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- Courtyard House of Stone / Studio 4e
- Rooftop Sauna in London / Aalto University - School of Arts, Design and Architecture
- Crescent Drive / Ehrlich Architects
- Dong Yugan's Brick Art Museum Through the Lens of He Lian
- New Morphogenesis Project Set to Be the Second Largest Office Building in the World
- Municipalidad Lo Barnechea / Gonzalo Mardones V Arquitectos
- Museum Proposal Displays Floating Figurines in Corten Columns of Light
- Tetê Bakery / Caracho Arquitetos
- The Best University Proposals for Social Housing in Latin America and Spain in 2017
- MAD’s Huangshan Mountain Village Through The Lens Of Fernando Guerra
| Courtyard House of Stone / Studio 4e Posted: 02 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST _North_elevation.jpg?1511960435 "© Angelo Geloso") © Angelo Geloso
_Perspective_view_of_the_portico.jpg?1511960466 "© Angelo Geloso") © Angelo Geloso Text description provided by the architects. Nature and the relationship to the landscape play a fundamental role in this work. The architects have combined a rigorous, rational approach to the project with the expressive freedom typical of organic architecture, enhancing the relationship between inside and outside through a careful dialogue with the pre-existing environmental context. _The_dining_area.jpg?1511960516 "© Angelo Geloso") © Angelo Geloso Starting from an existing structure built in the 1980s, which was never completed and ultimately abandoned, the architects have worked by subtraction, eliminating non-significant architectural parts and restoring the building to its essential components, enhancing the plastic and spatial qualities of the existing building. The spaces have been completely reconfigured according to the needs of the new owners, defining a new architectural image starting from the search for a refined visual balance between opacity and transparency, which is clearly shown in the dynamic asymmetry of the new facades. _Sections_and_West_elevation.jpg?1511960354 "Sections / West Elevation") Sections / West Elevation The house is divided into two different levels. The ground floor contains the living area and a cosy guest room, and the first floor is a living space made up of a landing, bedrooms, and two large terraces. The interior spaces are notable for their extraordinary natural brightness. The living environment on the ground floor, illuminated by a long wall made of large sliding glass doors, ensures continuity between the interior space of the house and the portico, which in summer becomes the natural continuation of the living area. The_courtyard.jpg?1511960329 "© Angelo Geloso") © Angelo Geloso  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rooftop Sauna in London / Aalto University - School of Arts, Design and Architecture Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:00 PM PST  © Valentina Casalini
 © Valentina Casalini Text description provided by the architects. The sauna located on the Queen Elizabeth Hall roof terrace in Southbank, London is an interesting sample of Finnish design skills, combining architecture and art. The Finnish Rooftop Sauna is a result of cooperation by Aalto University and Southbank Centre and it is designed and implemented in collaboration with Aalto University MA students Pedro Pablo Garcia Alcazar, Markus Holste, Monica Romagnoli and Miki Sordi, and Finnish sculptor Jaakko Pernu. The sauna is open until December 30th.  Exploded Axonometric "It is a tremendous honour for Aalto University and Finland to get an invitation to design and implement a project like this on such a visible and risky location in the middle of London. It was even more challenging to design a sauna, that is often seen as a synonym for Finnishness. The sauna has a huge amount of symbolism and different expectations. It is particularly gratifying that our students have, for the centennial of our independence, interpreted the subject with empathy and courage to re-interpret the traditions," says professor Pentti Kareoja from Aalto University. The architecture of the sauna is based on a wooden frame structure which is repeated, thus creating a longitudinally-oriented building suitable for the location.  © Valentina Casalini  Floor Plan  © Valentina Casalini The structure is covered with translucent polycarbonate plates that are illuminated. The idea was to create a bright landmark for London's winter nights. The interior functions proceed from both ends following the sauna rituals, ending in a common sauna in the middle of the building. Their users can face each other, sculptor Pernu's work and views over the River Thames. The Finnish rooftop sauna is part of a Nordic Matters exhibition in the Southbank Centre. The exhibition raises awareness of the Nordic countries, that has long been ranked as the most livable societies and recognised for being at the forefront of social change.  Section 1 Southbank Centre presents what's happening in Nordic art and culture. Nordic Matters exhibition has chosen interesting topics and phenomena from the Nordic countries to explore for over a year. Southbank Centre is a world-famous, multi-venue arts centre in London, with a year-round festivals programme. Southbank Centre is the UK's largest arts centre, founded with the Festival of Britain in 1951. The festival programme encompasses art, theatre, dance, classical and contemporary music, literature and debate. It reaches 6.25 million people a year and encompasses over 5,000 events featuring world-class artists from across the globe.  © Valentina Casalini  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Crescent Drive / Ehrlich Architects Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:00 PM PST  © Matthew Millman
 © Matthew Millman Text description provided by the architects. Light, simplicity and materiality were the guiding design elements for this modest 3,000 square foot residence for a young couple and their newborn child. Respectful to a neighborhood mainly consisting of Spanish-styled homes from the 1940s, scale and mass were kept comparable.  © Matthew Millman Materials traditionally used in Spanish houses were incorporated - all but with a modern twist; a straightforward composition of stucco, concrete and wood produced both a contemporary and warm respite in this urban setting. The house incorporates a pool, strategic landscaping and a private entry sequence to maximize exterior space on the 6,000 sf lot.  © Matthew Millman  Plan  © Matthew Millman A "series of choreographed experiences" create an urban oasis in the midst of Beverly Hills on this tight site. The interior design showcases minimal materials and timeless furniture pieces along with a growing modern art collection including a series of Los Angeles architectural photography. Myriad bespoke elements throughout the house recall the powerful simplicity of Japanese architecture, providing moments for reflection and aesthetic display. In the main living area, bold floor-to-ceiling glass-doors define the room. With these pocketed away entirely, the living and dining seamlessly open to the back yard and pool, increasing the sense of outdoor space and giving the illusion of a much bigger home while taking full advantage of the California climate. A sculptural walnut staircase anchors the living area on the opposite end, while a board-formed concrete wall with integrated American-walnut casework and paneling ties the composition together.  © Matthew Millman Upstairs, the master suite, with his and her bathrooms and closets, opens to a balcony overlooking the backyard and beyond to the distant glittering skyline. The comfortable design of this level also provides a workout room and home office with treetop views, and two bedroom suites, perfect for this growing family's needs.  © Matthew Millman The private entry court includes a soothing water feature, and sums up the modern home as one of powerful simplicity and calm reflection.  © Matthew Millman  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Dong Yugan's Brick Art Museum Through the Lens of He Lian Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:00 AM PST  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio Founded by collectors Yan Shijie and Cao Mei, the Red Brick Art Museum opened in May 2014 in the Chaoyang District to showcase Chinese and world art, since then, it has become a haven for photographers. In this photo series, He Lian focuses his lens on the museum and captures the sculptural beauty of the punctured brick walls. Architect Dong Yugen has created a structure that is a piece of art in itself; the perforations, skylights and narrow windows manipulate light into the spaces, casting dramatic shadows and offering short glimpses outside. The grey tones implemented in the entrance to greet visitors softens the transition between the inside and outside, whilst guiding you through the building into the main hall featuring a sunken circle that can also be used as an auditorium. The brick-clad two-story building holds 9 exhibition spaces, 2 public recreation areas, a lecture hall, dining room, café and various other facilities, set above 3 screening rooms occupying the basement. The entire facilities cover a footprint of 20,000 square meters, of which 10,000 square meters is dedicated to the exhibits.  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  © Qingdao Zhiyi-jianzhu New Media Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Morphogenesis Project Set to Be the Second Largest Office Building in the World Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Morphogenesis Could you ever imagine working in a small city? A new massive office building by Morphogenesis is being built to accommodate over 45,000 people for the Surat Diamond Bourse office in Surat, Gujarat, India. At 6.5 million square feet, and housing over 4,000 offices, it will be the second largest office building in the world, placing only behind the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Although its physical footprint may be large, the office building was designed in a manner to minimize its ecological footprint. Passive design strategies such as day-lit workspaces, natural ventilation, and indoor/outdoor spaces not only make the Surat Diamond office an efficient climate-responsive design, but also a key player for achieving aesthetic and comfortable working spaces. Perhaps the largest challenge with a design of this size is how to navigate the large volume of people which would inhabit it. Morphogenesis approached this by designating the ground plane for vehicular movement and podium levels exclusively pedestrian circulation. On this podium level, transportation routes are optimized to create no walking time greater than 4 minutes from an entrance to office module—a design strategy similar to that of airport terminals.  Courtesy of Morphogenesis The Surat Diamond Office wanted to foster an environment of social interaction and recreation. A central spine connecting all offices is designed to act as an interactive hub comprising of break-out spaces, green atriums, and visual experiences. Additionally, courts exist on the eastern side house food courts and other recreational areas to function as incubators for new businesses and create a sense "bazaarculture" within the office complex.  Courtesy of Morphogenesis Landscape, security and traffic management come together to foster a seamless movement of users. The transition between these pedestrian levels and the office environments is made harmoniously through the use of microclimate. Exploring the potential of adaptive comfort and creating a controlled microclimate helped realize the possibility of using natural ventilation and (protected) open spaces for interactive functions of the program. Over 40% of the building spaces are naturally ventilated, and a dense vegetation fills both the outside and inside of the building. These decisions not only blur the line between interior and exterior but also creating psychological advantages and improving indoor air quality.  Courtesy of Morphogenesis Additional climate-responsive design techniques are utilized to combat the hot and humid climate of Surat. All offices have been designed to face a pure north-south orientation, and a robust building envelope with less than 30% window area, lightweight concrete block construction and using the advantages of thermal mass by natural brick cladding helps bring down the external heat gains. Other design strategies such as solar control, wind/air movement, and thermal massing are employed to help to achieve cooling loads as low as 1.0W/square feet. The building is also designed to IGBC Platinum standards, features rainwater harvesting, photovoltaic power generation, a gray water system, as well as local construction materials.  Courtesy of Morphogenesis The efficiency of the building also extends into its construction design. The project represents an innovative approach to low-cost architecture designed with maximum spatial efficiency. Design optimization and simplicity through design modularity diminished project costs to as low as $50/sq ft while still maintaining high standards of environmental sustainability.  Courtesy of Morphogenesis The Surat Diamond Bourse is conceived as an exemplar for integrating high-density commercial architecture with an efficient climate-responsive design. Although its massive footprint, the building was carefully designed and considered to reduce its environmental impact while simultaneously creating a nurturing, comfortable environment for its workers. This morphogenesis masterpiece is setting new benchmarks for global developments of this scale.
