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- Square House / Cocoon Architecten
- Alpine Barn DZ / EXiT architetti associati
- Habitat for Orphan Girls / ZAV Architects
- Guardian Art Center in Beijing / Büro Ole Scheeren
- Renovation in Shizuoka / Shuhei Goto Architects
- Huaku Sky Garden / WOHA
- The Wairarapa Haybarn / First Light Studio
- Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter and C.F. Møller Win Competition for Mixed-Use Tower at Oslo Central Rail Station
- ACES Treehouse / Charles Cunniffe Architects
- New Renderings Show off Gehry's Grand Avenue Development as Project Gets Official Start Date
- Three Apartments in Madrid / Fast and Furious Production Office
- Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Joins Perkins+Will in Monumental Merger
- House in the Valley / idsp arquitetos
- Last Remaining Tenant Refuses to Leave Paul Rudolph-Designed Housing Complex, Stalling Demolition
- Former Haystack Refurbishment / OOIIO Arquitectura
- University of Arkansas to Construct America’s First Large-Scale, Mass Timber Higher Ed Residence Hall and Living Learning Project
- Experience Time in Color With Emmanuelle Moureaux
- Village Center of Ecouflant / Studio d’Architecture Bruno Huet
| Square House / Cocoon Architecten Posted: 24 Jan 2018 07:00 PM PST  © Liesbeth Goetschalckx
 © Liesbeth Goetschalckx Text description provided by the architects. The site is located just inside the center of the city of Genk in the province of Limburg. The residents, a couple from Belgium and Japan, wanted a combination of living and working space close to the city, but in a peaceful oasis.  © Liesbeth Goetschalckx So, we looked for a home that had two important qualities: a space that provided transparency, light and a sense of openness and at the same time enough privacy, so that intimate relationships between the residents could be fostered.  © Liesbeth Goetschalckx The way we accomplished this was by seeing the home as a volume around a central inner courtyard. The courtyard allows light to penetrate deep into the room and also provides a natural privacy screen. The volume is characterized on the outside by several square perforations. The openings in the wooden façade appear to be placed arbitrarily, but they provide the spaces behind them with a framed external view in strategically chosen places.  Floor Plan 0 The volume gives a closed impression on the outside, but once inside, the completely glazed inner courtyard ensures that the home is flooded with light. This courtyard is used as a private patio that is concealed from the neighbors in the adjacent high-rise building.  © Liesbeth Goetschalckx Although from the outside the home appears to have a flat roof, the entire roof slopes towards the courtyard. The high, spacious ceilings that slope towards the courtyard make the rooms dynamic and your attention is drawn to far into the patio towards the opposite rooms.  Section The design includes height differences to define spaces. This makes the home very open and everyone's presence there is felt, but at the same time also comfortably separated. One of the rooms is a contemporary interpretation of a Washitsu, a Japanese room, where old and new meet.  © Liesbeth Goetschalckx The environmental footprint of the home is very small. The structure is made of a wooden frame and cellulose insulation, which minimizes the CO2 emission of the construction. The materials used are largely natural. The specific roof enables invisible installation of solar panels and the home is heated with a heat pump. The windows are all wood-framed and triple-glazed and have balanced ventilation. A grapevine in the courtyard provides a lot of shade in the summer, which prevents overheating.  © Liesbeth Goetschalckx  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Alpine Barn DZ / EXiT architetti associati Posted: 24 Jan 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Alberto Sinigaglia
 © Alberto Sinigaglia Text description provided by the architects. The discrete refurbishment of this alpine barn gave new life to a structurally complex building that lies in a fragile context such as the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  © Alberto Sinigaglia  Plan  © Alberto Sinigaglia Within the Cadore area, these types of buildings are called "Tabià". They are made of stone and wood and were typically used as stables on the ground floor and as haylofts on the upper ones.  © Alberto Sinigaglia The exterior wooden boards were removed, carefully washed and later remounted. Meanwhile the beams and wooden pillars were exposed so as to analyse the complexity of the structure and its joints.  Section Between the structural elements and within the interstitial spaces of the weakest elements, new iron profiles were added to strengthen the wooden frame, of which the original elements have been maintained almost totally. The new iron profiles were added on site working in between the existing structure and later were painted black to highlight their presence and function. On the outside, on the north façade, an annex was removed. This operation led to the possibility of restoring the access ramp to its original dimension and gaining a new bathroom underneath.  © Alberto Sinigaglia The colour of the new wooden bars marks the difference with the original ones and allow you to see how this natural material changes its aspect according to orientation and incidence of light.  © Alberto Sinigaglia Great attention was dedicated to the windows in order to allow views of the main surrounding mountains and guarantee wide and luminous inner spaces.  © Alberto Sinigaglia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Habitat for Orphan Girls / ZAV Architects Posted: 24 Jan 2018 04:00 PM PST  © Aidin Gilandoost
