@Groupwork_arch

Groupwork, formerly Amin Taha Architects

 London
groupwork.uk.com
Joined March 2014
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Mostly crudely cut 500mm deep stone blocks mortar stacked Cheap, cool in Sumer & warm in winter Posh it up with a render finish. Keeps the moisture out too in rainy climates
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a town of stones cut from the top of earth’s epidermis, 50-70km deep & ~1.35 × 10¹⁹ m³ of stone if we use 100m3 for internal & external walls on a 120m2 family home that’d be 11m family homes per person for all 8bn people on the planet & a drop in house prices
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Deep in forest & to keep us out the rain we try the oldest stone & timber shelter
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15yrs ago structural engineer Lorenc Gjikuria returned to his home mountain village overlooking the Albanian Ionian coastline & bought 20 of the abandoned homes in its highest parts. Reassembling stone walls, roofs & relearning lessons such as planting trees on the windward side
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Onto a tour of a stalled project, that offers a reprieve to a mixed mature coastal woodland. Horrifically the architect planned to tarmac the lot with “luxury” suburban housing. Imagination needed for a conundrum allowing rural land owners to develop x1.0-2.0 their site footprint
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The Albanian Adriatic-Ionian coastal tour continues thru’ Vlor. About to open an international airport, its bed. (re)discovered by locals & foreign tourists alike. Infrastructure & private investment has lifted it from a bit Southend-on-sea via Miami & straight to Rio, perhaps
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instagram.com/reel/DNCS1ZDyv… Why would they do that to Fleetwood Mac’s Chain?
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Sketch for Christ’s College Cambridge new library
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✊🏼 youtu.be/K3b6SGoN6dA
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9 social housing apartments in Mallorca Recessed balconies with adjustable shade, lots of natural materials, access to natural light and ventilation By Estruch Martorell, Estudio E. Torres Pujol + Ripon Tizon
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Working on embodied carbon comparisons for steel, rc, all stone & stone-timber hybrid structural frames After presenting field of numbers, thought the graphic put it more succinctly “material passporting” especially of biomass materials enabling accounting of sequestered CO2
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