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| Municipalidad Lo Barnechea / Gonzalo Mardones V Arquitectos Posted: 02 Dec 2017 05:00 AM PST  © Nico Saieh
 © Nico Saieh Text description provided by the architects. The new building of Lo Barnechea Municipality, in the city of Santiago de Chile, is located at the junction of two of the most important avenues of the commune, in a place open to the imposing geography of the place. Lo Barnechea is characterized for being a limit commune to the east of the city, delimiting directly with the mountain range of the Andes, It is also known as the place where wealthy families coexist.  © Nico Saieh The design of a municipal building is submerged within the public and private sphere. From the social sphere to that of the greater political obligation of the commune. Therefore, it is a place where inclusion, participation, identity, concentration and social relationship are manifested, as well as pride and sense of belonging. This mixture of situations gave rise to a general party that highlights the conceptual virtues of an eminently public building, which includes a program of flexible use with areas that receive a constant flow of external public; and private areas that host the administrative functions of a municipal entity. A building open to the citizen, but also to its geographical environment.  © Nico Saieh The idea of an open building is reflected in the fact that the building does not have a front or a back. It is open in all directions, trying to show life inside, allowing from the interior to encompass the environment. For this, an exterior square is planned. At the level of the public space, that is capable of permeating the entire building, and from the inside. It also includes the subsoil, being the base and the lower levels, spatially linked by stairs and double heights, to receive mainly public building activities and services.  © Nico Saieh Just like the use of the subsoil is important in this building, so is the use of the roofs, creating expansion terraces on the fourth floor and on the upper level. The building is separated into two volumes from the fourth level, intending to generate a public square in height, that divides the functions of the different municipal departments. These are connected with external bridges, allowing to recognize the environment from different fields and perspectives.  © Nico Saieh  Section 004  © Nico Saieh Constructively, the building has been entirely solved in a reinforced concrete structure, with incorporated titanium dioxide, an element that allows the concrete to be whitewashed, that helps, like trees, eliminating toxic gases produced by vehicles.  © Nico Saieh  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Museum Proposal Displays Floating Figurines in Corten Columns of Light Posted: 02 Dec 2017 04:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Ziad Abi Karam for Shiogumo The Kharayeb Archaeological Museum (KAM) was designed by Shiogumo in the agricultural lands of the coastal village Kharayeb, in the south of Lebanon. The site-specific museum was commissioned to preserve and enhance the historical, cultural, and public significance by the directors of the archeological mission and site, Dr. Ida Oggiano (Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico of CNR, Italy) and Dr. Wissam Khalil (Lebanese University). The original goal of the project was to enhance the villagers' use of the space while preserving the natural and agricultural environments. Today, the site is used by locals as 'an informal park, lovers' hideout and even hunting grounds' as described by the architects. Responding to the environment, the museum is broken up into a series of independent pavilions. The four pavilions are The Exhibitions Pavilion, the Administration & Amenities Pavilion, the Cafe, and the Main Gate Pavilion.  Courtesy of Ziad Abi Karam for Shiogumo The Exhibitions Pavilion is composed of the permanent display 'the Forest of Light', a space for temporary exhibitions 'the Clearing', a storage space 'the Hollow Boulder', an observation lookout called 'the Cloud on Stilts.' The pavilion is open air and has no physical boundaries to limit the space. The floor of the exhibit space is a white gravel, intended to crackle under the step of visitors, tying the project back to the environment. Part of the decision to keep it so open and informal was to encourage people to explore the history of the museum's artifacts, instead of being intimidated by it and is free of charge to all residents.  Courtesy of Shiogumo The archaeological site dates back to the Late Iron Age and included a temple that been dated to Persian and Hellenistic ages. Discovered in 1946, the most important findings of the site are thousands of small terracotta figurines that were mass produced here in Kharayeb. These figurines play a key role in Shiogumo's design of the museum. Throughout the 'forest' of corten columns, the figurines appear to float. Protected by a glass in the middle of the corten columns, and capped with a domed transparent top, the columns called solar tubes funnel light to illuminate the terracotta figurines.  Courtesy of Ziad Abi Karam for Shiogumo  Courtesy of Shiogumo The Administration and Amenities Pavilion contain the reception, information desk, administrative staff as well as the public toilets and lockers. For the lightest footprint possible on the landscape, the pavilion is elevated from the ground, allowing maximum natural soil preservation.  Courtesy of Ziad Abi Karam for Shiogumo  Courtesy of Shiogumo The Cafe Pavilion is sited on what was formerly the working pavilion from the archaeologists doing the dig in 1969 -- it has since been removed and replaced with the new pavilion. The Main Gate Pavilion is where visitors will leave their cars before entering the KAM grounds and archeological site. Tickets, only purchased by non-residents, can be bought and validated here.
