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Hostile architecture [a] is an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide behavior. It often targets people who use or rely on public space more than others, such as youth, poor people, and homeless people , by restricting the physical behaviours they can engage in. [ 1 ]
A shelter is an architectural structure or natural formation (or a combination of the two) [1] providing protection from the local environment. [2] A shelter can serve as a home or be provided by a residential institution. [3] [4] It can be understood as both a temporary and a permanent structure. [5] In the American Counterculture of the 1960s ...
Shigeru Ban. Takatori Catholic Church is a temporary church building erected in Kobe after the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. It was donated (deconstructed and moved) to Taiwan in 2005. Shigeru Ban (坂 茂, Ban Shigeru, born 5 August 1957)[ 2] is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard ...
Lloyd Kahn. Lloyd Kahn (born April 28, 1935) [ 1][ 2] is an American publisher, editor, author, photographer, carpenter, and self-taught architect. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, Inc., and is the former Shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He is a pioneer of the green building and green architecture movements.
Besides cities, new ideas of how a garden should be appeared in 18th century England, making place for the English landscape garden (aka jardin à l'anglaise), characterized by an idealized view of nature, and the use of Greco-Roman or Gothic ruins, bridges, and other picturesque architecture, designed to recreate an idyllic pastoral landscape.
Interior architecture is the design of a building or shelter from inside out, or the design of a new interior for a type of home that can be fixed. It can refer to the initial design and plan used for a building's interior, to that interior's later redesign made to accommodate a changed purpose, or to the significant revision of an original ...
Superadobe is a form of earthbag construction that was developed by Iranian architect Nader Khalili. [1] The technique uses layered long fabric tubes or bags filled with adobe to form a compression structure. [2] The resulting beehive -shaped structures employ corbelled arches, corbelled domes, and vaults to create sturdy single and double ...
Rural Khmer houses are a traditional house type of the Khmer people . Typically, rural Khmer two-story buildings, varying in size from 4 metres (13 ft) by 6 metres (20 ft) to about 6 by 10 metres (33 ft). The basic structure consists of a wooden frame, and the roof is erected before the walls on the upper floor are inserted.