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facing the pacific ocean and totally surrounded by nature, the house offers a retreat among the jungles of oaxaca.
treading lightly on the landscape, the building cantilevers out 27 meters to a point 18 meters above the terrain below.
franck bohbot traveled to richard neutra's VDL research house II and documented it, capturing two generations of architectural experimentation.
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the micro-hotel room is enclosed by a tiny topography of stepping terraces.
“a long tradition in many european and american cities, this floating structure with recreational bathing facilities” — A long tradition? Not to my knowledge.
In any case, a river’s currents are problematic, but this idea would work beautifully in lakes.
@Matt
“but this building serves a totally different purpose”
No, it’s the same purpose except the Stockholm version is bigger and also includes a small hotel/café. The main purpose is public recreation and swimming.
Interesting idea but there are several BUT. Aside of legal permissions, a massive anchor and armatures would be needed for this river construction. The disassembly time and costs would be a question (i) every spring when snow and ice melts up the stream and (ii) before flood dangers (june 1997, august 2002). There is no other escape from that part of river than through narrow canal locks.
GL
Cool idea, I would love to go to a place like this
@sthlm…If by ‘copy’ you mean a circular building on water, then yes it is a copy but this building serves a totally different purpose and shouldn’t be downgraded because you’ve “seen it before”
pretty cool
Copy of this:
http://www.stockholmkallbadhus.se /projektet_bildgall.htm
amazing,
make it real!