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- CONCRETE / Biuro Architektoniczne Barycz & Saramowicz
- Shanghai Landmark Center / Aedas
- SUTD Professors Bring Parametric Design To Light in Illuminated 3D Printed Installation
- NO ARCHITECTURE Emphasizes Urban Sustainability and Interaction with Alternative Residential Towers in China
- Old Orchard / Blaze Makoid Architecture
- Speculative Project Seeks to Take Advantage of NYC Air Rights for Affordable Housing
- Could Electric Cars Turn Gas Stations Into the Community Hubs of the Future?
- The Transport Hub / RYSY Architekci Rafał Sieraczyński
- Montreal’s LEED Platinum Bibliothèque du Boisé Wins RAIC's Green Building Award
- House in Pedralbes / BC Estudio Architects
| CONCRETE / Biuro Architektoniczne Barycz & Saramowicz Posted: 15 Apr 2017 07:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Biuro Architektoniczne Barycz & Saramowicz
 Courtesy of Biuro Architektoniczne Barycz & Saramowicz From the architect. Concrete is considered to be the largest usage of architectural concrete in the European residential architecture. Located at the gates of the city of Warsaw, sinking in a pine forest, Izabelin is a beautiful enclave in the Kampinoski National Park. It is where an exposed concrete residence has been built.  Courtesy of Biuro Architektoniczne Barycz & Saramowicz The building's design fits into an architectural trend of discretion. Looking for an idea how to enable the house to ideally blend into the landscape, which is determined by a huge pine forest, Rafał Barycz and Paweł Saramowicz from Barycz & Saramowicz Architects have concentrated on planning and design of the villa and then its external envelope. The house made of exposed concrete is challenging, aimed to draw the space in and focused on its interior. The building has been tailored to a sophisticated client.  Ground Floor Plan The essence of innovation of this building is that its very wide functionality could imply an extensive multi-wing approach, whereas quite the contrary has happened. Substantial utility functions have been closed in a nearly square contour, with separate hollowed areas of an atrium, summer dining room and the main entrance. The house has been designed on a geometrically strong square plan, which is determined by a symbolic defensive wall. Since the archetypal wall should be built of stone, a modern stone equivalent has been used here - raw concrete with organic prints of the formwork. According to Barycz and Saramowicz, concrete as a wall material gives a strong character to its form, just like stone, and is also the language of the contemporary architecture.  Courtesy of Biuro Architektoniczne Barycz & Saramowicz The nature is both an inspiration and a model here, and in a sense it is also a material. From a semantic and functional perspective the house has been designed as a kind of an architectural mirror in which genius loci reflects. Architectural exposed concrete with natural prints of formwork has been used, dyed with powdered ochre to the colour of pine bark. The upper floor has been covered with elegant highly processed wooden panels. Such a material composition has emphasized the identity of the place.  Courtesy of Biuro Architektoniczne Barycz & Saramowicz Thanks to covering quite a large building with exposed concrete, a uniform coating of the construction has been achieved. Combined with the reduction of unnecessary ornamentation, it creates a modern silhouette with an incredible force of impact. This is the largest application of exposed concrete in the history of the Polish architecture. According to Barycz and Saramowicz, together with the development of architectural thought, finesse in architecture is sought not only in a form sculpture but also in an innovative material coating.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Shanghai Landmark Center / Aedas Posted: 15 Apr 2017 01:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Aedas
 Courtesy of Aedas From the architect. A motif to connect old and new Located on the north bank of Suzhou Creek and within the business area across Sichuan North Road and Zhapu Road in Shanghai, Aedas-design Shanghai Landmark Center enjoys a prime location with excellent views towards the Northern Bund and Huangpu River. The site is surrounded by low-rise residential blocks and a number of historic buildings such as the Shanghai Post and Telecommunication Bureau, Shanghai General Hospital, New Asia Hotel, Ruikang Mansion and Outer Baidu Bridge, forming a unique urban fabric. The new complex creates a synergy for the commercial hub and the neighbourhood and connects the old and new of Shanghai city.  Courtesy of Aedas In response to the vibrant neighbourhood and low-rise domestic buildings on the east and north, this commercial development designed by Executive Director Cary Lau, retreats from south to north with two towers sit in the south of the site with the retail components in the north, embracing an open central plaza for food and beverage and various outdoor activities. The buildings are placed along the site edges to reserve open spaces at the four corners, acting as transitional nodes to the surrounding high-density context. The massing and orientation of the complex highlight the architectural layers whilst facilitating daylight penetration and ventilation to the adjoining domestic blocks. The central plaza connects the exterior with the retail components above and below the ground, also extends the circulation from the adjacent communities to the complex.  