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- Viba's Sauna / Spot Architects
- COF Outreach Village Primary Schools / Studio FH Architects
- House in Yamanashi / UENOA
- MASA Studio’s Competition-Winning Hostels Combine Modularity and Tradition for Cancer Patients
- 10 Design Unveils Masterplan for Mediterranean Development Along Egypt’s Coast
- Ascaya / SB Architects
- SLA Wins Competition to Design a New Cultural Landscape in Denmark
- A New Train Station in Cambridge Has Sparked Controversy Among Mathematicians
- The Dulwich Pavilion / IF_DO
- Praksis Arkitekter Selected as Winners of Scandinavia's Most Prestigious Architecture Award
| Viba's Sauna / Spot Architects Posted: 03 Jun 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Filips Smits
 © Filips Smits From the architect. The two main factors which defined the choice of building perimeter and placement were the maximum allowed building area of 25m 2 as well as the legislative distance from the neighboring properties and the existing residential buildings. The exterior perimeter of the sauna building is strictly bound by the aforementioned restrictions. The diverse building context of Mārupe does not allow for a classic sauna design, therefore, the exterior image of the building was purposefully designed as an object in the corner of the garden - modest looking and distant from the surrounding environment.  © Filips Smits In order to trigger an emotional adventure and create an illusion of a spacious room, proven and tested design principles were applied. For example, the building geometry together with the carefully crafted interior connections create clean planes. Each plane is bounded by at least one edge thus allowing it to enter the outdoor space. This approach does not obscure the view and alters the actual size of the space.  Studio Isometrics The second principle is to work with two spaces at a time instead of dividing them into functional groups or focusing on them individually. The two spaces complement each other and generate spatial as well as visual interaction, thus sharing common architectural values. Being in one of the other room provides a balanced, unified experience. The second advantage of working with room couples is the ability to create different characters for rooms with different functionalities. For example, one can enjoy an unobstructed view through the lounge room's window while resting in the with warm, wooden sauna room. However, the window seen from the bath is facing the other side of the yard. Moreover, this room features cold glass and stone elements which distance one from the sauna room and create a completely different and functionally corresponding spatial character.  © Filips Smits The concept of the building reflects the core functionality of sauna, namely, the contrast between hot and cold as an analogy of Axis Mundi (the connection between Heaven and Earth) which accommodates all four classical elements: water (pool), fire (sauna), air (skylight) and earth (lounge). The use of skylight was inspired by the significant changes in temperature when leaving the sauna room. The skylight, as well as the two yard-facing windows, create the illusion of refreshing outdoor space. What emphasizes the notion of Axis Mundi is a conflux of seven interior planes challenging the purity of the details.  Render 001  Render 002 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| COF Outreach Village Primary Schools / Studio FH Architects Posted: 03 Jun 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Will Boase
 © Will Boase From the architect. The Cotton On Foundation is a non-governmental organisation from Australia which, amongst other programmes around the globe, is in the process of creating a total of 20,000 new educational places for primary and secondary school children in Southern Uganda by the year 2020. To achieve this ambitious target, several avenues are being pursued, amongst them the COF Outreach Village School programme which consists of the construction of primary schools in remote villages around the two districts of Rakai and Lwengo. Each school is to accommodate 500 students and ten teachers, the latter residing on site. Wherever possible, existing buildings are being upgraded and new buildings added as required. Three of these schools have been completed to date, five are under construction, and a further twenty or so are to follow in the coming three years.  © Will Boase In late 2013, Studio FH Architects were approached by the Cotton On Foundation to develop a set of typical primary school building designs that can be constructed on various sites with differing environmental conditions. Prior to that, COF had just started to work with Australian architect Ross Langdon who, in September 2013, tragically died in the Nairobi Westgate attacks; Ross, a friend and collaborator of Studio FH, had left behind a sketch design of a typical classroom building which COF wanted to use as a basis for the design development.  Plan  © Will Boase The requirement of buildings that are adaptable to many different sites called for designs that are largely independent of their orientation towards the sun. Whilst tropical design principles normally generate buildings elongated along the east-west axis, it was evident that some sites would present us with a topography that made north-south alignment inevitable. This consideration led to a classroom block module with covered walkways on all four sides.  © Will Boase In the absence of a formal dining or assembly hall due to budget considerations, one of the classroom blocks features a multipurpose space with a lowered circular seating area located in- between two classrooms. Both adjacent classrooms have full-width pivoting and sliding panel doors which, when opened, create an enlarged assembly space for the school community. When closed, the doors act as blackboards for an informal covered external teaching or activity space.  © Will Boase When selecting materials, the key consideration was the fact that the schools were to be handed over the Government of Uganda and as such their operation would fall under the responsibility of the Districts. Given the precarious financial situation many districts find themselves in, schools were to be built of solid, long-lasting, low-maintenance materials. Cement screed floors, fair-faced clay brick and glass-less window shutters were selected for their outstanding behaviour over time; particularly the yellowish multi-coloured clay bricks, manufactured by Butende Brickworks near Masaka, help creating buildings that virtually don't age despite the either dusty or muddy environments they find themselves in.  © Will Boase The simplest of passive design principles form the basis of the classroom design; reflective roofing material, shading of all windows, good cross-ventilation due to shallow building depths and upwards movement of air owing to elevated vent roofs. The latter is a typology quite common in southern and western Uganda, mostly seen on historical industrial buildings such as coffee factories and mills. Daylight provision is enhanced by roofsheet perforations in selected areas of the vent roofs; this feature allows for a well-lit learning environment even in stormy conditions when the steel-timber shutters have to be closed as a protective measure against wind and driving rain.  Sections Other appropriate technologies deployed in the schools include a centralised rainwater harvesting system, biogas digester toilets and hybrid fuel-efficient cooking stoves.  © Will Boase This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Satoshi Shigeta
 © Satoshi Shigeta From the architect. It is a house for young couple and three children. This house faces new towns and old towns, because this site is at the edge of a newly developed area.  © Satoshi Shigeta  Ground Plan  © Satoshi Shigeta We planned that the two buildings with relevance to the new town and the old town overlapped,and we planned a staircase room between the two buildings and connected the three spaces.  © Satoshi Shigeta  1st Floor  © Satoshi Shigeta This staircase room is a complex place that new towns and old towns appear in buildings  © Satoshi Shigeta Using this complexity, we wanted to create a building that encompasses the lively life of the lively five people living in this house.  © Satoshi Shigeta This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MASA Studio’s Competition-Winning Hostels Combine Modularity and Tradition for Cancer Patients Posted: 03 Jun 2017 09:00 AM PDT  via MASA Studio With a modular composition inspired by traditional sub-Saharan African building typologies, MASA Studio's safe lodging proposal for Tanzanian cancer victims has been selected as the winner of the Hostels for Hope competition, which called for solutions to issues of health and safety in regards to the rehabilitation of cancer victims away from home in rural Africa. Organized by Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, an international foundation combatting women's cancers, the competition responds to the unfortunate decision that thousands of Tanzanian women have to make every year – to travel great lengths for unaffordable treatment and lodging, or to remain at home unable to fight the disease.  via MASA Studio  via MASA Studio
Situated within close proximity to two primary cancer treatment hospitals, these modules aggregate to create the hostel's primary form, which is further sandwiched by the linear platform above and a concrete floor plate. The plate above acts as a security fence and assists with bioclimatic and energy processes, while also creating protected areas and connecting the individual units. This strategy "allows a strong space flexibility and transparency to both transverse and longitudinal directions, generating different perspective views of the landscape and especially towards the Victoria Lake."  via MASA Studio  via MASA Studio Sanitary facilities such as latrines, designed to the standards of the UNCHR, are placed away for the residences to reduce risks of infection, along with the backup generators and waste recycling systems, all of which are found along the central circulation routes. The main building is composed of load bearing masonry and the modules of brick, both of which rely on the local community to help construct. Flows of circulation converge to create informal socializing and communal hubs, and along with the open structure of the modules, help engage the landscape and nearby community through the invitation of various programs and activities.  via MASA Studio  via MASA Studio Each module comes equipped with mosquito nets for additional protection and captures views of Lake Victoria from its outdoor spaces. Construction is intended to begin within a few months. Check out the rest of the winners here. News via: MASA Studio.
