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- Villa H / BERG + KLEIN
- Israels Plads Square / COBE
- Angelos Organic Olive Oil Mill / Mimarlar ve Han Tümertekin
- Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy Efficient Building / Mario Cucinella Architects
- Crevice House / ThEPlus Architects
- The Portal House / Reasoning Instincts Architecture Studio
- Floating Veranda / TA architect
- House 202 / Unoencinco Arquitectura
- Runner-Up Proposals Revealed in Tour Montparnasse Competition
- Little House. Big City / Office of Architecture
- Metro Stations Line 2 - CCR Metrô Bahia / JBMC Arquitetura e Urbanismo
- ARCHMARATHON 2017 Finalists Announced
- Cittadella Bridge / Richard Meier & Partners
- Zaha Hadid Architects Reveal Residential Tower in Melbourne Inspired by Australia's Natural Forms
- How Architects in Chicago Are Making New History
- 9 of the Most Bizarre and Forward-Thinking Radical Architecture Groups of the 60s and 70s
- Canning House / Estudio Borrachia
- Open Source Plan for a Modular Urban Gardening Structure Offers a Flexible Design for Locally Grown Food
- Rafael Viñoly, Charles Jencks, and Kim Cook Among Lead Speakers for WAF 2017
| Posted: 26 Sep 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Christian Richters
 © Christian Richters From the architect. BERG + KLEIN designed a loft in the landscape in the dunes of the Hoek van Holland, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The basic idea of Villa H was to have an open floor plan, a view, and limited but very specific spaces.  © Christian Richters In the discussions with the client in the beginning of the design process, it became clear that he had true ambitions to create architecture on a scale that fits him personally. BERG + KLEIN and the client talked about architecture and design with references coming from Chile, Mexico, Brazil. Combining concrete, wood and natural stone in a beautiful landscape guided the design from the onset.  © Christian Richters Villa H is a horizontal design with one vertical element, a staircase in between two concrete walls that links the sous-terrain, the bel-etage, and the rooftop terrace. The dedication in the design has been on the composition and exact dimension of tailor-made spaces; the terrace in the garden with a long view to the dune forest, a living room with a fireplace, the entrance as a classic vestibule. Important for the design are the cantilevered edges of the house. They give it a horizontal articulation and frame the landscape between the floor and the ceiling.  © Christian Richters  Upper Floor Plan  © Christian Richters The construction of the house is 80% concrete molded on site. The walls of the sous-terrain and the vertical walls at both sides of the staircase are exposed concrete. To have the best possible result of concrete molding for the nine meters high bearing walls, a horizontal wooden mold was made on site. The walls were molded horizontally and later, with the use of two cranes, placed in the center of the house. The design is a 'glass-house' typology with an open facade to the garden. The architects and the client decided to have large-scale wooden frames, creating a warm atmosphere. The frames are made from stained Western Red Cedar. The scale of the frames is in most cases 2 meters 30 wide and 3 meter high. At the terrace, which is positioned to have the longest possible view to the forest nearby, three of these frames can slide open. This creates an opening of almost 7 meters, which blends the living room with the surrounding garden.  © Christian Richters  East Elevation Wooden Brise-soleils that slide along the entire perimeter of the house in between the cantilevered roof and floor provide shade where needed plus privacy to the open bathroom and bedroom. The house makes use of sustainable infrastructure with natural ventilation, a rooftop with vegetation and solar cells and an air-driven heat pump. The architects worked closely together with the client on the interior design. The aim was to create an open and warm interior, tailor-made for the client. His own ideas about the interior and the selection of furniture were very much inspired by the design process of the Villa. The furniture selection in Villa H includes among others Cassina, Vitra, and Flos with Eames and Rietveld chairs.  © Christian Richters  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 26 Sep 2017 08:00 PM PDT  © Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
 © Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST From the architect. The history of Israels Plads (Israel's Square) reflects the history of Copenhagen's transformation. This central plaza was once where the city ended in a ring of protective fortifications. As the city gradually extended, the plaza became a vibrant market square – until the 1950's, when it was turned into a lifeless carpark. The new plaza is elevated above the existing street level - it hovers over the many cars that used to dominate Israels Plads, which are now placed in the underground car park.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST The cars are literally swept under the new urban carpet. The plaza also works as a transition between two worlds, the city, and the neighboring park. The landscape character of the park continues into the plaza in the form of the organic pattern of trees. Towards east and west, the plaza is raised up and folded to provide niches. In addition, it has a sculptural expression that refers to its historical past as part of the fortifications. The surface functions as a large urban playground and a space for activity.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST On the surface, unique facilities have been created to generate inspiration and space for many different kinds of activity. For example, the cut-outs feature round bench formations under the tree crowns, where people can observe the life unfolding on the plaza. There is a green oasis next to the neighboring school, and generous lowered areas for ball games and play are designed in rounded formations. The idea with the new Israels Plads is to celebrate the significance and the history of the site and revitalize it, turning it into a vibrant, diverse plaza for all kinds of people - for leisure, culture, activity and public events.  © Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST  Plan  © Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Angelos Organic Olive Oil Mill / Mimarlar ve Han Tümertekin Posted: 26 Sep 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Cemal Emden
