Month: July 2017

Desert City is a celebration of xerophytic plants and the production of a whole culture of interests and events around them. The project proposes an educational, sustainable and ecological complex in which to overlap activities that range from the exhibiting, growing and breeding of cactus from all over the world in a large garden and greenhouse, to housing an array of leisure activities such as presentations, small conventions, workshops or exhibitions. The large building contains, besides the greenhouse and exhibition/sales space, restaurant, shop, storage, and office areas. These activities are sheltered by a big lightweight container that responds, in terms of scale and materiality, to the near presence of the A-1 Highway. A “billboard-building”, parallel to the road, organized internally by a sequence of symmetries organized around a cloister-like cactus garden, which receives newcomers, and the greenhouse space, covered by a cable roof designed according to the logic of tensegrity structures.

Desert City is a celebration of xerophytic plants and the production of a whole culture of interests and events around them. The project proposes an educational, sustainable and ecological complex in which to overlap activities that range from the exhibiting, growing and breeding of cactus from all over the world in a large garden and greenhouse, to housing an array of leisure activities such as presentations, small conventions, workshops or exhibitions. The large building contains, besides the greenhouse and exhibition/sales space, restaurant, shop, storage, and office areas. These activities are sheltered by a big lightweight container that responds, in terms of scale and materiality, to the near presence of the A-1 Highway. A “billboard-building”, parallel to the road, organized internally by a sequence of symmetries organized around a cloister-like cactus garden, which receives newcomers, and the greenhouse space, covered by a cable roof designed according to the logic of tensegrity structures.

Columbia GSAPP’s Extraction Lab, led by Christoph Kumpusch, is a five year-long project beginning in August of this year with a student workshop at the 2017 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. “With the desert as a canvas, and Burning Man as a context,” the project will deploy a roof structure into the heart of the gathering in order to—among other goals—”extract what is most absent in the landscape: water.” In this episode of GSAPP Conversations, Kumpusch outlines just what the new laboratory has planned.

Columbia GSAPP’s Extraction Lab, led by Christoph Kumpusch, is a five year-long project beginning in August of this year with a student workshop at the 2017 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. “With the desert as a canvas, and Burning Man as a context,” the project will deploy a roof structure into the heart of the gathering in order to—among other goals—”extract what is most absent in the landscape: water.” In this episode of GSAPP Conversations, Kumpusch outlines just what the new laboratory has planned.

The cylinder house is designed to fit between the trees of a wooded lot near Lyon, France.

The cylinder house is designed to fit between the trees of a wooded lot near Lyon, France.

Located in the city of Vale de Cambra, the Eira House was a challenge of rehabilitation with about 400m² of construction.

Located in the city of Vale de Cambra, the Eira House was a challenge of rehabilitation with about 400m² of construction.

Situation

Situation