Pinecone Treehouse O2 Treehouse with Sheet Metal Alchemist
An activation for Glade, the O2 Treehouse “Pinecone” is a fully permitted, Redwood tree hanging dwelling located in the Santa Cruz forest.
Sheet Metal Alchemist Events was responsible for turning O2
Treehouse’s artistic vision to reality by providing the modeling, fabrication, and structural engineering required to complete the fabrication and installation of this project in 5 weeks.
Mamani (and coincidentally, President Morales) is an Aymara, one of the nations of people native to the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America. His inspirations include Aymaran aguayos, a traditional textile whose bright colors and animal motifs have perhaps the clearest influence on his designs, as well as the chakana, or Andean cross, Incan ruins, ceramics, and sci-fi movies.
He’s designed dozens of buildings for the wealthiest inhabitants of El Alto (population of roughly one million), usually featuring an exterior that displays a strong geometric statement, and an interior that doubles down on what the outside introduced.
Inside you’ll find dizzying shapes formed with plaster and rendered in Technicolor with oil paints, adorned with LED lights and chandeliers, and visually multiplied with mirrors. What’s even more head-spinning is that Mamani doesn’t design his structures on a computer, preferring to either sketch on a wall or simply verbally explain ideas to his employees.
Dimitar Karanikolov graduated from Architecture at UACEG, Sofia. Since 2008 he runs MESHROOM an architectural visualization / CG art studio based in London. Here is a selection of his images From Above taken in places like Venice, Sofia and Myanmar.
This forest-like, five story apartment building was designed by Italian architect, Luciano Pia. The structure holds 63 units and 150 breathtaking trees that absorb approximately 200,000 liters of carbon dioxide per hour to protect the residents from the bustling city’s pollution. The trees also create a microclimate within the building to moderate the extreme temperatures of summer and winter. This is looks like the perfect home for the modern-day Lost Boy.
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