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- VÈLO7 Cycle Shop / lina architekci
- This Towering Residential Forest Could Offer a Solution to Urban Air Pollution
- House on the Lake / Pierre Minassian architecte
- Primitive Future - GUMPHA House / Within N Without
- Rockery for Play—Poly WeDo Art Education / ARCHSTUDIO
- Back Country House / LTD Architectural Design Studio
- EID Architecture Redefines High Density Mixed Use Development in Xi'an
- Spotlight: Louis Sullivan
- Brisas del Cabo House / José Manuel Álvarez Cruz
- Striking Images of Exposed Steel: The Best Photos of the Week
- Time-Lapse Shows the Roof Installation at Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano Stadium
- House in the Setback / Vera + Ormaza Arquitectos
- Method in Modular: 10 Floor Plans Using Shipping Container Architecture
VÈLO7 Cycle Shop / lina architekci Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:00 PM PDT
From the architect. VÈLO7 is a group of bicycle enthusiasts who want to share their passion with others. Interested in offering best quality bicycles to their customers, they have decided to create a unique place that would reflect their common fascination. This job was entrusted to a befriended studio mode:lina. "We are crazy about bicycles. We can race, ride and ramble on about them all the time. Bicycles definitely get us going" – VÈLO7 The cyclists needed a multifunctional space which could easily accommodate the functions of a bike shop, service and repair and a place for bike testing. Knowing that in VÈLO7 it is all about two-wheelers, our designers tapped into bicycle inspirations. The triangular forms and slant surfaces used throughout the interior refer to the shape of the bicycle frame. Its characteristic geometry was also translated into specially designed bike racks, which resulted in additional space for bike presentation. Apart from bicycle inspirations, the designers also applied the visual identification of the brand and its logo created by Minima Advertising People. As the brand is owned by genuine enthusiasts, their passion and commitment had to be reflected already at the graphic level. The black-and-white interior matches the visual representation of VÈLO7, while the dividing lines and lighting refer to its triangular logo. The ground plan of the entire store provides for the ultimate, albeit slightly concealed, cycling-related element. The respective zones are divided in a way that resembles a bicycle wheel with the display zone located in the centre (the hub) and converging lines representing the spokes. The interior has a dynamic form which is to reflect the rhythm of bicycle races. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
This Towering Residential Forest Could Offer a Solution to Urban Air Pollution Posted: 03 Sep 2017 09:00 PM PDT In this short film, part of a four-part video series co-produced by Curbed and The Verge, the Bosco Verticale—the towering residential forest in the dense urban environment of Milan—is examined for its architectural prowess, as well as its botanical aptitude. In the film, architect Stefano Boeri and expert arborists explain what makes the skyscraper so unique, as well as it's very real potential effect on air pollution in the city. Via The Verge. The content was produced in partnership with Samsung.
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House on the Lake / Pierre Minassian architecte Posted: 03 Sep 2017 08:00 PM PDT
From the architect. The house on the lake is a project designed for a couple with two children in 2012. It is located on a narrow plot whose natural slope reaches the shores of Lake. Pierre Minassian, the architect of the project, followed this operation with his team of architects for 3 years. The house is entirely made of raw concrete and its structure is exceptional because of its apparent simplicity and its truthful sophistication. The dwelling consists of two main levels. On the ground floor are situated the largely open reception rooms, such as the living room, the kitchen and the dining room, as well as a guest room and an office. Upstairs is the sleeping area with three bedrooms and their bathrooms as well as a children's playroom. The house is located in the skirt of the slope, near the shore of the lake, contrary to the local constructions further down the road. Their work as architects was to create a direct communication between the volumes constructed and the landscape of disconcerting beauty. The other main desire expressed by the client was not to obscure the view of the lake from the top of the plot and the street. Thus, when one enters the property, the gaze has no obstacle and one can see the opposite shore of the lake though quite distant. The volume of the house results from the assembly of two boxes with pure lines. At the intersection of the two volumes is a double height which allows the living room to have all the necessary volume for a reception room. Only a narrow bridge stretching in the middle of this space creates the link between the parental suite