Best of #June

We talk about houses for those who are always travelling and playgrounds, about pools and bags in the stories that we propose for this weekend, among the most read in June on Domusweb.

Migrant Garden, Point Supreme
Mobile homes or small apartments in the city for the contemporary nomads, architects’s bag and playgrounds for people of all ages: discover our June top-ten stories.


– Completely closed towards its context, the 21 House, built in a new urban centre of Thanh Hóa city province, Vietnam, hides an inner courtyard to which overlook all the living spaces.

– Cadaval & Solà-Morales built in front of the Mediterranean sea of the Costa Brava the Sunflower House, a house that is also a big solar collector, like a giant sunflower, composed of small units differently oriented to frame the breathtaking landscape.

– With this new swimming center in Brescia, Italy, Camillo Botticini defies the logic according to which sports facilities are withdrawn objects disconnected from the context, creating massive urban architecture, a block of iridescent brown Klinker cut by deep fissures.

– The young Slovakian studio Nice Architects presented at the Pioneers festival 2015 in Vienna Ecocapsule, its first functional prototype of the independent low-energy micro house.

– Golden Lion at the 56. Venice Art Biennale, the Armenian Pavilion is given over to a population scattered worldwide that epitomised the concept and spirit of internationalism long before the word global came into use.

– Nendo designed for Tod’s The architect’s bag, a new leather bag based on real architects needs that changes its shape in accordance to what it holds inside.

– Somewhere between a sculpture and an architectural installation, the exhibition “The Brutalist Playground” at RIBA’s Architecture Gallery invites people of all ages to come and play, the Brutalist way.

– A vertical field composed of modular tiles used for the cultivation of agricultural crops covers the main front of the Israeli pavilion at Expo, designed by Knafo Klimor Architects.

– Focusing on production rather than mediation or consumption, the show “What is Luxury?”, curated by Jana Scholze and Leanne Wierzba at the V&A, challenges the very idea of what luxury is and what it means in today.

– Instead of superimposition a new volume to the existing one, for the EG House Enrico Scaramellini creates a real connection that forms a symbiotic organism, with carefully studied openings to frame the Brianza’s Brianza.

– With a simple brick wall that divides the space into three parts Raanan Stern adapted a 1930’s apartment into a place that responds to modern needs.

 

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