 © Cemal Emden From the architect. This is a modest industrial structure designed for a couple who we had designed a house before, for the same site. Their goal was to produce olive oil with the most conventional and traditional techniques. The production process which is defined by the gravity has generated the architectural resolution.  © Cemal Emden  Site Plan  © Cemal Emden Angelos, in Bademli Village, is an olive grove of 250.000m2 located on the north of İzmir and on the coast of the Aegean Sea. The mill has been established to produce olive oil from the locally collected olives. It a built complex of 1000m2, composed of a guest house, a shop and the production area. The terrain is situated in a typical Aegean landscape which has an impressive seascape and surrounded by stone structures and olive trees. The question we asked to define our concept and strategy was "How to anchor an industrial building into a landscape?". Our clients were very clear from the beginning about obtaining the oil without the olive oil pump; therefore the olives would be pressed into the same floor where they will get in production. The oil will glide down with its own weight to the lower story.  Exploded Axonometric All of the bottled olive oil will leave the production area with trucks; therefore we had to find the perfect topography, convenient for strong sectional relations where this scenario would come true. The location to be found for the construction had to be in a spot where we wouldn't touch or damage any existing vegetation or olive tree during the construction.  © Cemal Emden When we determine our construction site we had a preference of using the local labor force as builders. We aimed to improve the local foreman's industrialized construction techniques and skills. For that reason, the steel construction was made in İstanbul and it was filled with stone by the local labor. This high précised collaborative work between İstanbul and Bademli improved the foreman's techniques. Using the exposed concrete, galvanized steel and natural stone as chosen materials were another intention to keep the structure maintenance-free.  Basement Level 1  Ground Floor Plan  First Floor Plan While forming the site plan our intention was to generate a scheme which would gradually traverse from public to private. The project includes a shop as a "public" space and a guest house as a "private" space aside from the production area. As the structure forms around open and semi-open spaces, the needed shading and climatic condition was provided with a shifted roof. All of these programs would be covered by a copper shelter which is the most significant element of the project.  © Cemal Emden  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy Efficient Building / Mario Cucinella Architects Posted: 26 Sep 2017 05:00 PM PDT  © Daniele Domenicali
 © Daniele Domenicali From the architect. Born out from a joint venture between the Italian and Chinese Governments, SIEEB was built on the campus of Tsinghua University, it occupies an area of 20,000 m2 and hosts the Sino-Italian centre of education, training and research for the protection of environment and energy conservation.  Sketch  © Daniele Domenicali  Solar Analysis The building is designed as a 'showcase' for the potential for reducing CO2 emissions in China. The design integrates passive and active strategies to control the external environment in order to optimise internal environmental conditions.  © Daniele Domenicali The building is U shaped in plan around a central courtyard and on the ground floor public areas look into a landscaped garden. It is closed and well insulated on the northern side that faces the cold winter winds and open and transparent towards the south. Offices and laboratories on the upper floors have terraced gardens shaded by photovoltaic panels that produce energy for the building.  Summer diagram  Winter Diagram  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Crevice House / ThEPlus Architects Posted: 26 Sep 2017 03:00 PM PDT  © In Keun Ryoo
 © In Keun Ryoo 'Crevice'- a small piece of land in a big city- is a new chance. It is, a thread of light infiltrating into a small gap. It is a little house built on 56.2㎡ size of land. The deformed geographic figure makes the land look even smaller. However, the dwelling family and their lifestyle are never so small compared to the geographic size. The mission was a single-family house with a workshop in the basement. Young married couple with one little daughter chose this land adjacent to an elementary school. The size of land may not large, but the plan of uses are plenty.  © In Keun Ryoo  Urban Context  © In Keun Ryoo The couple could not leave Seoul (the capital city of South Korea) due to their occupational and nurturing reasons. Therefore, their choice was to build a dwelling on a piece of land in the suburbs, free from restraints in social activities and child care. This way, they decided to build 'their' house for the first time ever.  © In Keun Ryoo I named the project: 'CREVICE'- A small land amid a big city. Physically, the word means 'a small, narrow crack or space' (Cambridge Dictionary), but it can also be used as an 'opportunity' or 'spare time'. My definition of the word is the 'Light Gap' open to a bright thread of light.  Floor Plans After launching the concept, 'Crevice' became the title theme of the entire plan. I intended to avoid the small space from looking confined, through the shape of the windows, the method of lighting, and the sense of connectivity between floors. From where I stand, I wanted the dwellers to be able to recognize the movements at the floors above and below and maintain a visual connection.  © In Keun Ryoo The inside was planned to use 'skip-floor': a structure with divisions from the landing on one side. The small inner part features spaciousness, thanks to the 'crevice' between the floors. Most of the small suburban areas have narrow roads. In this case, the road facing the planned site is 6 meters wide. Thus, there could be embarrassing risks in privacy through front windows of houses across the road.  Perspective Section Hence, the house is designed to receive suns through the window at the southern corner, and all remaining windows are placed to secure privacy from neighboring buildings as much as possible. The configuration of all the programs is in vertical. Nearly every movement between spaces require the use of stairs which initially to segment the spaces that are being frequently used and those are not in order to efficiently compose the program.  © In Keun Ryoo Building houses in suburb area do face many challenges. Trace of a not well-maintained area and the physical environment cause troubles during the construction. Nevertheless, caring the little emotion and impression of the city may trigger to changes in the city landscape, even with a tiny piece of land.  © In Keun Ryoo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Portal House / Reasoning Instincts Architecture Studio Posted: 26 Sep 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Krunal Mistry
