Seachange 2030+ Ideas Competition: Winners Announced

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects [AILA] and its competition partners invited individuals and teams to participate in the Sea Change 2030+, an international ideas competition, which asked for innovative ideas for planning, designing and managing for adaptation to urban sea level rise.

There were many highly innovative ideas in most of the submissions. Three equal first prizes were awarded in the professional team category. The Jury felt that there were three outstanding submissions that covered different aspects of local, regional and global responses to climate change and adaptation to sea level rise. These entrants were not readily comparable as they dealt with responses required over different scales of space and time.

Rest of this article along with the other winning ideas are here at this link

Nano-Cathedral

For those of you who are interested in small(very small) scale models...

The new device prints layers of a liquid resin, developed at the Vienna University of Technology, that hardens to a solid when it's hit with two photons from the printer's laser beam. Continuously-moving mirrors focus the beam to the right place as the printer works. The results have a resolution of hundreds of nanometers, which means each of the sculptures the printer makes is about the size of a grain of sand.

The whole article by NBC is at this link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46721546/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/#.T2tj_jHUOSo 

Wilkinson Residence, Portland

This residence in Portland is an example of how an Architect used the surrounding forest area to influence the design.  As the site is similar to Garnish, it might be worth having a look at the project as a precedent.

More information about the design can be found here:
http://www.greendiary.com/entry/wilkinson-residence-in-portland-is-one-swanky-treehouse/