Student Work | Architecture G | Vertical Workshop 2010 | Housing In Sahara

The student team led by  ARCHITECTURE-G, won an honorable mention in Vertical Workshop 2010. The proposed prototype, called Isotropic, consists of a housing organization system for political refugees in the Sahara. This is an infrastructure that provides 6 rooms of 2.5 × 2.5 m to each family of 6. (A patio, two rooms covered in PB, a room covered with double height ground floor and two rooms covered in P1). We designed a housing scheme to provide flexibility of use and generate spatial and thermal situations. Although the system can be organized in grid or cluster, their virtue is the spontaneous growth in any direction, the non hierarchical, rhizomatic, without staking. The house is light, recyclable and transportable in a 125x250x60cm packaging.

Student Project With Todd Saunders and Mats Odin Rustøy | Oulu | Finland

This project was a two-week workshop in Northern Finland for the International exchange students at Oulu Architecture School. The class consisted of 21 students from 14 different countries. Three days were devoted to experimenting with diverse forms through model building. We spent seven days constructing the chosen form. The last days of the course students chose sites where they would place the project for a short period of time to see how the project would respond to a place or the people using the project.....more

Credits: Todd Saunders with Mats Odin Rustøy and 21 international architecture students

Student Works | Sofía Cárdenas | TU Delft | The Netherlands

The AR highlights 10 emerging architecture students from renowned architecture schools across the world.

Tutors: Axel Kilian, Arjan van Timmeren, Elixa Guse

A Sustainable Business Hub

In Dharavi, a densely populated area in the heart of Mumbai trapped in the circle of poverty and the informality of a progressing industry, a desired future vision is formulated. The result is the introduction of new elements as generators to provoke predetermined changes (Urban acupuncture). The first intervention is a node that will introduce quality to the area and connect Dharavi to unused economic potential. The concept of this project, which is dividedinto three key phases, is to organize the lucrative artisanal occupations to make them accessible to external users.

The macro phase creases reciprocity between design project and context. An intervention at the Mahim Creek and the Mithi River improves the existing environmental conditions, increasing productivity, stimulating incomes and to increase connectivity by introducing a boulevard.

The meso phase of the project establishes the design proposal. A bamboo bridge introduces consumers to the low tech icon called “Craft Tower” which works as a show room. A community centre is located on the inner flank of the bridge.

Finally, the micro phase zooms in to detail level. To understand the behavior of the structure a structural analyses based on a parametric module was developed (GC and DIANA). To research the behavior of the material a mechanical testing with bamboo and concrete was carried out and a prototype was build.

Images of the work here

Student Work-Driftwood AA Summer Pavilion 2009

Architectural Association Summer Pavilion, London - 2009
Concept Author - Danecia Sibingo joined by
Design Team - Lyn Hayek, Yoo Jin Kim and Taeyoung Lee
Unit Tutors - Martin Self and Charles Walker
Conceived and constructed by Intermediate Unit 2
Opened 3 Jul 2009

Fibreboard Factory-La Muella, Havana | Andreas Michelsen

The fibreboard factory is situated in Havana, Cuba by Havana Bay. The scheme is a response the current situation of post-soviet Cuba suffering under the US embargo, resulting in previously subsidised industries slowly dissolving. In the case of my project the fibreboard factory is interwoven into the derelict structures previously used for storing sugar.

The design of the factory takes into consideration the very limited resources available in Cuba. It adopts a makeshift way of constructing and converting the few present materials, like the way Cubans repair old classic American cars with available materials such as plywood and ship-paint.
Project: Fibreboard factory

Location: Havanna, Cuba

School: Bartlett, UCL

Year: 4th Year (Diploma)

Student Works-Academy of Art University, San Francisco-Shoe Designs

Today the University has more than 13,000 students, making it the largest private school of art and design in the US. Students now have the opportunity to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Associate of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Architecture, Certificate Programs or Continuing Art Education courses, with over 30 areas of academic emphasis.















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