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- Residential Nasima / Studio Madouh
- Brenner Compound / Bar Orian Architects
- Moetapu Beach House / Parsonson Architects
- Shibuya Apartment 201 / Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects
- Habitat on Terrace / refresh*design
- Lacustrine Pavilion / TAP (Taller de Arquitectura Pública)
- James Corner Field Operations Selected to Transform Historic Canal Park in DC Neighborhood of Georgetown
- Solera Supermarket / Masquespacio
- The Humble Vernacular of the Undecorated Shed
- 1 Hillside / Tim Cuppett Architects
- This LEGO-Compatible Tape Will Allow You to Build Structures on Almost Any Surface
- Humber College Student Welcome & Resource Centre / Moriyama & Teshima Architects
- "Corridors of Diversity": Showcasing the Secret of Singapore's Public Housing Success
- Gerken Residence / Young Projects
- Winners Announced for Competition to Design a House Under the Hollywood Sign
- Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos Shares Proposal for Hotel and Residential Project in Mexico
- Balzers Sports Hall Renovation / BBK Architekten
| Residential Nasima / Studio Madouh Posted: 15 Mar 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Nelson Garrido
 © Nelson Garrido From the architect. Residential Nasima aims to question the essential realization of an ever modernizing and homogenizing surrounding urban context. As Kuwait City moves towards drastic and rapid modernization, the architectural values that should protect the culture, traditions of the city, and the individual are starting to disintegrate. To instigate the debate of preserving culture while allowing progress, rN blends into the city fabric. The parti takes inspiration from the historical natural landscape and urban clusters, while providing a provoking contemporary design solution in contrast to it.  Massing Logic - Corner Plot  © Nelson Garrido  © Nelson Garrido Residential Nasima sets out to question two typical archetypes seen throughout Kuwait City and the region - standard, rectilinear, symmetrical city plot dimensions, and the abundant use of native stone and white concrete. The design works backwards from the basic volume of the zoning envelope - essentially the cube. Then the monolithic volume is chiseled through a series of cuts informing internal use, sun shading, and access.  © Nelson Garrido  Plan - Corner Unit  © Nelson Garrido The final design encompasses over 4000 square meters of built area and provides for eight unique residential units. The forceful exterior voids are cut into the building envelope, celebrating a reading of interior program and shading as well as allowing natural light. Individual housing units are in filled into the larger site massing, allowing a medium between privacy and open public views.  © Nelson Garrido This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brenner Compound / Bar Orian Architects Posted: 15 Mar 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Amit Geron
 © Amit Geron From the architect. This office and commercial building at 106–108 Kibbutz Galuyot Road, Tel Aviv, is a regional center for two government ministries – the Ministry of Welfare and the Income Tax Authority offices, and there are commercial units on the ground floor for the use of the people who work in the building and the residents of the neighborhood.  © Amit Geron The building covers an exceptional site of 7,500 m2 with rectangular proportions and its facade stretches over 150 m. The site's special conditions, together with the project's location on a busy main road on one side and opposite residential buildings on the other side, were the basis for the building's planning.  © Amit Geron The building's design references a tradition from the middle of the last century of planning buildings with a public character – a long, impressive facade, almost silent and without decoration, which relates to itself as a canvas or a base because of its size and its public designation. It was therefore decided to emphasize the site's long facade by using a design with a pattern of windows on the scale of residential buildings, and the constant change in their size creates a strong dynamism and a feeling of vertical "wrinkling," as opposed to the horizontal "wrinkling" created due to changes in the building's construction. In addition, and in consequence of this tradition, the building does not present a hierarchy between the floors, but has repetitive floors with slight variations, on top of a transparent and airy ground floor. However, despite its outwardly uniform appearance, the building is not constructed as one mass, but has spacious internal balconies for the benefit for the workers, and passageways between the wings by means of open bridges. Moreover, the unique construction enabled optimal office planning, so that every room in the building receives natural light and air. A public passageway was planned in the center of the building, stretching from the end of the street in the residential neighborhood, and it passes through an intimate plaza that is connected to an open public area and provides the neighborhood's residents with convenient pedestrian access to the building and the various commercial centers within it.  © Amit Geron   © Amit Geron Technologically the construction restores a former practice and makes use of precast white concrete elements. Manufacturing the elements was a huge challenge, as there are more than 300 precast concrete slabs that are unique in their form and the size of the openings. For manufacturing purposes, a number of modular molds were built that made it possible to change the size and location of the openings.  © Amit Geron This tradition of buildings of a public nature celebrates a clear, simple architecture that believes in functionality and creating high quality work spaces. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Moetapu Beach House / Parsonson Architects Posted: 15 Mar 2017 03:00 PM PDT  © Paul McCredie
