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- Prysmian HQ / Maurizio Varratta Architetto
- Italian Visa Center in Moscow / MEL | Architecture and Design
- Xiezuo Hutong Capsule Hotel in Beijing / B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio
- 16 Materials Every Architect Needs to Know (And Where to Learn About Them)
- Free Resume Templates for Architects
- S1 House / Evelop Arquitectura
- 8 Annoying Things All Architects Do
- How the Portrayal of Houses in Cinema Shows Uncomfortable Truths About Hollywood's Relationship to Race
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- The Architecture Student Through 15 Comic Strips
| Prysmian HQ / Maurizio Varratta Architetto Posted: 13 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST  © Dario Tettamanzi
 © Dario Tettamanzi The new headquarters This huge structure consists of four main buildings separated by two bioclimatic glasshouses: triple-height glazed spaces featuring plenty of landscaped areas, interaction places and horizontal/vertical linking systems connecting the various buildings serving as offices.  Ground Floor Plan  © Dario Tettamanzi The glasshouses The most distinctive feature of the Prysmian Group's headquarters in Milan are the triple-height glasshouses connecting together the office blocks. These fully-functional green 'havens' offer notable advantages in terms of natural lighting, controlling the microclimate, and overall energy efficiency. The glasshouses really help raise the standard of teamwork, introducing flexible and informal work dynamics that improve business relations through dialogue, cooperation and environmental well-being.  © Dario Tettamanzi The roof over the glasshouses is made of a sloping pitched structure, complete with aluminium fixtures holding wide glass windows; the roof pitches facing north allow natural light to flow into the office blocks facing onto them without bringing in any extra heat and are fitted with shutters (that open and close), so that the offices can be cooled naturally in summer. The roof pitches facing south have adjustable mechanically-controlled shutters to provide natural lighting and, at the same time, keep out some of the direct sunlight and any extra inflow of heat. On the intrados, the glazed surfaces of both pitches are fitted with mechanically-controlled roller blinds designed to shield against and control bright light and dazzling/glinting.  © Dario Tettamanzi Work spaces DEGW's consultancy on interior design, space planning and choice of furniture interacts smoothly with the simple, minimal high-tech architecture designed by the Varratta firm, starting with the choice of materials: glass, anodised aluminium, stainless steel and methacrylate. The deliberately austere style of furniture is injected with plenty of colour in the informal areas and glasshouses, where natural light really brings out the colour schemes.  © Dario Tettamanzi  © Dario Tettamanzi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Italian Visa Center in Moscow / MEL | Architecture and Design Posted: 13 Jan 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Ivan Erofeev
 © Ivan Erofeev Text description provided by the architects. The plan was to create not only a modern and convenient visa center but also a multifunctional public space. The main slogan is "Italy starts here" and "here" stands for a small Italian cafe and an exhibition zone in the foyer wherein a waiting area one can also look through the magazines about art, design, and traveling. The reception desk is not only the "island" of information but the center of the whole interior which is designed in monochromatic colors.  © Ivan Erofeev  © Ivan Erofeev The textures of light-colored concrete which was used to finish the floor, walls and the ceiling are stylistically combined with the structural elements of furniture and other equipment made of a white metal profile, grid, and frosted glass. The information stands and cash desks were made using painted thin steel sheet. The individual zones are separated by steel-framed semi-transparent partition walls and the whole space is penetrated with a lighting system consisted of thin LED tubes under the ceiling that gives us the impression of the light-filled and spacious room.  Floor Plan  © Ivan Erofeev  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Xiezuo Hutong Capsule Hotel in Beijing / B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio Posted: 13 Jan 2018 12:00 PM PST  © Ruijing Photo
 © Ruijing Photo Text description provided by the architects. The project is located in the core of old town Beijing. Close to Zhang Zi-zhong road, the ancient charm and modern style of the government add radiance and beauty to each other, which is incredibly fun.  © Ruijing Photo The building is connected by two courtyards. Walking into a Chinese red gate, there is a courtyard. The left side is the front desk, and the right side is the indoor audio-visual reading area. The indoor audiovisual reading area is facing the front courtyard of the white polar. The glass brick hide in the front courtyard wall to bring soft lighting for the room. In the twilight, the warm yellow light reflected from the vitreous brick, interlaced with the modern light and shadow matrix.  © Ruijing Photo  1F Plan  © Ruijing Photo The eastern corridor of the front yard is a shared corridor for recreation, which help extend the street of hutong and city, forming a 'half outdoor' new space. The grey brick and public furnitures become the connection of the past and present. The whole corridor runs through the front and back yard, using the floor-to-ceiling windows to get a beautiful view of the courtyards. The corridor looks like a long hutong, visiting tourists, guests and neighbors can meet and communicate here. And through the public furnitures bring a unique communication.  © Ruijing Photo  © Ruijing Photo The courtyard is the most interesting point of Chinese ancient building. Along the corridor to the backyard, the corner of the east side is a small landscape surrounded by green tiles. Through the backyard, we can go through the south side stairs to the second floor. The terrace of the second floor is connected by the roof of a corridor, forming a typical Beijing hutong cultural experience, siting between the roof tiles and the shade of the trees, listening to the cicadas in summer and watching the snow in winter.  © Ruijing Photo  © Ruijing Photo The front and backyard guest rooms are both equipped with a bathroom area with smart biker, smart laundry drying equipment. The modern technology gives the traditional architectural functions new possibilities.  © Ruijing Photo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 16 Materials Every Architect Needs to Know (And Where to Learn About Them) Posted: 13 Jan 2018 08:00 AM PST .jpg?1482148260) A building's materiality is what our bodies make direct contact with; the cold metal handle, the warm wooden wall, and the hard glass window would all create an entirely different atmosphere if they were, say, a hard glass handle, a cold metal wall and a warm wooden window (which with KTH's new translucent wood, is not as absurd as it might sound). Materiality is of just as much importance as form, function and location—or rather, inseparable from all three. Here we've compiled a selection of 16 materials that should be part of the design vocabulary of all architects, ranging from the very familiar (such as concrete and steel) to materials which may be unknown for some of our readers, as well as links to comprehensive resources to learn more about many of them.  <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/799062/studio-ossidiana-translates-elements-of-persian-gardens-into-lively-materials-exhibition'>"Petrified Carpets,"</a> an exhibit by Studio Ossidiana at the 2016 Dutch Design Festival. Image © Kyoungtae Kim 1. ConcreteConcrete is the most widely used building material in the world, making it a good starting material to get to know. However it also has significant environmental impacts, including a carbon footprint of up to 5% of worldwide emissions. To get to know all about designing with concrete, the Concrete Center has a collection of useful reports, many of which are free with registration.  <a href='https://www.kth.se/en/forskning/artiklar/kth-forskare-har-uppfunnit-genomskinligt-tra-1.638511'>Translucent wood</a> developed by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Image © Peter Larsson / KTH 2. WoodOne of the oldest, most traditional building materials around the world is of course timber. The material is beginning to take on new forms thanks to engineered wood products, and with high-rise buildings and even translucent properties, this diverse material is being taken to new heights. reThink Wood has a great collection of resources to learn about, and help architects design with, wood.  A 3D-printed steel structural connecter created using a method <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/514003/arup-develops-3d-printing-technique-for-structural-steel'>developed by Arup</a>. Image © David de Jong 3. SteelThe city skylines as we know them exploded out of our discovery of steel, commonly used for reinforcement but serving as a beautiful skin in several examples. The wiki SteelConstruction.info offers everything you could possibly need to know about designing with steel.  A bench developed by Terreform ONE and Genspace <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/779655/terreform-ones-biological-benches-question-traditional-manufacturing-methods'>created using bioplastics</a>. Image © Terreform ONE 4. PlasticAlthough this may seem like a cheap, unsustainable material to some, one should not be so quick to judge the possibilities that plastic holds. We produce so much of it; why not recycle it in the form of architecture or bioplastics? What about the whole new world that comes with 3D printing? The American Chemistry Council has a great overview of plastics as a material, as well as a rundown of their major uses in architecture, with links to further resources for each.  <a href=''>Stone staircase developed by Webb Yates Engineers and The Stonemasonry Company</a> for a residential design by RAL Architects. Image © Agnese Sanvito 5. StoneAnother material used over generations in certain geographical locations around the world, stone has a wide diversity of textures, colours and strengths. Despite its heavy, solid materiality, one can still work with it to achieve diverse forms. The Building Stone Institute has a variety of resources including fact sheets and specification sheets for many of the most common types of stone used in construction.  <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/777057/architects-team-up-with-khmer-women-to-build-a-community-centre-with-fabric-and-concrete'>Community Center in Cambodia by Orkidstudio and StructureMode</a>. Image Courtesy of Orkidstudio 6. TextilesTextiles have been explored most commonly using tensile structures, however there's a whole range of opportunities using this material: load-bearing chairs, inflatable spaces, fabric casting and wooden fabrics amongst others. Fabric Architecture Magazine has a collection of technical articles for architects, while their resource guide provides a comprehensive overview of the products on the market in this category.  <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/798817/herzog-and-de-meurons-elbphilharmonie-in-hamburg-photographed-by-iwan-baan'>Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron</a>. Image © Maxin Schulz 7. GlassOur most used material to achieve transparency and light is without a doubt glass, one of the most commonly used façade elements in contemporary architecture. Some are taking it a step further, attempting to extend its properties to create "intelligent" responsive glass. The PPG Glass Education Center is a great place to learn more.  <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/794947/young-architects-design-and-build-irans-first-free-form-brick-structure'>"FaBRICKate" structure in Iran</a> by ADAPt. Image Courtesy of ADAPt 8. BrickDespite its rigid, rectangular shape made to fit in your hand, brick architecture has been shown to create beautiful structures with the right craftsmanship. Innovative thinkers are also finding new ways to incorporate active sustainability into the small building elements. The Brick Development Association has a collection of resources for learning more about brick.  <a href='http://www.dupont.com/'>DuPont's Kevlar</a>. Image via DuPont.com 9. KevlarA material stronger than metal body armor, with awesome tensile strength, Kevlar is certainly an asset when building large structures. With a less rigid composition than steel however, it could reform the way we think of large load-bearing structures. As a still-relatively-new material, there are few comprehensive information sources on Kevlar's architectural applications, but this article and this snippet of the book Material Architecture by John Fernandez are good places to start.  <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/81585/the-green-school-pt-bambu'>The Green School by PT Bambu</a>. Image Courtesy of PT Bambu 10. BambooBamboo usage is generally dictated by the geographical location of the architectural project. In locations where bamboo makes sense, it is an incredibly flexible, strong, sustainable material that can be useful in many ways.  <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/415816/p-a-t-t-e-r-n-s-latest-expressive-experimental-pavilion-textile-room'>Textile Room</a> by P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. Image © Monica Nouwens 11. Carbon FiberReflecting everything about our new material endeavors is carbon fiber: "five times stronger than steel, twice as stiff, weighing significantly less." The composition of carbon fibre makes it flexible to work with, allowing it to take shapes from surfaces to rods, depending on your requirements.  <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/773657/researchers-increase-the-power-of-solar-energy-through-the-ancient-japanese-art-of-kirigami'>"Kirigami"-inspired solar panels developed at the University of Michigan</a>. Image via Inhabitat 12. Photovoltaic cellsWith all the high-rises soaring high above the earth, it's a wonder photovoltaic facades haven't become a norm. Due to the evolution of photovoltaic technology, cells may no longer have to be locked in place on the roof. The International Energy Agency's design handbook for photovoltaics in buildings is available for free online.  Image from the <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/224090/mud-structure-architecture-for-humanity-tehran-rai-studio'>Mud Structure project by Architecture for Humanity Tehran - Rai Studio</a>. Image © Mahsa Masoudi 13. EarthEarth is among the oldest building materials we can think of due to its almost universal accessibility and relative ease of use at small scales. It's capable of being compressed into modules, as well as creating freeform surfaces, all of which can eventually return to the earth with ease.  via Al Jazeera English 14. WasteWe produce a huge amount of waste covering a huge range of materials, but getting to know your waste is an excellent idea for future architects. Whether it's converting cigarette butts into building material or plastic bottles to earthquake resistant walls, recycling is something to be admired.  <a href='http://www.archdaily.com/150293/no99-straw-theatre-salto-ab'>NO99 Straw Theatre / Salto AB</a>. Image Courtesy of Karli Luik 15. StrawCreating a passive thermal environment, shielding from rain and blending into similar natural surroundings are just a few things that straw is good at. It's no wonder thatched roofs were so popular in the past.  Image from<a href='http://www.archdaily.com/796769/neri-oxman-plus-mediated-matter-create-synthetic-apiaries-to-combat-honeybee-colony-loss'>Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter group's Synthetic Apiary project</a>. Image Courtesy of The Mediated Matter Group 16. Organic materialsWith the massive loss of habitats happening around the world, getting to know organic structures created by animals is something that's best to do sooner rather than later. Not only can we learn from their use of materials, it also opens up opportunities for us to coexist through incorporating their organic materials into our architecture. As with all materials, accessibility and cost plays a huge role. There are sure to be materials not on the list that would be the obvious option in certain parts of the world, so be sure to get to know the materials around you in addition to these and you'll be sure to have a complete resource. Finally, if you're looking for a resource to specify products for a project, why not try ArchDaily's Product Catalog?  