Case Studies: 15 Clerkenwell Close
Case Study – office and apartment building in London, 15 Clerkenwell Close, architecture by Groupwork.
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Sisyphus and the Portland Stone
Acting as material broker, Amaya Hernandez writes about saving more than 100 million years old stone from being ground into aggregate for a concrete planter.
Moss Doesn’t Grow…
Artist Helena Keskküla wanted to work on stone as she tracked stone-related episodes in the text and illustrations of The Kalevide, and looked for connections between stone and Estonianness.
Working Stone
Designing in close collaboration with what the material provides, ’Working Stone’ summer school uncovered some interesting alternative approaches to productive reuse.
Houses of Time. Carbonate rock in Estonian buildings
Geologist Helle Perens emphasises that instead of worrying about the environmental impact of quarrying building stone, we should worry that there are plans for the near future to extract senseless amounts of it, including very high-quality stone, only to crush it into aggregate.
Linnahall is Sedimenting
Architect Madli Kaljuste takes a look at Linnahall that hides traces of 400-million-years-old life in its walls.
Sedimentary Flows and Creative Geologies
The essay ‘Sedimentary Flows and Creative Geologies’ by Galaad Van Daele was commissioned for the publication Reset Materials–Towards Sustainable Architecture, edited by Chrissie Muhr and published by the Danish Architectural Press (Arkitektens Forlag, September 2023).
4-2024 (118): Air
Air and its composition concern every field of spatial design, both at the micro and macro levels. The way in which airflows are controlled reveals how a built space relates to its surrounding environment. Hence, in this issue we ask: how does your house breathe?
Infrastructure—the Circulatory System of the Superorganism
Humankind is transforming the planet into a vast infrastructural project serving its economic system. Landscape architect Hannes Aava explores how this development is reflected in critical theory and discusses what must be done to prevent the metabolism of humankind from becoming a metastasis.
Why Study Rail Baltic?
All new hard infrastructure should be engineered to double as social infrastructure, writes Mattias Malk.
