vienna AUSTRIA

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

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Nikolay Hristov Ivanov: Fiber Garden is generating a micro cilmate (for the Scientific Research Center) on the base of urban farming through natural patterns. The main concept is emergence of three interrelated layers: skin – solar panels, skeleton – sprinkling/watering system and the green layer - plants. The generated pattern is based on the sun direction and allows the distributed solar panels to collect and transform sun energy. It also keeps a certain level of porosity to allow enough natural light to get indoors for the plants layer.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

CENTER FOR URBAN FARMING COMPETITION
Honorable Mention - $100

team: Palette Architecture LLC, Peter Miller, John Sunwoo, Jeff Wandersman

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

Palette Architecture: C.H.E.F. CSA is a repurposing of agricultural production to provide a novel connection to food that fits within the distinct economic and cultural patterns of New York City life. Rather than simply architecturalizing farming within the constraints of an already built environment, the C.H.E.F. CSA is primarily a single-source service provider that allows city dwellers access to high-efficiency farming that is fully customized to gourmet trends and individual tastes; hallmarks of urban culinary traditions.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

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francis a. BITONTI (FADstudio) + andrew ZIENTEK (Terrain Studios): This proposal for the Jardins de Métis garden festival uses augmented reality and other location based services to explore the notion of a secret garden . In the project Visitors, using their own smart‐phones or those provided (and tethered), can view and create another dimension of the garden. The interface allows visitors to choose a new species of plant, attach a secret message and then “plant” it in the garden to be viewable by successive visitors. The garden grows, receiving and containing knowledge that is hidden from plain view.

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belgrade SERBIA

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wolfgang TSCHAPELLER: The Centre for Promotion of Sciences in Belgrade will be floating high above the ground. It operates on 3 levels. Firstly, on the level of the City of Belgrade it will be an optimistic sign positioned on one of the main routes of the city. Secondly for Blok 39 it will be sign, canopy and portico. Thirdly, as a building being programmed to promote sciences it (dis)plays on visions of technology and construction.

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vienna AUSTRIA

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gijo paul GEORGE / hend ALMATROUK: A frozen trajectory becoming an urban mnemonic device inspired the design of the new facade for the Pushkinsky cinema. A witness to history’s turbulences and cycles of change, the Pushkinsky (originally Rossiya) personify the very definition of metamorphosis and change. Having much in common with the movies she exhibits, she saw her young days in the limelight as well as a steady decline and fall from grace.Emerging again as the most important cinema in the glamerous new Moscow, it is her time again in the spotlight, only this time with a flourish.

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hong kong CHINA

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han TANG: The aim for this design is to create a visionary icon for Parramatta’s CBD by introducing a world-class urban experience art center defined by hybrid urban environments. Different functional spaces are woven together by way of an elevated Concourse, creating a unified whole which has significant presence in the city. The Concourse is a bridging element which acts as circulation for the art center but also as a commercial zone which includes lively urban activities such as shopping, restaurants, bars, and other public amenities. It will be a 24 hour space which will support the theater functions but also operate independently.

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TAIWAN

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florencia PITA: The Ferry Port Terminal is a building arranged as a block, the block that defines the building’s boundaries form an enclosure that is penetrated by a number of objects. Sixteen large skylights perforate the surface of this block; they not only distribute the light to the lower levels but also act as structural artifacts. The top surface of this block is designed as a landscape, one that is populated by the engorged cones of the skylights and also by the unique volumes of the three towers. This landscape is the connecting tissue for the towers and also an urban field for the city.

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maribor SLOVENIA

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brian de LUNA + james VINCENT: This proposal for the new art gallery in Maribor, Slovenia is based on a relationship where the new building creates a dialog between its local environment and the larger urban context of Maribor. The project sets to create a dynamic relationship between the old city of Maribor and the new Art Gallery by creating a constant state of fluidity through the site, becoming a vital cultural hub along the Drava River. The building is composed of four continuous loops that merge into one space. Each loop contains it own separate program-the Children’s Museum, the Architecture Museum, the Creative Industrial Museum, and the Digital Arts Museum.

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TURKEY

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melis EYUBOGLU+tuberk ALTUNTAS: Evolo Skyscraper 2011 Competition Entry - The site is in the central business district of Istanbul. Around 70’s; warehouses, factories were on these plots. However as the city started to expand, the factories moved to the city boundaries and the plots started to host skyscrapers.

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new york NEW YORK

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