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Credits & copyright Greg Chung Whan Park – via

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Un petit coin de paradis qui a tout de même un prix : 59 950 livres.  via

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Specifications

design : dmvA
principal : rini van beek/ xfactoragencies
team : david driesen, tom verschueren, thomas denturck
location : anywhere/ mobile
general contractor : AD&S thomas denturck
constructional engineer : AD&S
built area : 20 m2
completion : 2009

Credits photo Vercruysse Frederik, Mick Couwenbergh/Rini Van Beek & dmvA – via

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Description originale

The world expo in Yeosu focuses on the power and beauty of the oceans. How to express that the best? Could it be done by – simply- making a pure visible block of water that obviously expresses the beauty and the power? A block that is extracted from the ocean. This block is hollowed out, to create a great water space, where one is surrounded by water. Along the sides, above and below. Where light filters through and give every activity a glance. That can be used for the exhibitions, the gatherings, during and after the world expo. One is in the water. The water cube is constructed out of a surrounding wall with a series of water basins that are stacked on top of each other. Based on the maximum structural capacities of the glass facades and floors. It allows showing all the different aspects of the oceans ! The façade turns into a mini museum, into a library of the oceans !

Thus the central water space turns into a cathedral like space that celebrates the oceans. With all the environmental differences in the world. The deep sea, the tropical parts, the mangroves, the reefs, etcetera. The basins are organized like a world map. So that any different sea can be shown and positioned clearly: the polar seas on top and the bottom, and the tropical parts in the middle. The coast lines of the contents are clearly expressed on the facade. They separate the ocean aquaria from the dryer coastal terrarium within the continents.The walls between the basins and the coastal walls together with the ramping track form the structural web in which the water basins can be positioned. The continents have more closed elements in the façade and thus contain the stability elements. The roof is constructed with 5 meter high beams that span from the supporting web towards the centre of the roof: the North Pole.

The refreshment between the basins is organized in such a manner that it simulates the movements of the oceans. The cleaning devices are positioned in between the basins. Thus the ocean ecology is expressed and used. The skin of the building is designed out of four layers of glass, with water in between. The fresh sea water from outside is constantly pumped into the basin to keep the circulation through the building. Thus the water basins are used as a natural temperature adapter for the hall of the oceans. This simulates the temperature role of the ocean for the planet. The skin contains elements to control the raise of temperature for the basins. These elements contain rolling curtains to control the UV penetration, and solar PV cells to create energy for the water circulation and the light of the building.

A ramping path that is accessible for handicapped climbs along the facades of the cube. It serpentines through the different basins with the different environments. It becomes a track though the oceans richness. It turns the skin into a library and into a museum. One can access the building from the dam, via an underwater tube that ends at the South Pole, where it appears in the bottom floor. Glass lifts and stairs are designed penetrating the water basin. At the entrance hall people are guided in to the lifts that bring the visitors up to the top floor. On the top floor the visitors are guided towards the North Pole bar with a spectacular view over the expo. From here one can find its journey along the basins, via the main oceans track or via the stairs and lifts, easily descending from the top to the bottom. One ends in the main hall that gives the spectacular overview over all the experiences that can be seen as the introduction for the exhibits and gatherings in the hall of the oceans. Via an escalator the visitor goes down via the South Pole to the pipe that leads him or her to the main land.

The different basins are illuminated each in its specific way according to the demands. A pattern of light can be created according the day and night pattern of the planet. Thus the water cube becomes a true endlessly changing magic water lantern. This design allows for a flexible usage afterwards, while keeping the memory of the expo. This hall can turn easily be adapted to a theatre, a concert hall into a ceremonial space, into a museum, even it could become an office building, a town hall.

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Description originale

Phoenix Island is located in the center of Sanya city, Hainan Province. It is a man-made island surrounded by the sea. The dimension of the Phoenix island is about 1250-meterlong and 350-meter wide, connected by a bridge of 395-meter with the main island of Sanya.  In 2008, the Olympic torch tour started from Phoenix island.

