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- Cesco / DTR_studio architects
- Village in the Schoolyard / MUTOPIA
- UMASSIF/WITH Sanlitun Bakery in Beijing / B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio
- Woods Bagot Begins Construction on Mixed-Use Tech Center in Singapore that You Can Ride Your Bike Through
- TEN Arquitectos' New Mexican Museum in San Francisco Celebrates Diversity
- Résidence Belcourt / Atelier Pierre Thibault
- HOK and Hawkins\Brown Move Forward with Cardiff University Innovation Campus
- "Night White Skies" Podcast Explores How the Design of Our Environment and Our Bodies is Changing Architecture
- Tourism Development Tropical Center / José Luis López Siles & Francisco Moreno Martínez
- The House of Knowledge is a Gorgeous New School Above the Arctic Circle
| Posted: 19 Nov 2016 09:00 PM PST  © Cris Beltran
 © Cris Beltran It is one of the most difficult Project we have developed in our studio . But thanks to our amazing clients and the effort of the builder company, the result has been fantastic.  © Cris Beltran  © Cris Beltran The process has lasted four years, because the project has been growing over time. The original request was to extend their home with the annexed plot on the left. We had to keep the old house and add a new one. Furthermore we did not have any views. So we developed a quiet project, inspired in the popular architecture, adding a new volume with no noise. Just the gesture of a double height window, with tropical wood, versus the white volume.  Floor Plan Just before starting the work on site, the plot above us was on sale. It was the chance to get vistas and propose a more ambitious project . We advised to the clients to demolish the original house, so we could project a global project with no restrictions. They accepted the challenge with no doubt.  © Cris Beltran The higher plot (the last added to the puzzle) will be the living area. The pool will be stand in the free ground space available. The rest of the outdoor area is the roof of the night area. The bedrooms are below the terrace, sited in the first project plot. In the ground level, just below the bedrooms , there is an apartment for guests. The stairs will be the element which will sort the puzzle . This importance is highlighted with the skylight – bay window  © Cris Beltran The Project is concluded with a overlook terrace on the roof of the living area. This space plays just with white planes,so common in Andalucian popular architecture, integrating the house with the neighborhood .  © Cris Beltran The entrance to the house is across a Andalucian patio. This traditional space prepares us to get into the heart of the house and the visual explosion that follow it . After the living room , we can see the stairs area, lighted with an old brick jalousie . The night area recover the original project facade , keeping the image of a traditional house, except the double height window .  © Cris Beltran The efficient concept has been present during the project development . We have proposed a outdoor insulation, the best system to get the highest levels of insulation, and allows us to use the traditional white plaster .  © Cris Beltran The materials election has looked for to strengthen the integration with the context : White plaster, old brick jalousie, continuous concrete floors, tropical wood windows …  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Village in the Schoolyard / MUTOPIA Posted: 19 Nov 2016 06:00 PM PST  Courtesy of MUTOPIA
 Courtesy of MUTOPIA Village-in-the-Schoolyard is a transformation project of a private school with a twofold agenda: to improve the school's health profile, currently among the country's poorest, and to create a social meeting point across age and interest for the entire local community of Torup, a renowned Danish eco-village situated in the middle of the Halsnæs peninsula, a part of the Capital Region of Denmark.  Courtesy of MUTOPIA  Diagram  Diagram  Courtesy of MUTOPIA The 50% crowdfunded project has been completed with financial support from a number of foundations and Halsnæs Municipality, doubled by engagement from local businesses and community, and private contributions including pupils' donations. The project aims at supporting the growth strategy of the Halsnæs Municipality by increasing the attractiveness of the school premises, while in the same time strengthening the qualities of the school grounds as areas for social training, outdoor activities and public life generators.  Courtesy of MUTOPIA The school premises, consisting of a school courtyard in need of a new pavement and improved access to one of the buildings, along with a forecourt serving as a parking area, have been retrofitted to support their potential development as activity areas. The forecourt has been turned into a village square, while the courtyard has been turned into an outdoor classroom featuring a ramp staircase which doubles as scene to provide playful connections while supporting school related events and gatherings.  Floor Plan  Elevation  Elevation The former parking area in front of the school premises has been transformed into a public space consisting of a multipurpose sports field surrounded by activity hotspots shaped like gabled houses evocative of the homely appeal of village life. The gabled houses, interconnected by a continuous fence which doubles as a bench on both in- and outside, provide protection for errant balls, and create a village within the schoolyard.  Courtesy of MUTOPIA  Courtesy of MUTOPIA The village houses open their doors towards the village square, inviting everybody inside into oversized themed 'interiors' suited for organized learning and playing activities, and impulsive usage: climb up in grandma's cuckoo clock and jump down on the giant sofa! Welcome into Le Salon where you can try out the picture frame climbing wall! Join us at The Open House, where all the windows and doors are open to provide multiple in-and out routes! Improve your basketball throw skills at The Tree House. If tired, take a seat in The Grand Chair and watch the passers-by, or visit The Library, a temporary library and chill out hotspot which turns into a poetry reading area during the long summer evenings!  