 © Krunal Mistry The Portal House is conceived with the idea of creating multiple overlaps of personal and public domains catering to the idea of solitude as well as gathering.The residence is composed on the notions of "swastika". The center holds 'the house' which is the heart of the residence and the four radiating arms orient the bedrooms or 'cabanas'. The spaces in between this massing organization are the transitional spaces which define the essence of the overall experience by blurring boundaries between inside and outside. These spaces have been articulated uniquely as decked spaces, open dry courtyards, covered canopies, reflective pools, connecting pathways etc.  Ground Floor The access to the residence is celebrated through a six meter wide pedestrian ramp restricting the vehicular movement into the site. This ramp elicits the sense of distinctiveness and tranquility. The slow approach delays the sense of arrival and serves as a transitional zone between the hustle bustle of urban life and the calmness in solitude. Strategically aligned pigmented concrete landscape walls dictate the movement pattern within the residence in congruence with the position of the existing trees.  © Krunal Mistry The 'house' and the 'cabanas' are the main components of the design. Each of these built components is wrapped with a distinct corten steel portal so that their fragmented spaces get artistically composed as one entity. The portals not only bind the elements of the 'house' and the 'cabanas' but also act as a common expression throughout the site. They mark the position of these components in the scheme of the "swastika". The filtration of light from the high canopies of the trees inspired the design of the perforation pattern of the corten steel panels. This helped achieve a contrasting expression of crisp metal surfaces with organic and soft canopies.  © Krunal Mistry  Section  © Krunal Mistry Taking forward the concept of the 'served and the servant spaces' each built component is split into two volumes, where in the services are housed in lower volumes and the livable and functional spaces are contained in higher volume.  © Krunal Mistry 'The house'edifices public spaces such as living, dining and recreational areas. With the intent to extend the living areas into transitional spaces, there is no formal entry. Instead large openable surfaces in clear glass across the sixteen meter long north facade encourages uninterrupted visual and physical flow between the inside and outside spaces. The presence of a rock face Jaisalmer wall across the open courtyard within 'the house' directs the connectivity of these transparent spaces.  © Krunal Mistry The 'cabanas' are designed to be studio bedrooms organized as an open plan for living, studying and sleeping spaces. The unconventional higher ceiling height of the studio space provides a connection with tree canopies at all times. The presence of the landscape pigmented concrete walls dominates the collage of these materials to create dark and intimate private bath space in a rather more open studio lifestyle.  Detail On the whole the residence is a demonstration of grandeur of space built with humble materials. The transitional spaces connecting the components of the residence value add to the livability of the design. The raw and rustic natures of finishes respond to the nature of the site thus providing its occupants desired open and free lifestyle.  © Krunal Mistry  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Floating Veranda / TA architect Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:00 PM PDT  © Tung Yuh Kuan
 © Tung Yuh Kuan From the architect. Case is sited in Tainan which is the old city in Taiwan and adjacent to the roundabout. The site is formed by the circle line and the organic cutline with side road which the old city does.  © Tung Yuh Kuan We have interested in the connected overhangs of storefronts because the local urban image, the Veranda. The veranda always offer passageway when we walk in the city. It's just like a concret tree, when it rains or the hot day, a lot of people take shelter under the the overhangs of storefronts. This image become the unique city landscape in our country. Besides, we want having a plaza surround to the roundabout. So we lift the veranda which looks like floating.  © Tung Yuh Kuan .jpg?1499931413 "Courtesy of TA architect") Courtesy of TA architect  © Tung Yuh Kuan We lift the veranda along the site boundry. The seperation also helps to save energy when this office building works. Under a bridge-like structure, we can walkthrough freely when it rains. Since the new type of overhangs is seperated with master building, raining could be two side falling down for fun. We hope the floating bridge will change the shadow on the plaza and road as time goes by.  © Tung Yuh Kuan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House 202 / Unoencinco Arquitectura Posted: 26 Sep 2017 10:00 AM PDT  © Lucia Triolo
 © Lucia Triolo From the architect. The commission included thinking of a house made of panels of expanded polystyrene and projected concrete. Starting from this, the premise of the office was to develop a MONOMATERIAL OBJECT that resulted in a walled white architecture, punctual perforations and a combination of flat and sloped roofs, depending on the possibilities of using the covers.  © Lucia Triolo This house was the pioneer of a neighborhood in current consolidation. The flat landscape, empty and green, was his first stage. The program is divided into two levels, with common spaces on the ground floor, in connection to the Garden and a semi-covered gallery. The window of the living room is completed as a total plane of glass, expanding the interior into the garden.  © Lucia Triolo  Lower Floor Plan  © Lucia Triolo  Section On the vertical axis, two areas are articulated through an inner courtyard, which injects air and lighting to the central areas of the house. The spaces for the bedrooms and the intimate life are developed on a high floor, with a terrace, as a viewpoint towards the lake.  © Lucia Triolo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Runner-Up Proposals Revealed in Tour Montparnasse Competition Posted: 26 Sep 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Proposals by Studio Gang and MAD Architects. Image Following the announcement of Nouvelle AOM as the winner of the competition to redesign Paris' Tour Montparnasse, runner-up proposals have been revealed from the six finalists: Architecture Studio, Dominique Perrault Architecture, MAD Architects + DGLA, OMA, PLP Architecture and Studio Gang. The competition sought proposals for the transformation of the Montparnasse Tower, which has been one of the city's most controversial buildings since its completion in 1973. The new project was required to be "capable of giving a powerful, innovative, dynamic and ambitious new identity to the famous Parisian landmark, whilst integrating the challenges of usage, comfort and energy performance to the highest levels." See the finalist entries, below. Studio GangMAD ArchitectsOMA Proposal by OMA. Image via le Pavillon de l'Arsenal Dominique Perrault Architecture Proposal by Dominique Perrault Architecture. Image via le Pavillon de l'Arsenal PLP Architecture Proposal by PLP Architecture. Image via le Pavillon de l'Arsenal Architecture Studio Proposal by Architecture Studio. Image via le Pavillon de l'Arsenal The finalist designs will be on display as part of an exhibition at the from September 20 to October 22, 2017. Learn more about the exhibition, here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Little House. Big City / Office of Architecture Posted: 26 Sep 2017 08:00 AM PDT  © Rafael Gamo
