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The Resilient Construction Imperative in the Face of Climate Change

Santa Cruz Architect

In the midst of these challenges, resilient construction practices emerge as a critical solution to ensure the longevity and adaptability of our built environment. This article explores the importance of resilient construction in the context of changing climate conditions, emphasizing the twin pillars of durability and adaptability.

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Casa Pau | Besonias Almeida arquitectos

ArchiDiaries

The challenge of this commission was then to conceive a house that had to start playing alone, establishing its laws, and waiting for completion that, regulated in this type of urbanization, encourages the proliferation of formally autistic loose objects surrounded by gardens. With adjustable orientation.

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EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin by TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten and Buro Happold

aasarchitecture

EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin offers a new vision of a sustainable future for construction with timber. A modular wood and concrete system was used for construction, comprising timber columns and prefabricated timberhybrid slab panels. The project consists of two buildings: the larger Carré and the smaller Solitaire. Photo © HGEsch.

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What Is A Manufactured Home?

The Architect's Guide

In the States, they can be traced back as far as the 1870s where they were built in North Carolina and constructed to be pulled by horses. By the 1960s, 2-section mobile homes — constructed on top of a chassis with wheels so they could be moved about freely — were in demand. Instead, they’re constructed on a permanent steel chassis.

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Manchester School of Architecture presents 13 architecture student projects

Deezen

The &rchitecture course explores how professional and personal behaviour can enable urban development and construction to be more inclusive, respond to diverse economic models, protect and produce public commons, and make sustainable use of materials and labour. Making our cities more inclusive has never been more urgent.

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Is Your Tiny House Really a Tiny House?

Dwell

But that doesn’t mean that there are no regulations; it’s more that the square peg of a tiny house, whether it’s movable or not, has to be applied to the round hole of various regulations that often weren’t really designed for them. At first, this led to many tiny house builders working without a foundation, on a wheeled chassis.

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Competitions: Jiaxing Ancient City Connecting South Lake International Concept Design Competition on Footbridge Crossing Huancheng River and Railway

Bustler

It will create influential urban events and hot academic topics as well. It should pay attention to the combination of architecture and structure functions, and consider the reasonability of construction budget as well as the landing result and the sustainability in the future. Design should comply with relative design rules in China.

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