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- RE / Camarim Arquitectos
- House in Viladecavalls / Albert Brito Arquitectura
- HE-Restaurant / GOA
- deDear_ Yeonnam / Cho and Partners
- Goertek Green Town - Time Books / Qingdao Greentown Architecture Design + Beijing H-Concept Architecture Design
- Curtain Cottage / Apparte Studio
- Nic's Planet / Mur Mur Lab
- Church House / DAHA
- Beautiful Graphics Illustrate JAGG's Competition-Winning Transformation Along France's Garonne River
- RE Apartment / Oficina Conceito Arquitetura
- SLA Reveals Park and Ski Slope That Will Cap BIG's Groundbreaking Waste-to-Energy Plant
- Vantaa Energy Headquarters / Parviainen Architects
- Hi-Tech Hub The 'Dutch Mountains' Planned to Become the World's Largest Wooden Building
- MH House / Agostina Perazolo
- LOT-EK: “The Shipping Container Is a Vehicle to Invent New Architecture”
- XinXian Inn Hotel / penda
- 3D Printed Hexagonal Pods Could House New York City's Homeless
- Look Inside a Collection of Shanghai-Based Architecture Offices, Photographed by Marc Goodwin
| Posted: 03 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST  © Nelson Garrido
 © Nelson Garrido Text description provided by the architects. This is our first intervention on a Português Suave building - the distinctive architectural style of the dictatorship. In this case, a house built in the 1940s that should be updated to accommodate a family of our time. The house was practically intact and, if it is true that its language reveals a political ideology and a set of aspirations that are now consensually condemned, it is nonetheless very well built, the fruit of an effective design and a skilful use of available resources.  © Nelson Garrido A time and emotional distance to the context in which the house emerged allowed us to look at it without a sense of retaliation or glorification, but rather as ready-to-use material, to the individual measure of desire and need. The spatial composition of the house and its language - a fabricated ethnography - are accepted as such. The new walls, windows, doors and fittings are recognizably new but do not establish a dialectical relationship with the original elements: rather a peaceful and silent coexistence.  Sketch 1  © Nelson Garrido  Sketch 2  © Nelson Garrido On the ground floor, a succession of small mono-functional spaces around the entrance hall - office, living room, dining room and kitchen - are united in a single multi-functional space crossed by natural light and views of the garden. In the upper floors, intimate spaces undergo minor changes to achieve the same spatial and material dignity of social spaces below. Among these spaces, the most substantial change took place in the attic, where the maid's room became the master bedroom, arranged around a large lantern that houses bath spaces. We had already explored the idea of a space as a sensing device to capture light and the passage of time in DG I, although here the light appears more autonomous and absolute.  © Nelson Garrido  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House in Viladecavalls / Albert Brito Arquitectura Posted: 03 Jan 2018 07:00 PM PST  © Flavio Coddou
 © Flavio Coddou Text description provided by the architects. Viladecavalls is located on a small raised hill in Vallès area that makes that it has a dominant position to the territory. Located in an urban area with a garden city configuration and a dispersed and very heterogeneous architecture, the plot is behind the village and facing the landscape without any obstacle in front that can cover the view towards the territory.  Elevation The project tries to incorporate the limit situation in which it is. On one side the village, isolated houses, urbanization. On the other side the landscape, the territory, the views towards Montserrat mountain. This duality builds the house geometry, its situation within the plot and the typology adopted.  © Flavio Coddou  Floor Plan  © Flavio Coddou The house dialogues with the traditional architecture and is inspired by the traditional Catalan houses on the other side of the valley. Like the architecture of the Masia, made by addition of elements, the house is formed by four perfect squared volumes, each different size which respond to the needs of the program that is requested and to the required structural and climatic needs. These volumes respond to this landscape-urbanization duality. Its position follows the guidelines that mark the geometry of the site, but at the same time opens it to the views. In this way concave and convex zones are generated around the house that enrich the interstitial spaces of the plot avoiding residual spaces.  Axonometric With this desire to be reflected in catalan popular architecture and to respond to the area typologies, each volume that form the house has a sloping roof that, diagonally to the structure and responding to the constructive logic, drains to the most optimal area away from the other volumes.  © Flavio Coddou Finally, the house is built with wood frame structure for two reasons. On the one hand, the low quality terrain required a house as light as possible and on the other hand this solution allowed us to act with criteria of sustainability and high energy efficiency in the facades, making this a very comfortable place to live, so in winter and in summer almost no active air conditioning systems are needed to reach high levels of comfort.  © Flavio Coddou  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2018 06:00 PM PST .jpg?1514544693 "Courtesy of GOA") Courtesy of GOA
