Ephemeral bamboo pavilion designed by the studio nARCHITECTS for the Masadi Green Wonder Festival in Hua Lien (Taiwan). Opened in May 2011, the project is located in the Da Nong Da Fu Forest Park and has been commissioned by the local government in order to rise awareness among the citizens towards enviromental issues.
Photos by Iwan Baan
Source: publicdesignfestival
Carton 5000 is a project by Laurent Boijeot, Sébastien Renauld and Nicolas Turon, presented within the frame of La Ville à l’état gazeux last September. It’s the visual metaphor of the mobile city: for 72 hours 5000 paper boxes continuously shaped the streets of Tours (France) in an architectural transhumance, with a participatory process that involved all the population in changing the ordinary urban landscape.
Photos by: Martin Clément.
Source: publicdesignfestival
Crater Lake, an installation project by 24° Studio will be exhibited at Kobe Biennale 2011 from October 1 through November 23. The project was one of the winners for Shitsurai Art International Competition organized by the city of Kobe, Japan. This multi-use environmental installation serves as a meeting place where every area can be used as seating for visitors to contemplate the surroundings, thus invoking a social interaction within and around.
(via publicdesignfestival)
Source: contemporist.com
For the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010 the Scandinavian studio Rintala Eggertsson Architects proposed Miilu, a wooden site specific installation where to sit and have a rest.
Source: publicdesignfestival
Urban Free Habitat System is a movable and basic 3D structure for public spaces, that fits to the user’s needs. It’s a project by the Danish group N55.
Source: publicdesignfestival
Deep in the Californian desert, Ball-Nogues Studio created Yucca Crater, both a land art project and a recreational spot. It was carried out for the High Desert Test Sites of October, an event to explore the intersections between art and life at large.
Source: publicdesignfestival
Modolo 10×10 Prefab House Brings Affordable Living to Northern Mexico’s Poor (via Inhabitat)
Source: inhabitat.com
