GTA 5 (PS4) - Mission #60 - Architects Plans [Gold Medal]
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Interview with Tim Carl at HGA Architects on Greater MSP Business
The faade says 1929 classic elegance but the theater inside says 2014 and beyond. Northrop Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus has undergone a million-dollar renovation that...
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Synchronon - The Architects of Bliss
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Back in September, we reported on Vo Trong Nghia Architects' ongoing effort to produce a suitable home for Vietnam's poor. The latest iteration of the firm's low-cost S House sees the prototype home refined, and the prefabricated dwelling now sports a more stable structure, and an impressive on-site build time of just three hours.
Completed in November and installed in Ho Chi Minh City, the S House 3 has just one large interior space inside that measures 31.6 sq m (340 sq ft). Whereas the previous S House was built from a pre-cast concrete frame bolted together with steel fixings, this newest version comprises a lightweight steel framework, cement board cladding, and a reinforced concrete foundation.
"The aim of this serial project is to provide stable but lightweight, permanent but affordable homes for low-income earners in a harsh tropical climate," says Vo Trong Nghia Architects. "Although there are many local challenges such as weak ground condition, frequent typhoon and potential earthquake, the structure is stable enough to withstand natural disasters."
As was the case with its predecessor, the S House 3 features a small gap between its roof and walls, and several operable windows to encourage ventilation. Though it weighs 1,200 kg (2,645 lb), individual components are designed to be no more than 60 kg (132 lb), in order to allow easier transportation via shipping container or small boat.
Once on-site, it should take builders only around three hours to assemble the S House, and Vo Trong Nghia Architects reports that occupants will be able to maintain and repair it with relative ease.
We're awaiting confirmation from Vo Trong Nghia Architects on the expected cost of this model, though as the stated goal of the S House project is to produce an affordable home for poor Vietnamese, and the previous S House iteration cost just US$4,000, it should be relatively affordable. On that note, the firm hopes to eventually start selling the homes all over Vietnam, South East Asia, and elsewhere, including India and African countries.
Some work still remains for the project though, and there will be at least one further version of the S House before it hits the market.
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The dilapidated religious complex of Sant Francesc in Santpedor, Spain was in such bad shape that in 2000 the site's convent was demolished by the state, with only a modest church left standing. The roof of the remaining structure, which was built by Franciscan monks between 1721 and 1729, had fallen in, and the vaults of the chapel and the nave had sunk. By the time the Spanish architect David Closes began work on it, the ceiling of the church has crumbled so much that the building's arresting interior was flooded with natural light, an unintentional improvement that the architect decided to model his renovation around. The complicated reconstruction of the fragile early 18th-century church, along with a new glass addition and a major renovation of the interiors, took seven years.
Closes added a pair of skylights, and windows were created from holes and collapsed parts of the building. The architect wanted to keep the church's "historical wounds" on display. "Rather than reconstructing the church, the intervention consolidated the old fabric" and "clearly distinguished the new elements from the original ones," he writes. Contrasting mightily with the old stones, a dramatic glass addition was attached to the exterior of the building, so as not to interrupt the spatial qualities of the nearly three-century-old chapel.
The updated building is now used as a cultural center and auditorium. "The intervention preserves the historical heritage of the building and simultaneously adds new values which highlight and singularize the ancient church in a contemporary way," the architect explains. Photos, below:
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Photo by Jordi Surroca via David Closes Architects
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For architects, thinking outside the box often goes hand-in-hand with the job description, but sometimes the box doesn't even come into the equation. These occasions can result in some very memorable, innovative and thought-provoking projects, and with this in mind and the end of the year in sight, Gizmag celebrates ten notable architectural oddities.
Although the Guangzhou Circle Mansion bears more than a passing resemblance to something you'd expect to find in Homer Simpson's lunchbox, it is definitely a completed building.
Based in an industrial district of Guangzhou, China, the Circle Mansion was designed by Italian architecture firm A.M. Progetti. It serves as home to the Guangdong Plastic Exchange, and also hosts a number of office units and a hotel. The Guangzhou Circle Mansion rises to a height of 138 m (452 ft) high, and casts a reflection in a nearby river that makes it look like the number 8 a very lucky number in Chinese culture.
Tokyo regularly punches above its weight in the weird architecture stakes, but the S House remains an oddity even by that city's standards. Taking up a footprint of 50 sq m (538 sq ft), the house features a completely transparent glass facade and presumably a very high window cleaner's bill. Impractical? Very, though at least the bathroom and master bedroom are sunk beneath street level and so is less open to passers-by than the photos may suggest.
"I'm trying to present [S-House] as a prototype of architectural space suitable for the age of the network and information," explains architect Yuusuke Karasawa (via Google Translate).
You could make a decent argument for including all of Alex Chinneck's projects in this roundup of odd architecture, but we'll limit ourselves to just one. The British architectural artist recently left visitors to London's Covent Garden scratching their heads with an amazing building that appears to float in mid-air.
Titled Take my lightning but dont steal my thunder, the prefabricated building is primarily made from CNC'd polystyrene, and appears to levitate 10 feet in the air, completely unsupported. A 14 tonne (15.68 US tons) steel framework and a 4 tonne counterweight were used in the project, and Chinneck also had help from a large team of specialists to make his vision become reality. Alas, the installation was only temporary and as of writing is no more.
The JF-Kit House by Spanish collective Elii Architecture draws its inspiration from fitness icon Jane Fonda. The project imagines a future of parasitic architecture that operates off-grid not with solar power or other renewable energy, mind you, but with a good old-fashioned workout.
Elii Architecture envisions such off-the-wall ideas as a hand-cranked email station, an energy-producing dance floor, a hand-cranked kitchen, and a greenhouse that's somehow watered by performing squats. Clearly, it isn't going to be a practical method of living any time soon, though is a definite example of what can happen when architects let their imaginations run wild.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a huge penthouse apartment in Lower Manhattan that features a massive 24 m (80 ft) slide, a climbing wall, glass floors, and a private elevator which is perhaps the same thing after all ...
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