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S-AR creates deconstructed house for glamping in Mexican forest

Deezen

S-AR completed the Glamping Concéntrico project in Mexico Collectively, the structures measure 2,270 square feet (210.75 The project works to create multiple levels of connections: between people and nature, among structures in a specific landscape, and between the buildings and the forest.

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Demolition Is Dead. The Future of Sustainable Architecture Lies in Deconstruction

Architizer

However, in densely populated urban environments, there are rarely vacant plots to erect these projects; the existing structures must first be demolished to make way for what is to come. The materials and products in an office environment are systematically removed.

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IAAC creates mobile Moca dwelling with openable fabric facades

Deezen

The challenge was to manufacture a mobile home with wood, using the materials and tools that we have at Valldaura Labs so that it met the requirements of a mobile construction at a regulatory and functional level," MAEBB co-director Vicente Guallart told Dezeen.

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Albert Frey's all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

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These support the cantilevered upper floors, running up through the structure and reappearing as columns supporting a shade structure on the canopy. Read: 1930s modernist Aluminaire House moves cross-country to Palm Springs Six five-inch aluminium pipe columns bear the weight of the entire structure.

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Reclaimed Construction: Top Ten Sustainable Building Materials

Habitus Living

Currently, this trend is not quite supported by large-scale supply and some recycled construction materials can be quite costly. Eventually it is entirely likely that building a house with recycled materials will be the industry standard, rendering conventionally manufactured building materials obsolete. Straw Bales.

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Suspended bridges connect round cabin hotels in Mexico

Deezen

Central bedrooms feature in the round buildings Completed in June 2022, the 250 square metres (2,690 square feet) of built area is divided into five 40-square metre (430-square foot) structures that look outward to the surrounding wine region.

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“God Is in the Details”: 7 Architectural Moments to Make Mies Proud

Architizer

The son of a master mason and stonecutter, Mies appreciated the power and beauty of materials; this reverence was an essential aspect of his stripped-down aesthetic, bound as it was to his equally famous dictum, “Less is more.” Architecture +Glass P.C. God is in the details,” said Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969).