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- MI-mAbs / Letoublon Dupouy
- Sumner House / AW Architects
- China’s Shenzhen Waterfront to be Transformed by Laguarda.Low Masterplan
- The Purity of Expressive Timber Structure Celebrated in Finland's Pudasjärvi Campus
- Varina Area Library / BCWH Architects
- MVRDV's Skygarden, a Transformed 983-Meter Former Highway, Opens in Seoul
- Biking Through Denmark: Highlights of Copenhagen's Architecture Festival
- Bastide d’Olette – House of the Regional Natural Catalan Pyrenean Park / INCA Architectes
- Buero Wagner Selected for Interior Renovation of Frankfurt’s World Renowned Opera House
- H - Avenue / U R B a N O F F I C E
| Posted: 20 May 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Clément Guillaume
 © Clément Guillaume From the architect. The project is located at Marseille Campus Luminy, in the National Park area, and includes the rehabilitation of a building in the late 60s, the creation of an extension, and its landscaping.  © Clément Guillaume Made for the metropolis and destined for a scientific research activity advanced (immunotechnology), design objectives include the complete transformation of the existing buildings (internal surface of approximately 2090 m2) to laboratories, offices, technical rooms and rest area.  Situation The project is located in a remarkable and protected Mediterranean landscape, bordering the earth's core of the National Park, which makes it a place of friction between a preserved 'wild' nature and specifically urban activities integrated with the campus. This situation of interface city-nature makes particularly attentive to the dialogue between the building and the place.  © Clément Guillaume The composition of the existing façades, a legacy of the 60s with its oblique louvres and sunscreen elements, imposes a strong rhythm, made of shadows, reflections and elements diffusing the dazzling light. The coronation lines and these 'vertical - horizontal - oblique' rhythm effects make it possible to attenuate its massive morphology, drawing singular facades on each orientation.  Section The translucent outdoor panels reinforce this desire for integration with the site. They consist of 110 different composite resin panels, hand-made in the workshop according to specific techniques, designed with abstract and plant motifs. The use of wood is very present in the project: in the choice of joinery, clear facades of extensions in douglas fir, on the underside of the awning. The wood extends inside and accompanies the user to enter the building. It is found in floor, ceiling and furniture.  © Clément Guillaume The building is largely open on the outside and offers interesting interior framing on the distant landscape, the nature of the park is staged. From the floors: a wild nature crowned by limestone massifs. On the ground floor: nature is framed by the orthogonal lines of the building, those are the 'gardens'.  © Clément Guillaume These previously dry 'gardens' will become condensed hills, set abyss of the vegetation of the Park: plants adapted to heat and summer drought. Dry gardens. The extensions are semi-buried, their extensive plant roof allows to maintain a plant continuity and to ensure a good hold of the plants. The creation of these premises is accompanied by a modeling of the slopes of the garden, in order to manage a harmonious balance between garden and building.  Floor Plan The use of resin floors allows us to meet our aesthetic and functional wishes on this project. From a functional point of view, in relation to the main laboratory activity, the product has interesting characteristics in terms of its strength, its resistance to chemical aggressions, its ease of cleaning and repair if necessary.  © Clément Guillaume Moreover, it has all sorts of aesthetic qualities partly its soft appearance and its great possibilities of shades. The aim of these different qualities is to use the material both for the technical search spaces and for the offices, rest rooms and representation spaces. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 May 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Lisa Gane
 © Lisa Gane From the architect. The house was the rebuild option for a family of four who lost their previous home further up the valley in the 2012 Christchurch earthquake. The site was challenging with a long and narrow shape as well as being situated in a floodplain, however offered many benefits in regards to established trees and favourable planning rules. The form of the building responds to these site restrictions, environmental factors and the clients brief.  © Lisa Gane A well-established maple tree in the middle of the site on the northern boundary offered good options for solar design principles - and the house works around that. The building cranks away from the southern boundary and associated recession plane. The form was then angled away from the street to give additional privacy and open up the kitchen and front deck to the setting summer sun. The street elevation also provides great protection from the prevailing easterly wind.  © Lisa Gane The house presents itself to the street as a single level, however upon entry the building opens up to a double height space over the living area. The kitchen opens to both the east and west deck areas. Bedrooms occupy the rear of the house over two levels. Large openings and overhead windows provide great natural light throughout the day. The maple tree regulates overheating in summer, and allows good low angle sun when it has no leaves through winter.  