Head of School at UNSW Built Environment and Professor of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, climate change, embodied carbon, cities
Philip Oldfield
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It means each home will have an external balcony, and a second facing inwards toward the lush green courtyard
Design by O’Brian van der Steen, Taller SBH and Polen Paisaje
Social housing courtyard design for Eivassa, Spain
There are no corridors here. Instead there are *16* separate elevators and stairs each serving two apartments.
This can actually save space and means each home is dual aspect, getting light and air from both sides - thread 🧵
Cute urban infill housing in Tehran, Iran by Razigar Group
Retrofit of balconies to turn them into a power station
Has an amazing name in German - Balkonkraftwerk!
Cooperative housing in Zurich, by Lutjens Padmanabhan Architects
Can you build a skyscraper from wood and straw?
ETC Hyllie in Malmo is 12 storeys, with 65 apartments, built from a mass timber frame with straw infill panels.
It is so light, a big structural challenge was to stop it lifting off in the wind. No little pig jokes please….
Here’s another example, again with the soft pink colour scheme
An apartment block completed in Zurich in 1970, but refurbished (complete with awnings) in 2016 by Harder Haas Partners
Such a shame Herman Hertzberger’s SoZa offices are set to be demolished in The Hague.
Only 36 years old, it would be an enormous waste of materials, labour and embodied carbon.
Also… just take a look at that plan!
There is a campaign to save the building here
www.change.org/p/save-soza-...
Philip Oldfield
Philip Oldfield
Philip Oldfield
Want your building to look hot, but your occupants to stay cool?
Add soft pink awnings!
This is in Zurich, by Meier Hug Architects
