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- Het Gielsbos / Dierendonckblancke Architects
- David Adjaye to be Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
- Polak Building / Paul de Ruiter Architects
- Levent House / COA Mimarlık
- Skilpod #150 Zero Energy / Skilpod + UAU Collectiv
- Lighted Zebra Crossing is Lighting the Way to Safer Streets
- Container / Rodrigo Kirck Arquitetura
- Gottlieb Paludan Architects Win Pavilion Competition in Ringsted Square Denmark
- “Re-Constructivist Architecture” Exhibition Explores the Lost Art of Architectural Language
- Docklands / Marcel Lok Architect
- Piarena Designs Sail-Inspired Congress Hall Spanning Over Russian River
- Casa San Polo / Massimo Galeotti Architetto
| Het Gielsbos / Dierendonckblancke Architects Posted: 01 Jan 2017 09:00 PM PST  © Filip Dujardin
 © Filip Dujardin From the architect. Het Gielsbos is an existing care facility for people with severe mental disabilities, located on large, green, public domain within the municipality of Gierle. This project includes the design of a masterplan to replace the outdated pavilions that houses the residents and to design seven new homes.  Dwellings Site Plan Previously, the site was cut in half by a central axis, from which a network of smaller roads branched out without any clear hierarchy. All pavilions were situated in the northern half of the site.  © Filip Dujardin The master plan suggests making better use of the whole domain by replacing this central axis by a loop road that would connect six new residential clusters, located over the whole site, with the existing administrative and sports facilities.  © Filip Dujardin The new residential clusters consist of five interconnected pavilions or 'homes', situated on both sides of the loop road. When the road passes through a cluster, it widens and becomes a public courtyard for the pavilions around it. All activity on the courtyard is visible from the living rooms of each home: the courtyard becomes a lively communal and logistic space. Each home functions more or less independently, but is connected with the adjacent ones to facilitate internal logistics for care workers.  Section Dwelling Type 1  Section Dwelling Type 2 The homes each consist of five volumes with pitched roofs, built around a small central patio. The play of volumes, the configuration of the homes around a central courtyard and the small-size residential clusters help create the perception of a real residential environment, rather than a care institution.  © Filip Dujardin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| David Adjaye to be Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II Posted: 01 Jan 2017 08:00 PM PST  Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Image © Darren Bradley David Adjaye OBE, principal of Adjaye Associates, will be Knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services to architecture at an investiture in 2017. The Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood at St. James's Palace, who administer the Knight Batchelor awards that will be bestowed upon the architect, described Adjaye as "one of the leading architects of his generation and a global cultural ambassador for the UK." Edgar Allies and Graham Morrison, co-founders of British practice Allies & Morrison, have been announced as Officers of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Years Honours List.  Sir David Frank Adjaye OBE. Image Courtesy of Adjaye Associates In September of this year Adjaye celebrated his 50th birthday and, at the same time, completed the largest project in his career to date: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History & Culture on Washington D.C.'s National Mall. The practice also won the competition to design Latvia's first Museum of Contemporary Art and were announced as the master plan architects for the major San Francisco Shipyard redevelopment. Most recently, the firm was shortlisted to design the UK's National Holocaust Memorial.
