Lotus 172 (2021)

The ostentation of an environmental commitment has replaced the effort to set architecture in an urban horizon. How all this can be turned into a real architectural theme is certainly a subject that will require a new cultural engagement, while for the time being we are limiting ourselves to exploring this commitment in an issue of the magazine that examines certain modes of design which, applied essentially outside the big city, look for some opportunities in suburban settings. From this it will be possible to point out the fertility of an approach that, freed from the constraints of the metropolis, develops in a completely new way suggestions coming from the countryside. Given that architects are for the most part shaped by an urban culture, contact with nature triggers in them an out-and-out cult of biophilia, as in the case of the works of the Japanese, the experiments of the French, the new commitment of the Chinese or a certain Italian architecture that is practiced in direct contact with locations.

 

The Promise of The Countryside

Amateur Architecture Studio

Fuyang Cultural Complex, 

Fuyang, Hangzhou, China, 2012-17

 

DNA_Design and Architecture

Brown Sugar factory, Xing Village,

Zhejiang Province, China, 2015-16

 

DNA_Design and Architecture

Rice Wine Factory, Shantou Village,

Zhejiang Province, China, 2017-19 

 

Rural Urban Framework

Jintai Village Prototype, Jintai Villag, 

Sichuan Province, China, 2012-17

 

Giancarlo De Carlo

Piano di recupero del borgo di Colletta di Castelbianco

Colletta di Castelbianco, Savona, 1994-98

 

Pielruigi Nicolin

 

Balkrishna Doshi

Aranya Low-Cost Housing

Indore, India, 1983-

 

Sandro Rolla

 

Ellevuelle architetti

Serra Pi rimessa botanica,

Modigliana, Italia, 2018-19

 

Giuseppe Gurrieri

Casa ECS, 

Scicli, Ragusa, Italia, 2017 

 

ifdesign

Laboratori e Centro socio-educativo,

Erba, Italia, 2019

 

Crotti, De Rossi, Forsans

Porto Ousitano: ala pubblica, piazza e palestra di roccia,

Ostana, Italia, 2009-13

 

Crotti, De Rossi, Dutto

Mizoun de la Villo casa alpina del welfare,

Ostana, Italia, 2019

 

Enrico Scaramellini

Casa FD

Madesimo, Italia, 2014-15

 

Enrico Scaramellini

Pro-tò-ti-po 1.1 variazione della ripetizione,

Valtournenche, Italia, 2019-20

 

Studio Albori

Polo scolastico di Agordo,

Agordo, Italia, 2006-09

 

Maite Garcìa Sanchis

 

Michel Desvigne Paysagiste

Paris-Saclay,

Plateau de Saclay, Grand Paris, France, 2009-21

 

Gaia Piccarolo

 

Mosbach Paysagistes

Lost in Transition,

Ulsan, Korea, 2018

 

Rice & Lipka, Mosbach Paysagistes

Art Mill Museum,

Doha, Qatar, 2016

 

Nina Bassoli

 

Kazuyo Sejima & Associates

Inujima Art House Project,

Seto Inland Sea, Japan, 2008-10

 

Office of Ryue Nishizawa

Garden & House,

Tokyo, 2006-11

 

Office of Ryue Nishizawa

Moriyama House,

Tokyo, 2002-05

 

Office of Ryue Nishizawa

Terasaki House,

Kanagawa, Japan, 2011-13

 

Kayoko Ota