[ENC 107] Nuestra cara mengua

****** Estudios sobre el aspecto de la gente de hace 10.000 años ha revelado que la cabeza y cara de nuestros ancestros era un 30% más grande que ahora.Cambios en la dieta parecen ser las principales razones de éste cambio. El cambio a una dieta más ligera de agricultores y ganaderos significó que mandíbulas, dientes, … Read more [ENC 107] Nuestra cara mengua

[ENC 106] PET Architecture

****** PET Architecture: Los edificios como mascotas ****** Tokio es una fascinante capital con un universo de arquitectura en épocas, estilos y escalas. Debe ser esto lo que ha llevado a Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, el japonés tras Atelier Bow-Wow, a crear sus propias definiciones para clasificar distintas tipologías. Pet Architecture es una singular relación entre los pequeños edificos … Read more [ENC 106] PET Architecture

[ENC 105] Small architecture

****** Many times the small buildings are the largest. No need to design a big building for doing good architecture, and in fact with a very little budget it is possible to do great things. This fantastic TASCHEN book englobes examples of ‘Small Architecture’ in which architects are faced with small situations resolving them brilliantly. … Read more [ENC 105] Small architecture

[ENC104] Height Tax

Height Tax ****** Being tall is expensive. You need more of everything just to sustain yourself, and for most of it either you pay or the environment does. Tall people are an increasing burden on the planet. A 20% increase in height equals a 73% increase in weight. And all those tall people feed, transport … Read more [ENC104] Height Tax

[ENC103] Casa del Té de Terunobu Fujimori.

******* Terunobu Fujimori, es un destacado historiador de la arquitectura japonesa moderna que comenzó a diseñar su propia arquitectura en 1990. Desde entonces, ha creado una serie de edificios originales no consolidados por las formas o estilos anteriores, ofreciendo sorpresas continuas dentro del mundo de la arquitectura. La arquitectura surrealista de Fujimori apareció en medio … Read more [ENC103] Casa del Té de Terunobu Fujimori.

[ENC102] Is Shoebox Living the Future?

****** San Francisco Considers Teeny-Tiny Apartments: Is Shoebox Living the Future? ****** It’s a conundrum any urban dweller is all too familiar with: not enough space, a constant influx of people, and skyrocketing rent prices. Some cities believe the answer is to shrink the minimum apartment size, to build ‘micro-units’ for singles and couples. The … Read more [ENC102] Is Shoebox Living the Future?

[ENC 101] 40 metros cuadrados de felicidad

****** Uno de los principios fundamentales del budismo afirma que quien no tiene nada lo posee todo. Algo así deben pensar las personas que han apostado por sustituir sus viviendas de 100 m2 o más, por una de 40 o incluso de 10 m2. El movimiento de las tiny houses surgió en Japón en la … Read more [ENC 101] 40 metros cuadrados de felicidad

[ENC100] Impresiones 4D. Material inteligente

* * * * * * El concepto es el trabajo de Skylar Tibbits , un investigador en el departamento de arquitectura del MIT’s, en colaboración con Stratasys Ltd. y Autodesk Inc. En lugar de simplemente imprimir un trozo de plástico con forma, en realidad se puede crear formas que una boquilla fija de impresión 3-D no podía realizar. Los … Read more [ENC100] Impresiones 4D. Material inteligente

[ENC099] Xs ecológico

* * * * * * XS, tanto en su primera versión como en su versión ecológica, se inspira en las posibilidades de un pensamiento alternativo. Un proyecto modesto puede resultar más creativo, en muchos aspectos, que una megaestructura. En sus páginas, se presenta un amplio abanico de modos de construir que minimizan el daño … Read more [ENC099] Xs ecológico

[ENC098] The incredible shrinking houses

****** The incredible shrinking houses: The average new British home is now just 925 square feet – barely HALF the size they were in the 1920s ****** Millions of Britons are living in ‘rabbit hutch’ family homes that have halved in size since the 1920s, it was revealed today. The average semi-detached house now has … Read more [ENC098] The incredible shrinking houses

[ENC097] Carnival Urbanism

****** The Company: Carnival Urbanism for Shrinking Cities ****** THE COMPANY is a framework of urban intervention that seeks to stabilize shrinking neighborhoods through a large number of small-scale, temporary occupations of vacated buildings. Its process of quickly phasing in architecture and program over time, through testing and experimentation, is preferable to the slow, top-down … Read more [ENC097] Carnival Urbanism

[ENC096] Cracking the Code: Guide for Tiny Houses

****** Cracking the Building Code on Tiny Houses with Ryan Mitchell ****** This guide to building codes & zoning for tiny houses is designed to help you logically navigate all the red tape when it comes to housing. It helps you quickly familiarize yourself with some of the key bureaucratic road blocks, suggest possible pathways … Read more [ENC096] Cracking the Code: Guide for Tiny Houses

[ENC095] Apartamentos que encogen de Tamaño

****** Apartment sizes shrink as prices soar ****** Europeans have been living in apartments for centuries, but the idea of apartment living didn’t really take off in Australia until the mid to late 1990s. Since then, the idea of a low maintenance home, close to amenities, has taken hold. Melbourne and Sydney have embraced apartment … Read more [ENC095] Apartamentos que encogen de Tamaño

[ENC094] Retrofit + shrink wrap Dubai : an urban recovery plan

****** Retrofit + shrink wrap Dubai : an urban recovery plan by Charles H. Curran, M. Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ****** Dubai is in crisis. The overall vacancy rate of the city continues to grow as more buildings come online with few or no tenants; moreover, the population has declined by one quarter of a … Read more [ENC094] Retrofit + shrink wrap Dubai : an urban recovery plan

[ENC093] Shrink-Wrap

****** This text was posted based on a panel discussion Aaron Betsky led on Saturday, October 30, at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with Hani Rashid, Winy Maas, and Wolf Prix. Below is the text I gave those three gentlemen in preparation for the event. ****** » Last night, wrapping up the leftovers of the usual too-large dinner in that … Read more [ENC093] Shrink-Wrap

[ENC092] Menguan las oficinas de arquitectura

****** Number of mid-size architecture firms shrink, new entrants increased ****** The Creative Industries Innovation Centre report shows the number of mid-size architectural firms have shrunk between 2009 and 2011. Larger firms – those with more than 200 employees – more than doubled, with new entrants boosting the number of practices at the smaller end. … Read more [ENC092] Menguan las oficinas de arquitectura

[ENC091] Disminuye el Valle del Ruhr

****** The Ruhr Valley, which developed less from historically grown cities than from huge industrial settlements, was especially hard hit by processes of deindustrialization after World War II. Beginning in the mid-1950s, employment in the mining industry fell drastically; many mines closed, and in some cities of the Ruhr Valley unemployment reached 20 percent. … Read more [ENC091] Disminuye el Valle del Ruhr

[ENC090] Shrinking Liverpool-Manchester

****** Manchester and Liverpool lie in the North-West of England, barely thirty-five miles apart. In the early nineteenth century, they epitomised the beginning of the industrial age; Manchester is justifiably known as the first industrial city in the world. Although it was between these two municipalities that Great Britain’s first passenger railway ran, the cities … Read more [ENC090] Shrinking Liverpool-Manchester

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