 © Soroush Majidi Habitat for orphan girls The habitat for foundling girls is located in the historical fabric of Khansar, a small town in the heart of Iran. Before evolving into a residence for orphan girls, our charitable client had intentions of building a public clinic. We came up with a proposal of a welfare institution since the site's location could eventually come to help its future deprived users. The orphans can find shelter under the protection of history: they will be surrounded by three of the city's historical monuments that could serve as parents. The accepted proposal turned into a project intended to change the point of view over orphan girls as stigmatized children who need pity into an inseparable but normal part of society. The aim was for them to move away from being under surveillance toward having a normal life in the introverted and closed minded social context of Khansar. The girls just needed a homey apartment that looked cool, make them proud. The diagram supposed to be a home opposed to a disciplined space of a dormitory that almost looks like a prison.  © Soroush Majidi An architecture that is both modest and monumental, the residence aimed to provide the girls with not only a dormitory with public and private spaces but also with special balconies that set the stage for a sociable scenario: they can express themselves through the changing festivities of mourning and celebration or the changing seasons by changing the 'Hijab' of their balconies, just like they are used to wearing and changing their Hijab and Chador in accord with the town's cultural timeline, reminding aesthetics of censorship. An honest construction technology was decided for this charity project with a site area of 354sqm and a built area of 800sqm in four levels. Construction cost –with local craftsmanship- ended up with less than half compared to the common and future maintenance costs optimized to the minimum.  Diagram In order to have a space with an indelible appearance, the process of construction went as close as possible towards basic essentials resulting in an interior that is materially identical to the exterior. We believe that architecture can contribute to improving social wellbeing and ethical reform, and to the extent that we were responsible, tried to make a change: to move from exclusion to inclusion, from reclusion to seclusion and from deprivation to privilege and to value and encourage charity organizations to benefit from the added values of architectural solutions.  © Soroush Majidi Yet the story is not over. Today, the building is being used not the way it was planned to the girls live in controlled surveillance, with obligatory closed windows and unused balconies. But our client and we are still trying our best to make a change. Fortunately, our ties are strong. At the end, in this project, we decided to push the boundaries of architecture, to use it as a media that can affect humanity and to improve the quality of life.  Section The question would be what more one can expect from architecture? Simple and available construction technology is optimized in this project. After execution of the steel structure, the concrete floors were actualized and finalized after a rotational polishing. The wall post containing the mechanical and electrical facilities are performing as a reachable ducting system, being connected to the structure. The wall posts are supporting the interior and exterior brick walls. The brick walls were finalized during the construction phase and are standing as they are. Those walls have not gone through the finishing process.  © Soroush Majidi "Laybid" stone blocks are connected to the concrete floors, performing as interior cornices. The exterior cornices have a U shape. The property walls are made out of cement blocks and concrete wall posts. The walls of the interior space, the staircases, and the water fountains are made out of concrete, implemented by locals.  © Aidin Gilandoost As a result of exposed mechanical and electrical facilities, removal of finishing stage in the construction process and durable materials, it is expected this building to last long and to sustain itself with a minimum maintenance fee.  © Soroush Majidi The project has several considerable socio-political impacts on society. Creating an opportunity through architectural principles for such a space to exist through a charity program, provided the orphans a space with quality despite the financial issues of the project.  © Soroush Majidi In the meanwhile the historic fabric of Khansar is now hosting a group of innocent youth who have a vague family background which results into two aspects: firstly the history of the site is providing these children a genuine importance and secondly, the children are bringing back the energy and life spirit to the old fabric.  © Aidin Gilandoost  Wall Section - Detail  © Aidin Gilandoost In terms of the spatial organization, changing of the spatial diagram of a dormitory to a home creates personal spaces and a sense of belonging for the children. Rooms organized around a tiny public space with an independent balcony toward the city.  Diagram  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Guardian Art Center in Beijing / Büro Ole Scheeren Posted: 24 Jan 2018 02:00 PM PST  View from North Plaza. Image © Iwan Baan
