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- Petite Pomme / Erbalunga estudio
- Corner House / Boundaries architects
- Winward HQ / Roy David Studio
- Power Lane House / CHORDstudio
- Jade Apartment / Ryan Lai Architects
- Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center / SmithGroupJJR
- CEMEX Announces Winners of 2016 Building Awards
- DSS2016 Specs / Zuloark + Alberto Rey + Tipi Studio
- LMN Architects Reveal Expansion Design for the Seattle Asian Art Museum
- University of Oregon Jane Sanders Stadium / SRG Partnership
- OMA, Aires Mateus + Staab Architekten Unveil Honorable Mention Proposals for New Neue Galerie Competition
- European Central Bank / Coop Himmelb(l)au
- This New Drawing App Shows How Digital Software Will Save Sketching, Not Destroy It
- Ark Shelter / Michiel De Backer + Jakub Senkowski + Martin Mikovčák
- 5 Low Cost Yet High Quality Houses
- CAZA Announces First Combined Hospital and Trauma Center for Philippines
| Petite Pomme / Erbalunga estudio Posted: 11 Nov 2016 09:00 PM PST  © Ivan Casal Nieto
 © Ivan Casal Nieto Petite Pomme is a clothing and shoes retail's child store located in the centre of a small town, which also aims to boost local trade through careful design and by adding value to the shopping experience.  © Ivan Casal Nieto The brand image intends to move away from the historical style of the building. Therefore walls and ceiling blur boundaries to create an unlinked proposal from its shell.  Plan At the entrance, a backlit polycarbonate wall contrasts sharply with the granite facade, generating a rift between exterior and interior and also providing guidance for the customer.  © Ivan Casal Nieto The first major decision was removing the dropped ceiling, getting back the original height of the retail unit. This movement allows us to establish the strategy of the new design. An open plan space contains the different components such as light walls, counter and fitting rooms, which create a pathway through the store and organise the products.  © Ivan Casal Nieto This elements provide a set of different scales that offers access to the display products and also allows entertainment for children.  Axonometric Vibrant colours, scenographic lighting and contrasted materials as wood and polycarbonates draws attention to the passerby, enhancing a contemporary design to the neighbourhood.  © Ivan Casal Nieto El proyecto llama la atención sobre el viandante por la contraposición de los materiales (con maderas y policarbonatos), colores vibrantes e iluminación escénica, puesto que se encuentra en una zona donde predomina la piedra tallada, el monocromatismo y la iluminación pública. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Corner House / Boundaries architects Posted: 11 Nov 2016 06:00 PM PST  © HwangHhyo Chel
 © HwangHhyo Chel Site  First Floor Plan Program  © HwangHhyo Chel Corner House The site's 1m level difference had been resolved through the use of skipped floors, arranged so that the levels may be connected in the future if needed.  Diagram The elevator, bathrooms, and the main stairs had been organized close to one another, to form a central core to the north of the site. For the main stairs to reach the fourth floor, the stairs' axis change as it goes up so that it stays within the required diagonal plane (for the neighboring sites' daylighting requirements).  © HwangHhyo Chel The fourth and fifth floors, which become long and narrow as they go up, had been designed carefully with various ceiling heights and skylights so the spaces are less claustrophobic. As inclined street setback plane regulations became obsolete recently, we took advantage of the change by securing as much floor-to-floor heights as possible, as well as an attic for more additional space.  © HwangHhyo Chel House of Stairs  © HwangHhyo Chel Unlike how rigid the building may appear from the outside, the main stairs inside become a playful element, changing as its axis shifts while going up. Rotating around a tall, central void which allows natural light to penetrate to below, the stairs become a part of the residents' daily experience.  © HwangHhyo Chel Both of the stairs are positioned centrally respective to their spaces with skylights above them, allowing daylight to follow down the steps and into the living areas. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 11 Nov 2016 02:00 PM PST  © Yoav Gurin
 © Yoav Gurin The global company, Windward is best known for their data and analytics on the maritime domain. The company is a pioneer in the business as they have created the first maritime data platform, The Windward Mind. The platform analysis and organizes with the use of big data and deep shipping expertise the worlds maritime data, making it accessible and actionable across verticals. From understanding what is happening at sea – from a single ship to commodity trade flows – the platform gives unique insight in decision making across industries.  © Yoav Gurin Windward has recently acquired a 1,200 sqm space for its growing team of +70 employees on the premium 35th floor in the 360 Adgar Tower. The new company's headquarters is situated in the new emerging business centre located near the Nokia Stadium landmark – East Tel Aviv. Partnering with Roy David Architecture Studio, the acquired space needed to transcend the same language as the core values of the marine data analysis company.  © Yoav Gurin The overall industrial style that the architecture firm focused on is emphasized by the use of rough wood, untreated concrete core walls and bold rusted metalwork as main materials for the new headquarters. "The space is intelligently designed so that it mimics the environment the Windward company undergoes its activity in. We wanted to shift our design strategy so that the space would not reflect a luxurious yacht design but that of the harsh industrial ports." explains the architect and founder of Roy David Architecture, Roy David.  Floor Plan The design strategy is well rooted in the planning of the space. Having a circular layout, the space presented a lot of challenges that the architecture team had to solve in a small timeframe of just two months. As part of the overall design process the company wanted their layout to be open space. This strategy created a series of unique technical approaches designed in collaboration with the execution company, Shin Angel. From specially calculated open acoustic barriers to a supra-structure of 14 new rusted metal columns, each design element was added so that the companies brief was met fully.  © Yoav Gurin "It's this contrast between an industrial port atmosphere and high-end tailored made office furniture elements that sets the space apart from any other project we did. With the use of CNC rough industrial metal elements, custom designed partitions, furniture and light fixtures the space is designed in a coherent language dictated by the core values of the Windward company and the architecture studio's vision" ,adds the architect, Roy David.  © Yoav Gurin This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Power Lane House / CHORDstudio Posted: 11 Nov 2016 12:00 PM PST  © David Yeow
