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- Slate Cabin / TRIAS Studio
- The Screen / DMOA architects
- T09 / BAST
- Plain House / Wutopia Lab
- Clubhouse Mongkok Skypark / concrete
- Casa Linea / studio_GAON
- 4 Teams Selected to Envision the Future of Autonomous Transit in NYC
- Western Sydney University Parramatta Campus / Woods Bagot
- Announcing Our Partnership with SentioVR to Inspire Architects with Virtual Reality
- Porte Marguerite de Navarre / 169 architecture
- C.F. Møller to Lead Design of Project Replacing Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens
- PH Lavalleja / CCPM Arquitectos
- MAD's Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Approved by LA City Council
- The Silo / COBE
- Is India's Plan to Build 100 Smart Cities Inherently Flawed?
- House Peacock / BHSF Architekten + Studio P
- Shelter Global Announces Winners of 2017 Dencity Competition
- Blank Architects Win Competition to Design Moscow Metro Station
- The Ruin / Rozhdestvenka architectural bureau
| Posted: 29 Jun 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Jonathon Donnelly
 © Jonathon Donnelly From the architect. Slate Cabin is a writer's retreat perched on the edge of Snowdonia National Park in Mid Wales. The building is set in a lush green valley that is ringed by barren, windswept hills and grazing pastures.  Ground Floor Plan In response to this beautiful and yet harsh landscape, the cabin is a reductive black box that is anchored to the ground. It provides protection and respite to visitors who wish to escape the wind, rain and snow.  © Jonathon Donnelly Slate Cabin is inspired by the very bedrock of Wales – its slate. Wales is a unique landscape, scattered with stone-strewn mountains, abandoned quarries and old slate homes. These qualities encouraged us to base our design around this local and historically significant material.  Exploded Axonometric Slate Cabin is envisaged as a visual infrastructure for cataloguing Welsh slate. The exterior of the cabin is covered in local stone, which is fixed to the building like oversized shingles. These recycled slate tiles were reclaimed from nearby farms, and are mottled and pockmarked with weather and time. They result in a building that is at home in the hills, with a rugged and rustic appearance.  © Jonathon Donnelly In essence, the building is a simple, rectangular volume. The exterior is dark and muted, with a contrasting interior that is honeyed and warm. The spatial organisation is simple, with a single room for essential activities - sleeping, cooking, resting and relaxing - and a bathroom tucked behind. The main room is designed as a crafted piece of joinery. Subtle shifts and steps are used to differentiate between functions, creating rooms within a larger volume. The bed sits up on a raised platform, and pulls back to provide space for a seat and desk. The bed head, meanwhile, wraps around to house a built in seat and table. This acts as a cosy place to share meals, which can be cooked on a small wood-burning stove.  © Jonathon Donnelly Elsewhere, storage and shelves are artfully integrated. Stairs to the bed platform become a space to store books and shoes, while a shelf above the bathroom acts as a slot for hiking packs. All services are self-contained, which means that the cabin operates off-the-grid. Throughout the cabin, openings are carefully considered to capture small vignettes. Along one wall, a slot window frames a long, panoramic landscape of mountains and fields. Meanwhile, a continuous lantern of high windows bathe the space in natural light. Glancing up to these windows reveals glimpses of distant hills and spindly, swaying branches.  © Jonathon Donnelly To create a serene experience, the cabin is built of as few materials as possible. Soft, gentle textures intentionally contrast the stark stone exterior. Almost all of the surfaces are lined in birch plywood, which softly diffuses the light. The ceilings are draped in a woven hessian, a playful reference to the rural context. The architectural approach explores the tension between permanence and impermanence, the efficient act of prefabrication and the slow beauty lent by natural materials. The building bears the traces of time, and is designed to blend in to its rural setting.  © Jonathon Donnelly  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Luc Roymans
 © Luc Roymans From the architect. A beautiful plot with endless views... but unfortunately next to a truckers company. How to make the most of these two contradictory influences?Our concept: we placed a narrow, long and tall house on the far right of the parcel. The property itself acts as a screen to cover up the unsightly, noisy neighbour on the right.  © Luc Roymans The right side of the house has a blind facade, while the other side opens freely towards a large, sunny garden, where there is little evidence left of the fleet and accompanying roar. Or how everything falls into place by an atypical choice of implantation and volume ...The head of the lengthy volume contains the garage and is closed towards the street. Above lie the children's rooms, here the volume got a shift towards the left and a large window. This way, the children can marvel to the vista from their beds. Bonus: it gives a nice dynamic to the front elevation.The back end of the volume is cut at an angle and fully glazed. Doing so, the living room maximally enjoys the best part of the panorama.The shape of the house that thus naturally arose from the conditions, is strong in its simplicity.  © Luc Roymans  Section  © Luc Roymans The windows are large and implanted consciously, like gigantic wooden canvases that frame the landscape. They contribute to the purity of shape. And nothing could disturb it. A garden door is lined with brick, a restroom window is included in a larger whole, a smaller bedroom window is hidden behind atmospheric claustra-masonry...All those big windows are fitted along the outside with screens with horizontal slats. The sun and privacy are continuously filtered to the wishes of the residents.A vivacious brick brings texture and character to the whole. Otherwise, the overall look would have became too slick.The interior continues the purity of form and materialisation.  © Luc Roymans There is a limited number of materials. Non-plastered walls in planked concrete were the starting point. Wood veneer with similar texture and colour matches harmoniously. The white cast floor and white plastered ceiling let the concrete and veneer emerge even stronger. The kitchen complements this palette with a locally cast concrete countertop and white artificial stone cabinets. In the bedrooms, the atmosphere is warmed by wood parquet flooring.The mood in the house is serene, pure and focused on the tranquillity of the countryside. Vast, gently sloping fields, some trees, a lonely house. You can stare for hours. A nice place to come home to after a busy day filled with impulses.  © Luc Roymans  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2017 07:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of BAST
