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Studio Bark devises structural use for waste timber in English woodlands

Deezen

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. If you were to draw a force diagram, you'd need more material in the middle, so naturally it's a win-win," she said.

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View Corridors

SW Oregon Architect

They are meant to preserve visual connections between key landmarks, natural features, or other important elements of a cityscape. Many cities blessed with significant natural or built features establish view corridors to protect views of iconic landmarks, bodies of water, mountain ranges, or other significant natural or built features.

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Transition // viraform

Architizer

Under these conditions, proper communication is not formed and human presence is not formed in nature. Transition (project name) tries to increase the presence in nature while minimizing damage to nature. Transition (project name) tries to increase the presence in nature while minimizing damage to nature.

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MVRDV wins competition to design nature-inspired Oasis Towers in Nanjing

aasarchitecture

The project’s two L-shaped towers, each 40 storeys in height, face each other from the north and south corners, while the podium of 3–4 storeys forms a perimeter that encloses almost the entire site to create the protective environment at its heart. Urban Identity Diagram. Image © Atchain. Image © Atchain. Image © Atchain. Plan Tower.

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Charcoal, Mushrooms, and More Become Building Parts for a South Chicago Artist Residency

Dwell

Urban Growers Collective is creating the structure using materials grown on its 14-acre urban farm. Schafer Park, the site is one of eight farms operated by Urban Growers Collective (UGC). The farm network was founded by Erika Allen, an artist whose practice addresses oppression and structural racism in food systems and agriculture.

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SAL floating public building by SOUR

aasarchitecture

Building on a site that is at high risk of and requires extensive ground improvements, how might we create a substructure that is naturally isolated from earthquake loads, floods, and rising sea levels? How might we rethink the ground conditions to minimize the impacts of earthquakes?

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MAD completes the “Train Station in the Forest”

aasarchitecture

Located at the center of Jiaxing, a historic city 100 kilometers southwest of Shanghai, the project replaces a dysfunctional train station that had stood at the site between 1995 and 2019. Over 1,500 trees, including beech, camphor, osmanthus, maple, sebifera, sequoia, and cherry blossom were planted across the site.