 © Paul McCredie The holiday house sits at the bottom of a steep, winding gravel driveway on a sloping bush covered site looking out to Pelorus Sound.  © Paul McCredie The roof form helps 'fold' the house into the shape of the land around a small central courtyard area. The house is laid out to provide varied accommodation, for small numbers or large groups and is laid out in a string like manner. The garage and 2 bedrooms are at the top level leading down to the living space and down further to an activity room and a variety of bedrooms opening out to a lower a lower lawn.  © Paul McCredie There is no front entry and there are several different ways to move around and through the house, both inside and out. There is a walking and quad-bike track that is an extension of the driveway that passes through the central courtyard and under an internal link-way leading to the lower lawn and jetty.  © Paul McCredie  Living Level Floor Plan  © Paul McCredie Dark vertical timber cladding and a soft grey roof help the house rest amongst the bush.  © Paul McCredie This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Shibuya Apartment 201 / Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects Posted: 15 Mar 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Kaku Ohtaki
 © Kaku Ohtaki We renovated our apartment building in Shibuya, Tokyo for vacation rental services such as AirBnB.  © Kaku Ohtaki We designed this space so that it will be a clean, quiet place for rest, opposite from the feeling of the city its located in and for tourists who will be enjoying all the excitement of Shibuya, one of the most cutting-edge downtown areas in Asia.  © Kaku Ohtaki Because a vacation rental involves guests staying longer than in a traditional hotel, the kitchen and other such areas are equipped with the same facilities one would find in a regular home in line with our guests' requests. However, the white table suspended from the ceiling creates a sense of floating mystery in the space, and the benches carved into the walls like a cave provide a sense of calm and relaxation.  © Kaku Ohtaki Our goal in this design is to provide such special elements in order to increase the excitement and enjoyment for our guests and to let them experience things they never would in a normal home.  © Kaku Ohtaki This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Habitat on Terrace / refresh*design Posted: 15 Mar 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © Roger D'Souza
 © Christopher Frederick Jones From the architect. The two critical drivers informing the conceptual framework for Habitat on Terrace were context and feasibility, both of which leaned heavily on the local town plan.  © Christopher Frederick Jones  Floor Plan Level 01  © Christopher Frederick Jones The project feasibility hinged on the addition of the fifth dwelling on a mere 760m2 site which in turn informed the architectural design of the whole development through direct references to the existing Queenslander on the site. The design principles coupled with the yield of the fifth dwelling was able to tip the scale in favour of value over cost to take the development from being a paper project to a built outcome. The project is an exercise in densification of the inner city suburban site while respecting the local context. It attempts to form an example of how a development project can respond to the character of the Queensland vernacular through its contemporary interpretation.  © Christopher Frederick Jones The site strategy took queues from its immediate context. The existing Queenslander was raised and relocated towards a two-storey timber house next-door to the east, while the new 'fifth' townhouse was sited to the west, closer to a neighbouring three-storey unit block. The new townhouse borrows height from the adjacent unit block and makes direct reference to the existing Queenslander on the site. It reinterprets the shape, proportion and features of the existing house façade.  © Christopher Frederick Jones The result is a contemporary, three-storey, interpretation of the traditional Queensland house, which is supported by the local code. The three rear dwellings repeat this concept to form a set of three 'glued together' houses. North and south facades are linked with a ribbon of folded metal sheeting which forms the triple-gable roof that extends down to bookend the form on the east and west sides.  © Christopher Frederick Jones Each dwelling embraces sustainability through passive design principles. Living spaces extend into the landscape through the use of full height bifold doors, which genuinely connect the inside and outside. Despite being compact, the living areas feel generous through borrowing outdoor spaces and vistas. The entry sequence to the three rear townhouses reimagines the experience of arrival. A private external gate and stair leads one up to a beautifully landscaped yard and terrace for each individual home. The rear terrace substitutes the traditional veranda and reveals the entry door..  © Christopher Frederick Jones This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Lacustrine Pavilion / TAP (Taller de Arquitectura Pública) Posted: 15 Mar 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © Enrique Marquez Abella