 Courtesy of BAST From the architect. A barbers shop needs more space to develop its online commercial activities. The kitchen of an historic mansion is available across the street. To fill the new space that is too large for his sole occupation, the barber offers to house photographers in exchange of publicity shots of his online products. The space must therefore accommodate these activities. The vaulted kitchen space remains untouched. A technical floor made of concrete slabs and a sliding glazed portal allow for dual use of the space, adaptable to accomodate the needs of both the barber and photographer.  Courtesy of BAST  Axonometric  Courtesy of BAST  Axonometric  Courtesy of BAST  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2017 03:00 PM PDT  © CreatAR images
 © CreatAR images From the architect. Yu Ting, the Principal Architect at Wutopia Lab, explains: "I insist on the establishment of a dual relationship in the design, me and the artist, Isozaki and me, my old project and new one, the surrounding buildings and artist's house, artists' paintings and residence, all these information leads to Plain house.  © SU Shengliang Artist Li Bin has two studios. The first and the second studios, respectively, are designed by Isozaki and Wutopia Lab. Li wanted the renovation to shift the living functions from the first studio to the second studio. The first studio has now been repurposed as his own museum, while the second studio has been converted into his house, a painter's house. A bridge connects these two spaces.  © CreatAR images In addition to a garage, tea room, and living room which contains the kitchen and the dining room, the first floor includes two storage spaces for his works. On the second floor there are "his" and "hers" bedrooms, a study which can be used as a servant's quarter, and a work balcony. The bridge connecting the first studio to the second studio begins at a mutual space between the two second floor bedrooms.  © CreatAR images The inner walls were painted gray, an ideal backdrop color for Li's paintings. In contrast to the thus far monochromatic use of color, we used Li's trademark color, red, to paint the living room. A singular skylight was positioned in the southwest corner of the living room ceiling. The radiance of the red changes with the weather and the time of day, at the climax of the interplay between these two elements, color and light, the living room takes on an ineffable atmosphere. It is the "sacred" space in the building's parti. These windows make Plain house into a sky lit house; the different sized openings allow light to waterfall into the interior.  First Floor Plan  Second Floor Plan Plain House's façade is a lighter gray. Before the exterior paint fully dried, we use a wooden mold to print leaf patterns onto the façade, making the gray exterior shimmer in the sunlight. We used fluorite to dry the stone design of the skirt of the wall, hoping it may shine like a star in the night sky above. There are two types of windows on the façade, the old windows and the old ones. Square windows were from old buildings, which the artist wants to apply on Plain house. Given to the fact, size and color of these windows are different. All the positions are designed according to the design's needs. These new and old windows decorate the roof and the facade of Plain house.  © CreatAR images As a result of the cost, we did not use weathering steel, when the steel plate is eroded presenting a beautiful golden yellow, then we brushed anti-rust paint, it become a deep brown.There is a large camphor tree in the courtyard, so the north side of the house is bounded by the tree's trunk and roots. The tree's canopy inevitably presses up against the house. Out of respect for the tree, the wall here is sloped inwards. In order to highlight the tree's texture, we changed the material of this part of the façade into steel. The steel will mature with the natural environment.  © CreatAR images The artist, Li Bin was involved in the construction process. At the heart of the building there is a small sky lit space, "the" space. The artist painted the walls a sky blue. The boundaries of the blue walls blur with the sky above. As a result, the light from the blue sky resonates with the blue walls giving the space an ethereal glow. One forgets this space exists between the staircase and the elevator.  © CreatAR images The façade of the south side holds a seal of the artist's own design. The seal's perforated iron plating allows for lighting in addition to privacy and security. This seal defines the south side of the house.  © CreatAR images As time has passed, the artist's house has grown to become simple and plain.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Clubhouse Mongkok Skypark / concrete Posted: 29 Jun 2017 01:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of concrete
 Courtesy of concrete From the architect. Within the bustling streets of Mongkok, Hong Kong concrete created a welcoming clubhouse for all residents of the Skypark tower.  Third Floor Plan Skypark is a large residential development by Hong Kong based New World Development, led by Mr Adrian Cheng. Within one of the densest areas of Hong Kong the tower is suited to people that enjoy life in a lively and vibrant neighborhood. However, Skypark also provides an escape from the city with its communal clubhouse and outside park on the very top of the building.  Courtesy of concrete Concrete has designed the architecture and interior of all residential public areas from the street entrance to the transfer concierge floor and top floor clubhouse.  Clubhouse Floor Plan Inspired by the crowded and narrow streets of Mongkok, where space is limited and people bump into each other, concrete created a place for residents to escape the chaos and for people to truly connect. Almost literally, by "breaking down the walls" of a generic clubhouse, an open and transformable public space was made. This created an opportunity to redesign the essence of a residents-clubhouse within this dense and cosmopolitan city.  