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Jules Verne School / archi5
In and Between Boxes: Atelier Peter Fong / LUKSTUDIO
Sunter Metro Residence / Atelier Cosmas Gozali
Wood Pavilion / FMD Architects
Shoji Screen House / Yoshiaki Yamashita
Sunday House / Teeland Architects
Bauhaus Museum Dessau Beginning Construction with Foundation Stone Ceremony
St. Nicholas School / aflalo/gasperini arquitetos
Jean Nouvel's First Melbourne Tower Receives Go-Ahead
Camp Baird / Malcolm Davis Architecture
Intercultural Education Center at Tübingen / (se)arch architekten
OMA’s Masterplan for Feyenoord City in Rotterdam Approved
A Virtual Look Into Richard Neutra's Unbuilt Case Study House #13, The Alpha House
Hairdresser's Salon Talstrasse Zürich / Wülser Bechtel Architekten
“A Burglar’s Guide to the City” to be Adapted into a Television Pilot
EID Wins Competition for Stacked Block Mixed-Use Development in Chongqing
Moshe Safdie: Architects "Have a Deep Social Responsibility"

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 07:00 PM PST

Architects: archi5
Location: Rue Jules Verne, 92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France
Area: 10063.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Sergio Grazia

Client: City of Châtenay Malabry
Economist, Tce: Egis
Environmental Engineer: Elioth
Kitchen Engineer: Alma Consulting
Cost: 18.700.000 € Excl. Tax.

From the architect. The goal of this project was the profound modi cation of the school's image. We proposed an organization based on users comfort. The children are considered as the project center by giving them a qualitative learning place. From a urban scale, la Place de l'Enfance is refurbished and become a new public space and a land- mark for the neighbourhood.

The urban façade unifies all parts of the school in a coherent project. Each part (infant school, primary school, leisure center...) remains independent but reunited in a whole renewed identity. The vegetated roof in wooden structure on the first floor connects and uni es the three emergences of existing and refurbished parts. Each volume has its function : infant school on East, primary school on West, leisure centers and common parts on central zone. The roof and light façades, all in wooden structure allowed to lead works with less nuisances in different in an occupied site. The parts were pre-fabricated in workshop to be pieced together quickly and following a dry implementation.

The building façades present high thermic efficiency, acoustic insulation and airtightness which is mandatory for a low consumption project. Our proposition, with its smooth and flexible geometry allows future evolutions of use while preserving the original concept.

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In and Between Boxes: Atelier Peter Fong / LUKSTUDIO

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 06:00 PM PST

Architects: LUKSTUDIO
Location: No. 42 Huakang Street, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China
Design Team: Christina Luk, Alba Beroiz Blazquez, Ray Ou, Jin Hong Cai, Shanyun Huang
Area: 250.0 m2
Photographs: Dirk Weiblen

Located in a residential neighborhood next to the Tianhe district in central Guangzhou, Atelier Peter Fong by Lukstudio revives an empty corner lot into both an office and a cafe. Through a series of clean white volumes, the design purifies the existing chaotic site to create a calm yet inviting atmosphere.

From the outside, a floating aluminum canopy connects the volumes together, while delineating between the old and the new. Three boxes stick out from the interior, composing a coherent façade while creating areas in-between like urban alleys that draw people in from the street. Each box contains a distinct program; café, brainstorming area, meeting room and a break-out lounge. In contrast to the pristine forms, the voids are painted gray and left with the original structural ceiling.

Following a process of meticulous spatial carving, openings and niches are shaped within the volumes. Large cut-outs connect the café to the exterior and frame the surrounding greenery. On the inside, white ceiling pockets and wooden niches create a sense of intimacy. The office entry is also carved at its edge to feature a peaceful Zen garden, which becomes a focal point and visually connects the different parts of the office together.

The selection of materials further enhances the pure definition of the spaces. Smooth surfaces such as white walls and terrazzo flooring dominate the main space, serving as a canvas to capture light and shadow. The brainstorming box is lined with polycarbonate panels that form a subtle visual connection between the café and the workplace. Intimate areas are characterized by organic elements; such as continuous timber panels in the brainstorming zone and remnants of an existing brick wall in the lounge.

