Unstable Ground: 8 Projects Suspending Safety Nets for Exploration and Play
Through the use of netting, the following projects and architects — just like children — audaciously imagine and create uncommon possibilities.
Through the use of netting, the following projects and architects — just like children — audaciously imagine and create uncommon possibilities.
A traditional European architectural element, dormer windows remain useful additions to any attic or loft, and are often celebrated with a markedly contemporary twist.
While traditionally applied in order to render suitable conditions for plant life, the projects incl uded in this collection leverage those same elements and tactics in order to create optimal environments for human life.
Rather than climbing over a barrier to entry, you may gradually step and descend into the act of bat hing.
Bursting beyond the confines of 90° angles and perpendicular lines, these buildings attain a sculptu ral quality through a single central element: façades bent inwards.
As they design these new work-share spaces, architects must deeply consider how productivity, cooper ation and happiness are fostered through built form.
Each project's design intervenes in the cathedral setting, while remaining cognizant of the weight t hat deeply altering said traditional fabric carries.
The stacked approach allows for a wide variety of shapes; including shifted, rotating and otherwise manipulated floor plans, such designs facilitate new interior points of intersection and human interaction.
Despite such absence of words, architects have long used form as language, resulting in buildings co ded with symbols, embedded text and expression.