,…
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Local Flavor: Oregon Sustainability Center
Based in Portland, Oregon I sometimes forget the fact that what we consider everyday is often innovative in the larger global scale. My blog reaches beyond to interject many global ideas into our local work, but also to place what we are doing within a larger ecological design concept. One project worth noting is the…
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A River Runs Through It…
A kind reader named Chris Keller alerted me to a very cool project in California called Kaweah Falls. From his email: “We just finished a house renovation at the base of the Sequoia National Park in central California that I thought might interest you. A river flows underneath our dining room. Literally, you can watch…
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Urban Chickens Build – 4
For the newly dubbed ‘Chicken Cube’, it’s ecoroof time (at least the structural components sans plants and soil). Here’s a quick summary of Sunday’s flurry of activities: :: 3/4″ plywood frame + cedar siderails :: fitting the metal soil retention edging :: some counterflashing with pond liner :: dry-fitting the liner on edges :: mechanically…
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DailyLand: INNENHÖFE MAX BILL PLATZ
INNENHÖFE MAX BILL PLATZ asp landschaftsarchitekten > info via Vulgare :: images via Vulgare A paving pattern perhaps only Q*Bert could love… :: image via Wikipedia
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Urban Chickens Build – 3
A crappy weather weekend, but some major progress today… :: the roof framing goes in :: the front plate is where the removable ecoroof will attach :: plywood goes on (window to the right, egg hatch capture door to the left) – giant shrubbery attacking the roof is from my overzealous pruning of the lilac…