Tag: ephemeral architecture
Qamutit Home
21 October 2020
Qamutit Home21 October 2020
Qamutit (Inuktitut: ᖃᒧᑏᒃ): an Inuit-designed sled for transport on snow and ice. This conceptual sledge-house exhibits a catalogue of ideas and perceptions regarding the notion of ‘home’, dissolving the boundaries between building and environment and between building and meaning. To regard a house as a home is to regard a… Read More
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
22 February 2017
Ange-Jacques Gabriel22 February 2017
On occasion, an architectural drawing can serve as the surviving witness of a moving and complex historical event. Here, on a mutilated sheet of paper drawn in the middle of eighteenth century in the office of the most important architect of his day, we have the only record of a building on the… Read More
Casswell Bank Architects
18 September 2016
Casswell Bank Architects18 September 2016
By Alex Bank and Sam Casswell
The Garden Rooms academy drawing by Casswell Bank Architect’s is a depiction of the relationship between the new shed, the Maltings buildings and its gardens located at the western edge of Bruton. The drawing extends beyond the adjacent road connecting the town with the countryside and the river Brue that… Read More
Isolation or participation?
11 September 2015
Isolation or participation?11 September 2015
Isolation or participation? The immersions were allusions to two contrary attitudes ever present in the deportment of so many in this era: a readiness to join the currents of social change or a determination to isolate oneself, waiting for what might be next.
Nicholas Olsberg: Some Thoughts on Sheds
7 October 2016
Nicholas Olsberg: Some Thoughts on Sheds7 October 2016
By Nicholas Olsberg
Some Thoughts on Sheds In architectural terms I take ‘shed’ as a neutral word, meaning a structure at any scale open at one or two ends, devoted to storage, display or industrial activity, in which the roof providing shelter is its primary element – in effect a cover with minimum… Read More
sketch elevation projection (axonometric isometric) presentation domestic ephemeral architecture