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| Tetê Bakery / Caracho Arquitetos Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:00 AM PST  © Bruno Ducatti
 © Bruno Ducatti Text description provided by the architects. Implanted in a corner lot, the project for this bakery seeks to break with the patterns of land occupation of the region, through a large setback proposed on the larger face of the building, where the parking and a living space are organized projecting from the exhibition and sales area of the bakery. In addition to increasing the visibility of the facade, this solution highlights the building of the housing constructions.  © Bruno Ducatti  Ground Floor Plan  © Bruno Ducatti In formal terms, a simple and pure volumetry was sought, which is approached in its four facades. These aspects are developed from a relationship of duality between the two main programmatic sectors: production and exhibition. This relationship is reflected both in the sensory properties of the materials and in the geometric characteristics of the building: while the volume of production is more introspective, conformed in an opaque mass, with vertical dimensions and closure on rough surface - Fulgent - and chromatically cold, the other volume , of the exhibition, is a ground-floor block, with smooth faces, conformed in a transparent box, with illuminated interior and warmer color - wood - that projects outwards through a large urban balcony.  © Bruno Ducatti With an extensive program, the production area is organized in three floors according to the different processes that involve its daily use. On the second floor, there is the service and storage sector, with dressing rooms and canopy for employees, warehouses for cleaning materials and for storage of inputs. Just below, on the first floor, the "hot" area was allocated, that is, the equipment of the heavy part of production of sweets and salted, besides the refrigerated chambers. The ground floor is intended for finishing procedures, with a small deposit and office, this next to the exhibition sector.  © Bruno Ducatti In addition, the control of the sunstroke, as well as the use of natural light, are very present aspects in the building. A domus on the projection of the staircase functions as zenith light focus, while a closure glass cloth in the production area provides natural lighting to the upper floors. On the side of the building, facing north-west, a large wooden breeze protects openings from direct sunshine in the evening.  Section The small exhibition area presents a very detailed treatment, where the confections are arranged in glass cases - showcases - suspended. The spatiality of the store is delimited by a wooden skin that surrounds all its surfaces - walls, floor and ceiling. The tactile characteristics of the material are also explored by visual communication, which is carved into the wood itself.  © Bruno Ducatti  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Best University Proposals for Social Housing in Latin America and Spain in 2017 Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:00 AM PST  At the end of September, we invited our Spanish-speaking readers to send us their social housing proposals completed at a university level. Social housing is still a challenge for much of Latin America and although every year hundreds of architecture students work on projects that reflect their concerns in the social housing field, its visibility is very low and its materialization is null. At a time when the Global South has pursued its own responses to its own problems, the university response on social housing should be taken into account by the State, both of whom are interested in the common good. Out of 116 proposals received from Spain and 11 Latin American countries, this selection of 20 ideas represents the different challenges and state of the problems in social housing. While some approach Colombia's post-conflict scenario for rural inhabitants, some propose answers to the insertion of social housing in already densified areas, to which the beneficiaries tend to be relegated by the value of land and housing. Other ideas point to the reconversion of infrastructure, modulation, the integration of indigenous peoples and natural disasters. We believe that the selection not only highlights the efforts of students and academics to address contingent problems but will also open up the discussion about social housing, often relegated only as a one-dimensional problem when in reality, poverty is multidimensional. Integrated, sustainable rural settlement model, Yopal, Colombia Image © Daniel Vanegas + Tatiana Cantor Authors: Daniel Vanegas, Tatiana Cantor Summary: This project seeks sustainable alternatives for rural settlements, taking advantage of the historic opportunity of the end of an armed conflict, and with the agrarian reform and land restitution. The Colombian Orinoquia is a territory of high potential. The national government is allocating resources and legal tools to the development of agricultural projects that will turn this region into the food pantry of the future. The government seeks strategies and projects that achieve the reduction of areas destined for the food and economic subsistence of the local peasant family, based on the allocation logic of the Family Agricultural Units (UAF). In this way, an integrated improvement of the existing mobility infrastructure is proposed, plus the creation of new intermodal mobility routes and networks at the regional and municipal levels, meeting the infrastructure deficits. The proposal also seeks to protect and improve the productive qualities of the soil through the execution of a productive agricultural model based on intensive, organic and associated agriculture of the products. As a housing solution, the Rural Dignified Housing Units (UVDR) are proposed as the architectural aspect of the project. They reinterpret the cultural qualities of the typical rural peasant housing in a healthy, sustainable and economic housing model. The proposal includes rationality, simplicity, and symmetry as key concepts to facilitate development and self-construction. These units take advantage of the common elements of agricultural activities and the common and natural materials of the sector - coal ash and slag, sawdust and rice husk, quicklime and grey cement- which are used as the structural constructive elements, for example in the spongy walls of cellular concrete. These walls have thermal inertia qualities adapted to the climate of the region, a large bearing capacity, a relative weight and very low production costs compared to traditional commercial products.  