Eco / Green Lodge
This is an image that caught our eye. A modern building that seems to be, at the same time, emerging and regressing out of and into foliage and ruin. A competition entry by the 2008 formed KLNB, a Paris based collaborative between Keeyong Lee and Nenad Basic, the building is a lodge and museum in front of the Kuelap fortress in Chachapoyas Peru. We expect to see more interesting projects that are design solutions for this part of the world in the future.
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Located on a mountain in country outside Mudgee, in New South Wales, Australia, a permanent camp designed by Casey Brown has been set. A timber structure clad in copper has been designed to have a closed state and an open state. From the closed position, the flanks of copper are hoisted and capture views across the valley. With an imagery of structures, materials and mechanics of old, there is something romantic about this foothold on the hill.
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