Ground Floor Plan The external material palette is simple, with a mix of black and white-washed vertical cedar cladding, wrapped in a black fibre cement sheet frame to the street. Black metal long-run roofing was chosen for future PVL solar panel application. A backlit polycarbonate wall screens a storage area to the carport.  © Lisa Gane Internally, the recycled timber floor salvaged from an early 1900's warehouse is a feature, with the waxed nutty brown creating a real sense of warmth and immediate homeliness.  © Lisa Gane This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| China’s Shenzhen Waterfront to be Transformed by Laguarda.Low Masterplan Posted: 20 May 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Laguarda.Low Architects New York-based firm Laguarda.Low are set to transform the Bao'an district in Shenzhen, China with a 128-acre large-scale waterfront masterplan. Located 13 miles west of Shenzhen city center, and less than an hour's drive from Hong Kong, OCT Bao'an will encompass dynamic spaces for business, retail, and entertainment. Designed in collaboration with landscape firm SWA, the Laguarda.Low scheme integrates nature, recreation, and culture in a new urban setting, a vision which was awarded first place in an international competition.  Courtesy of Laguarda.Low Architects  Courtesy of Laguarda.Low Architects OCT Bao'an will be divided into four primary zones – a new Urban Business District, a multi-level Retail Park, a Culture Heritage Park, and a Book Market – all connected by a combination of pedestrian paths, integrated waterscapes, and landscaped promenades. The multi-level retail village will occupy the center of the development, surrounded by residential and office towers, a hotel, an indoor mall, and exhibition facility.  Courtesy of Laguarda.Low Architects  Courtesy of Laguarda.Low Architects The Urban Business District to the south end of the site will include seven 13-storey office buildings and a 13-storey hotel. The tiered glass structures will serve as a backdrop to the waterfront development, with landscaped terraces and green roofs to collect rainwater and limit solar heat gain. To the east, a retail park will feature large domed skylights merging the line between indoor and outdoor space. The four-story retail park elevates the traditional shopping experience with natural light, dynamic circulation, and expansive green spaces.  Courtesy of Laguarda.Low Architects At the north end of the site, the Cultural Heritage Park offers a range of leisure and entertainment facilities, including a retail center, open-air plaza, and performing arts center. Water serves as a key element of the scheme, separating various aquatic activities whilst allowing the public to explore the waterfront by boat. The Book Market zone lies on the eastern side of the development, adjacent to a new library and youth center. The subterranean space contains a multi-level bookstore and food hall, with a landscaped park surrounding a dramatic skylight above.  Courtesy of Laguarda.Low Architects News via: Laguarda.Low. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Purity of Expressive Timber Structure Celebrated in Finland's Pudasjärvi Campus Posted: 20 May 2017 07:00 AM PDT  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen An environmentally-concious material response by Lukkaroinen Architects, the structural design for the Pudasjärvi Wood Campus in northern Finland highlights the potential of large-scale structural timber. The project features a primary structure of assembled logs and three types of non-traditional pillars, specially constructed in laminated wood for different areas. Description from the Architects. The large dimensions of the campus are rendered human-scale by dividing it into four building volumes. The shared functions - sports hall, specialized arts, crafts and science classrooms, kitchen, administration, welfare facilities - are located in the two two-storey volumes. They are bridged together by a glass-walled multi-functional central hall that serves also as the canteen.  Wood Structures  Cortesía de Lukkaroinen Architects Wooden structures and components are used comprehensively. The structural walls are made of laminated log, with the exception of the north-western section, where reinforced concrete is used for the civil defense shelter due to regulations.  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen  Wood Structure  Log Joints The exterior log walls of 275mm protect the insulation against varying temperatures. The roofs of the main hall and lanterns are supported by glulam pillars and beams of various shapes. Cross-laminated timber elements are used in the intermediate floors and the banisters of the main hall stairways.  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen  Wood Pillars The color palette is a dialogue between tranquil natural wood shades and vivid details. The indoor log surfaces are protected by a transparent wax coating that maintains the natural character of wood, while playful colors in the boards of the fixtures and panels covering the settling gaps invigorate the space, a structural detail distinctive for log structures. Similarly, in the outside facades, the color palette of the log surfaces is down-to-earth compared to the bright board cladding.  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen  Wood Pillars An extraordinary feature of the campus is the pleasant interior acoustics created by log walls. Together with the harmonious appearance and pleasant scent of wood, this functional building provides an excellent learning environment.  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen  © RA-Studio Raimo Ahonen  Wood Pillars Architects: Lukkaroinen Architects Ltd This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Varina Area Library / BCWH Architects Posted: 20 May 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Chris Cunningham
