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- Kalasatama School and Day Care / JKMM Architects
- Modular House DublDom / BIO-architects
- Adidas Concept Store 'DAS 107 by kasina' / URBANTAINER
- Aedas Unveils Project at Start of Historic Maritime Silk Road
- WXY and BLA Unveil New York Affordable Housing Development
- Yorkville Residence / Alan Nicholson Design Studio
- Tadao Ando's First NYC Residence Tops Out in Nolita
- AR Issues: The Digital Age Has Not Killed Craft, Only Restructured It
- Rieger House / Leonardo Ciotta Arquitetura
- HHF Architects + Westpol Win Switzerland Apartment Tower Competiton
| Kalasatama School and Day Care / JKMM Architects Posted: 18 Feb 2017 09:00 PM PST  © Studio Hans Koistinen
 © Studio Hans Koistinen The new and rapidly growing district of Kalasatama now has its own day care centre and school. The colourful and visually inviting school designed by JKMM Architects has no conventional pupils' desks or stuffy classrooms.  © Studio Hans Koistinen In 2010, the City of Helsinki organized an invitational architectural competition regarding the Kalasatama School and Day Care Centre. JKMM Architects won the competition with their proposal "Wigwam". The building, closely following the shape of the winding streets, has a courtyard nestling inside it. The building has a day care centre and school on three floors.  © Mika Huisman  First Floor Plan  © Mika Huisman The school was designed to be an inviting and approachable public building. The cheerful building clearly stands out among the surrounding blocks of concrete buildings. Its sculpture-like figure assumes a visible place in the urban structure between Junonkatu street and the Kalasatamanpuisto park.  © Mika Huisman It will be built in two stages. Once completed, children will receive their education from nursery school to preschool education and all the way to the end of comprehensive school in this school building. The idea of the school is to grow, together with its users, from a single-storey day care centre into a three-storey comprehensive school. The first phase, completed in spring 2016, includes the low wing at the north-eastern corner of the sheltered courtyard housing the day care centre and preschool education facilities, as well as sports facilities and a canteen in the middle of the building. In the second phase, the building will be extended to meander around the courtyard. That is when a dining hall, stage and library, as well as study facilities for older students will be built. The building will be totally completed in 2020, when it will have approximately 700 pupils.  © Mika Huisman The meandering building has a reinforced concrete frame. The floors are concrete cast on site, and the wavy roof over the ceiling is of wooden construction. The long eaves of the roof protect the structures. On the courtyard side, there is a canopied corridor of steel construction surrounding the building. The distinctive external wall of the school building was created by playing with different colours. The cladding, rich in colour, is made of durable and maintenance-free fibre concrete plates. Stove enamelled aluminium mesh panels, adapted for the architectural theme, are used for protection against foul weather and sun glare.  © Studio Hans Koistinen The teaching facilities of the school are designed to support the basic premises of the latest pedagogy. Traditional pupils' desks and classrooms have been done away with, and the teacher no longer sits behind a desk. The environment provides stimuli and encourages interactivity. The teaching facilities and their furniture are designed for different functions, and the pupils move between different facilities with the teaching. The space and furniture solutions bring the pupils closer to the teacher and can be modified for different teaching situations. The facilities can be easily altered and joined together by opening partition walls. The multi-purpose design also allows function- and phenomenon-based learning.  © Mika Huisman The school building is an educational tool itself. All of the technical equipment and functions of the building are left out in the open to see and study. The pupils can see where fresh air comes from and where water goes. The work performed by the staff has not been hidden – both the teaching and maintenance facilities can be seen by all through large windows. The idea behind the arrangement and design of the premises facilities is to create a community spirit and develop social skills.  © Mika Huisman The visible technical equipments give the indoors a graphical and industrial feel, as if one was inside a gigantic machine. A great deal of wood was used for decoration. The warm plywood surfaces are joined together by contrasting matt black. The dots of colour – green in the day care centre and red in the school – were only used for the furniture.  Second Floor Plan The heart of every cell – an educational facility unit for 75 pupils – is a large common space around which the teaching facilities are grouped. There is large nest-like furniture in the middle of it, mustering the pupils together. The red, totally upholstered furniture can accommodate all pupils of the cell at the same time. Depending on the situation, it can be used for seating, as a teaching facility or a place for playing. The large space is surrounded by storage furniture, where the pupils can keep their belongings.  © Mika Huisman All fixed furniture was designed by JKMM Architects. The solutions were specifically tailored for the school building and its pedagogic needs. The choice of materials was affected by the fact that shoes are not worn inside the building.  © Mika Huisman In the school building, learning is possible also when one is not sitting behind a desk. The conventional tables and chairs are complemented by circular seats, beanbags and gym balls. All non-fixed furniture can be easily moved. The tables have casters and the chairs are stackable. Different pieces of furniture blend well and can be used in other facilities. The non-fixed furniture are largely Finnish, including those by Nikari, Wood, Artek and Martela.  © Mika Huisman The feeling of sensation continues with the art inside the school. The school building is part of the Percent for Art -project. The first phase (just completed) has a mural entitled Shadow Play, painted by Heli Hiltunen for the day care centre. In the second phase, the art experience will be completed in the school section by another artist to be selected later.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Modular House DublDom / BIO-architects Posted: 18 Feb 2017 06:00 PM PST  © Max Badulin
 © Ivan Ovchinnikov From the architect. The house was designed and produced for a young family who went to live in the suburbs of Moscow on Pirogovo lake. A year before, in 2015, they asked us for a compact 40m2 DublDom house, and after a successful experience of its winter installation, the customers got ready for a bigger one for the whole family, children and staff. None of the standard models was suitable for the site, so we made an individual project on the basis of DublDom of second edition.  © Max Badulin Most of the individual decisions are based on a simple technology and inexpensive materials, so we managed to follow one of the basic principles of our architectural bureau and DublDom company - quality of architecture at an affordable pricing.  First Floor Plan The front facade with the maximum number of glazing was dictated by location of the house on the site. All the technical and utility rooms are located along the rear facade, and the children's room, cabinet, main entrance and the living room with fireplace look at the site with a wonderful view on the water.  © Ivan Ovchinnikov The house made with simple and affordable materials - metal profile, barn board and glass - it blends harmoniously with the natural environment.  © Ivan Ovchinnikov The entire interior is made of solid pine, painted white. The end walls coloured dark visually increase the space.  © Max Badulin All modules were prefabricated at Dubldom factory in Kazan and arrived at the site together with the interior trim, hidden utilities, furniture and electrical equipment inside. Installation work took about 10 days with minimal disruption to the site and the environment.  Section Product Description. The house is made by a modular technology «DublDom». All modules of the house were made on the «DublDom» factory in Kazan and traveled to the place of installation almost 1000km. All the trim, engineering and communications were made at the factory. On the site we just connect ready house to external engineering networks - water supply, septic tank and electricity. Frame made of pine and insulated by KNAUF insulation. Due to the modular technology, we turned out to make a house far from the city, in the shortest possible time, with high quality and low budget. The project used the most environmentally friendly materials. The emphasis on the facade is made on recycled barn board with steel and glass, which emphasizes the natural origin and delicate integration of the house into natural surroundings.  © Ivan Ovchinnikov  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Adidas Concept Store 'DAS 107 by kasina' / URBANTAINER Posted: 18 Feb 2017 12:00 PM PST  © Young Kim Indiphos
 © Young Kim Indiphos From the architect. Located in Hongdae, DAS107 is an iconic store that—in collaboration with street culture specialist Kasina—represents adidas' top-of-the-line products such as adidas Consortium limited items and other selected pieces. With its roots in Busan, Kasina began as selector and importer of street culture brands. For this collaboration project with adidas, the two brands' objective is to select Korea's most premium products and create a community space for sneaker nerds to experience the deep histories and designs.  © Young Kim Indiphos The space serves as a contact point for high-quality products and an in-crowd gathering space for true sneaker nerds. Its mission is to provide a comfortable atmosphere for street culture enthusiasts and new inspiration for trend-oriented customers at the same time.  © Young Kim Indiphos With this in mind, the space concept is based on in-crowd tastes and aims at providing a hang-out space for them first and foremost. In contrary to a regular retail shop, the space is conceptualised as a symbolic experience space the showcases brand philosophies, provides diverse experiences, and conveys the influence of sneaker culture.  © Young Kim Indiphos Materials like ascon for the flooring and custom-made zinc furniture evoke street scenes, providing a distinctive sense of street feel even if visitors spend their time indoors.  © Young Kim Indiphos  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Aedas Unveils Project at Start of Historic Maritime Silk Road Posted: 18 Feb 2017 08:00 AM PST  © Aedas Aedas has unveiled its plans for Nansha Kingboard Free Trade Zone Mixed-Use Project, a new building sited at the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road in Guangzhou, China. Located on an irregularly shaped plot with views of the Jiaoman River and Phoenix Lake, the 80,762-square-meter building will be composed of a series of stacked geometric blocks in order to create varied silhouettes and capitalize on surrounding views.  © Aedas  © Aedas  © Aedas
 © Aedas  © Aedas Horizontal fins on the simple façade will provide sun-shading to moderate the internal environment of the building.