.jpg?1514544645 "Courtesy of GOA") Courtesy of GOA Text description provided by the architects. Nanjing Greentown Tao Hua Yuan located at west foot of Tangshan Hill, which belongs to Jiangning District, Nanjing and is the most advanced residential area of the city. The site was originally the site of the KMT officer club in the 1920s, while now known for its superior ecology. HE Restaurant is located at southern part of this residential, right among the original metasequoia forest. .jpg?1514544389 "Courtesy of GOA") Courtesy of GOA Arrangement .jpg?1514544376 "Courtesy of GOA") Courtesy of GOA  Ground Floor Plan .jpg?1514544353 "Courtesy of GOA") Courtesy of GOA "Darning" .jpg?1514544365 "Courtesy of GOA") Courtesy of GOA
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| deDear_ Yeonnam / Cho and Partners Posted: 03 Jan 2018 04:00 PM PST  © Yousub Song
 © Yousub Song Text description provided by the architects. The married building owner couple who are fashion designers felt attracted to peculiar sensitivity that Yeonnam-dong has. They thought they could enjoy pleasurable lifestyle as there are restaurants where you can taste the dishes from around the world, and as cute small prop shops and workshops of designers are gathered around there. Above all, the fact that there is a park where they can enjoyably take a walk with their dog made them decide to have their new nest in "Yeonnam-dong" where they have never visited before.  © Yousub Song They were pleasant customers who visited us as they felt the charm of the city rather than focusing on the value of real estate or the school district issue. As we encountered this not so big or small land of just over 130m2, we tried not to discuss too much about architecture. We believed that it was our job to make the furniture and the paintings that the building owner had stand out and to faithfully materialize the space they wanted. It is not easy to build the required area and program satisfactorily in most of the construction work in the city. Nevertheless, when the desire takes over for an architect, sometimes houses with features of daily inconveniences that you need to endure are built.  © Yousub Song We have decided to build this house with careful care and sincere consideration of what would be the best we could do for this married couple who have given this opportunity to young architects although they could have gone to a more proven architect with more prominence.  Section 01 The elevation consists of an exposed concrete wall and carbonized ash wood. The shadows of the cherry trees standing face to face are as if they are painted with shadows on the canvas made of carbonized wood. On the other hand, in the indoor, a cherry tree looks like a picture through a large window through the living room.  © Yousub Song The architecture outside and the cherry three inside become scenery to each other. The couple, whose children have all moved out, wanted to have a studio style where the living room and the bedroom are in unity rather than making a separate bedroom. Because of this unique idea, we make a space that is one but is two by making a mezzanine where you can create a big patio in the living room to maximize the sense of space and place a bed. It's moving line through the powder room to the dress room and the bathroom is an interesting element, and the bathroom space where you can look at the sky through the small roof light window above the bathtub on a sunny day and take a lower body bath while listening to the sound of rain on a cloudy day is also attractive.  © Yousub Song To the couple who said they wanted to have a terrace where they can hold a simply party by inviting some friends, I have suggested that it would be great if that space has a terrace and kitchen together even if that means you have to move thing up and down. Although it is not a large space, I wanted to have a place with outdoor café like feeling where inside and outside are mixed together when you open a window. More than anything, first, I started out by consulted with them on contemplating where and how to place the fabulous furniture and painting that the couple had and proceeded with the project. In addition to the couch or table, we have consulted together even on speakers and pendants in advance and made decision in details and proceeded forward. The designer who was in charge of the project went out on-site every day even after the construction has started and checked all the elements one by one and made decisions. The collaboration work related to furniture production was also an impressive project. We designed the closet that fills a large mid-level wall over five meters and we needed to have many communications with the team that was building it.  © Yousub Song The keyword 'communication' that we always emphasize does not work when only one side screams hard. The owners and architects, architects and builders, and builders and builders, when all these ensembles 'communicate' with one goal, I believe that project can always create a space with authenticity. The young architects had done all they could and had given their best as they appreciated this opportunity that was given to them and the builders appreciated their passion and helped. Above all, the consideration of the owners who acknowledged and understood the various possibilities and values that architecture can provide has been the main driving force that lead this project to a good direction.  © Yousub Song I hope this small architecture that was created in collaboration with young architects can be a momentum in making the city the couple love even more attractive.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2018 02:00 PM PST  © Yunfeng Shi