Courtesy of MUTOPIA New role-plays and social games emerge along with a wealth of associations and situations not unlike those of everyday life. This adds a new level of performativity to the central multipurpose sports field, while also enabling the co-existence of a wide variety of games and play activities. The emerging public space creates a strong connection between village and school: the school as an activity generator intensifies the 'pulse' of the village by adding a daily energy boost, which in turn contributes to strengthening the children's self-image as active and visible citizens.  Courtesy of MUTOPIA  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| UMASSIF/WITH Sanlitun Bakery in Beijing / B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio Posted: 19 Nov 2016 12:00 PM PST  © Ruijing Photo
 © Ruijing Photo From the architect. WITHWHEAT in Sanlitun locates beside the street in southern Taikoo Li. The design mission included the interior and façade. The façade is made of a full-height glass curtain wall. People can have a view of warm and natural interior design through this glass wall.  © Ruijing Photo The highlight of this design is a framework made from solid wood, which extends from ground to ceiling. To create complexity as well as keep a sense of rhythm, the vertical wooden stripes attached to the ceiling are different in length. A bread showcase is placed in the center of this timber framework, which breaks the holistic design of this full-height framework. This measurement aims to attract the view of customers to the showcase, which stressed the characteristic of WITHWHEAT.  © Ruijing Photo A pure concrete wall works with old flanks, which are spliced together into the shape of wheat. The image of wheat changes gradually from below to above, until it disappears. In order to create an uneven surface, the background wall behind counter is composed of old flanks with different thickness. As a consequence of using grey concrete bricks and stainless brass stripes, the ground is delicate and rich of changes.  No matter from what aspects, including layout, material, lighting and so on, the interior design of this bread store gives a feeling of warm, refreshing and pure.  © Ruijing Photo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2016 08:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Woods Bagot Woods Bagot has begun construction on the redevelopment of the former Funan DigitaLife Mall, into a mixed retail, office, and residential project that will expand its previous function as the definitive IT mall in Singapore by incorporating the tech experience throughout its entirety. The 887,000-square-foot project will be composed of a six-story retail, dining, and lifestyle podium, two six-story office towers, and one nine-story housing block. These programs will be connected vertically, and are designed to appeal to tech- and socially-savvy consumers interested in a creative environment.  Courtesy of Woods Bagot
 Courtesy of Woods Bagot In support of the "farm to table" movement, and to make dining an educational and fun process, the project will feature a 4,000-square-foot rooftop urban farm, where the public can learn more about the origins of their food, and "adopt" a plot to grow their own produce. Additionally, to support of Singapore's shift towards a car-light society, as well as to promote healthy living, Funan will be Singapore's first commercial building to allow cycling through the building, with multiple access points and gentle slopes to better accommodate cyclists and pedestrians. Cyclists will additionally be given access to bike shops and cafés, lockers, and showers inside the building, to better their biking experiences.  Courtesy of Woods Bagot  Courtesy of Woods Bagot Overall, "the design intent is to create a porous streetscape environment on the ground floor" between the existing streets, as well as to maintain and enhance the existing footbridge links across the streets at upper levels. Based on the idea of the root structure of the Tree of Life, the retail façade of the building is made up of a perforated, diagonally folded, and undulating panel design that "[wraps] and [exposes] program and circulation routes, to create and highlight dramatic entrances, balconies, and exterior F&B spaces, that breaks down the massing of the building to have a dialogue with the surrounding urban fabric at a human scale."  Courtesy of Woods Bagot The interior concept of the space is based on "Passion Clusters," in which retailers can showcase their designs in an experimental and innovation-driven space, to foster collaboration and community. News via Woods Bagot.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| TEN Arquitectos' New Mexican Museum in San Francisco Celebrates Diversity Posted: 19 Nov 2016 06:00 AM PST  Courtesy of TEN Arquitectos Earlier this year construction started on the new home for The Mexican Museum, designed by TEN Arquitectos. Located in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Cultural District, it will fill the first four floors of Millennium Partners’ 700,000 square foot luxury residential tower. The new museum will become a social, cultural and educational center for the promotion of Mexican and Mexican-American art and culture in San Francisco, California. "The project encourages social commitment and celebrates diversity. The museum is a plural space via a social bond with the community’s history and culture and urban management strategies based on diverse uses and social gatherings," states TEN Arquitectos. The museum plans to open its doors in the spring of 2019. See below for more details.  