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- Pastoral Center of Moscavide / Plano Humano Arquitectos
- Brick House in Brick Garden / Jan Proksa
- Son Yang Won Memorial Museum / Lee Eunseok + Atelier K.O.M.A
- Pillar Form - Beam Form / PERSIMMON HILLS Architects
- Waving Stone / JOHO Architecture
- 3D Copypod / People's Architecture Office
- Deepdene House / Kennedy Nolan
- New Drone Footage Shows Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee Marching Toward Completion
- Hide Out / Dan Brunn Architecture
- Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei Examine the Threat of Surveillance on Public Space in New Installation
- C.F. Møller Wins Competition for Innovative High-Rise in Stockholm
- Maria Montessori Mazatlán School / EPArquitectos + Estudio Macías Peredo
- "Inspirational" Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes for Every Occasion
- Jack Daniel’s Barrel House 1-14 / Clickspring Design
- Curry Stone Design Prize Celebrates 11 Practitioners For Valuable Approaches to Public Space
- Tour Frank Lloyd Wright's Final (Unbuilt) House Design With this 3D Model
| Pastoral Center of Moscavide / Plano Humano Arquitectos Posted: 08 Jun 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © João Morgado
 © João Morgado From the architect. From the need to serve multiple functions, the Pastoral Center of Moscavide is composed by a set of facilities that include catechesis rooms, funeral chapels, and the parish residence, and these needs.  © João Morgado The close proximity and connection with the Church of Santo António of Moscavide, a building undergoing classification as a property of national interest, provided premises for dialogue and framing. The two buildings stand out as landmarks of two eras that, although different, complement each other as reference points in the community.  © João Morgado Conceptually, we projected an extremely simple volume in articulation with the adjacent church that is also somewhat monolithic. However, the new building presents contemporary details, namely in the materials used, such as concrete, the white walls in the space volumetry, and the connection of the building with the surrounding natural light, which was a constant throughout the project.  © João Morgado The differential use of in-house, spaces, due to their different valences, dictated the programmatic display that progressed from more public to more private spaces, leaving behind, in a more isolated and introspective environment, the access to the funeral chapels.  © João Morgado Across the Avenue of Moscavide you can access the main entrance of the building, and also the parish residence, which ends up crossing the whole center, thus in close connection with it.  Croqui The great central skylight that unifies all the space shines onto the interior of the building a light that is high, strong, and always present.  © João Morgado The sunlight shines onto the resurrection chapels and create a clear analogy with the liturgical passage they witness, characterizing space and emboldening the moment.  Section  0º Floor Plan  Section The slender lamellae lining the entire facade dematerialize and soften its austere volume, providing a spiritual and incorporeal atmosphere, whereas in the interior, they deliver a sensation of shelter and introspection while enjoying the view and all available light.  © João Morgado The final result is a simple, clean, elegant, authentic and almost rude building in terms of materiality, which together with the volumetric work of the spaces, and the crosstalk between natural and artificial light, results in a graphic building that transports us to an ethereal, liturgical and iconographic atmosphere.  © João Morgado This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Brick House in Brick Garden / Jan Proksa Posted: 08 Jun 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © BoysPlayNice
 © BoysPlayNice From the architect. Traditional villages in the Southern Moravia region of the Czech Republic are characterized by their distinctive urban planning. The streets are lined with L-shaped row houses neighbouring each other on narrow rectangular plots, each with its own long and narrow backyard. A single multi-generational family home typically consists of three parts: the street-facing house inhabited by parents with their children, a home for the grandparents bordering on a courtyard, and the remaining lot to the rear of the property which was traditionally used for small-scale farming. In general, the front-facing houses are more spacious and feature more elaborate construction techniques. The facade, for example, the house's public presentation to the neighbourhood, is plastered and coloured in light natural tones. The rear buildings, however, typically remain unplastered, as such a solution was an unnecessary expense. The use of exposed brick architecture for the rear buildings was a simple, durable, and cost-effective solution which nonetheless radiated familiarity and warmth.  © BoysPlayNice I decided to respect this tradition in my plans, using bricks for the construction in the rear of the property. The building is long and narrow, conforming to the historical shape of the lot. However, I departed from tradition on one point, in terms of structural planning: whereas a typical house would be one elongated L-shaped structure, I decided to detach the existing front-facing house from the new addition. Both houses thus retain their individual identity.  