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Re-Wilding in Architecture: Concepts, Applications, and Examples

August 23, 2023 Claire Brodka 0

In an age where humanity’s detrimental impact on the environment has become increasingly evident, the concept of re-wilding is emerging as a powerful approach to conservation and ecological restoration. In line with growing attention on landscape architecture in recent years, the idea of removing human intervention from our natural surroundings in order to restore a stable equilibrium seems to offer a low-effort, ethereal way to right fundamental climate wrongs. But is a lack of meddling in nature really all there is to re-wilding, and how does this relate to architecture and design? We look at key concepts, applications, and examples to find out.

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Paul and Monique House / Atelier Vens Vanbelle

August 23, 2023 Paula Pintos 0

The children had left home for a number of years, and retirement was just around the corner, so Paul and Monique thought: “Let’s build a new house, tailored to our new way of life so that we can face the future without any worries (and renovation or patchwork)…”

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CourtSide Café / TCTC

August 23, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

CourtSide is a dessert cafe located in Seongsu-dong, directly operated by TCTC, a design studio based in Seoul. There were three essential conditions to be met from the standpoint of introducing our space directly. 

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Multifunctional Service Center of Liuba Mountain Scenic Area / Shulin Architectural Design

August 23, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

Liuba is located in the south of the Qinling Mountains, experiencing four distinct seasons and pleasant weather. As the entrance to Liuba Mountain Scenic Area, the service center is located in a mountain lap in Liuba County. It mainly contains reception and consultation, public toilets, cultural and creative products sales, and a book bar not only providing a place for rest for the villagers, but also showcasing a strong sense of openness.

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The Bond Commercial Building / fitzpatrick+partners

August 22, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

The Bond is an innovative six-story engineered timber office building located in a suburban business park approximately 30km from Sydney.   The building integrates 10,500m2 of commercial office space, health consultation, and treatment rooms, a childcare facility, and a ground floor supporting retail uses.  It is the first of 3 buildings to edge a new food and beverage plaza precinct. The site is part of the Cumberland Plain, lands of the Dhargug Nation, being the inland Aboriginal peoples of the Sydney hinterland.  The original grasslands were rich in animals and plants and sustained these peoples for Millennia. The area was developed in the late 1700s as one of Australia’s first farms, with the actual building site being an early brickworks, creating the bricks for the expansion of the suburbs north of Sydney harbor in the 1950s. It has subsequently been redeveloped as a new residential and working park.

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Stanaćev Granados clads cube-shaped Chilean house in white wood

August 22, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Stanaćev Granados has created an oceanside holiday house shaped like a cube and clad in wood on the coast of Chile. Located in the village of Matanzas, Casa Kuvo was designed using simple, geometric forms and has a largely white palette to complement its coastal site. At 70 square metres, the two-bedroom,

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Dezeen Agenda features campaign to save Marcel Breuer’s holiday home from demolition

August 22, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the launch of a campaign to prevent the demolition of Marcel Breuer’s holiday home. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Non-profit organisation Cape Cod Modern House Trust initiated a campaign to raise $1.2 million so it can purchase Breuer’s holiday home in Cape Cod, USA, to save

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NA House / Dom Architect Studio

August 22, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

This house was designed for a young family, with the desire to encapsulate simple and familiar elements, much like a small house in the countryside where they were born and raised.