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- Aaron Florian Housing / ADNBA
- NRT - Nailert Park Heritage Home / seARCHOFFICE
- House in Minami-Ogikubo / CASE-REAL
- LA's Natural History Museum to Expand With Transparent "Front Porch" Additions
- Cooper Hewitt Releases Online Catalogue of Over 200,000 Historic Design Objects
- Lombard Wharf / Patel Taylor
- Competition-Winning Paris Office Park Design to Reintroduce Play into the Workplace
- Jan Gehl: “In The Last 50 Years, Architects Have Forgotten What a Good Human Scale Is”
- HYPARBOLE / MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
- Shanghai 2117 Imagines Vertical Forest Architecture for Future Mars Colonization
| Posted: 28 Oct 2017 10:00 PM PDT  © Andrei Margulescu
.jpg?1508846986 "© Andrei Margulescu") © Andrei Margulescu Text description provided by the architects. Aaron Florian Apartment Building, is an honest answer to a particular urban setting: an irregular plot, the closeness of the opposite building raising privacy issues, a blind wall to a difficult neighbour and an inflection of the street. All these produce an atypical configuration - a building with floors successively recessed, the upper floors providing more light to the narrow street and the exterior spaces directing the views along it. .jpg?1508847029 "© Cosmin Dragomir") © Cosmin Dragomir The retracted plinth gives the building a lightsome, almost detached appearance, connected to the ground only by the tectonic effect of the stairs leading into the building. The transparency of the ground floor allows for commercial or office spaces to open themselves to the street, thus livening this rather narrow and trafficless blind alley.  © Cosmin Dragomir  Ground Floor .jpg?1508846977 "© Cosmin Dragomir") © Cosmin Dragomir Floors 1 to 3 comprise three apartments each, while the last floor contains two larger apartments with terraces both at their level and on the rooftop, that provide spectacular views of one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Bucharest.  © Andrei Margulescu  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| NRT - Nailert Park Heritage Home / seARCHOFFICE Posted: 28 Oct 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © IP (in-productions)
 © IP (in-productions) Text description provided by the architects. This site is now in the CBD of Bangkok but considerably a quite suburban in the old days. The House is to be preserved as a monument of NaiLert's achievement and to be converted to a living museum.  Diagram / Scheme Due to the site situation which is a large green area full of dense plants in the mid of the city, probably, one of the only large green area left the Bangkok.  © IP (in-productions) Our design concept is based upon the idea of preserving the existing trees and emphasize the surrounded nature while the building would camouflage into the garden. The Architecture is intended to exist as a glass house that floated silently in the midst of this unique forest.  © IP (in-productions) The structure is specially designed to be thin horizon plane supported by round columns, which are not in a typical grid, but rather random manner. Using round random columns, they all merge to the existing tree trunks as if they are co exist.  © IP (in-productions) The first building is reception hall and souvenir shop. The function is separated by two glass room. One is a rectangular in plan while another, orbed. The glass is full side from floor to ceiling.  © IP (in-productions) Conversation was created between these two transparent volume. Since transparent glass cannot be seen, the explanation only lies in the experience of space they create.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House in Minami-Ogikubo / CASE-REAL Posted: 28 Oct 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Takumi Ota
 © Takumi Ota Text description provided by the architects. A small wood structure house with an office floor on the ground level, standing on a standing on a 49.5sqm building area within the 100 sqm site. To take in sunlight, the volumes of the building were gathered to the Northern side of the site along the street. The entrances to the office and the residential areas were divided but share the same approach leading in to the structure.  © Takumi Ota On the other hand a large window was created on the Northern facade for even and moderate sunlight throughout the day, and large single room was made on the second floor surrounding the center stairwell. A seamless counter storage leading from the kitchen to the dining was designed to create an openness and depth to the atmosphere. Along with the office space, rooms with more private functions such as the bedroom and kids room have been placed on the ground level. The office space is a long rectangular room stretching from North to South, and regardless of its small size we have aimed to take in the outside view as much as possible.  © Takumi Ota  Floor Plan  © Takumi Ota  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| LA's Natural History Museum to Expand With Transparent "Front Porch" Additions Posted: 28 Oct 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Natural History Museum West Wing at Night (view from southwest): From the exterior, passers-by can view the museum's new public facilities, including a flexible theater and an interdisciplinary education center for urban nature, culture, and history. A rooftop restaurant offers panoramic vistas of the Los Angeles basin that include the Downtown skyline, San Gabriel Mountains, Baldwin Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains.. Image Courtesy of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) has released concept designs for the new NHM West/South Project – a scheme designed by LA firm Frederick Fisher and Partners (FF&P) in the first step towards a 10-year revitalization of the NHM as Exposition Park's historic hub. The extensions would focus on the west and south sides of the museum, supporting new uses and reimagining the programs and spaces of its famous Ice Age fossil site at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Hancock Park. County Board Chairman Mark Ridley said of the project:
A facilities program plan for the Exposition Park museum campus has been developed by the NHM and FF&P to address increasing capacity, flexibility and transparency of the gallery space by improving the visible storage of its collections and creating a new study center. This program plan should serve as a catalyst for the architectural design process to follow.  NHM South Façade (south elevation): The museum's southwestern perimeter is re-envisioned as a welcoming "front porch" extending from Bill Robertson Lane to the existing South Entrance. Along this accessible path, a new Welcome Center and redesigned circulation and landscape elements create a more seamless transition between indoors and out, increasing the museum's connection to the community and making it a true urban "place.". Image Courtesy of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County A multi-purpose, immersive theater is proposed as a gathering space for the Exposition Park community and surrounding neighborhoods to encourage and facilitate dialogue about critical issues affecting the cultural and natural worlds. Another preliminary concept suggests replacing the existing Jean Delacour Auditorium with a new addition that would bookend the mass of the museum and complement the heritage attributes of the existing structure. A façade of glass with varying levels of transparency would respond the the desire to create openness within the park and the community, with visitors to the South Lawn able to see into the museum.  New Lobby, Welcome Center and Theater Entrance: A new entrance on the southwest corner provides direct access from Exposition Park's South Lawn into NHM's new immersive theater for performances, screenings, lectures, satellite-transmitted scientific expeditions from around the world, and a variety of community gatherings. Visually and physically connected to the existing museum building's ground level temporary exhibition Gallery and first floor Welcome Center loggia, this new entrance also allows for access to the theater and restaurant outside of museum hours.. Image Courtesy of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County A new entry to the building at the southern corner would act as a kind of "front porch," extending the length of the southwest perimeter. A double height lobby would invite visitors into a Welcome Center and to a transparent passage towards the Grand Foyer. The proposal suggests a reworking of the gallery and office spaces of the museum to create a more interesting overlap between research activities, educational programs and the display areas. Tourists and locals would also be drawn to a proposed rooftop restaurant with panoramic views of the immediate context and the wider city as a whole.  Courtesy of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County As a national leader in research, exhibitions and education and accommodating close to 1.3 million visitors annually, the NHM has been a crucial cultural landmark in Los Angeles since 1913. Its 10-year Next transformation, completed in 2013, generated award-winning exhibitions. This future 10-year plan will seek to resolve elements of the future of the museum that were not addressed. With the architectural design and guidance of FF&P, the NHM hope to further and represent their research of "a museum paradigm that once focused on the past, but increasingly addresses the present and the future." News via Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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| Cooper Hewitt Releases Online Catalogue of Over 200,000 Historic Design Objects Posted: 28 Oct 2017 07:00 AM PDT  Trans ... Armchair, 2007; Designed by Fernando Campana and Humberto Campana; Brazil; Commissioned to designers by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Image © Cooper Hewitt - Smithsonian Design Museum The Cooper Hewitt Museum, also known as the Smithsonian Design Museum, has completed a digitization of its expansive collection dedicated to the field of design that spans thirty centuries and more than 220,000 objects. Now, the collection has been made available on its online page. On the institution's site, more than 200,000 objects can be accessed, representing approximately 90% of the museum's collection, which, although protected by copyright, can be used for educational, research and dissemination purposes.  