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- Clifton House / Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design
- Hourglass / studioLOOP
- Vincent Callebaut Imagines Hyperbolic Shaped Forest Suspended Over River in Seoul
- Bee Breeders Announces Mango Vinyl Hub Competition Winners
- CIPASA Bosque do Horto / Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
- PRÁCTICA and Daroca Arquitectos' Mixed Housing Complex to Develop Malaga's "Green Block"
- Spruce Up Your "Post-Digital" Drawings With These Free, Artistic PNG Cutouts
- Los Sauces Public School / Gabriel Verd Arquitectos
- The Vibrant Colors and Details of Argentine Architecture in 100 Minimalist Photographs
| Clifton House / Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design Posted: 17 Jun 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Adam Letch
 © Adam Letch From the architect. The suburb of Clifton on Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard has a high rate of foot traffic due to it's scenic beauty, with residents and tourists being keen joggers and walkers. It was a deliberate design intention to take this fact into consideration - in a neighborhood characterized by high blank boundary walls and overpowering building mass.  © Adam Letch The house is visually accessible from the street, rather than hiding behind perimeter walls and gates - and it aims to contribute to the streetscape (specific attention has been paid to landscaping design at sidewalk level), in relation to the sidewalks and to the height of existing adjacent houses. It occupies a position on the hill side between lower lying houses to the left or north, and higher situated properties to the right or south of it.  © Adam Letch Gabion walls are used to elevate the living spaces, de-emphasize a large garage and screen utilities. Elevation above road level is essential to maximize view potential, but can lead to overpowering building mass. The design therefor aims to erode the building mass by means of smaller volumes and expressing thinner structural elements such as floor slabs, thereby creating an organic stacking of building components. The garage's gabion walls have been planted to become overgrown with time, and as such soften the streetscape for passers-by. The guest flat on first floor has full views over the road, to the sea beyond, and is given privacy by means of a cedar wood shuttered wall.  Section The lower two levels (garage and guest apartment) of the home engage more with the hillside, whereas the top two levels, housing the main residence, become boulder-like objects perched on the hillside. The main residence is broken into three off-shutter concrete building blocks (the 'boulders'), connected by means of a free-flowing double volume atrium space, also containing vertical circulation (staircase and lift). Two 'bookends' of the residence is expressed as glazed and cedar shuttered boxes, housing bathrooms that become lit-from-within lanterns at night. These elements are further celebrated by being cantilevered over negative space below.  © Adam Letch Seamless indoor-outdoor living spaces spill out onto a comfortable protected and landscaped courtyard, that allows maximum north exposure, rather than responding to sea views only. Similarly the kitchen has a direct connection to the vegetable and herb garden by means of stepping-stones over a pond with a wet wall water feature. The atrium opens up to the pond by means of a story-high mechanical sash window, greatly adding to natural cooling in the summer.  Level 2 Plan Roof over-hangs and glazing specifications were carefully considered in order to minimize unwanted solar heat gain. Western exposure is regulated with external, automated drop-down screens over glazed façades, whilst energy consumption is minimized by means of Photovoltaic and Solar panels both linked to a centralized system for domestic water heating, waterborne under-floor and pool heating.  © Adam Letch The selection of materials; board-marked concrete, local stone, untreated cedar wood, rough-sawn oak floor planks, terrazzo floors and Corten steel will express the passing of time, with the gradual changing of each material's natural colour and texture.  © Adam Letch  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 17 Jun 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Kai Nakamura
 © Kai Nakamura From the architect. This is a rebuilding project for families who have been living in this area for a long time. Hourglass is a house located in Gunma, Japan. On the south of the site there is a rice field spreading, and in the north there is a forest with lots of trees. We put emphasis to the scenery and aimed for passing light and wind abundantly. We proposed a space with high transparency by sandwiching the public space such as living room with glass. Nature is taken in through the courtyard even around the main bedroom and the water arranged on the north side.  © Kai Nakamura The parent's living is completed on the 1st floor because the 2nd floor is only 2 children rooms, which is like single story house including a guest room. Because the exterior is wrapped in glass or metal, it effectively applied wood finishing spots inside and outside to produce a soft atmosphere. For the family, it has become a completely different residence, but maybe we could propose a construction that can only be done here.  © Kai Nakamura  Ground Floor Plan  © Kai Nakamura  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Vincent Callebaut Imagines Hyperbolic Shaped Forest Suspended Over River in Seoul Posted: 17 Jun 2017 09:00 AM PDT Vincent Callebaut Architectures have developed a design plan reimagining the riverbank of Yeouhido Park, Seoul. The park is envisioned as an experimental urban space dedicated to sustainable development through a series of interventions - including a floating ferry terminal. Named the "Manta Ray," the ambition of the proposal is to transform the park into an ecological forest of trees, enhancing its natural irrigation and strengthening the banks from floods. The "permeable landscaping" seeks to reduce floods and rehabilitate urban ecosystems that have become fragmented through Seoul's rapid built expansion. The vegetation-dominated strategy also seeks to reduce the urban "heat island" effect Seoul has been experiencing due to climate change over the past decades.  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures
 © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures Dubbed as the 4 "cores" of interventions, the landscaping plan consists of a floating ferry terminal, landscaping of the riverbank, development of the upper ground and a cultural complex, which will host a science center for children.  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures The bio-designed "Manta-Ray" ferry terminal will host a complex set of sustainable design strategies. Devised to cater to boats ranging from water taxis to cruise ships, the terminal is built as a web of floating piers. Floating dikes along its docks link together, protecting the marina from water currents as well as offering panoramic views of the river. The piers integrate technical equipment inside double floors, supplying boats with energy (water and electricity) and biofuels. The docking and platforms are secured by a network of chains, which anchor the ferry to the bottom of the river with 26 concrete slabs.  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures Honeycomb columns made from cross-laminated timber (harvested ecologically from Korean forests) rise above the floating docks, marking the mid-level of the ferry terminal building. The tree-like trunks are hollow, providing stairs, elevators and service facilities inside their trunks while supporting the terminal's characteristic curved roof. A biofuel plant will provide energy for the equipment through recycling biodegradable waste supplied from Yeouhido Park.  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures The upper areas of the ferry terminal are directed towards educational and commercial facilities, including food courts, exhibition spaces and the roof's observation deck. The rooftop, being the program's landmark garden space will also contain an orchard. 4,4550 square meters of photovoltaic solar panels will be incorporated into the glass façade of the building, with an additional 3,500 square meters of photothermal panels lining its edges. Wind trees positioned on the rooftop will also collect energy via a turbine farm.  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures
 © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures The four projects are linked together by dense vegetation and a cable-stayed pedestrian bridge. The entire "Manta Ray" project seeks to generate 100% of its energy sustainably through the different energy strategies (solar, wind, biomass, hydro) woven into different elements of its program. Materials are bio-sourced, recycled and are recyclable.  © Vincent Callebaut Architectures  Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Learn more about Manta Ray here.
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| Bee Breeders Announces Mango Vinyl Hub Competition Winners Posted: 17 Jun 2017 07:00 AM PDT  First Prize: The Music Telescope / Lucia Filippini, Elisa Dellarossa & Tuana Yıldız. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Bee Breeders have selected the winners of the Mango Vinyl Hub Competition, challenging entries to marry architecture, music, industry, and design in the repurposing of a decrepit tin foil factory in Cesis, Latvia. With a focus on the revival of the vinyl record industry, "successful projects temper the impulse of retrojecting nostalgic hallmark or tradition, through revitalization of purpose of an artifact and history of a bygone era." Here are the winning visions of the Mango Vinyl Hub: First Prize: The Music Telescope / Lucia Filippini, Elisa Dellarossa & Tuana Yıldız  First Prize: The Music Telescope / Lucia Filippini, Elisa Dellarossa & Tuana Yıldız. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Colorful tubes populate the site of the winning entry, connecting scattered programs both physically and visually. The scheme repurposes infrastructural elements such as conduits, plumbing, and subway tunnels as organizational elements of people, creating a new industrial typology in reference to the high-tech movement.
Second Prize: In-Between / Onea Ioana Alexandra, Nistor Raluca, Hirleata Stefania Daniela, Tirca Radu George; Universitatea de Arhitectura si Urbanism "Ion Mincu"  Second Prize: In-Between / Onea Ioana Alexandra, Nistor Raluca, Hirleata Stefania Daniela, Tirca Radu George; Universitatea de Arhitectura si Urbanism "Ion Mincu". Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders The second-place proposal blurs exterior and interior conditions through the implementation of mesh facades and by snaking circulation in between buildings, thereby freeing up dynamic space. A constructed tower serves as the central hub for interaction, performance, and recreation, while the saw-tooth roofs of the spaces contrast the site's silhouette with that of the surrounding city. The proposal was also selected for the 'BB Student Award'.
