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Ramp House / Archivirus

Architects: Archivirus
Location: Papagou, Athens, Greece
Team: Athanasia Psaraki
Construction Date: 2007
Area: 80 m2
Photos: Athanasia Psarakia, Theo Vranas

Athanasia Psarakia shared with us this house for a skater in Athens, with a very innovative interior for this sport. Pictures and project description below.

ramp The house is a project that aims to redefine the living space based on customer request: a "weathering habitat." The result was an inside curve, which provides the functionality of the home based on the lifestyle of its inhabitants, in the movement.

In space, which was actually an extension of a third floor, we tried first of all achieve a balanced coexistence between old and new. The main material was wood, so he joined a pergola and horizontal blinds of this material, involving the new structure. Through this new harmony with the total volume, but maintains its independence from the rest of the building.

"When the client asked me to design a house where they could skate, immediately eliminated the idea of \u200b\u200bputting a mini ramp in the living room. For me, the challenge of this project was to design a space where the ramp outside the main building components. I wanted to make a house a home ramp and not a ramp. "

"Then I began to imagine a place where straight lines would be curved and flat surfaces are transformed into a ramp or bowl . Playing with these forms and transitions variables that offer, my main goal was to create a functional open space where daily life adopt a feeling of acceleration, which is basically one of the main features of the skate. "

Conceptual Diagram

"Considering this, I designed a house where the living room is a ramp that becomes a bowl to create a border with the room and bathroom. Typical elements of a house as the fireplace and the wineries are hidden within the forms of the ramp. I also tried to incorporate the aesthetics of the street through the concrete, but combined with the cozy atmosphere of a home through the wood. So the pavement in the wood floor becomes the ceiling and kitchen area. In this way, the whole space appears in the actual movement and can flow from one space to another, skating or walking. "

Source: Archivirus, platform architecture

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Video of skyscrapers swaying during an earthquake in Japan, gives almost dizzy.

buildings over 80 floors swaying from side to side due to strong movements caused by the earthquake which arose at that time ...

Apart from a good training to their citizens, sophisticated measures that warn of tsunami warning, defense bunkers ... Japan has some building codes quite stringent to make their buildings are built to cope with earthquakes of magnitudes higher success. Over the years, the country has been gaining experience and improving preventive system, with deep foundations that dampen seismic energy, or a foundation in the carrier system, which causes it to move independently from the rest of the structure. Japan uses the system Hybrid called mass dampers (vibration diffusers at the base of the buildings), the seismic isolation foundations of buildings.

Source: akronoticias, youtube

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China Steven Holl designed for a sustainable and comprehensive microurbe Chinese poems inspired

The Steven Holl U.S. prepares for new Raffles City (Chengdu) , China set "hybrid" Sliced \u200b\u200b building called Block porosity, which the architect considers "a piece" of metropolis whose opening is planned for 2012.

"Our microurbe create a new dynamic public space, an urban terrace on the metropolitan scale of Rockefeller Center. This new terrain is carved with stone steps and ramps, with large pools and fountains, said in a document Holl's office.

Under the project description, urban complex will be located in the pathways interección First Ring and Ren Min Nan, standing out for "geometry divided." buildings, details are inserted in some of the "pores" of the complex.

Among the public spaces including the new city, currently under construction are several green areas, cafés and terraces. While the shopping area will be lit with neon lights.

Public space is framed with the set, which consists of three valleys poems inspired by the Chinese author Du Fu (713-770), detailed the firm Steven Holl Architects.

turn, said that the complex is heated and cooled by a geothermal field with the use of 400 wells. On the podium are also a series of wells designed to collect rainwater, recycled previously natural grass and lilies.

"The purpose of Sliced \u200b\u200bBlock porosity is to form a new public space and offer new ways of building green in Chengdu," the paper concluded .

Source: www.stevenholl.com , www.cnnexpansion.com