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- A+U 2016:11 Hermann Czech
- Tønder Townhall / SLETH architects
- Amsterdam Oersoep / RAMSA + Rijnboutt
- Shatura House / Le Atelier
- Harim Pet Food Factory & Visitor's Center / The Beck Group
- Lin Mao Sen / Ahead Concept
- Casa O / ARO ESTUDIO
- Video: Daniel Libeskind on the "Jungle" of New York City
- ZLA Building / Estudio BaBO
- Snøhetta-Designed Norwegian Banknotes to Go into Circulation in 2017
- Riveira Social Center / Carlos Seoane
- Studio Libeskind Reveals Plans for Holocaust Monument of Names in Amsterdam
- ZAC Bassins à Flot / Hamonic + Masson & Associés
- This Student Project Shows How Droneports Could Be the Train Stations of the 21st Century
- Graça Apartment / Fala Atelier
- 13 Stunning Inner Courtyards
- OMGEVING Wins Design Competition to Restore Riverfront in Vietnam
| Posted: 21 Dec 2016 08:00 PM PST  The November 2016 issue of a+u is a special issue dedicated to the Austrian architect Hermann Czech, who lives and works in Vienna, and was edited in cooperation with guest editor Professor Christian Kühn of the Technische Universität Wien. This issue explores the many facets of his architectural thought and practice through works that range from furniture design through to urban-scale infrastructure.  Feature: Hermann Czech Essay: Hermann Czech and the Disappearance of Architecture / Christian Kühn "Less" or "More" – Introduction
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 Irony
 The Existent
 Pluralism
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| Tønder Townhall / SLETH architects Posted: 21 Dec 2016 07:00 PM PST  © COAST
 © COAST From the architect. In 2013, SLETH won the open architectural competition for the extension of Tønder Townhall in Denmark and has since completed the realization of the building and the landscape project.  Site Plan The original building of Tønder Townhall was built in 1980-1981 and is one of the last realized buildings of the highly esteemed Danish architect Halldor Gunnløgsson. The original town hall has a distinct, heavy expression. It has relatively small windows and visually dominant postmodernism details. This architectural style was very typical in the 1980s, and is evident in many of Denmark's public buildings from the period.  © COAST  Axonometric  © COAST The proposal for the extension of the original Tønder town hall is based upon the juxtaposition of the historical town hall - a classical public office building with corridors and offices, reception and a central arrival hall – and an addition that brings in something new - a distinctly open and transparent public house. The new building opens up towards the town hall and creates a common space for its employees in an informal and open structure – a democratic and none-hierarchical plan. The addition submits itself to the existing town hall, but still has a specific expression – a glass building that meets the outdoors and is inviting in an informal manner. The concept for the proposal is a dialog between the brutality and heaviness of the original building and lightness and delicacy of the new building. The project is not creating two competing buildings, but two parts of the whole that works together and supplement each other.  © COAST  Floor Plan  © COAST Product Description. The new building is located in the transition between significant historic buildings of the town and the marshland landscape. The atmosphere of the historical city is brought into the town hall by using red brick as the material of the new courtyard and the ground floor surface of the building. The marshland landscape is marked in the curved shape of the new glass facade building, which underlines the landscape and the nearby river curves.  © COAST  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Amsterdam Oersoep / RAMSA + Rijnboutt Posted: 21 Dec 2016 06:00 PM PST  © Frank Hanswijk
 © Frank Hanswijk From the architect. Amsterdam Oersoep is part of Nowadays, a redevelopment project along the Nieuwendijk and Damrak in Amsterdam. Nowadays is designed by RAMSA in collaboration with Rijnboutt. Astists Arno Coenen, Iris Roskam and Hans van Bentem collaborated with the architects to create Amsterdam Oersoep as integral part of the architecture.  © Frank Hanswijk  © Frank Hanswijk  © Frank Hanswijk  © Frank Hanswijk With 'Amsterdam Oersoep' artist duo Arno & Iris and Hans van Bentem bring an ode to the canals of Amsterdam. Each object, from the ceiling to the floors, has symbolic references to the city of Amsterdam, its history and its future.  © Frank Hanswijk The artwork shows 450 m2 of glass mosaic with representations of everything that defines the unique character of Amsterdam. The floor is a made out of a traditional Italian Terrazzo with a pattern designed to resemble archeological excavations. The walls are made of handmade tiles, with 27 symbols applied in goldluster. In addition, immensely large gilded and engraved mirrors are installed displaying a tale of water, life and death. The lighting is provided by a total of seven chandeliers in three different styles: two large ones (named 'Rembrandt'), one middle size (the 'Vermeer'), and four smaller ones (named after 'Ferdinand Bol'). These unique chandeliers are made of recycled bicycle parts, such as gears, head lamps, and handlebars – a reference to the sediment found in the Amsterdam canals and the Dutch tradition of cycling. Furthermore, fourteen three-dimensional stained glass lamps are installed, inspired by classic portal lamps, still visible at the entrances of Amsterdam canal houses. And for those ready to get their bottle of water: all these crafts are combined by high tech technologies to mill the bronze fish fountain.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2016 02:00 PM PST  © Ilya Ivanov
