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| Posted: 08 Jan 2017 07:00 PM PST  © Julien Lanoo
 © Julien Lanoo From the architect. The series of buildings and pavilions are part of a new 113 hectare large public green space along the Seine river, in Carrière-Sous-Poissy, at the end station of the RER métro line A and close to Le Corbusier's renowned Villa Savoye. The Park designed by Paris based landscape architects Agence TER will be an ecological showcase for local residents and a leisure destination for people living in and around Paris.  © Julien Lanoo The site of the project is exceptional. Along one edge is the Seine river. The presence of barges, fishing huts and houseboats, which have inhabited the site until now, has been a powerful source of inspiration. Along the other edge is nondescript, suburban detached housing. The design springs from a process of hybridization between these two existing habitat models: the floating barge and the archetypical suburban house.  © Julien Lanoo  Site Plan  © Julien Lanoo Among other public infrastructures like a visitor's center, a restaurant ("guinguette"), and an observatory, the competition brief included the construction of a museum to exhibit a large collection of insects, both living and conserved. For this the museum brief asked for public areas like exhibition spaces, an event hall and the welcoming area as well as for a series of non publicly accessible areas like offices, storage and designated spaces for raising different kind of insects.  © Julien Lanoo  Floor Plan  © Julien Lanoo With the exception of the observatory, which is a steel construction, the collection of pavilions and small "follies" is based on a modular wood system, repeating and combining different sized and angled timber frames. This approach allowed for interesting and unusual constructions, enabling a wide range of possible variations with a very limited number of elements. At the same time the relatively low priced construction method enabled the integration of local building know how and local companies.  © Julien Lanoo  Section  © Julien Lanoo This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2017 06:00 PM PST  © Creative Photo Room
 © Creative Photo Room SITE  © Creative Photo Room CONCEPT  © Creative Photo Room  Section  © Creative Photo Room The first envelope comprises the load-bearing structure of metal beams and columns sitting on a concrete slab foundation. The roof is formed of corrugated metal sheet, and the exterior walls are formed of aluminium-framed double glazing, fixed and moving. The glass envelope contains the interior of the house, providing unobstructed views to the outside. Clean, minimal, and technologically advanced, it creates a strong contrast with the second envelope.  © Creative Photo Room The second envelope of concrete tubes is heavy, earthy, low-tech. It provides additional sheltering from the environment, specifically the sun and air, and filters views from and towards the house. The tube walls is where the privacy of the residence ends.  © Creative Photo Room DESIGN AND LAYOUT  © Creative Photo Room  Floor Plan  © Creative Photo Room Product Description.The interior benefits from a high degree of thermal insulation thanks to the Envelop system. In the winter the south façade enjoys passive solar gains. An awning above the glass provide shade in the summer and prevent overheating, whilst the concrete tube walls shelter from strong winds. The Envelop 3D system used here is an integrated system with modules for different functions: fixed external walls, sliding and fixed windows, entrance door, all are provided by the system. It is installed in a single continuous track, 76 metres long, without the need for extra framing.  © Creative Photo Room The walls contain polystyrene and fiberglass thermal insulation and are sealed externally with white glass. The internal surface is a double layer of plasterboard. The sliding doors are designed to lock in an open position, small enough to be secure, whilst allowing natural ventilation to all spaces. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House Parts Office / People's Architecture Office Posted: 08 Jan 2017 12:00 PM PST  Courtesy of People's Architecture Office