Courtesy of concrete By working closely with P&T architects and landscape architects ALN, Concrete was able to make an integrated design that captures the "in-between spaces" and creates an architecture where interior and landscape designs merge.  Courtesy of concrete The clubhouse consists of different function areas. Kitchen, library and bar sit together with a gym, swimming pool and art gallery.  Courtesy of concrete A large outside staircase connects the clubhouse floor with the landscaped park on top of the building complete with picnic and bbq areas.  Courtesy of concrete The staircase, where the gardens drop down and the living rooms climb up, becomes an outdoor cinema on Friday nights, or a place to enjoy the stars in the sky and secretly kiss your girlfriend...  Courtesy of concrete ARCHITECTURE The open floorplan is made by four squared volumes that house all the necessities like staircases, elevators, structure, MEP, restrooms, storage and bar and kitchen equipment. These blocks are cladded with travertine and protrude the ceiling into the landscaped roof. By positioning them diagonally the in-between space gives place to the different areas and function rooms. These spaces are kept transparent and open, with a few glass partitions and sliding doors. This results in surprising spaces, where one can find the best views in every corner with the spectacular view towards the city as your background.  Courtesy of concrete  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © Youngchae Park
 © Youngchae Park From the architect. The client, in his early fifties gentleman running a local business, bought a land near a scenic lakeside in Asan city. When we visited the site with him, tall and handsome pine trees were standing around the lengthy perimeter of the site. It was impressive to feel the dramatic contrast between the horizontal line of the sweeping water in front of the land and the vertical lines formed by the pine trees stretching to the sky.  © Youngchae Park First of all, we drew the land on the paper. Sketching the land is to understand the characteristics of the land. We draw the land, landscape, trees and grass, sunshine and shadow, and through these activities we discover the 'line' which forms the foundation of the house.  Ground Floor Plan The client explained his life and preferences. He wanted an open space for the kitchen and dining room for visitors, and an extra guestroom. And he wanted to listen to the music undisrupted in his separate music saloon.  © Youngchae Park We seated his requirements following the grain of land as we understood. We began with horizontal lines parallel to the boundary and joined the spaces on the line with diverse functions.  Section 1 First, we drew a long corridor parallel to the road and water, and attached each space; the kitchen and living room, bedroom for family and guests, and an annex for the music room. Between each room, we inserted an outdoor space (Madang).  © Youngchae Park Following the flow of the land, the overall form is slightly bent according to the shape along the road. To avoid emotionless long wall, we made several openings for visual connection and to let wind pass.  © Youngchae Park On the wall of Buonarroti Michelangelo's atelier, there was a phrase "Nulla dies sine linea." To translate the Latin, it means, "Do not spend a day without drawing a line." Maybe he wanted to emphasis the fundamental virtue of an artist.  © Youngchae Park To draw a line means to draw a sketch, and this would be an expression of the artist to continually practice the basics constantly. Architects draw countless lines as well.  © Youngchae Park There are many kinds of lines. Sometimes a mere line expresses more spirit than a very picturesque drawing. Lines of Asian culture are unlike Western's. Lines of Western culture are part of process to find an ideal line. They draw numerous lines to find the authentic one. The lines of Asian culture are one-time and coincidental. The line is drawn at once. Of course, they need a long training period and self-discipline to draw that one particular line.  First Floor Plan In architecture, lines have to be responsible. Architectural lines are not just traces on the paper. They represent the relationship between spaces. It should not be too close or too far. It should be regular and very objective.  © Youngchae Park Like rambling fruits on the branch, this building has consecutive masses and several gardens between each space, making the building longer than it is. This horizontally stretched form creates a harmony with a vertical line of pine trees to confirm the will of the line we first drew on the land. So we named this house 'The house of lines (casa linea)'.  © Youngchae Park  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 4 Teams Selected to Envision the Future of Autonomous Transit in NYC Posted: 29 Jun 2017 10:05 AM PDT  via Blank Space Four teams have been selected as finalists in the "Driverless Future Challenge." Organized by Blank Space with the City of New York and NY Tech Meetup, the competition asked teams to envision future strategies for implementation of autonomous transit in New York City. Participants were tasked with evaluating the future of autonomous transportation through the four principles outlined by Mayor Bill de Blasio's OneNYC initiative:
Entries were received from more than 25 countries, proposing ideas for everything from driverless food carts and a fully-autonomous MTA transit system, to enhanced use of NYC's 311 system as a driverless dispatching center, to Link NYC Wifi stations that become stops for autonomous micro-buses. The four finalist teams were selected by a multidisciplinary jury featuring top architects including Jeffrey Inaba (Inaba Williams), Odile Decq (Studio Odile Decq) and Jürgen Mayer H. (J. MAYER H.). The four finalists include: sAVe / IBI GroupDescription from the architects Public Square / FXFOWLE Architects with Sam Schwartz EngineeringDescription from the architects Urban Oasis / Lily Shi, Yodai Yasunaga, Jiaming ZhangDescription from the architects QueueY / Daniel Hui, Danil Nagy, Spencer WrightDescription from the architects The four teams will present their proposals at the Pitch the City Event on July 11th, where a winner will be selected live by a panel of NYC Government Officials from the Mayor's Office, the Economic Development Corporation, the Department of Transportation, the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the Department of City Planning, and a representative from New Lab, NYC's preeminent technology and manufacturing hub. Find more details about the event below or at the challenge website.