Floor Plan The flat roof further emphasizes the simple elegance of the new structure. It evokes and celebrates the perpendicularity of the property, as if the façade itself were an additional property-line fence. The exposed-brick façade, spilling over into an exposed-brick courtyard, also defines the boundary of the backyard garden. The single-floor floor plan is very simple and functional. The main room features an open kitchen and a large table, abutting in a non-frame sliding window with views on the garden. Adjacent, there is a bedroom with a narrow bathroom.  © BoysPlayNice With this construction, it was my aim to create a modest yet fully-functional living space that reflects and respects its surroundings.  © BoysPlayNice This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Son Yang Won Memorial Museum / Lee Eunseok + Atelier K.O.M.A Posted: 08 Jun 2017 04:00 PM PDT  © Joonhwan Yoon
 © Joonhwan Yoon From the architect. This architectural project was commissioned as a monument to the national patriot Son Yang Won who was made a saint of the protestant church, for a life of holy sacrifice and devout Christian faith during Japanese Colonial Era. The project has been constructed as a 'Symbolic space memorial', in which the three guiding mentalities of Son Yang Won, 'Resistance', 'Sacrifice', and 'Reconciliation' are structured for view throughout the three exhibition spaces.  © Joonhwan Yoon The exposed concrete cylinder is a closed-off form divorced from the external space, and cleanly reveals the symbolism of the memorial. It is simultaneously opened up to the sky above and the water space below.  Axonometric The 'Lifted Volume' was realized by supporting one corner of the cylinder with a concrete structural wall of different texture, situated among columns that were dispersed and arranged on the site are as if they had been scattered, maximizing its dramatic effect.  © Joonhwan Yoon  First Floor Plan  © Joonhwan Yoon The narrow road, which allows visitors to indirectly experience the unspeakable physical and psychological pain of Son must have endured during his lifetime, is a space intended to reflect on his footsteps, upon which Son must have advanced forward.  © Joonhwan Yoon  Sketch  © Joonhwan Yoon The exhibition method of this memorial does not one to follow in the footsteps of everyday museums of common artifact exhibition. From the perspective that the space is translated into symbols to be exhibited, this memorial is more than a typical exhibition hall of artifacts. And it also can be dubbed as a 'Museum of Spaces for Remembrance' that embraces the spiritual heritage of Son Yang Won through architecture.  © Joonhwan Yoon This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Pillar Form - Beam Form / PERSIMMON HILLS Architects Posted: 08 Jun 2017 03:00 PM PDT  © Kenta Hasegawa
 © Kenta Hasegawa From the architect. This project involved redesigning one dwelling unit of condominium in Osaka, Japan. Requests from clients were "widely and brightly expansive space" and "amount of storage that is twice as large as general house", when we started design. Although these are at first somewhat contradictory, requests that everyone wants. For responding such requests in limited occupied area and ceiling height of building skeleton, we focused to three elements usually working behind the space.  © Kenta Hasegawa 1st "Air volume of cavity": The cavity generally made by raising with substrate materials on the skeleton equally. As it doesn't allocate necessary amount to necessary part, a loss of air volume is high.  © Kenta Hasegawa 2nd "The volume of the storage": The occupancy rate of the space is high also built-in storage space such as closet, storage furniture that is increasing later.  Axonometric Diagram 3rd "RC rigid-frame structure": The pillars and beams that are projecting from the wall or ceiling surface tend to get in the way of interior planning.  © Kenta Hasegawa We tried to convert value by integrating these elements treated as if they do not exist in the space composition, making large pillar form / beam form.  Horizontal Section Perspective This pillar form / beam form expands the space of the dwelling unit maximally, encloses a large quantity of objects and facilities, creates a living space with three-dimensional spread and constriction as folds, becomes the beginning or trigger of the start of whereabouts and behaviors of residents, furniture layout. By arranging a tough kitchen box with bricks, and a clean and bright water section box in there, the dwelling unit is composed.  © Kenta Hasegawa These autonomous objects are not merely interior finish depending on building, but as an entity closer to a person, it becomes a base that brings about comfortableness and peace of mind.  © Kenta Hasegawa This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Waving Stone / JOHO Architecture Posted: 08 Jun 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Sun Namgoong
