Video — Ofis Modular Living Units. Slovenia by OFIS Arhitekti

very cool and surprisingly functional small-prefab design — kudos! m.

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OFIS Arhitekti worked in collaboration with fellow architects C+C and C28, engineering firm AKT and contractor Permiz to create the Living Units — modular rooms that can be combined vertically or horizontally to create larger structures.

The units are designed to suit a variety of locations, climates and terrains. They were first presented at Milan design week earlier this year as a prototype for a modular home — but the designers are now considering a wider variety of uses.

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paris courthouse


Situated on the northern edge of central Paris, the new Tribunal de Paris will regroup various facilities currently dispersed around the capital, becoming the largest law courts complex in Europe. The building takes the form of a slim, transparent, 160m tower of stacked volumes of decreasing size, carefully laid out for efficiency and ease of use.

The project for the new law court building, a public–private partnership, was launched to alleviate the increasingly cramped accommodation of several different services around central Paris, including the regional court, the police court, the public prosecution courts and the district courts attached to each of the city’s sectors (arrondissements). Situated in the urban development zone of Clichy–Batignolles on the northern edge of Paris, the site is at a key intersection between the different administrative areas of Paris and its suburbs. It is also well connected by public transport, including the northern stretch of the highly successful new tramway.

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Originally published at blueverticalstudio.com.