Arts - Architecture - Experimental

Arts - Architecture - Experimental

Arcosanti - An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody is Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, worksops, events, images, visitor information.
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts - ALBA's research workshop is a multi-disciplinary space for research and creation aiming to face the city's problems and to define appropriate solutions. News, projects, guests and tutors.
Curvilinear Surfaces - Aleksandra Kasuba explains how to install curved fabric structures (under tension) in environmental and architectural projects. Examples of her installations. Biography, bibliography.
Copenhagen Substitute - An interactive tour of Utopian designs by various architects. Devised by Dellbruegge and de Molls, it formed part of the exhibition "models of resistance" in Copenhagen May/June 2000.
The Steel Research House - An experiment in modern house design using light steel framing at the University of Nottingham, UK. Context, project outline and progress. Feedback form for comments.
Futuro - The history of the spaceship-like home designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen as a ski cabin. Images and film clips from Sydney artist Paul McNeil, who bought one of the few produced.
Oak Park Library - Lynn Boyden and James Weiner present a case study in replicable energy-efficient design - a new public library in Ventura, California.
Elevator Studio - Projects designed in Fall 2000, Rhode Island School of Design, aiming to redefining perceptions of the elevator.
Just-In-Time Infrastructure Prototype - Igor Kebelour presents a concept of domestic, working, public and mobile institutions merged into one. Includes model, analysis and discussion.
Corrugated Construction - Architecture students at the Auburn University Rural Studio are designing and building what may be the first house out of bales of waste waxed corrugated board, commonly known as cardboard.
Zomes - Creating homes from a harmonious family of geometric forms. Includes definitions, symbolism, images of zomes, construction, history.
Kunsthaus Graz - London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier explain their "friendly alien" design for a new exhibition hall in Austria. Plan, computer models, construction schedule.
Architects Design in Cyberspace - Illustrated article by Alfredo Andia and Claudia Busch on the designs by New York based architectural firm Asymptote on a virtual New York Stock Exchange.
Modular Dwellings - Mobile, low cost and functional - a new species of pre-fabricated structures designed by Edgar Blazona.
Tent Design - Russian architect Anvar Khairoylline enthuses about the possibilities of tent structures. His profile, illustrated summary of his thesis and examples of projects using the principles of tent construction.
Boase - The winning project of the competition "The Future Home", promoted by the Danish Building Research Institute. The novel settlement will be built as an experiment.
Experiments within Contemporary Architecture - An exhibition 26.10.2002- 02.03.2003 at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
The Translucent House - A prototype by Alfons Soldevila. Photograph parades show the building process from design to finish, and other buildings using translucence. A detailed description and theoretical background.
Architecture and Planning Studio, University of the West of England - Innovatory technologies, notably 'glued brickwork' and panels of compressed straw bales, turn a campus building into a teaching resource.
Iceberg Project - Architectural experiments by James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi and Terence Van Elslander that dissect the projection of space and reveal the root relations of building based in specific situation and material.
A Rook-House for Bobby Fischer - The former world chess champion expressed a desire for a rook-shaped house. This is a design for such a house. Plans and 3D computer reconstructions.
The Machine Age - A housing project at Lille. Yung-Yin Yen of Atelier Pochoy explains the concept of transforming traditional terraced housing into habitable cargo containers, customised and transportable.
Tsui Design and Research Architecture - Images and description of built bioform projects, many with conservation and self-sufficiency features. Also 'Principles of evolutionary architecture' by Eugene Tsui.
Hubbell and Hubbell - Features the freeform structures of James Hubbell in various materials, as well as his stained-glass windows. Has an events page.
The Last Xanadu : Roadside America - Images and text about Xanadu, the sprayed-foam "Home of the Future" tourist attraction franchise.
The Einstein-Tower: An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory, and Astronomy - A photograph and cartoon accompany this outline of a book by Klaus Hentschel on the tower and its architect.
Free-form House - A shot of the Mike Kahn house from the inside, showing the stained glass windows, from Shelter Publications.
Free-Form Arizona House - Photograph of the exterior of the cement and stone desert house of Mike Kahn from Shelter Publications.
Driftwood House - Shelter Online provide a photograph and brief history of a wooden house that was part of a beach squatter community.
WildStyle - Chayo Frank's Miami based firm specializes in sprayed-concrete freeform residences and sculptural architecture. Images of their organic and exotic designs.
CalEarth Photogallery - Images of clay fired buildings that are often built as domes, but can be made more freeform also.
Eliphante - Photographs and history of Michael and Leda Kahn's sculptural, painted, architectural three-acre living art installation in Sedona, Arizona.
The Venus Project - Concrete concept buildings at the utopian/futurist Venus Project.
Hotel Everland - Specifically created for Expo.02 by Swiss artist-duo Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, this small green futuristic building accommodates two people and uses curving lines. Image gallery and information.
Roger Dean's Tectonic House - The famous fantasy artist's model-home using sprayed concrete over fiberglass molds.
Earth and Cave Architecture - Sprayed-concrete, earth-sheltered freeform dwellings by Swiss architect Peter Vetsch.

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