Combining artisanal café culture with a collaborative co-working space, Atelier Peter Fong adapts a contemporary social model to a local Chinese neighborhood. The complete transformation of a forgotten site into a destination demonstrates how architectural interventions can activate the streetscape and enhance nearby communities.

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Sunter Metro Residence / Atelier Cosmas Gozali

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 02:00 PM PST

Architects: Atelier Cosmas Gozali
Location: North Jakarta, North Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
Architect In Charge: Cosmas D. Gozali
Architect Team: Raymond Djohan, Setya Kurniawan, Rudy Hermanto, Jonathan Chen
Area: 406.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Fernando Gomulya

Site Area: 240 sqm

From the architect. The Residence that located in Sunter area take a concept of resort that combined with modern geometric shapes but still regarding aspects of the locality.

With a limited size of the site, the Architect tried to bring a Courtyard concept into the house as a central mass of the building, so the courtyard become a source of light and natural air circulation. Every room in this house have an orientation to the courtyard, so the house become more healthy and energy saving. Furthermore the concept resort is also felt in the foyer area where we've been "entered" into the house, but still seem to be outdoors because of the courtyard / open space that creating the impression of there is no boundary between outer space and the inside space. The Architects also applied a sloping roof in this house and used a local material likes exposed karawang stone that intended to bring a locality of Indonesia in this house.

The Religious side of home owner also inspired the Architects to translate that essence into the design in more modern context. The shape of triangle that resemble of a Chapel combined with box shape create a contemporary looks that makes this residence unique among its surrounding. Another interesting design is how to process the facade of the building by combining massive and transparent form that obtain from arrangement of the hollow steel to give a modern looks.

The Facade of the building is dominated by the white color to give a simple and clean looks also to create a spacious effect. The used of white color also because it produces a soothing atmosphere not only to the owner but also the surrounding.

Just like the exterior, the interior of the residence also features an abstract white color is combined with a touch of natural colors likes brown wood color and terracotta to create a resort looks alike but displayed in more contemporary ambiance. The interior is designed to be simple with the used of built-in furniture to give the impression of compact and integrated with the building. This can be seen on the floor of the reading room where the owners desire to have a reading room accommodated in the form of a built bookcase and attic area which also used as a reading lounge.

Interior and landscape area designed connected with the architectural design concept that brings contemporary tropical shades. Landscape design is more simple and modest like dry garden that mixed with some easy maintenance trees so that more clean and give a modern looks.

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Wood Pavilion / FMD Architects

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 12:00 PM PST

Architects: FMD Architects
Location: Shanghai , China
Architect In Charge: Jianfeng Wang
Design Team: Nico Willy Leferink ,Haoda Wang, Zhenhua Cao, Sunny Xie , Zhipeng Zhen
Area: 685.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Yinhui Wang

Model: Bing Gong, Hailiang Shen
Interior: SUPERCLOUD STUDIO

Corridor in 3rd floor. Image © Yinhui Wang

Project is located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China. It's a showroom and management office for the entire industrial office park.

We design the building as a piece of paper floating above the water ,only touching the ground in two points.

The building has a simple structure system :

A: 900mm high concrete base, which can protect the wood from the rain and water.
B: wood bent structure with 3.6 meters distance.
C: two way folded roof with skylight.

The wood columns take the vertical load, and a solid concrete core takes the horizontal load. The core is operated as a precise machine: carve the solid volume by the circulation, function and the view.

We also combine the different functions with the concrete baseaccording to the locations: can be a showcase, cabinet, coffee bar or even a sofa lounge.

Stairs in the solid core. Image © Yinhui Wang

In two corners where the roof goes to the ground there is double height space. We put Electric skylight above ,whichallows light into these spaces and also improve the ventilation.

The whole building is a wood pavilion with a clear logic, thus we treat the interior design in a simple way: expose the original concrete, wood, steel materials and the joint as much as possible. Only hide the lights and equipments.

