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- Restoration of a Farmhouse and Replacement of a Barn / Singer Baenziger Architekten
- Aalto University Library - Harald Herlin Learning Centre / JKMM
- Max Estates Visitors Pavilion / Vir.Mueller Architects
- 10 DESIGN Wins Competition to Build Start-Up Incubator in Chinese Aviation Hub
- Riku Ikegaya Constructs a Series of Nested Spaces in a Berlin Church Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
- The Oval Pavilion / DSRA Architecture
- Winning Proposal for Cyprus Archaeological Museum Celebrates Regional History
- Drone Footage Shows Construction Progress on Heatherwick Studio’s "Tree-Covered Mountains" in Shanghai
- CoBLOgó / SUBdV
- Spotlight: Shigeru Ban
| Restoration of a Farmhouse and Replacement of a Barn / Singer Baenziger Architekten Posted: 05 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Christian Senti
 © Christian Senti From the architect. The multi-purpose farmhouse in the Schlieren village center consists of a listed house with origins in the 17th century and a younger barn. Both buildings are located under a common, cantilevered saddle roof. The project aims to gently restore the farmhouse and to create a new living space to replace the barn.  © Christian Senti In the existing volume, three vertically organized units are arranged in a series. Thus, all housing units benefit from direct access to both the village lane and direct the backyard garden along with private sleeping areas protected by the roof. In the split level structure, the retreat rooms exist on three different levels with each specific location providing the rooms with their own room quality.  © Christian Senti The two middle units extend into the existing cross gable, whose volume can be experienced in the over-risen residential / kitchen areas. Due to the elevation, the elongated apartments have more light in the depth. The third and narrowest unit has a two-storey kitchen, which opens onto the alleyway and reminds spatially to the old tractorport.  Ground Floor Plan  First Floor Plan  Attic Floor Plan The replacement building is planned as a complete timber construction. The outstretched framework is left unoccupied and reminiscent of the former barn. The addition of the facade elements gives the building depth while successfully integrating the new big windows. In this way, the original appearance of the multi-purpose building is preserved without the replacement building competing with the old residential house.  © Christian Senti Only when necessary, the area of the large and characteristic roof is broken with roof windows and two roof sheds. The landscape design retains the original exterior space. On the street side, as part a mature alley, there is a preserved, unfurnished forecourt. On the back, the existing tree garden is maintained as a common outdoor space complemented with small private seating areas for the residential units.  © Christian Senti  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Aalto University Library - Harald Herlin Learning Centre / JKMM Posted: 05 Aug 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Tuomas Uusheimon
 © Tuomas Uusheimon From the architect. This is JKMM's second project reworking an Alvar Aalto designed library. The first was at Seinäjoki where the existing library was extended with a new copper-clad wing. At Otaniemi, JKMM was appointed to restore and update the listed Modernist interiors in the upper floors of the building and to create wholly new interiors to its lower floors that were previously used as bookstores. These have been remodeled to house new media spaces as well as to enable both solitary and collaborative ways of working, research as well as social interaction.  © Tuomas Uusheimon The project is an interesting example of working with twentieth-century interiors of great importance while introducing a wholly new layer of Scandinavian design to the building. Light has been an important factor in the overall design concept. On the upper level, where much of the Aalto interior was intact, there was abundant light making this an ideal space for exhibiting materials from the University archive.  Basement Floor Functions Plan  Ground Floor Functions Plan  First Floor Functions Plan Magazine racks were replaced with glass-topped tables for display, enhancing the overall feel of this part of the library as a civic and cultural space. On the lower level, the challenge was to introduce natural light. At ground level, a top-lit atrium space cuts through to the basement floor enabling daylight to filter in and around the main staircase uniting the three levels.  © Tuomas Uusheimon The artificial lighting scheme by JKMM has, nonetheless, been critical in turning the basement into a convivial space. Its plentiful white pendant lighting is not only striking but will be effective in illuminating the space even in the darkest periods of the year. It works well with JKMM's use of deeply colored textiles that add a youthful sense of warmth to the interior. This is about making the building feel inviting to students who also like to use this space as a common room and a place to bring their laptops.  © Tuomas Uusheimon Cave-like upholstered enclosures in the walls provide seclusion for quiet research and even a catnap much as the iconic Eero Aarnio Globe chair from the sixties did. In fact, the Nordic influences on JKMM's work in this part of the building are part of a wide tradition that gently introduces a new chapter to the timelessness of Alvar Aalto's interior above.  © Tuomas Uusheimon Päivi Meuronen, senior architect at JKMM interiors says, "We wanted this building to be about something that is perhaps at the very heart of Scandinavian design ideals, making the everyday special for everyone."  © Tuomas Uusheimon  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Max Estates Visitors Pavilion / Vir.Mueller Architects Posted: 05 Aug 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Randhir Singh