Image © Daniel Vanegas + Tatiana Cantor  Image © Daniel Vanegas + Tatiana Cantor  Image © Daniel Vanegas + Tatiana Cantor People could live here (Art 45) Image © Marcos Gómara Authors: Marcos Gómara Summary: This project is a government tool to facilitate access to housing and promote the economic and social development of citizens while improving urban quality. The proposal seeks to rehabilitate abandoned buildings, in order of the degree of protection, to allocate them to social housing. This allows an evolutionary progression of the redevelopment and recuperation of the historical center of the city, the formalization of the projects so they can be included in public competitions and promote the recognition of young national or international talents. The housing and urban amenities network, together with its work towards the transformation of vacant lots, try to sew together the historic center to provide greater continuity in the territory. This is intended not only to improve urban quality but also to be an impetus for future transformations.  Image © Marcos Gómara  Image © Marcos Gómara Adaptable housing_the integrated lot Image © Sofía Cordero Brümmer Author: Sofía Cordero Brümmer Summary: This proposal is the result of a university assignment that sought social housing projects on 9x18 meter lots in La Faena neighborhood, Peñalolén (Chile). Brümmer’s project proposes to generate adaptable housing for workshops and other productive activities which spill out into the public space. The private space extends towards the sidewalk as part of the interior courtyard. The project enhances constant visibility from the home to the street, thus ensuring vigilance and security. The overall plan, when joined with other blocks, generates spaces for access that extends to the footpath and the public-private space. The blocks are arranged as "brackets", located at the ends of the living rooms and bedrooms, and in the center, a corridor connects to the wet rooms and services. These are located facing each other, creating courtyards that go from the most public to the most private. Since there is always a bracket joint with another, in a mirrored way, there are no "dead" dividing walls, the front walls towards the street are always inhabited.  Image © Sofía Cordero Brümmer AIRO Image © Stefano Airaudo Authors: Stefano Airaudo y Julián Rosenfeld Summary: This proposal aimed to recognize and exercise mechanisms of multiple compositions, that is, to address simultaneously the composition as a whole and the cells that comprise it. The chosen theme is a set of collective housing that forms part of an urban restructuring plan that the Planning Secretariat of the Municipality of Rosario (Argentina) organized for the Pichincha neighborhood. With the aim of city-making, the main premise was to establish ways of intervening in the block by establishing transitions between the public space of the street and the private space of the whole block. Adding on to the project’s focus on the definition of the whole compared to that of the cell level is the need to redefine housing as an open and flexible spatial structure. As a result, the proposal allows for reflection on different ways of living and their spatial elements.  Image © Stefano Airaudo  Image © Stefano Airaudo  Image © Stefano Airaudo Social Housing Canoa-Ecuador Image © Pedro Vázquez Author: Pedro Vázquez Summary: This intervention in the Canoa (Ecuador) community seeks to restore and improve the living conditions of the population that was affected by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake in 2016, which left 90% of buildings destroyed. It proposes using the empty lots for emergency housing that can vary in size to adapt to the conditions of the lot with 5 different housing design options. These homes have the capacity to expand and fit together to form larger social housing complexes, restoring the urban fabric. Likewise, the project proposes the construction to be carried out with local materials: bamboo cane and wood. This decision would allow it to be part of a production process with the local inhabitants of the area and thereby stimulate the local economy.  Image © Pedro Vázquez  Image © Pedro Vázquez  Image © Pedro Vázquez Collective housing Image © Celina Pittaro + Camila Nicolet + Mailena Fahy Author: Celina Pittaro, Camila Nicolet, Mailena Fahy Summary: This housing complex takes advantage of the relationship that exists between community spaces. The final volume of the project arises as the result of altering full and empty spaces so that the houses can benefit from natural light and fresh air, as well as a great privacy between them and towards the outside. The units are comprised of three models, 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms of 80, 96 and 112 m2 respectively. These units are encased in each other and form modules that alternate to form the final set. In turn, each module has a green terrace which is shared by the inhabitants of it. The complex is designed from the horizontal circulation generated by the internal courtyards, which are connected to each other to form the central patio, where the secondary courtyards converge. In this way, the open space acquires the same importance as the covered space. .jpg?1507323262 "Image © Celina Pittaro + Camila Nicolet + Mailena Fahy") Image © Celina Pittaro + Camila Nicolet + Mailena Fahy  Image © Celina Pittaro + Camila Nicolet + Mailena Fahy Social urbanism in a post-conflict framework_Proceso_constructivo.jpg?1507552992 "Image © David Puin Neira") Image © David Puin Neira Author: David Puin Neira Summary: In order to position architecture as a catalyst tool for the cultural qualities of Toribio, this architectural proposal creates a model of social housing that revolves around indigenous customs. In its development, it took into account vernacular construction systems and techniques and knowledge of contemporary architecture. This gave shape to a module capable of transforming as per the different needs that displaced families may have that, who this project intends to cater for. The project seeks to respond with simplicity to specific problems; its materiality, structure, and functioning are the synthesis of the tools and conditions that are present in the territory. .jpg?1507552941 "Image © David Puin Neira") Image © David Puin Neira .jpg?1507552965 "Image © David Puin Neira") Image © David Puin Neira BIG-BANG