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The next generation of prefabricated housing Text: Bálint Botzheim Prefabricated housing has been around for a long time and is not usually thought of in positive terms. But there are good examples, and prefabrication has also been a solution to housing problems after disasters. In the 20th century, housing was finally mass-produced in factories. The […]

Space10 application Text: Bálint Botzheim Space10, IKEA’s creative lab, closed its doors this year after almost 10 years of operation. The innovation lab has been active in a wide range of activities, involving the general public. One of their latest proposals was called Regenerative Futures. In the competition, participants were asked to imagine their immediate […]

Text: Bálint Botzheim Among the numerous problems facing our developed world, waste is one of the most pressing. A lot of waste is generated from a lot of sources. The battle to curb waste production is an ongoing one, with more success, but rather less. But there are a good few who see creative potential […]

Biobuilding material for sustainable architecture Text: Bálint Botzheim The underground part of the fungus, the mycelium, is made up of a multitude of fungal filaments. A characteristic of mushroom growth is that the richer the medium in which it grows, the more densely the fungal filaments interweave. Mushrooms have many good properties as a building […]

Quzhou Stadium, China Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: SERGE FERRARI GROUP For almost a decade now, the construction industry of China seems to be heading in a characteristically different direction than that of either Europe or the United States. We could call it an expressive trend; it seems that the results of search for formal paths […]

Restaurant and Apartment, Japan Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Junya Ishigami + Associates Architecture and construction are mostly thought of as an additive mapping process. We superimpose building materials in order to build spaces. But the resulting space is a negative one, because we can experience space from the inside. However, the history of architecture gives […]

Adobe as an old-new building material Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: Ökodome Projekt The use of adobe, as one of the oldest building materials, has declined significantly in the past decades. Due to its special properties, however, in recent years it has been receiving more and more attention in the construction industry. In folk architecture, it […]

A new chapter of AI architecture Text: Bálint Botzheim Artificial intelligence has quietly crept into our lives. We are surrounded by smart devices that monitor our habits and serve (or control?) us. In the digital space, our presence is even more permeated by the presence of software technologies using artificial intelligence. Architecture cannot be an […]

Concept of an aeroponic hall Concept and text: Mária Torma – University of Sopron Consultant: Bálint Botzheim The thesis developed a plan for an urban plant growing building to make use of redundant spaces and bring in a function that is innovative and useful for the city. Aeroponic plant cultivation is a good example of […]

Concept: Byron Cadena, Aryo Dhaneswara, Andrew Saltzman Text: Eszter Götz Students of the master course with the IAAC (Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) in Barcelona, Byron Cadena, Aryo Dhaneswara and Andrew Saltzman revived the concept of parasitic architecture born at the turn of the millennia in their project in 2019/2020, which means that posterior […]

International Student Competition, RIBA, 2021 Text: Bálint Botzheim For many of us, the general quarantine that accompanies COVID seems distant, when homes became a place of work and an educational institution at the same time, streets and public spaces were almost empty. Life went on in most areas, and in light of this, it was […]

Printed house in Germany Text: Bálint Botzheim Germany’s first printed house, the single-family house printed by PERI using a COBOD BOD2 printer was opened in Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia. With the first 3D printed residential building in the country, positive pressure is being generated in the construction industry: for innovative construction with new technologies, for greater […]