Courtesy of Aedas Inspired by the traditional Chinese windows from the nearby old buildings, the façade design interprets the oriental element in a contemporary language and creates an impressive motif, setting the tone and identity of the development. This modern interpretation on the tower façade allows less reflectance compared to typical glass towers, and relieves its neighbouring buildings from light pollution and disturbance. The signature oriental motif extends to the retail blocks, not only serving as an ornamental screen on the façade but also adding interesting, animated light patterns on the inner layer.  Courtesy of Aedas  Courtesy of Aedas The retail traffic links up the retail block, connecting all entrances and atria. The skylight above the central atrium facilitates daylight penetration and the green roof offers a welcoming public space.  Section The needs to reflect the integrity and energy of the historic city in a new development, and ensure maximum flexibility for present and future uses, pose the biggest challenge for this project. The clean-lined, rectangular form goes well with the urban fabric for the historical buildings as well as current and future developments around the site, whilst the twin tower symbolically signifies the gateway to the Hongkou district. The contemporary architecture with a sense of humble, oriental touch and overtone serves as a large visual that accentuates the city's unique history and identity, creating a landmark enjoying the signature Shanghai skyline along the Suzhou Creek.  Courtesy of Aedas  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| SUTD Professors Bring Parametric Design To Light in Illuminated 3D Printed Installation Posted: 15 Apr 2017 09:00 AM PDT  © SUTD: Felix Raspall and Carlos Banon A luminous tetrahedral mesh spanning 10 meters, (Ultra) Light Network is the latest 3D printed innovation achieved by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Professors Felix Raspall and Carlos Banon, who were also behind this mesh pavilion last year. Displayed at this year's iLight Marina Bay in Singapore, the interactive light sculpture is an exploration of how full-scale 3D printed components can create a system to "address not only structural requirements but also power transmission, and information communication within a seamless and continuous aesthetic." Suspended over its visitors, the display engages the public through responses to their movements below, controlled by over 50,000 distinct LED pixels and their parent algorithm. This is made possible through five Teensy microcontrollers, working in conjunction with three ultrasonic sensors at the base of the structure, resulting in a lively and illuminating experience.  © SUTD: Felix Raspall and Carlos Banon  © SUTD: Felix Raspall and Carlos Banon The entire mesh is composed of 715 polycarbonate squared tubes of standard dimensions, responsible for the balanced and even diffusion of the light sources. Additionally, 152 individual nodes were printed from ABS and Nylon to contain custom LED bulbs, an integral aspect of the 10m x 6m x 3m installation.  © SUTD: Felix Raspall and Carlos Banon  © SUTD: Felix Raspall and Carlos Banon Custom parametric design was crucial in helping the polymer structure achieve its tetrahedral form, as well as its other various geometries and the coordination of the lighting system. As a result of its slender yet sturdy characteristics, the installation can withstand stresses of expansion and contraction, and even absorbs external forces such as wind loads and punctual forces. This is also due in part to the model's hyper-redundancy, which unlike other current systems, converges ten members per node to allow for stability and resistance. Hear more from the team behind (Ultra) Light Network in the video below: Design Concept: Felix Raspall and Carlos Banon Sponsors : Stratasys, Center for Digital Design and Manufacturing at SUTD, and SUTD. News via: Felix Raspall and Carlos Banon of SUTD.
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| Posted: 15 Apr 2017 07:00 AM PDT  © NO ARCHITECTURE One of the great ironies of modern urban life is the underlying disconnect that exists amongst us global citizens, despite living and functioning within such dense and close proximities. In order to address this issue in the context of China's urban landscape, New York firm NO ARCHITECTURE has proposed two alternatives to the typical high-rise – two vertical residential typologies that feature a combination of courtyards, terraces, and gardens, and could be located in a wide variety of cities. "Conceived around a series of cascading shared walls, ventilated courtyards, stepped terraces, and wind towers, these new vertical organizations re-connect urban living to nature, suggesting how we can live in close proximity today and can continue to do so sustainably for generations to come," explained the architects.  © NO ARCHITECTURE The project bases its strategies on various sustainable practices found within a number of cultures, climates, and contexts, which give rise to the aforementioned typologies and respond to specific sites and conditions. A hot-humid climate, for example, would be addressed by the open courtyards and wind towers that give the tower its form, while the stepped terraces and shared walls are designed for hot-arid conditions.  © NO ARCHITECTURE Each apartment's floor plate is increased 30% to also include its own garden, providing natural ventilation, passive heating, and cooling that also function at the scale of the tower, when treating the gardens as a collective whole.  © NO ARCHITECTURE On the interior, spaces lack separation and compartmentalisation, thus increasing available space by an additional 30% and creating constantly occupied areas during the days, which are used for sleeping at night. Centered around service cores with bathrooms and storage, the inside of the towers can be experienced as a flexible continuous flow or individual rooms based on the dispersed cores. News via: NO ARCHITECTURE.