collective housing set - exploded block Image © Liza Breuer + Ana Segura Authors: Liza Breuer; Ana Segura Summary: Latin America is experiencing a process of urbanization that brings with it risks and opportunities for the integrated and sustainable development of this region. Stopping the immediate urban expansion and planning effectively is nothing more than ensuring decent housing for the growing population. Valuing urban heritage, enhancing activity in public spaces, and taking advantage of land use within urban areas, are just some of the key and critical resources we have to encourage. With this objective in mind, the project worked in Barrio General Paz de Córdoba (Argentina), a candidate area for renovation with relative population densification, and above it collective housing at height as a means to facilitate the proposal. The project is proposed as a transformation tool. It is also intended as an applicable initiative, capable of being reformulated within its context thus forming a set of five buildings on Sarmiento street, independent but consecutive to each other. Through its gradient of common spaces, its typological mixture, and the link on the ground floor with the General Paz Park, it was proposed to generate multiple adjustments while taking into account the appropriation of existing and innovative local material technologies.  Image © Liza Breuer + Ana Segura  Image © Liza Breuer + Ana Segura Multi-family density Image © Diego Lacazette + Sebastián Hermosilla + Jesús Chuquipoma Author: Diego Lacazette Chau, Sebastián Hermosilla Berríos, Jesús Chuquipoma Quiliche Summary: Transformations in the pericentre of Santiago have resulted in the relocation of many family groups to the peripheries, away from the city and labor areas, favoring the arrival of individualistic ways of inhabiting. Within this framework, a prototype for densification of the pericentre is proposed which is capable of adapting to ever-changing scalar diversity: low-rise sets, various story sets, traditional families, polynuclear families, large family groups, foreign communities, etc. For this, we think of the tower as an extension in height of the neighborhood and/or the corridors of houses, which are capable of housing the relational complexities of the city at ground level. The project proposes "semi-detached houses" at height, expandable and organized around important common spaces: “a large corridor” -the elevated street-, and “meeting spaces per floor” -the squares-. It is a way of reinterpreting the old “modern” housing projects. The house proposes an interior space without walls which can be reprogrammed according to the needs of its inhabitants. It is organized by a virtual programmatic wall that we have called the macro furniture. This plays with the idea of the expiration of the concept of "enclosure", proposing new readings around the concept of privacy and its possible permeabilities.  Image © Diego Lacazette + Sebastián Hermosilla + Jesús Chuquipoma  Image © Diego Lacazette + Sebastián Hermosilla + Jesús Chuquipoma  Image © Diego Lacazette + Sebastián Hermosilla + Jesús Chuquipoma Transformable spaces in residential areas Image © Marco Febre Author: Marco Febre Jara Summary: Currently there is an important and innate factor of human nature that is not taken into account in architecture, that is, evolution. Given that people are dynamic, progressive and adaptable, new spaces should satisfy these characteristics. Therefore a "transformable architecture" points towards a better management of space, leaving aside the rigidity of architecture and allowing man to adapt it according to his current and future needs. The project is located in one of the districts with the greatest urban expansion in recent years, so there was a great need for a housing proposal that anticipates this constant growth of families. There are 5 types of housing modules which vary by the number of bedrooms. Each one of these is implemented as an extendible structure mechanism that allows adding a bedroom or enlarging the social space. In the same way, the modules are placed heterogeneously allowing a greater interaction between different types of families. Likewise, they connect through semi-public spaces that cross-cut some levels of the building.  Image © Marco Febre  Image © Marco Febre Housing complex Lomas de Penco Image © Yuri Chamblas Author: Yuri Chamblas Summary: In Chile after the earthquake and tsunami of February 27, 2010, in the city of Penco, the first post-disaster camp in the country sheltered 51 families. The camp had problems with overcrowding and poor habitability of the emergency housing due to prolonged use over time (4 years). An external problem derived from social housing as a housing response, where it generally operates a reductionist logic: moving away and shrinking, generating a physically, spatially and socially segregated solution. The project saw an opportunity with a type of subsidy that sought to revert socio-spatial segregation, favoring social integration, reducing social inequalities, generating equipped neighborhoods and territorially integrated cities. The subsidy is DS 116 Social Integration Project, which combines subsidy DS 1 for middle-class families and subsidy DS 49 for vulnerable families. This housing complex is configured as a social support, inserted within a network of opportunities, betting on the socioeconomic development of the community and the environment where it is inserted. It deals with the public urban scale, the semi-public community scale and the private family scale through a progressive single-family house, satisfying the spatial and shelter needs of families.  Image © Yuri Chamblas  Image © Yuri Chamblas  Image © Yuri Chamblas Habitat Bay Image © Indira Melo + Elizabeth Monga Author: Indira Melo, Elizabeth Monga Summary: The earthquake of April 2016 on the coast of Ecuador was the main motivation for this project. It constitutes the mass design of social housing in Bahía de Caráquez - Manabí. The design started from the typology of "patio house" and the adaptation of the "ballon frame" structure. Thus, the principles and vernacular materials of the region are rescued with the importance of an open and airy house through the patio and the use of wood intact. The versatility of the development of the house and the mass grouping obtains an orderly and differentiated morphology according to the use. One of the main challenges of the project was the site since it has a cross lookout. For this reason, the mass design has a direct connection to it. This is done through an embedded path in the middle of the project, allowing the trade façade to be oriented directly towards it. The house consists of two main modules in the form of L this helps users to obtain housing in an L also obtain a source of economic development in the other module.  