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Stick Stuck - The New Republic on Prefab Housing

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(image is of a Zenkaya Prefab home)

Here's an interesting article on Prefab housing by Sarah Williams Goldhagen in the latest issue of The New Republic magazine.  From the article:

Technologically, there is no reason why houses, like cars, cannot be mass-produced, and in other countries they are constructed that way. Prefabricated, mass-produced homes, like mass-produced cars, offer myriad advantages. Fewer resources, material and labor, are wasted. Weather does not dictate construction schedules. Higher and consistent quality is more easily and reliably achieved, because the product is fabricated in the controlled setting of a manufacturing plant, with all the attendant cost advantages. The Swedish residential building industry has long been dominated by prefabricated construction: nationally uniform building systems made possible an abundance of companies manufacturing high quality kit and modular homes and prefabricated housing components. By the 1980s, prefabrication was used in 85 percent of new residential construction. (Not surprisingly, Sweden-based Ikea offers its own prefabricated house.)

Read the full article here.

Posted by Barnaby Bretton on February 18, 2009 at 04:05 PM in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0)

coll-barreu arquitectos

Bh1  http://www.coll-barreu-arquitectos.com

Posted by Barnaby Bretton on January 08, 2009 at 05:12 PM in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (3)

福島加津也+冨永祥子建築設計事務所 FT Architects

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project column and slab house
2008 柱と床 所在地 
東京都 主要用途 
住宅 延床面積 
105.63m2 主要構造 
鉄筋コンクリート造 location 
Tokyo, Japan principal use 
House total floor area 105.63m2 structure 
Reinforced Concrete <<   
>> photo: Koichi Torimura

http://fta.gotohp.jp/column%20and%20slab/column%20and%20slab12.html

Posted by Barnaby Bretton on January 08, 2009 at 04:30 PM in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (1)

international photography awards / architecture

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http://www.picerpic.com/international_photography_awards.htm

Posted by Barnaby Bretton on December 18, 2008 at 07:47 PM in Architecture, Photography | Permalink | Comments (0)

London as Venice

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Posted by Barnaby Bretton on September 25, 2008 at 03:52 AM in Architecture, Humour, Interesting Stuff, Writing | Permalink | Comments (0)

curiosity.jp

11512934261

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Posted by Barnaby Bretton on September 14, 2008 at 02:50 PM in Architecture, Design, Furniture | Permalink | Comments (2)

Satoshi Kurosaki

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SWITCH
(品川区大井)

品川区大井にある創業85年の老舗の鰻屋さんの建替計画。道路拡張により、敷地縮小が余儀なくされたクライアントのご主人は、創業100年目を新たな場所で迎えることを決意。コンクリートによるモダンな店舗併用住宅の計画が始まりました。

敷地は間口が広く、奥行きが浅い鰻の寝床。ファサードの面積が大きくなる利点を生かし、1階は開口部の少なくし、黒い杉板塀の路地を髣髴したデザインとすることで、老舗の風格を表現しています。2階の居住階はコンクリート打ち放しのデザインでコントラストを表現しました。4.5mのキャンティレバーをもつバルコニーはさながら船のよう。エリアで圧倒的な支持を得る老舗の客層やこれまでの雰囲気をベースにしつつも、新たな領域へのチャレンジを目指しています。

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■掲載雑誌
「建築知識」
「東京カレンダー」
「satisphere4」
「Small House Tokyo」
「Memo 男の部屋」
■掲載書籍
「現代日本の建築vol.2」
「現代日本の空間vol.1」
■WEB
「散歩の達人」
「狭小住宅イズム」

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Posted by Barnaby Bretton on September 10, 2008 at 01:03 AM in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Ortner & Ortner

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MIND EXPANDER
Vienna
1967

The seat shell fixes two persons in a certain position. The lower seat allows one person to sit with their legs slightly open. The thigh of their right leg rests against a step forming the transition to a second seat area that is higher by the thickness of a thigh.
A helmet-like balloon that is connected with the seat can be tilted over the heads of the two people seated. Their heads thus are enclosed a narrow cylindrical space that is covered by a glass-clear plastic dome above which a transparent balloon hovers. A series of lines and stamped-out shapes made of reflective foil are placed on both the dome and the surface of the balloon in such a way that, depending on whether you concentrate on the level closer or further away from you, the elements constantly overlay each other to form new patterns.

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Posted by Barnaby Bretton on September 07, 2008 at 05:07 PM in Architecture, Art | Permalink | Comments (2)

matador

Jagshouse1

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Posted by Barnaby Bretton on April 19, 2008 at 07:51 AM in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0)

Philip Beesley, Architect

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Posted by Barnaby Bretton on December 24, 2007 at 11:07 AM in Architecture | Permalink | Comments (0)

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