overlooking the lake and the children's rooms overlooking the garden. The house on the lake rhymes with transparency. Upstairs in the West facade we have developed a contemporary mashrabiya made of Corian® resin thermoformed shapes. This sunscreen comes to control the energy and heat input of the house at the same time giving a special vibration to the facade. This latticework is fully assembled on site by our architecture studio. Environment: This house is extremely efficient from an energetic and environmental point of view and meets the requirements of the BBC label. Thus a multitude of technical solutions have been developed to conserve the raw concrete apparent outside and sometimes inside. In order to keep apparent the maximum of the raw concrete structure, the roof is insulated from the outside with a system of extremely efficient thin insulating panels. The reinforced concrete walls are divided with thermal breakers and thermal insulation. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Primitive Future - GUMPHA House / Within N Without Posted: 03 Sep 2017 07:00 PM PDT
From the architect. As the urban dweller tired from the stresses of everyday life, seeking rejuvenation, turns towards nature, his quest is to seek inner joy, unbound his energies to become one with the forces of nature. The chaos of city life drives a man to pursue the tranquility and search for the inner peace, which so alludes him in his mundane life. The Charm of city life and the appeal of nature is the chasm a man seeks to bridge and in that keeps searching for a meaningful existence. It is this search which brings us to gumpha and its environs. Gumpha bridges the chasm between the darkness in the depths of lands and the light which comes calling from the heavens; celebrating the communion of the two. The user is drawn into this play of light and darkness; discovering his part in the drama as he becomes part of the bigger script, making a journey, discovering the meaning of the larger picture, each having his own definition. But more than all that gumpha is A response... to the adventurous nature of explore. An expression... of the innate nature of land and hills to surprise. A journey... to lose the identity and discover self. A poetry... by the earth itself. A dialogue... between man and nature. Gumpha is a search of the designer looking for a language to answer nature's callings. It is a narration of the most organic response of the architect to the immediate environment. As you move along the path the land opens up to you, taking you along its winding ways slowly revealing the surrounding, drawing you into an atmosphere. You are introduced to gumpha when you least expect it and it comes to meet you, inviting you to delve into it, seek its spaces, travel its depths. It wants you to discover, to explore, to find something new each time you walk along. The form it takes is mostly organic, where the earth itself seems to breathe in tandem with light to create what can be called as an almost living and sensuous organism, arousing the curiosity with its silent light and playful inquisitive spaces. It almost humors you by appealing the child in you in playing with itself, making you wonder, drawing you in the insides, taking you along on the roof. At the same time, it helps you search for your inner self as the deep spaces lit by heavenly light offer you tranquility and peace to meditate. where in the interior are introvert and contemplative, the exteriors offer you vistas of the surroundings, engaging both joyous and peaceful essence of man, initiating an intense experience, in turn making you richer by the time you leave for the city. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Rockery for Play—Poly WeDo Art Education / ARCHSTUDIO Posted: 03 Sep 2017 05:00 PM PDT
From the architect. This is the second children educational space that ARCHSTUDIO designed for Poly Wedo Art Educational Institution. It is located on the second floor of Beijing Damei Central. This institution mainly teaches children music, dance, tea, cooking, and craft courses, so the space design needs to provide appropriate classrooms based on above needs. Inspired by rockery artificial hills in Chinese traditional garden, the design creates multiple ranges of "artificial hills" that allow children to happily play here. The graphic design of the original building is L-shaped, and the entrance is located in the end of one side, thus the streamline from outside to inside is relatively long. A winding corridor is squeezed out by continuous curved walls, different from traditional boring straight corridors, it stimulates children's desire to explore. Curved walls differentiate musical classroom, reception area, cooking area, tea classroom, play area and so on. A series of up and down arch caves further change the virtual-real relationship of each area, creating layered and crossed visual interest. Children will find some rooms are dark closed valleys, some are open and transparent hills, while some are holes that hold 2 children only, when