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| Western Sydney University Parramatta Campus / Woods Bagot Posted: 29 Jun 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © Nicole England
 © Nicole England From the architect. Me, We, Us: the future of agile learning environments  © Nicole England With interior design by Woods Bagot, the vertical campus is designed to foster interaction, collaboration and partnerships with local business and industry, blurring the boundaries between business and tertiary education. Centred on the concept of "me (student), we (university), us (community)", the interiors concept was developed to blur the lines between a traditional commercial office tower and a functional university campus. This methodology is manifest in the place making strategy as well as the base palette approach.  © Nicole England Facilitating through-site connections integrated to a local network of civic and cultural strategies, the campus offers a malleable solution at the public interface with retail activation and digital wayfinding providing linkages to the adjacent transport hub.  © Nicole England Client briefing and aspirational workshops led to a series of proposals for a mixed-faculty occupation of the building, comprising a diversity of flexible spaces capable of accommodating multiple learning landscapes and academic disciplines. Creating a unifying vertical campus environment via an evidence based design approach, the vision was to create a campus multidisciplinary in function, innovative in approach and entrepreneurial in spirit.  First Floor Plan Woods Bagot Director Georgia Singleton said the design took an agnostic approach to the interior fit-out, allowing for a truly flexible and future-proofed learning environment.  © Nicole England "There are no lecture theatres within the space, instead the design fosters an interactive approach to teaching and learning - a prominent aspect of WSU curriculum. Free flowing movement across each floor plate creates moments for discovery and serendipitous interactions," "One of the objectives for this project was to produce an agile educational environment that enables adaptation to almost any university group, whilst sitting seamlessly within its busy commercial setting."  © Nicole England A vertical campus building stacked over several floors can sometimes inhibit the opportunities for students and educators to co-mingle and interact. Featuring a porous core, the atrium concept creates a sense of community and connectivity allowing for greater mobility while aiding sightlines between floors. The provision of interconnecting stairs and voids encourages collaboration and organic conversation between students, staff and industry.  © Nicole England Client briefing led to a series of proposals for a mixed-faculty occupation of the campus building, including Business, Economics and Engineering, comprising a diversity of full flexible spaces capable of accommodating multiple learning landscapes and academic disciplines. Woods Bagot Regional Education sector leader Alan Duffy said responding to the brief allowed the design team to test the blend between formal and informal learning spaces.  Tenth Floor Plan "Activating the edges of the formal spaces introduced a variety of opportunities for social engagement between students and academics, breaking down traditional barriers in tertiary buildings. The outcome is a flexible and adaptive environment that encourages learning through conversation."  © Nicole England For the academic zones, an open plan office pod design enables a more fluent and cost efficient utilisation of space. By embracing principles of open and moving away from the traditional cellular office model, WSU staff are invited to co-mingle with students, breaking down traditional campus hierarchies.  © Nicole England The application of solid, natural materials defines formal learning zones, which are surrounded by continuous informal and social spaces. Staff and students are encouraged to linger and collaborate in breakout spaces where comfort and re-configurable furniture enable freedom of choice. Penetration of natural daylight and a visual connectivity to the outdoors is enhanced in the social spaces through transparent glazing across the full extent of the podium's southern elevation.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Announcing Our Partnership with SentioVR to Inspire Architects with Virtual Reality Posted: 29 Jun 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Sentio VR At ArchDaily, we work diligently to bring you the most useful insights and best stories about architecture from around the world. Virtual Reality is quickly developing into an unprecedented tool for architects to share their designs in unparalleled ways—enhancing architects' ability to communicate spatial ideas to clients and enabling more informed decision-making. To build on our coverage of successful case studies of virtual reality in architecture, we have partnered with SentioVR to create the ArchDaily 360 experience—an in-app feature that transports you to a collection of architectural sites that can be viewed in 360 degrees using Samsung's Gear VR platform. What is the Archdaily 360 Experience?The ArchDaily 360 Experience is a curated gallery of images and videos of significant architecture sites that can be viewed in 360 degrees using a Samsung Gear VR headset. Each experience is captured in a series of 360 images that give you a feeling of being physically present. From Sesc Pompeia (Brazil) to Torre Reforma (Mexico), through the power of virtual reality you can now transport yourself and draw inspiration from the best projects in the world.  Courtesy of Sentio VR What do I need to view the ArchDaily Experience?The Archdaily Experience is currently available on the Samsung Gear VR platform and can be viewed using these simple steps:
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| Porte Marguerite de Navarre / 169 architecture Posted: 29 Jun 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © Pierre L'Excellent