 © David Yeow From the architect. Power Lane House is an upper level extension to a heritage family home in the inner coastal suburbs of Sydney and includes a rear laneway garage. The growing family wanted a space for the parents to retreat and additional storage for their large collection of outdoor sporting goods.  © David Yeow The Challenge  Ground Floor  Upper Floor CHORDstudio Principles  © David Yeow  © David Yeow The Resolution  © David Yeow The structural design continues the design intent to separate the new from the old with a steel portal frame which sits over the top of the existing house, not touching any of the existing walls.  © David Yeow The interior design of the upper retreat captures light and sun by peeling the roof back to expose a deck and large windows. The retreat can open to create one large space which includes a deck, lounge and sleeping area and close by using large sliding doors to restrict the early morning sunlight in the sleeping area.  © David Yeow Light and connection to the outdoor world continues in the ancillary spaces where a double skylight sits over the hallway and is fed into both the hall and adjacent bathroom by folding a timber bulkhead on itself. The bulkhead runs north/south along the ridgeline, directing light, holding services and as the carpenter on site described it, "looks a bit like a kayak".  © David Yeow This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jade Apartment / Ryan Lai Architects Posted: 11 Nov 2016 11:00 AM PST  © KyleYu Photo Studio
 © KyleYu Photo Studio From the architect. The project is easily accessible via freeways and highways. Advantageously, it is located high up, resulting in a scenic city view and the evasion of some noise pollution.  Plan 01 The feeling of spaciousness is the main intent behind the design. Therefore, the space in the house is divided with a symmetrical concept. Complicated lines are also pared down to promote ease of motion. Additionally, high quality materials are utilized so that it is appealing from afar and is a feast for the senses up close.  © KyleYu Photo Studio We value the wellbeing of the residents, therefore, a number of features have been implemented with this in mind. The basic wooden structure and adhesives have a very low concentration of formaldehyde. Walls are built with architectural concrete, anti-bacterial and mold resistant paint, and green building materials. On top of that, a heat recovery ventilation system is installed to maintain the air quality and inhibit noise.  © KyleYu Photo Studio This is a smart abode that boasts connectivity and remote control at one's fingertips. Just utilizing smartphones and tablets, one is able to configure the lights, curtains, air-conditioning, surveillance system and home theater, etc. It is both modern and practical.  © KyleYu Photo Studio "Less is more" is the concept behind the design of the ceiling. Facilities such as lights, ventilation and smoke detectors are integrated to give the ceiling a clean and less crowded aesthetic. The lighting for the living room is an irregular double quadrilateral design. Open space lights can be controlled remotely due to the aforementioned smart system.  © KyleYu Photo Studio This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center / SmithGroupJJR Posted: 11 Nov 2016 09:00 AM PST  © Liam Frederick
 © Liam Frederick The Center for Advanced Care is a $108 million, 166,000 sf, three-story, state-of-the-art outpatient facility at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (AIMMC) housing ambulatory surgery, digestive health and cancer care. The Center improves patient access, continuity among care offerings, and enhances operational efficiencies by adjoining the new building with the existing hospital.  First Floor Plan The design of the Center for Advanced Care aspires to demystify the healthcare experience by creating a physical space that is open, inviting and embraces the principles of Place-Making, Light and Community. A three-story glass atrium accentuates the facility's main entrance. The sweeping, curved glass façade on the south elevation features an integral passive sunshade system that filters natural light and reduces solar heat gain. Public corridors are outfitted with open seating and waiting areas located along the softly undulating circulation spine, creating an easy-to-navigate wayfinding system connecting the new building to the main hospital. The Day Surgery Patient Care areas provide access to indirect light through clerestory glazing, and the Cancer Infusion Bays overlook the community garden on the north side of the building.  © Liam Frederick When designing such a complex building type, coordination is essential to delivering a high-performance building on-time and on-budget. The Center for Advanced Care was created utilizing a customized version of an integrated project delivery (IPD) approach, merging the design and construction teams prior to award of the project, thus enhancing the team's communication and collaboration over the project's duration.  © Liam Frederick The Center for Advanced Care also creates a destination point for local residents as a Community Health Resource, enhancing AIMMC's leadership role within the community while simultaneously filling a physical void within the community fabric with a new world-class medical facility. The process of designing and constructing this new building seized the opportunity to create a signature moment for AIMMC with a vibrant contribution to both the campus and neighborhood fabric.  © Liam Frederick As the first hospital in Chicago to receive the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star designation, AIMMC has always been a leader in environmental sustainability. The Center for Advanced Care has achieved LEED© Silver certification under the 2009 LEED for Healthcare: New Construction and Major Renovations rating system, promoting environmental and human health in a patient care environment.  © Liam Frederick This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| CEMEX Announces Winners of 2016 Building Awards Posted: 11 Nov 2016 08:00 AM PST  CEMEX has announced the international and national winners of the 25th anniversary edition of their CEMEX Building Awards at a ceremony in Mexico City. The CEMEX Building Award recognizes the best projects in Mexico and the rest of the world in five categories and with four special prizes. This year, the award received 480 entries in the Mexican Edition and 62 entries in the International Edition, including buildings constructed in 20 different countries. The 2016 Awards honor the best architecture and construction projects built during 2015 that use concrete technologies in creative and innovative ways with a focus on sustainability and social well-being. Winners were selected based on the criteria of construction process, structural and architectural solutions, integral sustainability, and value creation for users and communities. "Through the Building Award, CEMEX recognizes the collaboration of clients, contractors, and authorities, who turn ideas into successful and sustainable construction projects," said Fernando A. Gonzalez, CEO of CEMEX. "During the 25-year history of the Award, CEMEX has witnessed noteworthy improvements in the building industry—from the widespread use of computer systems and innovative materials to the growing awareness of the importance of sustainability in all areas of our life." International Winners by CategoryResidential Housing  Lumina / Arquitectonica & Heller Manus. San Francisco, USA. Image © CEMEX Lumina / Affordable Housing  Altos de la Sabana / Studio Domus. Guatemala, Guatemala. Image © Alejandro Guzmán Altos de la Sabana Building  Amanera by Aman Resorts / John Heah, Heah & Co., Franc Ortega Río. San Juan, Domincan Republic. Image © Juan Lopez Spratt Amanera by Aman Resorts Collective Space  MIB Infrastructure  Restitution of Embankment in Tijuana-Ensenada Highway at KM 93 Winners of International Special PrizesUniversal Accessibility  CKK Jordanki / Menis Arquitectos, Arq. Fernando Menis. Toruń, Poland. Image © Menis Arquitectos, Sebastian Klorek CKK Jordanki Sustainable Building  Oak House School Construction Innovation  MIB Social Value  Guild House Slavonice / ov-a/ ov architekti,s.r.o.. Slavonice, Czech Republic. Image © Tomas Soucek Guild House Slavonice Mexico Winners by CategoryResidential Housing (tied vote)  Calderón de la Barca 79 *  "L" House * Affordable Housing  Bodas 82 Building  Hacienda Niop Collective Space  MIB Infrastructure  Restitution of Embankment in Tijuana-Ensenada Highway at KM 93 Winners of Special Prizes MexicoUniversal Accessibility  Manuel José Othón Theatre Sustainable Building  Saqqara Residences Social Value  Filamentario Chapel Construction Innovation MIB  For the full list of winners, photos, and further details about the projects, please visit the CEMEX media center. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| DSS2016 Specs / Zuloark + Alberto Rey + Tipi Studio Posted: 11 Nov 2016 07:00 AM PST  © Zuloark
 © Zuloark From the architect. Design for 2017. Our proposal doesn't start from architecture. Our proposal doesn't start with the design of an ephemeral pavilion. Our proposal is not even a structure that can be reused.  © Zuloark Our proposal intends to be an exercise of urbanism that creates a space for thinking and producing the city of tomorrow.  © Zuloark We have tried to work backwards, from the future to the present, to see how an information pavilion could mean something for San Sebastian, the European capital of culture. We designed a process of transformation of the city and explored ways in which this challenge could become a pavilion. Our strategy is to intervene in San Sebastian's public space by designing a pavilion that can be constructed as an assembled chrysalis containing the result of the future of the city.  Ground Floor Plan  © Zuloark  Section We propose a new line of street furniture for San Sebastian that can be distributed in the streets and squares from January 2017, but until then it will remain under the form of an assembled information pavilion.  © Zuloark The pavilion is an assembly of 278 "bow tie" benches with a metal frame and wooden seats which can be combined in many ways. All seats face inwards and become a continuous wooden folding plane. The metal legs of the benches form the three dimensional structure and support for the waterproof tent fabric.  © Zuloark We propose that the cultural event "DSS2016" can become a propulsor to literally transform the city, and through this open strategy allow a change that can be observed once the event is over. San Sebastian won't be the same again. In 2017 all the particles of the pavilion will be transformed into urban furniture and compose a landscape of the scattered pavilion.  © Zuloark Amplify affection communities. A pavilion can affect a whole city. The strategy to design a pavilion made with benches is a response to an ecologic matter, not only in terms of reusing material and optimizing processes but also from the standpoint that architecture becomes more sustainable if more agents can be affected by it in any way. Our desire is that the pavilion makes it possible for many to transform their daily lives through it. Even if you as a San Sebastian citizen that hasn't used the services provided by the pavilion nor has participated in any of the activities the cultural capital offers which are informed in the pavilion, its construction will be able to offer you service some day in the shape of furniture.  © Zuloark Participatory process of dismantling Dismantling the DSS2016 pavilion cannot be done in a conventional way. The bench dismantling system, the share-out process and the way its next destination is decided requires a plan. The plan is to gather and reach agreements with local agents, PTAs, technicians and public administration in order to decide which spaces or institutions are the ones to receive what are today the walls, floors and roof of the pavilion.  Sketch Urban camouflage. The settlement where the pavilion is located is very special. Probably the best and most representative place in the city, it is the neuralgic centre of a society strongly rooted in the sea. The pavilion does not camouflage its presence, it camouflages its shape, its size and its direction. This aesthetic and conceptual gesture comes to life as dazzle camouflage, developed by the British Admiralty to mislead the terrible German U-boots. The pavilions dazzle camouflage is painted with the most representative colours of the Gipuzkoan capital, the colours of Txuri-Urdin (white and blue).  © Zuloark Shared authorship. The same way a movie is the result of the effort of many individuals and collectives which are more or less visible and in each case can be nominated for an Oscar and their effort and work can be acknowledged in that way, architecture must show the reality of its processes and acknowledge in an explicit way the summatory of collaborative work that every building requires, no matter how modest the building is.  © Zuloark So in order to make the shared authorship visible, inside the pavilion we can find a bow tie bench showing the credits of each and every member involved indispensably in the construction of the DSS2016 pavilion. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| LMN Architects Reveal Expansion Design for the Seattle Asian Art Museum Posted: 11 Nov 2016 06:15 AM PST  Courtesy of LMN Architects The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has unveiled initial designs by 2016 AIA Architecture Firm of the Year LMN Architects for the upcoming renovation and expansion of the Asian Art Museum. The plans comprise an expansion containing a 2650 square foot art gallery and event space, as well as preserving the museum's historic Art Deco façade and bringing the museum to modern standards of climate control, fire safety and seismic system upgrades. The historic building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 2016.  Courtesy of LMN Architects "This renovation and expansion project is crucial for the future of the Asian Art Museum," says Kimerly Rorschach, SAM's Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO. "The museum's exhibitions and programming connects to the many cultural traditions and contemporary issues of Asia, helping us better understand our region and our rapidly evolving world; our goal is to ensure that we can continue to serve our community and visitors for years to come."  Courtesy of LMN Architects The new expansion will look out onto the adjacent Volunteer Park, improving the connection to the park and bringing its natural beauty into the gallery space through a full-height, glazed curtain wall. In addition to the gallery and events spaces, the expanded programming will also contain educational facilities and the potential for a new Asian art conservation studio in the existing building that will be on display for visitors to look in.  Courtesy of LMN Architects To further connect to its context, a new glass-enclosed lobby accessible via two new openings in the building's Fuller Garden Court lobby space will offer views to and from the park, while a landscaping scheme designed by landscape architect Walker Macy will enhance the east side of the building and the east meadow of the park.  Courtesy of LMN Architects "The architectural design approach parallels the curatorial goals, which seek to create relevance and meaning between the past and the present. Simultaneously, the design is focused on strengthening the relationship between the building and the park—from the outside in and the inside out," says Sam Miller, AIA, Partner at LMN Architects. The expansion and renovation is estimated to cost approximately $49 million and is being funded by a mixture of public and private sources. A fundraising campaign for the project is ongoing. Construction is set to begin in fall 2017.  Courtesy of LMN Architects Project team Architecture & Interior Design: LMN Architects News via LMN Architects. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| University of Oregon Jane Sanders Stadium / SRG Partnership Posted: 11 Nov 2016 05:00 AM PST  © Lawrence Anderson
 © Lawrence Anderson Evoking power and strength, Jane Sanders Stadium is the sleek new home for the Oregon Ducks Softball team. A state-of-the-art 1,500 fixed-seat stadium made possible by a gift from Robert Sanders and named in honor of his late wife Jane, this facility is inspired by one of the most innovative and respected athletic brands in the country but fits gracefully into the fabric of the University of Oregon campus.  © Lawrence Anderson Brand Integration  © Lawrence Anderson Home Field Advantage  © Lawrence Anderson Building Community  Floor Plan The history of the former ballpark, Howe Field, is preserved through the revitalization of Howe Gates. These historic gates again grace the path of many who enter the new public plaza from University Street.  © Lawrence Anderson Stadium design must also be sensitive to surrounding neighbors. In this case, the site is adjoined by a residential community. Care was taken to alleviate residents' concerns about light and sound pollution from the ballpark. Light distribution and sound computer models were shared in public meetings to ensure neighborhood concerns where understood and addressed.  © Lawrence Anderson Building Performance  © Lawrence Anderson Designed to achieve LEED Gold certification, a unique accomplishment in the world of sports facilities. The building also meets UO's aggressive Oregon Model for Sustainable Development, with an energy reduction of 35% over Oregon Energy Code. The building also reduces water usage by 37% with low-flow fixtures and irrigation savings measures. Turf was chosen for the outfield for its low irrigation and maintenance requirements. The stadium bowl is built from a prefab system. The components have a high recycled content, are easily maintained, and at the end of their useful life, can be deconstructed and recycled again.  © Lawrence Anderson Product Description. The stadium's iconic canopy soffit was clad with custom-made plywood panels cut into the shape of home plates. The home plates are assembled in a dynamic pattern, using a plywood module intended to minimize waste during fabrication. The wood element also subtly references the project's primary donor, for whom the stadium is named. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 11 Nov 2016 04:15 AM PST  Two weeks ago, Herzog & de Meuron was announced as the winners of the international competition to design the new Museum of the 20th Century to be located adjacent to Mies van der Rohe's seminal Neue Galerie in the heart of the Berlin Cultural Forum in Berlin, Germany. We've now received additional proposals for the competition, including honorable mention-awarded entries from OMA, Staab Architekten, and Aires Mateus e Associados, and a finalist proposal from REX, that show alternative strategies for the site. OMA By Frans Parthesius. Image © OMA Description via OMA.  © OMA Berlin's new museum is planned on a seemingly intimidating site surrounded on all sides by exceptionally strong and articulate architectures, sandwiched between a never fully accepted urban motorway and an anemic pedestrian Prom- enade: the two typologies that (unfortunately) de ne our cities today.  © OMA As in judo, we have embraced the site's dilemmas and turned them into the very leitidee of the project. We don't inter- pret this competition as a loyalty test, we divide our loyalties between the surrounding masterpieces.  By Frans Parthesius. Image © OMA Two diagonals divide the site in four sectors. Each sector relates precisely to its context and responds directly to its own unique counterpart: the south sector to Mies, the West sector to the Church and the Gemäldegalerie's piazzetta, opposite the Museum's entrance, the north to the concert hall of Scharoun, the east to Motorway and Library.  © OMA The museum is the result of the reassembly of the four sections: it combines classical rooms in the South, more ow- ing expressionistic accommodations in the West, auditoriums inside and outside to face Scharoun in the North and panoramic urban vistas on the East. You learn more about this project here. Staab Architekten © Staab Architekten Description via Staab Architekten. The design for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts picks up the idea of Hans Scharoun s Stadtlandschaft, or urban landscape, that creates "a lively order from the low, high, narrow and the wide." In favor of a largely roofed ground floor area that interlocks with the surrounding open spaces, the building volume is compressed into three high points that are visible from afar. The staggered volumes of the temporary exhibition, the collection Marzona and of the administration are oriented according to important lines of sight from the Potsdamer Straße and the Potsdamer Platz.  © Staab Architekten The intersection of the museum and the public is maximized: all of the museum ́s public functions are visible through transparent facades; courtyards and double-height exhibition spaces extend into the public space with display windows and generate sights of the lower exhibition level. An in-between space, an exterior space for anyone is created in the context of the museum. It invites people to linger with partly shady and partly sunny areas. We developed a complex-orderly spatial arrangement, consisting of five different room types, that can be intuitively grasped from the visitors perspective and offers a wide array of options and configuration possibilities to the curators.  © Staab Architekten The organizational system of the exhibition spaces establishes the structural and formal framework of the museum, which defines the permeable ground floor and the building volumes that position themselves in the urban context. Aires Mateus e Associados © Aires Mateus e Associados Description via Aires Mateus e Associados. It is in the link between the past and the future that the proposal comes to being: constructing a building and the urbanity of time to come, fixing our eyes from the buildings of the past that surround and summon it. A confident construction that presents the weight and density of its task which, in parallel, show the attraction of a void yet to inhabit. It is a building that in its isolation, opens itself to the world.  © Aires Mateus e Associados  © Aires Mateus e Associados The first underground level is totally public and welcomes all the major exhibition areas in a large hall. In this level a connection to the Neue National Gallery is established. An enclosed square, a pivotal moment of the project, is placed at the architectural vortex of the building as the culmination mark of the outside path. The constructed limit of the urban space released by the building's suspension defines itself as the new center.  © Aires Mateus e Associados The city, History, the buildings that observe it, the ancestral tree that awaited its conformity, are all invited to inhabit this expectant void. REX © Luxigon. Courtesy of REX Description via REX. Next to the world's most exquisite frame for art—Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie—we propose its counterpoint: a functional (not aesthetic) objet trouvé for the art of framing collections. The Neue Nationalgalerie is a blank slate on which any exhibition format can be constructed. In practice, as artistic media grow more diverse and museums' operational budgets become more limited, a blank slate is constrictive: the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin finds the climate, light, and universality of this iconic space challenging to stage exhibitions, and endlessly transforming this empty canvass is an expensive proposition.  Courtesy of REX  Courtesy of REX  Courtesy of REX The result is not freedom, but imprisonment within a glass box. By embracing a new definition of gallery flexibility, The Museum of the 20th Century (The Museum) avoids this trap. The Museum offers complete flexibility—without increasing operational costs—by providing built-in tools, not a tabula rasa. It is a foil with which or against which curators can operate. You can learn more about this project here. News via OMA, Staab Architekten, Aires Mateus e Associados, REX. 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| European Central Bank / Coop Himmelb(l)au Posted: 11 Nov 2016 03:00 AM PST  © European Central Bank / Robert Metsch
