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On a steep vineyard slope above the Eisacktal, on South Tyrol’s Ritten plateau, Andreas Gruber Architects sets Val Mira as two towers of raw exposed concrete, each under the region’s stone roofing and lined in wood inside, one turned toward the valley and the other toward the Schlern massif. The studio calls them “artificial rocks”. At Moita Santa de Cima in central Portugal, where dry-stone walls divide the fields, Atelier Espaço P2 settles House in Cerrado into the slope as a single volume of
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Jura Shust’s first solo exhibition in Poland fills Zachęta in Warsaw, where several dozen roots of young spruces, the waste of a Christmas tree plantation, sit on a metal platform under poured tree resin. Żywica is the Slavic word for that resin, from the Proto-Slavic word for life.Yein Lee casts matter as an accomplice at Cukrarna, a collaborator that pushes back. Shawne Brown photographs the margins of the Bible Belt, treating disillusionment as a gift. Shushana Khachatrian builds a chair that
244 (opens the original)
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Oaks and cork oaks had already taken the plot beyond the river at Veade, in northern Portugal, so Parto Atelier pushed Casa de Souvinha further down the slope instead of clearing them. Thick walls of concrete and stone announce the arrival through the trees, working as a boundary rather than a facade.Charly Jolliet wraps Plywood House in plywood throughout, lifted above Broc on timber piles. Jordi Hidalgo Tané borrows the neighbouring industrial park’s prefabricated concrete for a garden room in
243: Bedrock, Ten Tsubo, a Clearing (opens the original)
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The site for the Ersland & Skeie house in Stavanger is mostly one outcrop of bedrock falling steeply to the street. The brief was ordinary, a modest home for a young family. The ground was not, and it set the terms.Each project here begins the same way. Takumi and Riho Wakui read a ten tsubo plot in Kagurazaka back to its Edo-period lots before drawing. PCA-Stream set a 490-seat hall into an existing clearing above Evian so the tree cover stays. Corpo Atelier left two facades almost untouched an
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Paulina Mellado gathers sticks, fibres and wire the way a bird builds a nest, and the tangles harden into structures that hold. It is a way of working that starts outside the maker, with a method borrowed rather than invented.The same is true across this issue. Daniel Berg took a heath and a pine grove as the brief itself. Lasse Sylvest Lilleor named a show after the commands a designer types to make a shape. Glasfurd & Walker drew a menu split three ways into the room that serves it. Trestle bu
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