The site area of this man-made island is about 365,000 sqm and will represent the future of Sanya as the international touring and resorts city. The island itself is a vacation land consisting a 7-star hotel, 5 botique apartments, yacht clubhouse, shopping streets and a habour for internaitonal passenger liners. The total building area of the Phoenix island is about 500,000 sqm and the construction work is due to finish in 2014.

Specifications

Year : 2008
Location : Sanya, China
Typology : Urban Planning, Architecture Design
Site Area : 365,013 sqm
Building Area : 392,825 sqm
Status : Under-construction
Associate Engineers (Structure & Mechanics) : Jiang Architects & Engineers(JAE)
Interior Consultant : FWD Design
Credits & copyright MAD Architects

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UTS Tower, Goulburn Street Car Park and other 1960s Sydney icons could receive a much-needed facelift, thanks to an innovative plan called re-skinning. Multinational architectural practice, Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA), has developed a simple, cost effective, easily constructed skin for the University of Technology [UTS] Broadway Tower that promises to transform an icon into a sustainable and stunning building. The speculative project, Tower Skin, offers a unique opportunity to transform the identity, sustainability and interior comfort of the once state-of-the-art building, said Chris Bosse, Australian director of LAVA. Tower Skin is a transparent cocoon that acts as a high performance micro climate. It generates energy with photo-voltaic cells, collects rain water, improves day lighting and uses available convective energy to power the towers ventilation requirements. The Tower is wrapped with three-dimensional lightweight, high performance composite mesh textile. Surface tension allows the membrane to freely stretch around walls and roof elements achieving maximum visual impact with minimal material effort. As day turns to night, Tower Skin becomes a dynamic sculpture on Sydneys skyline, an intelligent media surface, communicating information such as performances and campus events in real time. The proposal integrates principles of architecture, fashion, media and communication design into a new hybrid solution. A re-skinned UTS Tower could be an example of sustainability, innovation, cutting edge design and creative education, without demolishing and rebuilding the 1960s icon, added Bosse. When it was built the Broadway tower was cutting edge, with latest building technologies and principles that have partially become obsolete. The reskinning technology could be easily applied to other buildings in need of a facelift such as the postindustrial abandoned buildings across Hong Kong and elsewhere. We can quickly and cheaply enhance their performance and aesthetics through this minimal intervention. LAVA has also proposed a transformation for the Goulburn Street Car Park in the CBD.

The proposals continue LAVAs ongoing research for sustainable public architecture by combining lightweight contemporary materials with the latest digital fabrication technologies with the aim of achieving more ( architecture) with less (material/energy/time). Sustainability is at the heart of the project. possible Innovations include: * harvesting solar energy maybe?Existing solar energy used to off set energy requirements. * Water collected from the atmosphere. * Energy peaks removed via microclimate in tower envelope. * Natural convection draws conditioned air through existing rooms, vent to the exterior, to generate energy. * Localized user control of air and temperature. * Standardised computer designed and generated components manufactured off site and cutting edge digital workflow mean cost-effective fabrication and installation time. * A solar powered light and media strategy embedded into the fabric. LAVA was founded in 2007 with offices in Sydney, Stuttgart and Abu Dhabi and recently won an international competition to design the heart of Masdar, the worlds first eco city in the UAE. Bosse work on the Watercube for Beijing Olympics whilst at PTW architects won international recognition.

Plans for Tower Skin are on display at STATE. RESPOND. Exploring sustainable design, Object Gallery, Sydney 6 February 28 March 2010. For media images and interviews contact : Jane Silversmith, +61 [0] 408 029 118, jane_silversmith@mac.com

Credits & copyright LAVA – via

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Credits & copyright

project : ANNA // spacial intervention for iart interactive ag / Basel (CH), 2009
Design : ZMIK
Client : iart interactive ag, Basel
Realisation : Septembre 2009
Photos : Eik Frenzel
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