our favourite page: the blue roof house by MVRDV in Rotterdam!
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draw me a house // Thibaud Herem
our favourite activity: draw a new top for the Chrysler Building!
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Iggy Peck, architect // Andrea Beaty & David Roberts
our favorite page: the first building of Iggy, made of nappies!
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Game N.2 // Design your house’s facades!
Simple, colourful or crazy: depending the techniques you will use, you can give radically different characters to your house, have it discreet or make people look at it!
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Game N.6 // Make a house with triangles!
Triangle is an amazing shape!
Understand why with tutorial N.6
Download the tutorial N.6 here :
First of all: an little experiment with pasta and strings!
The square is soft whereas the triangle is really tough! That’s why it is used in architecture. You can build structures completely made out of triangles, or you ad them here and there to make a structure rigid and stable.
Below are some examples:
* Boathouse // Shigeru Ban (Pouilly-en-Auxois – France) 2005
* Sainsbury Center for visual arts // Norman Foster (Norwich – UK) 1974-78
* Cité du Design // LIN (Saint-Etienne – France) 2009
* Art Center College of Design // Craig Ellwood (Passadena – California) 1974
* Dome // After Buckminster Fuller (Weil am Rhein – Switzerland) 1975-2000
In the 50s, Buckminster Fuller has built a lot of domes with triangulated structures.
And look! That’s so easy that you can build the model with your feet ;-)
He also published plans and explanations in order that everybody could built his own structure (following picture). Isn’t it kind?
Now build your own dome with tutorial N.6:
Here is an overview of what it looks like:
(Français) Paris – 19 janvier 2013 // Lina Bo Bardi – Together
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Eames house blocks // Villa V
the simplest house
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Crazy palace // Georgian ministry of highway construction
nothing is too crazy in architecture!
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Blockitecture // the interlace
block-houses nested and stacked in every direction!
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