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| 10 Design Unveils Masterplan for Mediterranean Development Along Egypt’s Coast Posted: 03 Jun 2017 07:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of 10 Design International Architecture office 10 Design has released their first images of their Jefaira Seafront Development along Egypt's North Coast. Spanning 550 hectares, the site stretches 3km along the Mediterranean coastline. The project is in collaboration with INERTIA, one of Egypt's prominent real-estate developers leading various luxury residential and commercial developments across the country. Creating a brand new settlement along the seafront, the project takes advantages of Jefaira's natural beaches and cliffs. "The master plan is designed to locate highly active spaces where the community will benefit most" Paul Rodgers, Design Director at 10 Design added, "thereby creating energized spaces and destinations throughout Jefaira."  Courtesy of 10 Design  Courtesy of 10 Design
 Courtesy of 10 Design  Courtesy of 10 Design The master plan contains 10,000 to 12,000 residential units, supported by a comprehensive and diverse range of community facilities including schools and colleges, a sports academy, swimming pools, and a health and wellness center. Extensive tourism facilities are provided including marinas with promenade cafes, restaurants, retail spaces, hotels, and a convention center.  Courtesy of 10 Design  Courtesy of 10 Design
 Courtesy of 10 Design  Courtesy of 10 Design Masterplanning is one of 10 Design's strengths as an architecture and planning studio, having completed several landmark projects across the globe. Many urban developments have been won by international competition, including the Master Plan of Zhuhai, China and the China-Taiwan Master Plan for CBD.  Courtesy of 10 Design
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| Posted: 03 Jun 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Velich Studio
 © Velich Studio From the architect. Ascaya, the exclusive residential development set in the foothills of the McCullough Range outside of Las Vegas, is celebrating the completion of its first inspiration home. The 7,200-square-foot luxury estate, designed by SB Architects, includes four bedrooms, six and a half baths, an office and entertainment room. Based in San Francisco with offices in Miami and Shenzhen, the firm is globally known for site-sensitive designs and creating thought-provoking and well-crafted architectural projects.  © Velich Studio Our vision for the community is becoming a reality, and we look forward to continued growth this year. Six of the country's leading architects were commissioned to design one-of-a- kind homes to showcase to prospective buyers the unique sites available at ASCAYA.  © Velich Studio In an exercise of collective creativity, each home introduces a different interpretation of contemporary design. Four additional inspiration homes are currently under construction, with the final home scheduled to start construction later this year.  © Velich Studio ASCAYA beckons with mesmerizing and well-appointed custom homes designed to fit seamlessly into the landscape. A tranquil refuge from Las Vegas' energetic pace, SB Architects' design sits on a half-acre site with sweeping views of the city and the surrounding mountain ranges. It will be offered on the market for $7.295 million and is currently available for private showings.  © Velich Studio We are honored to be one of the chosen architects to develop on this beautiful land," said Matt Page, LEED AP, Vice President at SB Architects. "Drawing from our extensive hospitality experience, we approached this project as a smaller-scale resort. We see a lot of crossover with private estates wanting more resort amenities, and hotels yearning to feel more residential and intimate. We brought the resort lifestyle experience to the ASCAYA residence - incorporating an open layout with substantial gathering places, fluid connectivity from indoor-outdoor spaces, and amenities that overlook the Las Vegas Strip.  © Velich Studio With pockets of flexible spaces, future homeowners can create different setting and experiences. The home is equally comfortable as a private retreat for two or an ideal setting for a lively gathering around the stunning pool."  © Velich Studio A statement of subtle elegance, the simple massing and long, horizontal lines are tempered by rich, natural textures and earthy colors. The contemporary home offers expansive living, dining and kitchen areas. And through a series of clerestory windows, the roof seems to float, semi-disconnected from the structure. The home also features a covered outdoor dining room, a sunken fire pit, outdoor spa, an indoor multi-functional room with a highly coveted roof deck. One of the remarkable aspects of this home is how seamless the transition is from indoor to outdoor space. With clean lines and expanses of glass, our home embraces the surrounding desert landscape.  © Velich Studio This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| SLA Wins Competition to Design a New Cultural Landscape in Denmark Posted: 03 Jun 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of SLA Danish-based landscape architects SLA have won a competition to develop The New Hedeland Nature Park – a 1,500-hectare cultural landscape near the historical city of Roskilde, Denmark. The winning proposal challenges the common idea of the conventional "culture house" as it is moved out in the open without walls and roofs, making participating accessible for everyone. The winning design also seeks to complement the area's unique nature and 10,000 years of cultural history into one coherent concept, creating new space for co-creation, interaction, and awareness. Hedeland is a former gravel pit surrounded by a characteristic hilly dead ice-topography covered with diverse vegetation. Through strategic alterations, SLA's landscape development creates an undulating activity landscape that enhances, dramatizes and organizes the area's physical expression and narrative. The new cultural landscape is developed and created by and for the people who come visit, making The New Hedeland a changeable gathering place that constantly evolves and offers new diverse experiences with each visit.  Courtesy of SLA  Courtesy of SLA
 Courtesy of SLA  Courtesy of SLA Architects SLA's design transforms the site's topography through enhancing changes in height within its landscape. Existing holes from the gravel pits are dug deeper, flat fields become mountains, and a new connecting trail will take visitors through the area's key points of interest. The wildness of nature is preserved and reinforced and communities and companies are invited actively through a collaborative process that makes The New Hedeland a scene for communal life, volunteerism and a new perspective towards nature.  Courtesy of SLA Architects  Courtesy of SLA Architects News via: SLA.
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| A New Train Station in Cambridge Has Sparked Controversy Among Mathematicians Posted: 03 Jun 2017 02:30 AM PDT A new train station in Cambridge is getting a lot of attention from a surprising audience: mathematicians. Cambridge North Station is clad in aluminum panels with a geometrical cutout design. The architecture firm, Atkins, originally claimed that the pattern was derived from Cambridge alumnus John Conway's "Game of Life," but eagle-eyed mathematicians soon realized that was incorrect. As the above video points out, the design is in fact based on a mathematical rule studied by Stephen Wolfram, an Oxford alumnus, much to the dismay of rival university Cambridge. Though the firm's website still references Conway, a Senior Architectural Designer at Atkins, Quintin Doyle, has since confirmed that it was, in fact, Wolfram's Rule 30 that they used in the design. Aside from its mathematical façade, which transforms the building's appearance from night to day—for the technically-minded, the pattern shown conforms to Wolfram's rule 135 in the day, while at night the interior lights invert the pattern to rule 30—the station also features an abundance of daylight throughout its open interior. Atkins designed the natural lighting to also serve a wayfinding purpose by lighting key areas of the station. The aluminum panels that make up the façade also provide passive security to ground floor glazed areas. The station is expected to serve over 3,000 passengers per day, providing access to several major new developments to the north of Cambridge while alleviating congestion from the city center. For those interested in knowing more about the mathematical rules used to create the facade, this blog post by Stephen Wolfram himself (who seems rather flattered by the design) describes the pattern in depth. Or, for those who just want to play about and create more facade panel designs based on Wolfram's rules, the mathematician has also created an automaton panel generator based on the process used by Atkins. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Joakim Boren
 © Joakim Boren From the architect. The Dulwich Pavilion is a transformative project for Dulwich Picture Gallery and Almacantar, a breakthrough moment for a young architecture practice, and an important legacy for the London Festival of Architecture 2017. The Gallery's first pavilion extends into the surrounding landscape, celebrating Soane's original architecture and allowing the Gallery to overcome a lack of existing space and meet increasing visitor demand. IF_DO's design, developed with engineers StructureMode and realised by bespoke fabricators Weber Industries, offers a model for other cultural institutions facing similar issues, and responds to the LFA's mission to champion London architecture and promote positive change to the city's public realm.  © Joakim Boren The London Festival of Architecture and Dulwich Picture Gallery launched the pavilion design competition in autumn 2016, with support from Almacantar. Entrants were challenged to design a contemporary response to the original Soane building and its garden setting, while working with a modest construction budget of just over £100,000. Bermondsey-based practice IF_DO, established in 2014 by Al Scott, Sarah Castle and Thomas Bryans, overcame competition from a field of 75 entries with their design 'After Image'. It was chosen by a judging panel of leading architectural and cultural figures including Ruth Rogers (chef and founder, River Café), Carl Turner (founder and director, Carl Turner Architects), Mike Hussey (Chief Executive, Almacantar) and Nancy Durrant (arts commissioning editor, The Times)  © Joakim Boren  Site Plan  © Joakim Boren The Dulwich Pavilion has been designed as a temporary public structure, which engages with the adjacent buildings, landscape and visitors alike. Conceptually it responds to the solidity and monolithic nature of Sir John Soane's Gallery building, and the porous, ever-changing nature of the landscape. Structurally the pavilion is lightweight and minimal, comprising a timber truss roof suspended over a level timber deck supported on three fixed slender mirrored panels. All of the remaining wall panels are moveable or removable, creating a flexible space enabling numerous configurations for different events. A fixed bar/café pod opens up when in use to reveal a serving area.  Exploded Isometric The reflective quality of the mirrored screens reflects and disrupts the context. Fragments of the building appear in the landscape, and fragments of the landscape in the building. The roof overlaid with a mesh veil creates a canopy-like environment that enhances the layering of images and the interplay of space, perception and memory: this year's London Festival of Architecture theme.  © Joakim Boren The pavilion's elegant structure, developed through close collaboration between the architects, engineers and fabricators, demanded precision in both design and manufacture. Bespoke steel, aluminium and timber components were all fabricated by Weber Industries in their Peckham studio, before the structure was assembled on site. The pavilion has been engineered by StructureMode to allow efficient construction, with minimum disruption and environmental impact to the historic grounds.  Detail This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Praksis Arkitekter Selected as Winners of Scandinavia's Most Prestigious Architecture Award Posted: 03 Jun 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Slotfelt Barn / Praksis Arkitekter. Image © Christina Capetino Praksis Arkitekter has been awarded 500,000 DKK as winners of Nykredit's Architecture Awards, the most prestigious architectural distinction in Scandinavia. Founded in 1987 by the Nykredit Foundation, the awards also honored two practices with 250,000 DKK Prizes: the Motivation Award, won by ADEPT, is "an encouragement to continue and further develop an already obvious talent" seen in young architectural practices, while the Sustainability Award, which was introduced in 2016, was won this year by Leth & Gori.  Slotfelt Barn / Praksis Arkitekter. Image © Christina Capetino Speaking about winners Praksis Arkitekter, chairman of the prize committee Kristian Lars Ahlmark remarked that "Throughout their work there is a great understanding and knowledge about architectural and craft skill and tradition as well as a very clear grasp of the sensual and poetic." The award continues an excellent year for Praksis Arkitekter, who won both the Dreyers Fond Prize and the 2017 Concrete Construction Prize and Utzon Statuette in March.  Harbour Houses / ADEPT. Image Courtesy of ADEPT  Ku.Be House of Culture & Movement / ADEPT. Image Courtesy of ADEPT "ADEPT inscribes themselves into the group of younger offices inspired by the Dutch Wave of the 00's" said Ahlmark of the Motivation Prize winners. "Founded in 2006 on the verge of the financial crisis, its three partners have succeeded in firmly establishing ADEPT, in Denmark as well as internationally, as a solid cast business with its own clear identity rather than merely as an exponent of a time phenomenon."  Brick House / LETH & GORI. Image © Stamers Kontor Finally, Ahlmark said of the Sustainability Prize winners: "What distinguishes Leth & Gori is that they not only consider sustainability as a matter of solar panels and green roofs, but equally a matter of choosing materials and building practices that have proven their durability over the centuries."  Roof House / LETH & GORI. Image © Stamers Kontor Correction update: This article originally named ADEPT as winners of the main prize based on a misunderstanding of the information we were provided. ArchDaily sincerely regrets the error. News via: ADEPT, Arkitectforeningen. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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