The 21st century is the century of global environmental and biological awareness, in which all humans recognize for once that we can and must act together and have a mission to protect the earth. More than ever now, the garden is the representation of our life. With regard to this sensitivity, ‘Les Jardins de Médongaule’ brings together a history of these gardens in a unique natural environment in the outskirts of Seoul. Continue reading Ensamble Studio
JDSA / Julien De Smedt Architects . Coldefy . CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati . NL Architects . Ensamble Studio
JDSA / Julien De Smedt Architects (DK), Coldefy (FR), CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati (IT), NL Architects (NL) and Ensamble Studio (SP) have formed a collective of united European architects and won the First Prize of the international competition to design a new European Parliament building in Brussels. Continue reading JDS . Coldefy . CRA . NL . Ensamble
The Tent covers the space like a blanket. Its geometries adapt to the airy body that it delimits and embraces, without constraining it. Air and light flow through its openings, and the landscape sneaks in too, filling the cracks in the material. Continue reading ensamble studio
The territory of AlUla gathers a unique collection of landscapes. The inland desert plateau, the mountain ranges, and the wadi valleys, offer extreme geological conditions and diverse habitats that closely coexist. The architecture of the place is here defined by the environmental actions of wind, water, sand, land shifts, which have sculpted the landscape through centuries. Continue reading Ensamble Studio
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Architecture emerged from the earth. From its extraction and cultivation, and the effort to move its parts. And from the fascination of stacking them, putting them together and finally, celebrating, discovering and inhabiting the space. The efficiency of the location was sought, the accessibility to matter, limiting the effort. And modules that could be easily assembled were searched; tools were designed to work the land, the stones, the fibers and metals, which are also stones. When these instruments became sophisticated, the places where we could build multiplied, transporting materials and tools, developing technologies and crafts; with the architect, ordering this conglomerate… Today we maintain the same mission, but the world and science have changed, and also how we understand the scale of society and how we distribute the resources we consume. Continue reading Ensamble Studio
