Bamboo Cabin Plan : Sticky Rice Dumpling / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung Feng's "Bamboo Cabin Plan" is a series of small-scale architectural works built primarily with bamboo, exploring the traditional ways people wrap food. The first piece in this project, Bamboo Cabin Plan: Sticky Rice Dumpling, is situated along a bamboo forest hiking trail in Lugu Township, Nantou County. It offers a shaded resting place for hikers passing through the area. 

PAB House / SAAG Arquitetura

The PAB House project is organized around the arrangement of two L-shaped blocks. The first, more sober and dense, houses the private area, offering privacy and comfort. The second block, with its more open and fluid configuration, houses the social area, characterized by large openings that promote continuous integration with the outdoors, creating a sense of unity between the spaces.

Seine Open-Air Swimming Site / Mater Studio

The Grenelle Seine swimming site offered a unique opportunity to take part in a historic project for Parisians, while reaffirming the role of architects, even in highly technical undertakings. After a hundred-year ban on swimming in the Seine, Mater Studio designed and led the construction of a structure that had yet to exist: a seasonal and fully demountable site, designed to accommodate 300 people, including a 950 m², 60-metre-long swimming area, a 415 m² floating structure, and 480 m² of facilities on land. The entire site was installed on the footprint of a former car park and was designed not to disturb the neighbouring residential barges, with which it shares the entire water infrastructure. But above all, the challenge was to invite the public to take a gesture that is as simple as it is intimidating: to dive into the Seine. To achieve this, the project had to act simultaneously on three key levels: the site, the body, and the imagination.

Steel House / NOMO STUDIO

The house is conceived as a monolithic volume with refined geometry, suspended over a steeply sloping topography. Access is through an intermediate level, via a recessed entrance in a completely blank façade, which reinforces the perception of mass and opacity in contrast with the lightness of the main volume. The concrete platforms leading to the house replicate the effect of suspension, establishing a formal dialogue with the building and accentuating the sensation of floating above the ground.

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