
Cruquius Island Housing / KCAP
Mercado in Groningen / De Zwarte Hond + Loer Architecten

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Architects: De Zwarte Hond, Loer Architecten
- Year: 2023
The Challenges of Designing a Reusable, Floating Wooden Building

Everyone who has ever built anything—a model, a birdhouse, or small pieces of furniture—has a clear sense of the amount of things that can go wrong during the construction process. A screw that is impossible to tighten fully, a warped wooden board, an inattention or a miscalculation that can frustrate plans instantly. When we transport these small inconveniences to a building scale, with countless processes and many different people involved, we know how complex a work can become and how many things can get out of control, taking more and more time and requiring more and more resources to finish. And when we talk about a building that needs to float, be completely self-sufficient, and, after fulfilling its useful life, be completely reused—could you imagine the technical challenges of building something like this?
Dafne Schippersburg Bridge / NEXT architects and rudy uytenhaak + partners architecten

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Architects: NEXT architects, rudy uytenhaak + partners architecten
- Area: 2700 m²
- Year: 2017