 © Enrique Marquez Abella From the architect. The Lacustrine Pavilion was born from the idea of generating a space for continuous reflection on our lacustrine past - that historical memory of the city, some of whose fragments we can still observe, feel, touch and experience. Analogous to a microscope, the pavilion is an artifact that will allow us to observe the lake horizon buried by the city.  Courtesy of TAP For its construction, the challenge was to generate a structure that would not interfere with the fountain and that ensured the preservation of the square.  © Enrique Marquez Abella The structural joints have been designed to be completely demountable by mechanical means, with the idea that they can be assembled with ease and not suffer damage in their disassembly for later transfer to other venues.  Courtesy of TAP  Courtesy of TAP  Courtesy of TAP The garden, designed in collaboration with Almudena and Huerto Roma Verde, includes a delicate selection of fruits, shrubs, pastures and, of course, flowers emanating from the lake environment. To achieve this, a cultivation system has been designed in which a jute textile pot is proposed. Inside, a series of layers generate an irrigation process that begins when water permeates through the jute, moistening the first layer of the system: a bed of twelve centimeters of tezontle, which serves as a filter paper. Subsequently, the moisture coming from the tezontle layer permeates a second filter of muslin to another layer thirty centimeters thick filled with nutrient rich vegetable soil, in which are planted various fruits and flowers. This process will be observed physically during the Lacustrine Pavilion's stay in the Santa Veracruz square.  © Enrique Marquez Abella In the framework of the MEXTROPOLI International Festival of Architecture and City, TAP's (Taller de Arquitectura Pública) Lacustrine Pavillion will be installed around and over the water fountain of the Santa Veracruz square. It will see a program of activities that seeks to detonate the criticism and reflection of the attendees through talks, workshops, conversations and concerts.  © Enrique Marquez Abella Under the slogan: Did you know that there was a great lake under us? A Lake City endures between us, TAP (Taller de Arquitectura Pública) proposes the intervention of the Santa Veracruz square, one of the original squares from the era of New Spain. Through an architectural installation as a scaffolding around and on the fountain, it embraces the element and guards in its interior a garden in memory of the old chinampas raised by the city of Tenochtitlan.  © Enrique Marquez Abella This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of James Corner Field Operations James Corner Field Operations, the urban design and landscape architecture firm behind the High Line in New York City, has been selected by Georgetown Heritage to complete a similar transformation of a historic canal in the Washington D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown. Working with the National Park Service and the D.C. Office of Planning, the team will design a comprehensive master plan for a one-mile section of the Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park (C&O Canal NHP) to update the site from a historic location into a community asset. "The James Corner Field Operations team brings exceptional ingenuity, boundless energy and extensive experience partnering with cities, parks and community groups to create stunning, lively spaces that reflect each site's distinct character and maximize its potential to engage people of all ages and cultures," said Alison Greenberg, Executive Director of Georgetown Heritage. The full design team, which includes MakeDC, Robert Silman Associates, ETM Associates and Dharam Consulting, will re-envision the already popular section of the canal by seeking input from the community on how best to preserve and improve the park's unique stone structures, locks, towpath, street crossings and plazas. The aim is to create a master plan that will maximize the park's educational, recreational and aesthetic potential. "The National Park Service is thrilled to partner with this distinguished design team—along with Georgetown Heritage, the City and the community—to realize our vision of the C&O Canal as a picturesque, safe and sustainable historical park where people come to have fun and learn about history, science, nature and art," said Superintendent Kevin Brandt, C&O Canal NHP. "This is an extraordinary opportunity for Washington, DC, and the Georgetown community to create a transformative public space that blends historic architecture with rich landscapes to create a world-class and unique destination in the heart of the neighborhood," said James Corner, founder and director of James Corner Field Operations. "The Georgetown section of the C&O Canal NHP should be a landmark park for everyone, a lively center for social gatherings, a continuous link for recreation and contemplation, a connector of neighborhoods and networks and a model for urban livability and human health and wellbeing." Learn more about the project, here. News via James Corner Field Operations. James Corner Field Operations Chosen to Design Miami "Underline" This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Solera Supermarket / Masquespacio Posted: 15 Mar 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © Luis Beltran
