Archive for the ‘Infrastructure’ Category
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Article source: Cino Zucchi Architetti
Tunnels are “wounds” inflicted on geology to facilitate human movements. Their history is ancient, glorious and gory, but today techniques have been refined to the point of making the excavation similar to endoscopic surgery.
 Image Courtesy Cino Zucchi Architetti
- Architects: Cino Zucchi Architetti
- Project: Vadeggio-Cassarate Gallery
- Location: Lugano, Switzerland
- Client: Dipartimento del Territorio del Canton Ticino
- Collaborators CZA: Cino Zucchi, Andrea Viganò, Luca Torri with Marco Alì, Marco Cerati
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Tags: Lugano, Switzerland
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Article source: Salto Architects
“Fast track” is a integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. “Fast track” is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and percieving the environment.
 Image Courtesy Nikita Shohov
- Architects: Salto Architects
- Project: Fast Track
- Location: Nikola-Lenivets, Russia
- Client: Festival Archstoyanie
- Size: 51 m
- Commission: 2012
- Design team: Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke
- Photographers: Karli Luik, Andrej Yagubskij, Alan Vouba, Nikita Shohov
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Tags: Nikola-Lenivets, Russia
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Saturday, November 24th, 2012
Article source: BREAD studio
BREAD studio’s proposal “Forest Corridor” has won one of the 2nd prizes (Professional Category) in the Open International Competition for Noise Barrier/ Enclosure organized by the Hong Kong Government. The proposal gives an alternative insight to the noise mitigation structure design in the dense urban environment of the city.
 The planting pots underneath the highway provide proper soil depth for heavy and low maintenance plantings.
- Architects: BREAD studio
- Project: Forest Corridor – Highway Noise Barrier
- Location: Hong Kong SAR, China
- Client: Hong Kong Government
- Function: Infrastructure (highway noise mitigation)
- Design Period: 2012
- Project Area: 3 km in length
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Tags: China, Hong Kong
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Friday, July 13th, 2012
Article source: RRA
The initial approach was to single out and magnify the experience of walking from the roadside down to the seaside at this very special place. Therefore a main concern was to slow down this movement and make the path itself a means of refocusing the experiential mode: a measured, restrained approach that creates awareness.
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- Architects: RRA
- Project: Selvika
- Location: Havøysund, Finnmark Norway
- Program: Architectonic multipurpose landscape structure
- Client: Norwegian public roads administration
- Size: Landscape area 10.000 m2
- Commission type: Direct Commission (2007),
- Status: Constructed
- Year: 2012
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Tags: Finnmark Norway, Havøysund
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
Article source: Skylar Tibbits
The Self-Assembly Line is a large-scale version of a self-assembly virus capsid, demonstrated as an interactive and performative structure. A discrete set of modules are activated by stochastic rotation from a larger container/structure that forces the interaction between units. The unit geometry and attraction mechanisms (magnetics) ensure the units will come into contact with one another and auto-align into locally-correct configurations. Overtime as more units come into contact, break away, and reconnect, larger, furniture scale elements, emerge. Given different sets of unit geometries and attraction polarities various structures could be achieved. By changing the external conditions, the geometry of the unit, the attraction of the units and the number of units supplied, the desired global configuration can be programmed.
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- Architects: Skylar Tibbits
- Project: The Self-Assembly Line
- Video: http://vimeo.com/38067834
- Project Team: Martin Seymour, Andrew Manto, Erioseto Hendranata, Justin Gallagher, Laura Salazar, Veronica Emig, Aaron Olson
- Sponsors and funding sources : TED Conferences & SEED Media Group
- Software used: Rhino + Python
 Image Courtesy Skylar Tibbits A collaboration between Skylar Tibbits and Arthur Olson, The Molecular Graphics Laboratory, The Scripps Institute, CA.
Presented at the 2012 TED Conference in Long Beach, CA.
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Article source: Joh Architects
What Is It?
“A wind driven sculptural sea monster in the heart of Geelong.”