 © Paul Raftery The striking twin tower shapes the skyline of Frankfurt's Ostend The design of the Viennese architectural studio Coop Himmelb(l)au for the new premises of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt combines the horizontal structure of the landmarked Grossmarkthalle with a twisted double tower, which rises to 185 meters. United by an entrance building, these two elements form an ensemble of special architectural significance. Featuring bridges, pathways and platforms, the glass atrium between the two highrises creates a vertical city. The semi-public and communicative functions are located in the former Grossmarkthalle. The exceptional atrium and visible steel support structure show that the ECB building belongs to an entirely new typology of skyscrapers.  © Paul Raftery  Site Plan  © Paul Raftery The hyperboloid cut From the beginning it was an explicit request of the ECB to create a unique, iconic building as a symbol for the European Union. A distinctive and unique building can only be achieved by a completely different kind of Geometry.  © Paul Raftery The design concept of the ECB is to vertically divide a monolithic block through a hyperboloid cut, wedge it apart, twist it and fill the newly created intermediary space with a glass atrium. The result is a very complex geometry and a multifaceted building offering a completely different appearance from each angle: massive and powerful from the South-East, slender and dynamic from the West.  © Paul Raftery  © Paul Raftery  © Paul Raftery The principle of the "Vertical City" The architectural concept of the ECB is to vertically divide a monolithic block through a hyperboloid cut, wedge it apart, twist it and fill the newly created intermediary space with several glass atriums. The connecting and transitioning platforms divide the atrium horizontally into three sections with heights from 45 to 60 meters. This is where all vertical entry points are joined – and just like public squares, they invite visitors to communicate. The planned "hanging gardens" ensure a pleasant room climate while elevators and stairs connect these places with the offices and communication areas of the Grossmarkthalle.  Elevation The Grossmarkthalle – the communicative forum The existing landmarked Grossmarkthalle, a former wholesale market from the 1920s, is used as an "urban foyer". The conference and visitor's center, library and employee cafeteria are placed diagonally in the spacious interior of the hall as independent building structures (with a "house within a house" concept). A floating entrance building penetrates the hall structure from the outside. With its asymmetrical contours, slanted facades and generous windows it marks the representative access to the ECB. The lobby, two-story press conference room and a lecture room are located here. The so-called "loop" – a glass walkway between the highrise and the market hall – completes the ensemble.  © Paul Raftery The sustainable energy concept Energy efficiency and sustainability were key factors in the competition. The energy concept includes the following measures: utilization of rain water, heat recovery, efficient insulation, sun protection and illumination as well as a natural ventilation for the offices. Some areas, such as the atrium and open zones of the Grossmarkthalle, are not equipped with an air conditioning system; instead they serve as a buffer zone between the interior and exterior climates. The "shield hybrid facade" of the office towers consists of three layers and offers a direct and natural ventilation of the offices via vertical, room-high ventilation elements.  © European Central Bank / Robert Metsch Urban construction and architecture The ECB's architecture was carefully attuned to its location in Frankfurt's Ostend district. With its clear orientation towards the urban perspectives, the ensemble enters a dialogue with Frankfurt's most important reference points: the Alte Oper, the Museum Embankment and the skyline of the financial district. The distinctive double tower can be seen from all of the important places in Frankfurt's city center and from the Main river, creating an initial point for a second center in the East of Frankfurt. "This corresponds to the principle of a polycentric city, which is much more dynamic than a monocentric city," explains Wolf D. Prix, Design Principal and CEO of Coop Himmelb(l)au. "Tension areas begin to emerge between the centers, in which new developments are being provoked."  © Paul Raftery Hessian Culture Prize Wolf D. Prix received the prestigious Hessian Culture Prize for the design of the new premises of the European Central Bank in November 2013. Since 1982, this award has been given annually for special accomplishments in the areas of art, science and cultural mediation. "With the new premises of the European Central Bank, Coop Himmelb(l)au is creating a new, modern landmark for Frankfurt," the eleven-member Board of Trustees said in a statement about the award. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| This New Drawing App Shows How Digital Software Will Save Sketching, Not Destroy It Posted: 11 Nov 2016 01:30 AM PST
Mental Canvas is not the first software that attempts to save the act of sketching--we have seen 3D "sketching" tools such as SketchUp, as well as applications that simply simulate sketching on paper, such as Morpholio's popular range of sketching apps. But what makes Mental Canvas revolutionary is that you have the ability to sketch freely in a three-dimensional space without the constraints of traditional CAD modelling; it's what Julie Dorsey, founder of Mental Canvas, calls a "graphical media"; not fully flat but not fully 3D. The software will be released later this year on Microsoft Surface devices, including the recently announced Surface Studio, working with the hardware of the Surface computers and the Surface Dial to provide a natural sketching experience on a virtual canvas.
