#floating-architecture tag

1 month ago

This 'Impossible' Villa Floats on Just 4 Inverted Brick Cones and a Thatched Roof - Yanko Design

Sarchina Villa floats above the terrain on four tapered white-brick columns, preserving landscape, animating shadows, and combining a thatched roof with glazed living areas.

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3 months ago

Floating Cities Might Actually Save Us (And They're Gorgeous) - Yanko Design

Novasis is a scalable, modular floating platform that cultivates algae, generates renewable energy and freshwater, and restores marine ecosystems for climate-positive ocean habitation.

fromwww.designboom.com

3 months ago

floating platform integrates algae cultivation, renewable energy and freshwater production

the floating structure functions as a self-sufficient ecosystem addressing climate change and resource scarcity designed for research, recreation, and habitation,

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fromDesign Milk

3 months ago

AquaPraca Floating Plaza / Carlo Ratti Associati + Howeler + Yoon Architecture

AquaPraca is a floating cultural plaza by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Howeler + Yoon serving as an Italian Pavilion landmark at COP30.

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This Floating Plaza in the Amazon Is Climate Architecture at Work - Yanko Design

A 400-square-meter floating public square, AquaPraça, adapts to tidal changes up to four meters by floating, serving as a permanent cultural hub in the Amazon.

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Cyclones, mines and a murder: The cursed story of the floating hotel that traveled the Pacific and ended up in North Korea

Metabolist architects proposed visionary floating megastructures; later an Australian diver attempted a simpler, real-world floating hotel inspired by those ideas.

natura futura restores floating neighborhood of seven 'raft' houses in ecuador

Natura Futura revives a Las Balsas floating neighborhood to reconnect housing, work, and community life directly with the Babahoyo River using local techniques.

fromCornell Chronicle

At COP30, floating plaza shifts perspective of sea-level rise | Cornell Chronicle

Aboard Italy's floating pavilion at this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, delegates may experience a "surreal," perspective-altering encounter with the water. As they descend the sloped perimeter of the 4,300-square-foot steel platform called "AquaPraça" ("water plaza" in Portuguese), visitors will find themselves eye-level with the brackish, muddy currents of the Pará River in the Amazon Delta region, a gateway to the Atlantic Ocean, and with concerns about sea-level rise.

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BUZZ renovates concrete ruin to bring pixelated community space to rural china

An abandoned concrete bridge becomes the core for a lightweight, horizontal building that appears to float and visually integrate with surrounding wheat fields.

Design

5 months ago

tadao ando plans floating dubai museum of art with twisting concrete silhouette

A rounded, monolithic museum will float on Dubai Creek, using folded concrete, triangular apertures, and an oculus to sculpt light-filled gallery spaces.

Environment

7 months ago

jie han's hypernature architecture concept embraces living with water

Floating, adaptive domes translate rising tides into embodied experiences, proposing scalable architecture that integrates social life with ecological water dynamics.

8 months ago

10 Best Floating Architectural Designs That Redefine Waterside Living - Yanko Design

Water inspires innovative architectural designs that enhance aquatic experiences.

fromArchDaily

10 months ago

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Howeler + Yoon Design Floating Plaza to be Transported from Venice Biennale to COP30 in Brazil

AquaPraça is a floating cultural plaza designed for climate dialogue, adapting to water levels and intended to be a permanent landmark in the Amazon.