 View to Forbidden City and Jingshan Park . Image Courtesy of Buro Ole Scheeren Cultural Center  View to Ground Staircase. Image © Iwan Baan Museum  Interior View to Grand Staircase. Image © Iwan Baan The building stages and accommodates auctions/exhibitions throughout the seasonal auction calendar, but for most of the year expand the cultural programming into special exhibitions, symposiums, and events of diverse nature – a public/private museum with a cultural and educational mission.  Ground Floor Lobby. Image © Iwan Baan Surrounding the central halls is an extended realm of smaller gallery spaces and supplementary support functions. The building navigates between the neutral and the speci c, combining aspects of both by providing large scale spaces that are exible and convertible; along with a collection of interconnected more intimate spaces for speci c functions of distinct character.  Perspectival Section. Image Courtesy of Buro Ole Scheeren The building is, at its core, a machine for exhibitions and events. The two main column-free spaces are stacked in the center of its footprint and enable a multitude of uses – simple, yet versatile ceiling and oor mechanisms provide easy adaptability. These two spaces create a sectional courtyard within the building at the scale of a hangar – a space so large that virtually anything can happen.  Auction Pre-Function Hall. Image © Shuhe Hybrid Art Space  Interior View of Exhibition. Image © Alex Fradkin The seamless integration of several restaurants and a 116-room hotel in the oating ring of the building with views to the Forbidden City creates an encompassing lifestyle concept centered on the experience of art and culture. Through the addition of educational facilities in its central 'club tower' and art conservation departments in its basements, the Guardian Art Center further manifests its position as the world's rst custom-designed auction house headquarters.  Interior View of Guardian Office. Image © Shuhe Location  Context Diagram. Image Courtesy of Buro Ole Scheeren History and Modernity  View to The Hutongs though The Perforation. Image Courtesy of Buro Ole Scheeren Chinese-ness  View of North Entrance. Image © Iwan Baan The upper ring of the hotel is made of oating, over-sized glass bricks, resonating with the textures of the adjacent hutongs and courtyard houses. In contrast to the imperial motives of the nearby Forbidden City, the brick represents civil society and values – a humble and non- elitist symbol in Chinese culture. The grey stone-like pixels of the lower portion of the building are perforated by several thousand circular openings – generated by projecting one of China's most important historic landscape paintings, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, onto its facades and thereby creating a subtle light lter through an abstracted landscape silhouette.  Facade Concept Diagram. Image Courtesy of Buro Ole Scheeren The Guardian Art Center creates a new civic destination for arts and culture that fosters the exchange, study, and appreciation of cultural artifacts and activities – a vehicle for cultural dissemination and collection, a new center for art, in the center of Beijing.  View from Drop Off. Image © Iwan Baan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Renovation in Shizuoka / Shuhei Goto Architects Posted: 24 Jan 2018 12:00 PM PST  © Kenta Hasegawa
 © Kenta Hasegawa Text description provided by the architects. It is a project that converts office and apartment building over 40 years into single family house. The site is located in a residential area close to central Shizuoka city.In the area,it is difficult to predict the future environment.Because a lot of houses are rebuilding due to aging.So we attempted to create a depth between the private room and the city.  © Kenta Hasegawa  Floor Plans  © Kenta Hasegawa First,we removed harf of the first floor and made a void and set up large windows in upper side. Then,it appeared bright living space like a outside.All of private rooms are open to this living space and void as well as opening to outside.It is the second facade in the house.  Courtesy of Shuhei Goto Architects  Courtesy of Shuhei Goto Architects With this composition which can be said that "house in the house",it creates a distinctive depth between private rooms and city.  © Kenta Hasegawa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2018 11:00 AM PST  © Patrick Bingham-Hall
 © Patrick Bingham-Hall Text description provided by the architects. Huaku Sky Garden is located at the base of the foothills of the Yang Ming mountain range, in the Tianmu district of northern Taipei. Taiwan's apartment architecture has been heavily influenced by Japanese colonial and 1980s post-modernism, resulting in heavy, solid blocks. This project breaks away from that influence and is the only high-rise residential tower in its neighbourhood.  © Patrick Bingham-Hall The architecture addresses a very scenic view with rolling mountains as the backdrop and vibrant cities in the foreground. The building is expressed as twin towers in a symmetrical, interlinked form with thick columns. Earthquake and typhoon-proof requirements demanded a strong and symmetrical structural frame, which led to the architectural solution of a Chinese-inspired screen in multiple scales, from the oversized structural frame to the delicate metal filigree.  © Patrick Bingham-Hall  1st Floor Plan  © Patrick Bingham-Hall The façade adapts the rectangular asymmetry of traditional Chinese joinery and screen designs and possesses a delightful abstraction. It is enhanced by the depth of the recessed gardens on the double-volume terraces of each apartment. To ensure privacy between the apartments and to embellish the Yang Ming panorama, the slender east and west elevations are veiled with ornamental screens. The permutation and repetition of simple modules in the ornamental screens of this 38-storey tower not only express the beauty of the building, providing a landmark for the area, but also acts as a sun shade in the hot summer months. As the load is borne by the external walls, the interiors are column-free, spacious and uncluttered – a release from the congested city below.  © Patrick Bingham-Hall  Section  © Patrick Bingham-Hall The interlocking section is designed with three objectives in mind: The first is dual frontage apartments with views of the city and the mountains. The second is natural cross-ventilation, and the third is spatial excitement. The interlocking allows a double-height terrace and entryway despite being a single-level apartment. The double-volume terraces create an outdoor garden quality, underlining the 'villa on the mountain' concept and giving the apartments a grand view of the mountains.  A Typical Unit In keeping with WOHA's interest in sociable architecture, the ground level design provides continuity of the street blocks and an appropriate scale in view of the adjacent buildings and surrounding neighbourhood, with gardens, green walls and retail shops that interact with the streetscape.  © Patrick Bingham-Hall  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Wairarapa Haybarn / First Light Studio Posted: 24 Jan 2018 09:00 AM PST  © Jason Mann Photography
 © Jason Mann Photography Text description provided by the architects. This barn-inspired home offers a striking reference to rural vernacular. Long and lean, the form is remarkably simple. A monolithic roof plane sweeps up past the large established walnut tree to form a double-height concert hall living space with mezzanine viewing gallery for the two retired musicians to practice, play and entertain friends.  Ground Floor Plan The owners moved to be closer to family in Wellington but settled in the Wairarapa, wanting to make the most of the more temperate climate and beautiful sunny evenings. Their musical interest drove the design to create an acoustically, environmentally conscious and accessible home that felt compact but could effortlessly accommodate extended family.  © Jason Mann Photography Much like a hay barn, in this design form follows function. The double-height roof cleverly accommodates a double garage and workshop at ground level and guest two bedroom and bathroom loft above. Adjacent to this, the open-plan kitchen / living / dining room takes advantage of the high ceiling. To the northeast end of the house, the main sleeping quarters domestic-scaled 2.4m stud height creates more modest volumes. The terrace wraps around the eastern façade offering the perfect sheltered spot for a quiet morning coffee. Services are efficiently oriented along the southern spine of the house, with generous laundry, kitchen, bathroom and separate WC facilities. A highly insulated nearly airtight envelope clad in corrugated iron and shiplap redwood is practical yet warmly references the redwood groves surrounding their previous family home.  © Jason Mann Photography The awning, a reinterpretation of the Wairarapa veranda shelters the northern façade from the hot summer sun while creating an impressive entrance. The established Walnut became a central figure in the design, linking the outdoor and indoor dining spaces with dappled light while naturally mediating temperature in the house with its seasonal changes.  © Jason Mann Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2018 08:00 AM PST  © RRA + CFMøller The team led by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, in collaboration with C.F Møller Arkitekter, Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, Baugrundinstitut Franke-Meißner und Partner, GMBH and Transsolar Climate Engineering, has been selected as the winners of an international competition to design a master plan and mixed-use tower for the central rail station in Oslo, Norway. Known as Nordic Light, the winning proposal was lauded by the jury for best responding to the site and program's unique challenges, and for its dedication toward sustainable architecture. Nordic Light was chosen as the unanimous winner over proposals from BIG, Ingenhoven Architects and Sauerbruch Hutton.  © RRA + CFMøller The project is comprised of four core areas: the station areas, including the currently abandoned public square connecting to the central terminal; the podium housing cultural and conference facilities; the "pergola," which connects between Queen Eufemia's Street and the station; and the tower, which will contain a mixed-use program including a hotel, offices and a creative hub. The project is striving for ambitious sustainability metrics, including an excellent-level BREEAM rating and flexible solutions for building utilization.  © RRA + CFMøller  © RRA + CFMøller The jury report concluded: "Nordic light" takes its strength from a controlled and careful form expression. The project's proposed integration with the station areas and the overall draft of the blueprint will help to further develop Oslo S as the country's largest collective hub, and will offer the travellers great new spatial and qualitative experiences. The project showcases good solutions for the design and connection of the adjacent spaces to the project. The architect's approach provides a good potential for the rehabilitation and enhancement of the protected Østbanen structure, and will give it a central role as part of the station's future visual identity. The project shows credibility and an understanding of the complexity that this task invites to...."  © RRA + CFMøller  © RRA + CFMøller "The project shows a good understanding of the task's many premises and a willingness and enthusiasm to find solutions through good and sustainable architecture," explain RRA. "The jury believes the proposal has a concept that shows a suitable approach, is robust enough to withstand the necessary adjustments and that the project could be strengthened through this work." News via Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter  © RRA + CFMøller  © RRA + CFMøller  © RRA + CFMøller  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ACES Treehouse / Charles Cunniffe Architects Posted: 24 Jan 2018 07:00 AM PST  © Ross Kribbs
