New typology
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Project • By FdMP architectes • Apartments
Cedar Housing
Located in Châtelaine's district in Geneva, Cedar Housing responds to a residential zone's upcoming densification. With projects for small buildings and commercial activities nearby, the area, now characterized by individual houses, is set to change. Cedar Housing is the first dwelling of its kind. It reenacts adjoining houses' typology to offer a gradual shift towards a denser urban plan.
Cedar Housing, as its name reveals, is centered on a centenary-old cedar. The tree tells of the history of the site and gives it stamina. It was fundamental to preserve and to highlight, which influenced the design of the building considerably. The layout follows the tree's vegetal belt in a semi-circular fashion. Curves show both in... More
Project • By younghanchung X platial • Residential Landscape
9X9 EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE
In Building,dwelling, thinking, Heidegger mentioned about the relationship about dwelling like below.“These buildings house man. He inhabits them and yet does not dwell in them, when to dwell means merely that we take shelter in them. In today’s housing shortage even this much is reassuring and to the good; residential buildings do indeed provide shelter; today’s houses may even be well planned, easy to keep, attractively cheap, open to air, light, and sun, but-do the houses in themselves hold any guarantee that dwelling occurs in them? Yet those buildings that are not dwelling places remain in turn determined by dwelling insofar as they serve man’s dwelling.”In this text ,Heidegger is posing a problem of architecture that dose not approach... More