 © Pierre L'Excellent From the architect. This temporary cover project follows the initiative of the city of Paris that aims to promote the use and re-use of bio-sourced materials. Elioth and 169-architecture defined several principles for the realisation of this project in order to limit its carbon impact.  Site Plan Firstly, the load carrying part of the structure, with a max span of 15m, is constructed in laminated timber (larch). Similarly, the structure of the façade, acting as protection railing, is made up of a wooden frame in the form of vertical units of brackets, in larch as well.  © Pierre L'Excellent This structure was deliberately designed using the principles of a very low-carbon construction, encouraging the use of short supply chains.  © Pierre L'Excellent  Diagram  © Pierre L'Excellent  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| C.F. Møller to Lead Design of Project Replacing Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens Posted: 29 Jun 2017 07:45 AM PDT  Courtesy of C.F. Møller Architects The Swan Housing Association has announced the appointment of Danish firm C.F. Møller to join Haworth Tompkins and Metropolitan Workshop in designing housing projects for the Blackwall Reach regeneration plan, a £300 million redevelopment effort which will replace Alison and Peter Smithson's Brutalist east London estate, Robin Hood Gardens. As leaders of Phase 3 of the plan, C.F. Møller will design housing for the eastern portion of the site. A total of 330 one- to five-bedroom residential units, half of which have been designated as affordable, will be located within a courtyard block complex at the edge of an existing garden mound – one of the few elements of the original estate that will be retained. The garden is planned to be replanted and renamed the "Millennium Green."  Courtesy of C.F. Møller Architects Selected from a shortlist of five practices, C. F. Møller was praised by Swan for their focus on "inside out design" that places priority of the building's residents. "We were very impressed by their "inside out approach" to design. C.F. Møller really focused on the people who will live in these new homes and the relationship of the homes to the public realm," said Swan's Executive Director of Regeneration and Development, Geoff Pearce. "They were passionate about ensuring we deliver human scale street scenes and links into the landscape to offset the impact of the busy external environment, which is close to the Blackwall Tunnel." "As a regeneration team, we felt strongly the C. F. Møller team would bring a fresh and positive approach to the next phase of Blackwall Reach and we are delighted to be able to continue and further develop the positive working relationship which has proved so productive in relation to their work for us on our regeneration of Laindon Shopping Centre". C.F. Møller will continue to develop the early schemes shown in renderings released with the news, working with development partners and the community to create an inclusive design. "Our approach to this challenging project is to develop an architectural and placemaking response with the focus on designing the best possible new homes within a challenging location," said Rolf Nielsen, Associate Partner at C.F. Møller.  <a href='http://https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/2361998892/in/photolist-4ADFtH-4ADDYk-4AHRYQ-5cyxqW-9NJybd-deFtop-HAqLPj-SmH296-bz8TEC-5EfRQb-5EbA3t-6rw3V4-9rtMQM-2wZt9F-bEMLFK-2x4RcS'>undefined</a>. ImagePeter and Alison Smithson's Robin Hood Gardens in 2008 In total, the Blackwall Reach Regeneration Project will create 1,500 apartments and a variety of public spaces including community centers, shops, cafes and a mosque. Phase 1 of the project is already underway with 98 out of 242 homes, the mosque, a community center and an extension to an existing school already constructed. Phase 2 is expected to begin shortly, which will add 242 further homes in four residential buildings designed by Metropolitan Workshop and Haworth Tompkins. Several notable architects, Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Robert Venturi and Simon Smithson (a partner at RSHP and son of Alison and Peter Smithson), had earlier petitioned to save Robin Hood Gardens from demolition, but the building was denied historic listing in 2015. News via C.F. Møller
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| PH Lavalleja / CCPM Arquitectos Posted: 29 Jun 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Javier Agustín Rojas
 © Javier Agustín Rojas From the architect. PH is the name given to a traditional housing typology in Buenos Aires, characterised by its high density and low rise. Set in the last unit of a long plot, PH Lavalleja coexists with the neighbouring free plan, high rise residential buildings that surround it.  © Javier Agustín Rojas  © Javier Agustín Rojas The views from them frame the scenario in which architecture emerges, opening possibilities for public space in the interior of the block. The update consists in disassembling the existing roofs and replacing them with a continuous envelope that links the different public spaces and mediates between interior and exterior.  © Javier Agustín Rojas  Section BB - Section CC  © Javier Agustín Rojas The rhythm of the existing infrastructure and the perimetral constraints are worked geometrically to generate the continuity of the envelope. A system of wooden surfaces and furniture is replicated throughout the interior, generating different situations by shifting materialities.  © Javier Agustín Rojas  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MAD's Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Approved by LA City Council Posted: 29 Jun 2017 05:25 AM PDT  Courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art The Los Angeles City Council has unanimously voted to approve the construction of the long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in LA's Exposition Park, all but ensuring that the museum has finally found its permanent home after three years of searching.  Courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Designed by MAD Architects, the museum will house the extensive art and memorabilia collection of director and Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, featuring both paintings by impressionist masters includingEdgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and items from the Star Wars franchise, such as Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber and Darth Vader's mask. Nearly one-third of the proposed building's 290,000 square feet will be dedicated to gallery space, with other program elements including a movie theater, a lecture hall, a library, a restaurant, and several digital classroom spaces spread across five stories. A publicly-accessible green roof terrace will cap the building, while a 2,425-space parking complex will be located beneath. A new 11 acre park will surround the spaceship-like structure, its design referred to by MAD founder Ma Yansong as "a cloud of knowledge for people to explore."  Courtesy of Los Angeles Department of City Planning The $1.2 billion development will be constructed entirely from private sources, with no taxpayer money. The museum is scheduled to break ground next year, with an anticipated opening date in 2021. News via CNN.
