The peculiarity of these prefab houses lost in the forest outside Wuhan - idealist / news

2022-06-15 13:15:50 By : Mr. jack wang

Natural Campsite is a project launched by the Chinese design studio Wiki-World.Developed on the outskirts of the popular Chinese city of Wuhan, it was born to serve as an experimentation ground with prefabricated wooden structures to advance the techniques of this type of construction.It is also a campus where construction courses are open to both the local community and university students, with the aim of offering interested people alternatives to pursue sustainable lifestyles.One of the new experiments that were carried out there was conducted by Wiki-World and Advanced Architecure Lab. This consisted in adding three new structures to the complex, generically nicknamed Forest Cabin, although each of them has its own name: Flying Cube , Magic Cube and Cube Bricks.It is a collection of new homes that playfully employ unique shapes and materials.The designers interviewed local families for some sort of guidance, prompting them to imagine living in nature.Apparently, the children said the structures of this type looked like toys lost in the forest.And this was the basis on which these cabins were created.With about 80 square meters each, the three prefabricated buildings are built with wood extracted from the area.In addition, to protect the environment, despite being very close to each other, they were built to protect the protective environment of the trees.The play feature that children have associated with this type of construction is evident inside and out.The Flying Cube is a reflective tree house, 4.5 meters above the ground and accessible via a ladder.Its interior consists of a simple wooden space with a loft sleeping net.Two large windows let in fresh air, while a terrace offers a beautiful view from above.Magic Cube and Cube Bricks are built with modular wooden blocks and fit together like Lego bricks.Cube Bricks features a modest living room with a central wood burning stove and a loft with tree views.Outside, there is a porch large enough to accommodate two chairs.The Magic Cube structure can be expanded to create new spaces.One serves as an extended entrance, while the other forms a covered porch.A large sliding glass door opens into the living room.These prefabricated structures in the forest were built for educational and playful purposes.Without a doubt, they have given shape to that feeling expressed by the little ones, creating a space that allows the imagination of those who visit them to fly.Among the companies affected by the war in Ukraine is Solidbud, a manufacturer of prefabricated wooden houses, whose distribution abroad was interrupted due to the war events.This is what the prefabricated wooden houses made in Ukraine and distributed by this company look like.Solidbud was founded in 2003. Since then, it has produced more than 550 properties, from buildings to hotels, all made using wood.Its business is split into four: turnkey prefab homes, 'tiny homes', unfinished homes and structural frames for those owners who want to build the rest of the home to their liking.The desire to leave the city life and move to the countryside is increasingly widespread and it is not difficult to find some villages for sale.A trend that does not only concern Italy.In Spain, for example, in the municipality of Monfero, in La Coruña, there is a Galician village for sale for 150,000 euros.Real estate company Carmen Sanz points out in the announcement that the property is ideal for a long-term family investment, but is also perfect for agricultural or tourism projects.This house, built in 1795, is the oldest in Manhattan.It is now on the market for the first time for $ 8.9 millionThe European capitals are confirmed as the best in the world for combining personal life and work, according to the Work-Life Balance Index created by Kisi, a company that provides technological solutions for companies.The study evaluates the habitability, work intensity or social services of cities, highlighting that the pandemic was a time when many families reconsidered their priorities, from moving to another city to changing jobs, but also the change that teleworking or returning to the office has brought about in many countries and in many companies.In the wake of the latest editions and with a commitment to contemporaneity and new awareness that renew the role of the institution: the next Architecture Biennale, curated by Lesley Lokko, an architect born in Scotland, but of Ghanaian citizenship, will be entitled " The Laboratory of the Future "and will put on the table the issues of social, racial and climatic justice, obviously alongside those more specifically related to design."The new technologies - said Lokko in the press conference at the presentation of the 18th edition - appear and disappear continuously, offering us unfiltered glimpses of life in parts of the world that we will probably never visit, let alone understand. But seeing near and far at the same time is also , in the words of Du Bois and Fanon, a form of 'double consciousness', the internal conflict of all subordinate or colonized groups, which describes the majority of the world, not just 'over there', in the so-called poor, developing countries , Arabs, but also 'here', in the metropolises and landscapes of the globalized North. Here in Europe we are talking about minorities and diversity, but the truth is that the minorities of the West are the global majority; diversity is our norm. C "It is a place where all issues of equity, resources, race, hope and fear converge and merge. Africa. Anthropologically, we are all Africans. And what happens in Africa happens to all of us."On the podium of the companies that have most reduced CO2 emissions in the environment is also an Italian company: in fact, the Consorzio Acqua Potabile ranks second, with a cut in carbon dioxide by as much as 45.2 percent.CAP is right behind Switzerland's Logitech, with a 46.8 percent cut in harmful emissions, while Swedish Ica is third, with a 42.4 percent reduction.The ranking was drawn up by the Financial Times and Statista and was based on the ratio between tons of CO2 emitted and the million euros generated in terms of turnover.The construction sector in China has taken a new step forward in the automation of works with the project of the Yangqu Dam, a hydroelectric power plant at the foot of Tibet that aims to be completed in 2024. All this thanks to artificial intelligence, using excavators, trucks, tractors, without a single worker, and raising a 180-meter wall using a 3D printer.The project is led by Tsinghua University, according to which the construction of this dam is similar to the work of a 3D printer.The dam, which is already under construction, will be built layer by layer, connecting the entire fleet of trucks, tractors and excavators with artificial intelligence.