 Courtesy of People's Architecture Office Headquartered in Beijing, Xiaozhu commissioned People's Architecture Office and People's Industrial Design Office to design Sliced House, their latest office space located in the city's hi-tech center. Xiaozhu (literally 'small pig' but homophonous with 'short stay') is a peer-to-peer housing rental website. The startup is China's rival to Airbnb and part of the country's new 'shared economy'.  Courtesy of People's Architecture Office Launched four years ago, Xiaozhu is now valued at $300 million plus. The unpredictability of such rapid growth requires a highly flexible work environment. Our design features spaces and furniture that easily combine and separate, mobile meeting rooms, and power outlets that swing to desired locations. Like Xiaozhu's online business, the office interior consists of a collage of various domestic spaces. The design inserts the casual comfort of home life into the workplace, reflecting the company's open spirit.  Layout Options  Courtesy of People's Architecture Office Sliced House is conceived as a house that has been divided and its parts dispersed throughout an otherwise banal office interior. Shared interior finishes between split spaces make apparent that adjacent portions refer to a single room. These sliced samples of domesticity include kitchen, living room, and bedroom and double as ad hoc meeting areas. Sliced House also features converted tricycles – workspaces and informal meeting areas on wheels - that are inspired by our Tricycle House and the often unique living spaces found in China. Such spaces reflect Xiaozhu's rental offerings, providing users with a wide spectrum of settings to choose from.  Courtesy of People's Architecture Office  Courtesy of People's Architecture Office The office features custom-designed furniture by PIDO. Long span cantilevering tables supported by only four legs create undisrupted space underneath to provide seating flexibility. Not only does this allow for space to expand, but passersby can sit down and squeeze in for spontaneous conversation. Numerous mobile Tetris Tables can be detached, combined and rearranged to working in groups or individually. Red 'umbrellas' swivel to different locations to provide overhead light and electricity. A long conference table can be separated into three smaller tables, allowing the conference room itself to be divided into three smaller rooms when necessary.  Courtesy of People's Architecture Office At Xiaozhu's headquarters flexibility and diversity of workspaces and furniture facilitate spontaneous interactions in order to encourage the exchange of ideas. Such designs are essential in fostering innovation in China's emerging service economy.  Diagram This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Steven Christensen Architecture Wins AAP Award with Liepāja Thermal Bath and Hotel Posted: 08 Jan 2017 08:00 AM PST  © Steven Christensen Architecture Santa-Monica-based Steven Christensen Architecture has won the 2016 AAP American Architecture Prize for Recreational Architecture, with its design for the Liepāja Thermal Bath and Hotel in Latvia. In an exploration of the role of the dome throughout the architectural history of public baths, the project utilizes dome shapes—both upright and inverted "as a rhizomatic formal and organizational embodiment of a contemporary public that is democratic, horizontally empowered, and increasingly networked" explained the architects.  © Steven Christensen Architecture  © Steven Christensen Architecture Through these spherical forms, the project aims to create an unorthodox spatial experience "that is both spirited at atmospheric." Furthermore, the use of the dome form in the bath and hotel seeks to "undermine the conventional symbolic performance of the much-maligned hemisphere by challenging its centripetal tendencies as well as its hierarchical basis."  © Steven Christensen Architecture  © Steven Christensen Architecture The Liepāja Thermal Bath and Hotel project was selected by a jury, and won the Silver Award for Recreational Architecture, under the 41 categories of AAP American Architecture Prize awards, as well as five other national and international awards.  © Steven Christensen Architecture  © Steven Christensen Architecture  © Steven Christensen Architecture Learn more about the project here. News via: v2com. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Margot Krasojević Architects Unveils Lace-Like 3D Printed Light Made of Recycled Plastic Posted: 08 Jan 2017 06:00 AM PST  © Margot Krasojević In somewhat of a departure from its usual parametric, experimental work, Margot Krasojević Architects has created a recycled, 3D printed LED light, in an investigation of the importance of reappropriating plastics. The project—Lace LED—however, aligns with the firm's exploration of renewable energy and environmental issues within architecture and product design. Printed with post-consumer plastics like synthetic polymer packaging from takeout food containers and 3D printer off-cuts, Lace LED is a light diffuser with fractal pattern configurations resembling a piece of woven lace.  © Margot Krasojević  © Margot Krasojević  © Margot Krasojević
 © Margot Krasojević  © Margot Krasojević Moreover, Lace LED is an example of scale invariance, "where at any magnification, there is a smaller piece of the object that is similar to the whole."  © Margot Krasojević  © Margot Krasojević The light diffuser is hinged on a pivot, which rotates within a frame, allowing for light dispersion to vary.
