Margaret Bursa - New Local Zlin

The Czech town of Zlín is the site of a social, industrial and architectural experiment begun by Tomas Bata in 1894. The shoe-making factories that were once the town’s driving force no longer operate and so the social and commercial structure of the town and its suburbs are in decline. Responding to the New Local Manifestoa layer of facilities is laid over and interwoven into the residential neighbourhoods where seven housing typologies are afforded dual functions of work and domestic life.

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Kyle Benjamin Jorgensen

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Drawings by Robert Gilson

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Tom Ngo drawings over at BDIF

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Hans Hollein, Aircraft Carrier Projects, 1964

All of Hollein’s drawings in this book are from his Transformations series, created between 1963 and 1968. In each, an agricultural or urban landscape, often apparently barren, becomes the site for a monumental object. The drawings are visual parodies of Le Corbusier’s concept of architecture as an object in the landscape, an idea exemplified in his seminal book Vers une Architecture (Toward a new architecture), with its images of ocean liners, automobiles, and airplanes-examples of technological ingenuity that stand as singular objects, more worthy of an absolute and dominant place in the world than any other current example of monumental architecture.

“This house works like a chessboard. The pieces move according to the rules of each object… They must always return to the starting point to restart the game… Hence the floor, which set the existing items back in front of the windows… or the paint on the walls, which reveals the discovered fragments, are the rules of the game… Amongst them, moving in an orderly fashion, are tables, books, chairs…” Enric Miralles

From | Operative Drawing I: Miralles | Diffusive Architectures

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Dockyard Project

A self supporting community built onto the body of a disused dockyard loading crane. The design of the system allows a cycle of resources moving degradable waste from the housing to a composting space which then supplies compost to grow food for those living here. The community atmosphere is further expressed through a spiraloling garden that flows up the centre of the crane connecting the individual residences. The top of the crane is also taken up by communal spaces allowing residents to grow their ownh food and also for relaxing spaces with views across the river and surrounding nature reserve

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Tom Ingo - Architectural Absurdity

Absurdity can be a rhetorical device aimed at questioning architectural conventions. Architectural absurdity playfully transgresses within the rules of building formation to create valid alternative assemblages while scrutinizing regulation. The resultant architecture redefines the rituals of program and questions the notion of typology. Unbound by strict conformity to logic, the liberated architect breathes new life into architecture.

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110813 - Shin Takamatsu’s Moon Tower

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Design fiction 1/2/3 by Casey Cripe : socks-studio)

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Melun-Sénart project by OMA

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West Bank Industrial Workers Club by Brian D. Andrews

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Julius Koch, architectural drawings - Heidelberg Castle

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