Grunewald Forest in Luxembourg 1846 Luxembourgish government sells 6.60 km² of the remaining forest to Baron Ziegesar due to economical reasons 1890 union between the Netherlands and Luxembourg ends now Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands owned the land The following year, Grand Duke Adolphe buys the forest back (by now 24.43 km²) 1934 due to the great depression, Grand Duchess Charlotte sells much of the Grünewald to the Luxembourgian government. Since 1934, the size of the Grünewald has FALLEN as a result of the expansion of the city and the construction of numerous roads
Luxembourg, GrĂŠngewald Forest and kids
The forsets in Luxembourg are getting smaller in size due to the expansion of the city. I would like to ask people in the city to reconsider and to experience the forest as an adventure. My design is a set of foldable tree houses which you can only acces through an underground tunnel and make your way up around the tree trunk, not realizing where you are and arriving to a different world up by the tree canopies. Call it The Alice in Wonderland effect
Luxembourg, Genewald Forest. Alternable Geometry
The idea of travelling to a new world, as Alice did, through an underground tunnel, secret doors and distorted vision of the reality will be experienced through the dark passage, slowly making your way up around a tree trunk but not knowing yet where you are until getting out already up by the tree canopies and not being able to see the ground. Is it a real world?
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Abandoned Warehouses in Brooklyn There are a great number of abandoned factories and warehouses in New York, particularly in Brooklyn. Pollution in the city is considerable, not having a great numbers of green areas, why not creating green spaces inside these unused old structures? The idea of creating something fast and easy to build but beautiful at the same time makes me think of guerrilla gardening!
Brooklyn, Abandoned Buildings
Hanging gGardens inside abandoned spaces. Set, unfold and start planting!
Galle Region in Sri Lanka Stilt fishermen of Kathaluwa Balancing two metres above the coral reef the catch of the day will determine if there will be food on the table tonight or not About 500 fishing families in the southwestern district of Galle practice stili fishing It started after the Second World War by some inventive fishermen They started using iron poles left over from the war and planted them into the reef but soon discovered that even wooden poles were strong enough and thus, stilt fishing in today’s form was born
Sri Lanka, Stilt Fishermen, Kathaluwa
Sitting on a cross bar tied to a vertical pole planted into the coral reef. The poles are 3-4 m long and driven about half a metre into the reef, so the fishermen sit at a height of about 2 m.
Inspiration: Nympheae Stellata, Sri Lanka’s national flower
Idea. A flexible structure that can change according to the use given to it Fire, fish, fishing, chimney, open and close, view, beautiful, nature, its people.
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