This house overlooking the sea in southern Spain by MVN Architects comprises white rectilinear volumes on a base of travertine marble .
Although Sudan is not typically considered part of the Mena region we’d like to draw your attention to this project to show how simple socially responsible and sustainable design can be if architects take on the challenge. The following description has been provided by Tamassociati:
Looking at the amount of discarded containers laying around the
building site of the Salam Centre we had this simple idea: to use them
again in order to realize the required international staff housing
compound.
The Compound placed besides the Hospital, in the surroundings of the
Nile river, is realized around a great courtyard full of wonderful mango
trees. It consists of 95 20ft-containers for housing and 7
40ft-containers for the cafeteria. Every lodging is 20 sqm and is
realized with one and a half containers; the lodging is composed of
bedroom, bathroom and a small veranda on the court side.
Peculiar care has been dedicated to insulation and energy saving. The
containers are insulated with a “layer system”. Inside the container 5
cm insulating panels have been placed. The outside “skin” is realized
with a second insulated roof and a bamboo brise-soleil panel system. In
this way the sunrays never hit the containers. This system involves a
huge energy saving. Solar panels also supply hot water for the entire
compound.
The top floor of this Tokyo house by Japanese architects Apollo appears to be caving in.
Here’s another triangulated outcrop: Technische Universität Dresden students Philip Modest Schambelan and Anton Fromm have designed a hotel for mountain bikers for the edge of a cliff in Pregasina, Italy.
Kalmar Museum of Modern Art in Sweden was designed by Stockholm-based architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter.
This huge nest with a retractable staircase by Swedish designers Inrednin Gsgruppen forms part of a hotel in the trees in northern Sweden.
Stockholm-based architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter have designed a hotel hidden in the trees, to be located in Harads, Sweden.
This pod-shaped woodland retreat floats on a net between the trees in Dorset, UK.