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Free Resume Templates for Architects Posted: 13 Jan 2018 06:00 AM PST  What's a better way to follow up on one of our most popular posts (of all time) than by providing a key design tool: the mighty template. Many of you enjoyed seeing the examples of CVs and resumes submitted by ArchDaily readers, but you also asked for a simple, fast way to jump start inspiration for your own creations. Here are five hand-picked, well-organized, easy-to-use templates that have been downloaded and tested by our team of editors. 1. Minimalistic & Clean Resume by Mats-Peter Forss © Mats-Peter Forss Available formats: .psd, .ai 2. Simple Resume by Bro Luthfi © Bro Luthfi Available formats: .psd, .eps, .ai 3. Clean & Minimal Resume by Mats-Peter Forss © Mats-Peter Forss Available formats: .ai 4. The Sir David Attenborough by Amy Dozier © Amy Dozier Available formats: .docx 5. Creative Formal © Hloom Available formats: .docx Have a template to share? Send us a link to download in the form below. Please include at least one of the following formats: .psd, .indd or .ai. Don't forget to bundle the fonts, too! We'll periodically update this post with more templates. Stay tuned! The Top Architecture Résumé/CV Designs  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| S1 House / Evelop Arquitectura Posted: 13 Jan 2018 05:00 AM PST  © Andrés Mondragón Padilla
 © Andrés Mondragón Padilla Text description provided by the architects. The studio house S1, is located in Zibatá, Querétaro (México). The project starts by the concept of a young couple’s ego that is not yet in the phase of having kids, letting them enjoy of the internal ambience of the house.  © Andrés Mondragón Padilla There are two basic essences that unwrap throughout the spaces. The first one, is the intimacy of the private space and the second one, the openness of the social area. The materials used, help differentiate the social from the private area.  Axonometric The access level, is made up of the lobby and a introvert hall that conducts the user with surprise, whether to the main room, or the stairs, which frames the amazing landscape and lead to the social area. The main room, with a suite concept, is the private space, with the fluency of a floor free of walls, that also frames a panoramic view of the landscape with 100% sliding windows that allow the access of natural light and crossed ventilation producing a harmonious ambience, surrounded by a window box with lavenders that generate more privacy, as well as visual continuity with the background landscape, while propagating pleasant natural scents within the space. The dressing room plays the role of the division between the crystal bathroom and the bedroom. For this space, the floor was made out of wood to create a more warm and welcoming feeling.  © Andrés Mondragón Padilla The social area is in the lower floor and you may access it either from the garden or the main entrance. This area contains wide spaces that promote the absolute coexistence with a sensation of openness and incredible views of the landscape, using white marble floor to generate the sensation of a fresh, wide and illuminated space. The spaces included in this area are the studio, the living room, the kitchen/dining area, terrace, garden and services in an isolated, relaxed and harmonious ambience.  © Andrés Mondragón Padilla The orientation and the exploitation of the natural terrain, took a main role within the the design process. It was meant to create functional spaces that maintained the order and visual continuity, with a simple diagram of two horizontal crystal “L forms” and a vertical “L form” made of concrete.  © Andrés Mondragón Padilla For the project’s execution, it was built through a system of a hybrid structure of concrete walls and steel, allowing the finished details to be assembled, enabling a clean, ordered and efficient building site.  © Andrés Mondragón Padilla  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 8 Annoying Things All Architects Do Posted: 13 Jan 2018 04:00 AM PST  © Andrea Vasquez Contrary to how Hollywood movies portray the quintessential architect—creative, sensitive, and virtually flawless—architects are a diverse bunch of fallible people. This stems from the fact that the study and practice of architecture are wrought with several "perils." Architecture school is a beast, if not the profession at large, and it essentially reinvents the psyche of its students by simultaneously breaking them down and building them up—say hello to unresolved issues! While this process produces bright intellectuals with a deep understanding of architecture's place in society, it can also end up shaping architects into pretentious snobs. Young architects invariably graduate with a distinct outlook on life. Pair that with a largely thankless job and architects soon discover that they can only relate to other architects. Rare friends who bravely stand by an architect through thick and thin deserve a strong pat on the back because architects, despite their innumerable charms, exhibit several incredibly annoying traits. The following is a compilation of eight complaints that non-architect friends and partners have against their architect counterparts: 1. The Architect Thinks Everything is ArchitectureArchitects somehow find a way to connect everything to architecture. They truly believe that every problem our world faces today—from climate change to the refugee crisis—is a result of past architectural decisions and that architecture alone is the means to solve these problems. However, that is not the most annoying part; everyone's entitled to their opinions. The thing that ruffles feathers is that architects will debate endlessly and won't rest until everyone agrees with them. 2. The Architect Knows Everything © Andrea Vasquez Five years or more of an interdisciplinary education—which involves endless juries—leads architects to think of themselves as God-like omniscient super-beings, developing unshakeable self-confidence. Hence, whether people are talking about string theory or the Kardashians, architects will make it a point to challenge their opinions with conviction. 