Drawing inspiration from Geelong’s history; a bay orientated port city with a history of both farming and industry connections. Along with inspiration from a future with strong visions of sustainability and independence.
“This industrial machine like creature will guard the Geelong harbour like nothing in this proud city’s history while remaining fearlessly independent drawing energy from the harbours natural environment”.
 Sea Dragon
- Architect: Joh Architects
- Name of Project: Sea Dragon
- Competition sponsors: Senia Lawyers, Deakin University and Geelong Independent newspaper
- Project team: Christian O’Halloran, Michelle Jacobson and David McDonald
- Software used: Autocad and Google Sketchup
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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Article source: J. MAYER H. Architects
In 2009 Head of Roads Department of Georgia commissioned J. MAYER H. to design a system of Rest Stops for the new highway, which will run through Georgia and connect the Republic of Azerbaijan with the Republic of Turkey. Two Rest Stops have been completed while this third one is under construction.
 Images Courtesy Jesko M. Johnsson-Zahn
- Architect: J. MAYER H. Architects
- Name of project: Reststops Gori
- Location: Lochini, Georgia
- Team: Jürgen Mayer H., Paul Angelier, Danny te Kloese
- Project Design: 2011
- Expected Completion: 2012
- Function: Rest Stop
- Client: PM Motors Ltd.
- Photographs: Jesko M. Johnsson-Zahn
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Tags: Georgia, Lochini
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Article source: Robert Siegel Architects
It is our hope that this building will represent the aspirations of our time and that history will remember us as the generation who, while confronted by terrorism and violence at home and abroad, created architecture to embody the enduring values of our democracy.
 Courtyard
- Architect: Robert Siegel Architects
- Name of Project: United States Land Port of Entry in Calais, Maine
- Location: Calais, Maine
- Completion: November 2009
- Category: Institutional
- Size: 100,000 sf building and canopies, 50 acre site
- Cost: $58,820,150
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Tags: Calais, Maine
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Article source: Reiulf Ramstad Architects
Located on Norway’s west coast, Trollstigen is perched within a dramatic pass between the deep fjords that characterize the region. This panoramic site can only be visited and constructed in summer, due to severe winter weather. Despite—or perhaps because of—the inaccessible nature of the site, the project entails designing an entire visitor environment ranging from a mountain lodge with restaurant and gallery to flood barriers, water cascades, bridges, and paths to outdoor furniture and pavilions and platforms meant for viewing the scenery. All of these elements are moulded into the landscape so that the visitor’s experience of place seems even more intimate. The architectural intervention is respectfully delicate, and was conceived as a thin thread that guides visitors from one stunning overlook to another.
 Images Courtesy Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Diephotodesigner.de
- Architect: Reiulf Ramstad Architects – RRA
- Name of Project: Trollstigen national tourist routes project
- Location: Romsdalen – Geiranger Fjord, Norway
- Client: The Norwegian public roads administration
- Commision type: Invited Competition 1st prize in cooperation with Multiconsult 13.3 landscaping (2004)
- Status: Under construction
- Photographs: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Diephotodesigner.de
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Tags: Norway, Romsdalen
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Article source: Giannikis SHOP
Giannikis SHOP / THESSALONIKI WATER TRANSPORT PIERS / HONORARY MENTION IN NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMPETITION
Floor, Pavilion, Inflated Pneumatic Structure
Four Piers (Eleutheria Square, Megaro, Aretsou, Perea) were designed for the Architecture Competition for the Thessaloniki Water Transport Piers. Each Pier is composed of three elements: the Floor, the Pavilions and the Inflated Pneumatic Structure.
 From the water towards the Pier.
- Architect: Giannikis SHOP
- Name of Project: Thessaloniki Water Transport Piers
- Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
- Team: Stamatios Giannikis (Team Leader), Evi Tsagka, Stelina, Tsifti, Panagiotis Chatzitsakiris, Giorgos Aggelou
- Organizing Committee: Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (Greece)
- Year: 2011
- Size: 120m2
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Tags: Greece, Thessaloniki
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