Third Prize: Out Of the Blue / Valdone Mitkeviciute, Greta Prialgauskaite; Vilnius Art Academy  Third Prize: Out Of the Blue / Valdone Mitkeviciute, Greta Prialgauskaite; Vilnius Art Academy. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Emphasizing the juxtaposition of production and consumption, as well as the tensions that exist between the market and commerce, this proposal also uses color as a means of invitation. It is a diagram in essence, with adjacent programs prompting discovery and exchange through the progression of programs.
The Big Picture Award (Best Masterplan):  The Big Picture Award (Best Masterplan): Sound Factory / Bartosz Matuszek, Ewelina Bugajewicz, Karolina Wasilewska, Paulina Sawczuk; Bialystok University Of Technology. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Sound Factory / Bartosz Matuszek, Ewelina Bugajewicz, Karolina Wasilewska, Paulina Sawczuk; Bialystok University Of Technology The Honourable Mentions, complete jury comments and winners' interviews can be found on the competition website, here. News via: Bee Breeders.
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| CIPASA Bosque do Horto / Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados Posted: 17 Jun 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Nelson Kon
 © Nelson Kon From the architect. The project is situated on a site with a natural slope, an admirable view facing north and a beautiful lake. The main idea was to minimally change the original site, but at the same time provide some sights of the extremally beautiful landscape of the forest.  © Nelson Kon  © Nelson Kon Therefore, a social club headquarters was designed to this place, embracing all organization and brief premise that a sports and leisure area requires. The landscape was the determining factor that led the design to be always seeking for integration with nature and offering free activities and enjoyable circulation and living areas. An access through an elevated walkway contrasts the building from the site, leading the pedestrian to this double storey height space where a view to the landscape can be contemplated.  Ground Floor Plan  First Floor Plan All individual activities, as a gym and a game room are located on the upper floor, as well as the ground floor hosts all free and common activities. Proper spaces for events and verandas improve the communal living areas.  © Nelson Kon  Sections  © Nelson Kon This club headquarters arises from a slight steel structure, that has it ends as two curtain panels. The architectural concept was one single shelter, turned to a beautiful view that would host many activities that happens in this large and open space.  © Nelson Kon  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| PRÁCTICA and Daroca Arquitectos' Mixed Housing Complex to Develop Malaga's "Green Block" Posted: 17 Jun 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of PRÁCTICA and Daroca Arquitectos A competition for the innovative design of public housing in Malaga has been won by Spanish firms PRÁCTICA and Daroca Arquitectos, whose proposal offers a new housing typology based on energy efficiency, sustainability, and urbanization from a human and ecological perspective. Titled Al Sur, the 15,196 square meters development transforms Malaga's "Green Block" urban plan, combining social housing, free market units, and commercial areas.  Courtesy of PRÁCTICA and Daroca Arquitectos  Courtesy of PRÁCTICA y Daroca Arquitectos The block reduces vehicular circulation, forming a highly pedestrian-friendly zone, thus "proposing a new model of pedestrian city". Buildings are arranged to maximize daylighting and illuminate pockets of public space and include 76 social housing units in addition to 40 rentable units.  Courtesy of PRÁCTICA y Daroca Arquitectos Volumetrically, the buildings on the site are dictated and oriented by the site's natural climatic conditions, in order to affect the housing units and commercial areas through passive strategies. Steering away from the conventional use of concrete and steel, cross-laminated timber was instead the primary material used in the construction, chosen for its sustainable qualities and potential as an environmentally friendly solution for future development.  Courtesy of PRÁCTICA y Daroca Arquitectos  Courtesy of PRÁCTICA y Daroca Arquitectos  Courtesy of PRÁCTICA y Daroca Arquitectos In addition to material choice, Al Sur's residential structures serve as "independent climatic units", complimenting the constructed thermal insulation system with passive ventilation to reduce overall energy consumption within the buildings, and provide a more economical solution to climate control.