 © Randhir Singh From the architect. Nestled adjacent to Dehradun's Malsi Reserve Forest, the Max Estates Visitors Pavilion serves as an orientation center for a residential community spread across 5 acres.  Floor Plan The Visitors Pavilion is designed to welcome future residents into the community, and introduce them to the synergy of the architecture, its material vocabulary and its presence within the landscape.  © Randhir Singh Designed to complement the natural setting - an abundance of lychee orchards, terraced community gardens, and spectacular views of the Mussoorie Himalayas anchor the building - the Pavilion is constructed with local river rock.  © Randhir Singh Virmueller Architects sought to anchor this building as a threshold between landscape and urbanity, using a rugged materiality to communicate the authenticity of living adjacent to a rare natural setting.  © Randhir Singh The colour of the stone reflects the changing light, and the dynamics of the surrounding foliage, creating an urban enclave grounded in a unique topography.  © Randhir Singh  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 10 DESIGN Wins Competition to Build Start-Up Incubator in Chinese Aviation Hub Posted: 05 Aug 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of 10 Design 10 Design were announced as the winners of a competition to build an incubation center for start-up companies in the Jinwan Aviation District in Zhuhai, China. The Research & Development Center will accompany 10 Design's other winning schemes for an International Commerce Center (twin tower with 127,000 square meters of office and hotel space) and Cultural Center (performance and exhibition space house in a 27,500 square meters building). The projects will be a part of Jinwan Aviation City, an ambitious development initiative to create a hub for major industry in Zhuhai, a city that is currently experiencing unprecedented growth.  Courtesy of 10 Design Situated along Jinshan Lake, the 55,000 square-meter center will house start-up companies and entrepreneurs to enable networking and provide support. This interaction is fostered within a large central green space that connects the buildings to one another and allows access to the waterfront. The design emphasizes the introduction of communal spaces in order to sponsor creativity and communication.  Courtesy of 10 Design 10 Design opted for a campus with multiple buildings rather than a single larger structure to increase accessibility to natural light. In addition, the linkage between buildings produces shared atriums that act as centers for social interaction. According to the architects, the way that the office buildings face the park and one another creates visibility that stimulates a sense of community. As a connection back to the industry it services, the master plan of the buildings shares its form with the ancient Chinese character for flight.  Courtesy of 10 Design Designed as a Special Economic Zone in the 1980s, Zhuhai's success has been supported by its tourist destinations and geographical advantages such as its lake water port. With this project, the city hopes to preserve and expand the aviation-based economy and create a diverse business hub.  Courtesy of 10 Design Construction for the Jinwan Aviation City is slated for 2019. News Via 10 Design  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2017 07:00 AM PDT Berlin is city in which the past and the present often collide – a phenomenon particularly acute when it comes to the built environment. In this project by Japanese architect and artist Riku Ikegaya, the interior of St. Elisabeth-Kirche (Church of St. Elizabeth)—designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel—is transformed by means of a structural installation. Consisting of a scale model of Schinkel's plans for the Rosentaler Vorstadt Church, the artist has composed a "three-dimensional architectural sketch."  © Riku Ikegaya
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| The Oval Pavilion / DSRA Architecture Posted: 05 Aug 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Marvin Moore