3. What Does the Architect Mean to Say?If there were an award for communicating the simplest of ideas in the most convoluted way possible, an architect would win hands down. Architects have, over time, mastered the skill of injecting fancy sounding words—think fenestration, pastiche, or juxtaposition—into regular conversation while employing labyrinthine sentence structures, much to the disgust of their friends and partners. Members of an architect's innermost circle also know better than to ask her what words like space, concept, or architecture mean, unless they want to bore themselves to death. 4. The Architect Likes His Coffee with a Hint of Snobbery © Andrea Vasquez Architects have, through their days at architecture school, established a unique emotional relationship with coffee. They invariably have strong preferences, either about the kind of beans used, the way the drink is brewed, or the mix, and they won't shy away from declining coffee that isn't exactly how they like theirs. 5. The Architect Can Always Do BetterArchitects are trained to always strive for more; their jurors told them something was missing even when their designs were extraordinary. This manifests as obsessive perfectionism in everything that they set their minds to. Simple tasks such as picking out a New Year's card for their parents or selecting a font for their résumé can take them hours. Architects are also overly critical of other people and can easily find fault in everything, from the way you use your toothbrush to something as universally acclaimed as Adele's music. 6. The Architect Fan-Girls/Fan-Boys Over Famous ArchitectsThe advent of social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter has resulted in a slew of architects that have a fan following in the architecture world similar to that of movie stars. Architects, especially young ones, can be spotted in Bjarke Ingels get-ups at costume-parties quoting words from his speeches and saying things like, "Isn't he the cutest!" Meanwhile, their non-architect friends who are dressed as Katniss Everdeen or Luke Skywalker are left bewildered as they speak through clenched teeth: "I know he's your laptop screensaver but I have no idea who he is. And for the twentieth time, I don't care!" 7. The Architect Loves Everything about the City © Andrea Vasquez Going out with an architect in the city streets is an adventure in itself, but one sure to get on their friends' nerves. Architects will stop dead in their tracks to stare at a sidewalk stone or the typography on a billboard. They'll spend twenty minutes talking about a building and its significance in "modernist architecture" while their friends miss the last bus home. From time to time, architects will also have sudden movie-like bouts of inspiration at the local café that lead to doodling on coffee-stained paper napkins. Their friends, meanwhile, are left wondering if their only job is to order more napkins from the annoyed waitstaff. 8. The Architect Never Sleeps © Andrea Vasquez Architects love to talk about how much sleep they've not gotten. A non-architect at a table of tired-of-work architects will find the conversation circling back to this topic every few minutes. It would seem that the sole yardstick for how architects measure success is by comparing how little they sleep. There are also the perpetual complaints about how little they earn for how much they work. Architects forget that their friends and partners know it all since they are the ones that have always had to pay for food and work their schedule around the architect. The friends don't mind that the architect is broke or that she has no semblance of work-play balance in her life. It's just that they would rather talk about the new Game of Thrones episode than listen to the architect whine like a baby. Update: This article originally included illustrative comics by Ridhi Sood. At the time of publication, ArchDaily was not aware of their creative resemblance to comics by catanacomics. At the request of the author of catanacomics, we have removed the article's original illustrations and are currently working on some replacement artwork. Update 2: The new images for this article were kindly provided by Andrea Vasquez.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 13 Jan 2018 01:30 AM PST  The Stately Oaks Plantation House in Jonesboro, Georgia, is widely believed to have been the inspiration for Tara, the fictional plantation house from Gone With the Wind. Image © <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stately_Oaks.jpg'>Wikimedia user Maksim Sundukov</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en'>CC BY-SA 4.0</a> This short excerpt is from Places Journal's article "Prop and Property: The house in American cinema, from the plantation to Chavez Ravine," which in turn was adapted from John David Rhodes' book Spectacle of Property. The article, which investigates the many layers of property inherent in the production and viewing of movies, investigates in particular the films Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird, revealing how their themes of race and property