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Kengo Kuma embellishes Kyoto hotel with timber-skeleton theatre stage

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The Noh stage is accessed via restaurant Ryozen on the second floor "Constructing a roofed building was not permitted on the site where the Noh stage now stands," Kuma said. Instead of the traditional kagami-ita backdrop of a painted pine tree, the stage now frames views of real trees.

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ETH Zurich explores novel fabrication method for light and reusable concrete staircase

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The Cadenza staircase is the latest contribution to the NEST building, a laboratory for experimental fabrication techniques that ETH Zurich shares with other research institutes in the Swiss city of Dübendorf. Their production leads to little waste as a single set of 3D-printed formwork permits the production of all the steps."

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Unknown Works creates "otherworldly" music studio in London garden

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Designed for an electronic music producer, the soundproof studio is playfully named after its scalloped Accoya wood cladding, which has been charred using the Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban. metre height of the permitted development rules, Unknown Works partially embedded the studio into the garden.

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Young Architect Guide: The Three Pillars of Form-Finding in Architecture

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These physically driven techniques use data and analysis to help us refine a design’s performance in areas like stability, safety and load-bearing capacity to achieve a harmonious, creative and stable structure. There are a number of physically-driven form-finding techniques. UAD ), Shaoxing, China | Photos by Qiang Zhao.

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A New Generation of Earthship Owners Looks For Climate Solutions in the Past

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Building and maintenance techniques are intentionally simple so that they can be taught and learned by laypeople. Long before "sustainable design" was a buzz phrase, treading lightly was baked into earthship construction, from harvesting rainwater and snowmelt to processing blackwater and gray water to energy production via solar panels.

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Are We Thinking About 3D-Printed Housing All Wrong?

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In 2018, Texas-based 3D-printing company ICON collaborated with housing nonprofit New Story to unveil the Chicon House , the first permitted 3D-printed home in the United States, at Austins SXSW festival. Some using the technology to build say it can help with the affordable housing crisis, but its not the cure-all its sometimes framed as.

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5 hidden benefits of mass timber design

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The term refers to the use of advanced techniques to combine wood products in various layer formats to create structures that are strong and versatile. The International Building Construction Code recognizes the proven safety of mass timber and permits these structural types up to 18 stories.

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