Water house
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This exploration of built and yet-to-be-realized aquatic habitats shows how water has become architecture's next frontier. Whether they're floating on top, hovering over, or submerged beneath the water, each of the more than fifty structures examined here demonstrates an innovative use of water resources. Colourfully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and plans, this(...)
Miniature Architecture
May 2005, Munich
Water house
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This exploration of built and yet-to-be-realized aquatic habitats shows how water has become architecture's next frontier. Whether they're floating on top, hovering over, or submerged beneath the water, each of the more than fifty structures examined here demonstrates an innovative use of water resources. Colourfully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and plans, this global and historic sampling includes Shanghai's Bionic Tower, complete with its own lake; Biorock, an artificial reef in the Indian Ocean; an undersea hotel where scuba divers can spend a comfortable night; and Sweden's Ice Hotel, where translucent frozen walls reveal the beauty of the Northern Lights. Each of these projects demonstrates man's ability to live in the water without interfering with nature's rhythms. Together they offer reassuring proof that today's architects are finding workable and appealing solutions to the problems of shrinking resources and growing populations. Each of these projects demonstrates man's ability to live in the water without interfering with nature's rhythms. Together they offer reassuring proof that today's architects are finding workable and appealing solutions to the problems of shrinking resources and growing populations.
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This book is the celebration of small buildings, those unexpected structures that make us momentarily pause to ponder their meaning, or our own meaning, or simply to appreciate the elegance of their creation. From the spectrum of functions and styles of these structures, it is clear that size imposes no limits on creativity, and utility is no constraint to beauty.(...)
Miniature Architecture
November 2001, London
XS : big ideas, small buildings
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This book is the celebration of small buildings, those unexpected structures that make us momentarily pause to ponder their meaning, or our own meaning, or simply to appreciate the elegance of their creation. From the spectrum of functions and styles of these structures, it is clear that size imposes no limits on creativity, and utility is no constraint to beauty. Thonking small is a wonderfully constructive exercise.
Miniature Architecture
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Whether representing pioneering spirit, implying large horizons and wide open spaces, or epitomising economic travel with a comfortable change of scenery, camper vans and RVs share a common aspiration: the need to create a ‘home away from home’. This book illustrates the culture, style and philosophy of camper van and RV travel by looking at the owners and their clubs.(...)
Home away from home : the world of camper vans and motorhomes
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Whether representing pioneering spirit, implying large horizons and wide open spaces, or epitomising economic travel with a comfortable change of scenery, camper vans and RVs share a common aspiration: the need to create a ‘home away from home’. This book illustrates the culture, style and philosophy of camper van and RV travel by looking at the owners and their clubs. Stories of road trips, adventures and epic voyages provide an exciting backdrop to the extraordinary history and present status of freewheeling transportation. "Home away from home" explains the cultural and social history of the camper van and RV by looking at a range of phenomena from surf and hippy culture to family holidays and travel in retirement years. A range of iconic vehicles from the VW Bus and the Airstream to the Winnebago will be looked at in detail, within the context of their technical developments as well as the design strategies that dictated their appearances. Finally, "Home away from home" explores future possibilities for independent camper van and RV travel, alongside contemporary approaches to 'compact living'.
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From the foldable home to blow-up inhabitable spaces, a daring spirit pervades each project in this collection of creative solutions in mobile architecture. All projects are illustrated with full-color photographs, with accompanying floor plans and information provided by the architects and designers themselves. A varied selection of some of the most imaginative designs(...)
Portable architecture - and unpredictable surroundings -
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From the foldable home to blow-up inhabitable spaces, a daring spirit pervades each project in this collection of creative solutions in mobile architecture. All projects are illustrated with full-color photographs, with accompanying floor plans and information provided by the architects and designers themselves. A varied selection of some of the most imaginative designs in the field; a collection which will serve as a source of inspiration for the urban planner, architect, student of architecture, or layperson.
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'Minihouse' is a showcase of more than 25 small livingspaces designed by more than 25 internationally renown architects.
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Vivre dans un château d'eau, aménager son bureau dans un silo à grains, passer ses vacances dans un ancien wagon de chemin de fer, semblent relever des rêves les plus fous d'un architecte délirant. Pourtant ces maisons existent, et bien d'autres plus insolites encore. En France, mais aussi en Belgique, en Grande-Bretagne, aux USA, des particuliers pleins d'imagination(...)
Maisons détournées : lieux de vie insolites
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Vivre dans un château d'eau, aménager son bureau dans un silo à grains, passer ses vacances dans un ancien wagon de chemin de fer, semblent relever des rêves les plus fous d'un architecte délirant. Pourtant ces maisons existent, et bien d'autres plus insolites encore. En France, mais aussi en Belgique, en Grande-Bretagne, aux USA, des particuliers pleins d'imagination ont eu l'idée de s'approprier des bâtiments industriels, agricoles ou urbains.
