Archive for the ‘Cave’ Category
Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
Article source: 10AM Architecture
The new hotel style
Primitive humans were using caves, dark and not comfortable places, but there they could find shelter from the cold and from the wild animals. In the civilization ages they invented the tent, real light and easy transportable shelter, so they could move whenever they want. The tent was also not so comfortable, so over the years, humans started to have sedentary lifestyle. They built their stone and brick houses, which were very comfortable, but they lost their ability to move and to be free. Human population increased and had less and less space for their houses; that’s why they invented at first blocks and then skyscrapers, they were trying to gain space in height, until their homes reach the sky.
This is the current!
… and tomorrow?
Image Courtesy © 10AM Architecture
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014
Article source: Plastique Fantastique
El OJO DE POLIFEMO (Polyphemus’ Eye) transforms the Alhóndiga’s main Hall into the Cylops’s cave, and visitors into lost travellers. The Eye looks directly at the entrance, and its presence leaves no passer-by indifferent. The only way to stay alive is to offer wine to the Giant, amplifying astuteness and mixing stories so as not to be devoured by his deeds. It is an installation, one architecture within another, a memorable scene which invites you to look, to penetrate the Eye and to discover its interior and its surroundings. A perceptive journey which swings from the Homeric epic to surrealist experience and the verses of Cortázar within the context of the 3, 2, 1 Gathering and Alhóndiga Bilbao.
Image Courtesy © Eva Zubero Zuluaga
- Architects: Plastique Fantastique
- Project: POLYPHEMUS’ EYE – 3,2,1 Festival
- Location: Alhóndiga Bilbao, Spain
- Photography: Eva Zubero Zuluaga
- Team: Rakel Esparza Sanz, Mateo Feijóo, Fernando Pérez Gómez
Friday, February 28th, 2014
Article source: Muñoz Miranda Architects
A lot that does not exist. A pine forest along the hillside at the top of Murtas. An existing retaining wall constructed in an Alpujarra´s vernacular way, using local rough stones. The program seeks a room to hold a wake over. A large stone lintel beam supported by a large HEB creates an access space threshold. Once inside, you think of a concave space (cavus-cave) that connects earth with sky. Two concave rooms, one public and one more private.
Image Courtesy © Javier Callejas Sevilla
- Architects: Muñoz Miranda Architects
- Project: FUNERAL PARLOR
- Location: Granada, Spain
- Photography: Javier Callejas Sevilla
- Civil Engineer: Pedro A. González Garrido
- Client: Plan PROTEJA de la Junta de Andalucía
- Construction Company: Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Murtas
- Project Area: 82m2
- Budget: 62.000€ IVA incluido
- Project Year: 2014
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
Article source: Nuno Simões + DNSJ.arq
The assignment was to build a new structure to replace the former temporary structure wich was in very poor condition and a new antechamber. The antechamber, needed to control the thermal exchanges, was tougt like a new perfect rock” among the others existing ones.
Image Courtesy © FG + SG (FOTOGRAFIA DE ARQUITECTURA)
- Architects: Nuno Simões + DNSJ.arq
- Project: Gruta do Escoural
- Location: Alentejo, Portugal
- Photography: FG + SG (FOTOGRAFIA DE ARQUITECTURA)
- Design: Nuno Simões + DNSJ.arq
- Client: IGESPAR Direção Regional de Cultura do Alentejo
- Site of the building: Escoural, Montemor-o-novo, Alentejo
- Completion date: May 2011
- The copyright for the images: DNSJ.arq
- Structural engineers: Artur Pinto Martins
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
Acting against gravity is a familiar Human desire, the most primitive form of body play that inspires many needs. The need to densification is not an exception. Vertical expansion is not only a solution to densify lands, but also a desire to be on top of every visible height. What if instead of the question of density the reason to create a tower was to respect a primitive joy: the joy of heights! Cities in the glory of skyscrapers such as New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong are perhaps examples of many successful vertical densities, but what difference does height make if people who only share an address still see urban structures at their eye level.
Vertical Cave in Nunavut
- Architect: Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]
- Name of Project: A Vertical Cave in Nunavut
- Location: Nunavut, Arctic
- Project Team: Reza Aliabadi & Lailee Soleimani
- Design: 2010-2011