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| Posted: 29 Jun 2017 04:00 AM PDT  © Rasmus Hjortshøj
 © Rasmus Hjortshøj From the architect. The Silo is part of the transformation of Copenhagen's Nordhavn (North Harbour) – a vast post-industrial development, currently being transformed into a new city district. Designed by Danish architects COBE with clients Klaus Kastbjerg and NRE Denmark, a 17-storey former grain silo and the largest industrial building in the area has been transformed into "The Silo", housing residential apartments and public functions.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj Inside-out transformation In order to bring The Silo's industrial concrete facade up to current standards, the exterior of the existing silo has been reclad, while the interior has been preserved as raw and untouched as possible. An angular faceted exterior facade made of galvanized steel has been installed to serve as a limate shield. This has allowed the building's characteristic slender tall shape to be maintained.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj  © Rasmus Hjortshøj Dan Stubbergaard, Founder and Creative Director of COBE, says: "We wanted to retain the spirit of The Silo as much as possible – both in terms of its monolithic exterior and majestic concrete interior, by simply draping it with a new overcoat. The aim was to transform it from the inside out in such a way that its new inhabitants and the surrounding urban life would highlight the structure's identity and heritage. Hence, the use of galvanized steel for the facade, which patinates in a raw way and retains the original harbour character and material feel, lending a roughness and raw beauty to the area, as in its industrial past."  © Rasmus Hjortshøj  © Rasmus Hjortshøj 38 unique apartments The spatial variation within the original silo is immense due to the various functions of storing and handling grain, creating space for 38 unique apartments. Single and multi-level apartments range from 106 m2 to 401 m2 in size, with floor heights of up to 7 meters. All apartments have panoramic, floor-to-ceiling windows and balconies, and several have been preserved in raw concrete. The window frames are hidden on the outside of the existing concrete walls, offering expansive views of the city skyline and the Oresund coast.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj  10th Floor Plan  © Rasmus Hjortshøj A mix of private and public functions Both the top and lower levels have public access. The top floor consists of a mirrored glass box housing a public restaurant with a 360-degree view of the city and the sea. The glass facade mirrors the surroundings in the daytime, and at night it is reminiscent of a lantern. The ground floor is designed as a flexible event space.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj Dan Stubbergaard says: "Private housing and public functions ensure that the building remains active all day. The public functions at the top and bottom also ensure a multidimensional experience for the various users of the building. From the top you can see almost all of Copenhagen in one panoramic view. It is completely unique, and something all Copenhageners will have the chance to experience. The Silo will be inhabited, but will also be a destination. An urban focal point for the new development at Nordhavn."  © Rasmus Hjortshøj  © Rasmus Hjortshøj Dan Stubbergaard continues: "By revitalizing our industrial heritage, we discover new potential and highlight historical traces in our cities. They represent a built resource. They represent our history. By doing so, we can transform what many people today perceive as industrial trash into treasure."  © Rasmus Hjortshøj The Silo was completed in May 2017, when its first residents moved in. The remaining residents will move in during the next couple of months, and the restaurant on the top floor is due to open later this year. CPH City & Port Development is currently showing an exhibition on the ground floor of the building on the future development plans for Nordhavn, also created by COBE.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Is India's Plan to Build 100 Smart Cities Inherently Flawed? Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:30 AM PDT  Mumbai Skyline. Image <a href='https://pixabay.com/en/mumbai-bombay-cityscape-skyline-390543/'>via Pixabay</a> by user PDPics (public domain) The Indian Government's Smart City Mission, launched in 2015, envisions the development of one hundred "smart cities" by 2020 to address the country's rapid urbanization; thirty cities were added to the official list last week, taking the current total of planned initiatives to ninety. The $7.5-billion mission entails the comprehensive development of core infrastructure—water and electricity supply, urban mobility, affordable housing, sanitation, health, and safety—while infusing technology-based "smart solutions" to drive economic growth and improve the citizens' quality of life in cities. In a country bogged down by bureaucratic corruption, the mission has been commended for its transparent and innovative use of a nation-wide "City Challenge" to award funding to the best proposals from local municipal bodies. Its utopian manifesto and on-ground implementation, however, are a cause of serious concern among urban planners and policy-makers today, who question if the very idea of the Indian smart city is inherently flawed.  Mumbai. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mumbai_Skyline1.jpg'>Wikimedia user Deepak Gupta</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> In an interview with Indian Architect and Builder, Indian master architect B V Doshi warns that the government's "smart cities," in their wild chase for efficiency, will destroy the rural informality and diversity that is the cornerstone of the country's society. Ahmedabad-based urban designer Rajeev Kathpalia agrees, saying "Our cities, to a large extent, are not the same as what is defined as the city in the West. Cattle are still bred in the city so what kind of place is that? Is that a city or is that rural or is that something in between?" In response, he suggests that India needs to build smart cities which respond specifically to its culture and rural networks.  Chandni Chowk, Delhi, is characterized by rural informality. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chandni_Chowk,_2008_(20).JPG'>Wikimedia user Bahnfrend</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en '>CC BY-SA 3.0</a> The Indian Prime Minister's pet project, however, assumes immense significance in the context of India's population growth and urbanization. The country's population is set to surpass China's by 2024 and reach 1.5 billion by 2030; forty percent of this number will need to be housed in urban areas, as opposed to thirty-one percent currently. India's metropolises, already crumbling under the massive pressure exerted by this incessant migration, could easily descend into urban chaos in the near future. "Demographic changes to the city are far more caustic and lethal than those that meet the eye. Cities must plan for an India on the move or end up as slums," cautions Delhi-based architect Gautam Bhatia in The Times of India.  India's population is predicted to reach 1.5 billion by 2030. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_farmers,_Gwalior,_MP.jpg'>Wikimedia user Yann</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> The Smart City Mission, however, chooses to direct its focus on a mere hundred cities in a country with more than 4,000, and aims to create a "replicable model which will act like a light house to other aspiring cities." And therein lies its most fundamental defect. "The problem with the notion of 'smart cities' is that it sets up the environment to be fashioned in a single image, it's not about cultural specificity," explains Mumbai-based urbanist Rahul Mehrotra in an interview with The Indian Express. "The only way to get people involved in the city imagination is to respond to local needs and aspirations. To be socially relevant, cities have to grow out of the roots." He cites the restoration of the Bandra seafront in Mumbai and the Aga Khan Foundation's renewal of the Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti in Delhi as strong examples of urban initiatives, observing that development becomes problematic only when a singular model is promoted as the ideal example.  