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| Polak Building / Paul de Ruiter Architects Posted: 01 Jan 2017 07:00 PM PST  © Tim Van de Velde
 © Tim Van de Velde From the architect. The changing educational landscape calls for a learning environment that is continually linked to society and the world around it. That was also the brief from Erasmus University Rotterdam. They approached Paul de Ruiter Architects to design both the interior and exterior of the new university building. This was the perfect opportunity for us to design a fully integrated and sustainable building, in which the pleasant study environment indoors is linked to campus life outside.  © Tim Van de Velde Students and visitors are free to walk from the adjacent plaza straight into the atrium of the building. In this lively part of the building, there are opportunities to visit the hairdresser, go shopping or share experiences and ideas with each other in one of the cafés. A large platform staircase then leads to the heart of the atrium on the first floor, where the teaching building begins.  © Tim Van de Velde From commotion to calm  © Tim Van de Velde From floor to seating with a lot of wood  © Tim Van de Velde Working with sunlight  Section A  Section B The wind comes from all directions  © Tim Van de Velde Natural where possible, mechanical where necessary  © Tim Van de Velde Product Description. Schüco provided the aluminium multidisciplinary façade of Polak Building. Schüco created a slender aluminium profiling, whilst maintaining both the function of the aluminium blinds to protect the glass against direct sunlight and the function of the blinds to naturally ventilate the building.  © Tim Van de Velde  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 01 Jan 2017 06:00 PM PST  © Alt Kat Photography
 © Alt Kat Photography We designed Levent apartment for a newly married couple. The most important issue for us, was to understand the design taste, need, lifestyle, timetable and activities of the couple together as well as by person. After we summerized the couple well, we gave importance to match these datas with our interior design, products and materials to create spaces that truly fits them.  Floor Plan When the project came to us, the apartment looked super small with many doors and a corridor which also caused the bathroom, kitchen and bedroom have a dark atmosphere.  © Alt Kat Photography The building was really old so we decided to change all the asset electricity and drain. We destroyed some walls down especially from the corridor to take the daylight into the whole house and removed all the doors except the main bedroom and bathroom. To show the spaces larger we used white in the whole house as main color and supported it with some specific colors in each room. Blue was used in the living room to add peace, yellow and black was added at the office area to add dinamizm, mint green was used at the bedroom to create a relaxing space. The bathroom was mainly designed in white from the walls to the furniture to look super clean and tidy. We always tend to give a little independence to the customer by providing some space for them to personalize, redesign whenever they need. The tv unit was designed this way. Only the buttom cabinets and the vertical white structures are fixed, neither the racks nor the boxes aren't. By this design, the customer can arrange the whole unit every time, in many ways. Also the wood panel with holes can provide various uses by plugging the wood pieces in.  © Alt Kat Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Skilpod #150 Zero Energy / Skilpod + UAU Collectiv Posted: 01 Jan 2017 12:00 PM PST  © Geert Van Hertum
 © Geert Van Hertum From the architect. Skilpod, founded in 2013, is a fast growing prefab construction company located in Geel, Belgium, specialized in the production of 3D prefab houses in CLT(Cross Laminated Timber).  © Geert Van Hertum Skilpod offers solutions for all types of living possibilities ranging from houses of 30m² up to 150m². The focus is on small size houses (+- 50m² in one module) for social housing or group living projects. Main focus groups are single parent families, older people and first time renters/buyers. Modules can be connected or stacked on top off each other to form apartment blocks.  © Geert Van Hertum  © Geert Van Hertum The #150 – zero energy Skilpod is one of the larger models Skilpod produces. The design is done by UAU Collectiv who composed the complete Skilpod style. It is completely build up in the factories in Geel, Belgium and transported in 3 pieces to it's final location.  © Geert Van Hertum Skilpod installed the house about 3 months after receiving the building permit. The actual building period took about 4 weeks to complete the house.  First Floor Plan Skilpod modules are insulated up to passive standards with a special new system from Rockwool, called Redair (high density Rockwool), especially designed for CLT. Skilpod used an open and ventilated façade system with FSC labeled Padouk (tropical hardwood), a very durable material said to last longer than stone facades.  © Geert Van Hertum The massive wood construction is ideal to keep the warmth out in summer, the rockwool to keep the warmth in, in winter.  © Geert Van Hertum The foundations/cellar are made from concrete. They started foundation work at the same time as they started producing the modules, everything started simultaneously and thus optimizing production times.  © Geert Van Hertum The backside of the house is completely faced south, so in order to keep the summer sun out they used a special new type of glass with solar filter to keep the sun out, but not the light (AGC's Stopray). This way sunscreens where not necessary.  © Geert Van Hertum The house is heated with floor heating with an air to water electrical heat pump from Mitsubishi (Ecodan) which also covers hot water. The ventilation system is also from Mitsubishi (Lossnay), and has a heat recovery system (system D). Due to high airtightness and insulation values the house could have been heated with an electrical heater of about 1 kw. In combination with solar panels the house will be energy neutral.  © Geert Van Hertum Because the living area is about 3m higher than the street level the inhabitants have a great view on the ranch, fields and forest across the plot, but also view from the street is blocked due to fact that the living area is on the first floor. In the back the garden is at the same level as the interior floor.  Section  Section The garden is also completed with large prefab concrete elements in the same philosophy as the house was build, with special attention to fast installation and low maintenance.  © Geert Van Hertum One of the main features of the interior are the curtains, which run completely around the living area. When opened, a large living space is created with wide views on the garden and area around the house, but when closed they are separating living/dining/playing room in different cozy areas. For instance, when the children make a mess in the playing room they just close the curtains and the mess is gone for the evening…  © Geert Van Hertum Product Description: The structure of the modules is completely made of CLT or Cross Laminated Timber. The largest boards that were used have dimensions of 12m by 4m and 14cm in thickness. They were transported from Germany with police escort. We used different types of thickness in order off length of the span of the roof, walls and floor, ranging from 100mm (5 layers) to 140mm (7 layers) The main reasons to use CLT are the following:
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| Lighted Zebra Crossing is Lighting the Way to Safer Streets Posted: 01 Jan 2017 08:00 AM PST Pedestrians, the most vulnerable users of road space, will now be more visible to drivers in the Netherlands with the inauguration of a new luminous pedestrian crossing this past November in Brummen, west of Amsterdam. Designed by the Dutch firm Lighted Zebra Crossing, and installed free of charge for the municipality, this crossing makes pedestrians more visible at night or during bad weather. Each of the lines has two plates of lights that at night remain illuminated at all times and not only when there are people on them.