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Shoji Screen House / Yoshiaki Yamashita

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 11:00 AM PST

Architects: Yoshiaki Yamashita Architect & Associates
Location: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Yoshiaki Yamashita
Design Team: Yoshiaki Yamashita, Kento Morita
Area: 55.7 m2
Photographs: Eiji Tomita

Structural Engineer: Yoshiki Mondo
Constructor: Egawa Kenchiku
Site Area: 66.06 m2

This house is in Osaka city, the back of the Karahori shopping district. This site of the only 66 square meters is located in the place where entered 30m the alley from the road.

Alley width is about 2m.

Site is a corner lot in contact with the crank. On the south side of the site, there is stone wall exceeds the height 4m and 2 or 3-story house has been built on it. Also other three sides of the site has surrounded by a three-story building.

Standing on the site, I felt like being in the bottom of a well. First, I tried to capture the stone walls in the house.

But it was rejected to the client. Because they're not good at small animals and insects. So, direction of the design was headed to the Urban Housing that is completely contained inside.

But I wanted to be left a little relationship with the surroundings. I was allowed to extend the alley in this house and placed glass-walled entrance, glass-walled light garden and glass-walled sanitary space ahead of the approach (the wall mirror has emphasized the depth).

They upon entering the low-ceilinged entrance, then high ceilings and spacious space will greet them.

There is no window in the two sides facing the street.(see the appearance)

Private space spacious has adopted the light from three light yard provided inside of the outer wall.

Although especially large fixed window is facing the service Terrace, I chose the abstract light (rather than show a embodying, such as the laundry) by paste the Japanese paper in the window over the entire surface.

In the night, the silhouette of bamboo planted outside is reflected on this screen.

There is a square window on top of the light garden next the entrance, also this window is affixed Japanese paper to hide the outside view. The traditional materials of Japan "Japanese paper" has created an abstract and modern space. As not "Shoji Joinery" but "Shoji Screen"

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Sunday House / Teeland Architects

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 09:00 AM PST

Architects: Teeland Architects
Location: Noosa, QLD, Australia
Architect In Charge: David Teeland, Jong Sook Kim
Area: 400.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Jared Fowler

Our clients purchased a late 1970's modernist brick beach house in Noosa, Australia for a subtropical retreat from the cool Victorian climate. The house was located on a wonderful site that backed onto the Noosa National Park and surfing beaches. The existing dark brown brick residence, although well constructed at the time, had visually dated quite badly and did not take best advantage of the amazing site that backed onto a subtropical rainforest. The owners brief was to modernise the house while retaining as much of the existing building structure as possible.

One of the challenges with the existing house is that it did not take full advantage of the fantastic location backing onto the national park. The rear of the house was largely a solid brick wall looking onto this beautiful view. We proposed carving out a series of new openings in the rear wall so that bedrooms and bathrooms would look out onto this very private serene landscape. Originally, the house was quite dark internally so we pushed a series of timber lined light wells up through the roof. This allowed natural light to flow in from a high level, as well from the new openings in the brick walls.

The other significant challenge to modernise the existing house was how to transform the front street elevation. The original house had an unflattering rough dark brown brick facade with two equally brown garage doors. A separate consideration was that the street elevation faced east and hot morning sun would blast in through the kitchen and dining windows in summer. Our approach was to render the brick in a natural cement finish and design a beautiful timber screen that sat in front of the original facade. This light weight hardwood structure resulted in a refined modern elevation to the street, while also providing sun protection and privacy for the internal spaces.One of the most unique and delightful design elements of the new house is the semi outdoor bathrooms that look out onto the national park. The original house had an aged light brown plastic shower unit that sat on the back deck, where you could shower outside looking into the forest. The owners loved this feature, so we designed the new bathrooms as hardwood boxes with copper fittings that are largely open onto the private subtropical rainforest.

Product Description. Our clients purchased a late 1970's modernist brick beach house in Noosa, Australia for a subtropical retreat from the cool Victorian climate. The house was located on a wonderful site that backed onto the Noosa National Park and surfing beaches. The existing dark brown brick residence, although well constructed at the time, had visually dated quite badly and did not take best advantage of the amazing site that backed onto a subtropical rainforest. The owners brief was to modernise the house while retaining as much of the existing building structure as possible.