are made even more complex by the practicalities of Hollywood filmmaking. Perhaps the most mysterious and desired feature of housing is the privacy of property, and especially the property of and in the house. Property, however, is fungible and alienable. Whatever is promised by the house is radically susceptible to violation, displacement, and loss. Often the experience of property's violation or redefinition involves an unwelcome reminder that the house is not a very private place after all. Partly we know this: we have all spent time in living rooms, on porches, or in other spaces of the house in which it is nearly impossible to say where the public ends and the private begins. But when property's inherent instability is experienced vividly—whether in "real life" or in representation—we are forced to confront the tenuous relationship between public and private, as well as the tenuousness of all property relations as such. Cinema heightens the ambivalent but powerful pleasure we take in looking at property. The private property of the house is already a spectacle, of course, as the house is a medium for making visible the wealth of its owners and inhabitants. In a movie theater, this spectacular function is multiplied. We pay to occupy a space owned by another in order to look at something—the film—owned by yet another (at least after the bust-up of the vertically integrated Hollywood monopolies). When we see a house onscreen, the property relations implicit in the seemingly simple activity of moviegoing proliferate into confusion. And yet there is a kind of clarity in what is at stake here. In purchasing a movie ticket we pay for the right to occupy a space in order to gaze up at a space we can never occupy. This is the story cinema has been mutely telling all along—a story about the house, the security and ease it promises, and the horrible anxieties produced when we try to force the house to deliver on those promises. Read the rest of the article on Places Journal to discover Hollywood's complicated relationship with property, race, and eminent domain.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 13 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST  © Ricardo Oliveira Alves
 © Ricardo Oliveira Alves Text description provided by the architects. The operation should adapt the interior space of the apartment to a contemporary way of living, without major structural modifications. The strategy for this intervention was established on the idea of connecting two small-scaled bedrooms so that social area could face the West, overseeing the river Tagus. The kitchen and the bedroom open up to a quiet courtyard, with a view over the urban gardens.  © Ricardo Oliveira Alves Apart from altering the social area, the layout of the house remained the same. The identity of the spaces, however, was transformed by the way in which they are now occupied and inter-connect, as the interior bedroom is now a walk-in closet, that either allows for an open circulation or becomes itself an extra bedroom.  © Ricardo Oliveira Alves  Floor Plan  © Ricardo Oliveira Alves Despite the initial desire to recover some of the original elements of the house, we soon realized it wouldn't be possible mainly due to the advanced state of deterioration of many of them, being the wooden floor one of the few we were able to keep. All the carpentries were redesigned with a straightforward approach, though, getting back their original color, making them the main element of architectural characterization of the house.  © Ricardo Oliveira Alves  © Ricardo Oliveira Alves  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Architecture Student Through 15 Comic Strips Posted: 13 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST .jpg?1486494963 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics As a young architecture student looking for a way to take his mind off schoolwork, architect/artist Tristán began drawing comics that drew inspiration from what he knew best: architecture school. Settling on the protagonist of the architecture student, he created a full series of comic strips focusing on the day to day routine of architecture students and teachers. The comics take on moments from the life of architecture school, from the stresses of pulling all-nighters to the realities of dealing with clients in the professional world. By creating these strips, Tristán aims to shed some light on the complexities of being an architecture student – not forgetting that humor can sometimes be the best medicine for what ails you. .jpg?1486495124 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486494984 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486495135 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486946065 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486495019 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486495008 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486495031 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486494973 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486495074 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486945998 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486495053 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486494954 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486946049 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics .jpg?1486946022 "Courtesy of Tristán Comics") Courtesy of Tristán Comics You can submerse yourself in his comical world by following him on facebook.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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