Image © Indira Melo + Elizabeth Monga  Image © Indira Melo + Elizabeth Monga Shelter system Image © Alan Miuliz Author: Alan Miuliz, José Ongaro Summary: This shelter system was designed in response to the poor quality of social housing in Córdoba, seeking to improve them without increasing the budget that is currently allocated for its construction. It was designed as a shelter that would be removable and mountable on the terraces, which are underutilized, residual spaces in the city. It is a strategy towards the redensification. In the current context, the accelerated growth of Córdoba in recent years, the rapid pace of urbanization and the lack of accessibility to land, have caused a permanent threat of inadequate consumption of both natural rural land of productive value, and landscape-environmental value. The design of this project seeks to reduce this deficit, based on a series of elements, such as industrialization, rationalization, the best use of existing urban land and installed urban capacity, thinking of the redensification of the city in the immediate future. Thus, instead of developing a finished house, we believe that the conditions of our context offer a flexible solution in the form of an intelligent constructive system, composed of structural tubes, that are light, fast and economical.  Image © Alan Miuliz  Image © Alan Miuliz  Image © Alan Miuliz Urban Eco-resilient Perimetral Image © Eliezer Torres Authors: Eliezer Torres Sánchez, Alberto Castillejos Albores, José Camposeco Coutiño, Karen Vázquez Villatoro Summary: The Perimetral has been one of the ten finalist projects at the national level in the fifth FIVS contest organized by INFONAVIT in Mexico, which addressed the issue of density. The objective of the project is to respond to the need for housing in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital of the state of Chiapas, focusing on the low-income population sector. It also seeks to stop the destruction of ecological heritage, where housing is currently invading the Ecological Reserve " Sumidero Canyon National Park ", which adjoins the urban edge. The project is for the periphery of the North-East area of the city, where there is still adequate infrastructure and where the value of the land is more accessible. Perimetral seeks to generate social fabric and discourage the consumption of natural areas, generate the correct urban-ecological hybridization and act on the edges of the city as a priority. The efficient use of the land for housing is fundamental as is the restoration, preservation, and increase of green areas; economic sustainability and employment through different commercial and service uses in housing complexes; discourage the use of the automobile to provide greater pedestrian areas and public space for its inhabitants.  Image © Eliezer Torres  Image © Eliezer Torres The housing complex prototype and progressive social housing for Manabí and Esmeraldas Image © Accel Alexis Apolo Andino Author: Accel Alexis Apolo Andino Summary: In accordance with the guidelines, the prototype housing plan for the housing complex and progressive social housing for Manabí and Esmeraldas, the project is carried out on 12 hectares. In order to rationalise the investment of resources, the adopted solution offers the possibility of building the housing unit in two or four stages, the first one being the urbanisable area that will allow to lodge all of it temporarily and including the first phase of the equipment. They will also operate several transport routes such as: the main, secondary, tertiary and pedestrian routes; which will be surrounded by vegetation. The project seeks to put in value (and at the same time in crisis) the traditional model of emergency housing, the "Mediagua", recognising its historical role in helping families affected by catastrophes and the wide dissemination and popularity of their constructive system, which is linked to the intervention of the "individual" citizen. Housing, more than satisfy the needs of the user and be of a social nature, must conceive a hybrid progressive sense, which will allow giving its own long-term economic support.  Image © Accel Alexis Apolo Andino  Image © Accel Alexis Apolo Andino  Image © Accel Alexis Apolo Andino Empalmar Image © Luciano Civitate + Juan Bidart + Ignacio Bianchini Author: Luciano Civitate, Juan Bidart, Ignacio Bianchini Summary: The project is designed for the vacant land at the metallurgical Rome in Cordoba which is located in an area with multiple social problems. We take advantage of this resource to connect the neighborhoods located on each side of the land, currently separated by the physical barrier of the walls of the metallurgical and the social barrier generated by the roads of the FFCC. Within the railway premises, there is an urban park that serves as a union between the surrounding sectors with a sports, recreation and leisure center. Two ways of inhabiting are proposed, the first one we call inhabiting by implosion, the more introverted option, and the second, inhabited by an explosion, a more extroverted proposal. The inhabitants need flexible spaces, unstable and capable of conceiving overlapping uses. These houses are adapted to multiple users and requirements, they can grow, decrease and mutate. The houses are capable of generating their own ecosystem by recovering rainwater and a vegetable bellows. They allow cross ventilation, have panels and solar collectors achieving less dependence on artificial climate conditioning systems. The courtyards become the anteroom of each house.  