 © Rafael Gamo From the architect. The owners of this 11-foot-wide row house in Brooklyn were faced with a conundrum that many young families in New York eventually confront: the possibility of sacrificing location for space. After living in the house for eight years, the pair – an architect and jewelry designer – chose to expand in order to make room for their two growing children and remain in the Brooklyn neighborhood they had come to admire. The original 2-story, 1000SF home was completely gutted and extended to 4 levels by adding a bedroom suite above and digging a new urban mudroom below.  Section Perspective The narrowness of the house required the design to make effective yet frugal use of space; every inch was important. Precise positioning of walls, doors, and windows was crucial as each floor was planned to serve a purpose. The lowest level serves as a new entry, storage, laundry, and mechanical area; the first floor is a continuous public space with living, dining, kitchen, and library opening to gardens in the front and back; the second contains two kids' bedrooms along with a 2-sink bathroom; while the topmost level holds the master suite with a sleeping area, bathroom, balcony, and terrace.  © Matthew Williams  Proposed Plans  © Matthew Williams A slender steel stair repositioned on the south side party wall connects the house vertically and draws more light, air, and views into the building. Materials throughout the home are modest, natural, and unassuming: the rawness of unfinished steel and character-grade walnut is juxtaposed with the simple refinement of honed Carrara marble and matte ceramic hex tiles. The result is a home that is not just larger, but livelier – filled with the possibility to do more and stay longer in a city that requires its residents to be resourceful.  © Rafael Gamo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Metro Stations Line 2 - CCR Metrô Bahia / JBMC Arquitetura e Urbanismo Posted: 26 Sep 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Nelson Kon
 © Nelson Kon From the architect. Salvador, the first capital of Brazil, had its urban layout on a specific geography, formed by hills and valleys (high and low city). This model of occupation was intensified after the 60s of the 20th century where, on the hills, occupation was residential, while the valleys had priority as a road transportation vector, leading to an unsustainable traffic congestion.  Site The landscape resulting from this model is generally characterized by low occupancy density and wide range of horizons. This promotes considerable distances between the passenger catchment point and the stations. In this context, the stations are viewed at great distances, demanding a strong presence in the landscape, as a way of orientation, identification and attractiveness for users.  © Nelson Kon The city of Salvador is heir to a specific and rich cultural condition, largely substantiated by the African and Portuguese heritage, present in all aspects of the life in the city. In this context, the settlement of the subway system must recognize this heritage, establishing legitimacy and cultural insertion in a contemporary way, and avoid repeating stereotypes.  © Nelson Kon Line 2 - Integrating is transforming The project, of great dimension and under public concession and private operation, encompasses a total of 12 metro stations, 9 typical above ground stations, 1 elevated station, 2 above ground stations under specific project conditions (including a large retrofit), 3 bus terminals, 13 kilometers of landscaped treatment with linear parks and bike path.  © Nelson Kon  Section  © Nelson Kon Line 2, located in the central separator of Paralela, an avenue with approximate extension of 13 km and responsible for the connection of the very dense central area in the city of Salvador, between the Central Bus Station and the Airport.  © Nelson Kon Each station was developed under different conditions of settlement, morphology, demand and modal interaction, requiring the consideration of specific conditions, simultaneously with the search for a general unity for the system. The stations: a comfortable, fast building and low budget icon for Salvador  © Nelson Kon The typical stations were developed on two floors, being the platforms located close to the surface and the mezzanine located on its upper deck. The use of sustainable, rationalized and prefabricated construction systems to meet the short construction schedule has made the architectural project strongly aligned with engineering decisions in the design of its constituent elements. The station’s pillars, girders and slabs were designed in pre-cast concrete because of high repeatability of its parts. The pillars were designed in such a way as to give continuity to the design of the self-supporting tiles curvature, providing a reduction of the built volume, since the stations would also be implanted in a small area between high-density road, allowing, close to their base, where there was minimum right foot, were occupied by public walkways, emergency escape route or bicycle lane.  © Nelson Kon The covering system, with span of approximately 23 meters, is in self-supporting metal tile, double with thermal and acoustic protection and formatted in the construction site. The walkways and the closures are in metal structure. It was intentional to create solutions for the station's construction systems in order to potentiate them in an original aesthetic-spatial result. Tilted 10 degrees from the horizontal plane, the self-supporting steel roof sections ("ceiling-floor" type) provided visual contact with the exterior and contributed to natural lighting and ventilation, forming a sequence of vaulted sheds. Being Salvador a city with a tropical climate, with high solar incidence, the design of the stations was based on large shaded areas with abundance of cross ventilation and chimney ventilation contributing positively to the thermal comfort of the users. This solution presents a dynamic and unusual spatial aspect in the interior of the station, caused by its shape, scale and colours.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ARCHMARATHON 2017 Finalists Announced Posted: 26 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT  ARCHMARATHON, an event that celebrates architecture and interior design from Canada, USA, Central and Latin America, has announced 42 finalist projects that will be presented during a three-day long gathering at the Faena Forum in Miami. The central theme of the event is the relationship between design and human beings. The organizers explain, "Before being a client, a user or broker, human beings are individuals who use, enjoy and experience the end result of the design and construction process, whether it be time at giving shape to a chair, an apartment, a building or a city." The finalists were chosen by an international jury consisting of ArchDaily's founders, David Basulto and David Assael, and Luca Molinari and Francisco Pardo. The format of the event has been designed to provide networking and exposure opportunities that allow architects to continue to produce award-worthy architecture. The finalists listed below will head to Miami to participate in the event at the