Green Lantern House | Carlos García González

January 13, 2013 by bg-martin

The “Green lantern house” takes advantage of the luminescent properties of some materials in order to generate a light accumulator to be used during the late hours of the day and reduce the energy consumption. Green Lantern house | Carlos García González | 2012 Featuring: The Green Lantern House by Carlos García González. Carlos is a Spanish Architect and PhD Researcher at ETSAM, Madrid. He is currently developing his thesis entitled: “Atlas of Exodus“, whilst keeping with his busy work schedule. For […]

Categories: Academia • Tags: academia, Carlos García González, digital, Energy, Luminescent, perforated shell, siteplan, sustainable Architecture, The Green Lantern House

Where The Wild Things Are | Percy Weston

October 10, 2012 by bg-martin

Where The Wild Things Are | Percy Weston Project Description: Where The Wild Things Are imagines a new safari park, wilderness and leisure strip as essential social infrastructure linking Deptford in South-East London to Canary Wharf in Docklands. The strip is a conduit through the metropolis – a filter through which you travel to see the realities of the city in a new light. It juxtaposes the sublime and the ridiculous, until nothing seems more absurd than the goings on around […]

Categories: Archilibs, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, Drafting, drawing, elevation, ink, mix-media, Percy Weston, perspective, Royal College of Art, section, siteplan, sketch

Olympic Archery | Carme Pinos and Enric Miralles

September 23, 2012 by bg-martin

Olympic Archery Barcelona by Carme Pinos and Enric Miralles | 1989 “Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos’ Olympic Archery Range, located in Barcelona, Spain, is comprised of two buildings- the competition building and the training building. Both buildings are almost identical in program, and serve the surface areas developed opposite of them. Each building’s placement and form are influenced by its natural surroundings. The training building was designed to follow the movements of the athletes, resulting in a porch looking onto itself. The […]

Categories: Archilibs, Drafting, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, Barcelona, Carme Pinos, design, diagram, Drafting, drawing, Eric Miralles, landscape, masterplan, siteplan

North County Resource Facility | James Polshek

September 15, 2012 by bg-martin

North County Resource Facility | James Stewart Polshek and Partners | San Marcos, CA | 1982 Black ink, pencil and colored pencil on Mylar.

Categories: Archilibs, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, design, Drafting, drawing, James Polshek, masterplan, siteplan

Spa Tokaj | Michael Sorkin

September 9, 2012 by bg-martin

‘Spa Tokaj’ by Michael Sorkin | near Budapest, Hungary | 1994

Categories: Brave Drawn World, drawings • Tags: drawings, masterplan, Michael Sorkin, mix-media, siteplan