The placement of the lights assures less distraction to the motorist than light pillars as it helps drivers keep their visual attention on the road. Trial tests were performed for 12 months, however the idea was born years ago with the intention of making the roads safer for pedestrians. According to company director Henk Peters, the crossings that should be given priority for potential installation are the so-called "risk zones" that correspond to schools, hospitals, and sectors with a large population of elderly people. The design of the crossing is intended for two types of roadways, using either pavers or asphalt. In the case of the first, the lights are protected by a steel structure, while in the second, they can be installed directly on the road surface. News via: Lighted Zebra Crossing  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Container / Rodrigo Kirck Arquitetura Posted: 01 Jan 2017 05:00 AM PST  © Alexandre Zelinski
 © Alexandre Zelinski The project Container, located in the port city of Itajaí (SC) aims to intervene on a conceptual model, interact with sustainability issues, propose an industrialized modular construction and at the same time make possible, through architecture and creativity, the approximation with the Nature and art.  © Alexandre Zelinski The project has two monolithic warehouse volumes, each using two overlapping containers, by a zenith opening system that "distances" the volumes and houses the vertical circulations. This system is designed to reduce the use of artificial lighting. On the containers are installed two large garden roofs that fulfill several functions: reduce the impact of solar radiation, capture rainwater for reuse and be a reservoir of rainwater, reducing the impact on the public collection system. They also propose to neighbors as an "urban gentleness", bringing colors and visual comfort to the residents of the neighboring buildings.  Section Container is a laboratory, so to speak. In this space full of meanings, were shared memories with a team of architects and add experiences with other creative professionals in design, photography and art through a Coworking. The result of this account is a true multiplication of inspirations translated into projects. Everything in the Container has a raison d'être, from the logo that mentions the architect's indigenous origin, the affective ties that he maintains with the city of Itajaí and its connection with the naval industry, represented by the Container itself.  © Alexandre Zelinski In the interior design, everything is very simple and at the same time of great refinement. Warmth, thermal comfort, visual and integration are priorities that receive special treatment through decoration. Luminaires with their own design, functional parts, recycled materials, colors in harmony and art, a lot of art printed in all environments. No paintings, the paintings are eternalized on the walls and doors, each work integrates the scenario that leaves no doubts: Container is a creative office and from it come different projects, out of the common place, where being is more important than having.  © Alexandre Zelinski  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Gottlieb Paludan Architects Win Pavilion Competition in Ringsted Square Denmark Posted: 01 Jan 2017 04:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects A panel of judges including Mayor Henrik Hvidesten has chosen Gottlieb Paludan Architects' proposal as the winning entry for a new pavilion to be completed in Ringsted Square, Denmark in 2018.
 Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects Indeed, according to the architects, one of the most important challenges embedded within this competition was conceptualizing a design that both accommodates a modern sensibility and honors the architectural tradition of Ringsted's city center. The pavilion is therefore conceived as an expressive and distinct character whose structure and texture is reminiscent of the town hall's pergola.  Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects The elongated structure simultaneously separates and connects, designating adjacent spaces for the town square and church lawn with individual material qualities. The square's hard surfaces sips into the pavilion; this continuity is reinforced by a visual connection between the square and the church that results from the orientation of the pavilion's bronze-coated siding panels. News via: Gottlieb Paludan Architects
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| “Re-Constructivist Architecture” Exhibition Explores the Lost Art of Architectural Language Posted: 01 Jan 2017 01:30 AM PST  © jbmn "Re-Constructivist Architecture," an exhibition now on show at the Ierimonti Gallery in New York, features the work of thirteen emerging architecture firms alongside the work of Coop Himmelb(l)au, Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi. The title of the exhibition is a play on words, referring to the De-Constructivist exhibition of 1988 at the Museum of Modern Art that destabilized a certain kind of relationship with design theory. This reconstruction is primarily of language. The architects draw from archives—mental, digital or printed on paper—distant from the typical parametric and highly schematic rationales that characterized the last thirty years of design in architecture. Within the theoretical system that drives architectural composition, these archives inevitably become homages, references, and quotes.  © AM3  © AM3 Even if it is diverse, this referential landscape maintains very distinctive traits. Renovated links to a series of iconic and communicative architectures, often narrated with a concise and simple lexicon, emerge from this landscape. The architectures are created with radical and sometimes ironic premises that set a distance from narcissistic blobs. In contrast, a strong passion for theoretical investigation becomes fundamental again.  © Point Supreme The group of architects from the thirteen firms, all born in the eighties, share not only common suggestive visions but also the challenges of growing in a scenario where the role of the architect is constantly evolving and redefining itself. Some of them are strongly connected with their cities, whereas others have a broader network. Some of them are highly active on social media and the web, whereas others are making a new use of printed media.  © Warehouse of Architecture and Research  © Warehouse of Architecture and Research It is not a coincidence that the exhibition is a spinoff of a series of lectures called "Generazione: a call from Rome." From September 2016 to June 2017 the group of architects presented (and will present) their work at the Casa dell'Architettura, in Rome. Each of the offices, along with sharing their professional experience, were asked to elaborate a project for a House in the Roman Countryside; a design exercise meant as a typological investigation, or, more generally, as a meditation on the autonomy of the discipline of architecture.  © PARA Project  © PARA Project This type of exercise originated in the eighties as a theoretical speculation in which the architectural project could be considered independent, as a revolutionary act itself without the need for association with political doctrines.  © Adam Nathaniel Furman This group of architects could be seen as paradigmatic, but is not exhaustive. In this developmental stage, the Movement is still defining its boundaries. However, we could start to identify its main features. We could recognize the work of recent trailblazers or even the fathers that inhabit the Pantheon of this Movement, but this is not our goal. The distinctive aspect that distinguishes the works presented here from some parallel currents is an interest in a typological point of view, freed from ideology: the objective of the research is architectural language itself—a counter-trend that tries to recover a debate lost years ago.  © Rui Silva RE-CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE is an exhibition curated by Jacopo Costanzo and Giovanni Cozzani with Giulia Leone, promoted by the scientific technical committee of Casa dell'Architettura with Consulta Giovani Architetti Roma. The 13 designers on display are AM3, fala atelier, False Mirror Office, Fosbury Architecture, Adam Nathaniel Furman, jbmn, MAIO, PARA Project, Parasite 2.0, Point Supreme, Something Fantastic, UNULAUNU, and Warehouse of Architecture and Research, alongside Coop Himmelb(l)au, Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi. The exhibition is on view at Ierimonti Gallery in New York until February 10, 2017. Find out more via the link below: Re-Constructivist Architecture  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Docklands / Marcel Lok Architect Posted: 01 Jan 2017 01:00 AM PST  © Luuk Kramer