newly-opened, OMA-designed Faena Forum during October 12-14, 2017. MOVING  Construyendo Común-Unidad / Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura © Sandra Pereznieto Construyendo Común-Unidad / Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura (MEXICO) WORKING  BBVA Bancomer Tower / LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA + Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners © Roland Halbe BBVA Bancomer Tower / LegorretaA + Legorreta + Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (MEXICO) LIVING _Miguel_de_Guzma%CC%81n.jpg?1506434093 "2222 Jackson / ODA New York © Miguel de Guzmán") 2222 Jackson / ODA New York © Miguel de Guzmán 2222 Jackson / ODA Architecture (USA \ NYC) CARING .jpg?1506434084 "Estúdio Pretto / Arquitetura Nacional © Marcelo Donadussi") Estúdio Pretto / Arquitetura Nacional © Marcelo Donadussi University of Oregon Jane Sanders Stadium / SRG Partnership (USA \ PORTLAND) CHILLING OUT  NOMA México / La Metropolitana + Studio Arquitectos © Jason Loucas Il mercato / Landa Arquitectios (MEXICO) VISIONING  Rojkind Arquitectos' Foro Boca. Courtesy of Rojkind Arquitectos Aeropuerto Internacional de Ciudad de México / Norman Foster and Fernando Romero (USA \ NYC) DREAMING  Salisbury University Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons / Sasaki © Jeremy Bitterman Community Center of el Rodeao de Mora / Foro Arquitectos (COSTA RICA) RE-THINKING  Totihue Chapel / Gonzalo Mardones Viviani © Nico Saieh Totihue Chapel / Gonzalo Mardones Arquitecto (CHILE)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cittadella Bridge / Richard Meier & Partners Posted: 26 Sep 2017 04:00 AM PDT  © Hufton+Crow
 © Hufton+Crow From the architect. During the flooding of Alessandria in 1994, not only did the water level reach the roadway, but also the piers of the Napoleonic Cittadella Bridge caught much of the debris in the river, effectively acting as a dam. The new design, a single span raised above the flood plain, not only solves that problem, but also reconnects the fabric of the modern city with the Cittadella, an 18th century fort and tentative UNESCO World Heritage site. By relinking Piazza Gobetti to the citadel's remarkable structures, the project hopes to catalyze their future preservation and reuse.  © Hufton+Crow Richard Meier comments: "More than 20 years after the initial commission to design a new bridge between the city of Alessandria and the old citadel, I am extremely pleased to have completed this new modern link between the past and the future of the city. We hope that this new structure will contribute to the civic life of the local community and to the urban revitalization around the site, the 18th-century citadel and Piazza Gobetti."  Plan The bridge also enhances the natural flow of the river Tanaro, and aspires to become a public space for the citizens of Alessandria. While the previous structure was often heavily congested with traffic, making it unsafe and virtually an obstruction for pedestrians, the new bridge provides separate parallel routes for pedestrian and vehicular circulation. The pedestrian walkway effectively becomes a public plaza through which the public and civic life of Alessandria can find a new, positive relation to the river.  © Hufton+Crow Simone Ferracina, Project Manager, comments: "While we always understood the urban and infrastructural scale of the project, and its iconic importance, it has been fantastic to witness its warm reception by the citizens of Alessandria, and to see how the bridge construction has simultaneously re-launched the identity of the city on the international stage, re-articulated the river's relation to the city's public space, and reconnected its fabric to the Cittadella fortress."  Model. Image Courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners The vehicular side of the bridge bows strongly to the north, and as a counterbalance to this bow, the 32.5 meter high arch of the bridge is curved to the south. The weight of the pedestrian bridge helps to maintain the balance, and with the opposing curves, creates a dynamic arrangement.  © Hufton+Crow  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Zaha Hadid Architects Reveal Residential Tower in Melbourne Inspired by Australia's Natural Forms Posted: 26 Sep 2017 03:40 AM PDT  © VA Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed the design of the Mayfair Residential Tower, a new 19-story residential complex in Melbourne, Australia that draws inspiration from the fluid forms of the country's landscapes and seascapes. Located on the major mixed-use artery of St Kilda Road, the project will provide each unit with a large balcony and views of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Port Phillip Bay, Albert Park and the city skyline.  © VA The building facade is made up of ZHA's signature fluid elements, this time manifesting as a system of simple wave formations that open and become larger as the building rises. To achieve a wide variability in the system, the team has utilized computer algorithms that adapt to the range of apartment layouts (158 residences of between one to five bedrooms, ranging in size from 70 square meters to 556 square meters) and the irregular site shape. "Building on ZHA's expertise in delivering complex architectural geometries, computational parametric design allowed an optimizing algorithm to identify shape similarities within the façade to a tolerable degree, minimizing the number of different façade panels required," the architects explain. "This process enabled the creation of the building's sculpted façade that would have otherwise been cost prohibitive."  © Mr P Studios  © VA  © Mr P Studios Inside, custom finishes and built-in pieces carry that same fluid language, pulling residents and visitors through the units in a "sequence of spatial experiences that maximize the iconic views across the city."  © Mr P Studios  © VA The building also features a number of shared amenities such as the rooftop terrace and swimming pool that allow for entertaining and relaxation. On the street level, the building inserts itself into the existing city fabric with double height spaces including a restaurant/cafe with open-air seating. Estimated to cost $330 million AUD, the project is expected to be completed by 2020.  © Mr P Studios  © VA
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| How Architects in Chicago Are Making New History Posted: 26 Sep 2017 03:20 AM PDT "We are at a moment of great cultural transition," Jorge Otero-Pailos argues. "The kinds of objects that we look to to provide some sort of continuity in that transformation is often times architecture, [...] one of the most stable objects in culture." This short film, in which an number of participants of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial reflect on their work and those of others, tackles the theme conceived by artistic directors Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee: Make New History. This film was created by PLANE—SITE and Spirit of Space in collaboration with ArchDaily and Hunter Douglas. You can view our ongoing coverage of the event, here.