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| WXY and BLA Unveil New York Affordable Housing Development Posted: 18 Feb 2017 06:00 AM PST  Courtesy of WXY/BLA WXY architecture + urban design has unveiled its design for The Peninsula, a five-acre mixed use development for New York City that aims to "create [an] instant [community] with jobs, training, education, and hundreds of affordable apartments." Created in conjunction with Body Lawson Associates (BLA) for the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Department of Housing and Preservation Development (HPD), the project will feature retail, light industrial, recreational, and residential space—all of which will be affordable—in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx.  Courtesy of WXY/BLA Designed around a central plaza, The Peninsula seeks to foster interactions between residents and to create a distinct sense of community as a place for both living and working. Development of the $300 million project will occur in three phases, to be completed in 2021, 2022, and 2024, respectively.  Courtesy of WXY/BLA Many of the anticipated retail, commercial and industrial tenants are Bronx-based organizations, including Hunts Point Brewing Company, Il Forno Bakery, and Lightbox NY film studio. The Peninsula will also feature a supermarket tenant, a business incubator, job training facilities, school space, and a community health and wellness center. The project is expected to create 177 permanent jobs and more than 1,600 temporary construction jobs.
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| Yorkville Residence / Alan Nicholson Design Studio Posted: 18 Feb 2017 05:00 AM PST  © Alan Nicholson
 © Alan Nicholson From the architect. Located in the northern California coastal hills and designed for two retired geo-physicists, the 2750 2ft. residence was conceived as a sheltering nest with wings to lift and water to anchor and reflect the earth and sky. The cantilevered roof is supported by two internal utility columns to give an economy of the open structure. The house is sited to wrap around an excavated rock-knoll and follows the contours of the land and solar orientation. It is energy independent and efficient; incorporating active solar panel technologies for power and heating, and passive design for sustainable comfort.  © Alan Nicholson A long cantilevered shed roof gathers and gives lightness to the structure, opening to the landscape and embracing the 270 degree view. Concrete, rammed earth, glass, steel, wood and water are employed to enhance the connection between the building, and the surrounding landscape.  © Alan Nicholson In a carefully choreographed entry sequence, the massive rammed earth entry walls part to reveal folded full height sixteen foot glazed walls enveloping central living, dining, and kitchen areas, with circulation following the layered earthen walls. The solid eight-foot-high entry walls are capped with two feet of butt-glazed curtain wall along the entire 100-foot length of rammed earth, to give the roof plane an airy, floating character. The curtain walls are a unique custom-designed, thermally broken glazing system. In the living and sleeping areas the curtain wall is integrated into a floor to roof vertical assembly to reduce mullion size and support the floating roof.  Site Plan The structural system is designed to complement and strengthen the architectural emphasis of lightness and flight. By utilizing a steel frame and streamlining structural systems, the design minimizes material consumption and allows for maximum performance. The curtain wall construction of the south and east walls utilize a custom vertical truss system with cast-steel web struts. The roof system, is framed with very light steel shapes held in plane by three-dimensional cable-stayed trusses and the custom cast-steel web struts, allowing the roof a long clear span, floating on the glass walls.  © Alan Nicholson To further integrate the house to its site, the north wall of the house floats in a 70 foot reflecting pool. The south terrace is stepped to eliminate railings and provide a lower lap pool terrace. The owners' landscape intent is to restore indigenous, native meadows, with a small olive orchard and kitchen garden viewable from the house, and a few specimen plantings adjacent to the house.  © Alan Nicholson Product Description. The steel roof plane is supported with cast steel struts in a three-dimensional cable truss system which is supported at the perimeter by the custom curtainwall glazing system and a composite steel vertical truss assembly.  © Alan Nicholson The underside of the roof is clad with Western Red Cedar, visually laid through the glazed curtainwall. Much of the lighting, both interior and exterior is custom designed and fabricated for this residence.  © Alan Nicholson  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tadao Ando's First NYC Residence Tops Out in Nolita Posted: 18 Feb 2017 04:00 AM PST  © The Boundary and Noë & Associates Tadao Ando's first residential building in New York City—152 Elizabeth—has topped out in Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood. A collaboration with architect and designer Michael Gabellini of Gabellini Sheppard Associates, as well as developer Sumaida + Khurana, the project will feature Ando's hallmarks, poured-in-place concrete, burnished, metal, voluminous glass, and a living green wall. Conceived as an inner sanctuary within downtown Manhattan, the building highlights acoustics as a key consideration, with a façade system and exterior glass enabling a high OITC rating to "ensure a tranquil home environment in the center of this vibrant neighborhood."  © Noë & Associates "While Ando focused on balancing the fundamental elements of water, metal, glass, greenery and concrete, architect of record Michael Gabellini complements Ando's vision through his design of the interior and exterior spaces. Gabellini enhances the sense of openness in each home, emphasizing the fluidity of spaces between the indoors and the outdoors, while still allowing for moments of privacy and separation" stated the developers.  © The Boundary and Noë & Associates  © The Boundary and Noë & Associates Learn more about the project here. News via: Sumaida + Khurana. Video: Tadao Ando on Designing His First New York Building  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| AR Issues: The Digital Age Has Not Killed Craft, Only Restructured It Posted: 18 Feb 2017 01:30 AM PST  Courtesy of The Architectural Review ArchDaily is continuing our partnership with The Architectural Review, bringing you short introductions to the themes of the magazine's monthly editions. In this introduction to the February 2017 issue, Editor Christine Murray discusses craft. Seeking to find parallels between the processes of creating their own magazine and of designing a building, she argues that "there are easier ways to make a magazine, but along paths we choose not to take." The magazine you hold in your hand is the product of many: 16 writers, 48 photographers, plus illustrators, jellymakers, 3D printers, 10 editors and an art director; and at the press, 15 people for its printing and binding. You may imagine that the contemporary magazine-making process has lost its need for expertise through automation – push a button and the printer spits it out. But as AR Head of Production, Paul Moran says, "Machines may have taken on some of the front-end work, but every element of the printing process is a skill."  Courtesy of The Architectural Review Likewise, if computers have eliminated some of the editorial drudgery of producing layouts and reproducing photography, this time has been eaten up by fresh concerns. Like you, we don't work less for the use of computers, we do some things more quickly, and so work differently. While our editor forebears would have had fewer options and greater obstacles in covering architectural projects, instead we are faced with an abundance of options. As Richard Sennett wrote in The Craftsman, "We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability." An editor today can do so much, trawling an endless internet of ideas, but this only begs the question, what is best to do, to add value and rise above the ordinary? So, while there are faster, cheaper and easier ways to make a magazine (writing about buildings without visiting them, for example, rather than sending people to the Himalayas and rural Norway, as for this edition), these are roads that we choose not to travel, because we want to craft a magazine. Craft is the product of skill, time and care, adding value to a basic material. Many products are made; few are crafted. But the series of choices that lead to craft are entirely subjective – unlike the artisanal, there is no orthodoxy, no right way to make, only more or less appealing results.  