Category Archives: Competitions

The Hang-Out

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The “Hang-Out” is an elevated viewing platform, suspended amid the trees, to create a secluded space with an extreme viewpoint and close proximity to nature. The Hang-Out sways with its supporting environment, abstracting and reinforcing its connection with its surroundings by providing experiences beyond those typically associated with the woodland setting.

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The Hang-Out provides a habitable enclosure for outdoor living, more akin to a tent, yacht or caravan than a hut or log cabin. The internal spaces are enclosed by an inverted kevlar tent, draped between the weaves of the structural basket. Not only does the kevlar skin provides protection from the elements but it also creates hammocks for inhabitation as it droops between the structural spars.

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This Is Not A Displaced House

The “Bivacco” Competition

A few months ago Luca Rizzi Brignoli, Davide Neri and I decided to enter a competition to design a 20 cubic meter shelter, known as a bivacco, for hikers in the Italian alps. We decided to enter 2 weeks before the deadline and what you see is the result of two weeks of evening toil, which was a lot of fun.  The basic concept was to make the building as tall as possible so that it would work as a waypoint for hikers, provide a look out platform and create a larger surface area for photo-voltaics.

High(dro)-Rise

In 2011 Amanda Bate and I entered the Evolo Magazine sky-scraper competition with High(dro)-Rise.

The proposal is for an osmotic power plant situated on the Danshu River in Taipei, making use of the fresh and salt water available in the location. Aqua-cultural and water leisure

industries are integrated into the system taking advantage of the different salinities of the exhaust waters. The scheme would supplement the fading light manufacture associated with

the ‘made in taiwan’ brand, provide sustainable energy for the ever expanding metropolis and recreate a cultural link with the feared Danshu.