Courtesy of TEN Arquitectos  Courtesy of TEN Arquitectos In its new home, the museum will exhibit its permanent collection of more than 15,000 pieces and will be surrounded by a three-story artistic facade by artist Jan Hendrix. In addition, this new complex will have two double-height galleries, an amphitheater, an educational center, a restaurant, and a gift shop.  Courtesy of TEN Arquitectos  Courtesy of TEN Arquitectos Concrete columns and exposed beams are mixed with wood textures to make up the museum space. A permeable enclosure with openings allowing natural light defining the identity of the cultural center for the housing and exhibition of the 15 thousand objects in the museum’s collection.  Courtesy of TEN Arquitectos  Plan According to TEN Arquitectos, "the project will stimulate new principles of association and participation in neighborhoods and communities with dynamic and open qualities. Beyond the sense of belonging, the museum projects its essence to add to the creation of complex emerging systems, a result of the actions of residents, small organized groups, and interventions by private and governmental initiatives."  Courtesy of TEN Arquitectos  Isometric Projection News via: TEN Arquitectos.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Résidence Belcourt / Atelier Pierre Thibault Posted: 19 Nov 2016 05:00 AM PST  © Maxime Brouillet
 © Maxime Brouillet The Residence Belcourt is a typical Canadian house built in the 1970s. The clients wanted to improve their home's functionality and maximise natural light. The home's massing and original masonry walls were preserved. The interior separations were completely removed, creating an open-plan ground floor that encompasses the home's public areas.  © Maxime Brouillet  Plan 1  © Maxime Brouillet The space wraps around a central staircase made of baltic plywood. To make room for this amenity, service cores were pushed to the edges of the property. The ground floor was cleared by reserving the home's lateral walls for services and storage. The new layout fosters family living within interconnected spaces. At the back, an expansive terrace covered by a wooden pergola was added, which leads out to the existing swimming pool. The terrace provides exterior living spaces that extend to the garden and facilitate access to the intimate courtyard. At the top of the stairs, a small reading area and study space that is illuminated by two skylights was created. This floor contains three compact bedrooms, as well as a master bedroom with its own ensuite. A fifth bedroom located in the basement can welcome guests overnight. The home's interior finishes are mostly comprised of wooden floorboards and clean white surfaces. This minimal decor is complemented by understated modernist furniture pieces.  © Maxime Brouillet  Plan 2  © Maxime Brouillet Product Description. Baltic plywood, a high-grade wooden laminate that comprises more layers than typical plywood. The home's interior finishes are mostly comprised of clean white surfaces except for the central staircase and all horizontal work surfaces.  © Maxime Brouillet  © Maxime Brouillet  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| HOK and Hawkins\Brown Move Forward with Cardiff University Innovation Campus Posted: 19 Nov 2016 04:00 AM PST Cardiff City Council has just approved the third and latest phase of Cardiff University's £300 million Innovation Campus. Hawkins\Brown and HOK each designed one building for the project, which will bring together researchers, students, investors, and businesses to work on technological innovations and new enterprises that aim to drive economic growth. The project is the latest development in Cardiff University's vision of embedding innovation within the university's fabric and generating a self-sustaining cycle of economic growth for the community as a whole.  © Cardiff University
In keeping with the goal of innovation, the new campus will house facilities such as the Institute for Compound Semiconductors, a unique UK-based research center; the Cardiff Catalysis Institute to support Cardiff's leading chemical research; SPARK, the first social science research park in the world; and the Innovation Centre, a creative base for startups. The public areas will also include recreation space, alfresco dining, and exhibition and event space, while offices and labs will be available for lease.  © Cardiff University "In generating our design, we worked closely with Cardiff University to develop new models for the integration of industrial partnerships and collaboration," said Oliver Milton, partner at Hawkins\Brown. "This has resulted in a very clear design with interactive working spaces organized around a central oculus that connects the seven stories. Shared facilities include a TEDx-style event space and a fabrication lab."  © Cardiff University In addition to these 12,000–square meter buildings, the development includes a bridge that joins the Innovation Campus and the Cardiff Business School. Work on the site is projected to begin in early 2017. News via: Cardiff University  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2016 01:30 AM PST  Courtesy of Sean Lally Humanity is at a key moment in a larger story, one in which we are willfully manipulating both our global environments as well as our human bodies. The first is changing the makeup of the physical spaces we occupy and the second, the very body that perceives that space. At this intersection are the physical boundaries that define architectural space. Both our environments and our bodies are therefore open for design, and architecture has swerved in a new direction. Created in response to these changes is a new podcast, "Night White Skies" w/ Sean Lally: A podcast about architecture's future, as both earth's environment & our human bodies are open for design. The podcast is about conversations with designers, engineers, and writers on the periphery of the architecture discipline, engaging in these developments from multiple fronts. Though the lens of discussion is architecture, it is necessary to engage a diverse range of perspectives to get a better picture of the events currently unfolding. This includes philosophers, cultural anthropologists, policy makers, scientists as well as authors of science fiction. Each individual's work intersects this core topic, but from unique angles.  