 © Luuk Kramer Buiksloterham (BSH) is part of a former industrial area located on the Northern bank of the IJ-river in Amsterdam and is now being developed into a metropolitan, sustainable working and living area that houses more than 4.000 homes. Project Docklands was the winning entry for plot 12 of a competition on sustainability in Buiksloterham in 2010, in which the municipality has selected our team on the best energy and sustainability concept.  Scheme The L-shaped complex consists of a slender tower containing nine storeys with a total of thirty-two apartments and a two-storey base, with thirteen business units and parking on the ground floor and twelve compact studios on the first floor. On top of the parking garage a collective roof garden is located together with the entrances of the studios.  © Luuk Kramer The roof of the tower is provided with a communal roof terrace with thornless honeylocust trees (Gleditsia triacanthos Inermis), a symbolic reference to the 13th century Torre Guinigi Lucca. All apartments also feature a large private outdoor space through a loggia or terrace.  © Luuk Kramer The project is built with specially produced industrial red-brown bricks, to refer to the former rough character of this former industrial area. The bricks are traditionally processed on site in a modular bond. The brickwork module size of three stacked bricks has determined the size of the whole building in three dimensions and manifests itself as an all-enveloping skin of the volume. The 'grid' of the elevations are provided with titanium coloured aluminium window frames with outward-opening windows. The loggia's of the tower have large sliding windows and removable glass panels on the outside, which makes the balconies usable as an additional outdoor room during both winter and summer.  © Luuk Kramer Docklands makes use of an energetic building concept, with innovative ways of climate control. The air-conditioning is collectively controlled wherein the supply air is drawn in through ground tubes, through which the ventilation air is preheated in the winter and cooled in the summer. In addition, the building has its own geothermal heat sources and heat pumps. Thus the complex is not connected to the city's heating network, but is self-sufficient through a building-related collective thermal storage system. The roof of the lower part is largely equipped with solar and photovoltaic panels.  © Luuk Kramer  Floor 1  © Luuk Kramer Product Description. The project is built with specially produced industrial red-brown bricks. The bricks are traditionally processed on site in a modular bond. The brickwork module size of three stacked bricks has determined the size of the whole building in three dimensions and manifests itself as an all-enveloping skin of the volume. The 'grid' of the elevations are provided with aluminium window frames with outward-opening windows.  © Luuk Kramer  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Piarena Designs Sail-Inspired Congress Hall Spanning Over Russian River Posted: 01 Jan 2017 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of PIARENA PIARENA has won the Archchel-2020 competition to create a Congress Hall for BRICS and SCO events in central Chelyabinsk, Russia along the Miass River. Separated into two parts by the river, the site will additionally host business meetings, public events, and exhibitions. In order to emphasize the curve of the river, the new congress hall building will be a solid volume spanning across the river, rectangular in footprint, but curved in a sail shape above. Rising up to 61 and 150 meters, the building is hoped to become a new urban landmark, as well as a pedestrian crossing over the river.  Courtesy of PIARENA  Courtesy of PIARENA A common atrium will connect various portions of the building, including a 3150-person concert hall, hotel, office complex, exhibition hall, and media center.  Courtesy of PIARENA Each functional zone of the building features its own entrance area and vertical transport, "in order to improve flux distribution, loading, and emergency evacuation."  Courtesy of PIARENA  Courtesy of PIARENA Outside the building, a parametric grid pattern of parallelograms will govern the placement of green areas, water surfaces, plantings, cladding, and street furniture. News via: PIARENA.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Casa San Polo / Massimo Galeotti Architetto Posted: 31 Dec 2016 09:00 PM PST  © Francesco Castagna
 © Francesco Castagna From the architect. Built at the beginning of the XX century, Casa San Polo is an antique rural house located at the heart of the beautiful countryside of San Polo di Piave, close to Treviso.  © Francesco Castagna The original structure was made up of three floors. The lowest two floors were habitable, whereas the attic was used as a granary. This way of using the space is a typical feature of rural dwellings of that time, characterized by a steep central staircase and a symmetric development of the rooms.  Plan The house, abandoned for several years, totally lacked the roofing: all the wooden parts of the floors were completely damaged and also the masonry walls were compromised.  © Francesco Castagna The design respects the original character of the structure, and the space is symmetrically developed around the main central block, composed by the staircase and the bathrooms.  Section The house features a big window looking southwards to enjoy the visual beauty of the countryside, and a wooden porch has been built in front of this opening as an addition to the original structure. A garage and storage place has been added outside the main building.  © Francesco Castagna Product Description. The initial state of abandoned of the house has involved the reconstruction of the all wooden floors, and has maintained the original brick structure. Even the downstairs floors were redone using a smooth concrete, modern material. The concrete was also used to build the new external volume for the garage.  © Francesco Castagna White is predominant in the exterior plaster and even in the interior paintings. The spaces are minimal, as the design of all the furniture for which chose the wood brushed spruce and white laminate.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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