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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

Working with Miyamoto International for structural engineering services, our team’s solution employed a cost-effective and reliable system of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) strips added at critical locations to assist in the transference of lateral forces. The building's lift-slab system was partially blamed for the severity of the collapse.

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No Architecture inserts "garden folly" into New York duplex apartment

Deezen

Like inhabitable diagrams, these installations can be read as two fragments of a 3D gridded matrix – the timber framework expressing x-, y- and z-lines of interconnecting spatial relations," said No Architecture. Collaborators: GMS, Gallon Engineering, Blueberry Construction.

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Baiziwan Social Housing by MAD

aasarchitecture

The project is a culmination of Ma Yansong’s extensive research into social housing, which began in 2014. Later, Beijing’s Public Housing Center invited Ma Yansong to design the Baiziwan Social Housing in 2014. Ltd Second Stage Construction: Beijing Construction Engineering Group Co., Function diagram. Layout diagram.

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China Philharmonic Concert Hall by MAD Architects nearing completion

aasarchitecture

MAD architects, led by Ma Yansong, is nearing the completion of the China Philharmonic Concert Hall in Beijing, China, for which the firm won the design competition in 2014. Image © MAD Architects Image © MAD Architects Image © MAD Architects Image © MAD Architects Image © MAD Architects Facade Diagram Facade Diagram

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Don’t Let the Internet Design Your Project

Life of an Architect

Internet Person : Where’s the engine? Since I tend to sketch when I talk, drawings and diagrams are created in real-time, right in front of the client, that reflect our conversation. As I was drawing, I kept saying “This isn’t architecture … this is a diagram. But they should probably be bigger.

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Rockingham Meeting House, Rockingham, VT

Jane Griswold Radocchia

After some preliminary analysis of the design and frame I realized in 2014 I needed to see it. General' John Fuller, the master builder, was also the architect, engineer, framer. The diagram shows that if the overall width of the wall is 8 modules (each square divided into 4 equal parts) the porch is 2 modules wide.

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Cease Speed | Hyperloop Station

ArchiDiaries

With the invention of the steam engine in 1804, railway tracks formed a network that began connecting cities to regions with rich natural resources. Becoming important, they formed architectural expressions and created new engineering feats. Hyperloop engineering promises to set up supersonic travel. Brief of the competition.