Courtesy of Sean Lally Climate and energy (harnessing, storing, deploying) and the human body (bioengineering, wearable technologies) are often seen as two distinct yet influential industries advancing new research, startup companies, and consumable products on what feels like a daily basis. But architecture is in a prime position to engage and influence this ongoing work because our discipline exists at their intersection - material manipulation and how one perceives those resultant physical boundaries. The architectural discipline of course does more than borrow technologies from outside industries or simply enforce policy developed beyond our field. The architect gives novel shapes to spaces, and tests organizational and spatial implications that each reflect and influence the cultural and technological tones of the day. The podcast looks to stimulate discussions not only within architecture but the general public as well in order to expand, inspire and spark the imagination - advancing the political and environmental significance of energy and bioengineering today. And though I'm sure it hasn't come across in the last 400 words, these conversations are also intended to be just a bit... fun... New episodes are available on NightWhiteSkies.com, Itunes & Soundcloud each Monday. Sean Lally is the founder of Weathers, and author of The Air from Other Planets, A Brief History of Architecture to Come.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tourism Development Tropical Center / José Luis López Siles & Francisco Moreno Martínez Posted: 19 Nov 2016 01:00 AM PST  © Javier Callejas Sevilla
 © Javier Callejas Sevilla From the architect. The proposal focuses on the idea of renouncing the "autonomous object" that every public building tends to adopt by inertia, looking for a project that responds to the heterogeneous urban environment where the diversity of its uses is already implanted without losing its vocation of a new urban milestone. For that, a series of volumes, vertical and horizontal, are proposed, connected with each other, which assume or yield the necessary role in each point. This fragmented volume generates a continuous interior public space, which begins with a large entrance square and continues with a sequence of covered outdoor spaces and open courtyards that gives to the project the degree of privacy or publicity suitable for each of its uses.  © Javier Callejas Sevilla  Plan 0  © Javier Callejas Sevilla In contrast to existing semi-industrial low-rise buildings lacking in interest, the building closes aligned to the rear road through a continuous and horizontal volume that increases its height as we approach the free space. In the front of the plot, the natural access area to the whole, have been projected two towers connected with the rest of the set through buildings-walkways. The most singular one, 30 meters high, rises above the nearest residential buildings as a new urban reference, where there have been located more tourist uses, the visitor reception center, a restaurant and a viewpoint on the roof where visitors can see the landscape of the region: Sierra Nevada, the towns near the coast, the river and the sea. There by the proposal responds to its vocation as a new urban landmark of the part of the city by the coast to become a new landscape reference on other nearby elements of high altitude of an industrial character.  © Javier Callejas Sevilla  © Javier Callejas Sevilla The complex consists of three buildings under a single volumetric element. The main one that includes the congress and cultural events centers , has a constructed area of 3.600 m2. The main multipurpose Room of 28.50 m x 15 m for Congresses and Scenic performances with capacity for 500 people, which incorporates two mobile platforms with removable chairs, to enable its transformation into a large exhibition space. In addition it has other room of intermediate capacity of support to the main room or for small events. These uses are complemented by the program of the main tower with the visitors' reception center on the access floor, the restaurant and the point view on the roof.  © Javier Callejas Sevilla  Detail  © Javier Callejas Sevilla The rest of the set is completed with the buildings destined to School of Hospitality and Center of Infantile Education, respectively.  © Javier Callejas Sevilla  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The House of Knowledge is a Gorgeous New School Above the Arctic Circle Posted: 19 Nov 2016 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Liljewall architects Gallivare, Sweden might be known for its reindeer, but it's gradually undergoing an urban transformation. Liljewall Architects in collaboration with MAF architects have created Kunskapshuset (House of Knowledge), a new school, for the archetypal "arctic city."  Courtesy of Liljewall architects  Courtesy of Liljewall architects
In an effort to reflect the surrounding environment, the school looks to the subarctic vegetation and site conditions. Through its varied heights, House of Knowledge respects and interacts with its neighboring buildings.  Courtesy of Liljewall architects Locally produced wood material mixes with Malmberget-mine concrete to form the foundation and floor structure of the school. The interior of the structure was created with laminated wood columns and wood beamed ceilings. In addition to a cafe and reception area, the central hub of the building is designated by a "social staircase," which leads to different classrooms and units. Stunning views of the well-known "Dundret" ski resort can be seen from the fifth-floor terraces.  Courtesy of Liljewall architects The school projected opening is fall of 2019. News via: Liljewall Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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