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| 9 of the Most Bizarre and Forward-Thinking Radical Architecture Groups of the 60s and 70s Posted: 26 Sep 2017 02:30 AM PDT  The first moon landing, widespread anti-war protests, Woodstock and the hippies, rural communes and environmentalism, the Berlin Wall, the women's liberation movement and so much more—the tumultuous decades of the Sixties and Seventies occupy an unforgettable place in history. With injustices openly questioned and radical ideas that set out to unseat existing conventions and practices in various spheres of life, things weren't any different in the architectural world. The grand visions dreamt up by the modernists were soon challenged by utopian experiments from the "anti-architecture" or "radical design" groups of the 1960–70s. Reestablishing architecture as an instrument of political, social, and cultural critique, they drafted bold manifestoes and designs, experimented with collage, music, performance art, furniture, graphic design, zines, installations, events, and exhibitions. While certain individuals from this era like Cedric Price, Hans Hollein, and Yona Friedman remain important to the realm of the radical and the unbuilt, the revolutionary spirit of these decades also saw the birth of various young collectives. For eccentricity at its very best, read on for a (by no means exhaustive) list of some groups who dared to question, poke, expand, rebel against, disrupt and redefine architecture in the 60s and 70s. Ant Farm (San Francisco, USA) Slide showing Ant Farm's design for Convention City, which was displayed by SFMoMA as part of their 2012 exhibition "<a href='http://www.archdaily.com/224032/sfmoma-exhibit-the-utopian-impulse-buckminster-fuller-and-the-bay-area'>The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area</a>". Image © Ant Farm Inspired by the counter-culture milieu of the Bay Area, Chip Lord and Doug Michels founded Ant Farm in 1968. While the group's initial focus was on reforming architectural education, their work soon expanded into a tool for deeper introspection and critique propelled particularly by the Brutalist architecture of Louis Kahn and Paul Rudolph. Through performances, installations, videos, manifestos and agitprop events replete with their own inflatable structures, they celebrated flexibility and lightness; these ideas eventually culminated in the design of The House of the Century. Subsequent projects, like the famous Cadillac Ranch Show, Media Burn and Dolphin Embassy, also served as a tongue-in-cheek comment on mass consumption, production and the resulting environmental depreciation. As if all this was not enough to satisfy the cheeky spirits of the duo, a customized Chevy called Media Van accompanied them throughout their travels across the United States. Archigram (UK) Plug-In City. Image © Peter Cook Megastructures that walk on spindly legs, wearable dwellings, underwater cities, inflatable villages, do-it-yourself building kits, pills that induce fantastical architectural visions, and so much more—this group of architects (Peter Cook, David Greene, Mike Webb, Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron) is undoubtedly the first that comes to mind when one pairs the word "radical" with "architecture."  Instant City. Image © Peter Cook Incorporating elements from science fiction, comics, advertising imagery, pop-art, poetry, and collage in their work, Archigram upheld the tenets of neo-futurism, mass-consumerism and contemporary technology in post-war Britain. They rejected the modernist straitjacket by spewing out fantastical designs of buildings and cities which were mobile, adaptable, and far more technologically advanced than anything that the modernists had built to that point. Archizoom Associati (Italy) Superonda Sofa, 1966. Image Courtesy of Dario Bartolini (Archizoom Associati) Best-known for their No-Stop City and their eclectic, kitschy aesthetics that are best recognized in the design of the Safari Chair and the Dream Bed, this Italian design studio playfully critiqued the status-quo using satire, subversion, irony, and exaggeration. In a joint manifesto signed for a 1961 exhibition Superarchitettura, by Archizoom and Superstudio, they proclaimed: "Superarchitettura is the architecture of superproduction, superconsumption, superinduction to consume, the supermarket, the superman, super gas." Using sculptural forms, bright colors and "furniture-jokes" like the Mies Chair, the nonconformist group argued for total liberation from, and the "right to go against a reality that lacks meaning... to act, modify, form, and destroy the surrounding environment." Cavart (Italy)Formed in 1973, "Cavart," meaning "quarry," was named after the site where the group's first performance took place: the quarry of the Monte Lonzina near Padua. Often taking over such remote sites on the outskirts of cities, the group mainly operated through seminars, performances, and workshops. The most famous of all was the week-long workshop Culturally Impossible Architecture, which was home to over a hundred participants in 1975, including Will Alsop and Marco Zanini. Cavart worked tirelessly to do away with bourgeoisie ideals and aesthetics, arguing for a more meaningful relationship between architecture and the environment. Their workshops often resulted in make-shift pop-up towns which were created from scratch in just a few days, with structures made with inexpensive, everyday materials which were easily accessible to all. Superstudio (Florence) New-New York, 1969. This drawing was displayed as part of the exhibition "<a href='http://www.archdaily.com/774609/7-early-drawings-by-famous-architects'>Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association</a>" © Superstudio. Image Courtesy of Collection of the Alvin Boyarsky Archive The bizarre imagery of Superstudio stands unparalleled in the history of the Radical Design Movement in Italy: a series of hallucinogenic sequences containing massive golden