 © Margot Krasojević  © Margot Krasojević News via: v2com. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Trader Studio Addition / Carney Logan Burke Architects Posted: 08 Jan 2017 05:00 AM PST  © Matthew Millman
 © Matthew Millman From the architect. The clients for this 500-square-foot addition to a very traditional log house wanted something different for a contemplative study away from the rest of the house. Being avid art collectors, they also had several key pieces that needed to be incorporated into the design including a large outdoor sculpture.  © Matthew Millman Located on a butte overlooking Jackson Hole, the addition responds to views, playing upon the contrast of prospect and refuge. This was achieved with rammed earth walls on the south and east, and a full wall of glass on the north. Horizontal slot windows in the rammed earth walls provide framed views to the Sleeping Indian and Wolf Mountain to the east and south. A simple shed roof floats above the entire composition, reinforcing the grounding effect of the rammed earth walls. A skylight parallel to the east wall illuminates the horizontal striations of the earth layers, celebrating the inherent beauty of the materials. A curving wood and copper gallery links the existing house and new space. An outdoor shower, sheltered by a steel screen commissioned from a local artist, occupies the space between the existing house and the addition.  © Matthew Millman  Section  © Matthew Millman The form of the addition creates a protected courtyard that mediates between old and new. A monumental bronze sculpture is placed strategically to frame views from both the existing house and the new studio. Bronze-clad windows, bonderized steel walls, and rammed earth deliberately contrast with the existing traditional log house. Stained concrete floors, clear vertical grain millwork, integrally colored plaster, and a copper ceiling complete the interior expression. The room is minimally furnished with classic modern furniture and a 400-year-old Chinese Buddha head.  © Matthew Millman  First Floor Plan  © Paul Warchol The firm was hired for a second project that consisted of a 225-square-foot bath renovation. Similar to the approach taken at the addition, the character of this renovation was a deliberate departure from the existing log house. A large floor-to-ceiling window connects the space to the outdoors and creates a light, bright interior. Walls and floors are clad in Salvatori lava stone to provide a spa-like feel. A free-standing bathtub and a functional light sculpture become focal points for the room. A minimalist approach to the vanities include cantilevered counters and deliberately off-set sinks to maximize space.  © Matthew Millman Product Description. Located on a butte overlooking Jackson Hole, the addition responds to views, playing upon the contrast of prospect and refuge. This was achieved with rammed earth walls on the south and east, and a full wall of glass on the north. Horizontal slot windows in the rammed earth walls provide framed views to the Sleeping Indian and Wolf Mountain to the east and south. A simple shed roof floats above the entire composition, reinforcing the grounding effect of the rammed earth walls.  © Matthew Millman This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Now You Can Browse the Complete Works of Dutch Modernist Willem Marinus Dudok Posted: 08 Jan 2017 04:00 AM PST  © Peter Veenendaal Dutch journalist Peter Veenendaal has completed a website that features all 136 built works by modernist Willem Marinus Dudok. Dudok, who was formally trained as an engineer, has been hailed as one of the Netherlands' most influential architects, boasting a prolific career beginning with military barracks and encompassing numerous municipal buildings throughout Europe. Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, Dudok is remembered for his form-driven modernism, leaving his legacy in the work of later architects from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Veenendaal has dedicated a substantial portion of his career to documenting Dudok's work, including a documentary of his most significant projects entitled "City of Light." Continue on to Veenendaal's new website here to explore Dudok's full portfolio. "City of Light": The Story of Willem Dudok's De Bijenkorf Rotterdam Willem Dudok: Meet the Father of Dutch Modernism This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Why "Darling" Architects Who Came Up Under Recession Are Doubling Down on Budget Posted: 08 Jan 2017 01:30 AM PST  The new Manetti Shrem Museum at the University of California, Davis. Image © Iwan Baan / SO-IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "The Build Up." This November, the Manetti Shrem Museum on the University of California, Davis, campus opened to the public. Designed by New York City–based SO-IL with the San Francisco office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, the museum pays homage to the agricultural landscape of California's Central Valley with an oversize roof canopy. The steel members of the 50,000-square-foot (4,650-square-meter) shade structure, nearly twice the size of the museum itself, reference the patterning of plowed fields and create a welcoming outdoor space for visitors. It is both expressive and practical, but getting that balance wasn't easy. SO-IL, founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu in 2008, has a portfolio filled with smaller projects, installations, and exhibition-related work. The Manetti Shrem Museum is easily the firm's largest work to date, demanding a rigorous design-build process while maintaining a strong conceptual vision. In short, it required architecture.