Image © Luciano Civitate + Juan Bidart + Ignacio Bianchini  Image © Luciano Civitate + Juan Bidart + Ignacio Bianchini  Image © Luciano Civitate + Juan Bidart + Ignacio Bianchini Housing complex San Joaquín Image © Bianca Apolinario + Guido Salinas +Fernanda Mozó Author: Bianca Apolinario, Guido Salinas, Fernanda Mozó Summary: The San Joaquín Housing Complex is a medium density housing project located in the district of San Joaquín (Santiago), between Santa Rosa street and La Legua town. It is housing for social integration that covers different types of users and, therefore, different types of housing that vary between single family, seniors, a young couple, new family, students, and singles, all within the range of 33 to 72 square meters. Within the complex, the relationships with the edges of the urban level and the height of the surroundings are taken into account. An interior walkway is created that joins the housing blocks through the vertical circulation hall in each. It creates a secondary circulation that joins the blocks with the edges and social zones. In addition, an interior street is generated with the adjoining land, creating a sector of parking lots and services. The complex also has commercial premises that respond to the hierarchy of Santa Rosa Street, neighborhood amenities for the whole, such as, for example, laundries, multipurpose rooms, offices, garbage rooms, and warehouses.  Image © Bianca Apolinario + Guido Salinas +Fernanda Mozó  Image © Bianca Apolinario + Guido Salinas +Fernanda Mozó Housing complex Mi Ruca Image © Claudio Pizarro Authors: Benjamin Ewertz, Claudio Pizarro, Charlotte Van Doesburg, Nicol Henríquez Summary: The arrival of the Mapuche culture in the city in recent decades has generated a growing demand for a housing solution that responds to the lifestyle to which these groups are traditionally accustomed. The proposal located in Puente Alto, gives a housing solution to a committee of 40 Mapuche families, which generates a new milestone for the life, concentration, and dissemination of the Mapuche culture. Composed of 4 types of housing, the proposal is adapted to the different needs presented by the different family groups (workshop housing - family housing 4p - family housing 5p and housing 3ra), grouping them harmoniously within the group, which also includes a neighbourhood headquarters that establishes the link between the city and the complex. The spatiality of the housing is developed around the Mapuche worldview, in the importance of the kitchen, the life in the community and in the close relation with the environment. A "progressive" house with internal growth is proposed, enabling the transformation of interior spatiality without affecting the relationship between the context and the formal expression of the whole.  Image © Claudio Pizarro  Image © Claudio Pizarro  Image © Claudio Pizarro CHUKLLA: Alternative solution to high Andean housing in Peru Image © Equipo CHUKLLA Authors: Edgar Torres Romani, Edgar Revolledo Vicerrel, Yajnaira Rodriguez Castañeda, Virginia Garrido Mendoza, Percy Carrasco Santos, Betzy Quispitupa Tapia, Ricardo Obregón Huaman Summary: High rates of mortality and economic losses are registered annually in the high Andean areas of Peru due to sudden changes in temperature and frost, seriously affecting thousands of people and preventing their development and considerably reducing their quality of life. We propose an accessible and safe housing unit that associates the community, the state, and the academy, in order to reduce the vulnerability indexes to sudden changes in temperatures and frosts, emphasizing internal thermal comfort and productive capacity and responsible family consumption. Applying bioclimatic and earthquake-resistant strategies in design, using local materials to reduce production costs and improve communal ties of work and cooperation. This contributes significantly to the achievement of the sustainable development objective of Peru. Our solution addresses the problem of rural housing from four aspects; (i) A design that optimises resources and maximises the quality of the building. (ii) Optimum use of clean energies and water resources (iii) Use of materials from the area and reduction of production costs (iv) Infrastructure contributes to the improvement of the productive capacity of the family.  Image © Equipo CHUKLLA  Image © Equipo CHUKLLA  Image © Equipo CHUKLLA Habitámosis Image © Angelis Centofanti Author: Angelis Centofanti Summary: Habitámosis is translated into the transformation of social behaviors through social inclusion in the architectural development of multipurpose spaces. It applies to a modular, adaptable, transportable system of self-assembly and progressive growth, which serve spaces of a residential, educational, and welfare nature with the conceptualization of an industrialized model that adapts to any bioclimatic environment. Its modulation arises through the selection of materials of national production whose standard measures are applied in the resizing of the elements that make the modular prototype with the minimum waste of materials This proposal offers its users the possibility of the progressive growth of its spaces, with the addition of several modules in any of its architectural typologies. This promotes the inclusion and improvement of both the individual (from the housing point of view) and the collective in the residential area. The development of this system is generated in workshops, far from the plantation, facilitating the construction of these at the hand of the communities. This system has been developed for its application throughout Venezuela, with an adaptable response to both the problems of the most affected communities and the climatic and topographic environments where they are located. The basic modular prototype has been evaluated structurally and seismologically, with a weight of 4 tons supporting seven times its weight.  Image © Angelis Centofanti  Image © Angelis Centofanti  Image © Angelis Centofanti  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MAD’s Huangshan Mountain Village Through The Lens Of Fernando Guerra Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:00 PM PST  © Fernando Guerra From Portuguese architectural photographer Fernando Guerra comes imagery of MAD's Huangshan Mountain Village in China. This residential design, comprising ten housing blocks that mimic the mountain range they are embedded in, is just one piece of the Taiping Lake tourism master plan; architecture and nature blend together to create modern apartments with differing panoramic views.  © Fernando Guerra The Mountain Village is intended to be a reflective retreat. No two apartments are alike, as the topographic nature of the towers creates unique apartment footprints and expansive balconies, encouraging residents to be outside. Undulating forest paths connect the buildings to one another. As in much of the rest of their work, MAD architects hope the design evokes an emotional response through a reconnection with nature.  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  © Fernando Guerra  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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