 © Ross Kribbs Text description provided by the architects. Designed pro bono by Charles Cunniffe Architect (CCA), this treehouse sits on a wildlife preserve in the Roaring Fork Valley in Aspen CO. While CCA designed the structure, it was truly a community effort. CCA donated a tree house design to the local mentoring program, the Buddy Program, for its annual fundraising auction. Esteemed Aspen entrepreneur Gunnar Sachs purchased the house at the auction, and in turn, donated it to the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES).  © Ross Kribbs  Perspective 03  © Ross Kribbs The treehouse design was based on the four pillar structure. The goal of the design was to create different stations to enjoy the various aspects of the surrounding ecology. Ascending the steps to the upper level of the platform allows viewers to watch the swallows in search of insects, the American dippers diving underwater, deer, foxes, bears, ACES resident Golden Eagle, Great Horned Owl and Red-tailed Hawk; all the while designed so children and adults alike, can view without scaring the wildlife. Vertical elements in the Cottonwood bark were the color and orientation inspiration, and the use of the existing materials harkens back to ACES and CCA's philosophy of re-use.  © Ross Kribbs  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Renderings Show off Gehry's Grand Avenue Development as Project Gets Official Start Date Posted: 24 Jan 2018 06:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Related / Gehry Partners New renderings have been revealed of Gehry Partners' Grand Avenue Project as construction is finally set to begin this fall. Located across from Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, the development now known as The Grand will offer up retail, entertainment and residences within two blocky, terracing towers.  Courtesy of Related / Gehry Partners Coupled with the concert hall, the complex is envisioned at transforming the street into a full entertainment district, able to be closed off for pedestrian use. The building will also allow for images and videos to be projected onto the shimmering facade of its famous neighbor. "You close that piece of Grand Avenue, put some chairs out there and you've got something special," explained Gehry to the LA Times. "We're not just building buildings, we're building places."  Courtesy of Related / Gehry Partners  Courtesy of Related / Gehry Partners The complex will include a 39-tower residential tower with 113 condos and 323 apartments (20 percent of which will be available to low-income tenants), and a 20-story tower housing a 314-room Equinox hotel. At the base, shops and restaurants will intermix with entertainment pieces including a movie theater. Read more and watch Gehry discuss the project, here.  Courtesy of Related / Gehry Partners  Courtesy of Related / Gehry Partners
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| Three Apartments in Madrid / Fast and Furious Production Office Posted: 24 Jan 2018 05:00 AM PST  © Imagen Subliminal
 © Imagen Subliminal Text description provided by the architects. The project is about dividing a large old flat into three luxury apartments as an investment real state operation in Madrid. This would usually mean that creativity is out of the game. "The more originality, the less chance of success in the market", they say.  © Imagen Subliminal The clichés that are succeeding in real state business are modified applying some short of Technique intelligence procedures on them. We want to prove that this so-called Aesthetics of Capitalism is not a problem itself for the committed architect. It is all about working the finishing, assembling and, last but not least, the design.  © Imagen Subliminal There are two main concepts in all three apartments. The first one is the systematic diagonal distribution, consisting on two rooms with four millimeters thick glass walls, both bathroom and bedroom. The second one is the definition of the main space by convex corners, even those of the kitchen and cabinets attached to the perimeter walls.  © Imagen Subliminal  Plans  © Imagen Subliminal We want to prove that architecture can be academically worthy while working with tendentious repertoire. It is only about including some original thinking in it, which allows a common project of vintage figurativism to be a special and committed architecture work.  © Imagen Subliminal  © Imagen Subliminal  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Joins Perkins+Will in Monumental Merger Posted: 24 Jan 2018 04:00 AM PST  Perkins+Will's Shanghai Natural History Museum and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects' Malmö Live. Images by James and Connor Steinkamp; Adam Mørk In one of the largest mergers ever to occur in the architecture world, world renowned Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has joined Perkins+Will in a strategic global partnership aimed at extending the firms' international reach and reinforcing a commitment to sustainability and design excellence. Founded in 1986, Schmidt Hammer Lassen has grown to become one of Scandinavia's most prominent and reputable practices, completing projects such as the Dokk1 Library and ARoS Museum of Art in Aarhus, Denmark; the Halifax Central Library in Nova Scotia, Canada; and The Black Diamond, the extension to the Royal Library in Copenhagen. The firm had a particularly successful 2017, winning competitions for projects in locations as wide ranging as Shanghai, Melbourne, Copenhagen, and Detroit.  Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects' Dokk1 Library in Aarhus. Image by Adam Mørk By joining Perkins+Will, one of the world's largest architectural practices, SHL will inherit a 83-year legacy of design excellence and architectural research and innovation. Together, the united firms will be able to further strengthen their international presence through civic and cultural projects. "Part of what makes this partnership so special is that Perkins+Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen share a common set of values: design excellence, sustainability, innovation, and the highest level of client service," explains Perkins+Will CEO Phil Harrison. "We also maintain the same design ethos, believing that exceptional architecture is always democratic and in the service of the greater good. We're compatible at every level." Bjarne Hammer, founding partner of Schmidt Hammer Lassen, adds: "Our firms share a clear mission: through architecture and design, we make a positive difference in the world and in the lives of others. We both believe strongly in the transformative, healing power of design to address some of the most pressing social and environmental issues of our time. And, we both thrive in a design culture that encourages collaboration." Schmidt Hammer Lassen CEO Bente Damgaard believes the merger will allow for a streamlined collaboration and design process, with all of the resources, talent and expertise needed to deliver high quality architecture to be located within a single network. "We want to be known as a company that is both design-driven and client-focused, as a firm that produces extraordinary designs and delivers them with extraordinary efficiency. Merging with Perkins+Will enables us to maintain this critical part of our identity while having the support, technology, and reach of a much larger organization," says Damgaard. "It's a fantastic opportunity." See more of the two firms' work at the links below:
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| House in the Valley / idsp arquitetos Posted: 24 Jan 2018 03:00 AM PST  © Manuel Sá
 © Manuel Sá Text description provided by the architects. The residence is located in one of the first urban allotment of the district of Itaici, in the city of Indaiatuba, interior of São Paulo: the Valley of Laranjeiras. Formed and constituted by a Portuguese's community, in the early 1980s, it carries in its streets the names of localities and cities of that country.  © Manuel Sá The site, with 3.000m², has a gentle slope towards the two lakes that exists in the bottom of the valley. The project sought to implement the building providing relationships with some neighbors, maintaining a pre-existing insertion, height and logic, privileging users' privacy and creating paths and surprises from access to free and complete contemplation of the landscape. The spaces were distributed according to the best solar orientation and directed to the main visual axes for the lush landscape of the valley. The social and service areas were arranged on the ground floor, in the center of the site, integrated into the leisure spaces, forming an "L" shape. In a lower plateau, at the bottom of the site, a concrete sports court and a grass field for soccer practice were arranged, associated with granite steps that serve as bleachers. On the upper floor, there are five suites and an office;  © Manuel Sá  Ground floor plan  © Manuel Sá The landscape, the pre-existences and the history of the formation of the allotment were the main guides for the project's language. However, the project has no intention of mimicking, but adding a new meaning to the valley, drawing attention to the exuberant nature that still remains in that place. The project sought to explores ludic aspects in the compositions that alternate the apparent concrete and the white plaster, crossing the Iberian origin of the allotment with the legacy of the urban landscape of the interior of São Paulo, where the structure-fence dichotomy is so recurrent in the buildings.  © Manuel Sá It was adopted the construction system in reinforced concrete, traditional and common in the region, for its more affordable costs. Local materials such as pink granite, marbles and crystallites were used in the counters, fireplaces and washbasins. Ceramic flooring in the social and leisure areas and wooden block in the intimate areas.  © Manuel Sá  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Last Remaining Tenant Refuses to Leave Paul Rudolph-Designed Housing Complex, Stalling Demolition Posted: 24 Jan 2018 01:30 AM PST  The Shorelines Apartments in 1975, shortly after opening. Image Courtesy of EPA/Library of Congress This article was originally published by The Architect's Newspaper as "Demolition of Paul Rudolph's Shoreline Apartments stalled by single tenant." Demolition of the Paul Rudolph-designed Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, New York, has accelerated, and the full destruction of the housing complex is being stalled by a single tenant. John Schmidt has refused to leave his unit in what remains of the brutalist buildings, despite having received an eviction notice, over what he feels are strong-arm tactics from developer Norstar Development Corporation.