 © Ilya Ivanov The house located in the 30 000 populated town in 150 km from Moscow. Private houses area in such places is highly diversified. There are absent any rules or limitations, one street can be place for houses build from trash and 3-storey height brick castle from 90-s. Surroundings full of "architecture without architects", everything is always in process: if you need new room you construct it, without any project and with material you have for the moment. Belongings are divided by different generations and woodcarving neighbour with their plastic luxury. How to work with this diversified and often revolting surroundings?  © Ilya Ivanov  Floor Plan  © Ilya Ivanov Should we make contraposition with order, excellence and proportion, pull out our object from the neighbour and enforce the diversity? We tried to find anotger way to answer this question, making the house from the environment and local techniques, from the "architectural garbage" we see driving to the town: big brick "palaces" from 90-s, wooden DIY-houses, industrial architecture, abandoned buildings.  © Ilya Ivanov  Axonometric  © Ilya Ivanov The square one-storey house was constructed in the basement, which client was made without any project be himself and only after decide to find an architect. One-storey square block divided for 3 parts to make the scale closer to environment. In the central "house" we placed a living room. The block which is closest to the entrance contain master-bedroom, hall and maintenance spaces. The block with kid's rooms situated deeply inside the plot. Ventilation and other maintenance we placed in the side blocks above the bedrooms. The living room has nearly 2-storey height to make you feel spatial experience  Section Product Description. We used brown brick OLFRY 1807 antik NF and grey brick FELDHAUS K764N. Grey brick differently laid in window niches. For niches it was sawn-off and layered by a special way - it was hard and diligent work. With this window niches we tried to create feeling of ruined house to make a link from the house to context. Partly, the fact that the brick has its holes was the reason for the way it was layered on.  © Ilya Ivanov  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Harim Pet Food Factory & Visitor's Center / The Beck Group Posted: 21 Dec 2016 12:00 PM PST  © Sunghoon Yum
 © Sunghoon Yum From the architect. Harim Group has built a new pet food factory and visitor's center totaling 171,000 SF (15,900 M2 ) which includes a total automated clean factory, Happy Dance Studio, offices, conference rooms, cafeteria, display & store space, auditorium, and security building on a new property in Gongju, South Korea. It is the most anticipated clean, sustainable and automated pet food factory in South Korea in recent years. This facility will provide much-needed pet food manufacturing space and is expected to attract pet owners to see the clean facility and to experience how pet food is made for their beloved dogs or cats.  © Sunghoon Yum To attract visitors, Beck created a "where is my food" area where dogs and cats and their owners can view the food manufacturing process inside the factory. Visitors with dogs or cats can also enjoy the pet friendly park outside the cafeteria and pet store and enjoy the natural light at the pet friendly café located next to the courtyard.  © Sunghoon Yum  Section  © Sunghoon Yum Product Description. Clean and contemporary materials like ACM panel, Polycarbonate Panel, Low-E Curtain wall, and exposed concrete blends in so well with each other and the subtly and naturally blended textures make two gigantic fiberglass pet sculptures (that are waiting for their food on top of the roof on the both sides) to stand out more and attract attention from people who drive on a highway passing by the factory.  © Sunghoon Yum  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2016 11:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Ahead Concept
 Courtesy of Ahead Concept From the architect. Deconstruction. Culture. The traditional tea ceremony is used from concept and vision to design, structure and atmosphere, creating a beautiful and delicate presentation. The perspective along the ceiling border to the pillar structure conveys dynamic interaction. The large wooden plaque in the hall implies Eastern Heritage and thus extends the continuity of cultural connotation.  Courtesy of Ahead Concept Prologue. Arts and crafts. Listed in a symmetrical order, the value principal is derived from a metaphor for the spatial texture of oriental residence. A return to natural convergence is subtly weaved into the ceiling line for a sense of relaxation and release. The materials are reflected with an ecological perspective, integrating old concepts with new to generate a sense of freedom and coexistence with the urban environment.  Courtesy of Ahead Concept  Plan  Courtesy of Ahead Concept Contemplation. Colorful rhythm Peacock blue, lake green, and mustard yellow saturation, fusion lines and staggered surface relationship, and a background with subtle oriental heritage all extend the continuity of space and connotation. The interpretation of the contemplation of environmental heritage blends old and new concepts and matches them to the pattern of ritualistic attempt. In the process of the interactions between the products and consumers, human implications are highlighted. Aesthetic implications are used to show functions, routes and displays, restoring the original entrepreneurial spirit.  Courtesy of Ahead Concept  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2016 09:00 AM PST  © Lorena Darquea