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| Spruce Up Your "Post-Digital" Drawings With These Free, Artistic PNG Cutouts Posted: 17 Jun 2017 02:30 AM PDT  Courtesy of ARTCUTOUT Despite the insistence of some, vinyl records haven't undergone a resurgence because of their supposed superior sound quality. Instead, the impractical medium remains cherished for its quirk and ambiguity. As of late, the collage has made a has made a comeback as a representational strategy for the very same reason, sparking a recent debate around the potential emergence of "post-digital drawing." Intentionally fantastical compilations empower architects to create clear narratives to supplement their work. In response to this growing popularity, a number of websites have popped up to bolster the trend. Image hosting hub ARTCUTOUT is a curated collection of meticulously detailed, public domain .PNGs nabbed from works of art that were "mostly created several centuries ago by European painters and cartographers." Serving as a something akin to a "post-digital" version of famed render hub SKALGUBBAR, ARTCUTOUT has the potential to be a go-to resource for the next wave of designers. But despite the usefulness of these isolated illustrations in furthering the popularity of this representation style, some prominent members of the "post-digital drawing" movement might be skeptical about this easy access. In a recent interview with Metropolis Magazine, Federica Sofia Zambeletti, the co-founder of architecture blog KoozA/rch and a major driving force behind the movement's popularity, insists that she's "not against the re-appropriation of previous narratives so long they hold a specific position," lamenting that for many new people adopting this style, this position is lacking. As the medium gains legitimacy, perhaps we will see that just like fumbling around with a delicate vinyl, much of the joy of collage lies in its haphazard and often unjustified nature. Check out some of ARTCUTOUT's images below, and visit the website here to see all their downloadable .PNGs:  Courtesy of ARTCUTOUT  Courtesy of ARTCUTOUT  Courtesy of ARTCUTOUT  Courtesy of ARTCUTOUT  Courtesy of ARTCUTOUT  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Los Sauces Public School / Gabriel Verd Arquitectos Posted: 17 Jun 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Jesús Granada
 © Jesús Granada Urban Environment In the spur of the provinces of Cadiz and Malaga, in the middle of the South mountain range in the province of Seville, locates a 5,000 dwellers town called El Saucejo  © Jesús Granada Its public school takes place in the north of this municipality, at the intersection between Casas de los Maestros street and Osuna road. A low height residence area where emerges the local sport pavilion.  Floor Plan The Plot The intervention consists in the construction of a new pavilion for child education, adapted to the current regulations for construction (CTE) and education replacing many of the current facilities. This intervention is supposed to be the 1st phase of the adequacy of the center to the C2 model which includes primary studies too.  © Jesús Granada Nowadays the center is composed by different edifications, an amalgam of volumes which have been growing through the years due to the increase of the child population.  Situation The main building dates from 80's and englobes administration and primary classrooms. Attached to it there is a lower body which is in poor condition, destined to uses such as dining room, playground's bathroom and mutual classroom. The center also is disposed of a gym, which generates an exempt volume with a light roof built in mid 80's.  © Jesús Granada The original buildings correspond to the two side flanks of the set built in the 50's. These were standard modules of classrooms that in those years were replicated throughout the Andalusian community. One of these flanks, specifically the adjoining with the Road, is the one that is demolished to accommodate the new extension.  © Jesús Granada The New Extension The extension accommodates the infant classrooms of a two-line C2 type center. As it is a building isolated from the main, it also has the complementary spaces necessary to operate autonomously (warehouse, boiler room and toilets).  © Jesús Granada The building is organized into three distinct areas, complementary spaces and multi-purpose classroom, a classroom and a new access to the school.  © Jesús Granada Being a partial substitution, the new building has been seen conditioned by the current configuration of the Center. It was then proposed a linear piece with a porch that works as a dealer and covered patio. In 2nd phase will form part of the communication ring that must join all the pieces that make up the future central courtyard.  © Jesús Granada The new building also arranges the access to the center. It is supposed to be a clean and direct entrance, which won´t interfere with the teaching activity and playground games. A strong gabled roof volume that marks the milestone of entry gives the Center its new institutional and identifying image.  Section The profile of the building is related to the environment where the buildings with gabled roofs is the predominant image, resembling also the children's drawings of houses with sloping roofs and bright colors… the school that the children would draw.  © Jesús Granada  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Vibrant Colors and Details of Argentine Architecture in 100 Minimalist Photographs Posted: 17 Jun 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Cortesía de @hernanmat The textures, colors, and details, captured by @hernanmat in these minimalist photographs, show the vibrancy of the patterns and elements characteristic of the local, traditional and popular architecture of Argentina. By photographing and compiling all these elements into one place, the collection becomes in a way a reflection of the different components of Argentine architecture that occupy the collective memory. Check out below a stunning selection of minimalist photographs by @hernanmat.  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat  Cortesía de @hernanmat * For more stunning images by @hernanmat follow him on Instagram.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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