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New Orleans’ Equity-Driven Reforestation Plan

February 1, 2023 Jared Green 0

New Orleans experiences the worst urban heat island effect in the country, with temperatures nearly 9 F° higher than nearby natural areas. The city also lost more than 200,000 trees from Hurricane Katrina, dropping its overall tree canopy to just 18.5 percent.

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Free House / Chip Studio

February 1, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

A rural lot on the outskirts of Loja, with an irregular topography allows the exploration of a composition with volumes of different proportions in a productive rural house based on the logic of production systems and circular economy. The location seeks to blend in, but at the same time to open up to the landscape, therefore, one of the design premises was to establish layers of the landscape according to the routes and pauses that the spatial arrangement of the house allows.

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Il Quinto Winery / Ubik Architecture

February 1, 2023 Paula Pintos 0

New wine cellar IL Quinto, on the hills of Magliano in Toscana, a small village in the province of Grosseto. Its architecture is intended to enter into mimesis with the landscape and to be discovered little by little as one crosses the estate that hosts it, eschewing any monumental attempt.

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The PAVILION / VIASCAPE design

February 1, 2023 Collin Chen 0

Breakthrough : Rebuilding the daily public life for the residents
The Pavilion is located in XiangDong village, a Huangpu riverside community that is composed of mostly grungy apartment buildings.  480 local families live here in a room of only 10 square meters of clear floor space. The designer applied a positive design approach with a focus on a questionnaire survey and interviews as a start. With this method, the final design provides a reconstructed space that maintains local inhabitants’ daily life.

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LHL House / DaoHo Studio

February 1, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

A 4.5 x 15 m residential building located in a narrowed tube houses neighborhood in Ha Long city, Vietnam. Ha Long is a coastal city famous for tourism with the magnificent and beautiful landscape of Ha Long Bay.