 © Sun Namgoong From the architect. This project is designed for the complex facilities combined with a restaurant and the residential facilities which are located at the entrance of a famous Korea representative mountain – Mt. Keryong. This site is located at the heart of Mt. Keryong unfolding to 4 sides and also to be unfolded to 360 degrees of Korea's beautiful mountain views. Such features of the site could render the beautiful sceneries of a Korea's beautiful mountain, which has been the main design issues how to put these and rebuild them into a commercial space. In other words, as a design not deviated from the surrounding sceneries but integrated into nature, we intended to compose the architecture as a new symbol of the national park.  © Sun Namgoong Concepts  © Sun Namgoong Skylight and Viewing  © Sun Namgoong  Skylight Detail Sections  © Sun Namgoong Facing Wall  © Sun Namgoong  Materials Details Axonometric  © Sun Namgoong This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 3D Copypod / People's Architecture Office Posted: 08 Jun 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © People's Industrial Design Office (PIDO)
 © People's Industrial Design Office (PIDO) From the architect. The 3D Copypod is a 3D scan booth that can instantly digitize subjects of a wide range of sizes. Objects are surrounded by a spherical array of over one hundred fixed focal length DSLR cameras. Each camera is attached to a node of the Hoberman-inspired, isokinetic structure. With minimal adjustment, the 3D Copypod can contract to scan small objects and expand large enough to scan a group of people. Folding panels that are lit from the interior enclose the structure of the 3D Copypod to ensure a shadowless photography environment.  © People's Industrial Design Office (PIDO)  © People's Industrial Design Office (PIDO) Digital models are constructed from the photographic data to produce high resolution 3d prints. With the snap of a camera even subjects in motion can be captured in high quality and full color.  © People's Industrial Design Office (PIDO) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Deepdene House / Kennedy Nolan Posted: 08 Jun 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © Derek Swalwell
 © Derek Swalwell From the architect. The family commissioning this house had lived on the site for many years and after a short-lived move to a much larger house and garden in a nearby street concluded that they felt very connected to their old street and its people. The existing house couldn't cope with their large family of seven and an investigation of alterations and additions to the existing house led them to the conclusion that a new house was required.  © Derek Swalwell The brief then was a house to comfortably accommodate seven people in a highly sustainable building. We were also asked to be considerate of the neighbours who were very attached to the Edwardian character of the street. Our investigations revealed that a salient characteristic of the Edwardian garden suburb was rooves and chimneys emerging from lush tree canopies.  © Derek Swalwell In finding a workable model we looked to the Arts and Crafts movement and it's proto-modernist philosophies as a way to satisfy our brief requirements and our own compulsion to modernity. Many of our architectural interests aligned with the ideas and aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts philosophy.  Ground Floor Plan There is also whimsy, joy and beauty in this house: the formally expressive chimneys with their hand made pots, the fragrant cedar lined pyramid of the main living area, the heft and shadow of the brick and concrete rear pavilion, the intense colour and texture of the interior surfaces – all contribute to a house which is so much more than the sum of its parts.  © Derek Swalwell This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Drone Footage Shows Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee Marching Toward Completion Posted: 08 Jun 2017 09:30 AM PDT The V&A Museum of Design Dundee has released new drone footage as the Kengo Kuma-designed project races toward its 2018 opening. At this stage, huge cast stone panels, weighing between 1.5 and 2.5 tonnes each, are being fixed in place on the curving exterior walls. Once complete, a total of 2,466 panels will wrap around the museum's facade, the design of which has been inspired by the natural seaside terrain of Scotland's northeastern coast. In the drone footage, an engineer can be seen inspecting panels on the highest point of the building – nearly 60 feet (18.4 meters) above the surface of the River Tay. The building's construction has been facilitated by the use of a temporary cofferdam consisting of 12,500 tonnes of stone, allowing the museum to safely be built out over the river's surface. Removal of the cofferdam will be begin later this year. Because none of the exterior walls of the building are straight, each panel was designed in advance in a 3D model, then meticulously cast in moulds using a formula of stone aggregate, cement and reinforcement mesh. Each panel is paired with a corresponding bracket in the channels of the wall, all of which were carefully mapped out prior to construction beginning. When finished, the V&A Dundee will represent both Scotland's first design museum and Kengo Kuma's first completed building in the United Kingdom. News via V&A Dundee.