 © Marvin Moore From the architect. The Oval Pavilion is constructed at the centre of a significant recreational destination within the Halifax Regional Municipality. Bordering the northern and southern portions of the Halifax Common, the pavilion provides a gathering place for users of the skating oval and the broader Commons while also filling the need to provide services specific to the Oval.  © Marvin Moore  Floor Plan  © Marvin Moore The project consists of two buildings connected by a shared roof, framing a covered passageway that serves as a civic threshold. The pavilion is designed to be flexible, adjusting to its offered amenities throughout the seasons. The public area houses skate and safety equipment rental facility for ice skates in the winter and inline- and roller skate rentals in summer, public washrooms, and lounge spaces for warming. The garage on the staff side stores ice resurfacers in the wintertime while in the summer, the garage door opens onto the Oval to offer bikes, scooters, and roller sledges to visitors.  Exploded Axonometric The passageway between the two areas preserves the visual and physical connections between the park space and the oval plaza. The roof floats above these two structures, covering both indoor and outdoor space totaling 6,750 sq.ft. -- a large sheltered area from the elements. The wood clad roof folds up from the centre, addressing both the Common and the Oval, then tapers towards the edges. This minimizes its profile and visual impact, creating the sense that it is native to the park setting. The lightness of the roof is balanced by the two solid masses clad in brick to correspond to the civic nature of nearby landmarks. The presence of the pavilion -- its siting and design -- amplifies the success of an already active focal point in the city of Halifax.  © Marvin Moore  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Winning Proposal for Cyprus Archaeological Museum Celebrates Regional History Posted: 05 Aug 2017 05:00 AM PDT  © Fat Tony Studio Theoni Xanthi of XZA Architects has been selected as the winner in the competition to design the new archaeological museum in Cyprus. Composed of three layers corresponding to Memory, the City, and the River, Xanthi's proposal took first place in a competition that sought a new urban space to celebrate Nicosia's history and archaeology. The project is situated in close proximity to the medieval city walls, enabling it to play a key role in altering and upgrading the existing urban and green spaces that surround it.  © Fat Tony Studio "The new archaeological museum—within today's globalized reality—seeks to express its identity through the elements that gave birth to the Cypriot civilization," explains Xanthi. "Not only the materials, but also the characteristics of Mediterranean life and culture (the proximity of the natural, the meeting centers, the sightlines to the landscape, the search for dense shade etc) that are still alive in the everyday life of the locus... It aims to be a landmark, a cultural installation that would nurture new environments and behaviors, and act as a revitalizing gesture to the city."  © Fat Tony Studio Three horizontal zones aim to combine past archaeological finds with the present, creating the apparently hovering building. The museum is located in the uppermost "Memory" layer, while the intermediate "City" layer "welcomes the city" and the bottom "River" layer accommodates everyday programs. Similarly, the museum and permanent exhibitions themselves are also fragmented in three ways.  © Fat Tony Studio The first of these is TOPOS, which highlights the relationship between Cyprus' first settlers and the land they inhabited. The connection between land and water is the focus of SEA, while the third category, COSMOS, explores the interaction between different Mediterranean cultures.  © Fat Tony Studio Formally, the three buildings comprising the museum respond to the triangular plot upon which it is located by creating views towards the river and the city, extending the sightlines of the environment. At ground level is the public realm, allowed to pass through the elevated buildings and creating spaces such as yards, a garden, an atrium and a public square. The entrance is demarcated by a bioclimatic canopy, as the design aims to encompass structural, urban, functional and bioclimatic demands.  © Fat Tony Studio A "museological narration" is created through the organization of exhibition spaces, with the mezzanine level operating at a human scale and numerous small exhibitions integrated into the envelope, creating opportunities for diverse media displays.  Courtesy of XZA Architects Architect: Theoni Xanthi, XZA Architects with Thodoris Androulakis, Spiros Yiotakis, and Margarita Zakynthinou. News via XZA Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2017 02:30 AM PDT In #donotsettle's latest video, architects and vlogging provocateurs Wahyu Pratomo and Kris Provoost provide breathtaking footage of one of Shanghai's most curious projects, M50. The 300,000-square-meter Heatherwick Studio building is an undulating mass of mixed use urban topography. Using a DJI Mavic Pro drone, #donotsettle captures the stunning construction pace on the 15-acre site. The video depicts the topping out of the shorter of the project's two "mountains" by offering a glimpse of the rooftop air conditioning units and a few hundred of what will eventually be 1,000 trees enveloping the project. The sprawling structure is slated to open in 2018. Heatherwick-Designed Shanghai Development Conceived as Two "Tree-Covered Mountains"  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Rodrigo Chust
