The 40-foot long “Hydraspan Bridge Colony” installation (exhibited in the YBCA glass passageway overlooking Mission St - diagonally across from the Liebeskind designed Jewish Museum) is a quarter-scale model of the west span of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge. It is a speculative proposal for the radical reuse and re-colonization of the bridge infrastructure. Suspended from the bridge trusses, thousands of fog-catching catenary ribbons sustain an inner world of domestic and agricultural activity: floating living units are tethered alongside fresh water catch basins, robotic sky pods support suspended fish farm vitrines, and the bridge trusses serve as the catalysts for social, political and commercial exchange.
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The Bay Bridge House Design Competition had 73 student entries from 37 schools from around the world. This was narrowed down to 14 submissions that where judged by the Board Members of the Bay Bridge House, community voting and industry expert judges.
The winners are:
Overall Winner: Lee Ka Chun and Ngan Ching Ying - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture - with their entry “Hanging House”
Board Members Winner: Qazi Shamsud Tamzeed - Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology - with his entry “An Invisible Triangle”
Community Vote Winner: Romain Caba - University of Kansas / National superior school of architecture of Paris Val de Seine, France with his entry “The Bay Bridge House”
Honorable Mention: Chris Bennett - Harvard GSD - with his entry “Reclaimed Lookout”
Honorable Mention: Kateřina Krupičková and Gabriela Králová - AAAD - with their entry “Pier House”
A big Thank You goes out to everyone that was part of our competition! Out of the box thinking about the reuse of our resources in projects such as the BBH will benefit all of mankind. We are glad you took part in this with us and keep up the great work.
Honorable Mention: Chris Bennett - Harvard GSD - with his entry “Reclaimed Lookout”
Reclaimed Lookout is a house perched high atop Yerba Buena Island, looking North out over the territory that components of the house once occupied, The Bay Bridge.
Reclaimed Lookout utilizes scrap steel from the Bay Bridge for two main purposes, the structure of the house and Brise Soleil solar detailing.
Box beams and cross bracing from the Bay Bridge enter the design of the house relatively untouched, forming the main structural frame to support the house as well as the Northern 15 foot cantilever. The undercarriage i-beams of the Bay Bridge are re-purposed for Brise Soleil of the East and West Facades of the house. Steel webs from the i-beams are cut out to form plates, which are then hung off the facade of the residence to shade and reduce solar heat gains. The steel is left to weather over time to a soft rust patina.
Reclaim Lookout is oriented on a main North South axis which frame views back to the bay and the new Bay Bridge. Main living spaces, as well as the master suit, are designed to orient views back out to the site, which establish a connection back to the history of the house as well as the original Bay Bridge. Reclaimed House is always observant.
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Honorable Mention: Kateřina Krupičková and Gabriela Králová - AAAD - with their entry “Pier House”
CONCEPTION
Our project envisages to prolong the pedestrian area from the city center to the waterfront. The proposed promenade ends with an opened public area with a view of the bay. The construction comprises residential cells. In each there are 5 condos, a parking space for car and boat and a roof garden. Besides there is a communal centre, an office space plus B&B with a common lavatory facility and a kitchen. Public space extends to the semi-private and private area on the 1st floor. The gardens on the roof are common and accessible to all inhabitants.
Treasure Island Development comes up with 8,000 new homes, 13,000 sq meters of new commercial and retail space, 9,300 sq meters of new office space, 3 hotels with 500 rooms, 1.2 square kilometers of parks and public open space, urban agricultural park, cultural paer, sports and recreation ground, new community facilities i.e new police station, sailing center, gym, community center, childrens facility, environmental education center, museum, life learning academy, new and upgraded streets with bicycle transit and pedestrian facilities.
SUSTAINABILITY
The core idea is to place the project in the contest of a sustained development area. The orientation of the inhabited modules is East-West and, therefor eliminates overheating of glass parts from the south. The solar radiation is absorbed by Solar collectors positioned over the roof garden. They let trough sufficient light for vegetation growth on the roof. The Solar beams penetrate via atrium as fa as promenade/street where they provide light for lower plants and thus help to keep the optimal climate among the inhabited areas.The surface of the promenade is paved with asphalt slabs with grass areas in between. rainwater irrigates the roof gardens as well as the grass areas between the slabs through a system of pipelines. Unused rainwater is collected in water tanks and utilize as service water.
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Community Vote Winner: Romain Caba - University of Kansas / National superior school of architecture of Paris Val de Seine, France with his entry “The Bay Bridge House”
The Bay Bridge House
The house takes place on Treasure Island facing the Oakland bay and The Bridge with a huge panorama of the bay from South to North.
HOUSE AND STRUCTURE
This house is a second life of the Bay Bridge, it re-uses a lot of different parts of it, for example the enormous beams carrying the road that are now filled with insulation and act as a barrier for the cold winds of the north, or the trusses that constitute the structure of the house.
The Highly structural house is a tribute to the Bridge in the way it looks and the way it stands. Indeed a huge gantry bears the roof while the beams support a long footbridge as a impressive cantilever leading to the solarium, a room suspended at the extremity of the house. Moreover, crossing of beams create the rest of the structure while light in the room is provided only by the absence of it.
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Board Members Winner: Qazi Shamsud Tamzeed - Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology - with his entry “An Invisible Triangle”
An Invisible Triangle
Half of the span of the deck truss has been chosen to make the residence.
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Overall Winner: Lee Ka Chun and Ngan Ching Ying - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture - with their entry “Hanging House”
Hanging Contest
Real time living setting inherited from Bay Bridge
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was constructed to reinforce San Francisco as the center of trade.
It forms part of the city history and memory of the city dwellers.
To turn the scrap into an eco-sustainable house is to re-deploy the removed scenery and memories.
The primary question lies on preserving the communal and architectural identities of the bridge while bringing new settings for the city.
Bay Bridge possesses the structural identity to span long distances and the functional identity against weather, distance and gravity.
Thus, the project seeks to revitalize the structural and functional roles of th eBay Bridge instead of its physical appearance.
The project applies the bridge structure to hang the living components as multiple layers in air while a waterscape is spanned on top to modulate the climate underneath.
Revitalization of the bridge identities gives birth to the innovation of a self-sustaining living environment that performs specifically in different seasons.
It is an exceptional living experience in an environment that baths in a modulated light, temperature and air, the fundamental elements to form a house.
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The cement factory conversion by Ricardo Bofill in Barcelona, Spain is one of the most interesting the Sifter has seen to date. With over 30 silos, multiple buildings and towering ceilings throughout, the space is incredibly raw and presents countless design challenges. Now a multi-purpose facility with an office, residence, exhibition space and more, this is an incredibly unique property with equally an equally dramatic landscape and views of the beautiful Barcelona. See below for full details and information on Ricardo Bofill. Enjoy!
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Architect - Ricardo Bofill
From the architect. C-tour is the winning project for the design of an underground tourist attraction within the reconversion of the old mine-complex of Winterslag in Genk. C-tour is a tour under and above the ground, with focal point on the experience, made by linking some existing subterranean mine-industry constructions with new structures and tunnels.
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Located in the Belgian village of Steenokkerzeel, this 30 meter (98.4 ft) water tower was originally built between 1938 and 1941. It was in service until the 1990s and was even used as a watchtower by the Nazis when they took over Belgium in World War II.
In 2007, Bham Design Studio set forth to completely renovate and convert the former water tower into a single family home. The exterior was completely restored to its original state, while columns were repaired, joints were removed and top floor windows were enlarged.
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