We featured an Amsterdam-inspired project in the East Bay this week, which set us on one of those world wide web blackouts where we re-established consciousness three hours later while staring at Steven Holl's concept renderings for his Zuidas Housing site.
The yellow membrane is very very yellow, even in its preliminary design stage -- it's EPDM, the popular roofing material. And the skin is a green glass curtain wall. The design incorporates eighty-nine apartments of six floorplans at a cost of $14M. But just wait til you see its profile. Why doesn't this happen here?
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Steven Holl, Please Make Them Build This
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Let me get this straight, the actual building walls are made of glass? The profile is fantastic. In areas where one might find smaller or narrower than normal lots, something like this would be an easy antidote for efficient use of space and upping the numbers on density. Now how to get around height limits...
This is interesting, I'm just not so sure how well it would age. However, I went to Holl's site. His "Fukuoka Housing" project has some real strengths. I like his simple designs better I think.
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