Category: vegitecture
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Veg.itecture: Flat + Graceful
Picking up the previous thread (and continuing to clean out some languishing archives of projects), a few additional projects that offer some formalistic solutions, via building form, size, and representation.A project shown in Jetson Green offers a view of the potential sustainability, building greening, and most importantly – spectacularly poetic form. As covered previously in…
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Veg.itecture: Curly + Folded
Ok, I promise I am running out of formalistic themes for Vegetated Architecture, really soon. For now, a couple of posts with an exposition on shape and form around some recent projects. Steven Holl’s design for a get’s a nod for interesting vegetated plane on structure, as well as the most hyperbolic name ‘Sliced Porosity…
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Green Ribbon Design: Heping Park
Here is really compelling project by Perkins+Will for the Heping Park in Tianjin, China, provides elevated ribbons of vegetation defining the roof zones. :: image via Perkins+Will Covered in World Architecture Network, the project description is punctuated by 3 large towers, as well as parking and green spaces creating a vegetated canopy that is engaging…
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Veg.itecture: S, M, L, XL
I will eventually run out of witty, thematic ways of presenting Vegetated Architecture (ok, I may already have), but in the interim, a selection of projects in a range of sizes (with apologies to Koolhaas + Mau). Of the precedents previously shown on L+U, architecture and landscape combinations range from the modest to the extreme,…
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New Vegetated Architecture
As we continue to provide an adequate definition, and sift through example, after example of Vegetated Architecture, there is a seemingly constant barrage of projects evolving and shaping the idea. A quick summary is in order, which I am saving for a later post (which is going to be an upcoming essay for publication). In…
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Veg.itecture: Queens Botanical Garden Visitors Center
It really amazes me the composition of buildings envisioned 5 years ago versus today, and the short time period that has elapsed between sporadic vegetated architecture examples and the explosion of current projects. Some days, it seems hard to keep up. Here’s a new, built example in NYC: :: image via NYT City Room A…
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Block Architectes: Veg.itect
We featured the rust/green complement in the Caixa Forum building, now to shift gears to another wonderful complementary palatte – concrete and greenery. Life Without Buildings featured work of French architecture firm Block Architectes – and while not all of it is using this dual material scheme exclusively it is all pretty integrated – with…
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Veg.itecture: Caixa Forum Madrid
The Caixa Forum project in Madrid has been shown in brief on L+U before. It is, simply put, an amazing composition, using two complementary materials (red rusted metal panels and green vegetated panels) juxtaposed together with stunning results. Project is by Herzog & de Meuron. Vertical Garden by Patrick Blanc. Image links to Flickr pool…
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Veg.itecture: Building Edges
It just keeps on coming, and I have to say I can’t get enough. Here’s a Vegetated Architecture post that spans all sides of the architectural envelope. It’s interesting to see the varieties of facade and rooftop articulation, building on an earlier post regarding definitions of typologies of VegArch. Starting from the top, we have…
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Veg.itecture: More New Additions
I have sifted through and expanded the list of resources (see sidebar to the right), which exposed some new Vegetated Architecture projects. The Design Blog, one of these new additions for L+U, featured The Montenegro Residences, is an 8000 square meter development aimed at providing views of the surrounding vistas. Designed by Bjarke Ingells Group…