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| Old Orchard / Blaze Makoid Architecture Posted: 15 Apr 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Joshua McHugh
 © Joshua McHugh From the architect. One year after purchasing Old Orchard, a 10,000 square foot modern spec house, the homeowners brought on Blaze Makoid Architecture to give the residence a complete redo. The original structure was configured as a linear, single story, glass and metal box with grade carved down to basement level at both ends. This provided below-grade access to a garage at one end and a small courtyard for two lower level bedrooms at the other.  © Joshua McHugh  First Floor Plan  © Joshua McHugh BMA addressed a series of programmatic issues with architectural moments. The language of simple wood and glass elements offers a recognizable contrast to the aluminum skin of the existing building and begins to warm the material palette. A new wood 'tube' was added to bisect the main structure, creating an entry plinth a few steps above the existing floor and setting up a visual alignment with a new pool house structure across the property. The second and third elements occur at either end of the existing structure, separated by small glass bridges.  © Joshua McHugh The new home office spans and helps to screen the not so inviting sunken garage drive, providing a more inviting, wood façade during approach. The two story master suite at the opposite end consists of a wood and glass bedroom and bath at grade level sitting atop a concrete, basement level plinth containing a substantial dressing room that opens up to the sunken courtyard. Other components of the project include a redesign of the kitchen and the conversion of part of the basement level to home spa and theatre programs.  © Joshua McHugh  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Speculative Project Seeks to Take Advantage of NYC Air Rights for Affordable Housing Posted: 15 Apr 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee of Atelier L have unveiled their speculative project, Instant City: Living Air-Right, which proposes that affordable housing and public programs be built in the air rights of existing buildings in New York City. As a response to the lack of home ownership in the city, the project aims to provide living space, as well as to foster community in an overlooked space.  Courtesy of Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee Because air rights space in New York varies in different geographic areas, the project can be customizable to whichever space it is applied to.  Courtesy of Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee  Courtesy of Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee
 Courtesy of Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee  Courtesy of Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee Instant City: Living Air-Right was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2017 New York Affordable Housing Challenge Competition.  Courtesy of Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee  Courtesy of Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee Learn more about the project here. News via: Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Could Electric Cars Turn Gas Stations Into the Community Hubs of the Future? Posted: 15 Apr 2017 02:30 AM PDT  Courtesy of Ennead Architects/Ennead Lab One general trend in today's Information Age involves the absolute transmutation of downtime into productivity or engagement of any kind, however meaningless. We hear it all the time: we have lost our ability to be still. However, as a team at Ennead Lab has observed, some of the same technologies that are causing this shift in routine also have the potential to open new, empty pockets of time in our daily lives, and affect the built spaces with which we interact. Tasked with designing an electric car charging station for a development in Shanghai, Ennead realized that the five hours required to fill up a single standard charge necessitate a place for customers to wait. In an article on Metropolis Magazine, they show that the promise of transportation-less people to stick around in one place for such a period of time opens up a host of possibilities for what could fill the latency period; the Shanghai project, however, focuses on the opportunity to create a civic space. The team has imagined the modern "gas station" as a vertical charging tower that calls upon the functionality of urban parking elevators in the 20th century, this time clad in reflective silver to serve as a beacon for customers in search of a charge. Rather than standalone charge-park towers, the projects are integrated into a system that encourages patrons to walk to neighboring zones to eat, shop, and socialize while they wait. To learn more about the potential for civic programming in gas stations, read the original article by Andrew Burdick and Kyle Graham here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Transport Hub / RYSY Architekci Rafał Sieraczyński Posted: 15 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Piotr Krajewski