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Bauhaus Museum Dessau Beginning Construction with Foundation Stone Ceremony

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 08:30 AM PST

The first piece of the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau will be set into place this weekend as part of the "Bauhaus Building 90th Anniversary" event, one year after Barcelona architects González Hinz Zabala were selected as the winners of a fierce international competition for the commission.

González Hinz Zabala's open concept, "Black Box" design was originally selected as a joint 1st place winner with a proposal from New York architects Young & Ayata in September of last year, and then awarded the commission for the final design in December following further fine tuning of the design.

"We succeeded, in collaboration with the architects, to further densify the museum concept in the process. The approach by González Hinz Zabala – to envision the Bauhaus Museum Dessau as an interplay between a hermetic spatial structure and an open-plan ground floor – now appears even more convincing. Also because the complex was given more of an aesthetic workshop character in this planning effort," said Claudia Perren, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation director.

"This does not only correspond to the Bauhaus idea but also reflects the professional identity of the young generation of architects: Away from representational towards and interacting edifice with much room for experiments. I am positive that the Bauhaus Museum Dessau will become a very vibrant and open place."

The design is envisioned as a dual structure system – on the second floor a "Black Box" gallery will house the program elements of "collection, custody and care," with an airtight spatial structure to present the collection. Its counterpart on the ground floor is a flexible "open stage" space that will allow a variety of stagings and events to connect to the surrounding park and open space.

"All in all, it was a very dense iterative planning process that has yielded very convincing results. We optimised the volume of the building, including planning of usable areas, developed a convincing air-conditioning solution in interaction with the glass façade and matched interior materials to the museum program and function," said Frank Assmann, head of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Construction Department.

The Bauhaus Museum Dessau is scheduled to be completed in time for 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus foundation in 2019. Upon completion, it house the huge collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, whose 40,000 exhibits make it the second-largest Bauhaus Collection in the world.

Project Credits

Client: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau - Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the city of Dessau-Roßlau
Location: Dessau, Germany
Gross Floor Area: 5.513 m²Architects: Addenda (GONZALEZ HINZ ZABALA SLP): Roberto González, Anne K. Hinz, Cecilia Rodriguez, Arnau Sastre, José Zabala
Local architect: BAL Bauplanungs und Steuerungs GmbH: Stefano Magistretti
Landscape architects: Roser Vives de Delàs, Patricia Pérez Rumpler

News via Bauhaus Museum Dessau.

Foundation Bauhaus Dessau Announces Winners of Bauhaus Museum Competition

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St. Nicholas School / aflalo/gasperini arquitetos

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 07:00 AM PST

Architects: aflalo/gasperini arquitetos
Location: Santana de Parnaíba - Polvilho, Santana de Parnaíba - SP, Brazil
Area: 28567.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Ana Mello

From the architect. An elementary and high school for pupils aged between 2 and 17, the construction houses adjoining collective spaces featuring partial isolation between the three different school levels: Infant, Junior and Senior. A backbone

creates connectivity between all spaces, with the three scholastic levels, the spaces of common use – dining hall, game courts, theater, football field, arts complex – and the socialising areas scattered throughout the large garden that separates the blocks from the classrooms.

The volumes' dynamic installation allowed the privacy of each age group's playground, and at the same time favored a permeability between them through the woods. The project design is formed by the balanced disposition of occupied spaces and the empty spaces formed between them. The volumetry's inclined planes create shading over the classroom terraces, on the facades of the various spaces and on the access passageways which are open and integrated with the green areas.

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Jean Nouvel's First Melbourne Tower Receives Go-Ahead

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 06:00 AM PST

Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Australian firm Architectus' 70-story mixed-use tower, 383 La Trobe Street, will be the newest addition to the Melbourne skyline, after its approval by the Victoria Department of Planning.

Upon completion, the building will be Nouvel's first project in Melbourne and second in Australia following One Central Park in Sydney, which was named the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Best Tall Building Worldwide in 2014.

