Comments on: Harvest Green Project-02 / Romses Architects

By: sandra pires

sandra pires — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:12:18 +0000

A cidade do futuro? http://tinyurl.com/o6rdx2

By: sandra pires

sandra pires — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:12:18 +0000

A cidade do futuro? http://tinyurl.com/o6rdx2

By: W

Wed, 20 May 2009 09:22:13 +0000

@Ceno

SketchUp and Photoshop.

By: Ceno

Ceno — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:28:33 +0000

Great, what software did they use to this modeling? anyone knows?

By: jlbr

jlbr — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:12:25 +0000

The project reminds me of a Scandinavian or a German suburb of the mid or late 70s.

By: Ulises

Ulises — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:21:08 +0000

Is hard to be a good architect. Thinking is a hard thing, this times.

By: viniruski

viniruski — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:23:06 +0000

I like this project because it’s comprehensive study on how coach houses replacing garages can tranform entire neighbourhoods in Vancouver, where residential alleys are a legacy of the horse and buggy days, towards planning less subservient to the automobile and more conducive to a dense urban fabric where citizens can work closer to home.

So apart from the gratuitous windmill and green wall, this scheme is a strong statement towards sustainability that needs not be explained through rhetorical graphs and data calculations.

By: rodney

rodney — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:54:37 +0000

I think they forgot to add bioswales, geothermal energy, composting toilets….THEN it would be more realistic.

By: taylor j. simpson

taylor j. simpson — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:17:12 +0000

Harvest Green Project-02 / Romses Architects – http://shar.es/YbW

By: taylor j. simpson

taylor j. simpson — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:17:12 +0000

Harvest Green Project-02 / Romses Architects – http://shar.es/YbW

By: Hoctavio

Hoctavio — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:41:55 +0000

This is NOT going to happen…this project will cost way tooooo much $$$$…It’s not even attractive!

By: JP

JP — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:35:31 +0000

we have to dream. not only in form, or technique, but in new schemes of live.
I think it’s very interesting the possibility of urban planting. would be very interesting in the context in which I live, where people have starving and no work.
it’s a good project, with great images.

By: Rocco

Rocco — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:34:09 +0000

Thank you Fredrick…a perfect example of green-washing going on in these renderings. I am seeing a greater number of Architects use living material in a reckless manner. FYI, green walls seldom live and really have no utility. Other than that, I like the density of this development, and if you stripped all the turbines and solar panels off, the built form actually might come through.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:19:26 +0000

Once again Romses Architects give us I nice example of fashionnably-green bullshit. Sorry for the strong language, but I agree with Bo Lucky, We need to know more about the basics, and see less “photoshop-green” and ostensible solar panels…

Having said that it is more promising than there last proposal (see previous post). Sustainable architecture is not about solar panels or wind mills, it is about creating a living environment, on every scale, that allows use to live better. I think the scale of the houses is interesting, the density is higher than most equivalent communities. I also like the variety of shapes and sizes allowing a mixture of population and future extensions/modifications (needed to maintain/increase the density in future).
The idea of mixing living and working space would do with a bit more explaining, but if it reduces our needs in terms of transport it is potentially excellent (but then why the Smarts in the perspectives ???.

By: glenn rummler

glenn rummler — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:14:44 +0000

Harvest Green Project-02 / Romses Architects /ArchDaily/ – Romses Architects … http://tinyurl.com/p2mpwu

By: glenn rummler

glenn rummler — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:14:44 +0000

Harvest Green Project-02 / Romses Architects /ArchDaily/ – Romses Architects … http://tinyurl.com/p2mpwu

By: arch critic

arch critic — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:59:33 +0000

wow…sad

By: Bo Lucky

Bo Lucky — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:49:39 +0000

These are just pictures… I wouldn’t even call them nice or pleasing… there is nothing here to provide info on the building or architecture… just a Romses Architects fantasy land…

By: malgorzata boguslaw

malgorzata boguslaw — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:17:40 +0000

I wouldn’t like to live in this factory like set of containers.

By: damon

damon — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:54:31 +0000

i find this kinda projects tricky in a sense they assume people will replace their beautiful flowers for food – like potatoes, tomatoes, spinach, wheat – wanna ask why people like gardening, wanna a pretty, green, well maintained backyard? r they willing to do laboring agriculture, planting their own food while can buy them cheaply in the supermarkets nearby? if they dont want, what’s the point?