they are in the corridor. The musical classroom is sealed by curved glass to ensure sound insulation and also realize an open teaching environment. The tea classroom and the cooking area are separated by reverse-arch walls, which are also tools for children to stride, rest, and play. The craft classroom is at the corner of the corridor, children can sit around the tree to do handwork. Nine private piano classrooms are arranged on both sides of the corridor, each classroom is designed as a small cave, which ensures acoustic quality as arched wall is conducive to sound mixing. Wood color is the major tune of the corridor, some walls are mirrored stainless steel, and the reflection of materials help create a deep and dazzling space to increase the enjoyment of materials experience. The end of the corridor is dance classroom, which is positioned as an "exterior space" as a contrast to the general wood color space. The original structural pipelines of the building are all exposed, the gray glued flooring on the ground raised beside the window as a seating area. Transparent floor glass, floor dance mirror and the outdoor trees set each other off, the indoor and outdoor scenes are naturally connected. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Back Country House / LTD Architectural Design Studio Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:00 PM PDT
From the architect. Located on a secluded bush-clad site this house plays on the uniquely NZ typology of the back country hut. Aiming at simplicity it is comprised of a single volume for living/cooking/ eating and a lean-to annex housing the lower floor service/sleeping areas. The spaces are open and shared as opposed to enclosed and separate. The experience is one of enhanced connection with each other, and of an enhanced connection to the surrounding environment. The living area opens fully on two sides, having the feel of an outdoor room, and the fire and baths located on the deck draw daily activities out of the house and into nature. Extensive use of locally sourced band sawn macrocarpa inside and out, passive heating /ventilation and high-performance insulation make the house of low impact environmentally. Roughhewn natural materials tie the house effortlessly into its setting, while the galvanized corrugated iron is used to strengthen the hut aesthetic. The interior design juxtaposes heavily textured and knotted band sawed timber against flat, clean, white, sharp-edged surfaces. Finishing trims and beads are absent from the detailing here - the timber intersects with the white surfaces plainly and honestly – and a high level of workmanship was required to achieve the desired result. The main palette is two-tone, with the warmth of the oil-blonded macrocarpa off-setting the starkness of the matt-white surfaces, meanwhile matt-black light fittings work together with the joinery to accent the scheme. The simplicity of the palette provides a sense of calm which works as a welcome backdrop to the sometimes chaotic days of young family life. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
EID Architecture Redefines High Density Mixed Use Development in Xi'an Posted: 03 Sep 2017 09:00 AM PDT After winning a recent international design competition, EID Architecture out of Shanghai aims to redefine high-density mixed-use development in Asia through their design for the OCT Xi'an International Center (OXIC) in Xi'an, China. The architects consider their approach an exploration of vertical urbanism; the project consists of a 320-meter tall tower for offices and a boutique hotel, a 220-meter tall apartment tower, and a 12-floor podium full of retail and entertainment spaces. Visualized as an icon and cultural landmark, the design is strategically organized horizontally and vertically to create a vibrant, permeable urban center.
Integration with an adjacent park is achieved via the ascending terraces of outdoor retail space, ensuring pedestrians are engaged with the building and that the building relates to the surrounding streetscape. The landscape is integrated as a part of the vertical community via green terraces and roof gardens. EID's design also dissolves the form of the tall tower into smaller, more pedestrian-friendly massing, creating a relationship between the towers, the park, and the streets. The design of the OXIC is inspired by the rectangular grids of the historical city of Xi'an. Occupying high vantage points as public space also relates to the ancient city walls, which are currently a public space important to Xi'an's character and lifestyle. The unique feature of the building that accomplishes this is the outdoor cultural retail street, which connects to the park at ground level and then rises through the complex to a piazza at the 6th floor. The terrace street is connected throughout to the retail shopping mall, offering both entertainment and access to the natural environment along the route. The design is responsive to the historical context and culture of Xi'an, making it a new landmark for the city.