 © Lorena Darquea Casa O is a residential project located in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, designed with the objective of using the total permitted area of construction. Formally and functionally is composed of two modules differentiated by its material properties.  © Lorena Darquea The dark ground floor module houses the public areas of the house, giving access to it through a wooden hallway, which unifies the pedestrian and parking entrance and whose height receives the visitor in an intimate environment. Once this first contact with the dwelling is approached, the main door opens to a double height space, illuminated by a window to the east and in which the entrance hall focuses the visual perspective towards the olive tree in the backyard.  © Lorena Darquea This is a unique space, which openly gives way to the dining room-kitchen, arranged in such a way that it becomes a single space of coexistence and opens completely to the patio located in the back easement of the house.  Ground Floor Plan The upper floor, materially conceived in brick, houses the private area and is composed of three rooms.  First Floor Plan The main room, located to the south, overlooks the Club House of the planned community, is reached through a corridor that visually communicates the public and private areas through the double height entrance and through the window to the east frames the views to the Flamboyant tree located outside.  © Lorena Darquea On the opposite side, the corridor ends with a small hall covered in tzalam wood, which serves to give access to the two secondary rooms to the north. The three bedrooms have their own bathroom and take advantage of the north-south orientation of the home to give natural lighting and ventilation to them.  © Lorena Darquea  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Video: Daniel Libeskind on the "Jungle" of New York City Posted: 21 Dec 2016 08:00 AM PST
In this video from the Louisiana Channel, Daniel Libeskind talks about the chaotic beauty of and his love for New York City. Born in Poland, at the age of 13 Libeskind immigrated to New York, where he witnessed both the building and the collapse of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. Intimate with the site, Libeskind was later tasked with designing the masterplan for the World Trade Center's reconstruction. Check out the video to hear the architect discuss the tolerance, complexities and fascination of his adopted home. Via Louisiana Channel. Daniel Libeskind on Immigration, New York City, and 'the State of the World'  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2016 07:00 AM PST  © Javier Agustín Rojas
 © Javier Agustín Rojas This Project is located between two blank walls in Colegiales, a neighbourhood of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The request consists in 8 apartments. This particular lot presents the building code R2B1, and is located in an area characterized by a low residential density and a distinguished neighbourhood character.  Axonometric To respect the urban profile of the immediate context, we decided to give space in prediction of the growth of an existing linden tree on the sidewalk, right in front of the building. To do so, me moved the main facade two meters back from the municipal line, generating a private access atrium, extending the public space into the private acces of the building.  © Javier Agustín Rojas The housing volumes have been lifted to leave the ground floor free for the access hall, common spaces and parking lot. Starting from the first floor the building is structured in two blocks separated by a central courtyard. On one side of this outer space are the circulations, both the vertical (elevator and staircase) and the common horizontal walkway to access each apartment.  © Javier Agustín Rojas  Floor Plans  © Javier Agustín Rojas The dimensions of the central patio ensure the correct illumination of the units and the necessary privacy between them as well. It’s in this articulation of the voids that the rereading of the code allows interesting resources at the spatial level: lateral galleries are offered through the constructed volumes, avoiding the tipical façade/front balconys. This allows to enlarge the expansions and to generate a new third interior facade that guarantees an optimal illumination and enlarges visually and environmentally the space of the living-room. It also refers, at the typological level, to the side patios against existing and defining walls of the "casa-chorizo", very common in the neighbourhood.  © Javier Agustín Rojas The building consists of 8 Apartments that are distributed by typology in the two main volumes, one that gives to the front that contains a two-roomed apartment each floor, and the one in the back has three-roomed apartment instead. All the houses are articulated in the same way: bedrooms and bathrooms on one side, on the other one, an open area with living / dining room and kitchen and finally the expansion through outer terraces, that function as the exterior half-covered expansion of the living areas. This expansion generates a greater visual amplitude, improves the in–out relation and provides greater lighting and natural ventilation.  © Javier Agustín Rojas  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Snøhetta-Designed Norwegian Banknotes to Go into Circulation in 2017 Posted: 21 Dec 2016 06:00 AM PST  Back of the 100-krone note. Image Courtesy of Snøhetta In 2014, Snøhetta was announced as one of two winners in a competition to design new banknotes for the Norwegian Bank. Now, after 2 years of development, the first bills have been produced and are nearly ready to begin full circulation. To coincide with the occasion, Norges Bank has released a series of videos explaining the design and production process. Check them out below.  Courtesy of Snøhetta The new notes follow the chosen theme of "The Sea", with front sides featuring realistic depictions on nautical scenes conceived by graphic design studio Metric Design and Terje Tønnessen, and backsides displaying the pixelated motifs created by Snøhetta. "Titled 'The beauty of boundaries', the design celebrates the country's coast as a fundamental element of its identity, heritage, and industries. The cubical pattern constructs the coast, the horizon, and the motive; just as humans construct our societies on the coast," explain the architects in a press release.  Front of the 100-krone note. Image © The Metric System The new currency will rolled out in several stages, beginning with the 100- and 200-krone notes on May 30, 2017. The 50- and 500- krone notes will follow approximately one year later, with the 1000-krone note to be issued last, in autumn 2019. Given the complex production process, these dates are subject to potential delays. Learn more about the design of the banknotes in this four part series produced by Norges Bank, featuring interviews with Snøhetta designers Henrik Haugan and Moa Nordahl (in part 3): Part 1: Why do we need new banknotes? (3 min) Part 2: Why was "The Sea" chosen as the theme for the new banknotes? (6 min) Part 3: What's behind the choice of motifs for the new banknotes? (8 min) Part 4: The long road from design proposals to actual banknotes (10 min) You can learn more about the new bills and the rollout schedule, here. News via Snøhetta, Norges Bank. Snøhetta Designs New Banknotes for Norway  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Riveira Social Center / Carlos Seoane Posted: 21 Dec 2016 05:00 AM PST  © Héctor Santos
 © Héctor Santos THE LOCUS The project of the Riveira Social Centre is situated in a plot of land in the Riveira County as part of the rural core of Oleiros District. It is an area characterized by the rural features of the buildings that surround it in a landscape where the granite element predominates. In reality, that is also a zone, where for centuries the construction was done by the know-how of many generations who found their means of subsistence in the territory and who recognized the terrain as their first identity. Thus, the first reference of the project has to do with that old aspect of a built landscape.  © Héctor Santos THE PUBLIC SPACE The definition of the public space is the point of departure in terms of the project’s strategy. The outside area which the building encompasses features the same relevance in the proposal as the construction itself.  © Héctor Santos The project emphasizes on trying to achieve something more than just another built object and is concerned primarily with generating a public space which serves to host various types of social events through the articulation of its volumes. That public dimension gives especial importance to a rural environment where the public is limited almost solely to the nature of the roads around and their intersections.  © Héctor Santos For the sake of strategy the project fragments the plan in two buildings so to establish a certain tension and create a public space between them.  © Héctor Santos THE VERSATILITY The project aims to simultaneously create a building which will be able to host different events as well as be transformed during the time.  Isometric  Detail The smaller building is to be allocated for office space for various neighborhood associations, whereas the bigger one, located on the northern edge of the land plot is to be used as a divisible multipurpose location. Sliding panels shall manage to turn the latter into smaller areas, and will be able to function as exhibition halls, an auditorium for conferences in addition to classrooms of different sizes according to the various activities.  © Héctor Santos Within the understanding of a variable-function building whenever needed, all furniture has been designed to be easily stored in stacks. Therefore, it will be easy to adapt the social building to different uses such as conferences, classrooms, workshops and exhibitions. Therefore, the basic structure of the spaces will not have to be altered.  © Héctor Santos Ultimately, we have tried to achieve a respectful building towards the surroundings, versatile in its uses and capable of generating a public space where public areas for social interaction are scarce.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Studio Libeskind Reveals Plans for Holocaust Monument of Names in Amsterdam Posted: 21 Dec 2016 04:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Studio Libeskind Studio Libeskind and the Dutch Auschwitz Committee have revealed plans for the Holocaust Monument of Names, to be located in the heart of Amsterdam's Jewish Cultural District. Incorporating the letters of the Hebrew word לזכר (meaning "In Memory of"), the memorial will be the first to memorialize the names of all 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust.  