 © Piotr Krajewski From the architect. The transport hub in Solec Kujawski, completed in June 2016, is part of BiT City - the modern high-speed rail network connecting the two capital cities of Kujawsko-Pomorskie region in Poland: Bydgoszcz and Toruń. The hub is located, more or less, in the middle of the distance between the two cities, was the last stage in the construction of the „BiT City" network.  © Piotr Krajewski The design proposed by RYSY Architekci was determined by an existing landscape. Before the works began, there was an old railway platform on the top of a small hill, an undeveloped green land and an incoherent urban environment with an old railway station building from the beginning of the 20th century and a commercial pavilion with multi-family blocks from the 1970s and 1980s.  © Piotr Krajewski The main idea of the project was to cover the place and it's functions (a bus station, railway platforms, a service point for travelers) under one, uniformed roof. Furthermore, the slope of the trackways was transformed into an amphitheater, a public space with greenery and seats, which gives an attractive elevation seen from the square located in the front of the hub. The bicycles stands and public toilets were hidden in the break of the slope with access from the bus stations and the train platforms.  © Piotr Krajewski The transport hub in Solec Kujawski, thanks to its simple and light form does not overwhelm the city. It is well suited to the development of the area, because it does not dominate it. Thanks to the new adaptation of the slope, adaptation to the use of travelers, thanks to the arrangement of the greenery and a clear form of all complexes, the hub has changed de facto into an urban square, a public space not only friendly to passengers but also passers-by.  © Piotr Krajewski  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Montreal’s LEED Platinum Bibliothèque du Boisé Wins RAIC's Green Building Award Posted: 15 Apr 2017 01:00 AM PDT  © Doublespace Photography The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) have awarded Montreal's Bibliothèque du Boisé with the annual Green Building Award for 2017. Designed by the trio of Consortium Labonté Marcil, Cardinal Hardy and Eric Pelletier architectes, the library is situated in the city's Saint-Laurent district, and received the distinction as an example of "buildings that are environmentally responsible and promote the health and wellbeing of users." "The library offers a variety of beautifully lit and welcoming spaces throughout, maximizing daylight and views and the use of natural elements, such as wood, to create an environment that contributes to health and wellbeing," said the jury. "Their approach to high-performance building through whole systems design and strategy has resulted in an impressive achievement."  © Doublespace Photography  © Doublespace Photography This year's Green Building Award comes as an addition to a number of international and national awards already received by the Bibliothèque du Boisé, which has also earned a LEED Platinum certification. With a strong emphasis on a seamless integration of architecture and landscape, the 6,000 square meter building incorporates additional programs, including administration, exhibit space and museum archives. Serving not only as a library but also as a space for communal and cultural interaction, the building employs a number of sustainable design strategies, including an inventive passive heating system which redistributes heat collected in a glass prism. Maximising solar gain, 75% of the library's floor area has access to natural light and significantly reduces energy usage. Duct requirements were also managed through the use of low-flow ventilation through the floors.  © YienChaoHR  © Doublespace Photography
In terms of materiality, the architects emphasize the use of locally sourced, low-emitting and recyclable materials, primarily constructed from certified wood. The site was also minimally impacted through the preservation of existing trees and the planting of over 100 more. Indigenous shrubs and climbing plants are also features on the exterior, and a nearby wetland is maintained through a stormwater recovery system.  © Doublespace Photography  © YienChaoHR The jury consisted of the following members: • Mona Lemoine, MRAIC; project manager, McLennan Design, Vancouver; Learn more about the Bibliothèque du Boisé, the winner of the 2017 Green Building Award, below. News via: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
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| House in Pedralbes / BC Estudio Architects Posted: 14 Apr 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Julio Cunill
 © Julio Cunill From the architect. This family home is located in the upper area of Barcelona. The building was move to the rear of the plot in order to achieve the best orientation towards the south and east, and to have a spacious garden with panoramic views of the sea and the city of Barcelone.  © Julio Cunill  Site Plan  © Julio Cunill Its proximity to a ring road required a formal solution to noise pollution. It was resolved in the home, by designing a façade of wooden slats and planning a green wall-talus on the edge of the lot.  © Julio Cunill The pedestrian access to the house and to the garage is located to the side of the site. The different floors, ground, first, second and basement are developed following the longitudinal form of the terrain, with a stairwell and elevator in the middle that divides the different areas in each level.  Section The basement as well as the garage includes storage rooms, machine room, wine cellar and gym in the back of the garden, where the swimming pool is. The bedrooms, with a study and terraces, are on the first and on the second floor.  © Julio Cunill The contrast between the wood and bush-hammered concrete with large woodwork structures serves to integrate the house with the garden and its surroundings.  © Julio Cunill  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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