 © Chris Cunningham From the architect. The new 43,885SF Varina Area Library was envisioned as a place for individual transformation and community advancement as well as a hub for learning. Building on our client's model for library service, we strove to discern those elements of library design embodying ideas, initiatives and innovations uniquely suited to this library for this particular community.  © Chris Cunningham First, we embraced the idea that the Library should reflect and reinforce local culture and character. This library is rooted in its natural environment as much as it is rooted in the community. It is configured to be a series of pavilions emerging from and cascading down the landscape. The forms of the pavilions reflect the community's vernacular architectural heritage, being vaguely reminiscent of a collection of tobacco barns. A simple palette of building materials inside and out reinforces this concept.  © Chris Cunningham Second, we created an active library where productive people can engage with collections, librarians, other patrons, and their own ambitions. The design supports group collaboration projects, individuals needing focused concentration, and provides spaces to be creative – both digitally and tangibly. In addition to having a great community meeting room, with a teaching kitchen, various spaces around the collections are configured for people to productively use information themselves, share information with others, complete projects (alone or in groups), garner new perspectives and create new information. Some pavilions have more of a collections focus, punctuated with daylit environments for enhanced learning with bucolic views. These spaces are flanked by group spaces in a variety of formats – from traditional study tables to soft seating and coffee tables  © Chris Cunningham  Upper Level Plan  © Chris Cunningham Next, we wanted a welcoming design made for "easy shopping." The Library configuration recognizes that active lives sometimes require "grab and go" transactions. Therefore, the library's design incorporates wide aisles and shelves at convenient heights which tilt the books' titles up for easier viewing and selecting. Also, many will appreciate the full service drive-up window. Additionally, the library entrance is purposefully "de-formalized" to establish a "side-door" welcoming approach, coming in between two pavilions. This character is reinforced by setting up each pavilion with a "back porch" overlook to the woods.  © Chris Cunningham The space between the primary pavilions cascades from the entry level down the slope of the site to the woods. This space leads to the Children's Library as well as the Community Gathering spaces. This in-between space is employed to enhance local networking by providing space for ad hoc encounters on the monumental steps and at the café space and terrace at the bottom. This space also serves as an occasional venue for viewing movies.  © Chris Cunningham  © Chris Cunningham The architecture of the Varina Area Library identifies itself as a reflection of the community's aspirations for cultural and individual advancement while also being a logical extension of the history that shaped local community culture. Our goal was to make this library relevant, useful, and productive for the emerging generations of library users in this part of Henrico County.  © Chris Cunningham This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MVRDV's Skygarden, a Transformed 983-Meter Former Highway, Opens in Seoul Posted: 20 May 2017 05:45 AM PDT  © Ossip van Duivenbode Today the Mayor of Seoul opened the Skygarden, a 983-meter elevated walkway designed by MVRDV which utilizes a formerly abandoned highway in the center of the South Korean capital. Located in Seoul's Central Station district, the 16-meter-high linear park features a living catalog of Korea's indigenous plants, featuring over 24,000 individual plants from 228 species and sub-species. The Skygarden is known in Korean as Seoullo 7017, a name which references the Korean for "Seoul Street," and the 1970 and 2017, the years in which the structure was originally built and subsequently transformed.  © Ossip van Duivenbode "Our design offers a living dictionary of plants which are part of the natural heritage of South Korea and now, existing in the city center," said Winy Maas, founding partner of MVRDV. "The idea here is to connect city dwellers with nature, while at the same time also offering the opportunity of experiencing these amazing views to the Historical Seoul Station and Namdaemun Gate."  © Ossip van Duivenbode In addition to providing green space in the center of Seoul, the Skygarden is designed to be an educational experience. "They are planted in containers of different size and height and organized in groups of families. The families are ordered according to the Korean alphabet," added Maas. "This leads to surprising spatial compositions."  © Ossip van Duivenbode This alphabetized grouping led to a design strategy which sees the park split into a variety of sections, with different families of plants offering differing identities with respect to color, fragrance, and composition. For example, in the fall, an area of Maples will display bright-colored leaves, in spring cherry trees will blossom, and in summer various fruiting trees will bring color and fragrance to the park.  © Ossip van Duivenbode While the park itself is the main attraction, the renovation of the former highway also incorporates shops, galleries, tea houses, a theater, information centers, maintenance boots and restaurants. At night, the park is lit up in blue light, a color which can help make plants healthier, however the color of the light can also be adjusted for events and festivals. Multiple stairs, elevators, and ramps onto the structure, some adapted from the on-ramps built for the original highway, help the new park to connect together different parts of the area, improving the experience pedestrian for pedestrian users of the city.  © Ossip van Duivenbode Competition: Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries with Wenchian Shi, Kyosuk Lee, Kai Wang, Ángel Sánchez Navarro, Jaewoo Lee, Antonio Luca Coco, Matteo Artico, Jaime Domínguez Balgoma and Dong Min Lee This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Biking Through Denmark: Highlights of Copenhagen's Architecture Festival Posted: 20 May 2017 05:00 AM PDT  © Kasper Nyobo This year's Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) offered a wide range of activities, from film screenings to exhibitions on the future of social housing. The festival's fourth edition took place over 11 days and featured more than 150 architectural events in Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Aalborg. Festival Director Josephine Michau explained that since its first edition, the intention behind CAFx was to bring many local agents together in order to build new dialogues around architecture. As a society, how do we identify with architecture? What values do we ascribe to it? These questions were part of this edition's overarching theme: "Architecture as identity."  © Kasper Nyobo  Arne Jacobsen's Aarhus City Hall. Image © Kasper Nyobo Four main events marked the festival: the world premiere of 'BIG TIME' - a new portrait film about architect Bjarke Ingels, a major international conference with visiting architects Charles Renfro and Barozzi Veiga, an exhibition titled "Never Demolish" which presented the transformation of the Cité du Grand Parc in Bordeaux, and bike tours around Copenhagen and Aarhus with the city architects. Tina Saaby, Copenhagen's city architect, offered a bike tour through some of the city's landmarks - including the new controversial Inner harbor Bridge - stopping to explain the reasoning behind the measures that were taken in order to make Copenhagen the world's best city for cyclists. In Aarhus, the bike tour stops included Arne Jacobsen's Aarhus City Hall as well as the ARoS Art Museum, which will open its new expansion project to the public in 2020.  © Kasper Nyobo  Never Demolish exhibit. Image © Kasper Nyobo This year, CAFx partnered with the KADK's School of Architecture to host a summer course under the title "Landscape as Character," focusing on the temporal nature and character of the Danish landscape. The deadline for application is June 1st. For more information, click here. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bastide d’Olette – House of the Regional Natural Catalan Pyrenean Park / INCA Architectes Posted: 20 May 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Nicolas Castes
 © Nicolas Castes From the architect. In the heart of the Catalan Pyrenees regional park, a spectacular landscape opens on the valley which shelters the "Bastide d'Olette" where the "Maison du Parc" ("park's house") is located.  © Nicolas Castes Three stories are superimposed: the one of the medieval castle, built in the heart of the valley, the one of the mining exploitation of the territory from which materials were treated on site and the contemporary history lead by the Maison du parc (park & house).  © Nicolas Castes The historical richness of the site where time has left its distinctive print calls for a sober vision of architecture linked with the sense of the place. Respect of what is existing is the driving force of the project. A new structure is conceived within a patrimonial frame which is the building work of the farmhouse. The building slots into this protective enclosure and has a delicate discussion with it.  Plan A central line follows on from the Maison du Parc (park & house), this axis articulates the different circulations and insccribes the architectural project in a coherent and global vision on a site scale.  © Nicolas Castes With a view to harmony with the environing landscape, we imagined a buiding which composition lines answer subtely the existing building profile. The protective roof with large fascias offers a global unity. This light and aerial roofing seems to float delicately above work spaces. This roof is raised which allows a very clear readability of the new elements of the project compared to the existing ones.  