 SO-IL's design concept for the Manetti Shrem Museum gave rise to budget issues and a few feasibility questions—challenges the architects solved through compromise. Image © Iwan Baan / SO-IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson For some emerging firms, architecture's delicate pas de deux between ideas and physical realization is a newfound pleasure and challenge. The economic consequences of the late-2000s recession meant that many young designers entered into practice at a time of limited building opportunity. Research dominated, and commissions—seemingly juicy ones—came in the form of installations or exhibitions. Although a great way to develop conceptual ideas on architecture, these smaller, temporary works sometimes prove an awkward training ground for larger-scale, permanent projects. Michael Young of New York City-based Young & Ayata experienced this firsthand last year, when the firm was named one of two first-prize winners in the international competition for the new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. His practice explores lofty questions of objecthood, nature, and representation through research and image making. Yet for the last stage of the competition, Young and his collaborator, Kutan Ayata, were asked to produce detailed construction documents and a budget to accompany the arresting scheme—multicolored clusters of organically shaped "vessels" in a park setting. Although the commission ultimately went to a more conservative project from Spanish architects González Hinz Zabala, Young noted in remarks during SCI-Arc's 2015 Right Now symposium that evolving an experimental design into something ready for construction was a stranger process than the speculative or analytical work they were more accustomed to. "At the time, we were knee-deep in figuring out how to build," he says on recent reflection. "We came up with a convincing piece of construction, convincing in all rights, but over budget." The structure of the competition didn't allow for readjusting the scheme to fit the price tag, so the architects were left frustrated by their own trial in complexity.  Young & Ayata's winning, and then canceled, proposal for the international competition to design the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau. Image Courtesy of Young & Ayata "Money" can be a dirty word in design circles—especially in the academy, where any whiff of budget, value engineering, or even the dreaded "professional practice" makes defenders of the discipline recoil in disgust. Budget is lowbrow, concept highbrow. But steering the budget toward a design imperative can make or break a project. Today, Young & Ayata has a more deliberate relationship with the building process. For an upcoming apartment building in Mexico City, the architects have constrained their formal language to the facade. "All the design effort was put into a couple experimental moves that we thought we could pull off," Young says of a project that privileges realization of an actual edifice. "You have to know where the key moments are in a project where you either keep the concept or lose it," says Idenburg. SO-IL won the Manetti Shrem Museum commission in a 2013 competition and was required to stay within a $30 million budget. To ensure that their concept carried through to realization, the architects labored over the canopy design, tweaking it in collaboration with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and facade consultants Front Inc. Intensive modeling helped them create a cost-efficient design, and together they developed a Grasshopper script to control the length of steel members and every connection. The end effect, adds Idenburg, was that each piece was tied to an exact cost. "We were able to play with the model and the spacing of the steel while always guaranteeing the final price."  Young & Ayata's winning, and then canceled, proposal for the international competition to design the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau. Image Courtesy of Bauhaus Dessau A year after winning the Turner Prize for art, and thus scrambling the art world's preconceived notions of architectural practice, Assemble Studio opened its own construction company. The London collective was founded in 2010, and while its socially minded designs span furniture to installation to building, the 18-member group is dedicated to a practice—however theoretical to start—that's grounded in the real world. Taking over the reins of production would ostensibly allow them to explore territory between design and delivery—and, as with some of their work to date, offer transparency in a process that's generally pretty opaque to a larger public. "We are interested in playing with existing material and industry processes," explains Assemble member Maria Lisogorskaya. "We enjoy the unexpected