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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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Materiality: Textural Classes
Like color, the use of texture is an adaptable design strategy to transform a material and expand its range of visual and functional characteristics. There are a number of ways to take existing material and provide an added dimension through manipulation of texture through patterning, perforating, and articulating. Digging back through the archives, I discovered…
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Take the High Road: Paris
Recently, I have run into a couple of references to a project in Paris that seems the predecessor of The High Line project in New York City. ‘La Coulee Verte’ (aka The Flowing Green) is a partially elevated railroad route through that was abandonded in 1969, and given to the City of Paris. Also called…
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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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Tagging
Not an urban graffiti post, but a virtual tag from The Where, via Pruned, via Passages and on, and on… some of my favorite blogs, so sure, I can play along: :: The rules of the tagging game are as follows:1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).2. Open the book to…
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Tree/House
There’s a few posts out showing off a variety of actual treehouses, but what fun is that. I thought a sampling of projects of the theme would be much more informative. Just for kicks, here’s my favorite, a more refined method for the discerning tree-sitter, from Web Urbanist: :: image via Web Urbanist For spotting…
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Public Farm 1: Work Architecture Company
While aiming not to be redundant with other resources out there, I just really like this project quite a bit, and have to expand on the previous post. ‘Public Farm 1’ is the Young Architects Program at PS 1 Project by Work Architecture Company has been covered extensively by a number of sources: originally the…
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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…