24 Editor’s: Tactical urbanism / Text: Cosmin Caciuc
26 Dosmasuno arquitectos: Translucent Wrapping
> The social services centre in Móstoles, Madrid goes beyond the rigid functional constraints and has an expressive reaction to the surrounding context through subtracted volumetric shapes and porous façades.
40 DOSSIER: ARCò
> Three schools built for the Bedouin communities located in a Middle East. Ecoregionalism, a sustainable and expressive architecture that uses minimum construction materials and local resources: earth, recycled tires, bamboo, metal sheet, straw and wood:
- 41 Sustainable Rehabilitation. Abu Hindi School
- 44 Building with 2,200 Used Tyres. Al Khan Al Ahmar School
- 48 The Children’s Land. Um al Nasser School
Tetrarc architects:
- 54 A Well Thought-out Densification
> A semi-collective social housing project in Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie, France, and a view on the gradual renovation at the heart of small- and medium-sized towns.
- 62 Paloma – Cultural Confluences
> A complex dedicated to contemporary music at Nîmes Métropole, France, brings the physical and symbolic tensions together to produce a variable character.
70 Exhibit Arhitectura: From Powerful Gestures, to Bricolage
> Humanitas Bookshop at Cismigiu – an eclectic project that may be seen as a superposition of simple gestures.
76 Corvin Cristian: Worlds Coming Inside
- 76 Lovely Surrealism. BON Restaurant
- 82 Meze Taverna
Urban Report
- 94 Fattinger Orso Architektur: Catalysts for Community
> Festival Center Regionale 12, Murau, Austria
> Bellevue: the yellow house: experimental structure in the public space, Linz, Austria
> Déjà-vu: a modular installation for artistic events, Linz, Austria
102 Gap Filler: Summer Pallet Pavilion – a Community Venue
Activation of an urban site in Christchurch, New Zeeland
Smart Systems
- 104 Behnisch Architekten: Holistic Collaboration and Another Kind of Life at the Office
> The Unilever Headquarters in Hamburg for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- 116 Modulab: High Tech on the Eastern Front
> The first trans-media art lab in Bucharest