 A recent photo of the complex at Niagara Street between Caroline and West Mohawk. Image Courtesy of MIT Libraries Finished in 1974, the waterfront development held 426 affordable units and was part of Paul Rudolph's unrealized master plan for a revitalized Buffalo waterfront. Featuring sharp angles made of concrete and mono-pitched roofs made of heavy, serrated metal, the complex's design was unmistakably Rudolph's. Norstar, a private company, purchased the site with the intention of demolishing the state-built homes and overhauling the complex. The first phase of demolition and redevelopment began in 2015, and has already replaced five of Rudolph's cascading buildings with seven townhouses and a short apartment block, for a total of 48 new affordable housing units. While the final phase of the project was slated to begin this spring, Schmidt's unwillingness to leave has held up the rest of the process. His defiance is understandable, as Norstar had previously promised Shoreline residents that they would have time to relocate, before advancing the demolition timetable without warning.  The housing completed during the redevelopment's first phase. Image Courtesy of Buffalo Rising While Schmidt is now the last resident in what remains of his 300-unit complex, his reason for staying isn't driven entirely by preservation. Schmidt is demanding an apology from Norstar for displacing the 222 families who have been forced to relocate, as they were told that the buildings had fallen into an unlivable condition. The local community has disagreed, and argues that the apartments are still structurally sound. Norstar has dismissed these claims, and reiterated that no one has been forced to move under false pretenses. "We are pleased that we can bring people very nice, new affordable housing in the downtown business corridor. We do have to relocate these people to rebuild housing, people will be able to come back, but they do have to qualify under that state's section 42 low-income housing regulations. But at this point, all of our residents are income qualified," Norstar representatives said in a statement. Many of Rudolph's buildings have met ignoble ends in recent years, despite outcry from preservationists and architects. Earlier last year, one-third of Rudolph's Orange County Government Center was partially demolished and replaced with a bright blue annex. Judging from the more modern buildings that have emerged from the first phase of the Shoreline's replacement, the same process is repeating itself in Buffalo.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Former Haystack Refurbishment / OOIIO Arquitectura Posted: 24 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo
 © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo Text description provided by the architects. When we started to build this project we had no idea how was it going to end up looking. This has been a project designed day after day on site, solving problems, creating an intense teamwork together with the client and the builders.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo Our initial goal was to avoid the collapse of a group of former modest agricultural constructions used in old times as a hayloft, tool rooms, barn for mules, dog pounds, water well, kitchen for the workers and a cave used as "fridge" to keep the food fresh when there was no electricity or home appliances. All of them had in common that they are cheap functional constructions used as farm work spaces with different pathologies, after more than 50 years of disuse and the passage of time and no maintenance.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo Our first works where purely structural reinforcements of roofs and falling adobe and brick walls. For it we followed the ancient techniques and respected the way those elements where built originally, understanding the way the builders worked those materials on their time.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo  Haystack / before-after  Section The new as a sum to the old, so that the combination of new and old creates a mestizo building, rich in nuances and singularities.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo Both worlds follow the same language, but they bring different things.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo • To communicate all the different originally divided spaces creating a large unitary space set. (Before you need to get out to the patio to enter in every space, not now anymore). We demolished all the non-structural partitions, getting a huge and spectacular open space.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo • To complete the facades closing up the envelope of the new large unitary space. On the former facades, in one side there was an existing brick wall made from beautiful ancient large bricks. It was collapsing doubt to the roof cover thrusts. We convinced the client to not demolish it and we decided to use brick as the only new added material for all the new build walls, each time with a different rig, playing with the existing recovered brick wall and providing a great richness in textures and finishes.  Elevation  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo • To build a new "spatial connector" that is unify with the only existing stairs going down to the cave. Although it is hard to imagine, despite there are 3 levels, one underground (cave), ground floor and first floor, there were no stairs up to the Haystack first floor! Workers used to go up climbing the wall, so we must add new stairs up linking all the vertical circulations in our new "spatial connector" which end up having a cylindrical shape, hugging a spiral staircase, reminding an agricultural tank made with bricks (as all the new added elements). A shape that seems to be there from before, although never existed until now.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo • To recover all the ancient architectonical elements as possible: like repair all the ancient wood doors, clean and polish the beautiful old clay tiles with hundreds of years, repair and reinforce the damaged structural beams and columns, strip the ancient walls showing the original materials and its placemen... It was a methodical work of archeology and architectural surgery reinterpreting the old and combining it with modern elements to get a new mestizo and special building.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo • Play with color and natural light to enhance this material games and combinations.