 © Luis Beltran From the architect. Masquespacio just finished their last project in Cologne, Germany, for supermarket chain Solera.  © Luis Beltran Sevillian entrepreneur Pepa Bascón decided to move to the German city Cologne twenty years ago in search of new adventures. After several experiences in hospitality, more than 10 years ago she decided to set up a small store of Spanish products in the center of Cologne, bringing the best of her native country to Germany. Thanks to the good acceptation of her project years further she decided to constitute a more ambitious wholesaler to attend a growing demand of Spanish products by Italian and Spanish restaurants in and around Cologne and Dusseldorf. The augmenting popularity of Spanish gastronomy in Germany, made that Pepa Bascón in 2016 decided to open a new 'cash & carry' supermarket with the aim to offer a specific service to non-professional clients in Cologne. For that she contacted Masquespacio to design her new brand and interior space. The design of the new Solera from around 500 m2 was developed in search of a touch of Mediterranean emotion, mixed with functional features necessary for this type of businesses. The predominating black color offers seriousness, contrasted with several 'happy' colors that remind to Spain, without converting themselves in typical Spanish topics. Other elements make us think about Andalucía like the grids with ornaments, as well as the awnings and typical Mediterranean tiles.  © Luis Beltran  Main Plan  © Luis Beltran The signage also done by Masquespacio follows the patterns of the brand, adding on every moment a touch of emotion to the interior design, transmitting Spanish happiness. Last but not least the kitchen for degustation and seminaries, next to the cold chamber clearly shows the pattern of Solera's new market, a cash & carry 100% focused on Spanish gastronomy.  © Luis Beltran This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Humble Vernacular of the Undecorated Shed Posted: 15 Mar 2017 06:30 AM PDT  © John Redington John Redington, a Texas-based illustrator, documents abandoned rural sheds and their modest architectural impact. In this visual essay he reveals this unseen, underrepresented vernacular arguing that the "shaky charm of the abandoned shed could offer a look into a more humble form of inspiration for architects." The car rattles on a loose road as thick white dust rises from the back of its tires. On either side seas of sunburned grass just barely keep themselves from breaking onto the path. The sky sits heavily on the horizon, as the fragrance of both wild and cultivated plants fill the air.  © John Redington  © John Redington  © John Redington A couple of miles down the road, I reach an architectural destination that is often seen but hardly noticed. In the immediate vicinity is a dense group of trees, surrounded by cornfields. I pull off the road and look through the overgrown leaves that conceal a gable roof made of rust and timber. It is an abandoned shed, crafted in a bygone era. Cautiously, I walk through the brush, making sure not to step on anything unwelcoming. The approach reveals a dilapidated structure that has become a shelter for the wild rather than functional. Without any attendance by its owner, the shed's fate is accepting a new embrace from the natural world. Penetrated by lush plants, it tilts to one side from the decades of forceful winds. The presence of nature not only brings about a disturbance but an aesthetic that one could say matches the randomized patterns scripted into contemporary architecture. There is a strong lesson in the abandoned shed, its destitution provides us with the beginning of a new form. A great architect once said that "form follows function," but where there is no function there is only form. As creators and thinkers of space let's observe what once was, is no longer, and still is. The artist Donald Judd said, "forms must be given life and the right to individual existence," and the abandoned shed does exactly that.  © John Redington Once crafted and utilized to meet the needs of its owner, the structure now exists as a relic or an homage to the pioneer age. Made redundant by its cheap, quick, and prefabricated counterpart, whose movability flaunts itself at the edge of car parking lots. The result of hard work and unique individuality becomes outdated by a future of "efficiency". When the time comes, usually sooner than later, nature starts to alter the building in different ways and the owner can make a decision to patch its holes by cloaking the barn with a quilted pattern of conveniently sized corrugated steel or let the shed weather away.  © John Redington I wonder: what can be learned from these bygone structures? Is their half destroyed and disjunct pose a nod at deconstructivism? Could their utilitarian detailing be related to modernism and their traditional form result in post-modernism? Does anyone think of the Arts and Craft Movement while recalling the humble craftsmanship applied to each nail? Or will the forceful puncturing of trees that create cross ventilation give them a LEED certificate?  © John Redington It is easy to see that the transcendence that one feels when looking at an abandoned shed is a commonality in our own life and death as well as a nostalgia to a previous time. But I believe the mysticism that exists among these sheds allow an insight into a greater cultural awareness and that their forms, patterns, and relationship with nature provide precedents to how buildings could be designed.  © John Redington  © John Redington  © John Redington  © John Redington  © John Redington  © John Redington  © John Redington  © John Redington This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 1 Hillside / Tim Cuppett Architects Posted: 15 Mar 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Whit Preston
 © Whit Preston The site is a one acre, narrow slice of hillside just blocks above bustling South Congress Ave with tree top views of downtown. Rocks and native vegetation envelope the property, consistent with the casual, un-manicured character of its neighborhood.  © Whit Preston Solving simultaneously the response to site and client: he, a musician who wanted a modern box with views to downtown and she, a yoga practicing mid-wife who wanted a barn with animals, the solution embraces and exploits the depth and slope of the land.  © Whit Preston  Floor Plan Level 01  © Whit Preston  Floor Plan 02  © Whit Preston From street level, one climbs a stair through a stone plinth to an elevated terrace captured by the house, screened porch and a grove of Live Oaks. Only the screened porch projects out from the slender block to capture prevailing breeze and afford uninterrupted views through the site.  © Whit Preston At the center of the home, the wall between dining and screened porch opens to provide true outdoor living. The dining room's double height interior volume draws fresh air up and through the house. This functioning solar chimney combined with wide deep overhangs enable passive cooling through temperate seasons.  © Whit Preston The material palette was chosen with owner interests and neighborhood context in mind. Exterior slurried stone and rustic, shou sugi ban siding melt comfortably into the overgrown landscape along Hillside Avenue while thin steel details and large expanses of glazing cater to more modern sensibilities. So too on the inside, slick white walls contrast with v-groove millwork and quilt- inspired tile installations.  © Whit Preston The result is a composition of buildings which reinforce a camp-like aesthetic gathered around heritage live oaks. Both modern and rustic the house celebrates the "spirit of its place."  © Whit Preston This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| This LEGO-Compatible Tape Will Allow You to Build Structures on Almost Any Surface Posted: 15 Mar 2017 05:00 AM PDT
As any architect who has played with LEGO can tell you (which, let's face it, is nearly all of us), one of the most exciting yet struggling steps is just starting off on that tabula rasa of the standard, flat LEGO base. But for anyone looking to build something within the context of their environment, you were flat out of luck. Now, that all may be changing, thanks to a new LEGO-compatible tape, currently being funded on Indiegogo. Called Nimuno Loops, the tape roll is lined with LEGO block-friendly bumps on one side, and a mild-strength adhesive on the other, giving you the ability to start building on any surface the tape sticks to. The flexible strips can be cut and pulled around corners, into curves, and even onto other objects to turn them into custom LEGO bases. The strength and stickiness of the tape is still a question, but from the teaser video, it certainly seems more than capable of suspending rather large LEGO structures even from 90 degree angles.  via Nimuno The campaign has already reached its goal, but it's not too late to snag some of the tape for yourself; estimated delivery on the product is expected for this upcoming summer. Check out the product for yourself, here. How to Become a LEGO® Architect This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Humber College Student Welcome & Resource Centre / Moriyama & Teshima Architects Posted: 15 Mar 2017 04:00 AM PDT  © Scott Norsworthy
 © Scott Norsworthy Set within Colonel Samuel Smith Park, a historic agricultural parkland on the shores of Lake Ontario, the new Student Welcome & Resource Centre provides a stunning new public face as a high-visibility landmark gateway, providing an accessible focal gathering place for students and the public.  © Scott Norsworthy Ensuring the Centre's role as the new campus gateway meant establishing a strong presence on Lakeshore Boulevard. In order to work around the zoning requirements – which recess the building's footprint from the street – an exterior forecourt is extended outward from the primary building volume into the park, drawing visitors into the building. The forecourt is framed by an elegant trellis structure forming a permeable enclosure. Intertwined with rows of fruit trees addressing the site's pastoral history, the trellis buffers traffic and choreographs a compelling pedestrian entrance sequence that mediates between the public and the school.  © Scott Norsworthy The deployment of a shimmering screen of glass and aluminum lends a rich and distinctive architectural complexity to the four-story structure, which compactly houses 4,050 m2 of space for student services, cultural facilities and wellness programs fostering innovative scholarship, learning and a strong campus community. Inside, a robust, low-maintenance material palette of concrete, glass and steel is warmed by honey-toned hardwood and punches of colour.  Section  Section The double-height entrance lobby is wrapped entirely in glass, creating an airy and expansive meeting place washed in natural light, further emphasizing openness, transparency and accessibility as defining qualities of the space. Student life invigorates the main welcome desk, the first point of contact for visitors, and the adjoining lounge areas while multimedia displays celebrate the inspirational success stories of Humber's students, faculty and alumni. An Interpretive Centre off the entrance lobby honors the rich and varied history of the campus grounds and situates the visitor within an ongoing narrative of people and place.  © Scott Norsworthy A generous staircase leads to an upper lounge mezzanine overlooking the entrance lobby, a lofty vantage point within the branches of the surrounding trees. The adjoining Success Centre area is similarly open and inviting, attracting students to explore Humber's academic and career resources and helping to build student engagement, independence and self-reliance.  © Scott Norsworthy The Centre is designed to achieve LEED Silver certification, supporting Humber's commitment to environmental stewardship. Sustainable design strategies include the incorporation of a Green Roof and large areas of planted landscaping, largely composed of drought-resistant native plants, to increase stormwater capacity and reduced likelihood of flooding. Full-height glazing on the east and north elevations maximize daylight harvesting while metal sunscreens and shade trees reduce solar gain in summer.  © Scott Norsworthy The Student Welcome & Resource Centre serves as an iconic landmark and gathering place that celebrates the Humber experience, facilitates integration with the surrounding community and fosters social and academic engagement among a fast-growing and diverse student population. The project manages to successfully engage the public realm and natural environment, and will mediate the sites' past, present, and future as a nexus of learning and discovery for years to come.  © Scott Norsworthy This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| "Corridors of Diversity": Showcasing the Secret of Singapore's Public Housing Success Posted: 15 Mar 2017 02:30 AM PDT
Singapore's first Housing and Development Board (HDB) housing blocks were erected in November of 1960, in response to a severe lack of adequate housing for the country's 1.6 million citizens. Fast forward to 2017, and over 80% of the Singaporean population live in HDBs, with over 90% of them owning the home they live in. Often painted in vibrant colors, HDBs have a focus on community social spaces, more often than not maintaining the ground floor of the apartment blocks as open public space, exclusively for public meeting areas. These can include hawker centers, benches, tables, grills and pavilions where residents can socialize under cover from the hot Singaporean sun.  Diversity in Common. Image © Siyuan Ma The first prefabricated HDBs were built in 1980, starting out with 3-4 room flats, then moving on to construct almost entire 50-storey buildings through prefabricated elements, increasing efficiency and decreasing the need for manual labor. As engineering technology began to take off, Singapore began to move into sustainable eco-HDBs, which included man-made waterways, energy, water and waste management, rooftop greenery providing passive cooling systems, and urban vertical gardens. Currently, there are plans for rainwater harvesting systems, an increased use of solar panels, and dual-parking systems for bicycles.[1]  Diversity in Connection. Image © Siyuan Ma Given the great ethnic and cultural diversity of Singapore, with four official languages (English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil), the government saw the need for an Ethnic Integration Policy in relation to public housing. This has been in place since 1989, ensuring that HDBs represent a wide variety of individuals, and avoiding, among other things, the creation of ghettos. Providing a take on Singapore's heterogeneity, Singaporean photographer Siyuan Ma, has created a photo series on Singapore's public housing icon.  Diversity in Transit. Image © Siyuan Ma Aiming to capture the wide diversity that characterizes the small island nation, Siyuan has photographed the outdoor corridors running along the sides of the apartment blocks. Each image focuses on a different aspect of diversity, highlighted in the images' individual titles. Each photograph has the same composition, split into two halves: on one side, in the macro scale, Siyuan showcases the variety of urban features that surround HDBs, including different land uses, building density, infrastructure, greenery, and the meeting of traditional and contemporary functions. On the other side each photo shows the "personal scale," providing a glimpse into the everyday lives of the individuals inhabiting HDB flats, set against the backdrop of the ever-changing city. The public corridors also depict the relationship between communal and private life in the buildings, as the barrier between personal and collective space is blurred by unique objects in the public space, on display for anyone passing through.  