UP 3 Chair, 1969; designed by Gaetano Pesce (Italian, 1939); Italy; polyurethane foam; H x Diam: 69 x 102 cm (27 3/16 x 40 3/16 in.); Frederick N. Babbish Estate Gift; 1991-94-4. Image © Cooper Hewitt - Smithsonian Design Museum According to the Smithsonian, the collection is "a kind of living document," as the database will be continually updated as new research is conducted. The collection can be explored through different categories, ranging from country of origin, period and publications to highlights, conservation and colors.  Banquinho (Brazil), ca. 1955-60; Designed by Joaquim Tenreiro. Gift for Evan Snyderman and Zesty Meyers. Image © Cooper Hewitt - Smithsonian Design Museum With approximately 30,000 hits per month, the Smithsonian Design Museum collection is an exceptional tool for students, architects and designers who are interested in research or simply want to know more about the history of this field. News via: Nexo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © Peter Cook
.jpg?1509075788 "© Peter Cook") © Peter Cook Text description provided by the architects. Award-winning architect, Patel Taylor, reveals its latest contribution to London's riverscape, Lombard Wharf. Designed for Barratt London, the impressive development sits on one of the last remaining riverfront sites in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south London. The building, with a distinctive tear-drop shaped plan, appears to twist as it rises, thanks to subtle changes in the positioning of the white precast-concrete balconies. This creates a kinetic appearance which belies the use of repeating modules, giving the impression that the freestanding structure is carved out of stone. .jpg?1509075718 "© Peter Cook") © Peter Cook  Site Plan  © Peter Cook Lombard Wharf is located on York Way, neighboring smart Battersea Square. The 28-story building comprises 134 one, two, and three-bedroom homes, alongside a newly planned footbridge and part of the Thames path. By creating an elegantly unusual form and opening up the surrounding area and public realm through an imaginative approach to landscape, the development has been praised by Wandsworth Council for its flattering and unique design. Unlike most riverside developments, Lombard Wharf does not have a discernible front or back. 'Riverfront buildings have a propensity to face the water', said Pankaj Patel, director at Patel Taylor. 'We wanted Lombard Wharf to look equally attractive from every viewpoint, acting as a marker on the river whilst not turning its back onto the city.'  © Barratt London  Floor Plan 1  © Barratt London By giving the building a curved form, Patel Taylor has grounded it in its site, creating a sense of place. This is enhanced by the opening up of two adjacent railway arches, also part of the Patel Taylor scheme, one of them containing a workshop space and the other a pedestrian footpath, linking two sides of the railway line. "The creation of a new public plaza is at the heart of our vision, opening up a link from west to east." said Pankaj, adding, "The dynamic form of the building grows from this public space, with a sculpted form twisting upwards to give panoramic views to all homes. The shape relates equally to landward and riverside vistas, becoming a legible marker to the proposed pedestrian footbridge northwards to Imperial Wharf and the focus at the threshold of this new London link."  Section The wraparound balconies are ingeniously designed to rotate by two degrees maximising views from the residences. From a distance, they dominate the appearance of the building, creating a dynamic yet monolithic sculptural form signaling a point of significance in the landscape. At night, the building's balcony fronts are lit with LED lighting, tracing its shape in the skyline. Ed McCoy, sales director of Barratt London, commented: "The distinctive and graceful design of the building, its location, and its proximity to Clapham Junction have made Lombard Wharf a popular choice for buyers looking to move into or invest in Battersea. The building is a great addition to this area of the riverside.  © Peter Cook  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Competition-Winning Paris Office Park Design to Reintroduce Play into the Workplace Posted: 28 Oct 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of RAU, karres+brands & SeARCH Dutch Firms Team RAU, SeARCH, and karres +brands have been named as one of the winners of the Inventons la Metropole de Grand Paris, the largest European competition for city planning, architecture and public space. Their project, Triango, reinvents Paris' Triangle de Gonesse into a dynamic and lively business park which promotes sustainability in every sense of the word.  Courtesy of RAU, karres+brands & SeARCH The office park is strengthened by its public space and inter-building connections. By integrating nature and sport into the commercial block, Triango creates a rich, synergetic environment that defines their vision for a new office experience.