Section C-C' The contemporary envelope of the building is both dynamic and unifying. Its vertical rythm, sometimes filled, sometimes empty, generates a transparency and a fluidity of views which allow us to see the existing walls at any time. The project includes wooden motorized, pliable, sliding shutters which will be integrated on the Eastern and Western facades. Therefore, this mechanism regulates solar inputs and avoids summer overheat.  © Nicolas Castes On the North side, all technical functions (heating, archives, storage...) are gathered around a technical delivery parvis. On the South side, on the opposite, a terrace enables to enlarge more user-friendly spaces. The meeting room, which is very ajustable is linked with the parvis and the South terrace. The staff premises are heading towards an enclosed garden.  © Nicolas Castes The work spaces are organized on a single plateau to favour exhanges. This configuration offers a huge flexibility. Each space is extended towards the outside either physically or visually by visual openings which lead into the different faces of the site This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Buero Wagner Selected for Interior Renovation of Frankfurt’s World Renowned Opera House Posted: 20 May 2017 01:00 AM PDT  via Buero Wagner A competition for the interior renovation of the Alte Oper, one of the world's most prominent opera houses in Frankfurt, has been won by German firm Buero Wagner, selected ahead of heavyweight runner-up Zaha Hadid Architects. The scope included the conversion of one of the building's multipurpose foyers into a central social space, to be activated by the 450,000 annual visitors that attend the Alter Oper's 400-plus concerts.
 via Buero Wagner  via Buero Wagner In the form of a "valuable casket with a golden surface", the foyer is extracted from the existing structural elements of the building. A series of large revolving doors offer a variety of spatial organizations and separations within the space, creating a dynamic and ever-changing user experience.  via Buero Wagner  via Buero Wagner With minimal additional interventions, the renovated space fits nicely within the building's existing character, combining its golden shell with LED lighting above a dark interspace. These lights can be used for graphic or written displays and allow for other interactions with the audience while serving as a key component of the furnishings also completed by Buero Wagner. News via: Buero Wagner.
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| H - Avenue / U R B a N O F F I C E Posted: 19 May 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Arthur Tintu
 © Arthur Tintu From the architect. This project came to us very late when it was in execution. The beneficiary wanted to change the image of the building. We had to take over the entire project coordination and develop a project very quickly.  © Arthur Tintu Thanks to the already formed teams and the experience we have we succeeded in changing the project from the foundations and bringing it into the 21st century. We chose to support the vertical accents of the building and to balance the horizontal dynamics. In this sense, parasols - masks were introduced to hide areas that seemed to be badly articulated or redundant.  © Arthur Tintu The palette was separated in two colors - black and white, we removed the curtain walls and we focused on the simple rectagular windows....those in turn have received intrusions and differentiated frames, details and subtle visible accents.  Section We diveded the building in several parts ... for natural reasons - it was too fat. After all the angles and perspectives have been analyzed, we gradually began to look for details and effects that will harmonize and interconect with each other.  © Arthur Tintu We had the opportunity to work in 2004 at the Alexandrina street no.36, so for us it was a rare occasion to work and correct a space according to our evolution over time. From this point of view it was a real pleasure to resume the design theme. It's actually a street corner where We've been involved in two decades.  © Arthur Tintu The building has received new and contemporary forms, but careful attention has been paid to urban details, so in the Porumbaru street the building has to be connected by a jump from GF + 1 to GF + 5. This we speculated and created a dynamic facade with a generous entrance highlighted by a yellow and porous cantilever.  © Arthur Tintu In Alexandrina street we did differently, the four storey building led us to a less abrasive approach, the facade is quiet and flat, and the entrance on two levels is meant to make the transition to the neighboring building.  © Arthur Tintu For the Prezan Avenue there was a more angular way, so parts of the building can only be seen from a distance because from the angular perspective they are blocked by elements of the building – parasols and building corners. Artificial lighting undergoes geometric shapes and function - so at night, wide cantilevered canopy can easily be read making the building noticeable for 24 hours.  © Arthur Tintu We were heavily influenced by post-war buildings with large canopies that offerred urban hats to the city, such buildings are also in the area and part of urban fabric and silhouette of the city, we took this element and interpreted it in our own style. After all, we consider it an exquisite exercise of urban built space (since the project was already under construction). This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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