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- Sports Complex Olympiakwartier / Slangen+Koenis Architects
- Urban Reflections / HOLODECK architects
- Plugin Tower / People's Architecture Office
- M CO Design Unveils Dragon-Inspired Infrastructural Designs for Hong Kong
- AL_A Creates Stackable Soccer Pitches for Unused Urban Lots
- Pacific Headquarters Nestlé / Estudio Lamela
- Utopia Arkitekter Proposes an Architectural Gem to Start Stockholm's Transformation
- These Sketches Show Calatrava's Oculus Interpreted as Animals and Inanimate Objects
- Yepun Astronomical Observatory / Susana Herrera + FACTORIA
- AL_A's Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Photographed by Francisco Nogueira
- Maastricht Pathé Theatres / Powerhouse Company
| Sports Complex Olympiakwartier / Slangen+Koenis Architects Posted: 03 Dec 2016 09:00 PM PST  Courtesy of Slangen+Koenis Architects
 Courtesy of Slangen+Koenis Architects From the architect. Across from the existing top sport centre, in the green field development Olympia Kwartier (Olympia Quarter located in the new town Almere Poort which is part of the Amsterdam metropolitan area) a new indoor sports centre has been realized based on the 2521 Simply Swimming concept. This concept incorporates a high level of flexibility and expandability. The municipality of Almere has shown interest in the stacked version of the concept adding complementary functions such as sports halls and club rooms on top of the 2521 swimming pool.  Courtesy of Slangen+Koenis Architects  Courtesy of Slangen+Koenis Architects The dimension of the pool in combination with a partly movable pool floor increases the flexibility and functionality of the swimming pool. Due to the clever floor plan with its compact layout and visual connections, the building can be operated more efficiently. Supporting functions, like changing rooms, offices and club rooms are positioned on the mezzanine floor. This floor also serves as a climatological buffer between the high temperature and humidity of the pool and the cooler climate in the sports hall. One of the principles of the 2521 concept is completely building above ground, eliminating the long building time and complexity that is associated with excavating the filter basement and basin. A wide range of sustainability measures including very high thermal insulation, innovative water treatment and building services installations ensure large reductions in operational costs. The ground floor level is mainly occupied by technical installations, however the main entrance and the adjacent commercial space create an open gesture towards the exterior surroundings.  Courtesy of Slangen+Koenis Architects  Diagram  Courtesy of Slangen+Koenis Architects The entrance gives access to an inviting central staircase that circles around the elevator shaft. This 'core', like a runway, runs from the bottom to the top of the building and, finished with stylish blue- black linoleum and characteristic graphical signage elements on walls and floor, it is designed to be a recognizable element in the building. On each floor this 'core' is expanded with a zone that houses facilitating functions. On the ground floor the core gives access to the main entrance; on the second floor to the reception, cafeteria and pool hall; on the fourth floor to the changing area, martial arts hall and club rooms; on the fifth floor to the sports hall and finally on the sixth floor to the spectator stands. In accordance with the 2521 concept, the interior of the complex is finished with a combination of fresh, functional finishes combined with warm wooden walls and ceiling surfaces. This creates a warm, but at the same time athletic atmosphere.  Diagram A complementary palette of vintage blues and light beige tints was chosen for the public areas, making them clearly recognizable and enhancing the orientation through the complex. The basic 2521 consists of a plinth upon which is stacked the volume containing the pool hall, cafeteria and changing rooms. Due to the large upper volume, a cantilever is created, making a strong visual gesture. The volumes appear to be two separate boxes that are stacked on top of each other. The building is firmly embedded in its surroundings. Interior spaces within the building are connected through large window openings in the facade with the public outside space. The warm interior shines through these glazes surfaces emphasizing the buildings character.  Courtesy of Slangen+Koenis Architects  Courtesy of Slangen+Koenis Architects The lower box, the buildings' plinth, is cladded with robust anthracite fibre-cement panels. Light golden window frames, weather trims and fixings create stylish accents. The floors above are cladded with white profiled metal panels. This creates an interesting play of shadows and adds another layer to the geometry of the building. The light golden accents are also present in the upper volumes and connect to the warm interior finishing. At night the ambiance of the building changes because some windows are placed behind deep vertical louvres creating an even more explicit relationship between inside and outside. Thanks to its powerful geometry, its public character and contemporary materialization, the indoor sports centre provides a strong presence in the Olympia Kwartier. The building, which is an important addition to the sports facilities of the fast-growing city of Almere, has an outspoken urban quality, contributing an important factor to the public life of the Olympia Kwartier. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Urban Reflections / HOLODECK architects Posted: 03 Dec 2016 06:00 PM PST  © Pasteiner
