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The art works of Clément Bagot are combining large and micro scale. In fact, the distance between the observer and the art piece define the size of the worlds that Bagot is creating. In the one hand he's producing huge drawing like cartography or large scale microscopic views and in the other hand he's crafting impressiv models of citys, tower, floating islands. All of those are higly detailed and made of paper, cardboard, wood and plexiglas.

Following is an extract of a beautiful series of pictures of Shipwreck. I really like the timeless aspect of those ships waitng their slow destruction by outside elements. They looks like ruins in a desert, with no real scale ... just amazing!

Following is an extract of a beautiful series of pictures of Shipwreck. I really like the timeless aspect of those ships waitng their slow destruction by outside elements. They looks like ruins in a desert, with no real scale ... just amazing!

The pretty cold weather in Paris made me think about igloo building! (sadly it's not possible there...) Building an igloo is a very interesting concept of using one material, the ice, and building a close space without any transformation of the material, any nails or glue, just ice! This free material had already inspired some architects that desiged some cool pavillion for the Snow Show . I supposed that they were not part of the building team (if that ever happened) ! Tadao Ando @ the snow show Zaha Hadid @the Snow show

The pretty cold weather in Paris made me think about igloo building! (sadly it's not possible there...) Building an igloo is a very interesting concept of using one material, the ice, and building a close space without any transformation of the material, any nails or glue, just ice! This free material had already inspired some architects that desiged some cool pavillion for the Snow Show . I supposed that they were not part of the building team (if that ever happened) ! Tadao Ando @ the snow show Zaha Hadid @the Snow show

Another example of self-construction in Bernard Rudofsky's Architecture without Architects . Dwellings below, fields upstairs One of the most radical solutions in the field of shelter is represented by the underground towns and villages in the Chinese loess belt. Loess is silt, transported and deposited by the wind. Because of its great softness and high porosity (45 per cent), it can be easily carved. In places, roads have been cut as much as 40 feet deep into the original level by the action of wheels. The photographs show settlements of the most rigorous, not to say abstract, design near Tungkwan (Honnan). The dark squares in the flat landscape are pits an eighth of an acre in an area, or about the size of a tennis court. Their vertical sides are 25 to 30 feet high. L-shaped staircases lead to the apartmments below whose rooms are about 30 feet deep and 15 feet wide, and measure about 15 feet to the top of the vaulted ceiling. They are lighted and aired by openings that give ont...

Another example of self-construction in Bernard Rudofsky's Architecture without Architects . Dwellings below, fields upstairs One of the most radical solutions in the field of shelter is represented by the underground towns and villages in the Chinese loess belt. Loess is silt, transported and deposited by the wind. Because of its great softness and high porosity (45 per cent), it can be easily carved. In places, roads have been cut as much as 40 feet deep into the original level by the action of wheels. The photographs show settlements of the most rigorous, not to say abstract, design near Tungkwan (Honnan). The dark squares in the flat landscape are pits an eighth of an acre in an area, or about the size of a tennis court. Their vertical sides are 25 to 30 feet high. L-shaped staircases lead to the apartmments below whose rooms are about 30 feet deep and 15 feet wide, and measure about 15 feet to the top of the vaulted ceiling. They are lighted and aired by openings that give ont...

Last Issue of the I.A.A.C. Institue of (Advanced Architecture of Catalunya) architecture 2007-2008 competition was about "self fab sustainable housing", following you'll will see the 3 prizes that have been decerned to international students/architects. Awarded projects: 1st Prize: F1C243 Ming Tang Dihua Yang CHINA This proposal uses a traditional local material, implementing geometry elements in a pertinent way creating structures able to transform and re-inform themselves . The jury values its landscape integration and the possibility of being constructed as prototype. 2nd Prize: 5923BC Luis Aguirre Manso SPAIN The jury values the hybridisation of light construction systems that rise from the ground, and the functional scheme surrounding the chimney, that follows principles of tradi...

Last Issue of the I.A.A.C. Institue of (Advanced Architecture of Catalunya) architecture 2007-2008 competition was about "self fab sustainable housing", following you'll will see the 3 prizes that have been decerned to international students/architects. Awarded projects: 1st Prize: F1C243 Ming Tang Dihua Yang CHINA This proposal uses a traditional local material, implementing geometry elements in a pertinent way creating structures able to transform and re-inform themselves . The jury values its landscape integration and the possibility of being constructed as prototype. 2nd Prize: 5923BC Luis Aguirre Manso SPAIN The jury values the hybridisation of light construction systems that rise from the ground, and the functional scheme surrounding the chimney, that follows principles of tradi...