You might have seen our previous posts on Geotectura- from turning air into water and electromagnetic skyscrapers, Joseph Cory has a list of very intriguing projects, and I-RISE is no exception. Selected as a runner up for the Metropolis Magazine Next Generation Competition, I-RISE is a multi-story prefab residential unit designed to have the smallest possible footprint, both on the site and in an ecological sense. Its intention is to create a modular structure that is simple to build, yet flexible enough to accommodate the changing needs of its occupants.
Lovely standing alone but hideous in that bottom photo where they succeed only in looking like projects.
i like the first image, but the second one is creepy
It’s disappointing that there are no specifics. How wide and tall is it ? What materials. Why is it easy to build ? A tantalizing preview though.
I abhor the height involved – especially in the first pic … showing the unit against the backdrop of “regular” houses. (If height is partially due to the fact that it has its own water/waste system, surely they could have gone *down* (underground) for that.
A smaller footprint is all to the good but there are better ways of achieving it that do not involve quite this much distancing of the unit’s residents from nature & neighbours.
Final thought: It’s a container turned on end … and I have to wonder why so many architects seem to think that people want to (or should) live in glorified tin boxes??
Glorified tin box, glorified wooden box, glorified concrete box…regardless of material there are a lot of boxes out there.
We’re living in an era where metals are very sexy materials with a certain status. Concrete, brick, wood, etc. are not given the same respect as being edgy as metal is right now.
Yikes, looks like Le Corbusier, the jive-narcissist.