 © Pasteiner From the architect. The rooftop extension containing multi-level apartments is divided into private and public areas based on the concept of green filter areas, roof folding an views. Starting out from the gridlines of the existing windows the roof shape shifts according to the inner functions and the urban context.  Section The urban strategy to integrate the building into the surrounding urban context leads to the concept of roof folding. The large scaled roof tiles evolve according to inner functions and urban context, with views into the city the landscape and within the multileveled apartments. The levels are divided into private on the lowest level, and common areas, on the upper levels, with vertical sliding walls and slanted panoramic sliding windows.  © Pasteiner  Floor Plan  © Pasteiner  Product Description. The Skin of the roofs was done with big alucobond elements in fire protection category A2. Its directly shaped and fixed on / next to the roof. Perfect process without any tolerance according to the size of the elements and without logistic problems in the historical city of Vienna.  © Pasteiner This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Plugin Tower / People's Architecture Office Posted: 03 Dec 2016 12:00 PM PST  View 2. Image © Hannah Wu / People's Architecture Office
 Birdview 2. Image © Hannah Wu / People's Architecture Office The Plugin Tower curtails the investment necessary for building a home since it excludes the risk of losing one's property: residents can pack up their homes and bring it with them if they are ever forced to relocate. Classified as a temporary structure, the Plugin Tower does not require an underground foundation, thereby circumventing the strict planning approval for permanent structures and easing the requirements for building a private house.  Future scene 1  Diagram 1  Diagram 2  Diagram 3  View 1. Image © Hannah Wu / People's Architecture Office A multi-story prefab system that is infinitely expandable, the Metabolist-inspired Plugin Tower is comprised of a steel space frame, a kit of parts that can be assembled in endless variations. Empty bays within the frame are plugged with living units, altered and unplugged when necessary. Units are made with PAO's proprietary Plugin Panel system, modules that incorporate insulation, wiring, plumbing, interior and exterior finishes into one molded part. Panels are attached with integrated locks, easily installed by a couple of unskilled people with just a hex wrench. Unlike with shipping containers, Plugin Panels allow living spaces to be added without heavy machinery, and does not restrict their layouts to the shape of a box.  Interior 2. Image © Hannah Wu / People's Architecture Office  3rd floor plan  Birdview 1. Image © Hannah Wu / People's Architecture Office  2nd floor plan Suggesting the instability of the state of housing in China, the 'future of housing' proposed by People's Architecture Office is a flexible design that adapts to changing needs and fluctuating conditions. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| M CO Design Unveils Dragon-Inspired Infrastructural Designs for Hong Kong Posted: 03 Dec 2016 08:00 AM PST  Courtesy of M CO Design M CO Design has released its designs for "Dragon's Link," a new dragon-inspired, mixed-use infrastructure on the south side of Hong Kong Island "that will serve a large part of the community and will enhance a local historic monument," the Tai Tam Dam, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary this coming February. Drawing inspiration from local traditions and the natural topography of Hong Kong, the project will create new connections within an existing network of roads and hiking trails in Tai Tam Country Park in "a juxtaposition of old and new," in order to improve user experience and infrastructure.  Courtesy of M CO Design Through Dragon's link, it is hoped that existing transportation issues—namely concerning traffic and safety, such as bottlenecking and flooding due to outdated drainage—will be solved.  Courtesy of M CO Design  Courtesy of M CO Design Additionally, the project will dedicate space for cyclists, pedestrian paths with scenic lookouts, a hikers' plaza, a visitor pavilion with special event terraces, and lanes wide enough to accommodate oversized buses and trucks.  Courtesy of Unknown  Courtesy of M CO Design
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| AL_A Creates Stackable Soccer Pitches for Unused Urban Lots Posted: 03 Dec 2016 06:00 AM PST  © AL_A Architectural firm AL_A has unveiled its design for Pitch/Pitch, a series of 5-a-side soccer pitches designed for unused or temporarily vacant lots across London, as well as in other cities internationally. Created as a response to shortage of sport space in inner cities, the project is meant to be fast and easy to construct, "meaning it could be set up for a fortnight to coincide with a World Cup tournament, or last for a year, bringing use to vacant sites that might otherwise lie dormant." After working with Arup, the practice developed a modular system that utilizes a lightweight carbon-fiber structure, a material generally associated with the aerospace industry, but that is emerging architecturally at larger scales.  © AL_A This material was also used by AL_A in 2015 at the second annual MPavilion.  © AL_A
