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TIKKU Micro-apartment / Marco Casagrande

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 02:00:00 +0000

“Tikku ('stick') can be built in one night. It takes a stand for the urban planning of the future: as cities grow denser, there is a need to find more agile ways of building and spatial solutions. In an insightful way, Tikku demonstrates the development of cities and a future vision of combining different spaces. A dense urban structure that combines different purposes offers new opportunities for developing communality and brings life to cities when buildings can also be used outside of office hours. A micro apartment building also sets for us an example of a future," says Anita Riikonen, Marketing and Brand Manager at Sponda.

Forest Temple / Marco Casagrande

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:00:00 +0000

Forest Temple is a result of the Constructive Shamanism workshop in Lithuania, 2016. A multi-disciplinary tribe of artists, artisans, architects, writers, photographers, yogis and children of forest gathered in the ancient lands of Vytautas V Landsbergis to perform architectural rituals connecting the modern man with nature.

Villa Muurame / Marco Casagrande

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:00:00 +0000

Villa Muurame is a wooden 3-story single-family home by Lake Jyväsjärvi in Jyväskylä, Finland. The spatial elements of the house (approx. 3m wide, 7.8 longa and 3.1 high) were pre-fabricated during the winter in the Muurametalot housing factory in Karunki, Finnish Lapland and the elements were erected in Jyväskylä after the snow had melted. The timber used is extremely slow grown and high quality Lappish spruce and pine.

Taitung Ruin Academy / Marco Casagrande

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The Ruin Academy is set up in an abandoned Japanese-Taiwanese sugar factory (1913-1996) in Taitung, Taiwan in order to take further the biourbanist research of the Third Generation City. The core of the Ruin Academy is located in the evaporator tanks area of the factory from where it will gradually grow to occupy the whole sugar factory. The core offers multifunctional research and educational spaces for Ruin Academy workshops and studios backed up by extensive community gardening and wild nature inside the factory.

Ultra-Ruin / Marco Casagrande

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Apelle / Marco Casagrande

Nico Saieh — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Apelle is a wooden one family house located in Karjaa - Finland. The building rests in a natural harbor like a boat in a sheltering pocket surrounded by bed rocks and trees.

Ruin Academy / Marco Casagrande

Gracia Vera — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Ruin Academy is an independent cross-over architectural research centre in the Urban Core area of Taipei, Taiwan. The Academy is run in co-operation between the Finland based Casagrande Laboratory and Taiwanese JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture.

SANDWORM / Marco Casagrande

Diego Hernandez — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Sandworm is an organic structure/space/creature realized on the dunes of the Wenduine coastline, Belgium. The 45 meters long and 10 m wide and high installation moves freely in-between architecture and environmental art and is constructed entirely out of willow following the local knowledge of a continuing interaction between work and environment. Casagrande worked hard with his team of young architects and local experts for 4 weeks in order to create something that he describes as “weak architecture” – a human made structure that wishes to become part of nature through flexibility and organic presence.

Cicada / Marco Casagrande

Victoria King — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Cicada is an organic void in the mechanical texture of modern Taipei, a cocoon for post-industrial metamorphosis for industrial insects. The architecture is based on the Local Knowledge of human scale flexible bamboo structures containing a high level of improvisation and insect mind - Open Form.