21 Editor’s: Copenhagen of course, Gehl Architects, Better Cities
(about Sustainable cities Conference. Foundations and our urban future)
Text: Constantin Goagea
24 Tony Fretton Architects: Concordant urban layers
Tony Fretton Architects has completed a new development of houses in the Dutch town of Den Helder, illustrating an intervention oriented toward the existing context of the city.
32 DOSSIER: Kochi Architect’s Studio
3 proiecte recente si radicale ale tinerilor arhitecti japonezi / three recent and radical projects of young Japanese architects
- 32 47% House
A dwelling whose interior floor area fills up 47% of the space compared to its maximum floor area of the house with reference to the exterior covered space… This one turns the abiguous „outside” and „inside” spaces into a real housing core, not into its edge, just where private life and publicly displayed aspects get significantly interconnected.
- 36 House Y
A small house built on a tiny plot, offering a new approach of the relation between inside and outside through a strategy articulating space and light by interpreting a traditional Japanese principle
- 40 Amida House
A house based on “free section”, which critically re-investigates Le Corbusier’s principles generated with his well-known Dom-ino design
44 Aedes studio: Strategy of Opposites
> Apartment building in Sofia
50 Luciano Cupelloni Architettura: Changeable Functions and Perennial Structure
> Conversion of two pavilions for the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome
55 DOSSIER: C+S Architects
3 infrastructure objects and a post-industrial residential project: history meets technology in 4 refined projects in Venice and the Veneto region.
56 The infrastructure that becomes landscape design
- 58 Designing time
- 61 The inhabited infrastructure
- 66 Urban Lake Housing
Urban Report
- 72 Arhipera: Architecture on the edge
> About a group of social participatory architecture, the evolution from construction per se to community building and a different type of teaching architecture.
Text: Lorin Niculae
- 79 La Terenuri. A Shared Space in Manastur neighborhood, Cluj: or how to re-get the space between blocks of flats
Text: Lala Panait, Silviu Medesan
Smart Systems / rubric supported by Lafarge
- 82 Patkau Architects: Wodden Shells on Ice
> Innovative skating shelters in Canada
- 85 Elii arquitectos: 7 modules for a folded wooden structure
A prefab structure for a house in Pedrezuela, Madrid, displays innovative concepts of assembling based on industrialized wooden panels.
90 Architecture Days 2013: a pavilion with an innovative wooden structure in Cluj
Text: Bogdan Gavriliu
93 Modulab: Ethics and technological innovation in design
Text: Ioana Calen
98 Tandem. Creative Factories #3
- 98 Handbook for the creative industry man. Low-profile and efficient Amsterdam
Text : Constantin Goagea
- 103 Filaret Power Station
Text: Irina Diamandescu
104 Archiprix International 2013: Hunter Douglas Awards
Text: Cosmina Goagea
108 Droog & Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Open house. Welcome to a Future Suburbia
A community experiment in Levittown, USA, with possible prototypes for urbanity and solutions to suburban subsistence
117 Romanian Design Week: Aiming at the product. Combina and Marco collections
> The product design at the Romanian Design Week
Text: Liana Vasilescu