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| Hide Out / Dan Brunn Architecture Posted: 08 Jun 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © Brandon Shigeta
 © Brandon Shigeta From the architect. Los Angeles‐based architect Dan Brunn, AIA, Principal of Dan Brunn Architecture, redesigned the 3,600‐square‐foot former Janss Family residence—a hub associated with the contemporary L.A. art scene in the 1970s and 1980s—by using his minimalist aesthetic, while incorporating design cues from the home's original architect Frank Gehry, FAIA. The entire first floor was gutted to create an open‐air plan that accommodates work and display space for the owner, artist James Jean, as well as domestic necessities. Interiors are arranged around an existing oversized rectangular skylight. New windows were added to bring additional natural light into the kitchen and living areas. Brunn created a dynamic undulating staircase wall and utilized primary building materials—such as wood, concrete, and glass—as a nod to the architectural shapes and material palette famously used by Gehry at the time.  © Brandon Shigeta A fish‐scale copper‐clad entryway leads into a compressed vestibule that begins to introduce dominant themes of white vertical planes and the concrete ground plane, both disrupted by walnut surfaces. Before the expansive living area, the sculptural statement of the home emerges in the form of an expressive stairway. The first hint appears upon arrival, with the beginning of a walnut wall leading from the entry into the living room, but with a slight protrusion into the walkway. The shifting shapes and angles are in homage to Gehry as well as to Jean, who features flowing arabesques in his detailed work. Handcrafted, the walnut staircase extenuates the verticality of the space, beckoning one up the stairs. The dynamic swoosh shape captures the light throughout the day, accentuating the golden tones of the wood, as the slats encourage a dance of light and shadow. Planes continue to shift as one moves around the stairs, creating varied experiences going up and down.  © Brandon Shigeta  Floor Plans  © Brandon Shigeta Brunn instilled a feeling of openness and continuum throughout the first‐floor home/work space. Interiors are meant to serve as a gallery‐like setting for the homeowner's changing art displays. The rectangular skylight (the only architectural detail executed from Gehry's original plan) remains as a fundamental design element. Brunn re‐thought it by outfitting it with stretch fabric to create an ambient glow, and installing LED lights that can emit glowing color. During the evening hours, the glowing ceiling plane transforms the mood of the space through the play of color.  © Brandon Shigeta Minimal furnishings define "rooms" within the open plan and provide comfortable seating, yet allow art to remain center stage. A charcoal‐colored area rug demarcates the conversation area bound by an Italian sofa with integral shelves in the arms and two black‐and‐tan leather sling chairs designed by Jean Prouvé in 1930. The reclaimed timber coffee table is custom made for the space with traditional Japanese joinery. It is a fitting counterpart to the fine and intricate lines found in a massive canvas by Jean that overlooks the living area.  © Brandon Shigeta  Sections  © Brandon Shigeta This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 08 Jun 2017 07:40 AM PDT  © James Ewing The latest collaboration between architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei may be called Hansel & Gretel, but it brings to mind just as much another literary classic: George Orwell's 1984. The immersive, site-specific installation, located within the expansive Wade Thompson Drill Hall at New York's Park Avenue Armory, places visitors in a darkness-cloaked environment, where your every move is tracked and monitored by motion sensors, image captures and a team of surveillance drones. The work is a not-so-subtle interpretation of the expanding role of surveillance in modern-day society and the changing dynamics between the public and private realms.  © James Ewing "Hansel & Gretel extends dynamic creative synergies that exist between the practices of Jacques, Pierre, and Weiwei and adds a new dimension to the imaginative, monumental work they've created together," explains Pierre Audi, the Armory's Artistic Director. "Weiwei is an artist who has an innate understanding of the impact that built environments have on the artistic experience—as well as the direct experience of being watched 24/7. Jacques and Pierre bring deep experience of the emotional interplay between the public and private domain. Together they provide the ideal complement in pushing each other's practices."  © James Ewing The installation's title is a reference to the classic German fairytale, but inverted – instead of characters leaving a path to avoid getting lost, visitors are subject to extreme surveillance that makes hiding impossible. As subjects make their way through the bunkers and into the cavernous Drill Hall, their movements are recorded using infrared cameras, broadcast online to a global audience, and then returned to the Armory where it is projected onto the installation. Each person's path through the space is marked by a bright white light, which leaves a trail behind before eventually fading away. Overhead, a team of drones casts shadows onto the floor – a constant reminder of the watchful presence of "Big Brother."  © James Ewing  © James Ewing "This project provides a powerful lens for examining surveillance as one of the defining social phenomena of our time and provokes pressing questions about the right to privacy in a hyper-monitored world," said Rebecca Robertson, Executive Producer and President of Park Avenue Armory. "In this work, Jacques, Pierre, and Weiwei have fostered a robust dialogue with our building to create a thought-provoking, immersive experience that explores how surveillance transforms public space into a controlled environment where individuals forfeit their anonymity." Hansel & Gretel is the most recent collaboration between Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. Previous works have included the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and the "Bird's Nest" Stadium at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| C.F. Møller Wins Competition for Innovative High-Rise in Stockholm Posted: 08 Jun 2017 05:00 AM PDT  © C.F. Møller Architects C.F. Møller has been selected as the winners of a competition to design a community-focused highrise in the Stockholm neighborhood of Kista, a district known as the city's tech hub that is in need of attractive, contemporary living options. Known as Geysir, the 15,000-square-meter building will provide 220 new units of varying size, as well as 2,000 square meters of retail space, helping to develop the urban quarter.  © C.F. Møller Architects "With its strong basic concept and stringent architecture, the Geysir proposal wins the competition for a new residential complex in Kista for Aros Bostad and Vasakronan. With elegant volume displacements and double-sided façade finishing, Geysir creates interesting silhouettes and spaces. Geysir has great potential to lift the square, interconnect Kistagången and Isafjordsgatan, and attract residents to the heart of Kista," said the competition jury in their citation.  © C.F. Møller Architects  © C.F. Møller Architects The design of Geysir has been divided into two volumes, offset in section, to create a dynamic form and to open up double-height spaces facing the main avenue, Kistagången. The building also incorporates several green elements, highlighted by a large landscaped communal terrace. "The panoramic views of Stockholm, green rooftop terraces and a lively ground floor – where residents can interact with all the people who work and study in Kista – will form the setting for modern living," says Mårten Leringe, CEO of C.F. Møller in Stockholm.  © C.F. Møller Architects  © C.F. Møller Architects On the two lowest floors, a food court with a deli, cafe and restaurant will invite both residents and community members to eat, with outdoor dining available in the adjacent courtyard. A low fence in the courtyard area will provide a visual border between the public and private areas, where residents will have the opportunity to grow their own crops. Material choices throughout Geysir include a sleek terrazzo and tombac, as well as a double-sided façade finishing, cloaking the building in a series of interesting silhouettes and spaces. News via C.F. Møller  © C.F. Møller Architects This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Maria Montessori Mazatlán School / EPArquitectos + Estudio Macías Peredo Posted: 08 Jun 2017 03:58 AM PDT  © Onnis Luque
 © Onnis Luque From the architect. Mazatlán is a city in the Pacific Coast that maintains a humid and high temperature climate great part of the year, invites to think about an architecture that in principal faces climate and consider the high degree of salinity of the site.The strategy for this school should aim to both minimize the impact of heat in the classroom; this without losing natural illumination and relation to the outside, as well as the use of materials and constructive system that were little prone to corrosion.  © Onnis Luque Mazatlán, a city on the pacific coast has a high temperature, high humidity weather most of the year, that invites to think on an architecture that solves this and considers the high levels of salinity. The strategy should propose to minimize heat impact on the classrooms, without loosing natural light and exterior relation, as to use low corrosion construction systems.  © Onnis Luque The project sits on a plot with one fasade to the city, that enables conditions to develop an interior controlled landscape. A children´s village introspective to its own patios.  © Onnis Luque The Montessori model is not a conventional education system, so classrooms should facilitate dinamics where children can experiment and wake their senses. The classroom form should favor these dinamics, so the recomended space should be centrifugal instead of linear.  © Onnis Luque A 19 module hexagonal plan system built in hollow brick, contain the classrooms that contract to the interior to generate a perimeter porched hallway that promotes thermal isolation and pressurizes air This porch also serves as circulation and semi open space activities. The connection between modules phase out to generate poliedric patios that define a small lanscape of tiny villas at diferent heights that search for air and natural light by means of skylights.  © Onnis Luque  Upper plant  © Onnis Luque The challenge to develop a project that can be built easily on stages and where the first 1,100 square meter phase should be built on maximum of a 4 month period. So it was imperative flexibility pla offered by independent modules. Module interior is designed to host all kind of uses, from administration and direction to the didactic and recreative attending the young users, months old to the older 12 year old.  © Onnis Luque  Lintel and smithy  © Onnis Luque The idea of scale attends to its users. The triangular openings in varius proportions, no only puts in crisis the idea of the opening, speculating that a triangle its an agile and ludic geometry to solve a window, but those who enter the "village" mold it to the morphology of kids and adults to reach their space. The idea is that the classroom as a cell as to the system in its whole gives the kids to build with a greater freedom their order.  © Onnis Luque This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| "Inspirational" Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes for Every Occasion Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:30 AM PDT  It's no secret that Frank Lloyd Wright was among the architecture profession's more colorful characters. Known as an outspoken and often unforgiving egotist, Wright's appreciation of architecture was outshone only by his appreciation for himself—which is perhaps understandable, given that he ranks among the 20th century's great geniuses. For better or worse (probably worse), Wright's reputation has clung to the profession, thanks in large part to Ayn Rand, who used Wright as inspiration for the incorrigible lead character of one of her most famous books, The Fountainhead. But in truth, most architects have at least a little of Frank Lloyd Wright's personality contained within their own. It's difficult to have self-confidence without a shred of ego, and since design requires a lot of self-confidence, many of us can relate—if only occasionally—to the outrageous attitude of The United States' greatest architect. In honor of Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birthday today, we've collected some of Wright's most "insightful" comments and turned them into posters that can inspire you no matter what life throws at you. Now, take your humility, lock it in a tiny box deep inside your mind, and join us on a journey through 150 years of wisdom... When You Really Want to Respond with "SMH" When Addressing Someone Who Doubted Your Architectural Acuity When You Need to Remind a Friend/Partner to Take a Break From Their Computer When the Only Thing You've Built to Date is a Pavilion That Sat Outside the Architecture School for a Hot Second When You Don't/Didn't Get Into the GSD When You're Sexy and You Know It When Your Insufferable Colleagues Don't Understand Your Genius Right After You Graduate When Your Sub-Contractors Aren't Good Enough for You When the Number of Candles on the Cake Starts to Become a Fire Hazard When You Need to Explain Yourself to Someone This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jack Daniel’s Barrel House 1-14 / Clickspring Design Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Andrew Pogue
 © Andrew Pogue From the architect. Most who have visited a distillery know that entering an active barrel house is a profound olfactory experience. Over a period of five or more years, as a barrel of whiskey matures, a portion of its contents is lost to evaporation. This inevitable process, multiplied by thousands of barrels, creates the "angel's share", a scent that blankets the building in a delightfully unmistakable aroma. The angel's share is one of the first characteristics that welcomes visitors to Barrel House 1-14 at the Jack Daniel Distillery.  © Andrew Pogue In seeking ways to enhance the visitor experience for an ever increasing number of guests, the Jack Daniel's team launched an improvement campaign encompassing several of the publicly accessible properties on the distillery grounds. Among the projects was that of converting their oldest barrel house – erected in 1938 – into an unrivaled whiskey sampling experience.  © Andrew Pogue To create this experience while delivering on the brand's commitment to authenticity, the project - by necessity - would become a hybrid: part active barrel house where real whiskey is maturing, and part refined sampling environment where those who are deeply knowledgeable about whiskey can share intelligence with an audience in an intimate setting. The design encourages interaction and exchange between those who know, live, and work in Moore County and visitors from around the world seeking more knowledge about the Jack Daniel's brand. Within these seemingly contradictory demands, the renovation of this historic barrel house found its form.  © Andrew Pogue  Corridor Sectional Axonometric  © Andrew Pogue Juxtaposing the rugged heavy timber-framed building with the exacting detail of a steel and glass framing system, the design brings together the historic, functional authenticity of the barrel house with detailing suitable for contemporary visitors engaged in close conversation.  Presentation Plan Entering from the east, visitors arrive in the portion of the barrel house where Jack Daniel's whiskey is being carefully stored and maintained in order to reach maturity. Further down the central corridor, visitors enter an open, three-story space with high natural light. Carefully positioned within alcoves created by the barrel racks, two tall, glass volumes are supported by slender steel stanchions. Their high walls are interrupted only by the existing, interwoven, timber structure. Flanking the main aisle, these glass pavilions offer intimate and civilized sampling areas that live in stark contrast to the 1930's industrial aesthetic of the surrounding building. The west side of the project has been cleared to create a larger three story space designed to accommodate additional tour group samplings or large scale events.  © Andrew Pogue Crossing the last threshold, visitors are met with the familiar sight of the Jack Daniel's Visitor's Center: the point of origin for all distillery tours. Here guests will have the opportunity to explore further, pick up a customized bottle from the gift shop, and mingle with many of the personalities that continue to make Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey the American icon that it is.  © Andrew Pogue This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Curry Stone Design Prize Celebrates 11 Practitioners For Valuable Approaches to Public Space Posted: 08 Jun 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Curry Stone Design Prize The Curry Stone Design Prize has selected 11 honorees as part of June's Social Design Circle, whose work responds to the question: Can Design Reclaim Public Space? From NGOs to design collectives across the globe, each winner addresses notions of usage, organization, and amenities within the realm of public space, and is featured on the prize's website. In addition to a new circle of monthly winners, the prize hosts a weekly podcast, Social Design Insights, complimenting the featured work and expanding on the monthly themes with leading practitioners in social design. Here are the 11 members of June's Social Design Circle:  Asiye eTafuleni. Image Courtesy of Curry Stone Design Prize With a team of architects, social scientists and informal traders, this South African NGO seek to address informal traders' limited knowledge when it comes to public zoning and planning, which usually results in their eviction from established spaces. Most notably, the organization has worked on Durban's primary transportation hub, the Warwick Junction, creating infrastructure for traders as the hub channels 460,000 daily commuters and 5,000 traders, while also defending vendors' rights and documenting their daily lives.  Basurama - Autobarrios (Selfmade Neighbourhoods) Madrid, Spain. Image Courtesy of Curry Stone Design Prize Widely known for its transformation of landfill waste into vibrant playgrounds, Basurama is a Spanish collective of architects focusing on cultural amenities and the nature of waste: that of space, production, and consumerist culture. Using waste as a catalyst for public opportunity, the group has developed a community training program, Urban Solid Waste, which empowers disadvantaged communities with tools to convert their waste into improvements, working with municipalities and local designers.  Collectif Etc - Cafe Villageois. Image Courtesy of Curry Stone Design Prize A French design collective founded in 2009, Collectif Etc. challenges the prescribed roles of players in the act of creating urban spaces, including architects, builders, and planners. The group firmly believes in the importance of the part residents have to play in the evolution of a city, and its work is dominated by the Detour de France – a series of 20 projects created during a caravan trip around the country with a tight budget and lots of experimentation.  Ecosistema Urbano - Ecoboulevard. Image © Emilio P. Doiztua Founded in 2005, this Madrid-based firm primarily works on the revitalization of industrial areas and poorly developed suburbs, through the use of Passivhaus design, open-source technology, and community participation, which is then translated in their buildings and public spaces that celebrate biodiversity and social interaction. With reusable industrial materials at the forefront of their designs, the firm has also developed a multitude of apps to collect community input in the realization of a project.  EXYZT - French pavilion at Venice Biennale 2006. Image © Cyrile Weiner Before disbanding in 2015, this European design collective gained traction with an installation for the French Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Biennale, creating a space that combined a full kitchen, a hotel, a sauna, and a plunge pool in a statement that highlighted architecture as something to be experienced, not simply observed. After living and working in their installation, the team went on to collaborate with those outside of the conventional architectural field, instead focusing of the reclamation of the physical and social environment by everyday people.  Interboro - Commonplace. Image © Interboro Interboro is based out of New York City, and through interdisciplinary approaches uncovers dysfunctional aspects of public space through ecological, social and economic lenses. The firm's first project addressed the issue of "landbanking" in relation to a failing mall in Dutchess County, a scenario where developers purposely close properties in hopes of increasing land value. Interboro, in turn, promoted functional and needed activities to restore the mall to a functional public environment.  Interbreeding Field. Image Courtesy of Curry Stone Design Prize As the name suggests, the biological act of creating future generations with qualities lacking in the present forms the basis of Interbreeding Field's work. Merging historical, social and physical fields, the educational programs brings together students to create structures and installations as a commentary on the use and potentials of public space.  © KDI + Mutuo From cleaning lakes of compostable waste in Nairobi to creating a community hub within a trailer park in the Coachella Valley, KDI's work focuses on systematic solutions for communities in need through engagement and conversation. The nonprofit design organization never seeks out issues, instead engaging with communities to address their requirements and needs, often through minimal resources and low-cost solutions.  Raumlabor. Image Courtesy of Curry Stone Design Prize "Bye Bye Utopia." This statement is the crux of this German collective's urban interventions, which contrasts the hyper-planning of urban issues and spaces that are characteristic of 20th-century utopian visions. Their Hotel Neustadt was a six-month project developed for a two-week festival in the city, reinvigorating the urban context and eventually becoming a staple location; thereby serving as an example of how in an effort to revitalize a city, a smaller intervention becomes the city itself.  studioBASAR. Image © Bucharest Metropolitan Library An architectural office that describes itself as a "Search and Rescue" team, Studio Basar was founded in 2006 seeks out dysfunctional urban moments, referencing the "search" aspect of the work. "Rescue" entails urban interventions including single-family homes, installations, and exhibitions. Deeply rooted in a Romanian nationalist context, the office recently published a book that traces eviction and private property over the last 150 years, as Romania still struggles with a history of authoritarianism and the forces of the current market.  YA+K. Image Courtesy of Curry Stone Design Prize YA+K is a French collective that focuses on the use of means of production, such as computers, 3D printers, DIY solutions and hand tools. The ambition is to help the public mold their own spaces in an effort of self-actualization, through material reuse, public workshops, vacant lots and gardens – "a paradigm of a performative social construction." To learn more about all the categories and winners thus far, as listed below, check out the prize's website, here:
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| Tour Frank Lloyd Wright's Final (Unbuilt) House Design With this 3D Model Posted: 07 Jun 2017 11:00 PM PDT The last house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was never built, with its plans being delivered to the client just days after Wright's funeral. But the realization of his vision is tantalizingly possible, as those plans, and the parcel of land it was designed for, are still held by the same family—and are for sale, along with the adjoining plot and an existing Wright house.
The owner gave this house the name Riverrock, because of the intention to build it out of rocks from the river running through the property. Together with the poplar tree chosen and placed on the site by Wright himself, this shows the close connection to natural surroundings so typical of his work. Other Wright signatures on display are the strong, even exaggerated horizontal lines—see the dramatic overhang and the long line of windows that runs down the front—the central chimney, sharp, unconventional angles, and the corner window. To that list, Riverrock adds interest with variation in height and level. .jpg?1496851158 "Courtesy of Archilogic") Courtesy of Archilogic From the front, the house appears at first as a long horizontal streak: a flat roof extending from shed, to carport, to house; stone walls (flat, shallow river rocks, again emphasizing the horizontal); and tall windows. But in truth, the angles are more interesting. That long roof above the line of bedrooms slopes gently up, but the higher roof above the living room at the far end slopes backward. To the right, as the ground drops away, the stone wall wrapping around the house and terrace becomes taller and taller, forming a sharp, dramatic arrow. And inside? .jpg?1496851186 "Courtesy of Archilogic") Courtesy of Archilogic When entering Riverrock, one embarks on a journey. Most houses bring the visitor as soon as possible into the main living area. Here, we see just the opposite: one must first walk the length of the house, through a long, uncompromising stonewalled corridor. At the end, a few steps take you down into the living area, giving the first sense of the high, airy space to come. Turn right, keep walking, and you're finally in the living room proper, rewarded with a double-height wall of windows (thanks to that sloping roof as well as the lower floor level), creating a dramatic, light-soaked, inviting space, complete with fireplace. .jpg?1496851181 "Courtesy of Archilogic") Courtesy of Archilogic Behind that chimney is the kitchen—a cell at the heart of the house, with extra-tall walls reaching up to yet another level of roof. No outside views for the cook; like the stone corridor, it's a little claustrophobic. Add this to the list of aspects that might put off a modern owner, along with the lack of a bath (two shower rooms, but no bath) and garage. Then weigh those against this house's undeniable charms: the local, natural materials; the magnificent living room; the fascinating angles and dramatic setting. It's a house that draws you in, inviting ever more exploration. Would you live here? Don't miss Archilogic's other models of seminal projects shared on ArchDaily—click here to see them all! This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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