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The attached pdf document gives a short biography of the Architects, Urban Designers, Educators and other professionals who have contributed posts to this site.
The attached pdf document gives a short biography of the Architects, Urban Designers, Educators and other professionals who have contributed posts to this site.
The Canton Bern (Switzerland) Office of Properties and Buildings has adopted a radically new approach to the acquisition of public facilities. Having been used in the design and delivery of more than twenty projects (healthcare, university academic buildings, prisons, residential living, etc.) the approach makes a distinct separation between the long-lasting part of each building (called the Primary System) from the more changeable parts (Secondary and Tertiary Systems). The first example was a very large hospital on the campus of the Inselspital Hospital in Bern – the INO. This is a report on that project. At the end of the report, information is provided on how readers can acquire a comprehensive report / evaluation of the projects, hosted by the client and attended by experts from several countries.
The birth of a residential FIT-OUT industry is just a matter of time. This new kind of industry will do its work INSIDE buildings—fitting them out for dwelling units, live-work spaces, or whatever the project allows in terms of possible mixed uses. This will be a specialized industry with companies that develop their place in the local culture and economic habits.
Teaching students of architecture an open building way of designing in a studio setting can be fruitful. To be even more fruitful, however, “warming – up” exercises are useful, but take time to do properly and are not an easy fit in the studio setting. This paper offers some examples of both open building studio projects and “warming-up” exercises given in the studio setting. It also offers comments on lessons learned over the years in teaching in such a way in architectural studios and argues for the development of courses specifically focused on “warming-up” design exercises, not only in support of open building but more generally. These may be most helpful if offered outside but supportive of the design studio. But such opportunities are rare, because “design skill” courses do not exist in architectural curricula.
This essay is drawn from my PhD dissertation titled “CONTROL OF PARTS: Parts Making in the Building Industry”, completed as part of my doctoral studies at MIT, 1990
I want to show a design study for a high density low-rise field based on the geography and related house typology of Ladakh, a province of Northern India sharing boundaries with Tibet, Pakistan, and China.
The design study was done by Solomon Benjamin student at MIT at the time and presently at the faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in India.
The SketchUp model connected to this post gives the first heavy form shown in the example of the Interactive Stacking Play shown in the post of that name. You can download the model and add your own light system to it. The model is given in meters and centimeters.
The SketchUp model connected to this post gives the first heavy form shown in the example of the Interactive Stacking Play shown in the post of that name. You can download the model and add your own light system to it. The model is given in feet and inches.
In this Hong Kong studio in 2012, we are asked to observe changes on Architecture elements in the city of Hong Kong and Harbin. While finish two of seventh thematic design plays in Professor Habraken’s new book “Conversations with Form, a workbook for students of architecture”
This Masters thesis proposes the transformation and extension of the Warehouse District in South Boston as a live / work neighbourhood.