The 242 meter (827 foot) tower will feature a gridded facade with varying fenestration on each elevation – including the signature south facade, which has been inspired a curtain in Frank Lloyd Wright's Hillside Theatre at Taliesin.

Inside, the tower will contain 488 apartment units and a 196-room hotel organized around four sky gardens. Approximately one third of the 2,850 square meter site will be designated for public space, containing galleries, restaurants, a bar, retail spaces and an internal arcade for digital art installations.

In addition, a book exchange library run in partnership with Victoria University will allow visitors and residents to borrow and donate books.

News via ArchitectureAU + Urban Melbourne.

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Camp Baird / Malcolm Davis Architecture

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 05:00 AM PST

Architects: Malcolm Davis Architecture
Location: Healdsburg, CA, United States
Area: 5499.0 ft2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Joe Fletcher

Landscape Architect: Cary Bush of Merge Studio
Contractor: Simon Fairweather & Associates

From the architect. Malcolm Davis Architecture built an incredible contextual indoor/outdoor living space. This off the grid home sits on a stunning 165-wooded acre property in a valley west of Healdsburg. Previously working with the Baird family for their first home in the Bay Area, Malcolm Davis already understood the family and their design aesthetic.

The home, similar to their very own family campground, is outfitted for the family yearning to unplug from their fast-paced lives and connect to the outdoors. The property has two main structures - a car and barn equipment shed and a main structure, which has three primary enclosed multi-function spaces on opposite ends of the central south-facing porch. These spaces can be used for sleeping, practicing yoga and games. The backyard has an 82-foot long solar-heated swimming pool, a concrete outdoor fireplace used for grilling and cooking and a partially screened outdoor shower, which also functions as their primary shower. In addition, the backyard is the families playground which includes a tree house, rope swing, archery area and two large grass areas flank the east and west end of property for outdoor activities.

"Camp Baird" is a fully functional, efficient and sustainable compound. The three enclosed rooms can be fully heated by Rais wood stoves while the kitchen is heavily insulated to stay cool on hot summer days. The galvanized metal roofs reduce heat build up and the metal cladding and hardwood Ipe decks in this Wildland Urban Interface zone minimize fire threat. The landscape, done by Cary Bush of Merge Studio, is filled with drought tolerant native species with a row of trees at the parking area to provide future shade for visiting cars. In addition, a snake fence - a 30" tall metal wall - keeps the immediate compound free from critters.

Product Description: The buildings are clad in CorTen metal on the walls and galvanized metal roofs. The CorTen allows the simple shed structures to blend into the landscape. The galvanized metal roofs reduce heat build up. The metal cladding and hardwood Ipe decks in this Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) zone minimize fire threat.

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Intercultural Education Center at Tübingen / (se)arch architekten

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 03:00 AM PST

Architects: (se)arch architekten
Location: Tübingen, Germany
Area: 1970.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Zooey Braun

Structure : merz kley partner ZT GmbH
Construction Site Area: 980 m2

The intercultural education center is located in an attractive urban location not far from the historical district of Tübingen. The direct proximity to the riverside as well as the view of the castle are characteristic of the particular situation of the property. Inspired by the pavilion structure of the surrounding existing buildings, an ensemble of two differently sized buildings emerged: the two-storey primary school and the smaller, one-storey children's home. Both houses were designed on a square floor plan with a pyramid roof and are connected via a common, covered entrance area.

The two pavilion-like solitaires create a high permeability in the outer space due to their open arrangement. The result is a "school landscape" through which the important paths and perspectives are preserved as far as possible. Due to the location and topography of the property, the striking roof surfaces can be experienced as a fifth façade. Splitting the entire cubature into two smaller buildings creates a child-friendly scale that supports the desired clear orientation.

Children can enter the school and the children's house through the shared, weather protected access. Together with the switchable multifunctional areas, the cafeteria and the seating sections, here you will find space to interact and to meet. On the ground floor of the children's house, a multi-purpose room and the administration is located at the entrance, the group rooms open to the landscape tot he East. The primary school welcomes the students on the ground floor with more public spaces such as cafeteria, communal area and library.