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"Flying Lightness" paints a heroic picture of a century of aircraft development against the background of steadily increasing travel speeds. Yet since the Wright brothers made their first brief flight over 100 years ago, aircraft construction seems to have become strangely stuck in a rut. Today, rapid advances in the field of composites are opening up new possibilities(...)
Miniature Architecture
April 2005, Rotterdam
Flying lightness : promises for structural elegance
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"Flying Lightness" paints a heroic picture of a century of aircraft development against the background of steadily increasing travel speeds. Yet since the Wright brothers made their first brief flight over 100 years ago, aircraft construction seems to have become strangely stuck in a rut. Today, rapid advances in the field of composites are opening up new possibilities for optimizing aircraft con-figurations and revising structural principles. Composites are combinations of two or more physically distinct materials that enhance each other's properties. The new modes of system integration and improved structural quality they offer may even manage to produce a 30 per cent more efficient 'blended wing' passenger plane. Flying wings, once just a footnote in the history of air transport, could well become the aircraft of the 21st century.
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Petites maisons
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Dans son introduction, cet ouvrage explore en détail le contexte historique et social qui sous-tend le logement compact au XXe siècle. Puis sont étudiés 37 exemples illustrés choisis parmi les plus intéressants construits dans le monde au cours des cinq dernières années. La surface habitable y dépasse rarement 100 m2, et chaque projet incarne une approche architecturale(...)
Petites maisons
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Dans son introduction, cet ouvrage explore en détail le contexte historique et social qui sous-tend le logement compact au XXe siècle. Puis sont étudiés 37 exemples illustrés choisis parmi les plus intéressants construits dans le monde au cours des cinq dernières années. La surface habitable y dépasse rarement 100 m2, et chaque projet incarne une approche architecturale particulière des aménagements compacts. Les exemples sont divisés en trois groupes: retraites rurales, unités urbaines et banlieusardes, petits regroupements et multiplex. On retrouve ici des noms prestigieux comme Toyo Ito, Lacaton et Vassal, Herzog et de Meuron, LOT/EK.
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La tente et le chapiteau
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Le cirque aujourd'hui est à la mode. Son lieu participe à son alchimie, ici un chapiteau, là un bâtiment stable. Son histoire est inséparable de celle du voyage. Ses premiers artistes, des officiers de cavalerie qui quittent l'armée pour s'exercer à la voltige en public, appartiennent à la culture de la vie en campement. En perpétuant la tradition du nomadisme, ils en(...)
La tente et le chapiteau
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Le cirque aujourd'hui est à la mode. Son lieu participe à son alchimie, ici un chapiteau, là un bâtiment stable. Son histoire est inséparable de celle du voyage. Ses premiers artistes, des officiers de cavalerie qui quittent l'armée pour s'exercer à la voltige en public, appartiennent à la culture de la vie en campement. En perpétuant la tradition du nomadisme, ils en adoptent l'architecture, dont l'attribut est l'éphémère, le matériau la toile, la structure les mâts et les tendeurs. Tout au long de l'histoire, tentes et chapiteaux ont rivalisé en beauté, luxe et prouesses techniques. De l'Egypte, la Perse, la Turquie et l'Europe, en passant par la Russie, la Mongolie et les États-Unis, ce livre nous entraîne dans la vie trépidante d'aventuriers et de conquérants qui ont construit notre monde.
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April 2004, Paris
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The iA, or Interactive Architecture, bookzine series will consist of 12 issues bi-annually, published over a period of six years under the supervision Kas Oosterhuis, director of Hyperbody at the Delft University of Technology and principal of ONL [Oosterhuis Lénárd]. The Interactive Architecture (iA), concept is based on the equal input (listening), process (thinking),(...)
Miniature Architecture
October 2007, Rotterdam
ia #1 Interactive architecture
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The iA, or Interactive Architecture, bookzine series will consist of 12 issues bi-annually, published over a period of six years under the supervision Kas Oosterhuis, director of Hyperbody at the Delft University of Technology and principal of ONL [Oosterhuis Lénárd]. The Interactive Architecture (iA), concept is based on the equal input (listening), process (thinking), and output (talking) of people as well as the built components of architecture. This will be one of the first publications to document in detail this groundbreaking new development in architecture. iA will undoubtedly become the premier archive of this endeavor. The publication program will consist of scientific papers on particular aspects of iA and iA-driven MSc projects, iA-inspired case studies from practice, interviews with a renowned researcher/practitioner, and blogs by Kas Oosterhuis. The inaugural issue features contributions from Cas Aalbers, Henriette Bier, Nimish Biloria, Michael Bitterman, Sven Blokker, Sander Boer, Christian Friedrich, Hans Hubers, Xin Xia, and others.
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