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- English for Fun Flagship in Madrid / Lorena del Río + Iñaqui Carnicero
- Garage House / Fala Atelier
- House 33.2 / Grafika
- 99% Invisible Tackles McMansions and the Architecture of Evil
- Thom Mayne Completes Research on Houston’s Urban Future
- Two Courtyards House / Muñoz Arquitectos
- Living Capsule Offers Shelter From Disasters
- Day Care Centre For People With A Mental Disability / Urbain Architectencollectief
| English for Fun Flagship in Madrid / Lorena del Río + Iñaqui Carnicero Posted: 18 Dec 2016 07:00 PM PST  © Imagen Subliminal
 © Imagen Subliminal From the architect. English for Fun, founded in Spain in 2011, uses a revolutionary method for children of any age or physical condition to learn English using their five senses. English for Fun is a place for all children to learn. This pedagogical approach is based in the idea that every child is special and unique.
The new center for English for Fun wanted to be a representation of this innovative teaching method, a place to booster creativity, imagination, and to stimulate all five senses.  © Imagen Subliminal This commission represented an opportunity to investigate how design can shape experience and affect the subject in processes of playing and learning.  Ground Floor The Reggio Emilia approach is an educational philosophy based in a self guided and very open interpretation of learning. It is based in three core principals: • the child as an active part of the learning process. it is based in a non-guided way of playing where the kids have their own interpretation of natural and artificial play-objects.  © Imagen Subliminal • the built environment of the school is considered the third teacher, only after teachers and parents.
• the process of learning has to be made visible  © Imagen Subliminal The proposal should overcome the cliches of spaces designed for kids, being non figurative and open to multiple interpretations. The goal was to create a space in the spirit of the adventure playgrounds where the play-objects, not toys, only develop their full potential in the interaction with the kids. The design should operate at the adult scale as much as the kids' scale, so it was important to create spaces that only children could inhabit and own. The answer was to propose a tinker tray, where all the objects involved in the play and learning process could be storage, the work produced exhibit and where the kids could also feel that they are part of it. The strategy was proposing a thick structure instead of thin partitions to configure the class room space, an inhabitable wall that will storage all furniture and objects when not in use, making the reconfiguration of the class very easy. The broken geometry of the structure creates a series of nooks, that will be inhabited by the kids. The different typologies of objects were reduced to the minimum, establishing a generic module that can be used in multiple ways. It is not a chair, or table, or tower, or play kitchen, or car, or box for stones, or helmet, but all the above.  Axonometric The function of this thick inhabitable wall was twofold, first creating little spaces to be own by the kids, and second to provide storage space facing both, the classroom and the corridor, so the space that usually only serves as circulations is now activated and can be used as common ground for kids, teacher and parents. It also transforms the corridor into a showcase of the learning process, blurring the limits between the classrooms, and expanding the perception of the space, avoiding the conventional compartmentalisation of the classrooms. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2016 06:00 PM PST  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
 © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG From the architect. The project started with an unconventional request from an open minded couple: within a very tight budget, to convert a windowless 200m2 garage into a house.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The proposed intervention intended the clearest reading possible of the existing structure, emphasising its strength. While the garage was careless and grey, the house is clean and white; its materiality is flat, its light is abstract.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
 © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Two generous bathrooms were included behind a curved wall, where a broken corner was before; the walls and ceilings were painted in white and the floor covered in a continuous polished concrete surface; the existing skylights we're rethought. No other change felt necessary.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Carefully placed elements organize the living areas: a marble kitchen, curtains, potted plants. Along with the furniture, the free standing elements carry the flexible identity of the house, hinting its domesticity while punctuating the abstract volume with color.  Collage  Collage  Collage This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 18 Dec 2016 12:00 PM PST  © Grafika