Riverside Ghats in Varanasi are set to receive a makeover under the mission. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varanasi-incredible-india.jpg'>Wikimedia user Unknown</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 4.0</a> The mission has two chief strategic components: Area-based developments and Pan-city initiatives. The former is aimed at transforming existing precincts through retrofitting and renewal, and to develop new extensions to cities through greenfield developments; the latter envisages the application of appropriate "smart solutions" to existing city-wide infrastructure. The lion's share of the federal funding however, is being channeled to less than three percent of the city areas. "So you're not even going to have 100 smart cities. You're going to have 100 smart enclaves within cities around the country," predicts Shivani Chaudhry, executive director of Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), while speaking to Humanosphere. Is the mission inadvertently leading to the gentrification of Indian cities? The results of a recent study conducted by the HLRN underline the mission's apparent lack of social equity and abuse of human rights: The Indian government maintains that the local populace is being driven out of the city "to provide the choice to those who live in squalor to live with dignity." London-based writer Adam Greenfield attacks this weak rhetoric while speaking to IMechE, stating that the project "dispenses utterly with the needs of the Indian people—when, that is, it isn't simply bulldozering their communities under in the name of progress." Residents of slums in at least four of the selected cities have reportedly been forcibly evicted or threatened with eviction to make way for improvement projects. "What may seem like the height of contemporary city-making in the government's presentations and renderings is little more than a pretext to uproot poor farmers and fisher-people from the land, and replace their villages with gated enclaves and golf courses intended to serve the elite," Greenfield adds.  Social Inequity in Mumbai. Image <a href='http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Laundry-India-City-Mumbai-Building-Slum-Cityscape-1414566'>via Max Pixel</a> (public domain) At this point, it is imperative to ask why proposals from local bodies increasingly look like they are serving the whims of real estate and technology players. The answer is simple: The implementation of the projects at the city-level is to be undertaken under the leadership of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) instituted specifically for this purpose. While the vehicle is composed of governmental nominees and receives substantial federal revenue, it is free to raise additional resources from the market; the private sector could own a minority stake in the SPV. The projects, as a corollary, could be executed through public-private partnerships. This leaves the door wide open for the horrifying possibility of the privatization of governance itself, coupled with a lack of accountability; an overwhelming majority of the green-lighted projects seem to be located in posh precincts of cities, owing to their greater return-on-investment potential. "The premise of the smart city as a relevant model for India needs a fundamental re-evaluation, especially when profits seem to prevail over people and technology over human rights," remarks Chaudhry. She suggests that instead of trying to mitigate the effects of urbanization in a superficial way, the government should aim to address its structural causes—the agrarian crisis, rural distress, failed land reform, and forced migration. Doshi believes that the world does not need to live in a single multi-story tower in the age of the internet, and challenges the very idea of creating cities if adequate choices and opportunities can be generated in rural areas. "I think the land pressure is actually an illusion. Why should you be close-by all the time to a million people?" he asks. Kathpalia insists that we need to rethink the concept of cities as centralized entities, and advocates instead for the conception of independent and self-supporting settlements at different scales, each one complete by itself or moving towards completion.  Rural India has a huge potential for development. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/99527366@N00/2215663904'>Flickr user Yahoo</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> At the same time, Chaudhry realizes that the government is unlikely to roll back the two-year-old mission. "But I really feel that there's still time to come up with standards, to come up with indicators and to have an alternative vision proposed by the people themselves to ensure... an equitable development model," she hopes. And it is here that she hits the nail right on the head—it is the people of the world's largest democracy who will ascertain the future course of their cities. Their participation in decision-making holds the key to strengthening their local communities against the wrongful policies of the government, as well as the ingress of private corporations and their fiscal interests, while they realize the benefits that twenty-first-century technology has to offer. 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| House Peacock / BHSF Architekten + Studio P Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Bene Redmann
 © Bene Redmann From the architect. House Peacock is located on the outskirts of a small seaside town in Suffolk in a residential area, typically consisting of generous examples of two and three-storey detached houses.  © Bene Redmann With its surrounding dense vegetation the design appears as an inverted hortus conclusus (literally: enclosed garden) which conceals most of what happens inside of it.  © Bene Redmann Almost all neighbouring dwellings are recessed from the roads, which allows the abundant greenery to become the major lineament of the immediate context.  Floor Plan The proposed design tries to embrace this quality while corresponding to the owners' broad space requirements. In order to not disturb this sensitive equilibrium of greenery and buildings the proposed design distributes the program over three volumes as opposed to one extensive development.  © Bene Redmann The single story compound divides the site into three different areas, the less private driveway that makes the link to the entrance onto the road, the main courtyard as the heart of the arrangement and the "wild" garden in the East of the property.  Sections While the proportion and topography of the site as well as the lush greenery defined the general framework, the owners' versatile interests and day-to-day requirements called for a contained spatial background as opposed to a design that comes to the fore.  © Bene Redmann  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Shelter Global Announces Winners of 2017 Dencity Competition Posted: 29 Jun 2017 01:00 AM PDT  International architecture non-profit Shelter Global has just announced the winners of its third annual Dencity Competition, highlighting innovative solutions that will improve living conditions for over 1 billion slum dwellers worldwide. The goal of the competition is to foster new ideas on how to spread awareness and handle the growing density of unplanned cities .
