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A housing project at Lille. Yung-Yin Yen of Atelier Pochoy explains the concept of transforming
traditional terraced housing into habitable cargo containers, customised and transportable.
http://www.net.esa-paris.fr/~hung-yin_yen/
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Civil Engineering Magazine: Great Hall
Malcolm Turpin describes the distinctive new City Hall, London, shaped like a great tilted egg,
which is also a model of energy-efficient design.
http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/ceonline03/0803feat.html
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Pouchulu
The former head of the Munich Experimental Design Unit, Argentinian architect Patricio Pouchulu,
displays his portfolio of futuristic designs, including those for major competitions.
http://www.pouchulu.com/
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Live Architecture Festival October 2004
Over 4 days in Paris designers, architects, artists, and landscape planners will share
architectural experiments with the public. Descriptions, goals and participants.
http://fav2004.free.fr/english
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The Futuro House
Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed this UFO shaped dwelling in 1968, initially for use as a
ski-cabin or holiday home. Desxcription, photographs and QuickTime movie clips.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~imagineer/mags/mag10.htm
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Zomes Concept
Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism,
images, and construction.
http://www.zomes-concept.com/
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The Steel Research House
An experiment in modern house design using light steel framing at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Context, project outline and progress. Feedback form for comments.
http://www.foursteelwalls.co.uk
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A Rook-House for Bobby Fischer
The former world chess champion expressed a desire for a rook-shaped house. This is a design for
such a house. Plans and 3D computer reconstructions.
http://users.tpg.com.au/adsl4kje/
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Architecture and Planning Studio, University of the West of England
Innovatory technologies, notably 'glued brickwork' and panels of compressed straw bales, turn a
campus building into a teaching resource.
http://www.white-design.co.uk/White%20Design%20Associates/Webpages/gluedbrick.html
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The Translucent House
A prototype by Alfons Soldevila. Photograph parades show the building process from design to
finish, and other buildings using translucence. A detailed description and theoretical background.
http://arquitectes.coac.net/lacasatranslucida/
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Boase
The winning project of the competition "The Future Home", promoted by the Danish Building
Research Institute. The novel settlement will be built as an experiment.
http://www.danmarksdesignskole.dk/boase/
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Tent Design
Russian architect Anvar Khairoylline enthuses about the possibilities of tent structures. His
profile, illustrated summary of his thesis and examples of projects using the principles of tent
construction.
http://www.mi.ru/~anwar-da
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Modular Dwellings
Mobile, low cost and functional - a new species of pre-fabricated structures designed by Edgar
Blazona.
http://www.modulardwellings.com/
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Architects Design in Cyberspace
Illustrated article by Alfredo Andia and Claudia Busch on the designs by New York based
architectural firm Asymptote on a virtual New York Stock Exchange.
http://members.tripod.com/wwwandia/art/100.html
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Kunsthaus Graz
London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier explain their "friendly alien" design for
a new exhibition hall in Austria. Plan, computer models, construction schedule.
http://www.kunsthausgraz.at
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Corrugated Construction
Architecture students at the Auburn University Rural Studio are designing and building what may be
the first house out of bales of waste waxed corrugated board, commonly known as cardboard.
http://www.corrugatedconstruction.com
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Just-In-Time Infrastructure Prototype
Igor Kebelour presents a concept of domestic, working, public and mobile institutions merged into
one. Includes model, analysis and discussion.
http://www2.arnes.si/~sudikebe/jit/html/
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Oak Park Library
Lynn Boyden and James Weiner present a case study in replicable energy-efficient design - a new
public library in Ventura, California.
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/boyden/oakpark.html
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Copenhagen Substitute
An interactive tour of Utopian designs by various architects. Devised by Dellbruegge and de Molls,
it formed part of the exhibition "models of resistance" in Copenhagen May/June 2000.
http://copenhagen-substitute.homepage.dk
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Curvilinear Surfaces
Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental
and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography.
http://www.curvedsurfaces.com
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Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts - Atelier de Recherche
Multi-disciplinary space for research and creation aiming to face the city's problems and to define
appropriate solutions. News, projects, guests and tutors.
http://www.alba.edu/
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Arcosanti
An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology -
the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, worksops, events, images, visitor information.
http://www.arcosanti.org/
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