Steeling victories: two winning schemes from Living Steel.Living Steel, a worldwide programme to stimulate innovation in the design and construction of housing, recently awarded two prizes in an international design competition. With two sites--one in Poland, the other in India--the competition focused on the economic, environmental and social aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl of growing populations, and was developed in accordance with guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. set out by the UIA UIA Universidad Iberoamericana (México) UIA Union of International Associations UIA United Iraqi Alliance UIA University of Antwerp UIA Union Internationale des Avocats (the International Union of Architects). From 300 expressions of interest, 10 firms were paid an honorarium HONORARIUM. A recompense for services rendered. It is usually applied only to the recompense given to persons whose business is connected with science; as the fee paid to counsel. 2. of [euro]10 000 and invited to submit designs for a five-storey apartment building in Warsaw, with a further 10 set a similar brief in Kolkata, India. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chaired by Glenn Murcutt Glenn Murcutt (born 25 July 1936, London, England) while his parents were in Europe for the Olympic Games, is an Australian Architect. He is also the founding president of the Australian Architecture Association. He won the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1992, and the Pritzker Prize in 2002. , the independent jury were asked to consider each submission in terms of how steel was used to improve the economic, environmental and social performance of the housing. From 18 completed entries, the design for Warsaw by Dutch architects Following is a list of Dutch architects in alphabetical order: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Dutch architects A
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kick Start, the winning scheme for Warsaw, proposed a lightweight replicable kit, that could be assembled in a variety of configurations to appeal to taste, affordability and required specification. Weighing just 2500kg, the units are capable of being stacked up to six levels, and can be easily delivered by road and assembled using small cranes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Piercy Conner also adopted a modular prefabricated pre·fab·ri·cate tr.v. pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing, pre·fab·ri·cates 1. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and approach in SymHouse Mk 1; extending their proven track record of innovative housing design, however, their proposal went one stage further with an ingenious spatial strategy. By proposing a conditioned inner core set within a peripheral layer of more responsive inside/outside spaces, this scheme satisfied not only the environmental aspirations of the brief, allowing both 'natures' to successfully co-exist, but also the social aspirations with a series of spaces that would link internal and external environments. Carl Perry, the chairman of the Living Steel Steering Group, has confirmed that it is intended that both schemes will be developed with the architects working with local supply chains. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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