Characteristic of the atmosphere in the interior spaces of both buildings is the large, square skylight in the roof, which functions as a large „light shower" providing plenty of natural daylight in the center of the buildings. In order to open up this open learning lands- cape filled with zenital light with the seat step, the classrooms and classrooms, which can be used in a variety of ways, are located on the upper floor of the school.

Around this, filled with zenital light, open learning landscape the classrooms are situated. This zone is multiple usable and connected to the open staircase with seating steps.

Both houses have a façade of cedar-wood shingles, which by their small size and warm material language strengthen the scale and atmosphere of the ensemble. Both the children's house and the school are built in timber construction, only reinforced concrete has been used for the floor and floor ceilings. All materials were tested and carefully selected for their pollutants and primary energy requirements.

Despite the high energetic demands of a passive house, which has already been formula- ted in the competition, the technology appears as an unpretentious and integrative part of the house: the two solitaires offer quiet, concentrated spaces, which give the children a high degree of identification.

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OMA’s Masterplan for Feyenoord City in Rotterdam Approved

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 02:02 AM PST

OMA has released images of their masterplan for Feyenoord City, Rotterdam, after the plan was approved by city's mayor and alderman. Developed for the Feyenoord football club, the project will consist of a redeveloped mixed-use district centered around a new 63,000 seat stadium for the team located along the Maas River.

Feyenoord City Bird's-Eye View. Image © OMA

The stadium will serve as the starting point for business development in the area, linking to the rest of the Rotterdam-Zuid district through a walkway and generous public space. A new active artery, called "The Strip," will connect the new arena with Feyenoord's current stadium, De Kuip, whose history will be preserved by its conversion into apartments, commercial space, an athletics sports center and a public square.

Stadium - Varkenoordseviaduct. Image © OMA

The renovated "Kuip Park" will contain more than 89,000 square meters (958,000 square feet) of green space for sport and leisure activities, as well as 700 residential units.

In total, the masterplan will add 180,000 square meters (1,938,000 square feet) of housing in a variety of typologies; 64,000 square meters (689,000 square feet) of retail and commercial space, including a cinema, restaurants and shopping; and 83,000 square meters (893,000 square feet) of various public program elements including a "sports experience" and urban sports fields.

"With the development of Feyenoord City, OMA contributes to the next phase of development for the city of Rotterdam, our home town. We help to connect parts of the city that were isolated and difficult to reach; we designed a piece of city around the Feyenoord football club and its new stadium, which will connect people through sport and community," said David Gianotten, partner-in-charge at OMA.

"With this design, OMA fulfills our strong desire to develop a sport city that is unique in the Netherlands and northern Europe."

News via OMA.

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A Virtual Look Into Richard Neutra's Unbuilt Case Study House #13, The Alpha House

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 01:30 AM PST

Of the four homes designed by Richard Neutra for the Case Study Houses program, post-war thought experiments commissioned by Arts & Architecture, only one was ever realized. In the imaginary village of the program's many unbuilt homes, next to #6, the Omega house, stands #13, named Alpha. Archilogic's 3D model gives us a unique chance to experience this innovative concept home.

Each of Neutra's projects was designed for a family of five, and each reveals his psychoanalytic approach to architecture, in which the house itself is an intimate part of family relationships, as important as the personalities involved. (Neutra was personally acquainted with Freud, and a committed follower of birth trauma theorist Otto Rank.) Underlining this Freudian view, his imaginary clients are not just neighbours—they are related; Mrs Alpha being sister to Mrs Omega.

The magazine's introduction of the Alpha house avows: "Together these people had decided on a most favourable scheme, to settle themselves side by side"—which of course provides the architect with an excuse for designing two houses as an intimate pair, but might cause a raised eyebrow if we consider the psychological state of grown women insisting on raising their families in this twinned condition. Neutra, known to employ psychoanalytic tricks on his clients to win their commitment to his ideas, and by his own admission "quite enthusiastic in placing the accent on individuality on the consumer," surely delighted in this fantasy.