 Courtesy of RAU, karres+brands & SeARCH A rigid framework characterizes and organizes the block into three distinct zones: the urban zone, the organic zone, and the landmark zone. The urban zone cultivates a dynamic urban character with luxuriant gardens and green atriums serving as open public spaces. The organic zone seamlessly integrates the urban zone with the green. The park connects with buildings on different levels to form innovative, engaging outdoor areas such as climbing walls on building facades or outdoor conference rooms, producing new ways to work and play. The landmark zone is exhibited in the dynamic facade facing the A1. During the day, it acts as an iconic defining landmark, and at night, it illuminates the dark sky, becoming a lighthouse for the area.  Courtesy of RAU, karres+brands & SeARCH A main path runs through the site to connect outlying areas with the main nodes of the site. It acts as a backbone of public space, reestablishing the office/park relationship through the creation of unique, dynamic spaces and cohesive work—play functions.  Courtesy of RAU, karres+brands & SeARCH Triango was built with the anticipation of the changing future, and also serves as a prime example of a circular economy. This is most easily exhibited in the physical representation of circular buildings throughout the site. These buildings are considered flexible, temporary aggregations with the potential to be adjusted and modified due to external influences (local aspects, changing regulations, etc), throughout the lifetime of the building.  Courtesy of RAU, karres+brands & SeARCH The system fosters a high-quality space for sports and ecology, inviting users to participate in a new work environment, designed for years to come. News via SeARCH  Courtesy of RAU, karres+brands & SeARCH
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| Jan Gehl: “In The Last 50 Years, Architects Have Forgotten What a Good Human Scale Is” Posted: 28 Oct 2017 02:30 AM PDT  LA DISTANCIA FÍSICA REPERCUTE EN EL CONTACTO SOCIAL. Si muchos integrantes de nuestra familia viven cerca, se les ve mucho más seguido que si lo hicieran a 20 o 30 kilómetros. Entonces, por supuesto, si las circunstancias permiten que la familia o varios miembros de ella puedan vivir cerca, se tendrá una red más densa que si se encuentran diseminados.. Image Cortesía de Revista City Manager This interview was initially published in Spanish by City Manager as “Jan Gehl, ciudades para la gente.” Jah Gehl is recognized as a follower of Jane Jacobs, the “grandmother” of urbanism and humanist planning. He has been a professor at the Danish Real Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and visiting professor in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Mexico, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and Norway. 50 years ago he created his own consultancy, Gehl Architects, in Denmark, where he completed diverse urban projects from around the world using data and strategic analysis. The below text comes from an interview with the Danish architect, theorist and world leader in urban development, and promoter, following Jane Jacobs, of the human scale in the design of public spaces. What should we understand by human scale cities? When I talk about this concept, I take human senses as a starting point and how we, people, move. Man is, of course, a walking being, and our senses are made perfectly for people to walk at around 5 kilometers per hour. The old cities were made so that homo sapiens felt comfortable. The spaces weren't too wide or too big, that's why people felt comfortable. In the old metropolis, everything was made to a suitable size for a person, but after the introduction of modernism and the automobile, the importance of this scale was forgotten. We went from having architecture suited to the travel speed of 5 kilometers per hour, to entire cities of 60 kilometers per hour, which meant wider streets, bigger advertisements, higher buildings, where we weren't able to see anything in detail as we moved so fast. So, modernism and "motorism" confused a lot of architects and planners about what was a comfortable scale for human beings. I have studied this topic for a long time and I believe that in the last 50 years, architects and planners have forgotten what a good human scale is. In the old days, they knew very well what it was.  Cortesía de Revista City Manager We currently live in complex megacities. In such cities, is it possible to think of a human scale? Certainly. I think that we can talk about the need for transport corridors where we need to have things moving at 60 kilometers per hour or designed at a scale for automobiles, but when it comes to where people live, work, go shopping, and move around as pedestrians, we could easily make things better. Venice is a city made for people. The average street is 3 meters wide, which makes it a city suitable for walking with a lot of interesting public spaces. It is a city that truly has a human scale, that is small, personal, and intimate. Meanwhile, a place like Dubai is a city for dinosaurs, not for human beings.  STRØGET. ES UNA ZONA PEATONAL UBICADA EN COPENHAGUE, DINAMARCA, Y ES CONSIDERADA POR MUCHOS COMO LA CALLE PEATONAL MÁS GRANDE DE EUROPA, FUE CREADA EN 1962 BAJO LA ASESORÍA Y CONSEJO DE GEHL. Image Cortesía de Revista City Manager In your book Cities for People, we loved the phase where you say, “first we shape cities and then they shape us.” What exactly does that mean to you? What the phrase means is that the physical frameworks in which we live and spend time have a great influence on our behavior and lifestyle. It really could make quite a drastic difference to your lifestyle if you lived in an outer suburb in an American city compared to if you lived in Barcelona, for example. Just to give an example, it has been demonstrated that people that live in the suburbs have a lower life expectancy than those who live in cities. Why is that? Largely because in cities you walk more, while in the suburbs cars are used more frequently and you walk less. If we don't move enough, it negatively affects our health and life expectancy drops. This is just one way to demonstrate how cities and metropolises influence our lifestyle. The built environment that we live in has enormous consequences for our lifestyle; each time we change the city we also change people's lifestyles. What is interesting is that we don't know a lot about how the built environment is made and the consequences it has for our lives. Despite this, there is a certain consciousness that the built environment and physical design of the city affects the lifestyle of human beings.  