 © Rodrigo Chust From the architect. For this Factory and Office Annex in São Paulo Brazil, a ‘high-low’ fusion was employed, where high-tech architectural design strategies imported from abroad were combined with local low-tech construction methodologies to create a ‘tropicalized’ digital aesthetic. Parametric design, digital environmental simulation, and digital fabrication were employed to design and prepare the instructional guides for a low-tech labor force using simple local materials to construct a parametrically rotating concrete-block façade screen, as well as custom-made digitally fabricated furniture and internal wall panels.  Axonométrica The overall intent of the building was to provide an economical, environmentally sensitive, yet novel design to give a contemporary industrial identity to the factory complex. The annex building houses various programs on a split level site in front of an existing factory in the São Paulo industrial suburb of Taboão da Serra. The double-height ground floor space contains a new mechanized-loaded raw material storage facility, the first and second floors are dedicated to administrative office space for the factory, and the final floor is a show-room for factory products.  © Rodrigo Chust This is the first time in Brazil that a differentiating component-based façade system is built using digital design and fabrication. In reference to the traditional Brazilian ‘cobogo’ shading screen, this environmental ‘second skin’ controls the filtration of indirect sun-light through the operable windows on the south and west facades, while also creating a thermal mass which prevents the penetration of hot air in the interior spaces. The north side of the new annex is connected to the existing factory building, while the east façade is partially shaded by the trees and neighboring wall, and open to prevailing wind directions which allow for a cross natural ventilation of the space. The interior space is thus cool and bathed in a bright diffused natural light highlighted by a phenomenological play of shadow and light along the circulation spaces in the late afternoon.  © Rodrigo Chust Parametric computation was used for both the generation of various geometric configurations to create different environmental performance scenarios, as well as for a method to construct the façade itself. The parametric scripts generated subtle gradations of varying rotation angles of the blocks, controlled by their distance from different ‘attraction points’. This thus generated different sized openings and differently- angled light reflection planes, which were tested using digital environmental simulation to generate the best combination of both shading and illuminance. Digital fabrication was employed throughout the initial design process to produce various models and prototypes to develop different structural and fabrication options. To mount the concrete blocks on site using the same rotations as those in the digital model, a parametric script created comb-like ‘guides’ to position the blocks, which were made by laser-cutting corrugated cardboard. Theses guides were placed on a moveable wood stand and track system that were fabricated of plywood using the CNC router. The concrete block mason only had to position the blocks against the guides and add vertical reinforcing bar in every other block, attached to the bottom and top concrete slabs, to obtain structural stability.  © Rodrigo Chust  © Rodrigo Chust This fabrication process that links parametric design and digital fabrication to simple construction techniques and materials on site illustrates the process of ‘HIGH-LOW’, which SUBdV architects have applied on various building and research projects through experiments made during the Architectural Association Visiting School workshops, which they direct in Brazil. This process of combining ‘high-technology’ methodology (parametric computation and digital fabrication) with ‘low-technology’ construction methods and cheap local materials, (in this case the concrete blocks), can ‘tropicalize’ and give a new and critical Brazilian identity to digital design, to escape the growing ubiquitous and generic quality of the contemporary parametric aesthetic. At the same time, the façade also illustrates another concept that has been studied previously by SUBdV architects: that of ‘environmental ornamentation’, where ornament on a façade is no longer perceived as merely decoration, but becomes a useful element to produce a specific environmental performance, thus creating a new type of ‘functional aesthetic’ for building culture. Parametric computation and digital fabrication were used to create decorative wall panels, stair guard-rails and the furniture for the office. The digitally designed perforated wall panels and guard-rails were conceived so to absorb sound in the open-plan of the new office layout, and to also give a multi-colored and textured aesthetic to the industrial monochromatic concrete structure and walls. All the wall panels and guard rails, as well as the components of the furniture were cut using the CNC router, and detailed with CNC milled box-joints, avoiding the use of metal hardware, thus creating a playful aesthetic. The tables were designed with a two-sided arrangement with an embedded channel in the middle for electric cables, and central dividing panels for privacy between users.  