clothes house by MVRDV / casa per tutti at milan triennale

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in the atrium of the milan triennale 

 

 

'clothes house' by dutch architects MVRDV 

 

 

 

 

 

it’s made from second hand clothes packaged in plastic bags

 

 

make it right -
actor and activist brad pitt founded the MIR foundation (make it right) 
to begin to fill the need for affordable, sustainable houses of high design in order to try

to rebuild the 9th lower ward in new orleans.
 

MVRDV was invited by MIR to design prototype houses as part of revitalizing the neighborhood.
MVRDV developed 5 escape houses which are all lifted in a different way.
construction of the first houses is expected to start soon. 

AMO ride again

AMO, the research arm of Office for Metropolitan Architecture, recently unveiled their design for new experimental and exhibition spaces for the Prada Art Foundation near Milan.

The development will involve transforming an early 20th-century industrial site south of Milan and adding an exhibition building, auditorium and museum tower to the existing seven structures.

The complex will accommodate events dedicated to cinema, design, architecture, philosophy, fashion and performance, as well as housing selections of works from the Prada Foundation collection. Above image © AMO*OMA

“We plan to add three new structures that vastly extend the range of its facilities and accommodations” says Rem Koolhaas of OMA. “The new Foundation is intended as a collection of artifacts that encounters several architectural typologies. Above image © AMO*OMA

“Not only will the range of spatial conditions be extended, but also the range of contents itself: apart from spaces for assembly and performance, both Prada’s and Luna Rossa’s archives will be opened, establishing a continuity of creative and intellectual effort

Above image © AMO*OMA

Photographs by Roberto Marossi, courtesy of Fondazione Prada unless otherwise credited.
Here’s some text from the Prada Foundation:
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Unveiling the Prada Foundation
AMO, the think-tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was commissioned by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli to design the intervention on and transformation of an early 20th -century industrial site south of Milan to create new experimental spaces for the Prada Art Foundation.

The total exhibition space of 17,500 m2 will comprise 7,500 m2 of an existing industrial complex and approximately 10,000 m2 of new buildings. The complex will house the Foundation’s different events, which will be dedicated to disciplines ranging from cinema to design, architecture to philosophy, and fashion to performance. It will further include a permanent exhibition space for displaying the result of more than 15 years of the Foundation’s activities in the form of large-scale installations.

The Prada Foundation’s new art centre and permanent exhibition space is situated in a location that includes buildings dating from 1910 belonging to one of Milan’s first manufacturing companies. Preserved in their original conditions, there are seven different existing structures of warehouses, laboratories and brewing silos surrounded by a large courtyard.

AMO’s project adds an exhibition building, an auditorium and a museum tower to the existing structure to house selections of works from the collection. The project’s unique approach includes the idea of the co-existence of contemporary architecture with the regeneration of an historic area, representing the evolution of the industrial development of Milan that continues to the present day.

The project is lead by Rem Koolhaas with Alexander Reichert and is the latest in a series of OMA-AMO Prada collaborations that have resulted in the epicenter stores, catwalks for fashion shows, exhibitions and T-Shirt designs.

Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli founded the Prada Foundation in 1993, with the artistic direction of Germano Celante beginning in 1995. The Foundation is a non-profit organization, generated by passion for contemporary art.

Since its inception, the Foundation has commissioned and produced special installations in close collaboration with artists such as among others Anish Kapoor, Marc Quinn, Carsten Höller, and Thomas Demand.

Above photograph by Frans Parthesius, © OMA

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Posted by Rose Etherington

Pallet House by I-Bbeam

Architects I-Beam Design constructed a house for refugees made from wooden shipping pallets in a New York warehouse last month.

Designed for refugees, the house can be quickly assembled and needs no extra materials transported as pallets are used to deliver supplies of food, clothing and medical supplies to disaster areas.

Houses made from pallets would not only provide temporary shelter but could be adapted using locally available materials into permanent housing.

The following information is from I-Beam:

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Refugee Housing comes to 57th Street

The nondescript warehouse on the corner of West 57th street at the entrance to the Henry Hudson Parkway is usually home to the assorted boxes, crates and old furniture you would expect to find in a warehouse. But for the past week it has been home to an entirely different type of inhabitant; a full-scale house built entirely from castaway shipping pallets.

For the past week New York Architect firm I-Beam Design has been building a prototype of their award-winning refugee Pallette House in preparation for its premiere at the Milan Architecture Triennale. The Triennale entitled, ‘A Home For All’ promotes research into emergency housing in order to collect and compare plans for a different constructive, social and economic model of the home and of communities.

I-Beam’s Palette House is made of wooden shipping palettes. Palettes are versatile, recyclable, sustainable, and easily assembled. Their transportation cost is negligible because they are used to carry shipments of clothing, food, and medical supplies to disaster areas.

Although most disaster housing is temporary, the Palette House easily evolves naturally from emergency shelter to permanent house with the addition local materials like rubble, stone, earth, mud, plaster and concrete.

Architects Suzan Wines and Azin Valy built the Pallete House with the generous support of Douglas and Helena Durst and the Chashama Performance group who donated the space for construction. Pallets were donated by Dominick Davi of Pallets Unlimited. Jimmy Di Domenico and Mario Denucci where the contractors that donated their time, tools, skills and generosity to make this project happen.

Additionally, I-Beam Design is looking for a home for their Pallette house. They are looking to donate the house to any worthy organization looking to exhibit it or use it for humanitarian housing.

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