changes and adaptations which can be a result of working with engineers, fabricators, and other building experts—these make our work richer." Completed projects have yet to manifest, but there's something exciting and thought-provoking in situating architectural experimentation at the heart of construction. Perhaps, then, a practice's maturity can be judged in the ways it hardwires concept into the construction practice. When the Mexico City-based firm Productora designed a textile museum and community center in the Mexican town of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, architect Wonne Ickx knew that some details would succumb to budget cuts. The work-around was to design everything in concrete—"even the sinks," says Ickx—and then have the structural engineer sign off on the drawings. The designers had anticipated changes during the building process and gambled that the client wouldn't tamper with the engineering package. It paid off. The museum is scheduled to open in March 2017, with a full complement of concrete details.  Productora's community center in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca. Image © Luis Gallardo "We always have a very strong concept or radicality in how we try to do architecture," says Ickx. Still, he stresses the importance of a kind of radicalism in practicality and the building process. It's something that he sees as part of the Mexican architectural tradition, where the basic agenda for architecture is far closer to a buildable project. "There's an understanding that the set of buildings realized by the architect are the work of the architect, not the postures or the critical writing," he says. Ickx, who also teaches in the architecture department at UCLA, is critical of what he sees as a primarily U.S. phenomenon—an enormous stigma on building and detailing. He sees it in his students, who worry more about the overall integrity of a formal agenda than the complex and highly negotiated process it takes to get something built. "In the end you have to make a concession," says Ickx of the act of going from concept to construction. "That's where the architectural project is—one way or another. How you make it determines if it's a good or bad building." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2017 01:00 AM PST  © Peppe Maisto
 © Peppe Maisto 1. The reuse of two former artisan sheds is the opportunity to score an anonymous urban environment and degraded by the power and strength of the architecture. In this project we used crude materials to make the surfaces very expressive.  © Peppe Maisto 2. Concetta D'Alessandro Foundation is a non-profit organization that deals with treatment and rehabilitation of people with disabilities.  © Peppe Maisto The program included the reuse of two former artisan sheds for rehabilitation and training. The ground floor it has been converted into a guesthouse and the first floor, under the great vaulted roof, it was built a large space for group activities. Two low volumes host the services and form an entrance vestibule to the main hall. The realization of this hall has necessitated the addition of a lift and a new staircase. This body has been turned into a new large facade characterized by a skin obtained through the recycling of plastic boxes for the collection of the oranges.  Axonometric 3. The new body, through his use of color and lighting, has thus assumed the role of signal, a symbol recognizable to distance in the anonymous surrounding cityscape.  © Peppe Maisto This project, on the one hand, is the advancement of research, started ten years ago, about the reuse of plastic crates as building material for architecture, on the other hand is a way to put the shape and the ornament of architecture as a powerful tool for promoting social actions of great value.This facade ennobles poor materials transforming them, through drawing and weaving, into a powerful aesthetic signal that strengthens the building identity.  © Peppe Maisto  © Peppe Maisto 4. The space of the main hall is shaped by a great vault that stretches like a wrinkled cloth under the roof. The vault remains outstanding on the plane defined by the wooden planks of the floor. The new body has a steel structure and a cladding made from plastic boxes (used for the harvest of oranges) in two shades of green. The boxes are like pixels of a texture featuring a plot drawn by parallel diagonal lines of a light green.  