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo After many years of disuse, painting again the walls with white lime paint suddenly was a blow of fresh air for the building. Also, to pop up our structural works for help the ancient damaged beams with new metallic columns and beams, we colored with the traditional local indigo blue the original structural elements and painted in black the new structural ones. This chromatic code combinations to show the way the structure is actually working suddenly became the definitive final touch of personality to all the interiors.  © OOIIO Arquitectura, josefotoinmo The result of all this architectonic surgery work has been a patchwork of nuances and details rethinking the old and mixing it with the new, turning the result into a mosaic of nuances and details. A refurbishment planned on site to recover these ancient buildings that now shine with a new life  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio, Mackey Mitchell Architects University of Arkansas students are abuzz about the latest addition their university: Stadium Drive Residence Halls. Currently, under construction, the new 202,027 square foot residence halls are the nation's first large-scale, mass timber higher ed residence hall project and living learning setting. The design collaborative behind the project is led by Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Mackey Mitchell Architects in St. Louis, and Philadelphia landscape and urban design firm, OLIN.  Courtesy of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio, Mackey Mitchell Architects The interwoven building and landscaped courtyards, terraces, and lawns; the beauty of timber structure and spaces; and the excitement of performing arts and workshop facilities will make this newest campus residential community a destination and a magnet, says Andrea P. Leers, FAIA, Principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates.  Courtesy of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio, Mackey Mitchell Architects Exposed wood ceilings and trusses remind one of a "cabin in the woods." Inside the "cabin", courtyards, a community kitchen, study rooms, lounges, and a rooftop terrace will be accessible to the 708 students who live there. From outside, transparent study rooms at the end of each wing will light up the building at night.  Courtesy of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio, Mackey Mitchell Architects  Courtesy of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio, Mackey Mitchell Architects Part of a south end campus expansion, the halls will also include performance spaces, recording studios, and maker spaces. The designs programmatic layout cultivates active learning and student collaboration for up-and-coming artists and designers.  Courtesy of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio, Mackey Mitchell Architects  Courtesy of Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Modus Studio, Mackey Mitchell Architects Students are expected to live and study at Stadium Drive Residence Halls Fall 2019. News via: Leers Weinzapfel Associates.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Experience Time in Color With Emmanuelle Moureaux Posted: 23 Jan 2018 10:00 PM PST  © Daisuke Shima Architect Emmanuelle Moureaux's latest art experience, "COLOR OF TIME," allows observers to experience the passage of time through color. Moureaux's installation is one of a series called, "Art and Design, dialogue with materials," for Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design's opening ceremonies. Throughout the series artists played with different materials, showing their varying potentials and characteristics. Moureaux chose paper; layering over 100,000 number cutouts into a 3D grid. From sunrise at 6:30 to 19:49, the numbers turn over 100 shades of color, ending in black. A color changing experience totaling 799 minutes.  © Daisuke Shima  © Daisuke Shima  © Daisuke Shima Through the exhibit is a pathway. Artwork, entitled "Miss Blanche" by Shiro Kuramata was placed in the middle of the aisle. The exhibit curator and deputy director for the museum integrated these two pieces of art to represent admiration among both artists. The tunnel allows one to be fully immersed in a gradation of moving color over time.  © Daisuke Shima  © Daisuke Shima  © Daisuke Shima
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| Village Center of Ecouflant / Studio d’Architecture Bruno Huet Posted: 23 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST .jpg?1516589884 "© Patrick Miara") © Patrick Miara
.jpg?1516589863 "© Patrick Miara") © Patrick Miara Text description provided by the architects. This project was initiated in order to the rehabilitate Ecouflant's village centre, taking into account the place's historical heritage. A dialogue was started between the contemporary project and a 15th-century building, the Lodge. The work was launched after King Kong Atelier had worked out a way to redevelop the town centre that would be respectful of the surrounding countryside and of the delightful architectural heritage. SABH made it a point a point in their vision. .jpg?1516589904 "© Patrick Miara") © Patrick Miara  Site Plan .jpg?1516590526 "© Philippe Ruault") © Philippe Ruault Thus, openings in the newly built sequence create the link with the remarkable old entities in the village centre: the church, the presbytery and the City hall. The different units of the project (residential, library and retail) thread their way to the river Sarthe like a dynamic ribbon and frame a large green area in its heart. With its built-up spaces and empty ones, the project allows the village to cluster around its Lodge, encasing the historical building in its new design. Then, it threads its way down to the river, through the meadows along its banks. In a reversible movement, the countryside seems to creep up to the heart of the village, an impression wrought by the timber on the walls of the buildings rising up to the roof, creating a sort of vernacular monolith. .jpg?1516590743 "© Philippe Ruault") © Philippe Ruault  East Facade .jpg?1516589414 "© Emilie Gravoueille") © Emilie Gravoueille On the 1st and 2nd floors, the residential blocks propose 41 energy efficient social housing units, overlooking either the gardens, the planted mall or the Sarthe. Prefabricated timber boards cover the concrete post/slab structure of the building isolated by a 140 mm layer of glass wool on the outside and 80 mm on the inside (an additional insulation has been laid on the outside). Façades are covered with oven-treated Douglas pine boards, with an open-work cladding, whilst window and door frames are made of larch. District heating, provided to the development, is fuelled by burning wood chips in winter and gas in summer. .jpg?1516589946 "© Patrick Miara") © Patrick Miara  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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