Courtesy of The Architectural Review When I visited our printers Headley Brothers last month, I was struck by the warm, fruity smell of the offset lithographic press on which the AR is printed and the sweetness of its vegetable-based inks (lean in close, and you may be able to smell a hint of this now). Unlike the belching, hot and noisy web press, where the sheer speed of impressions stresses and overheats the paper so much that it must be chilled and rehydrated, causing a wrinkled effect, the quieter and slower litho requires no additional processes. Because it runs at a slower rate, the press checker can constantly adjust the ink and register for a better result. The pages are left to dry for around three hours. When dry, the paper – each sheet accommodating eight pages of the magazine – is moved to the folding machine, and then to binding. The mix of papers that we use must be planned at specific intervals and inserted by hand. In last month's anniversary edition, we changed paper stock so many times, it took the printers a day and a half alone to bind the magazine. But the change in paper allows us to craft a haptic experience alongside the magazine narrative. In short, it takes more time, but it's worth it. In a final step, the cover is folded and glued around the pages before the magazine is trimmed, the pages cut. And so it ends, and we begin again.  Courtesy of The Architectural Review The AR's creative process, which begins in conversation and ends on paper, is not artisanal or old-fashioned. Its modern tools and methods of production, a mix of hand, digital and machine, are carefully selected based on the balance of cost, time and their perceived impact, conducting the skills of a whole orchestra of specialists to create the most interesting magazine that we can. I write this because perhaps, as with architecture, the thumbprints on these pages are not visible, but I hope that, as with a handmade brick, the humanity of its irregularities and imperfections can be read. Three words: we were here. Subscribe to The Architectural Review here, or purchase the February 2017 issue here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rieger House / Leonardo Ciotta Arquitetura Posted: 18 Feb 2017 01:00 AM PST  © Cristiano Bauce
 © Cristiano Bauce From the architect. With an unusual design condition, this residence should house not only the usual functions of a townhouse, but also enough space to support an RV used by the family in leisure time. A land in the city of Estrela in Rio Grande do Sul with 495sqm and a slope of 4.5 meters was chosen to house the two distinct functions without generating volumetry that would disturb the daily life of the residence.  © Cristiano Bauce A large white volume flies suspended by pillars structure of the garage in apparent concrete and touches the boundary of the land to the street to open up to a shaded courtyard in the summer months, thus the social area mixes internal and external functions depending on weather changes conditions. A hundred-year-old pitangueira (eugenia uniflora) has been preserved in order to mark the upper main entrance of the residence and the covered circulation allows independent access to all rooms of the house expanding to accommodate a barbecue place used on holidays. The residence's green roofallows to reduce the temperatures in the summer months and filters the captured water in which the house reuses. Without needing walls on the main side, it was possible to have a garden facing the street, creating a permeable encounter zone with the neighborhood, in this façade long horizontal windows features guarantee privacy and dosage of the cross ventilation in this brazilian region of great thermal amplitude during the year.  © Cristiano Bauce  Floor Plan  © Cristiano Bauce Through the internal garden you can access the large garage that also resolves technical functions of the house, small maintenance and a workshop space.  © Cristiano Bauce  © Cristiano Bauce  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| HHF Architects + Westpol Win Switzerland Apartment Tower Competiton Posted: 18 Feb 2017 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of HHF Architects HHF Architects, in collaboration with landscape architects from Westpol, have won a competition with their design for Jardin Métropole, a 30-meter-tall apartment tower and neighboring green space. Located in Biel, Switzerland, the project is expected to become the symbol of the city and contribute to the area's general enhancement through its angled cube massing and public element. Based on the theme of a "city garden," the building will constitute the beginning of a new, park-like passage to Rue du Moulin, and will feature access to gardens with private planting beds, a shared roof terrace, and landscaped loggains.  Courtesy of HHF Architects  Courtesy of HHF Architects  Courtesy of HHF Architects
 Courtesy of HHF Architects  Courtesy of HHF Architects Inspired by the nearby "La Rotonde" building, the ground floor of the building will be circular in plan, and will house a bakery and café.  Courtesy of HHF Architects Construction on Jardin Métropole is scheduled to begin in 2019.  Courtesy of HHF Architects Team: HHF + Westpol News via: HHF Architects.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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