Cortesía de Revista City Manager We always talk about the importance of public life and public space for people’s quality of life. We want to ask you, what are the characteristics that public space should have in order to promote public life? At the end of my book Cities for People, there is a section called “toolbox” which contains a list of keywords with 12 qualitative criteria for a people-centered outlook. If you ask me what makes a good public space, I would say that you should take this list and make sure that you can say, "yes, it has that" to each criterion. If you go to some of the best public spaces in the world, like Plaza de Campo in Siena, Italy, and you take this list of 12 points, you will find that they are all observed fantastically well, but if you go to one of the plazas in Brasília in Brazil, you will realize that almost all of these points are ignored. In any Italian city there are a number of aspects that make you feel comfortable, while in Brasilia there are few.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| HYPARBOLE / MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY Posted: 28 Oct 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
 Courtesy of MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY Text description provided by the architects. A hyperbolic surface thrusts itself into the air at the entrance to Rhode Island College's Fine Arts Center, as a dramatic opening to the campus scene. In a burst of bright green curves, it enacts a threshold to creative practice and ushers studio-goers, faculty and campus visitors alike toward inspiration and action.  Courtesy of MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY HYPARBOLE's multifaceted formal character draws visitors in from all angles. Its three paraboloid edges peel up towards distinct directions of approach, and its stature ensures that it is visible from the extents of the site, yet it never detracts from the building that it announces. Inside, it provides a whimsical and unfamiliar environment in which lingerers and passersby can lose time under a dappled light. Revealed within is an oculus with a magnetic pull: a central opening in the surface projects up to a height of 22'. Your instinct is to gaze up, but inevitably you are lost in the push and pull of the form, its patterning, its improbable height, and thinness.
The aluminum structure assumes the geometry of a hyperbolic paraboloid, or hypar: a three-dimensional, double-ruled surface that can be described using infinite planar, linear elements to form a smooth surface. With reference to Felix Candela's experiments with the hypar geometry in thin-shell concrete, our three-legged structure relies on its double-curvature for support. The addition of a pleated base lends additional resistance to lateral loads--an inherent weakness of the hypar's flat sides. The ultra-thin aluminum shell merges skin and support to great atmospheric effect. Its lightness is further emphasized with porosity. Cuts in the shell are derived from simulated flows across the complex surfaces. These openings produce dynamic light conditions, which change the character of the space throughout the day and emit an unearthly glow at night.  Courtesy of MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY The College, a site of experimentation and discovery, makes an appropriate home for HYPARBOLE. The structure is itself a product of deliberate and focused research, several years in the making, and builds on the studio's efforts to unify structure, form, and experience into a coherent material system. Following a process of iterative development and prototyping, HYPARBOLE in its final form stands delicately and confidently at this focal point. Measuring an imposing 22' high, 25' wide, and 30' deep, it is a force majeure touching down on only three concrete bases.
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| Shanghai 2117 Imagines Vertical Forest Architecture for Future Mars Colonization Posted: 28 Oct 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of SUSAS 2017 Can architecture and design reverse climate change? Architect and founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti (SBA), Stefano Boeri believes it can. Boeri's Vertical Forest, a project which marries the natural and urban spheres through biodiversity and reforestation, has already come to fruition in Milan, is currently under construction in Beijing, and soon to be constructed in Shanghai. (Watch the video to learn more about Boeri's Vertical Forest projects.)  Courtesy of SUSAS 2017  Courtesy of SUSAS 2017 However, in the event that humanity is not able to reverse climate change, SBA China and Tongji University's Future City Lab imagines a new Shanghai in the year 2117...on Mars. Their project, "Vertical Forest Seeds on Mars," will be on display at the SUSAS 2017 exhibition in Minsheng Port in Shanghai.  Courtesy of SUSAS 2017 Their hypothesis begins with "eco-systemic seeds" which would travel via an interplanetary space terminal and take root on Mars to create an atmosphere suitable for plants and human life. With the help of the app Archi Maker, visitors can experience the future green Martian city for themselves.  Courtesy of SUSAS 2017 This cultural festival of urban renewal wouldn't be possible without approximately 200 notable architects, artists, and curators worldwide. In addition to Boeri, curators include: the dean of Tongji University School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Lee Xiangning, international critic and independent artist, Fang Zhenning, and co-curators Guo Xiaoyan, Feng Lu and Tommaso Sacchi. The title of SUSAS 2017 exhibition this year is, "This-CONNECTION – sharing a future of public space." Visitors will be able to see futuristic architecture, urban planning, art, and design for three months following October 15th.
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