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Rucksak House Stefan Eberstadt

Rucksack House is perched on the edge of both sculpture and architecture as well as on the side of a building. Eberstadt’s addon room is constructed of a welded steel cage with a light birch veneered plywood interior cladding. The outside is clad with exterior grade plywood with an absorbent resin surface punctuated by plexiglas inserts. The room is suspended from steel cables that are anchored to the roof or to the facade of the existing building. Entrance to the room is gained via an existing window, and once inside, it is spacious and naturally daylit. With 9 sq meters (97 sq ft) of space, the Rucksack House is open and can be used for a variety of activities like an extra bedroom, studio space or a living area. Built-in furniture makes the space more usable, but still open. Sections of the walls unfold, with the help of hidden magnets, into a desk, shelves, and a platform for reading or sleeping. The entire box is mobile and can move as the resident does to the next dwelling providing instant add-on space. In 2004, the Rucksack House was in Leipzig, then in Cologne in 2005 and then moved to Bamberg in 2011.

A parasite is an organism that grows, feeds and sheltered by its host while contributing nothing to the host’s survival. Therefore parasitic architecture can be defined “as an adaptable, transient and exploitive form of architecture that forces relationships with host buildings in order to complete themselves.” (definition taken from parasitic architecture.) Parasitic Architecture can be thought of as a flexible and sometimes temporary structure that feeds off the existing infrastructure and build form. A parasite has to work with existing infrastructures and use them to its own end but can also be considered as an architectural intervention that materializes and transforms the built form. A parasitic construction redefines and reconfigures a built structure and provides a new perspective or orientation to the public and potentially offer a new space.

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In an age of constant change, temporary structures have a special significance, for they allow a quick, flexible and usually cost-effective response to shifting needs. Buildings with a limited life also afford architects and planners greater freedom than permanent structures to explore unconventional spatial solutions, new materials and forms of construction or to play with visual ideas.

Black Lodge Jägnefält MIlton The Black Lodge will soon offer

travellers refuge along the ragged Baltic coast of Gotland. Designed by Stockholm-based architect Jagnefalt Milton, the Black Lodge allows s to manipulate the structure depending on the weather conditions. During fair weather the sides can be folded down for greater access to the outdoors, but during foul weather, which in Baltic Sea can be often, the lodge can be sealed up. The circular hole looks like stylistic touch, but in a pinch you could probably shoot arrows out of it.

Pavilion in Black Lodge Jägnefält MIlton

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Forest Pavillion Jägnefält MIlton

Stockholm studio Jägnefält Milton has designed a leaf-shaped pavilion for a woodland site – taking advantage of a new Swedish planning stipulation that allows structures under a certain size to be built without permission.

The Attefallshus clause means planning permission is no longer required for structures with an area under 25 square metres and a height of less than four metres, so the architects designed a pavilion within these dimensions.

The leaf-shaped roof will be lifted above the platform on a single tapered column, ed by zigzagging cables that can be anchored to the ground by attaching a tether to a large boulder. polyurethane sheeting was chosen as the lining for its waterproof properties