pyramids, city grids stretching towards infinity, metallic pods floating in space, gigantic reflective cubes parked in desolate landscapes, and humans mingling with giant cacti against a backdrop of rocky hills—all strangely reminiscent of the otherworldly visions of Philip K Dick, Isaac Asimov and J G Ballard. Through bold photomontages, illustrations, films, exhibitions and textual proclamations, their influence reached far and wide. Gruppo UFODid all radical architecture groups, then, never actually "build buildings"? Not at all! A few did indeed dabble in (re)designing spaces, more specifically, discotheques or "pipers", as they were locally known in the 60s. The Italian design group UFO decided to take control of this seemingly "neutral space," the nightclub, as a ready canvas for experimentation. Taking inspiration from a Disney comic book, Donald Duck and the Magic Hourglass, the group created a strange setting replete with hour-glass shaped furniture, large lanterns and a DJ booth on a flying carpet. Makeshift structures and industrial aesthetics marked the experiments with discotheques in this era, all the while commenting on the sordid state of affairs in the world. Gruppo 9999 Competition University Of Florence, 1971, <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/428256/ad-interviews-rotor-curators-of-the-oslo-architecture-triennale'>displayed as part of the 2013 Oslo Architecture Triennale</a>. Image © Gruppo 9999 In a similar vein, another Italian collective founded in 1967, Gruppo 9999, converted an engine repair workshop into a disco with furnishings made out of washing machine drums and old refrigerator cases, calling it Space Electronic—it became an architecture school by day and a nightclub by night. Gruppo 9999's work also brought to the fore their concerns about sustainability and ecology. In the 1971 Mondiale Festival, the second floor of Space Electronic sported a vegetable garden while the ground floor was flooded with water. This garden patch was just a precursor for what was to come—in 1972, Gruppo 9999 won MoMA's Competition for Young Designers with the proposal for their Vegetable Garden House. Gruppo Strum (Italy)Founded in 1971, Gruppo Strum was Giorgio Cerretti, Pietro Derossi, Carlo Gianmarco, Riccardo Rosso and Maurizio Vogliazzo. The meaning of the name's group roughly translates to "instrumental architecture", indicative of the optimistic spirit that the group imbibed. Also experimenting with the discotheque format, they created playful, adaptable spaces with a mix of programs: a space for fashion shows and boutiques, music nights and dance. Gruppo Strum is best remembered for its grass-green Pratone lounge chair, which, much to the delight of many, is back in production by Gufram, the Italian manufacturer of the original chair. Haus-Rucker-Co (Vienna)_Haus-Rucker-Co__Gerald_Zugmann.jpg?1506427899 "Haus-Rucker-Co's \"Ballon für Zwei\" was displayed as part of the exhibition \"<a href='http://www.archdaily.com/582842/haus-rucker-co-architectural-utopia-reloaded'>Haus-Rucker-Co: Architectural Utopia Reloaded</a> exhibition at Berlin's Haus am Waldsee in 2015. Image © Haus-Rucker-Co, Gerald Zugmann") Haus-Rucker-Co's "Ballon für Zwei" was displayed as part of the exhibition "<a href='http://www.archdaily.com/582842/haus-rucker-co-architectural-utopia-reloaded'>Haus-Rucker-Co: Architectural Utopia Reloaded</a> exhibition at Berlin's Haus am Waldsee in 2015. Image © Haus-Rucker-Co, Gerald Zugmann This Viennese collective operating at the junction between architecture, psychology and technology is best remembered not just for its wild proposals for inflatables and parasitic architecture—like the Oase Nr. 7, a spherical pneumatic structure attached to an existing building during Documenta 5, creating a space for contemplation or play—but also the strange breathing devices and helmets like the Mind Expander series. Seeking to play with human perception, these helmets presented a bizarre new reality for those who wore them, heightening their senses and altering their ideas about space. Haus-Rucker-Co__Gerald_Zugmann.jpg?1506427554 "Haus-Rucker-Co's \"Environment Transformers\" were displayed as part of the exhibition \"<a href='http://www.archdaily.com/582842/haus-rucker-co-architectural-utopia-reloaded'>Haus-Rucker-Co: Architectural Utopia Reloaded</a> exhibition at Berlin's Haus am Waldsee in 2015. Image © Haus-Rucker-Co, Gerald Zugmann") Haus-Rucker-Co's "Environment Transformers" were displayed as part of the exhibition "<a href='http://www.archdaily.com/582842/haus-rucker-co-architectural-utopia-reloaded'>Haus-Rucker-Co: Architectural Utopia Reloaded</a> exhibition at Berlin's Haus am Waldsee in 2015. Image © Haus-Rucker-Co, Gerald Zugmann The group also employed the sense of taste in their projects: the notorious Food City I and Food City II invited onlookers to quite literally eat their city—an edible scale-model made of parts of Minneapolis, and later Houston, as well as Central Park.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Canning House / Estudio Borrachia Posted: 26 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Fernando Schapochnick
