T r e e D w e l l i n g ; ‘A new world’

An adventure is to come but no one kows about it as for now.

Everything started when a family decided to go for a walk in the nearby Grünewald forest.

Suddenly, after steping on a small hill, a door opens exposing an underground path,just with the needed amount of light provided with candles and small holes which allow limited light and vision of the outside.

Teapots and teacups, umrellas and mirrors under the uncertain impression of climbing up and around.

The adventure has begun!

Grunewald Forest in Luxembourg

1846 Luxembourgish government sells 6.60 km²of the remaining forest to Baron Ziegesar due to economical reasons

1890 union between the Netherlands and Luxembourg endsnow Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands owned the land

The following year, Grand Duke Adolphe buys the forest back(by now 24.43 km²)

1934 due to the great depression, Grand Duchess Charlottesells much of the Grünewald to the Luxembourgian government.

Since 1934, the size of the Grünewald has FALLEN as a resultof the expansion of the city and the construction of numerous roads

Luxembourg, Gréngewald Forest and kids

The forsets in Luxembourg are getting smaller in size due to the expansion of the city.

I would like to ask people in the city to reconsider and to experience the forest as an adventure.

My design is a set of foldable tree houses which you can only acces through an underground tunnel

and make your way up around the tree trunk, not realizing where you are and arriving

to a different world up by the tree canopies. Call it The Alice in Wonderland effect

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Third viewing platformwith articulated roof

Big slide exit

Second viewing platform with articulated roof

First viewing platform

Tunnel exit/Beggining of the “New World”

Tunnel spiral up and arround the tree trunk

Underground tunnel

Secret entrance

Wood origami shapesIdea of flexibility and distortion of the tunnel space

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spiral towards the upper world starts now

Once outside, after making your way up and around the tree, the experience continues in the shape of a bridge which will take you for a journey over the trees, being able to enjoy a new prespective of the city, a new world

Articulated liftable roofShape it your way!

Roof

Balustrade

Bridge

Clamping system

Tree trunk

C h o c o l a t e D w e l l i n g ; ‘It is what it doesn’t appear to be’

Abandoned spaces in New York are very common, there are a great number of factories and warehouses that, for some reason, have stopped functioning as such and have now become empty spaces in the city.

Because Brooklyn is an area with high volume of these kind of spaces, I have chosen my site to be inside different of these spaces, making it flexible and allowing it to be built in multiple locations, extending or contracting its size.

The idea behing this structure is the garden guerrilla occuring in the States. Why not invading these unused spaces with vegetation, creating this way small spots of nature within the city?

The design consists in different platforms slotted into a steel post which allows them to rotate to change possition. The platforms are held by tensioned cables above and wheeled foldable legs in contraction.

The Cables hook the platforms together with the flexible umbrella inspired structure whixh allows the cables to be tensed as well as change the height and equilibrium of the platforms.

I called them my “Hanging Gardens”

Abandoned Warehouses in Brooklyn

There are a great number of abandoned factories and warehousesin New York, particularly in Brooklyn.

Pollution in the city is considerable, not having a great numbers of green areas,why not creating green spaces inside these unused old structures?

The idea of creating something fast and easy to buildbut beautiful at the same time makes me think of guerrilla gardening!

Brooklyn, Abandoned Buildings

Folding structure

Cables in tension

supporting the garden platforms

Hanging vegeation

Alternative access to the platforms

Wheeled supports (contraction)

Base of structure

Entrance stairs

Removsble ladder

Space extension

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of the ‘umbrella’ structure.

Once the position is set, they are locked

in the vertical column.

C h i m n e y D w e l l i n g ; ‘There is a fire, there is kitchen’

Everything started when a flower in the midle of the sea in Sri Lanka opened and came out from its bud.

There was fire and smoke and a beautiful smell of delicious cooked fish

Blending with the never ending landscape of the Ocean, enjoying the scenery of a sunset over the waves while cooking fresh fish from the day.

Go for a swim, clib back up and enjoy your dinner!

Galle Region in Sri Lanka

Stilt fishermen of Kathaluwa Balancing two metres above the coral reefthe catch of the day will determine if there will be food on the table tonight or not

About 500 fishing families in the southwestern district of Galle practice stili fishing

It started after the Second World War by some inventive fishermen

They started using iron poles left over from the war and planted theminto the reef but soon discovered that even wooden poles were strong

enough and thus, stilt fishing in today’s form was born

Sri Lanka, Stilt Fishermen, Kathaluwa

Sitting on a cross bar tied to a vertical pole planted into the coral reef. The poles are 3-4 m long and driven about half a metre into the reef, so the fishermen sit at a height of about 2 m.

Idea. A flexible structure that can change according to the use given to it

Fire, fish, fishing, chimney, open and close, view, beautiful, nature, its people.

Cable for hanging fish after fishing them

Cable for hanging clothes ‘Hang’n jump’

Pop-up folding chairs

Hooks for the tensile cables stabilising the structure’s arms

CLOSED OPEN

Unfolding table

Table opening mechanism

FIRE. Cooking area

Steel structural column

A Pole that is not a PoleOpening Mechanism.Tense and Hook!