Constructing convivial alternative habitats at Bellastock
An ephemeral city under construction, wild tech village, urban fiction, Bellastock is human-scale architecture laboratory that has opened up to experimentation, education and mediation.
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(Français) Identités du transitoire : le temps de réfléchir l’urgence
Dans Identités du transitoire (Les Presses du réel, 2021), Jehanne Dautrey et Patrick Beaucé, explorent l'architecture qui se monte aussi vite qu'elle se démonte. Des constructions agiles et politiques ou urgence et réflexion partagent un même espace-temps.
A Fab City Summit in Paris to “get fabcity out of the woods”
On July 11, before FAB14, the Fab City Summit begins. But what is the fabcity? We posed this question to co-organizers and architects Francesco Cingolani and Minh Man Nguyen.
Utopia House, un toit sur l’eau
C'est l'histoire d'un bateau construit par des lycéens de Mulhouse qui navigue sur le canal Rhin-Rhône, avant d'être transformé en toit. Une architecture utopique et collaborative portée par l'artiste Jan Kopp.
3D-printed XXL pergola at the Venice Biennale
The Croatian pavilion at the Venice Biennale exhibit a 57-square-meter pergola inspired by the formation of clouds. One of the most imposing structures to date 3D-printed by robots.
“Fabcity isn’t just data, it’s also about doing together”
The ManufActeurs are part of the people building the fabcity in Brest. We met Julien Masson, member of this collective of architects, designers and landscapers.
Fab City: In My BackYard is building hospitality
As a preamble to the Fab City Summit, the 5th MakeryMedialab invited the association Fab City Grand Paris and the collective Quatorze. Focus on the project In My BackYard.
Au Bénin, l’architecture en commun à l’Atelier des Griots
A Cotonou depuis un an et demi, des architectes urbanistes réunis dans l'Atelier des Griots proposent des chantiers d'un nouveau genre, où les communautés se réapproprient leurs espaces publics.
A rammed earth house designated World Building of the Year
A Chinese rammed earth house designed to withstand earthquakes received the title of World Building of the Year 2017. An international recognition for a sustainable architecture.
The construction of The Arch Festival, what’s this building site?
At the end of August, in Genk in Belgium, the Constructlab collective organized a “construction of The Arch Festival” on a former mine site. Photo-report.
Marko Peljhan: “Poles are sensors of our planet” (2/2)
Second part in polar areas of our wide-ranging interview with Marko Peljhan, behind the Makrolab, on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of this utopian techno-ecological architecture.
Marko Peljhan: “We materialized the utopia of the Makrolab” (1/2)
Interview with Marko Peljhan, the Slovenian artist behind Makrolab, which since 1997 has traveled around the world, hosting artists, hackers, scientists. Part 1.
500 of us built a city of clay at Bellastock in Paris
To build an ephemeral city out of raw clay in less than 48 hours with 500 pairs of hands: this was the festival challenge of the experimental architecture organization Bellastock.
Architecture: mushrooms are rock solid!
The architecture made from mycelium proposed by Aleksi Vesaluoma with Grown Structures could enable to design solid structures, durable and respectful of the environment.
Destroy the BBC Tower digitally
Imagine a “DIY and inventive destruction” in animation from a 3D model: “White Noise” magazine calls for a project around the BBC East Tower, which will be soon destroyed for real.
How Constructlab is building “spaces that consider the commons”
Informal and “homeless”, the international collective Constructlab leads temporary architectural projects around the world. Interview with founding member Alexander Römer in Berlin.
Will the dynamic house ever see the light of day?
A house that adapts to seasons and opens like a flower. The nice idea of London architects became viral… 7 years later. But still not real. Meeting with the creators of “D*Dynamic”.
With “Fear And Love”, the Design Museum questions our future
For its reopening, one had to hit hard. Therefore, it is on fear, love, hope and doubt that the first exhibition of the Design Museum in London relied on. Quite a program.
Solutions for a more breathable future
Pollution peaks are multiplying in Paris, Chamonix or Beijing. Review of prototypes that are already making pollution and solution rhyme.
In Cambridge, an augmented reality cat in the corridors of the junior high school
In Great Britain, a junior high school is welcoming a rather peculiar resident: Cinder, an augmented reality cat fed with solar power and in charge of making sustainable architecture visible.