As with the Omega house, and appropriately for the southern California setting, the (hypothetical) brief emphasizes outdoor living, and in particular the need for the space to accommodate a large group of children—the groups from each family co-mingling and travelling around from patio to patio. Wide open sliding doors meet that need for easy traffic, this transparency contrasting with the suggestively hidden, libidinous play area provided by the lath house "overgrown with vines."

More innuendo comes to light with the requirement that guest accommodation should be far away from the family bedrooms and their "negligé-behavior." They are "not prudish," these Alphas, and indeed most families might be uncomfortable with their practical notion of having "a lavatory right in the room" of the eldest son in order, apparently, to facilitate sleepovers.

Like the Omega house, Alpha has a sloping roof, but in this case it tilts down toward the kitchen and garage—avoiding the Omega time-trap of having children stuck in low-ceilinged rooms they are sure to grow out of. Just as well, since the Alpha kids are already heading into adolescence; this does point to the impending obsolescence of the play area, but then, it is just a wide corridor after all.

The shared features of the two houses—tilted roofs, identical fixtures, finishes and facing materials—make a statement about neighbourhood planning. These houses are not intended to stand alone, but to be part of a community (albeit perhaps less intimate than the almost incestuous Alphas and Omegas). They look outward; not just literally, thanks to the abundant glass that takes advantage of those Californian views, but figuratively, acknowledging that an individual home takes its place within a neighborhood and contributes to it. This community spirit and the indoor-outdoor lifestyle planning evinced by Neutra's designs—both firm tenets of modern housing development—withstand examination perhaps better than the details of the bedroom arrangements.

Don't miss Archilogic's other models of Case Study Houses and seminal projects shared on ArchDaily—click here to see them all!

Correction Update: This article originally stated that "neither" of Neutra's Case Study Houses was built, implying that he designed only the two houses mentioned in this article. In fact, Neutra designed a total of four houses for the program, and one of these was indeed built: #20, the Stuart Bailey House (not to be confused with Pierre Koenig's Walter Bailey House, #21). The article has been amended to reflect this fact.

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Hairdresser's Salon Talstrasse Zürich / Wülser Bechtel Architekten

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 01:00 AM PST

Architects: Wülser Bechtel Architekten
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Architects In Charge: Stefan Wülser, Nicolaj Bechtel, Daniel Klinger (PL)
Area: 85.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Stefan Wülser

From the architect. Tranquility and movement

We've been working on a art-inspired hairdressers salon interior on one of the most busy streets of Zurich. The brief said that their ambitious clients should forget about their jobs and problems once they get their hair done. It's a highly personal and very demanding service and the atmosphere is a huge part of the experience.

There was obviously a huge difference in mood from the hectic and noisy street outside to the laidback music and the repetitive sound of high quality scissors inside. It seems that time passes in different tempi.

The quick pace of the outside can be considered distracting for what the hairdressor wants to achieve but at the same time we don't want to neglect the surrounding since we were interested in a very specific solution. We developed a pattern that is both – unhasty and intricate at the same time. It remains interesting since it changes it appearence depending on the perspective of it's observer. It's the result of an elaborate series of prototypes done with a local carpenter and inspired by contemporary graphic art (like the beautiful painting by Emilie Ding) or classic modern stage designs (like Roman Clemens' work).

Spatial Installation

The delicate wood interior was partly prefabricated using CAAD and CAM technologies but also involved a lot of handcraft. We managed to develop some refined and invisible longitudinal connections between pieces of 3mm MDF wood. Everything had to be as thin and precise as possible to not spoil the perspective effect. It took a lot of testing and developing before everything was assembled within 6 days of work. It's more of an installation then a classic architecural approach but we believe the precision and the site-specific approach creates something very timeless here.

As a customer you spend between 1 and 3 hours in the . You move slowly inside the patterns space – so it unfolds it's rich variations when you change direction of view. As a cardriver or pedestrian you see the ceiling kind of „transform" while you move by rather quickly because you change the angle of view more drastically.

