- Year: 2001
Houses: The Latest Architecture and News
d'House Addition & Renovation / Wiebenson & Dorman Architects
Monaco House / McBride Charles Ryan
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Architects: McBride Charles Ryan
- Year: 2007
Couran Point house / Arkhefield
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Architects: Arkhefield
- Year: 2006
Monte Silo / Gigaplex Architects
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Architects: Gigaplex Architects
- Area: 147 m²
- Year: 2006
Hill House / Johnston Marklee
- Year: 2004
Folded Bamboo + Paper House / Ming Tang
Our friends at Inhabitat tipped us on this amazing project, the Folded Bamboo Houses + Paper House by Ming Tang. This structures were conceived as a response to the 7.9 earthquake that strucked China last May.
In order to relocate the people that lost their houses, the Chinese goverment decided to build 1.5 million temporary homes. For this, Ming Tang proposed a shelter that was easily produced, cheap and environmentally friendly, using bamboo. The concept utilizes a system of bamboo poles that are pre-assembled into rigid geometric shapes. The geometry of these forms provides each structure’s integrity, allowing a range of lightweight modular structures to be quickly assembled in factories and transported to their destination. Once constructed, the shelters are then covered by using post and pre-consumer recycled paper.
For this modular system, Tang also proposed a paper fibers, water, and cement envelope that allows for larger configurations.
This project was presented on the RE:Construct competition, a call for a ideas on temporary housing. This project was selected as a notable entry, but i think it should have been awarded since it address a on going problem with a local solution in an innovative way.
This are the kind of projects that I wish were being built right now! What do you think? Do you have more examples on innovative temporary housing?
More pictures after the break.
Brunner house / Luca Selva Architects
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Architects: Luca Selva Architects
- Year: 2006
Klein Bottle house / McBride Charles Ryan
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Architects: McBride Charles Ryan
- Area: 258 m²
Villa 1 / Powerhouse Company
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Architects: Powerhouse Company
- Year: 2008
House 2 / Eduardo Berlin Razmilic
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Architects: Eduardo Berlin Razmilic
- Area: 600 m²
- Year: 2005
White Cave / Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
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Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
- Area: 419 m²
- Year: 2007
House II in Aroeira / ARX Portugal
M house / Architecture W
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Architects: Architecture W
- Area: 320 m²
- Year: 2005
Rota House / Manuel Ocaña
PC-1 / PB Elemental Architecture
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Architects: PB Elemental Architecture
Szymon Szczesniak house / Moomoo
Read-Nest / Dorte Mandrup
- Area: 9 m²
- Year: 2007
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Manufacturers: Louis Poulsen