Floor Plans This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 12 Top Apps for Architects on the Construction Site Posted: 08 Jan 2017 12:00 AM PST  We have previously published the best apps for architects, many of which try to boost creativity and productivity for project design. Now, we've put together a series of helpful apps for the development and management of construction projects. From digital measuring tools to instant software-generated reports of work progress, we hope this new construction technology will be most useful to you. #12 Angle Meter PRO (iOS/Android) Angle Meter PRO, vía iTunes Doing information surveys can be very easy on the job and without having to carry an entire belt of physical tools. Angle Meter PRO is a digital tool that allows you to measure the angles or slopes on the job with a high degree of precision, in different modes from the app, from your tablet or cell phone's camera. #11 Fast Concrete Pad Calculator (iOS) Fast Concrete Pad Calculator, vía iTunes This application calculates the required amounts of concrete and rebar for any particular project. It also calculates the cost and waste of the material and allows users to instantly send e-mail estimates to their team members and customers. #10 Project Planning Pro (iOS - iPhone & Mac/Android/Windows)_14.36.46.jpg?1483034698 "Project Planning Pro, vía Project Planning Pro") Project Planning Pro, vía Project Planning Pro With Project Planning Pro version 2.0, on-site project management is easy and effective for collaborations between team members. This tool is ideal for generating project plans instantly, entering tasks, duration and start dates, or to import existing Microsoft Project files and edit and update them through the application. Check their blog, where they have interesting articles related to project management. #9 Site Audit Pro (iOS/Android)Site Audit Pro is a productivity application designed to make inspections, audits or reports and manage them from anywhere. Through it, you can capture photos or upload existing images, add annotations or comments and share reports via email, Dropbox or Google Drive. #8 iHandy Level Free (iOS/Android) iHandy Level Free, vía iTunes A free digital tool that allows you to check the level of surfaces using only your cell phone thanks to the built-in accelerometer. This pocket leveler features a traditional bubble level interface and also a digital display of the current angle, measured in degrees from the horizontal. #7 ArchiReport 5 (iOS) ArchiReport 5, vía ArchiReport You can save 30 to 45 minutes for each site visit report with ArchiReport, a complete software for tracking works that automatically generates detailed reports with photos, designs, drawings and annotations. #6 My Measures (iOS/Android) My Measures, vía iTunes This free application allows you to store and share object dimensions and spaces. Just take a photograph of the object or space and add its dimensions with arrows, angles, and comments so that everything is easily understandable. #5 BIMx (iOS/Android) BIMx, vía iTunes BIMx, GRAPHISOFT's mobile BIM communication tool, has the 'Hyper-model BIMx', a unique technology for navigating plans and 3D construction models in an integrated way and for visualizing information on building components. #4 Autodesk BIM 360 Docs (iOS/Android) Autodesk BIM 360 Docs, vía iTunes One of Autodesk's free applications for building management is BIM 360 Docs, which allows you to publish, manage and review all documents, plans and project models in the cloud. #3 Construction Manager App (iOS/Android) Construction Manager App, vía SnappiiM Construction Manager is designed to manage, edit, save, and share a regular and accurate flow of information, and through its various forms - maintenance records, daily reports, project estimates and time sheets - you can record and follow all important processes and events during construction. #2 Builder's Helper - Advanced Construction Calculator (iOS) Builder's Helper - Advanced Construction Calculator, vía iTunes This digital calculator values both normal and unit calculations for a variety of construction projects, including beams, columns, staircases, drywall, paint, decking, roof systems and floors. In addition, it not only tracks important project information, it can also store project documents (such as budgets, contracts, and plans) and images (either by attaching images to the library or by taking new ones). #1 PlanGrid (iOS/Android/Windows)
PlanGrid is a very intuitive application where you can share plans, annotations, photos and reports instantly with all your equipment. This is a great help to follow the revisions, to examine progress and to manage the problems and punch list when working. BONUS: Morpholio Trace (iOS) Morpholio Trace The applications previously ranked are very useful for day to day construction, but the love of sketches by hand never dies and thanks to Trace you can sketch, draw, annotate and design at any time, even in the work. The Morpholio Apps combines the beauty and speed of drawing with the intelligence and accuracy of CAD. Top 10 Technical Apps for Architects This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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