Since this geometric perception phenomena is the dominating spatial idea – all the other elements of the salon are stripped to their very functional minimum. The lights and the plugs hang from the ceiling. Black wires not touching neither floor nor ceiling. Nothing comes out of walls since we wanted this temporary – artgallery like space. We also designed a specific series of mirrors for the salon which always comes in symmetrical pairs. While there is the mirror on the frontside – the back serves as a table to place magazines and drinks. The existing column in the back of the space is thicker then it should be from a structural point of view. But it gives weight and centres to the whole space – it is a welcoming disturbance to all the repeating parts and emphasizes the thinness of the wooden ceiling and walls.

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“A Burglar’s Guide to the City” to be Adapted into a Television Pilot

Posted: 30 Nov 2016 12:00 AM PST

CBS has announced they will produce a television adaptation of the 2016 book, "A Burglar's Guide to the City," with a storyline that centers on modern-day Robin Hoods led by a talented architect. Written by futurist Geoff Manaugh of BLDG BLOG, the book serves a blueprint to the urban fabric's various potentials for crime. Manaugh uses architecture to study structures and their weak points that could allow for a possible break-in (i.e. elevator shafts, walls of high-rise apartments, gaps in museum surveillance).

The book even references real heists that have changed its readers' day-to-day perspective on architecture.

"A Burglar's Guide to the City shows that architecture is too important to leave to just the architects," said architect Bjarke Ingels about the book.

Executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Justin Lin and Heather Kadin, and co-executive producer Paul Grellong will head the development of the series. Grellon, who wrote the script, is also well-known for Revolution and Law & Order: SVU. CBS has currently committed to producing a "put pilot" for A Burglar's Guide to the City, which is an agreement that guarantees the network will air the show or face providing significant monetary conpensation. CBS will then review to consider adding it to their full lineup of shows.

A Burglar's Guide to the City spent two consecutive months on the New York Times Month Bestseller list for crime. At the time of its publishing, Paola Antonelli, the Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote, "In his new book, elegant, perverse, sinuous supervillains maneuver and master the city like parkour champions. I see the TV series already."

Her hypothesis has now become a reality.

News Via: Deadline

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EID Wins Competition for Stacked Block Mixed-Use Development in Chongqing

Posted: 29 Nov 2016 10:00 PM PST

China-based firm EID Architecture has been selected as the winner of a design competition for a mixed-use development, entitled Longfor Phase IV, in Chongqing, China. Designed as an exploration of vertical urbanism on a high-density scope, the project is composed of a "single tower and associated podium integrated as an assembled massing of stacked box-like volumes."

At 150 meters tall, the building will offer office space in its upper levels, and retail on its lower levels.

An "urban void" is created in the center of the project, where on lower levels, an open space acts as a "gravitational core," around which the rest of the building organizes itself, "stimulating movement and activity through the vertical space that energizes and defines the associated programmatical components and offers a visual and spatial connection to the multi-level exterior terrain at ground level."

On a design level, the project draws inspiration from the nearby countryside—with its natural karst formations— as well as from the surrounding city, where vernacular dwellings cascade down steep inclines in the city's fabric.

"The outcome is a design that is both contextual and iconic, contextually integrated whilst unique in appearance that allows for a visual and spatial porosity and connectivity across all levels with a naturally balanced composition of stacked box-like volumes interlocked with a tower component, creating a design of understated monumentality and a harmonious contextually responsive composition," said the architects in a press release.

In order to connect the East and West sides, the project will feature a terraced grand stair, which will additionally create ground level entrances at multiple levels.

Furthermore, the building will include garden terraces and a green wall within its lobby, in an effort to connect the space with the natural environment around it.

Longfor Phase IV is currently heading into the schematic design phase, and is expected to be completed in 2019.

The project was recently awarded an AIA HK merit award for unbuilt project.

News via EID Architecture.

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Moshe Safdie: Architects "Have a Deep Social Responsibility"

Posted: 29 Nov 2016 08:00 PM PST

In the latest edition of Section D, Monocle 24's weekly review of design, architecture and craft, the team speak to Moshe Safdie – the Israeli-Canadian architect whose "signature geometric style of lavish curves and green space has made the self-styled Modernist an influential voice" in the profession. The conversation, broadcast from Safdie's Marina Bay Sands complex in Singapore, reflects on his life and work – including Montréal's Habitat 67.