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CAMPS AND SHELTERS

January 31, 2018

5/2017 Practice

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] CAMPS AND SHELTERS [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Arpad Zachi Confusion – camps and shelters, or concentration camps [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][edgtf_separator type="normal" position="center" color="rgba(255,255,255,0.01)" top_margin="20" bottom_margin="0"][vc_column_text]I don’t know why this subject and the examples selected both for the refugees camps, and for the shelters, made me think about the Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs, in fact, more about some comments subsequent to his. And, as a student said on the first meeting during the classes of the Urban Public Space at school: «Today, after 2 years of faculty, I feel more confused». Although I have immediately replied that that was good, now I’m thinking if it is, indeed, because, after 30

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Windhover Contemplative Center

January 31, 2018

5/2017 Camps and shelters Practice

The Windhover Contemplative Center is conceived of as a unification of art, landscape and architecture, to both replenish and invigorate the spirit. The sanctuary is located in the heart of the campus on a former parking lot adjacent to a natural oak grove. The extended progression to the building’s entry through a long private garden, sheltered from its surroundings by a line of tall bamboo, allows members of the Stanford community to shed the outside world before entering the sanctuary. Within, the space opens fully to the oak grove to the east and the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden beyond.

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2014 California practice USA

Birds Eye View

January 31, 2018

5/2017 Camps and shelters Practice

A team of 20 Japanese carpenters constructed the viewing house, with the structure itself forming the shape of a bird, playfully working in three dimensions as Bar’s conceptually driven illustrations do on paper. For the illustrator, it was important to retain the visual storytelling of his work, an architectural form translated into the environment in which the visitor interacts with the structure, both visually and as a functioning viewing house.

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2015 Camps and shelters Japan practice

White dessert

January 31, 2018

5/2017 Camps and shelters Practice

White Desert is a project founded by record-breaking polar explorer, Patrick Woodhead, and his wife Robyn, that launched the first and only luxury camp in Antarctica. The project is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a refurbishment of its camp – complete with new sleeping pods, lounge and dining room. The boutique camp, probably the most remote in the world, overlooks a spectacular 200ft icefall.

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2007 Antarctica Camps and shelters practice

Mars One

January 31, 2018

5/2017 Camps and shelters Practice

Mars One aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Mars is the only planet we know of that can currently feasibly support human life and will be humankind’s first step to become a multiplanetary species. Before carefully selected and trained crews will depart to Mars, several unmanned missions will be completed, establishing a habitable settlement waiting for the first astronauts to arrive. The Mars One crews will go to Mars not to simply visit, but to live, explore, and create a second home for humanity. The first men and women to go to Mars are going there to

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2011 Camps and shelters Mars practice

The Small House

January 31, 2018

5/2017 Camps and shelters Practice

Between 2014 and 2015, the Italian architect Bonaventura Visconti di Modrone was invited to Anse-à-Pitres, a small village in the South East Department of Haiti, to build a housing complex for Ayitimoun Yo, an N.G.O. that helps local street children.

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2015 400 sqm Camps and shelters Haiti practice

Maidan tent

January 31, 2018

5/2017 Camps and shelters Practice

The «Maidan tent» is a tent designed so that people who live in the refugee camps can benefit of a public indoor space where they can socialize and share various activities. It is not a coincidence that the word Maidan, in Arabic, means square.

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2017 Camps and shelters Greece practice

January 31, 2018

This project explores the basic notions of iconicity, urbanism, and pluralism in regards to the three Abrahamic faiths through the development of corresponding «pop-up» places of worship. The proposals act as both deliverables and as the vehicle for research. More specifically, the structures were used to interrogate the nature of the relationship between the said cultures and the spaces that they sanctify.

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2016 Camps and shelters practice

Hex house

January 31, 2018

5/2017 Archive Camps and shelters Practice

With the prevalence of population displacement across the globe, Architects For Society has embarked on designing building solutions for them that are both dignified and cost effective.

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Seashore Chapel

January 19, 2018

4/2017 Practice Practice Selectively Bred Equipment

We imagine the Seashore Chapel as an old boat drifting on the ocean long time ago. The ocean receded through time and left an empty structure behind, which is still lying on the beach.The space is thus divided vertically.

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2015 China practice Selectively Bred Equipment