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Landscape architects mend flaws in urban fabric with installation The Abseilers - November 19, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

A "wounded" Canberra CBD pavement is stitched up by Jennie Curtis, as part of the Mending the Urban Fabric display.

Look at our picture of two intrepid abseilers tackling a hair-raising cliff face. Can you guess where in the ACT this challenging precipice is? A giant quarry somewhere? A rock face in the wuthering heights of Namadgi National Park?

No. It is in Canberra's CBD. On Tuesday evening landscape architects Renae Palmer and Carma Sweet were reconnoitring the areas that they and others planned to use for Mending the Urban Fabric installations. They came across the little urban blemish of a missing tile and it suggested to them a mini-rock face. They went to work to create this exquisite little installation they've called The Abseilers.

The Mending the Urban Fabric project ispart of the Design Canberra Festival running from November 20 to 23. The organisers explain: "The fabric of our garden city rips and bulges in places where it is stressed, forming cracks and holes in our roads and footpaths. Landscape architects of the Canberra region will mend the urban fabric by creating small, temporary interventions in cracks and pot holes around the city, filling and reinterpreting them using ephemeral materials."

The Abseilers, an urban installation by Renae Palmer and Carma Sweet.

Most of the head-turning "temporary interventions" - all done by members of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects - are along Lonsdale Street in Braddon, at nearby Genge Street in the city and in a Civic laneway next to Gus's cafe.

Surgical "interventions" - and after this the cracks we see in pavements will never seem quite the same again - include (our picture) Jennie Curtis's colourful suturing of a nasty wound in the CBD's fabric/flesh.

In other mendings and improvements of the fabric, Barbara Payne looked for and found cracks, holes and blemishes into which she has introduced beautiful native grasses. She explains that they are all species (such as wallaby grass and lemon beauty heads) that once upholstered these very spots - before a city replaced the grassy plain.

This use of today's built-up Canberra places of local native grasses reminds me of an essay I once wrote, with the help of many natural history experts, about what would become of Canberra if humans abandoned it. At the time, abandoned Chernobyl was being vigorously recolonised by its region's fauna and flora. One day we may have a similar disaster here. Or perhaps, admitting our awful mistake in not building the federal capital city at Dalgety, we may abandon Canberra and begin again at that dream site beside the Snowy River.

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Conversions: How a Swiss Milk Factory from the '70s Became a University - November 19, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, by Rachel B. Doyle

Photo by Simon Menges courtesy of EM2N Architects

When it opened in 1977, the Toni milk factory in Zurich, Switzerland was considered the most modern European facility of its kind. Just 22 years later, milk processing was discontinued there, and the highly complex production equipment was sold to a plant in Eastern Europe. For over a decade, the hangar-like space in Switzerland's largest city sat dormant, until EM2N Architects was hired to convert the million-square-foot factory into an ultra-modern new campus for a Swiss university. Now the cavernous building is used as an educational and cultural space; in addition to the university, there are film studios, a library, a concert hall, and a rooftop garden there.

"These spaces have been left purposefully raw," writes Uncube Magazine. Inside, the spiral ramps once used for the collection and delivery of dairy products have become staircases. The building retains its industrial feel, even though its vast spaces are now utilized for a number of divergent purposes, including a residential tower on the upper floors. "Our design proposed tackling this sizable projecta built structure almost the size of an entire neighborhood with a kind of inner urbanism," writes EM2N Architects. Photos, below:

Former Toni milk processing building 1976 via Uncube Magazine

Archival photograph courtesy of EM2N Architects

EM2N Architects [Official site] The Milk of Human Campus: Toni Areal by EM2N in Zurich [Uncube Magazine] All Conversions posts [Curbed National]

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Architects – Early Grave (Sad Aggressive cover) – Video - November 18, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

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Green-roofed kindergarten constructed in Vietnam - November 18, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

Following our recent coverage on Vo Trong Nghia Architects' US$4,000 S House, the Vietnamese firm offers yet another impressive sustainable project that suits the particular local climate and needs. Located in the countrys ng Nai Province, the Farming Kindergarten sports a huge green roof, a water-recycling and irrigation system, and is cooled passively.

The Farming Kindergarten measures 3,800 sq m (40,902 sq ft), and was built to serve up to 500 of the children of low-income factory workers based at an adjacent shoe factory. The factory is owned by the Pou Chen Corporation, which makes footwear for Nike, Adidas, Puma, Reebok, and several other major footwear brands.

The two-story building's overall form is dominated by a triple-ring green roof that encloses three secure ground-level playgrounds. The green roof also serves as a playground (don't worry, there are large fences), and sports a 200 sq m (2,152 sq ft) vegetable garden used to teach the kids to grow their own greens.

The kindergarten's interior is kept cool with cross ventilation via ample operable windows and concrete louvers, in addition to the insulating effect of the large green roof. This combination is presumably effective as the building sports no air-conditioning despite the tropical climate. Waste water from the nearby factory is also recycled and routed for irrigation and use in the toilets, and a solar hot water heater produces warm water.

The Farming Kindergarten was constructed in 2013 at a cost of $500 per square meter, including all finishes and equipment, which Vo Trong Nghia Architects says is relatively cheap for such a building in Vietnam.

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WE LOVE ARCHITECTS – Video - November 18, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

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