Girasole, by konyk
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Mar 2009
Our friends over at konyk (Brooklyn based practice) shared with us their entry for the Andes Sprouts Society residency studio competition, a project named Girasole.
Gathering all of its energy from the sun, GIRASOLE is a single room studio that is autonomous, movable and flexible. Its independence allows it to function completely off the local utility grid. By manipulating the surface area for maximum solar exposure and utilizing thin battery packs embedded in its chassis, GIRASOLE converts the sun into AC current to heat and electrify the studio. Like Thomas Alva Edison’s 1893 Black Maria, GIRASOLE is formed by the function of sunlight, and follows it across the landscape.
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Why it has to have so designed form??? It can be much more ‘primitive’ in good sence of this word.
Maybe because they try to show how the modern form and materials blend into country scenery. Why do you need architect to designed primitives hut? All the village people construct their houses on their own without a degree in architecture and without an architect title.
but i like the design. Thumbs up from me :)
I’d recommend checking out some of the other submissions – you can see many of them here:
http://www.andessproutssociety.us/
What the text doesn’t mention is that this is a real project and the budget is only $5000 per unit. Many of the submissions seemed to conveniently overlooked this fact…
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