SpaceInvading
Large-scale drawings
Designer: Alison Moffett
Location: n/a
Image Credits: Alison Moffett
From modernist icons to makeshift housing, Alison Moffett's incredible large-scale drawings share an architectural melancholy, exploring themes of contamination and entropy, idealized structures intersecting with the base elements of shelter. Archinect stopped by the studio of this London-based artist to learn more about the evolution of her work.
→ archinect.com
Posted: 01/19/2010
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Designer: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Japan
Image Credits: Ken'ichi Suzuki
The site locates on mountainside of Izu-san, where Pacific Ocean can be looked down on the south.
The untouched wilderness, covered with deciduous broad-leaved trees such as cherry trees and Japanese oaks, gives little level ground. But we saw faint glimmer of architectural possibility along the ridge. The architecture would be used as villa for weekends. I didn’t want to just form the undulating landscape dotted with great trees as normal, nor design an elaborate architecture bowing down to the complex topography. What sprang to my mind is a blueprint for an architecture which is perfectly autonomous itself, at the same time seems to emerge as an underlying shape that the natural environment has been hiding. It’s abstraction of nature, to say.
→ www.dailytonic.com
Posted: 01/18/2010
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New Residential Project
Designer: LAN Architecture
Location: Mouvaux, France
The project’s aim is to build new buildings presenting the same qualities and facilities of a single family house by adding collective spaces. We imagined several spatial systems leading to create a rich and diversified image for each program’s part.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 01/18/2010
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New Residential Project
Designer: LAN Architecture
Location: Bègles, France
The first stage was to ‘sculpt’ the volumes in order to exploit their urban potential and intrinsic spatial qualities. We directed our research towards a hybrid typology combining the house and the apartment.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 01/18/2010
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Wilkinson Residence
Designer: Robert Harvey Oshatz, Architect
Location: Portland , Oregon
Located on a flag lot, a steep sloping grade provided the opportunity to bring the main level of the house into the tree canopy to evoke the feeling of being in a tree house. A lover of music, the client wanted a house that not only became part of the natural landscape but also addressed the flow of music. This house evades the mechanics of the camera; it is difficult to capture the way the interior space flows seamlessly through to the exterior. One must actually stroll through the house to grasp its complexities and its connection to the exterior. One example is a natural wood ceiling, floating on curved laminated wood beams, passing through a generous glass wall which wraps around the main living room.
→ www.oshatz.com
Posted: 01/18/2010
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