The Malabar Hill Forest Trail creates an elevated, winding, wooden walkway for people to experience the 12-acre Malabar Hill forest, one of the last remaining natural ecosystems in Mumbai, India. The project presents a novel way to catalyse the preservation and restoration of often neglected and degrading urban forests that are increasingly prone t...
Project name
Malabar Hill Forest Trail
Architecture firm
IMK Architects
Location
Malabar Hill, Mumbai, India
Tools used
Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Rahul Kadri
Design team
Rahul Kadri, Harish Vyas, Bhumika Ganjawala, Heena Sheikh, Pramod Shelar
Built area
705 m (length of trail)
Collaborators
Concept and preliminary work on the drawings and design: Jindal Steel Works (JSW)
Visualization
IMK Architects
Client
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Public Use Project
The primary aim of the bridge over Fossvogur is to improve the transport connections between Reykjavík and Kópavogur. The bridge is a key project in developing the area’s public space and is designed to be part of the city bigger plan with recreational, ecological and tourist activities in mind.
Project name
Intertwine Bridge
Architecture firm
MASS lab
Location
Reykjavík, Iceland
Principal architect
Duarte Ramalho Fontes
Design team
Duarte Fontes, Giacomo Cruciani, Riccardo Bettini, Amr Ragaei, Arianna di Giampietro, Anna Pabjanczyk
Collaborators
Engineering: Adão da Fonseca engenheiros consultores. Consultants: SEI Studio
Client
Vegageroin and The City of Reykjavik
Status
Idea competition proposal
Winning Project of the Rifat Chadirji Prize (3rd Place) - Competition "Rebuilding Iraq’s Liberated Areas: Mosul’s Housing". Rebuilding on the Tigris River 55 000 Plus-Energy “3D Printed” Housing Units from the Ruins of War Fighting Poverty and Feeding the Post-ISIS Mosul.
Project name
The 5 Farming Bridges
Architecture firm
Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Principal architect
Vincent Callebaut
Typology
Residential › Housing
Located in West Dharma Village, Fangshan District, Beijing, In S&N Resort is favorably sited amidst mountains and trees. Legend has it that the twenty-eighth generation of Bodhidharma disciples of Shaolin Temple in Songshan traveled across the world. When passing through the Baihuashan area, they built temples, spread Buddhism, did good deeds, and...
Project name
In S&N Resort
Architecture firm
Penda China
Location
Xidamo Village, Qingshui Town, Mentougou District, Beijing, China
Principal architect
Sun Dayong, Wan Shuyan
Material
Stone, Brick, Wood, Glass, Steel
Typology
Hotel, Resort, Hospitality
Aedas, BIAD, CREEC won in the International Competition for Chongqing Cuntan Cruise Terminal TOD. The project site sits within the Chongqing’s Cuntan Port area, the city’s key connectivity node along the Yangtze River since ancient times. The project will become a 100,000 sq m mixed-use complex, hosting the terminal station as well as a spade of ur...
Project name
Chongqing Cuntan Cruise Terminal TOD
Architecture firm
Aedas, Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD), China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group (CREEC)
Location
Chongqing, China
Principal architect
Dr. Andy Wen, Global Design Principal; Nicole Liu, Executive Director
Client
Chongqing Jiangbeizui Central Business District Investment Group Co.,Ltd
Typology
Mixed-Use Development
The school looks to facilitate environments that cater to a child’s creative freedom and knowledge. Upon entering the school, people are met with a large semi covered outdoor library space, which acts as the very hearth of the entire design. The school is visually divided into three sectors with the green pockets becoming major points of multilevel...
Project name
The Earth School
Architecture firm
Abhijit Prasanth and Asjad Ahmed
Location
Kafountine, Senegal
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk Revit, Lumion, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop
Design team
Abhijit Prasanth, Asjad Ahmed
Visualization
Abhijit Prasanth
Status
Proposal for a competition
Typology
Educational, School
BAU (Brearley Architects & Urbanists) designs Yuandang bridge that connects Jiangsu and Shanghai.
The Yuandang Pedestrian Bridge celebrates the coming together of Jiangsu Province and Shanghai. The 586m bridge is a hybrid structure incorporating landscape, infrastructure, and architecture. It is located in a key location where the two jurisdiction...
Project name
Yuandang Bridge
Architecture firm
BAU (Brearley Architects & Urbanists)
Location
Qingpu, Shanghai, Suzhou Jiangsu, China
Principal architect
Huang Fang
Design team
Berry Pan Linlu , Zhu Qizhen , Yan Xiaoxi , Guo Liexia, Shi Zhengting, Sheng Bailu, Zhao Zheng
Collaborators
Yangtze River Delta Ecological Integration Development Demonstration Zone Executive Committee (General coordinator); by: China Three Gorges Corporation
Structural engineer
Shanghai Investigation, Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd
Construction
CCCC Shanghai Dredging Co., Ltd.
Photography
Zhu Runzi, Video: Dera (Construction footage provided by CCCC Shanghai Dredging Co., Ltd.)
Client
Construction Bureau of Fen Lake High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Jiangsu Province, Shanghai Qingpu District Water Conservancy Management Institute
Typology
Bridge, Urban design, public landscape
Due to the location of the site in terms of proximity to universities and various industries and science and technology towns and educational and research institutions and proximity to the fourth ring of Isfahan and location on the main route Isfahan-Tehran and Isfahan Najafabad axis has made it possible to establish scientific research. And meet t...
Project name
Knowledge Bridge
Architecture firm
Kalbod Studio Design
Location
Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
Principal architect
Mohamad Rahimizadeh
Design team
Shaghayegh Nemati
Visualization
Shaghayegh Nemati
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Photoshop, Lumion
