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CONTAINER HOUSE

  History In the United States, around 1985, Phillip C. Clark recorded that there would be a method for converting one or more cargo containers into habitable buildings. What is a container? The container is a kind of box, made from steel, fiber or aluminum. For this reason, the container is very well structured to withstand the constant use of different types of goods. It is also well known as a ca ...
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Case study: Munich Allianz Arena Stadium

The Allianz Arena stadium, completed in 2004, hosted World Cup matches in Germany 2006 and became an icon of world architecture . With its unusual external and chameleonic appearance, its façade can change colors according team there, red, blue or white . With a capacity of 66 thousand people, the stadium is shared by two teams: FC Bayern München and TSV 1860 München. The Allianz Arena was born in the creative minds of two Swiss architects: ...
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4 motives to hire an architect

The architect is often seen by society as an elite professional, and therefore hired only by the wealthy; Or even unnecessary for most constructions, with the prevailing understanding that with the right manpower it would be possible to build without the need for a project. In this context, an alarming data was raised by the research developed in 2015 by the Datafolha Institute in partnership with the CAU / BR: among Brazilians who have already d ...
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Contemporary architecture: from spectacle and from virtuality

The so-called architecture of spectacle is frequently related to a design method oriented to the product, the finished building, the operation way that was born in Renaissance, with the separation of design, building and use. On other way, the design oriented to the process, based on interfaces production, to open buildings with spaces that can be transformed by work and by experience, searching the users’ autonomy, is frequently related to inf ...
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