Roberdo Raval – Hedonistic Freelancer

 
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These pictures might have been edited – however, they are real photos taken on this planet. They show the incredible Gardens By The Bay in Singapore. A breathtaking piece of modern architecture that could be described as a high-tech approach on bringing back nature into an urban environment. The 18 super trees will eventually be covered by each 160.000 plants and creepers. Some of these living structures are capable of producing solar energy for the lighting, others serve as water collectors for the green house at the ground. A long, winding bridge enables people to go for a airwalk in the wood. Other than its name might imply, the greenhouse has a chilly and dry climate, creating a contrast to the tropical climate outside. The whole structe was build “to grab the attention of the young people who are firmly arrested by cyberspace [...] to create a wow-effect”. All pictures by William Cho.

 
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This story sounds like being the plot of one of those kafkaesque French films like Delicatessen or The City Of Lost Children: A postman trips over a stone, and looking down at this object he has a moment of highest inspiration. For the next thrity-three years he collects stones during his everyday work. Then he spends more than two decades to build a structure of dazzling organic beauty: Postman Cheval’s Ideal Palace.

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Robinson Crusoe meets Lost: A really sweet house built in and around an old aeroplane – it has a really sweet view, as well!

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It somehow reminds a trailer park: Little cabins placed into the raw construction shells of city houses. For sure the very minimal space inside these capsulas is not the most amazing factor of this project. Rather, it is the open surrounding and the rustic “hat feeling” that make it a fascinating approach towards young, urban housing in subtropical and tropical climate zones, where life takes place open air. Economy and straighforwardness are further keywords for the project of Filipe Magalhaes and Ana Luisa Soares, that is also why the name consists of a greek rule and a Swedish furniture manufacturer.

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Finally another entry for my Living Structures category! The ‘Nautilus House’ by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain is a living structure in two respects: On the one hand, its organic, fluid shape looks like a giant sea shell. On the other hand, the interior concept of this house includes real gardens. I reckon mister Gaudi would have been just as up for a hangout in this amazing home as captain Nemo!

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The world of mushrooms is truly fascinating…  Though the first creature in this little movie is not even a mushroom, nor it is an animal: Slime molds are bizarre beings, consisting of only one giant, single cell! But their mushroom fellows in this time-lapse show are pretty impressing, too.

Organic structures, greened facades, photo voltaic glass panels, harmonized apartment concepts… This is pretty much the architecture of the future! Soul Commune 2026 is a very promising architecture project aiming a completely new way of joining urbanity and nature. Check out the nice flash gallery on massstudies.com and become astonished! With this entry I open a new category called Living structures for I realized that I post architecture articles pretty frequently.

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Antonio Gaudi was one of the greatest architects ever in my opinion but this article is not about him. Note for the log: Write an article about Gaudi when you are in Barcelona. No, today I am talking about modern architecture. It was a pretty funny coincidence: I was chatting with a musician colleague from Malmoe on MSN. And he has this picture of this certain building as his avatar. I was fascinated just by this 2 x 2 centimeter image, somehow I recognized it but I did not know from where. Read the rest of this entry »