Courtesy of Studio Libeskind "The Dutch lost the largest percentage of their Jewish population in the Holocaust. The Holocaust Monument of Names, once realized, will be the first Holocaust memorial to commemorate all of the names of the Dutch victims and the first of its kind in Amsterdam," said architect Daniel Libeskind. "My personal connection as a child of Holocaust survivors has made it increasingly important to be a part of this significant project. I hope it will become a place for contemplation, reflection, and hope for the people of The Netherlands and beyond."  Courtesy of Studio Libeskind The new memorial will be located along the Weesperstraat, adjacent to the Hermitage Museum and within close proximity to important Jewish cultural institutions including the Jewish Historical Museum and the Portuguese Synagogue. Encompassing an 1,550 square meter (16,680 square foot) area, the monument will be composed of four hovering mirror-finished volumes, supported from below by two meter high brick walls carrying the message of Remembrance. The walls will be constructed of 102,000 bricks, each inscribed with the name of a victim, and an additional 1,000 blank bricks that memorialize the unknown victims.  Courtesy of Studio Libeskind The contrast between the materiality of the brick (a vernacular material of Amsterdam and the Netherlands) and the reflective, geometric forms references the connection between the city's past and present. Between the two materials, a narrow void will create the illusion that the steel letters are hovering, representing the interruption of history and culture of the Dutch people.  Courtesy of Studio Libeskind Throughout the site, simple concrete blocks will provide resting places for contemplation and reflection. On the ground, light-finished concrete will indicate the path through the structure, while around the memorial, geometrical construction lines forming of the star of David will be inscribed into a stabilized crushed stone surface. After sunset, the monument will be lit to ensure for reading of the names in darkness, as well as give the structure a visible presence at all hours.  Courtesy of Studio Libeskind "For the bereaved, it is of immense value to have a place where they can remember their relatives. To ensure that the names of Holocaust victims do not vanish from memory. Moreover, the memorial acts as a link between past, present, and especially future. Remembering is not just for those who can recall the war. It is also for those who did not live through it. For the children of those who experienced it, for their grandchildren, and for all the generations that follow. The memorial raises historical awareness of where wars can lead, and encourages us to reflect on and learn from the Second World War", says Jaques Grishaver, chairman of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee.  Courtesy of Studio Libeskind The Dutch Auschwitz Committee is currently underway with a fundraising campaign for the memorial, and hope to break ground on the project in early 2018. You can learn more about the memorial, here. News via Studio Libeskind. Daniel Libeskind Reflects On Designing Buildings With 'Emotional Weight'  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ZAC Bassins à Flot / Hamonic + Masson & Associés Posted: 21 Dec 2016 03:00 AM PST  © Takuji Shimmura
 © Takuji Shimmura From the architect. The Bassins à flots are a 162 ha niche site, a high-quality port and manufacturing district for which Bordeaux City Council has development plans. Nicolas Michelin's instructions are to create a link between the site and the horizon and to build on the metaphor of the factory, warehouses and the navy.  © Takuji Shimmura Our project is very industrial in that it is solid, compact and metal-clad. There is the occasional raised element, one 9-storey building jutting up like a periscope. That is what the project is all about: putting together a serene skyline and creating an urban form similar to a village at ground level, with footpaths to maintain a feeling of wilderness.  Diagrams Situated in the north of Bordeaux between the Garonne and the Bordeaux Lake, the Bassins à flot site is an exceptional territory, mainly because of its strong industrial history. "Urban Dock" is a major element of this site and offers its habitants a quality of life. The building synthesises the city's different aspirations, and forms a tangible link between public space and this particular lot's private space.  © Takuji Shimmura "Urban Dock"'s contemporary architectural style is reflected in its harmonious sobriety. Located in a port zone, the project has a monolithic element running throughout it that echoes the spirit of the docks. The new construction consequently offers numerous openings on to the neighbouring basins and bodies of water. The general volumetry, the choice of materials and colours also contribute to the creation of a maritime feeling. The different levels (3 storeys, 5 storeys and 9 storeys) play around with scales and privilege several orientations and multiple points of view.  © Takuji Shimmura  First Floor Plan  © Atelier Positif The building is clad in metal, which is occasionally perforated in order to allow loggias to appear whilst also highlighting the articulation of projections and recesses, creating intriguing vertical patterns. The cladding also produces an iridescent 'double skin' with different transparencies and a shell-like effect, with a shimmering exterior that provides a contrast to the white loggias located at the interior of the block.  © Takuji Shimmura  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| This Student Project Shows How Droneports Could Be the Train Stations of the 21st Century Posted: 21 Dec 2016 01:30 AM PST  Outdoor View. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández New typologies in architecture generally arise in two ways. The first is through a reevaluation of existing typologies that cater to familiar programs such as housing, schools, or healthcare. This is done in an effort to improve on the norm and to challenge accepted architectural notions, as seen for example, in the work of Moshe Safdie and OMA. The other is when an entirely new program, site condition, or client emerges and forces the invention of a new typology simply through their design requirements. For his Master's degree project at the University of Alcalá in Spain, Saúl Ajuria Fernández has envisioned the essential civic building of the future: the Urban Droneport. Located in what Ajuria has identified as a "disused urban vacuum" in Madrid, Spain, the Urban Droneport "allows and optimizes the transport of goods with Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems in urban areas" - in other words, drone-delivered packages.  Outdoor View. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández The project is exciting for many reasons, with Ajuria hoping that by designing for something that isn't completely here yet, it shows how architecture can be "an engine of development and innovation." Also exciting, for architects at least, is the fact that it provides a glimpse into what could be an entirely new typology of building.  South Node of M30 Road, Madrid. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández The idea of designing for something completely new is engaging as there are few or no precedents, presenting an entire section of the profession as a blank slate. Of course, this also comes with the responsibility of having to set the stage for future developments in a single design. It is unavoidable that simply through chronology, the first precedent will likely have a disproportionate amount of influence on the future of its typology.  Indoor View. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández With drones becoming more affordable and more precise, their widespread use in cities is becoming increasingly realistic. Ajuria's proposal for a drone delivery center is a serious example of an urban opportunity, and may just provide the seed for the development of a new typology.  Elevation. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández While it might currently be tricky to envision drones flying alongside pigeons, this sort of architectural accommodation for new technology has been seen before. Perhaps one of the most universal examples of this is the train station. Though commonplace now, in the 19th century the challenge of designing a building that catered for the stopping and starting of trains, alongside passenger needs, was something that had never been approached before.  Section. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández Like a droneport, train stations are a place of interaction between the mechanical (the train or drone) and the human. In train stations, raised platforms have become common so that passengers no longer need to climb up to the train, assisting a human-mechanical interaction through design. In the Urban Droneport project, as the building's location is noisy and polluted, the drone hangars form the outer layer of the building. The central space becomes the focus of human habitation, cushioned from the unwanted conditions outside, a spatial solution working in drone-human symbiosis.  Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández The placement of a train station is also important, needing careful consideration of its relationship with a city's existing rail, road and human networks. Ajuria also took the droneport location seriously, placing it in Madrid's South Node, a currently unused urban site connecting directly to the highway. Not only does this allow for fast connection with the transit centers of delivery companies - with drones able to use the arteries of highways just as wheeled vehicles do - it also allows the project to be easily adapted to other highway locations.  New Infrastructure Network. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández While the train station typology arose out of necessity, it also came to heighten the experience of travel - black and white photos of light pouring in to Grand Central Station are perhaps the most cinematic example of this. The proportion, color, and care that Ajuria has put into his Urban Droneport's design also shows this sentiment of celebrating the building's program.  Process Axonometric. Image Courtesy of Saúl Ajuria Fernández However, there is one drastic difference between trains and drones: while Grand Central Station does celebrate the commute, it also hides the trains underground. Other stations tend to eject their trains into walled-off cuttings or embankments. Drones however, would not be hidden and separated from the city, but instead occupy the airspace above and around us. This means that architects' response to the promise of "unprecedented multidimensional urban space" and the need for "buildings that work to facilitate drone navigation and communication" could lead to a new typology entirely--potentially even in ways more definitive and integrated than train stations did in the past.