Check out the winners below: First place: "Palestine: The Right to Water"Majed Abdulsamad, Jun Seong Ahn, Maria Isabel Carrasco, and Haochen Yang (Columbia University)  Courtesy of Shelter Global The project looks at refugee camps in Palestine and is titled "The Right to Water." It utilizes the irregularity and extreme density of the refugee camp to create an adequate and independent rainwater collection system that has the capacity to empower the population towards sustainable access to resources beyond regional limitations. Advocates for a system that in its first stages can be implemented individually and collectively by its own residents (DIY) following these phases: installation of individual deflectors and tanks, construction of shared tanks, and connection of the shared tanks with gutters and aqueducts. The later phase includes the city (Amman Water Authority), DPA (Jordanian Department of Palestinian Affairs) and UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) for the construction of the major underground tank and the building that will allocate the collective activities. This model allows not only for independence and flexibility in terms of implementation, but will also become part of the legacy and memory of the camp to be left for future populations.  Courtesy of Shelter Global  Courtesy of Shelter Global
Second place: "Syria: Beyond Slums"Abdelrahman Magdy, Islam El Mashtooly, Idil Kantarci, and Muhammad Habsah  Courtesy of Shelter Global The project also looks at the informal settlements formed by refugee camps – this time in by the war in Syria. Around 40,000 Syrians have migrated to Turkey, with 100,000 still waiting at the border. Border camps have become a new reality, and new urbanity, for those fleeing Aleppo. Hastily constructed, but inhabited for years, the refugee camp is its own type of city. These camps simultaneously act as prisons and safe havens by providing feelings of security, but also hopelessness. Objective of the project is planning and organizing the rapidly growing density of refugee camps and improving their living conditions by introducing new infrastructure that is inspired from their rich history and culture. The design process starts with one human and his needs which creates the smallest unit.  Courtesy of Shelter Global  Courtesy of Shelter Global
Third place: Delhi: Flood ResilienceAdèle Hopquin  Courtesy of Shelter Global Adèle Hopquin is a French landscape architect specializing water management projects in Europe and China. Her project aims to use the recurring flood risk as a tool to build a more equitable city in Delhi, India. It focuses on the transformation process of community areas, and the way public spaces can be adapted to the flood and the peoples needs. The question of the flood is political and can only be resolved at the city level. First, we propose an overarching city-wide plan. It maps the potential places of transformation in association with the existing settlements along the river in order to develop a model of co-management. Giving the opportunity for people to act on the land represents an alternative to relocation. The larger vision aims at empowering citizens, especially the slum inhabitants.  Courtesy of Shelter Global  Courtesy of Shelter Global
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| Blank Architects Win Competition to Design Moscow Metro Station Posted: 28 Jun 2017 11:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of BLANK Architects Russian architecture office Blank Architects have won a competition to design the Rzhevskaya Metro Station in Moscow, Russia. The open international competition searched for proposals to design three stations along the capital's new metro line: "Rzhevskaya," "Sheremetyevskaya," and "Stromynka." Blank Architects is one of three architecture offices winning proposals for each station, with AI Architects chosen to design "Sheremetyevskaya" station and Map Architects winning "Stromynka." Designed as a sequence of arches and topped with a transparent pavilion, the proposal creates a dialogue between monumental and light elements - a modern addition to the city's architectural identity. The Moscow City Administration held the open metro competition, with a final stage held as a popular vote towards the final 9 proposals. Over 200,000 people voted on the winning three with Blank Architects securing over 84,000 votes for their concept of a "portal" to the city. Drawing from the site of Rizhskaya Square itself, the design responds as a gateway expressed through the timeless element of arches:  Courtesy of BLANK Architects
 Courtesy of BLANK Architects The interior of the station is composed of arches running from entrance to entrance, with the central gallery featuring a monumental dome. The arches will be aligned perpendicular to the station's main gallery, reflecting the new direction in which passengers use the new metro line.  Courtesy of BLANK Architects Horizontal and vertical light elements are added throughout the passageways, creating a comfortable indoor atmosphere for passengers to walk through. Colour plays a key role in the design, with the cold metal and glass of a typical metro station softened by the pink color of the floor. Travelers are also guided by a luminous yellow color towards the existing Rizhskiy station passage, connecting the two together.  Courtesy of BLANK Architects  Courtesy of BLANK Architects The entrance pavilion to the station serves as a discreet marker: designed to be completely transparent. Passengers will be able to see through the pavilion towards Rizhskiy Railway Station and Rizhkaya Square. "The overall impression is very light," explains Partner Magda Kmita: "we wanted our new building to smoothly blend in with the surroundings."
 Courtesy of BLANK Architects Rzhevskaya Metro Station is set to begin construction shortly. The three stations are scheduled to open in 2020. News via: Blank Architects.
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| The Ruin / Rozhdestvenka architectural bureau Posted: 28 Jun 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © I. Kudryavtseva
 © I. Kudryavtseva From the architect. The "Ruine" Pavilion of the State Museum of Architecture in the name of Schusev is located in the old coach house of the estate belonging to the Talyzin family in Vozdvizhenka street near the Kremlin. All the buildings in the estate are built at the end of the 18th century, probably according to the project of Matvey Kazakov. Rebuilt several times, the entire estate was assigned to the Museum of Architecture. It is at this moment that the restoration of the buildings, still in progress, begins.  © I. Kudryavtseva Territorial Develpment  © I. Kudryavtseva Project Description  Scheme The second part of the project is adaptation. This step includes suggestions for innovation that would allow this organization, which is the "Ruin" to be duly secured and well equipped for exhibitions. The technical installations, the engineering systems are implemented, the roof is replaced and the floors are redeveloped. Any non-load bearing element, except the roof, has been designed so that it can be removed or replaced without damaging the building.  © I. Kudryavtseva  Diagrams  © I. Kudryavtseva The objective of this technique is to keep the "Ruine" as a constant, and to have the other elements replaceable.  © I. Kudryavtseva  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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