Airport Designer-Designed Birdhouses

INDEX

Renzo Piano

Norman Foster

RFR/Jean-Francis Blassel
+Henry Bardsley+Kieran Rice
+Bernard Vaudeville
(France)

Many givens for structures destined to human occupation are not valid for Birdhouse. In this case, the structure has different serviceability criteria and can be quite flexible and even mobile, birds are light and used to unstable perches. The conventional idea of solidity can also be challenged, the life span of Birdhouse being relatively short.
Many materials which are very abundant have no recognized value as construction materials in contemporary building technology, although they often have a long history of use in artifacts produced by traditional cultures or even animals. Easily renewable materials, such as reeds, twigs, vines and bamboo fall in this category and fulfill the technical and economical objectives of Birdhouse.

RFR/Jean-Francis Blassel+Henry Bardsley+Kieran Rice+Bernard Vaudeville

RFR bases his activities in Paris, working with a group of designers, founded by the late Peter Rice. The experiences and technology held by some 30 technicians and architects from around the world, are reflected in a variety of projects from civil engineering structures, such as overpasses and bridges, all the way to avant-garde works. Major works consist of, a hanging glass greenhouse at the Science and Industry Museum at la Villette and a hanging tent in the form of a cloud at the Grande Arche at La Defanse. Work done on airport facilities includes the facade for the Kansai International Airport and expansion work for the St. Denis Airport. Currently a project is underway on a new terminal at the Charles De Galle Airport.

Kazunori Sameshima

Nicholas T. Grimshaw

Curtis W. Fentress+J.H.Bradburn

Yoshihiko Sano+Kozo Abe+Koichi Ando

Kisho Kurokawa