The central premise of Mental Canvas is that the designer draws on individual transparent canvases in an infinite space, which can be combined simultaneously in order to provide a three dimensional experience that is still very organic. Strokes on a canvas can be projected into space, automatically creating a new canvas, and entire canvases can also be rotated in relation to each other to create a desired illustration. What separates Mental Canvas from a sketch with pencil on paper is that is can be viewed from multiple angles, pulling the viewer through a scene that tells a more compelling story. On the other hand, what separates it from our usual 3D modelling software is its ease and fluidity, as Julie Dorsey explains:
3D drawing on the new Surface StudioThe endless white backdrop that makes up Mental Canvas may feel intimidating at first, lacking the safety of architectural scales that come with most CAD modelling software, or an ordinary piece of paper. However this infinite space has been created with the intention of liberating the architect or designer from the constraints of a computer, says Dorsey:
In addition to the version scheduled to be released later this year, the Mental Canvas team is also working on a version for a research project that allows the user to place photographs of an architectural site, or mapped data to act as a backdrop for sketching, in effect implying a scale. This process of adding, adapting and changing is really at the core of the software, and is what Dorsey thinks will appeal to clients:
A scene that is sketched on the Mental Canvas can be turned into a guided tour with a "Bookmark" tool that allows you to save a series of scenes that can be replayed in a particular order (try exploring this scene sketched by Carol Hsiung, by clicking the play button on the top left corner). These "tours" can be shared with any device that has access to a web browser, making it incredibly easy to hand over drawings to a client, as well as to adapt and change those drawings at a much faster speed than ever before. Carol Hsiung, Senior Designer at FXFOWLE and one of the first architects to test the software, vouches for Mental Canvas's communicative value:
Hsiung, as many architects, started her journey in the profession due to her love of drawing and says that Mental Canvas made her fall "in love with my drawing again, because it allowed me to see my drawing in a new way." Hsiung adds that the power of sketching comes with its ability to tell a story, or convey a meaning in a way that CAD models and words can't. "When you're working in architecture at a big firm like [FXFOWLE], there are a lot of designers and not a lot of time, so in order to help everyone understand and get on the same page with the design, you draw," she says. "When you're in a meeting, the person who draws and sketches can help to communicate the idea and I think Mental Canvas has power in doing that."
Part of the ease of drawing with Mental Canvas is a result of the carefully engineered relationship between the software and hardware of the Surface devices and Dial. Julie Dorsey explains that the design is intended for users to work with the Dial in one hand and the pen in the other, allowing for changes in color or pen width to be executed without ever having to move your focus from the drawing:
Mental Canvas essentially frees the architect from having to create an entire model in order to illustrate a space, but rather allows for the sketching of separate views to communicate a holistic concept. As Carol Hsiung puts it, "You can show this to your clients, people who don't understand two-dimensional drawings, and they can kind of feel it." Emphasising this point, Julie Dorsey uses an example of the importance of sketching:
Architects, designers, illustrators and clients: you have a lot to look forward to. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Ark Shelter / Michiel De Backer + Jakub Senkowski + Martin Mikovčák Posted: 11 Nov 2016 01:00 AM PST  © Thomas Debruyne
 © Thomas Debruyne We are students of architecture, who put our heads together to rethink the way people live their fast and stressful lives. Today we witness a perpetual evolution of new technologies in the fast forward moving world. It is a never-ending story of daily pressure and continuous deadlines. We were thinking about a way to escape from our stressful lives and to get back to our roots. We believe people will find the break they need by bringing the nature back.  © Thomas Debruyne We had a dream to design the shelter to the last detail. Our dream became reality, while we crafted ARK by ourselves, what we managed with few carpenter friends, to whom we are thankful for their patience.  Plan Minimalistic design of AKR does not have any ambition to stand out, but wants to merge into the landscape. Shelter provides the ability to enjoy nature by becoming part of it, directing all attention to the open view. Our furniture is designed uniquely for the shelter and crafted from the same wood as used for the walls, floor and ceiling. We keep simple elegance high in our standards.  © Thomas Debruyne ARK is placed into the landscape in a very mobile way. We do not use fixed foundations to leave the surrounding nature untouched. By collecting rainwater and using solar power for electricity production, shelter becomes a self-supporting house. This ecological shelter is sustainable and completely independent. As a result of this, the destination of our cocoon is never locked.  