Diversity in Beliefs. Image © Siyuan Ma As Ma puts it himself, "'Corridors' celebrates the diverse and colorful images of Singapore that altogether shapes its collective identity."  Diversity in Forms. Image © Siyuan Ma  Diversity in Functions. Image © Siyuan Ma  Diversity in Nature. Image © Siyuan Ma  Diversity in Density. Image © Siyuan Ma  Diversity in Time. Image © Siyuan Ma  Diversity in Unity. Image © Siyuan Ma References:
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| Gerken Residence / Young Projects Posted: 15 Mar 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Naho Kubota
 © Naho Kubota From the architect. The Gerken Residence is 6,000 interior square feet occupying the 13th and 14th floors and 1,500 square feet of roof garden in a historic Tribeca building. The proposal explores shifting relationships of solid and void through the interplay of three nested prisms. At the entrance to the loft, a massive courtyard cut opens to the sky and city. This initial void is subsequently revealed to be bounded by a larger cut through the 14th floor, allowing the courtyard to be read as a floating glass mass, bridging the east and west sides of the plan, and opening the section between floors.  © Naho Kubota  Plans  © Naho Kubota The larger cut also exposes the existing building core as a monolithic mass that grounds the choreography of void and solid dancing around it. This core is clad in custom pulled plaster panels, a technique developed through the controlled collision of a centuries-old fabrication technique with contemporary digital design language. The project is formally restrained, but spatially provocative through the improbability of the empty courtyard positioned as a positive mass of air and landscape within the loft.  © Naho Kubota  Details  © Naho Kubota The position of the courtyard within the larger void also creates new opportunities in which landscape might penetrate the boundary between interior and exterior. At the Gerken Residence, the shadows of the courtyard trees are projected through the sectional void onto a translucent glass surface below that bounds the master suite on the 13th floor.  Longitudinal Section This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Winners Announced for Competition to Design a House Under the Hollywood Sign Posted: 15 Mar 2017 01:00 AM PDT  First Place: Ambivalent House / Hirsuta (Jason Payne, Michael Zimmerman, Joseph Giampietro, Ryosuke Imaeda); Los Angeles, California, USA. Image Courtesy of arch out loud Architectural research initiative arch out loud, in partnership with Last House on Mulholland (LHOM), has released the winner of their competition to design a house of the future, to be sited directly below the Hollywood Sign. Serving as a "design charette" to generate ideas about potential uses for the currently open site, the competition called for residential designs that demonstrate the use of innovative technology and integrative environmental strategies, while capitalizing on the prominence of the site. The Hollywood competition received entries from 500 designers across the world, selecting three winners, with an additional owner's choice. The winners of the Hollywood design competition are: First Place: Ambivalent House / Hirsuta (Jason Payne, Michael Zimmerman, Joseph Giampietro, Ryosuke Imaeda); Los Angeles, California, USA  First Place: Ambivalent House / Hirsuta (Jason Payne, Michael Zimmerman, Joseph Giampietro, Ryosuke Imaeda); Los Angeles, California, USA. Image Courtesy of arch out loud From the architects: Stranger things have happened on Mulholland Drive. Like the Chemosphere before it, this house pushes hard on the envelope of experimental residential design. A spheroid floating low to the ground on a single column, the form is the anexact offspring of more geometrically perfect round houses already achieved. It rotates, too, like Foster's Roundhouse, but much more slowly, perhaps over the course of a year or more. In this way, the house's many faces continually recombine visually to produce new profiles and elevations, an ever-changing, ambivalent object. The iconicity that is inevitable of an experimental house on this site is challenged, then, by its resistance to ever being viewed or read the same way twice. Second Place: Hollywood Hill / FGO/Arquitectura (Luis Fernando Garcia Ojeda); Merida, Yucatan, Mexico  Second Place: Hollywood Hill / FGO/Arquitectura (Luis Fernando Garcia Ojeda); Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Image Courtesy of arch out loud From the architects: The Project arises as a respond of re-generate the site in a natural way. Mimicking the surrounding orography with a geometrical slab which reduce the visual impact and ecological foot print, containing multiple green roofs, which act as a natural cooling system and water collectors to be re used. At the center of the project an organic vain is opened to illuminate and ventilate the house in a nature way, at the same time