Article magazine # 112

 

Magazine content 112

 

24. Editor’s: Rem Koolhaas’s Fundamentals and a few doubts
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

26. The World Inside the Tower
A house designed by Starh on a tiny plot in Bucharest is hermetic and charming, rigorous and complex, innovative and cosy.

40. Cannatà & Fernandes: Landscape Laboratory, a Conversion without Ambiguities
While asserting its indisputable contemporaneity, the intervention of Cannatà & Fernandes in Guimarães, Portugal, aims at recovering the architectural character of an existing building.

50. Robert Konieczny KWK Promes: Auto-Family House
>  Rethinking single family house typology into a suburban context

56. A.LT architekti: Living with the Memory of a Vernacular Background
An individual house in Orava, Slovakia, finds discreetly its place in the landscape, suggesting local vernacular elements, yet without turning to pastiches or non-critical copying.

62. DOSSIER: The Good Logic. cepezed projects
> Three examples of industrial architecture in the Netherlands

     63. Trs Transport Cooling
     67. Van Wijk Printers
     70. Pas Reform

Urban Report 
84. Habitat for Humanity România: Above and Beyond Money

> Building Social Housings as a Cooperation and Education Strategy

Smart Systems 
     88. Smart Highways

Rethinking highways marks a new phase of modernity. For Studio Roosegaarde & Heijmans this means safety, sustainability and experience. For ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd], sound barriers articulate and integrate urban landscape behind.

     94. Transsolar Energietechnik: Synergistic Engineering
> 2 study cases of climate-responsive architecture
Intro: Cosmin Caciuc / Text: Thomas Auer

104. Neuroarchitecture, the Ultimate Frontier between Brain and Environment
Ana Iorga, Ioana Calen (Buyer Brain). 
Neurosciences bring the promise of spaces to contribute, positively speaking, to the configuration of tempers, emotions and feelings of locals. 

110. Bucharest Design Center : Limited Series… or Design for the Sake of Art
> Limited series in Romanian design
Text: Anca Fetcu

116. The Lamp which Was Never Made (so Far). Le Corbusier : Projecteur 365 
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

119. Back to chaos
Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu  / Photo: Stefan Tuchila