AIA COD / SO Architecture
We recently shared Albert McDonald’s winning entry for the COD competition, and now SO Architecture just shared their proposal with us. The proposal entitled “Free Plan (T)” incorporates the free plan of Le Corbusier in an effort to leave the inner organization undisturbed. Yet, the free plans also means “no walls shall disturb one to live among nature”. Taking inspiration from Raymond’s work and incorpation of nature, the firm proposes to “take the house into the landscape”.
More about SO Architecture’s proposal after the break.
Section 2
The Free Plan(T) project is a house that flows with nature. When the weather is suitable, common life activities will take place outside, while during winter, the house “will morph to provide shelter to the exterior parts by a mobile cover.” The flexible form allows the design “to free land from paving to flowers.”
The house also focuses on sustainability as excavated soil serves as green roofs, local earth friendly materials complement the design and all electricity is provided through photovoltaic. Large parts of the building will be lifted to let draining water be absorbed and the masses will be opened mainly to the south to optimize the use of natural light.
Roof plan
Plan
Plan
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Section 1
Section 2
Detail concept
Sketches
Free PLAN(T)
Team: SO Architecture – Shachar Lulav Oded Rozenkier
Year: 2009
Type: concept dwelling
Area: 2500 sqft
Location: Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
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Oauuu This liiks niceee!
NO ONE ASK WHAT RENDERING ENGINE THEY USED PLLLEEEASSSSEEEEEEE
lol
pleaseeee let me know what rendering engine its that! seriously stunninggg!!!
photoshop
Very cool project, I always like much when you first think “but what nonsense is this!” and then, as you look deeper, you get convinced that the project is sound and founded…
wow…i don’t care about the architecture, what did they use to render this? like…seriously.
to the guy above^
you’ll never become an architect, just a renderer
check this site out cgarchitect.com you’ll love it
thanks for the link, though kinda hoped that people might have picked up on the sarcasm rather than take the comment seriously, e.g the name on the response…
long live poetic architecture, which this project is not…and which there is very little on archdaily to speak of…so if the architecture is average, mediocre, boring, but the pictures, drawings, presentation is worthy of discussion why not ask the question.
i will admit that on a beautiful project it does seem a shame to digress the discussion from great architecture to a that of a rendering program.
though i just listened to a presentation by Peter Davidson from LAB, and his presentation revolved around the use of microstation to produce random variables from pre-decided fixed shapes.
ahh its all boring, whos even going to read all this tripe, there should be a word limit on responses…
I read it! On any other site, I’d skip over something this long, but since you typed so much, you obviously had something interesting to say. :P
If architects are responsible for most of the stuid buildings that are published on this web site then i’d rather not become an architect…..anyway most of the renderings are actually more impressive than the architecture, so why not discuss the renderings.
seriously though, whats the renderer??
most of the rendering engines can do the same visuals pretty much, its what you do with the program that counts
archdaily should be moderated against BORING comments.
http://www.luxology.com
pshhh.. I don’t see what the big deal is with the renderings.
it looks like maybe vray and photohop, big deal.
a rendering program won’t make anyone a better architect.
i think you’ll find all the rendering comments are actually sarcastic
“The house also focuses on sustainability as excavated soil serves as green roofs, local earth friendly materials complement the design and all electricity is provided through photovoltaic.”
Of course we won’t actually show PV panels or even attempt to calculate to what extent this catch phrase would visually look like in-order to accomplish this claim – for fear that it get in the way of the purity of our match box forms.
C’s get degrees, eh…
who cares what renderer was used, i just wanna know who the cute girls in the first pic are hehe…
i also wanna know how anyone’s going to safely or conveniently use that spiral staircase…way too tiny and steep
The thing I have noticed is how that these guys are fans of Sanaa! Same plans representation, same trees, same lines…Also the spirit of the project is very similar to Moriyama House by Ryue Nishizawa which is a project that would need days of discussions… Ciao!
Ive seen another proyect in a magazine (i belive it was the argentinean 30-60º) wichs main idea came from a box of matches.
If im not mistaken it was a little chapel in the middle of nowhere, really nice proyect.
Well I like it. I would live there in a heartbeat. I’m not sure why something simple and elegant like this would make someone not want to be an architect.
i agree with Lucas gray, i would love to stay there too. Architecture is not always with viered shapes all the time simple piece of architecture close to nature talks too .. Shachar Lulav Oded Rozenkier has made a pretty good job. Concept dwelling rocks .. good rendering
Lucas Gray is the new Odris
Does anybody here remember Odris?
Odris, i miss you and your helmet
ok
Spiders in the sofa!
The furnitures are waterproof or never it rain there?
I like this.
Nice buildings i think, and the drawings are very beautiful too.
If I was Corbu, I would sue them without a second thought for using my intellectual property on such a poor project. =)
take a pen and draw the house you want to render. if you dont like what you see than you can forget the software! i think some have the impression that a software can make the job for them. or software make an architect better. no. its just time saving.
btw… have u ever been in a forest so architecture?
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