The Stone: Art Concept Lifts Underground Habitat Into the Sky
Posted By Andrew Michler On October 4, 2010 @ 3:30 pm In Art | 1 Comment
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Sometimes it takes a radical idea to refresh the way we think about our built environment. The Stone by Architect Marcelo Ertorteguy [5] provides just that vision – he proposes that an underground bunker be suspended in the air within the confines of a block of petrified soil. Many approaches to building [6] site structures beneath the earth or towering amid the clouds, but this competition-winning proposal [7] wryly asks: “why not both?”
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As climate change and population pressure demand new building strategies many architects have responded by going down or going up. Underground homes [9] are a becoming more and more an environmentally viable form of architecture, as the earth tempers the interior climate. Modular buildings [10] stacked to the sky, is a response to the dynamic space needs for a mobile and dense population.
The Stone concept is a visualization of the two. The idea is simple enough—an underground bunker is attached to a petrified earthen case. The block of earth is craned [11] above the landscape and suspended in the air. A dynamic and ironic attempt to create an “inhabitable cloud” is the dramatic result. The work becomes a blend of architecture and art, below and above — a statement on the crossroads of two green building trends.
Via ArchDaily [12]
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[5] Marcelo Ertorteguy: http://www.samplert.com/
[6] building: http://inhabitat.com/sustainable-building/
[7] competition-winning proposal: http://www.somersetart.org/gallery.html
[8] Image: http://inhabitat.com/2010/10/04/the-stone-art-concept-lifts-underground-habitat-into-the-sky/new-5-59/
[9] Underground homes: http://inhabitat.com/2010/08/18/6-fascinating-underground-homes-that-go-above-and-beyond/
[10] Modular buildings: http://inhabitat.com/2010/08/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-green-building-from-tetris/
[11] craned: http://inhabitat.com/?attachment_id=169525
[12] ArchDaily: http://www.archdaily.com/79548/art-in-architecture-competition-winner/
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