 © Grafika From the architect. The project is sited in a typical suburban setting 20km South-West of Sydney's CBD. The client wanted an additional house toward the back of an existing residential dwelling. As part of the brief, we had to incorporate a full kitchen, laundry, bath, bedroom, home office, audio studio, work studio and an open living/dining area. The placement of the new dwelling was between two rear yards and a townhouse. We wanted to be able to have some form of connection with the existing yard and to also utilise the northern sun. We were able to incorporate a courtyard to the front of the new dwelling and also apply a large glazing area to the northern side of the project which would allow the sun to penetrate the main living area.  © Grafika The concept of the project began with taking a 'block' and then manipulating it into its setting by way of positive and negative protrusions. The use of the colour black added another layer to the project and was used to represent program and function. This enabled us to create an interesting space and blur the line between floor, wall and ceiling. We wanted to give the effect of having the black materials 'projected' on to different surfaces and creating a motion throughout the building.  © Grafika The façade's movement begins with a deep extrusion that acts as the main entrance and opening to the courtyard whilst also providing shade from the afternoon sun. This motion then protrudes out allowing for a day bed on the opposite side and then moves back in to provide an exterior seating solution.  Roof Plan The layout of the dwelling was to have the main living area open up to the courtyard and have the kitchen overlook this area and the other programs branch off a central hallway from this space. The two studio work spaces are disconnected from the main areas as per the clients' request, in which they wanted to establish separate work and home areas.  © Grafika The construction of the house was also to be thermally efficient, this was achieved primarily through the use of materials. The construction features two layers of insulation, glass wool and styroboard EPS and the Lysaght Colorbond steel provides a highly reflective surface. The deep eave at the front of the façade eliminates the afternoon sun and the uPVC double glazed windows give good thermal properties.  First Floor Plan Overall the project creates a distinguishable contrast in its environment creating an almost sculptured object that has been cut through and opens up to its programmatic requirements. The façade's push/pull motion was achieved and strengthened through contrast and informed by program and function and creates an exciting motion throughout the project.  © Grafika Product Description. The Lysaght exterior paneling allowed us to create the sharp motion of the façade against a monotonous 'block'. The concept of the project was to have a minimal exterior that has been cut open showing the textured and warm feel of wood whilst allowing for a stark contrast of the black elements which reflect program and function. The choice of steel as the exterior skin also provides a contemporary feel to the project and adds a high level of reflection from the sun allowing for a higher thermal comfort level for the user. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 99% Invisible Tackles McMansions and the Architecture of Evil Posted: 18 Dec 2016 08:00 AM PST  Architecture critic Kate Wagner has collaborated with 99% invisible on a podcast and a guest column delving into the tragedies of McMansions and the representation of evil through architecture in film, respectively. In the podcast, Wagner, who is the author of McMansion Hell, is interviewed by Roman Mars and explains how the McMansion typology evolved, as well as how it became so despised, delving into topics of architectural history and representations of wealth. Through her article as a guest columnist, Wagner explores the real-world buildings used in film to depict the evil corporation archetype in movies like Robocop, Blade Runner, and The Matrix. Learn more about Wagner's take on McMansions in her 99% invisible podcast, here, and about the architecture of evil in her 99% invisible article, here. News via 99% invisible. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Thom Mayne Completes Research on Houston’s Urban Future Posted: 18 Dec 2016 06:00 AM PST  Courtesy of University of Houston Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne has completed a three-semester–long study of Houston's future, given its current sprawling urban conditions and rapid growth. The project, conducted alongside 21 University of Houston students and faculty members Matt Johnson, Peter Zweig, and Jason Logan, focused on ways of addressing the problems that arise from Houston's historical lack of zoning in conjunction with the largely unregulated growth of industry and capitalism. These approaches include reinventing the current energy infrastructure, changing real estate and density, and leveraging the lack of zoning to generate new ideas. "Houston is the only major city in the United States without zoning and form-based codes," said Logan. "Surprisingly, we found a lack of zoning can generate exceptional forms of urbanism and architecture."  Courtesy of University of Houston The studio involved a summer project in Los Angeles, where Mayne's firm, Morphosis, is based. Students collaborated with Mayne to envision Houston's rapidly approaching future.