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| Pacific Headquarters Nestlé / Estudio Lamela Posted: 03 Dec 2016 05:00 AM PST  © Bartosz Makowski
 © Bartosz Makowski The outline of the building has been dictated by the road layout on the South and the West side, while both remaining elevations have been located in a way that allowed to simplify the building’s shape.  © Bartosz Makowski As a result of this combination a building with a rhomboid base has been born. The untypical outline of the building required a provision of an unusual structural grid, which in that case follows a triangular modulation, with an independent structural grid for the underground part of the building (housing a car park).  © Bartosz Makowski Whole project follows Breeam recommendations. Advanced technologies have been employed in order to provide a highest level of building’s quality (including structural elements and finishes), a quality of office environment, energy efficiency, sustainable performance, building’s accessibility, as well as, building’s management and maintenance during the construction stage as well as operation phase.  © Bartosz Makowski  Courtesy of Estudio Lamela  © Bartosz Makowski A great effort has been put into designing of all four elevations of Pacific building. In order to prevent accumulation of heat the East, South and West elevations have been designed using a double curtain wall system with openings on the bottom and on the top of the façade – a combination that allows for a natural circulation of the air in summer and limits the heat loss during winter period. Technical bridges have been located between both curtain walls layers. Proposed building’s envelope solution enabled an esthetically coherent image of external all-glazed elevations in symbiosis with building’s physics. Additionally, the possibility to open the windows from inside of the office space allows for a higher level of environmental comfort of the office space, which is extremely transparent but not fully enclosed. The North elevation which is similarly fully glazed, is turned into the proximate greenery and Warsaw’s cityscape. Elevations have been equipped with additional decorative illumination in order to highlight the depth of the façade, which results in a very attractive look, especially just after the sunset.  © Bartosz Makowski The extensive view can be enjoyed as well from building’s top terrace, which is accessible from both staircases equipped with glazed canopies at the last level. The accessible, open part of the terrace is intended to be a cozy, relaxing space, for this reason it has been separated from the busy Domaniewska Street and from the technical part of the terrace by horizontal louvers. A smaller landscaped terrace has been located at the first floor level. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Utopia Arkitekter Proposes an Architectural Gem to Start Stockholm's Transformation Posted: 03 Dec 2016 04:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Utopia Arkitekter Stockholm's Southeast Kungsholmen is slowly transforming. Veidekke and Utopia Arkitekter are preparing a redevelopment proposal for the town — and they're beginning by building an architectural gem. In addition to creating ambitious architecture, Utopia Arkitekter plans to add more housing developments closer to public transport. Their first project? The sector of Kungsholmen, Bolinders Plan, named after Jean Bolinder, who ran a mechanical workshop in the area.  Courtesy of Utopia Arkitekter
 Courtesy of Utopia Arkitekter By improving the ground conditions and giving the bottom story non-housing premises, the architects hope to improve the site. Informed by its surroundings, the building height corresponds with the adjacent Kungsklippan tower blocks. To allow for the turnaround point for traffic, the elevated bottom story will be pulled back slightly. "Playful" yet "elegant" are two words the architects used to describe the building's composition as it tapers upward.  Courtesy of Utopia Arkitekter At 17 stories, the building's structure both respects and reacts to its site. The street, rocky conditions, and the turnaround influenced the shape of the building. A cycle path will be rerouted to run between the building and street, although the bus stop will remain in its current position. Multiple private terraces will be accessible for top floor residents.  Courtesy of Utopia Arkitekter
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| These Sketches Show Calatrava's Oculus Interpreted as Animals and Inanimate Objects Posted: 03 Dec 2016 01:30 AM PST  © Chanel Dehond This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "Seeing the Animal Kingdom in Calatrava's Oculus." Since its opening in March, Santiago Calatrava's "Oculus" transport hub at the World Trade Center has garnered a lot of criticism for its exorbitant price tag. (The building cost nearly $4 billion to realize.) But look beyond the numbers, and there is something compelling about the physical form of the thing. Like all of Calatrava's work, the structure invites visual interpretations—spiky fish or a bird, a dinosaur or a hedgehog. Architectural designer and illustrator Chanel Dehond riffs on these and more in the following sketches.
