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In the contemporary urban space, at all scales, we often find potential sites which are unused and overlooked. These can be found between building facades, standby building sites, parks, squares or water fronts. Some of these potential sites can only be used for a relatively short amount of time, before they are developed by subsequent plans, but in the meanwhile they could be rented or used on a loan basis. On the other hand, fitness and sport facilities are seldom found in city centres. Squash, for example, is a sport in high demand in high dense areas, and those that exist are hidden away in deep inside buildings or basements. There are about 200 squash courts in Denmark, approximately 18 of them in Copenhagen. It is the aim of this project to satisfy these demands with a typology which is found somewhere between building and product. A modular structure, used at months at a time, that can be transported, put together, dismounted and stored with relative ease, while its modular stru...

WORKSHOP AT COPENHAGEN ARCH. SCHOOL by David A. Garcia David A. Garcia Introduction: If there is anything that architecture has tried to avoid through out its history, it has probably been movement, that is: buildings should not move. Nonetheless, and especially since the middle of the last century, we find more and more examples of, if not buildings that move, at least huge parts of them expressing dynamics. Some even consider various types of transport methods as architecture; after all, a 747 on a transatlantic flight carries, feeds, entertains, and sleeps more people than most hotels. Students of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

Close to the Gredos mountain range, bordering a nature reserve in the west of Spain, this summer house was designed under very specific demands by the local authorities, only allowing wooden carpentry, pitched roofs and granite stone facades. The design follows these constraints, and responds to the client's desire to collect rain water and offer a large area for solar panels. The result was an inverted pitched roof, at angles to allow sun to enter the house in the winter time, and offering shade in the summer, with a large roof surface to the south for solar panels, hidden from view at eye level. Cooling and heating are supplied by a constant 15 degrees Celsius airflow from underground tubes and grey water is stored for irrigation. The project is under construction.