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Posted: 03 Sep 2017 07:00 AM PDT Known as Chicago's "Father of Skyscrapers," Louis Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) foreshadowed modernism with his famous phrase "form follows function." Sullivan was an architectural prodigy even as a young man, graduating high school and beginning his studies at MIT when he was just 16. After just a year of study he dropped out of MIT, and by the time he was just 24 he had joined forces with Dankmar Adler as a full partner of Adler and Sullivan. Sullivan is arguably best known for his influence on the modernists that followed him, including his protegé Frank Lloyd Wright. Though he is known for his beautiful use of ornament, his true innovation came in the way he adapted previous ornamental styles to the newly-emerging tall buildings of the late 19th century, using it to emphasize a building's verticality. It is this principle that led to his famous tenet of "form follows function," although Sullivan himself always credited the inspiration for this phrase to a much older source: Vitruvius. For these innovations in building tall, Sullivan is often credited as being a part of the first "Chicago School" of architecture, which employed steel framed buildings clad in ornamental masonry. Among the buildings for which Sullivan is known are the Wainwright Building in St Louis, Missouri, the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York and the Carson Pirie Scott Building in Chicago.
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Brisas del Cabo House / José Manuel Álvarez Cruz Posted: 03 Sep 2017 06:00 AM PDT
From the architect. Hidden in the mountains of Malpais, Cobano, is the soul-escape retreat that is Brisas del Cabo House. This project, completed in 2014, pursued among other things to maximize the appreciation of the incredible view in the property. At the same time, we needed to achieve a balance between our clients’ needs of comfort and relax and a nice and fresh design. Enjoying the life outside was one of the thematic focuses of the designing process. With the use of natural and crossed ventilation, the house’s inhabitants can enjoy the common areas without the need of artificial artifacts to generate a cooler sensation, even in the very hot ours of the midday. The large covered terraces, (that remind us of the wisdom of our grandfathers who used to build big corridors in the old “casas guanacastecas), allow direct contact with nature, and the line between inside and outside virtually disappear. The spacious common areas, both internal and external, were designed as open spaces, which allow an easy interaction in the people from various points of the house. The existing vegetation in the rest of the property was preserved intact, and that fact has resulted in a variety of fauna that can be observed in the surroundings of the house, increasing the sensation of being in close to nature and in balance with the environment. About the architect: Born in Cóbano, in the north Pacific cost of Costa Rica, and where most of his work is located. He is familiar since he was a child with the weather, the places, beaches and materials of this area, and all of that has resulted in a palette that he implements in his designs. Supporter of the bioclimatic design, he seeks to apply his knowledge to tropicalize the architecture. He sees warily at those that sometimes build with concepts and criteria from the cities, or from other countries where the weather is so different than this beautiful coast, with our dry or rainy tropical weather. From this fact comes his interest to develop and apply the subject of the “tropicalidad” of architecture, looking always to keep the environment untouched, and to harmonize architecture with the weather, nature and the surroundings. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Striking Images of Exposed Steel: The Best Photos of the Week Posted: 03 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT High strength, ease of transport, and simplicity of assembly are among the many major advantages of steel. But while utilitarian steel structures tend to be hidden by architects, working with exposed steel can lead to attractive results. Steel not only brings lightness to a design, but can also offer different expressions of color and texture, depending on the treatment of the material. Below we present a selection of 14 photos of steel architecture from well-known photographers such as Adrien Williams, Imagen Subliminal, and Sergio Pirrone. Imagen SubliminalDesert City / Garciagerman ArquitectosAdrien WilliamsThe "Blanche" Chalet / ACDF ArchitectureChalermwat WongchompooCLASS Cafe Buriram / Sake ArchitectsFernando SchapoMg / Marantz ArquitecturaImagen SubliminalTobogan House / Z4Z4 AAAPaul CrosbyFast Horse / Salmela ArchitectSergio PirroneCaterpillar House / Sebastián IrarrázavalXia ZhiShunyi House / reMIX StudioPete EckertMusic Box Residence / Scott | Edwards ArchitectsRuud van der KoelenHarbor Pavilion / Van der Jeugd ArchitectenSoopakorn Srisakul , Ayutt MahasomPK79 / Ayutt and Associates DesignAgustín GarzaTepozcuautla House / grupoarquitecturaBrad FeinknopfShokan House / Jay BargmannImagen SubliminalThe Hidden Pavilion / PENELAS ARCHITECTSThis posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Time-Lapse Shows the Roof Installation at Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano Stadium Posted: 03 Sep 2017 02:30 AM PDT On Thursday, July 29th, the Estadio Wanda Metropolitano's roof was officially completed. This new stadium, a renovation of the old Peineta athletics stadium, is the new home ground of Spanish football club Atlético Madrid. The roof was designed by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos with support from engineers Schlaich Bergermann Partner. The milestone marks four months of intense work since the installation of the first of the 96 PTFE radial panels at the north end of the stadium. As Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos explain:
