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Big Dig Building / Single Speed Design

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Housing , , ,

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Architects: Single Speed Design
Location: North Cambridge, MA, USA
Programme: Housing, Commercial
Project year: 2008
Site Area: 2,335 sqm
Constructed Area: 2,936 sqm
Images: Single Speed Design

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Big Dig House / Single Speed Design

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Houses , Selected , , , ,

The Big Dig is the most expensive highway project in the history of the US. The project included rerouting the Central Artery into a tunnel under the heart of Boston, requiring a tremendous engineering work due to underlaying metro lines and pipes and utility lines that would have to be replaced or moved. Tunnel workers encountered many unexpected geological and archaeological barriers, ranging from glacial debris to foundations of buried houses and a number of sunken ships lying within the reclaimed land.

The Big Dig House by Single Speed Design reutilizes materials from the Big Dig. In that aspect, it´s a remarkable example of recycling in architecture. Project description by the architects after the break.

Architects: Single Speed Design
Location: Lexington, MA, USA
Programme: Private House
Completion year: 2008
Site Area: 1,784 sqm
Constructed Area: 353 sqm
Photographs: Single Speed Design

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ORDOS 100 #41: Single Speed Design

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Houses , , ,

This villa is located in plot #92 of the ORDOS project.

Architects: Single Speed Design
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Principals in Charge: Jinhee Park AIA, John Hong AIA/LEED
LProject team: Brett Albert, Frederick Peter Ortner, Matt Allen, Caroline Lang, Clara Wong, Bao Wei
Structural Engineer: Paul Kassabian, SGH Inc.
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009-2010
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

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