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Inspirational Projects
Thematic Design in Action
What it's about
This temporary installation for Bangkok Design Week 2018 invites patrons of the site in to view information about looming challenges in design and construction for the future.
Why it matters
This pavilion is designed to be completely disassembled and reused after the event is complete. Its function completely supports the initiative of teaching the public about the importance of material life-cycle considerations in a future dominated by waste from ephemeral products.
This memorial, very different in style from similar works by Daniel Liebskin, melds into the landscape at this park in London. Its dramatic green form, derived from the symbolism behind twisted words in a book, challenges patrons of the site to delve below this new bright future into the underground chambers detailing the dramatic experiences of British citizens persecuted during World War 2.
What it's about
How can designers represent the past accurately and effectively through built mediums respective of the values learned from dramatic experiences in human history? This design combines green thinking with thoughtful reflections towards a past unimaginable by our prosperous modern environment.
Why it matters
Cloud Pavilion by D-63 Company
Holocaust Memorial Center by Allied Works Architecture
Government Canyon Visitor Center by Lake Flato
What it's about
This gentle addition to this National Park combines sustainable systems, like rain water collection, with naturalistic forms and open corridors respective of the beautiful contextual environment.
Why it matters
How can common simple construction materials create meaningful spaces that aren't necessarily extravagant in pricing. However, they are effective at serving people visiting a destination to focus on the unhampered physical world.
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This elegant house combines modernistic natural material forms with the traditional colonial style of the historic United States East coast.
Why it matters
Often times, regulations exist in old towns ensuring the proliferation of classic building styles into the future. I find it interesting to see how architects can combine new exciting spaces with traditional organization patterns to create high functioning buildings respective of our past.
Newton House by NADAAA
Qatar World Cup 2022 Memorial by 1week1project
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This theoretical memorial project brings awareness to the social injustice occurring to the migrant workers constructing
the stadiums for the next World Cup in extreme desert temperatures. Each block would represent one worker who died
from the inhumane working conditions at these construction sites. Some estimates put the final death toll for these workers in the thousands by its substantial completion date.
Why it matters
Climate Change is leading to extreme temperatures that threaten the lives of outdoor workers. How can architects and
developers be more conscious to this unfortunate part of reality when it comes to creating architectural marvels?
Tinished by Raffaello Rosselli
What it's about
This clever structure uses "waste material" to create an elegant structure from normally discarded materials.
Why it matters
In a future full of waste and wealth disparity, architecture will have to get creative in order to provide substantial
design to the underserved of the world. How can we build with dignity for those not capable of the affluence needed
to create traditional modernist architecture?
Urban Canopy by Buro Koray Duman
What it's about
This research study focuses on the almost permanent scaffolding in New York City due to city laws requiring constant
inspections of facades of buildings over ten stories tall. This project explores how the scaffolding can become more of a collection of responsive elements adding civic amenities to people instead of just being an overall burden.
Why it matters
Construction is a huge part of cities. Constant renovations and repair jobs can be unsightly and obstructive to the overall
place-making goals of architecture. How can we rethink more aspects behind the construction process to explore ways of adding value through creativity and ingenuity.
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