Monthly Archives: January 2008

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Cumulus, Oslo

01/01/2008

Europan Norway 9

Cumulus

Cosy Chair – DROOG

Cosy Chair replaces the mono-functional wall mounted radiator in the form of a piece of comfortable furniture that heats locally right where one might sit and rest for a cup of tea, to read a book or watch TV. The Cosy Chair cuts energy consumption by providing a field of differentiated temperature: heating precisely where [more]

State Garden Festival 2012 – Löbau, Germany

Part of the garden show competition brief was to transform an existing sugar factory into a flower house during the garden exhibition and to create rentable event spaces after the exhibition ends. The post-industrial transformation is based on a strengthening of the impressive existing interior qualities and plays with the over-sized scale of the structure. [more]

Baumeister B7

Nachaltiges Bauen – in der Wüste von Dubailand Masterplan von SMAQ Architekten

State Garden Exhibition – Deggendorf, Germany

The proposed car park acts as both building and modulated landscape.  Embedded in the topography of the embankment with a flowing façade of wooden slats, the structures become a spatial counterpart to the revamped festival ground. Natural forces which shape the embankment as well as the existing railway tracks influence the plan and provide the [more]

Art Now Hotel – Beijing, China

Beijing Art Now Hotel aims to set new standards inBeijing’s cultural scene. It commissioned international designers and architects to design unique hotel rooms. The design for the “curtain room” draws on a necessary provision forBeijing’s mosquito plagued climate: the mosquito net. Silk nets provide intimate shelter, diffuse and subtle light conditions, mystifying half transparencies — [more]

In Terms of Water – Los Angeles, USA

L.A. in Terms of Water investigates a local dichotomy: how does such a dry a place become known for a wet lifestyle of green lawns and swimming pools?  Los Angeles’ complex system of water supply and usage is explored by confronting the engineering masterpieces of aqueducts and reservoirs that bring water to the city. Imagined [more]

Crown – Dubai, U.A.E.

Mixed-use urban development for approximately 40.000 inhabitants for an area of approximately 480 ha in Dubai.

SMAQ wins Competition in Norway

SMAQ wins the Europan 9 competition for a site located in Oslo, Norway. The project “Culmulus” takes on the challenge of diversifying social structure along with the sustainability imperative. “Cumulus” is an urban strategy that conceives public spaces as related to the environmental dynamics of northern living. The proposal for a mixed-used development (re)binds the [more]

Cumulus – Grorud Center, Oslo

Cumulus is an urban strategy that conceptualizes public spaces as related to the environmental dynamics of northern living. The proposal focuses on a mixed-used development that (re)binds the different social spheres, programs, scales, and ecologies of the existing neighborhood. This manifests in a new urban center that is planned with an innovative rainwater management concept [more]