Axonométrica  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Aspen Art Museum. Image © Michael Moran Shigeru Ban (born August 5th 1957) is a Japanese architect who won the 2014 Pritzker Prize for his significant contributions in architectural innovation and philanthropy. His ability to re-apply conventional knowledge in differing contexts has resulted in a breadth of work that is characterized by structural sophistication and unconventional techniques and materials. Ban has used these innovations not only to create beautiful architecture but as a tool to help those in need, by creating fast, economical, and sustainable housing solutions for the homeless and the displaced. As the Pritzker jury cites: "Shigeru Ban is a tireless architect whose work exudes optimism."  Courtesy of Shigeru Ban Architects Born in Tokyo to a businessman father who enjoyed classical music, and a mother who designed haute couture clothing, Ban was exposed to a creative environment. He grew up in a Japanese wooden house that was often being renovated by carpenters, which sparked the child's fascination for traditional carpentry. As a teenager, Ban originally intended to attend the Tokyo University of the Arts, until he came across an article on John Hejduk. The distinguished architect was then a dean of the Cooper Union's School of Architecture in New York. The models and plans of unbuilt buildings by this "paper architect" were revolutionary for the young Shigeru Ban and would ultimately influence his decision to study architecture at Cooper Union.  Aspen Art Museum. Image © Michael Moran In 1977, Ban travelled to California to learn English and to attend the Southern California Institute of the Architecture (SCI-arc). This was the only way that he could attend Cooper Union as the school did not accept international students at the time. There, Ban took interest in the Case Study Houses, many of which showed traces of the influence of traditional Japanese architecture. Ban began attending Cooper Union in 1980 as a transfer student where he would meet his future partner, Dean Maltz, as a classmate. He was taught by Ricardo Scofidio, Tod Williams, Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, and John Hejduk. Before graduating in 1984, he took a year of absence from his studies to work at Arata Isozaki's office in Tokyo. He also accompanied the photographer Yukio Fukagawa on a trip to Europe, where he would be impressed with the materials of Alvar Aalto's architecture in Finland.  Nomadic Museum, Santa Monica. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/paolomazzoleni/248929123'>Flickr user paolomazzoleni</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> The effect of Ban's upbringing and early life experiences can be seen in the development of his architectural projects. When Ban started his own practice in 1985, he had no prior working experience; he spent this first year designing installations for various exhibitions as the curator of Axis Gallery in Tokyo. For an installation exhibiting Alvar Aalto's work, he developed and utilized paper-tube structures, which has since become a recurring theme in his work. Around the same time, he also designed a series of Case Study Houses (PC Pile House, House of Double Roof, Furniture House, Curtain Wall House, 2/5 House, Wall-Less House, and Naked House) which reflected the experimental nature of domestic architecture in his native country.  Curtain Wall House. Image © Hiroyuki Hirai Ban's developments in architecture focused on experimental approaches to materials and structural systems. In many cases, he uses ordinary materials such as paper, wood, fabric, and shipping containers, to assemble buildings in extraordinary ways. He used shipping containers as a building material for the Nomadic Museum, and applied traditional joinery techniques to create the Tamedia Office Building in Zurich; the building's interlocking timber structural system is completely devoid of joint hardware and glue. Ban's unconventional approach leads to an elegant simplicity and apparent effortlessness in his work, a quality seen best in the Centre Pompidou-Metz in Paris, a competition he won in 2001.  Tamedia Office Building. Image © Didier Boy de la Tour In the 1990s Ban realized that his innovations could be used to improve the lives of displaced refugees and victims of natural calamities. In 1994, he proposed his paper-tube shelters to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, where he was subsequently hired as a consultant. After a few temporary housing projects, Ban established the NGO Voluntary Architects' Network (VAN) to start disaster relief activities, providing assistance in Turkey, India, Sri Lanka, China, Italy, Haiti and Japan among other countries. His paper-tube structures proved to be cheap, easy to assemble and most importantly customizable.  Centre Pompidou Metz. Image © Didier Boy de la Tour See all of Shigeru Ban's work featured on ArchDaily via the thumbnails below, and more coverage of Ban below those: Shigeru Ban Named Pritzker Laureate for 2014 15 Things You Didn't Know About Shigeru Ban Material Masters: Shigeru Ban's Work With Wood Shigeru Ban on Growing Up, Carpentry, and Cardboard Tubes Archiculture Interviews: Shigeru Ban Shigeru Ban's "Kooky" Architecture: Just What the World Needs? TEDxTokyo: Emergency Shelters Made from Paper / Shigeru Ban Shigeru Ban to Design Up to 20,000 New Homes for Refugees in Kenya  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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