Summer Break

The summer is here and visiondivision will take a well deserved break from business for a couple of weeks to hang out with all their animal friends.
Meanwhile, Felipe from Corumba, Brazil will be in charge for the supervision of the office.
I, Clive Jenkins, will check the mail on a daily basis, so if you have any questions or if you are a journalist that wants high-res images of any project for publications, I will gladly provide you with these.
You can expect a lot of good news and progress from the two talents when they return, as they continue to rise to the upper echelon of Architecture.
Have a nice summer dear friends!
/Mr Jenkins


The two young talents on Lake Titicaca

BBC Gardens Illustrated baby

BBC Gardens Illustrated is a highly respected international magazine, read in over 70 countries worldwide.

If you are fortunate enough to live in any of these countries, you can pick up the June issue and read about visiondivision's Rapid Palace.

Premiere bath at the Cauldron Claw

The Nordic winter has finally subdued in the North of Sweden and turned the landscape around the Cauldron Claw into a lush and paradisesque environment.

We therefore went to the North once again to finish the bath with a steel aqueduct with medicinal plants growing on it, to give the bath an even more soothing experience for aching bodies as the water trickles through this pharmacy of nature and in to the cauldron where we witnessed the old man take his premiere bath.

Ski Jumper

Visiondivision gets the commission to develop the surrounding landscape of the classic Stockholm ski jumping tower Fiskartorpet. The projects contains a terrace for outdoor sports, conferences and events plus an outdoor gym in the nearby forest.

The terrace will bee seen both from the ground, the conference rooms and from the top of the Ski jumping tower. The 200 m2 wooden deck could appear quite empty when not used. So a natural choice was to continue a tradition on Fiskartorpet to graffiti walls with Ski jumpers. This graffiti is however made with a milling machine cutting out a 200 square meter picture of a Ski jumper. The motive also shapes a cantilevering walkway and a outdoor conference room in the slope.

Outdoor terrace - day

Outdoor terrace - night, lit up with different colors.

The outdoor gym is made by big logs and then painted in shiny green paint giving it a refined Fred Flintstone feeling.

The green shiny machines is placed like furniture in the forest.

Drawings outdoor gym

If everything goes accordingly to plan this little string of pearls will be built this summer, and Stockholm will get its first public visiondivision project.

Nazca view

Employee of the month

Clive Jenkins



Mr Jenkins is a sturdy employee that also functions as the spokesperson for visiondivision among a lot of other things.
He joined the team in 2006 and is now a part of the vd family.
He has a long and impressing background in administration and public relations from different organizations in his motherland USA and he is the bedrock and the lighthouse of visiondivision.
We are very grateful to have this great man among us and we hope that we will have many fruitful years ahead of us.

You can click on to www.visiondivision.com and under the extra section, you can see Mr Jenkins answer some of the most frequently asked questions regarding the vd crew.

designboom #1

Designboom is one of the biggest sites for design and architecture on the internet. We are therefore glad that one of our projects, Al-Hakawati, has reached the no. 1 spot as the most popular and read article this month with over 43000 views.

Check out the article here; http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/6326/visiondivision-al-hakawati-the-storyteller-dubai.html
There you can also see more of our projects.

visiondivision in 4ARK magazine

If you have some knowledge in the Swedish language you can pick up the latest issue of the 4ARK-magazine where the visiondivision project "Capilla para el Tio" is published.
Happy reading!

Office Music Sample

Hi there.
We just wanted to share some of the music we listen to in our office to stay creative and happy.

http://open.spotify.com/user/visiondivision/playlist/0fw9N8X8JdvDpMNMJR4QDN

Have a nice weekend!

Umbrella

Due to our northern location we seldom get the chance to do something for the poorest people on this planet. So when we saw this competition we felt urged to do a proposal.
Insufficient water is one of the most severe problems in rural Africa. For many families it is extremely time consuming to collect and can easily start conflicts between villages.
We had an idea that we should create a dew/rainwater collector as a roof and the rest of the building would more or less handle itself.
To test the idea we went to the Sahara desert where an experiment with a dew collecting umbrella where performed. (http://thegoldbrain.blogspot.com/2009/02/sahara-field-trip.html)

We wanted to design a modern and free-standing structure that could be added to a rural building and at the same time supply the hospital with clean water.
The solution is simple. An upscaled upside down umbrella serves as a roof to a rural built hospital. The umbrella roof is gathering rainwater or dew depending on location to supply the hospital with clean water. The big umbrella also serves as a light roof giving shadow to the hospital. The umbrella will be a recognizable symbol for children healthcare seen from miles around.

Phases:

The structure is made out of light felt and steel. In the middle of the umbrella shaped tent there is a water container gathering the clean water from the roof.


At first the hospital is built as a small village with local materials under the umbrella, the water container becomes the midpoint of the hospital. The hospital gets energy supply from solar panels.


When the hospital grows the umbrella can easily grow by adding an outer layer of felt and moving the pillars outwards from the centre point. The different houses expands by mirroring themselves outwards. As the structure grows the water supply surface gets bigger at the same time.

As time goes by, modern material can be added to improve the village without interfering with the design. Our hope is that the structure becomes a roof for constant developing

As a final stage a facade with sun protection can be added, making the building into a modern hospital. It is our hope and belief that the regions in need for this hospital will develop into strong economies one day. This building is prepared to stand in better times as well.

In the pipeline: Stretch house

On the drawing board today: A new house facade for a major energy company made by movable statues and stretch fabric. We hope you like it (because we do).