Floating House
This project intersects a vernacular house typology with the site-specific conditions of this unique place: an island on Lake Huron. The location on the Great Lakes imposed complexities to the house’s fabrication and construction,...
Loup de Mer
”Loup de Mer” is a conceptual houseboat for students or people with a fluctuating need for permanent residence in Oslo or other urban harbors.
The design seeks to propose a new formal identity, or formal...
Pier 23 Houseboat
Following the example set by Amsterdam and other European countries, in 2007 Hamburg initiated a competition for investors for the development of Houseboats on the Eilbek canal in an attempt to revitalise the urbanisation...
Houseboat Eilbekkanal
The original idea has been to design a houseboat that essentially has the character of a boat in combination with the comfort of a traditional family home.
The formal architectural language should be clear and simple....
Watervilla de Omval
This tautly designed houseboat floats in the Amstel river of Amsterdam. The design has, unlike most floating houses, a very contemporary design without losing the characteristic appearance of the typical houseboat. The clients get a...
A hat for a home.Living in movement
The primitive act of settlement which culturally defines the relationship between humankind and nature is historically represented by two archetypes: the cave and the tent (the hut). As O.M. Ungers writes, “architecture has two...
Sustainable way
There are terms that simply define objects or situations, others that merely describe characteristics by turning them into adjectives, and some – and this is by now universally recognized for the term “sustainability” –...
Green Economy – economy growth & climate challenge
The matter of the climatic change
The challenge of two degrees centigrade
It is a known fact that all countries agree on one goal, namely to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in order...
Urban texture, climate and energy
In contrast to modernist urban planning, which tends to uniformity and repetition of simple oversized objects, the morphological textures of historic cities combine a high degree of fractal scaling structure (meaning the texture shows...
UDP Central Library
The Diego Portales University is a non-profit private organization that has been founded in Chile 27 years ago. It is located in the center of Santiago, in an area called Santiago Sur Poniente. The...
Green Energy Laboratory
The cooperation agreement signed in November 2007 between the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Protection of the Territory and the Sea has resulted in the construction of...