With the roof completed, the construction of the new Spanish stadium continues toward its official opening on the 16 or 17 of September, when Atlético Madrid are up against Málaga in the fourth round of the Spanish league. Thanks to Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
House in the Setback / Vera + Ormaza Arquitectos Posted: 03 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT
From the architect. The new Illa mountain hut is situated at 2.488 m height in the idyllic surroundings of the Andorran Pyrenees, a place of an extraordinary beauty resulting from the interaction between man and environment, which gave rise to the characteristic aspect of the existing construction built in the 30’s and whose comprehensive refurbishment and enlargement would be the objective of this project. The main difficulties we encountered when considering the project were the interaction with the protected and sensitive environment’s pre-existences (UNESCO World Cultural Heritage), the extreme weather conditions that only allowed working during the summer, an enclave without road access and finally the energy self-sufficiency. All these extraordinary challenges were transformed through strategic decisions into the characteristic elements that would shape the project. Formally, using the existing building as a structural base helped us to minimize the economic cost and the generation of waste in an environmentally sensitive habitat. The wooden frame structure gives warmth to the interiors but also a modern look. It also takes advantage of the whole space heights and, with its studied roof angles, helps to discharge the big snow load accumulated during the winter and to optimize the energy gain from solar and photovoltaic panels. A characteristic and unique fact that has endowed with an added complexity to the whole process and has determined the chose for light and prefabricated materials has been that the site can only be reach by helicopter. Most of the interior elements are wooden prefabricated in workshop and assembled on site. As a result, the building weighs about a third of a conventional construction of the same characteristics and its total execution time has been only 6 months. Finally highlight that the building is 100% disconnected from any supply network. Because of this, one goal was to reach at least 4 days of energy self-sufficiency. To achieve it, the whole program with climatic requirements was grouped in the new building which is perfectly isolated and conditioned, leaving the rest of the program related to the services in the existing one. Precisely, the installations are an important part to achieve the mentioned self-sufficiency by the use of solar and photovoltaic panels, the autonomous system to treat the waters equipped with coconut filters that allows to return them to the environment, and finally, a controlled and efficient ventilation system that avoids the direct exchange of air with the extreme exterior cold. The result responds to the natural habitat’s evolution and also to the new uses and the rapid growth of mountain activities in the Pyrenean environment, turning the old and deteriorated building into a modern mountain hut, the 4th higher shelter in the Pyrenees. A place prepared to accommodate both hikers and guards who live together comfortable and cozy way, in a hut equipped with all the necessary services to enjoy a unique and privileged environment. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Method in Modular: 10 Floor Plans Using Shipping Container Architecture Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:00 AM PDT Shipping container architecture has developed its own niche in both design and representation. Colorful or grungy? Economical or gentrified? Either way, you look at it, designing with shipping containers is a serious exercise in modular planning. The physical constraints of the object make designing projects with containers a complex task, which demands specific studies in spatial organization. The responses using this element in architecture are great and diverse, so we have selected a number of different project plans, both helpful and inspirational, that rise to the shipping container-challenge of design. Check out selection of 10 architectural project plans using shipping containers below: 01. Container Guest House / Poteet Architects02. El Tiemblo House / James & Mau03. Manifesto House / James and Mau for Infiniski04. Huentelauquén Refuge / Pablo Errázuriz05. RDP House / Daniel Moreno Flores + Sebastian Calero06. Liray House / ARQtainer07. Platoon Kunsthalle Berlin / Platoon Cultural Development08. Shanghai Organic Food Farm / Playze09. Container House / José Schreiber Arquitecto10. Alphaville Store - Contain [it] / SuperLimão StudioThis posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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