 © Fernando Schapochnick From the architect. It's Tuesday afternoon, it was a tiring day and the feeling of coming home is always second to none. Martin, up to his home after driving and working all day; crosses the access yard between bicycles and skates and when he opens the door he will find an interior landscape where nature and the exterior surroundings merge, the green palette so typical of the Argentine countryside grows both inside and outside the house.  © Fernando Schapochnick In the central courtyard, the fire is lit and floods all the spaces. His children play around and run through the gallery and the living room. His wife, Ana, just arrived from a long day, relaxes in the jacuzzi, he hears them laughing and watches the treetops move with the wind. It dusk, and the last rays of the sun enter by the gallery dying everything of orange.  © Fernando Schapochnick  General Plan  © Fernando Schapochnick The paragraphs that precedes this text describe an ideal moment to reach, thinking about this hypothetical inhabitant was the search engine that led the study to develop this work. Thus, without a specific client we work with a typical, middle-class user with one or two children, studying their way of living in these controlled landscapes, and we resort to certain elements of the autochthonous collective memory, such as the patio or the gallery, as a confirmation of this ideal; in synthesis we think of this house as a replicable typological system or model of inhabit the city outskirts.  © Fernando Schapochnick To achieve this and also thinking about the assembly speed of the construction we adopt a hybrid technology, which can become a repetition system, where the whole structure is metallic, as is the roof. The brick was used as an expressive material and skin is introduced into a previously constructed iron frame, to become part of an element that we can describe as light in this conjunction.
The last component defines the atmosphere of the house both inside and outside. The wood, used in both horizontal planes, floor and ceiling, as framing the relationship of dwelling with the horizon, defining it and giving it a scale.  © Fernando Schapochnick Canning House achieves through these few elements a maximum relation between nature and architecture, promoting a "Low Life"way to inhabit, where its user can enjoy open and flexible spaces, in direct contact with the outside; in addition to using mechanisms that manage climate control and the perceive the exterior, making this relationship comfortable without resorting to large energy costs. Double glazed hermetic windows, cross ventilation and insulation, air chambers, separation of the floor with the house on legs and heating by solar energy, are studied to achieve maximum efficiency in that sense.  Structure The central patio organizes the spaces, not only tries to support these concepts functioning as a climatic catalyst, also allows to extend the interior life to the outside by the repair that offers, as much of the climate as of the sight of the neighbors.  © Fernando Schapochnick It is a house conceived for the intimacy of the family life but at the same time ideal for social gatherings where all the spaces can be enjoyed and used at the same time. That was the message we wanted to convey, a house as a place of constant enjoyment.  © Fernando Schapochnick  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 26 Sep 2017 01:00 AM PDT  © Daniel Ruiz As a response to the fast-paced city life, GrowMore is an urban gardening modular design with endless configurations to suit even the most unexpected of spaces. Designed by Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrik Husum, the modular building kit provides an opportunity for social interaction and locally grown vegetation, reminding people to pause and connect with nature.
 © Daniel Ruiz The Danish duo plan to change our preconceptions of architecture by offering it at a human scale. By sharing the design open-source, anyone with access to a CNC machine can easily produce and assemble the 6 different plywood components into an array of ways to suit the specific context. GrowMore represents the maker-movement where flexible design in architecture is key for it to suit the individual maker.  © Daniel Ruiz  © Daniel Ruiz
A 3D garden is an ideal solution to maximise the use of space for growing our own vegetation in a city where outdoor space usually comes at a premium. Lindholm and Husum have tackled this same issue before; Growroom was a DIY spherical garden developed with IKEA's innovation lab Space10 in 2016, to promote local food production. Developing on the modular urban gardening design, GrowMore offers an adaptable system depending on the site and needs.  Assembly  Elements Architects: Husum & Lindholm News via: Husum & Lindholm.
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| Rafael Viñoly, Charles Jencks, and Kim Cook Among Lead Speakers for WAF 2017 Posted: 25 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of World Architecture Festival The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced their program for the 2017 edition focusing on the theme of "Performance." An incredible list of speakers including Alison Brooks, Charles Jencks, Pierre de Meuron and France Kéré will feature across 3 days from November 15th to 17th at the Arena Berlin, Germany. Conferences, city tours, lectures and critiques of the shortlisted projects from the 2017 WAF awards are among the events scheduled for the festival. The seminars, speeches, debates and discussions will examine "the topic of performance from the perspectives of housing, public spaces, festivals, cultural institutions and new technologies." The opening keynote speaker, Rafael Viñoly, will initiate the festival on the Wednesday by speaking to the way his practice applies the concept of performance to architecture and a variety of building types that encourage a range of interactions. Thursday night will see Pierre de Meuron of Herzog & de Meuron, and Charles Jencks flip the role of architect and critic as Jencks presents the recently completed Elbphilharmonie and de Meuron comments. Kim Cook, the Director of Art & Civic Engagement at Burning Man Festival will close the festival on Friday, discussing the temporary structures created in the desert each year and the ultimate performance of creating a city. Other speakers include: Nathalie de Vries, Co-Founder, MVRDV The Festival will also run architect-lead tours of Berlin. Among these, a look at the architectural divide and "architectural arms race" of East and West Berlin, a showcase of modern urban visions and, on the topic of performance, examples of refurbished cultural venues. For tickets and more information see the WAF website.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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