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Earth Architecture

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DESIGN FOREST

Thinking about what happens to the materials and the lot after the building is taken apart is important for the design of sustainable buildings. By planting trees in the surrounding area at the beginning of the life cycle, a fully-fledged forest remains at the end of the cycle and not an empty plot of land.

Kacper

TINTIM ATRAE

Project is about rethinkig using raw material such as earth. The building is design to be house for 30 families with a low cost material. New technology - earth 3D printing let the project to be affordable and unique for context of northern Ghana.

Tychelle and Giovanni

ASASE YAA VILLAGE - Earth Made Housing Competition

Together, my group (Giovanni Montrel & Jaisha Victorian) and I chose 3 core values to drive our design. We wanted to bring back the usage of the vernacular architecture of the region while also expanding the capabilities of earth brick design and creating spaces for cultural traditions.

usman

TREESPACE

Bolgatanga, Ghana is an ideal location for earth materials due to climate, availability, history, and forging a sustainable future. The goal for Treespace apartment complex is, to provide a modern living experience with rammed earth construction.

Tariq

Cracked hill

Cracked Hill is a building design that attempts to meet the challenge of locating such a large building in the context of an area completely dominated by wildlife beauty

Sara and Habiba

Tectonic Variation

A project that aims to show the beauty of the traditions of Shirakawa-go by displaying it on the a wooden tectonic facade that connects back to the village and its villagers

chaeyeon and 2 others

INDELIBLE WOUND

Have you ever been down into the ground? We focus on what happens under the ground and the space we can look at in it. The goal is to show the harmony and contrast between nature and man-made. Lower your eyes from looking up at the sky to the ground. A space to experience and imagine the process from before the creation of Iceland to the future is provided.

Yu-Hsuan and 2 others

CLIMATE SEESAW

Human activities have caused weather unbalanced, even caused weather whiplash. The project is a seesaw-like architecture, it wants to emphasize the moment when the balance collapses. Humans are the critical element in this system, the seesaw will return to a stable state at last, but the harm caused by humans is irreversible.

Laura Isabella and 2 others

WOVEN WORK

Based on traditional patterns woven by Indian women, the project recalls a tradition based on manual labor as well as creative work. Because the patterns are made up of solids and voids, the project transfers them to a set of courtyards determined by the directional relationship of the weave formed by the modules and the courtyard.

Ketan

The Only Way Ahead

Exploring how to create a sustainable future

John

The Arboreal Perspective

A Proposed Re-interpretation of Observation Towers in the Lake Nakuru National Park.

meraj and 4 others

Weather the Storm

This project is a story about observation, understanding and accepting challenges for best results. The starting point of narrating this story was understanding the elements, limitation and opportunities for questioning “what if?”. What if people walk on the roof of the building? What if a bridge embraces a tree?