.jpg?1481862862 "Courtesy of University of Houston") Courtesy of University of Houston The culmination of the studio project is an exhibition at the College of Architecture and Design's Mashburn Gallery, which opened on November 30. Additionally, the work is set to be published in a book in fall 2017. News via: University of Houston This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Two Courtyards House / Muñoz Arquitectos Posted: 18 Dec 2016 05:00 AM PST  © David Cervera
 © David Cervera From the architect. We received a commission from a married couple to design a house to be built on a small plot (with an 8-meter frontage and a depth of 30 meters) inserted within a dense and difficult context. The couple, whose children had already left home, asked us for a simple house, obstruction-free and with a strongly contemporary feel.  © David Cervera The layout is based on the idea of using the frontage and the rear extension without interruptions to give a sense of space even with the small area available.  Floor Plans Two axes were defined along the ends of the building, each measuring 1.5 meters wide. All of the services –bathrooms, kitchen, larders, and septic tanks –are grouped together at the south end; all the circulations are at the north. This enables a 5-by-5 meter modulated space between the two axes. Within this sequence of structures, two patios were arranged as a means of filtering the light.  © David Cervera Therefore the areas are connected to afford wide open views despite the compactness of the plot. The result is a spacious and bright house where courtyards can be enjoyed all the time.  © David Cervera This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Living Capsule Offers Shelter From Disasters Posted: 18 Dec 2016 04:00 AM PST
Costa Rican architect César Oreamuno has designed a modular capsule that accommodates to the basic needs of a community after a state of emergency or disaster. The units are adaptable and easily assembled in order to account for a variety of situations and respond to a series of unique functions, although the main theme of the project is focused on improving the quality of attention towards the basic needs of crisis victims, as well as encouraging the development of the community.  Courtesy of César Oreamuno The National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Response of Costa Rica defines mass disasters as the disruption of ordinary societal functions. In addition to the number of deaths and injuries, consequences include the loss of material goods, the interruption of supply lines and economic instability. Every society that has been affected by a situation of crisis experiences a degradation of living conditions.  Corte Perspectiva Dormitorio  Corte Perspectiva Comedor When restricted to their own means, individuals often experience difficulties in satisfying their most basic needs, calling for the attention of humanitarian organizations and institutions. In most cases this aid is found through shelters, usually community halls or schools, that may not have the necessary infrastructure required for personal hygiene and sanitation, nor adequate areas for storage or cooking.  Courtesy of César Oreamuno
 Planta de Distribución Cubículos Empacados This is why Oreamuno has designed these temporary refuge modules, conceptualized from the idea of a Swiss army knife; architecture capable of solving multiple problems simultaneously, allowing users to overcome a state of crisis within a relatively short amount of time. The shelter unit constitutes of 5 cubicles, 3 of which are mobile (internal furniture) and 2 rigid (structural support). The modules, the understanding the accessories' functions, the methods of transportation, the assembly manual and the characteristics of technical support were of highest importance during the design process in order to create a functional proposition that fulfils a series of basic characteristics, such as:  Transporte
 Courtesy of César Oreamuno Architect: César Leonardo Oreamuno Canizal This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Day Care Centre For People With A Mental Disability / Urbain Architectencollectief Posted: 18 Dec 2016 01:00 AM PST  © Filip Dujardin
 © Filip Dujardin 'the gallery' Since the establishment of the centre in 1987, Omega offers day care to people with mental disabilities. A trajectory was mapped out to expand the activities of the centre. Omega acquired a building plot in between the railway and the Gentsesteenweg, a typical Flemish town acces road. In a first phase a rowhouse was extendend with several living groups, a multipurpose hall and an industrial kitchen. In a second phase a new workshop building was added, to replace the older temporary construction, and to house a music studio, a textile studio, a clay studio, a wood workshop, a sensory room. A third phase included the actual renovation of the rowhouse.  © Filip Dujardin In 2005 urbain architectencollectief won the competition for a new workshop building. Through the introduction of a low and long volume and its smart one sided position against a blank wall, the project chose to preserve a maximum of open space. The studios were also designed with a strong focus on the garden.  © Filip Dujardin  1st Floor Plan  © Filip Dujardin The floor plan has a simple structure: in front, a carport houses the busses of the day care centre. In the juxtapostion of the workshops the guests are modelling clay, composing and playing music, assembling wooden furniture, painting, … The workshops are combined in pairs, with the insertion of a storage room, toilets and entrances. In the back, a small volume is cut off from the workshops by an open space. It houses the garden workshop.  © Filip Dujardin The building is composed out of a prefabricated steel structure, enrobed with insulated wooden chipboard walls, and clad with wooden sidings. The rhythm of the steel porches defines the size of the different workshops. Inside the structural logic is on show: the corrugated steel roof, the wooden chipboard walls, concrete floors, steel columns and beams are left unfinished. High quality cupboards in birch multiplex and wooden windowframes offer a certain feeling of domesticity in return.  © Filip Dujardin By designing the circulation as a covered gallery, the thermal boundary was shifted and the actualy built surface was reduced. The gallery is also a generous space in itself. Its comfortable width and light structure is inviting people to meet up, to stick around, to exhibit.  © Filip Dujardin By opening the double fire escape doors, the workshops can be extended. The design seeks an honest and pure detailling of basic materials. The structure of the gallery is made up of wood. The roof is made of transparent polycarbonate sheets. The rigid rhythm of wooden columns and beams offers a strong spatial dynamic. Different points of view offer various experiences. The space of the gallery has in a short term earned a special place in the perception of guests and staff, as the building is referred to as 'the gallery'.  © Filip Dujardin Within this messy, banal, yet typical Flemish environment, the workshop building manages to introduce structure. It gives meaning to the place, starts up the dialogue with the previous extension.  © Filip Dujardin Product Description. The search for an industrial feel inside the building, also led to a the introduction of a polished concrete flooring that is mostly used in large industrial halls. Due to the postion of the new workshop building against a blank wall, skylux domes had to be introduced to let daylight into the workshops  © Filip Dujardin This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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