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| Graça Apartment / Fala Atelier Posted: 21 Dec 2016 01:00 AM PST  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
 © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG From the architect. The apartment lies in an unremarkable building in Lisbon. Its obsolete fragmented typology presented a series of small rooms, some devoid of natural light, and an impractical exterior bathroom. The intervention aimed to erase these faults and to clarify the use of the available surface: a gently curved wall was extended from façade to façade, defining the limit between a vast common space and the different private rooms.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The long main space serves as living but also as dining and kitchen area; it is a living gallery rather than a living room. Its curved wall is punctuated by hand-painted doors in different shades of blue, hanging detached from the floor like a set of monochrome paintings. There is a carefully calibrated clash between the lightness of the curve and the rigidity of its elevation.  Collage  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  Collage  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The materials and orientations of the floors underline the functional distinction through the apartment. A small roof area was reclaimed behind the back façade: the new courtyard-like space provides an exterior addition to the living room, natural but unexpected for an apartment on a second storey.  Collage  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2016 12:00 AM PST  We would like to take a second to focus on the wonderful, yet often overlooked, inner courtyard. The inner courtyard is essentially a "contained outside space" made up of transparent walls, and a well thought-out drainage system is a must. Other elements such as furnishings, decks, vegetation, stairs, water are then added, complicating the space created. The inner courtyard also plays a role in the building's layout; in most cases it functions as the central point from which the other rooms and functions of the project are organized, giving them air and light when the façade openings are not enough. Here is our selection of 13 stunning inner courtyards of houses and buildings that we have previously published on our site.  Detalle: Casa Quinta Do Carvalheiro / GSMM Architetti  Cortes: Casa Patio / Undurraga Devés Arquitectos + House Quinta Do Carvalheiro / GSMM Architetti  Casa Quinta Do Carvalheiro / GSMM Architetti . Image © FS + SG  Casa W / 01Arq . Image © Mauricio Fuertes + Residence In Legrena / Thymio Papayannis and Associates  Residencia en Legrena / Thymio Papayannis and Associates . Image © Charalampos Louizidis + Chilean House / Smiljan Radic  Casa Chilena 1 y 2 / Smiljan Radic . Image © Gonzalo Puga + Evangelical Temple in Terrassa / OAB  Templo Evangelico en Terrassa / OAB . Image © Alejo Bagué  The Wall House / FARM . Image © Bryan van der Beek & Edward Hendricks + Spa Querétaro / Ambrosi I Etchegaray  Spa Querétaro / Ambrosi I Etchegaray . Image © Luis Gordoa + Casa SL / Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos  Casa SL / Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos . Image Courtesy of Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos + Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse / Harmony World Consulting & Design  Casa del Té de Bambú / Harmony World Consulting & Design . Image © T+E  Casa PR / Bach Arquitectes . Image © Lluís Casals + Roku Museum / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP  Museo Roku / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP . Image © Masumi Kawamura + Casa in Palmela / Pedro Rogado + Catarina Almada  Casa en Palmela / Pedro Rogado + Catarina Almada . Image © Thorsten Humpel + Joanopolis House / Una Arquitetos  Casa en Joanopolis / Una Arquitetos . Image © Bebete Viégas Find more inspiration by visiting our Pinterest boards, and remember you can find all the latest materials by checking out our Product Catalog.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| OMGEVING Wins Design Competition to Restore Riverfront in Vietnam Posted: 20 Dec 2016 10:00 PM PST  Courtesy of OMGEVING 'Green corridor,' 'green connections,' and a 'green program' are coming to Vietnam's third largest city, Da Nang. Antwerp-based design company OMGEVING was awarded a joint first place prize — out of 39 applicants —for the design competition for Da Nang's Han Riverfront master plan that has an estimated cost of 85 million euros.  Courtesy of OMGEVING
 Courtesy of OMGEVING The Han river runs the length of the rapidly growing city of Da Nang. Its riverfront's new master plan will stay on par with the developments in the area — while also regenerating the masterplan. In addition to a floating market place, a city park, and an urban sports park, four buildings will be employed: an opera building, a water hub building, and a redesigned market hall and concert hall.  Courtesy of OMGEVING A 2.2-hectare park will be situated adjacent to the river, 3,000 new trees will create a design unity at the scale of the city as a whole. Motorbike and pedestrian bridges will sustain both riverbank parks to prosper. News Via: OMGEVING  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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