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Visions of architecture
"I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. " Alexander Jackson Davis"
Friday, June 17, 2011
Floating Home
Trilobis 65 is a semi-submerged:Reaching 20 metres in length designed by Giancarlo Zema for habitation by six people at sea. It is ideal for living in bays, atolls and maritime parks. The main aim of the project is to allow anyone to live in a unique environment through a self sufficient, non-polluting dwelling cell in unison with their ocean surroundings.Trilobis 65 has been designed on four separate levels connected by a spiraling staircase.The...
Monday, June 13, 2011
urban designing of streets & squares
INTRODUCTION• Streets and Squares that make up the public face of towns and cities. It also emphasizes on the meanings and the roles of these elements played in the urban design, the ways they are arranged, designed and detailed is the subject matter.• Urban design is at the interface between architecture and planning, but is quite distinct from both disciplines.• In short, planning can be defined as the process by which resources are distributed....
Sunday, June 12, 2011
FUSION-POLIS
Ken Yeang is an ecologist, author and a respected architect. He is best known for his “bioclimatic skyscrapers,” environmentally conscious high-rise buildings. Being an ecologist is essential, he believes, to his work as an architect because “the ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world.” Ken Yeang endeavors to connect the human built environment more closely to nature.Integration Philosophies:Physical- how a building...