it produce an spectacular view of the landmark Hollywood sign. Playing with geometry to open windows through the slope. Third Place: The Last House / YBDD, NHD (Yohannes Baynes, Noriaki Hanaoka); Los Angeles, California, US & Tokyo, Japan  Third Place: The Last House / YBDD, NHD (Yohannes Baynes, Noriaki Hanaoka); Los Angeles, California, US & Tokyo, Japan. Image Courtesy of arch out loud From the architects: The Last House is an experimental house for the near future. The Last House uses a combination of traditional technique and emerging technology to form a double skin roof. The Last House favors the use of passive technology systems that work in harmony with the site. The structure is nestled into the landscape to reduce exposure to heat and maximize cool air flow. The natural slope is embraced and used to define space in a house with no walls. The last house seeks a minimal impact upon its environment, yet a noticeable silver of light below the Hollywood sign. Owner's Choice: Eclipse / A2.0 Studio Di Architettura (Luca Pozzi, Daniele Marchetti, Gabriele Filippi, Franco Santucii); Rome, Italy  Owner's Choice: Eclipse / A2.0 Studio Di Architettura (Luca Pozzi, Daniele Marchetti, Gabriele Filippi, Franco Santucii); Rome, Italy. Image Courtesy of arch out loud From the architects: Integration, Innovation, Iconicity. The site is strongly characterized by the wild pattern of the surrounding nature. From here the view is open to the wide landscape, from the hills to the LA urban sprawl.The sheet music is complex, made up of overlapping signs, located on a fraught ground, characterized by icons of the global collective imaginary. The project is based on simplification, on reduction, on pure forms, on the enhancement of well-being and sustainability. The circle is the representation of these concepts, in analogy with the iconic Hollywood sign and its own shadow projected on the hills. Learn more about the projects here. News and project descriptions via: arch out loud. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos Shares Proposal for Hotel and Residential Project in Mexico Posted: 14 Mar 2017 11:00 PM PDT  © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, render by CG Veron Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos (SMA) has revealed their recent competition proposal for St Regis Los Cabos, a 12.4-hectare hotel and residential project on the southern tip of the Gulf of California in Mexico, bordering the Pacific Ocean. In response to the site's natural conditions—vast area, views, and exposure to predominant winds—the project's volumetric design focuses on the use of camouflaged materials, terraces, and methods to provide shelter from the wind, all of which creates two parallel undulating forms at the edge of the beach. The hotel and its amenities will be aligned with the east side of the complex, such that they achieve a layout with as many rooms as possible with direct views of the Pacific Ocean that rotate to ensure privacy.  © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, render by CG Veron  © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, render by SMA
 © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, render by CG Veron On the northwest side of the site, the two-story residential program forms the second line of the complex and will feature 75 units.  © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, render by SMA  © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, render by SMA  © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
 © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, render by CG Veron  © Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, render by SMA
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| Balzers Sports Hall Renovation / BBK Architekten Posted: 14 Mar 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Till Schuster
 © Till Schuster From the architect. Originally built in 1975, Balzers Sports Hall is a large multifunctional Sports facility with three gymnasiums, multi-use axillary rooms, and an indoor swimming pool open to the public. The renovation of the interior included the renewal of old flooring, updating fire protection systems as well as reinforcement of the primary building structure due to local seismic activity. In addition to the interior renovations, a new timber facade was designed to encase the existing building envelope - adding additional insulation to meet current Minergie standards.  © Till Schuster  Elevations - Sections  © Till Schuster The rhythmic design of the vertical wooden facades break down the large volume of the complex and allows for transparency throughout the interior spaces. The pre-weathered gray cladding creates a dialogue to the already existing secondary school 'Realschule'. As a part of a school complex, comprised of Kindergarten and a Secondary school, an expansion of the main entrance hall was created to connect the 'Realschule' to the Sports hall.  © Till Schuster The main entrance opens up into the central courtyard and plays a crucial role in the transitioning of spaces throughout the entire campus. As a major transit zone, the main entrance hall encompasses a large open staircase and elevator which connects all floors of the complex.  © Till Schuster This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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