Section The philosophy behind ARK provides a place to live in the wild, back to basics. With the sides folding open, shelter takes in the landscape and becomes an extension of nature. Designed in a way of a low tech architecture, to let users a make effort, to feel a live and understand the rural way of life.  © Thomas Debruyne Product Description. Oak wood is used on the horizontal surfaces, since it is waterproof, like the floor, terraces, kitchen and furniture is also produced from the same oak. The vertical parts and the ceiling are made of pine tree bio plates which are painted with white oil with UV protection to keep them light. This contrast between the light vertical and the dark horizontal parts is playing the main role inside of our shelter.  © Thomas Debruyne This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 5 Low Cost Yet High Quality Houses Posted: 11 Nov 2016 12:00 AM PST
One of the most limiting factors of any project is the budget. A low budget demands much more of the architect's inventiveness to ensure the quality of the work. Since most house constructions have a lower financial investment than architects would like, we thought it essential to highlight some examples which stood out because of the architect's ingenuity in solving the low budget "problem" by creating quality solutions. Details of each project after the break. Casa Vila Matilde / Terra e Tuma Arquitetos Associados  © Pedro Kok In early 2014, the house showed clear signs of deterioration and began to collapse. Ms. Dalva went on to live on rent at a relative's house. The new house had to be built as fast as possible, else her expenses would completely consume all savings. We used our recent experiences in exposed, structural wall blocks to erect a low-cost building, with great control and agility.  Casa Vila Matilde / Terra e Tuma Arquitetos Associados .jpg?1469632223 "© Federico Cairoli") © Federico Cairoli The tight budget led to the decision to try to avoid subsequent finishes after construction was over, and that the construction itself was to be its own material expression. The materials are exposed defining the colors and textures of the construction as result and expression of the implicit technique in the process that does not seek to hide its essence.  Casa Bovero / German Müller Casa dos Caseiros / 24.7 arquitetura design  © Pedro Kok "Casa dos Caseiros" was first created to answer a private order for a social interest dwelling project to be built numerously throughout some cities in Rio de Janeiro state.  Casa dos Caseiros / 24.7 arquitetura design House in La Prosperina / Fabrica Nativa Arquitectura  Cortesia de Fabrica Nativa Arquitectura With great determination and thinking of a strategy to recycle some of the existing materials, with a limited budget, we started the project. Of the existing 4.80 m by 5.50 m of construction, we recycled: the roof, sanitary facilities, three out of four walls, the bathroom, half the floor made of wooden slats and particle boards.  Residência na Prosperina / Fabrica Nativa Arquitectura Gutter House / Núcleo de Arquitetura Experimental .jpg?1469632479 "© Alexandre Prass") © Alexandre Prass After choosing the site, the big challenge was to overcome the limitations of the Brazilian Programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida, and so, provide the opportunity of living in a house with contemporary architectural concepts with its functional, technical and aesthetic qualities. The low amount of money available to build the house demanded dexterity to optimize the interior spaces and for choosing building materials and construction techniques.  Casa Calha / Núcleo de Arquitetura Experimental This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| CAZA Announces First Combined Hospital and Trauma Center for Philippines Posted: 10 Nov 2016 10:00 PM PST  Courtesy of CAZA Architects Brooklyn-based design studio, workshop and think tank CAZA (Carlos Arnaiz Architects) has announced its plans for Ospital Pacifica de Juan and Juana Angara, a hybrid hospital and trauma center prototype located in rural Baler, Philippines. As the first combined General Hospital and Trauma Care Center in the country, the project will drastically improve medical support in this remote area. With a daily patient capacity of 75 people, the 6,120-square-meter space will feature a variety of medical services, including maternity wards, imaging, operating rooms, a chapel, and a café. "The Hospital will also offer patients a therapeutic presence of nature, as the luscious exterior landscape of Baler permeates the facility through a series of undulating canopies that create an architectural figure in an open field of green" - described the architects in a media release.  Courtesy of CAZA Architects In order to provide flexibility and adaptable modularity, the hospital is planned around a nine-by-nine-meter grid that will accommodate a variety of organizations for patient and examination rooms.  Courtesy of CAZA Architects A central, integrated spine will run through the hospital, circulating staff and medical supplies, as well as creating a centralized service delivery mechanism.  Courtesy of CAZA Architects  Courtesy of CAZA Architects
 Courtesy of CAZA Architects The $8 million project will begin construction in December of this year and will be completed in March 2018. Learn more about the project here. News via CAZA (Carlos Arnaiz Architects). This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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