Timeserver architecture
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Project • By Softroom • Exhibitions
The Wahaca Southbank Experiment
The Wahaca Southbank Experiment is a new two-storey temporary restaurant installation, constructed from eight recycled shipping containers that have been ‘washed up’ on to the outdoor terrace of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre this summer. We developed the idea for using the shipping containers not only to remind visitors to the restaurant of the working history of this part of the river, but also for more practical reasons as their limited height allowed us to be able to fit two floors in to the volume of a single storey space.
Situated against the heavy concrete backdrop of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, each container is painted in one of four vibrant colours ranging from deep turquoise to straw yellow, providing a colourf... More
Project • By Saunders Architecture • Housing
Brakke House
This project was the result of good-will and enthusiasm on the part of a small group of architecture and interior architecture students. It´s intention was to protest against exorbitant student housing in Bergen. Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen designed these 3 temporary housing units and then helped build them in the centre of Bergen with students and other volunteers. Three of the students lived there for a 3 month period. One room exhibited alternative urban housing ideas which created a lot of publicity in the Norwegian newspapers that stimulated a debate on the topic of urban housing ideas. More
Living Tomorrow
Living Tomorrow is a temporary building. The project gives an insight in the most innovative technologies that could be integrated in future daily life and working environments. The aim to be the most innovative means that five years after the opening, the building will be demolished. It is expected that in 2007 all things exhibited and integrated in the building will be out of date and probably already part of the daily life. In the pavilion visitors can get acquainted with the products and services, which can enhance the quality of living or working in the near future. On the ground floor the entrance, auditorium, event hall, exhibition room, administration and kitchen are located. On the four levels above, more exhibition rooms, a small... More
Project • By MMW Architects • Art Galleries
GAD
GAD is based on the idea that this semi- temporary gallery, can be disassembled, moved and reassembled easily at any location, within a few days. Ten ordinary steel containers make the basis of the project. Five of them generates the ground floor, three surrounds the central first floor courtyard and the final two closes the square shaped building, giving access to the top floor balcony. Industrial ladders and stairs connect the containers, as they are a part of the main circulation system through the gallery. By designing the components to overlap only partly, the composition of the building seems light and airy, giving GAD lot`s of protected and exposed outdoor space.
The containers are insulated on the inside, and covered with sheets... More
BLUETUBE BAR
The BLUETUBE BAR presents the TUBE-IT system as a feasible and flexible low-cost constructive resource. This system is based on the assembly of “corrugated tube” and “plastic clamps” and it has recently been tested in the construction of a temporary bar for the annual academic festival in Porto - [Queima das Fitas do Porto 2010].
Horizontally, the given intervention area was limited to a 3x3m square, whilst vertically the construction should not exceed 5m high. Constrained by the restricted budget, the requested functional device / building should nonetheless emphasize, by its materiality, an outstanding alluring outcome.
When applying the TUBE-IT system, the chosen main material - corrugated tube - is rolled up around a given existing... More
Oyster farm hangar and temporary dwelling
Set in the remarkable countryside of the Ria d’Etel, in a protected area, this building includes an oyster farm hangar and temporary dwelling.
The project is designed to reflect the changing faces of the surrounding area – a basin at low tide and a sea loch at high tide – a moving object that can be divided, opened up, and closed again at will.
Conceived as a system with multiple configurations, the large space includes two main areas : a hangar and an office / lounge section which gives the oyster farmer (who works alone) a place to relax. A single wood space heater heats the entire wooden structure.
The roof is accessible and offers an excellent vantage point for views of the sea. It as agreen roof system with plants that were cultivat... More
Project • By n!studio • Exhibitions
Temporary structure for archaeological relics inside the ‘Villa Dei Quintili’
The building is inside the Archaeological area of the Villa dei Quintili, between Via Appia Antica and Via Appia Nuova, an authentic archaeological park open to public visitors. The client intentions were to create a temporary structure to shelter, clean and restore the archaeological finds coming from the adjoining excavations. The relation with the historical and natural context played a central role in the project. The close roman cistern, the surrounding vegetation, the different skylines which frame the building view, until the ground itself upon which it lays, have somehow deeply determined the material choices. Materials are essentially two: toughened glass and cor-ten steel. Glass is introduced without the frame and creates a facad... More
Project • By David Kohn Architects • Restaurants
Flash, Temporary Restaurant
FLASH, Temporary Restaurant, Royal Academy of Arts, London
November 2008 – January 2009
Winner of D&AD Yellow Pencil 2009
Situated in the West Room of 6 Burlington Gardens, Flash was a temporary restaurant open for three months as part of the season of contemporary arts, GSK Contemporary hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts. David Kohn Architects collaborated with restaurateurs, Pablo Flack and David Waddington of Bistrotheque, illustrator Rory Crichton and fashion designer Giles Deacon on the design.
The design was inspired by wainscoted interiors, the history of the site as a formal garden to Burlington House and the future of the building as an extension to the Royal Academy’s galleries. A new timber structure made of stacked... More
Project • By studio patricia meneses • Art Galleries
Temporary Showroom
Points transformed into lines, lines that suggest a space.
An intervention where the thread, as basic element of the dress, creates a space where sculpture, architecture and design come together.
The intervention is created from a transparent space that it is generated through the light. A space delimited by multiple transparent threads that, throughout the day vary through the different light reflections.
An intervention, as a passable vertical sculpture, that consists on sewing the space through an artisan process, creating a vertical woven textile where the inner and the outer are diluted suggesting the space.
A temporary space made by ex.studio that dialogues with the pieces of the fashion Spanish designers El Delgado Buil... More