Comments on: Girasole, by konyk

By: Hybrid House, by konyk - Style of Design

Hybrid House, by konyk - Style of Design — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:20:26 +0000

[...] friends from konyk, who designed the Girasole House for the Andes Sprouts Society residency studio competition a couple of weeks ago, just shared with [...]

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:36:32 +0000

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…

By: ZZin

ZZin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:28:01 +0000

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 :)

By: ARAS

ARAS — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:02:35 +0000

Why it has to have so designed form??? It can be much more ‘primitive’ in good sence of this word.

By: Olivier M.

Olivier M. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:50:12 +0000

This is kinda cool! A Girasole it is. :) http://tinyurl.com/carpdv