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| Yepun Astronomical Observatory / Susana Herrera + FACTORIA Posted: 03 Dec 2016 01:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Factoría
.jpg?1479805397 "Courtesy of Factoría") Courtesy of Factoría The Architecture as a transforming agent The reconciliation between tourism and communities has transformed Lake Lanalhue into a natural, economic and political resource. We are aware of being part of our own time and place, in the Arauco province where tense ancestral and historical demands are taking place, a complex period in many aspects, and instead of avoiding the implications that this entails, we decided to face this period by contributing from what we know best, and this is to act from within the territory with the architecture that makes us the most sense, that is the architecture whose action transforms and summons the encounter of worlds that at times seem so distant, but that share a specific place of the planet, a common place in the Cosmos.  Site plan Yepún is one of the last works developed by Susana Herrera & Factoría in Lake Lanalhue. And like others, it is part of the continuity of a series of architectural and tourist projects that have been developed in the province of Arauco for more than a decade. And as such, it is an articulating architectural piece that becomes a landmark along with others, with a very specific tourist programme, become an Astronomical Observatory Tourist Ethnic.  Courtesy of Factoría Yepun Observatory was partially co-financed by a Corfo, a governmental innovation contest won by its director Marcelo Cifuentes, who partered with Pedro Durán, owner of Quelén to decided to install here the southernmost observatory in Chile. Architecturally, it is a recycled object. Its structure is mainly in wood, and was entirely constructed by local master artisans. For us, is a project that transcends the architectural object itself and contextualizes it with several interventions around it and designed by Susana Herrera & her team Factoria.  Section Locating this project in Quelén meant the opportunity to establish relationships between science and the cultural context, between astronomy and the Mapuche Cosmovision, between the certainties of man, and what is rather immeasurable. It was a question of redesigning a physical and virtual space, capable of integrating knowledge, experiences beyond the possibilities of hard science, to place all this in a simple, almost domestic scale intervention. It was to re-think a space of educational exchange in a rather warm and pleasant space that would be able to embrace an experiential program in a rather local architecture, where the wood and the craftsmanship were the hallmark that differentiated it from other observatories, those of metallic domes very common for this type of observatories. Here the local identity was already printed in the constructions of Quelén, and this new piece remodeled, should be part of that context and this way of doing.  Courtesy of Factoría This new architectural project is also the opportunity to deepen and above all, to experience from the turistification the exchange between visitors, local communities and anyone who wants to get closer to observe and share new areas of knowledge and cultural exchange. To imagine that this was possible, beyond the architectural dimension seemed exciting to us. The specificity of this place in Chile made it possible to ask new questions and stand in a different perspective, with a new paradigm at this time, and indeed, recognizing that the ancestral cultures would surely have already done it before us.  Courtesy of Factoría The Architectural object The 2010 earthquake had made available the small Kurem Cylindrical Building, which used to be the reception of the demolished old hotel, which was now being built on the shores of the Lake. We worked with scarce resources, so it was natural to choose to recondition the old Kurem Building to transform it into the Observatory.  Courtesy of Factoría We kept the original Oregon pine wood structure of the building and its elliptical shape. We use wood because it is the material of the existing structure and because there is good availability of it on site. Steel pleats were added to extend the column structure. Regarding the lining of the building, the need to avoid light pollution forced us to close the entire building, which was previously much glazed.  Courtesy of Factoría The scales of the project This architectural piece has four scales: The landscape scale: The intermediate dimension is embodied by the west side of the building. The slenderness and closed skin of the Yepún is a perfect backdrop for the lateral amphitheater formed by the stairs of the Metawe Building and the square that separates them. This vitalizes the public space ideal for concerts, marriages and backdrop for movies and shows.  Courtesy of Factoría The Northwest façade responds to a more pedestrian scale, which is reached from a zigzag wood platform. An extruded volume of smaller height softens the main volume and articulates the ascent of the different levels, as if it were a great Rewe that connects the earth with the infinite sky. Finally, the last and most ambiguous and difficult to understand, is the scale of the universe. We know that if we look at a star that is a million light years away, we are looking at what the universe was like a million years ago. It means that the light that comes from it has taken a million years to reach us. This is basics in astronomy, and it is obvious that space is extended indefinitely, and that thanks to the telescope we can probe the depths of space. And although the universe seems to have the same aspect always, in fact it changes decisively with the time like when the stars began to shine or the fact that in century XX we understood that the galaxies are moving away and therefore the universe is expanding, in other words, the universe continues without end in space. Placing ourselves in that place helps us to get out of our own convictions, and this is mind-boggling.  Courtesy of Factoría The Structure From the old structure, we remove the staircase and the attic. In order to keep the center of this space clear, we built a ramp around the interior contour formed by cantilevered beams that are attached to the pillars by means of steel profiles, which allows us to create an ascending museological route without being interrupted by pillars in the interior. In addition, to increase the height of the building and to accommodate the telescope here, we had to surpass the heights of the existing buildings. For this, it was necessary to design steel rings, of the barrel type with tweezers between them, to avoid buckling. We worked with the calculator José Nicolás Durán, who designed this system with the 11 wooden pillars. The last level houses the rotating cover that opens in its center to clear the view of the telescope adapting to amateur and professional astronomers.  Detail The Inner Experience Three ascending levels make up the Yepún. The smallest configures the access, with a height not exceeding 2.5mt. When your pupils become accustomed to the darkness, you are pulled into the central elliptical and cylindrical space whose wood makes it close and intimate. A somewhat small space, with no possibility of exterior view that keeps you focused on the route and the total darkness, almost uterine that takes you out of the context of which you come from. The invitation, is to climb an elliptical perimeter ramp and transit in another dimension, another time.  Courtesy of Factoría You walk up, and as you become aware of human smallness, you may remember that we are all so tiny without exception, and that we all fit into the same galaxy, whose size is hard to understand, and reminds us that we are really nothing. This feeling does not discriminate and the invitation is kept open throughout the visit to perceive the smallness of the time in which we inhabit this tiny planet that we call Earth, a sensation that we all warn without exception.  Section You continue to rise, and the museological experience begins with the subtle archigraphy of laser engraving on lightly lit acrylics and oblique geometries inserted into the rhythmic wooden supports. Almost at the top, a small staircase takes you to the end of the route, to a circular space formed by a perimeter bench and a central pedestal where you meet the telescope. Once here, the ceiling is opened as necessary, so that the telescope's lens allows you to observe the cosmos. For us, this experience is almost surreal; and is that, finally, such a simple architectural space located on the edge of Lake Lanalhue, allows us to situate ourselves in this new stellar dimension, with an architecture of uterus whose experience of space makes you abandon all the certainties relativizing them to allow a new logic of relationships. Relationships between humans, between civilizations, between beings that inhabit the same point on the planet. Susana Herrera This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| AL_A's Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Photographed by Francisco Nogueira Posted: 03 Dec 2016 12:00 AM PST
This past September, the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (MAAT) opened in Lisbon. Funded by the Fundação EDP, the museum was designed by Amanda Levete and sits on the banks of the Tejo river. Portuguese photographer Francisco Nogueira captured the building's spaces in this comprehensive gallery of images. The MAAT proposes a new relationship between the river and the visitor through a building whose simultaneous power and sensitivity explores the convergence of contemporary art, architecture, and technology. As a structure in the landscape, the building becomes landscape by allowing visitors to walk over and on the museum itself. See here 70 stunning photos of MAAT's interiors and exteriors. Learn more about the project after the break: This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Maastricht Pathé Theatres / Powerhouse Company Posted: 02 Dec 2016 09:00 PM PST 
 From the architect. Powerhouse Company is pleased to present its second completed city centre cinema for Pathé Theatres. Following the opening of the Arnhem cinema, the cinema of Maastricht, the Netherlands opened its doors. Powerhouse Company's design is injecting the glamour back into going to the movies.  Just to the north of the city centre of Maastricht, in a renewed district named Sphinxkwartier, the new 1000- seat cinema is designed as a cultural hub for film, streamed opera, lectures and events. The 130m-long foyer and the eight screens are stretched across the entire length of the movie theater and is situated between the screen rooms and the Boschstraat. The building's exciting context-specific architecture seeks to capture some of cinema's 1920s and 1930s heyday in its classic, formal modernism.  Situation Pathé Maastricht forms one side of a masterplan development by Palmbout urban landscapes to transform an area which has lain derelict since 2006. The cinema connects directly to an ensemble of three connected factory buildings built between 1928 and 1941 for Sphinx, a manufacturer of ceramics. The 130 meter long cinema is divided into three parts; high parts at the two entrances and a lower middle portion for the screen rooms. Entranced on one end to the square, and abutting to the other onto a triumphant arch for the Sphinx factory entrance, the cinema programme is a series of rooms along the length of the building at ground floor level.  Inspired by the industrial readiness of the adjacent buildings and carried out in a dark brick, Pathé Maastricht contrasts with the monumental white Sphinx factory. The exterior has been crafted as a series of steel volumes shuttered in with black brick and glass, echoing of the industrial roofscape of the factory complex. Like the rear projector room itself, the street colonnade following the line of the building is like a viewing box from which passersby can glimpse the drama of the experience unfold. The main entrance and the VIP café called Charlie's is highlighted by a difference in height and a jump back façade.   Elevation Together with developer Epicurus Development and interior designer EUP Design, both experienced in cinema design, the project is designed to fulfil Pathé's ambition to be the Dutch market leader in quality cinemas. Turning the cinema on its head, Pathé Maastricht transforms the experience into an enjoyable one, making lingering, meeting and socialising as much part of it as viewing the film itself. The cinema is again part of the city to take pride in.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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