 © Yunfeng Shi Text description provided by the architects. At Goertek Green Town - Peach Garden, in Weifang city, there is a library of the youths - Time Books. It will undertake part of the sales center function temporarily before formal delivery of the residential community. In the future, it will be a bookstore, ranging from reading area to coffee, light restaurant, flower store, children's play area and bar all in one.  © Yunfeng Shi Looking for a balance between personality and coordination, we use "A Box supported by Branches" as the design concept. The project is adjacent to city green belt. The pure square architectural form echoes the overall image of the residential area. And branch shape internal support structure works in concert with city green belt, and forms plentiful and continuous interior ceiling. The floor-to-ceiling glass emphasizes the beauty and openness of the architectural structure, also ensures the accessibility of the sunlight.  © Yunfeng Shi  Elevation  © Yunfeng Shi The facade is mainly composed of perforated aluminum plate and printed glass. The perforation and printing pattern echoes with the branch structure to ensure the unity of the elements.  © Yunfeng Shi We hope the young people staying here have a space to realize social, rest, learning, relaxation and purification expectations besides sleeping, working and consumption. And for those youths who work in this community, they deserve a really refreshing place, a place where they could even obtain extraordinary inspiration and create better achievements.  1F Plan  2F Plan So we stretched the circulation into the core space, and designed Rest Area and the Bar at the entrance, which could become a real bar in the evening. The key area of the whole space - the bookstore is a sinking space, allowing the readers to sit down and keep their eyes at the level of outdoor waterscape, resulting in "immersion" illusion.  © Yunfeng Shi Some of the spaces will be used as the function of the sales office in the early stage. We have also designed the concept of "Bookstore plus". Namely, in addition to the commercial apartments, the area also sell other commodities, which is the concept of "Pop-up shop".  © Yunfeng Shi Of course, we also dedicated a space to the children. The whole space is finished by natural and elegant wood veneer, with white walls and large area of glass. Using architectural structure columns to make the luminescent filmed inverted cone to look like floating lights. The solar color temperature of hidden lights add a gentle and warm feel to the space.  © Yunfeng Shi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Curtain Cottage / Apparte Studio Posted: 03 Jan 2018 12:00 PM PST  Courtyard by day. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook
 Dining. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook Text description provided by the architects. A cramped, dark and damp Victorian cottage is transformed into a light-filled, flowing and uplifting home, while referencing original features of the house. The project is unique in that the architect was also its builder and joiner, so this provided the opportunity to test out ambitious ideas and their consequence during construction. One of the special aspects about this project is the play of contrasts between the modest facade and what lies inside. Like a veil of camouflage, the front gives nothing away of its contents and remains perfectly anonymous.  Facade. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook Brief  Coutyard at Night. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook Plan  Floor Plan The kitchen was reconfigured to include a generous island for ease of circulation and encourage shared cooking. The dining area extends out from the island bench and provides a seamless transition to the courtyard.  Kitchen. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook Section  Living room. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook This connection can be felt when the light from LED' s running around the bedroom perimeter are switched on. Light There are no downlights in this project and the entire house is lit indirectly with energy efficient LED strip lights shining up at the ceiling and reflecting back a comfortable warm glow.  After / Section Where task lights were needed in the kitchen and bathroom, we made custom linear pendants which complement the linear theme of the house. In the bedroom we flipped this pendant upside down to create an uplight which provides a softly lit ceiling perfect for making the transition into night. In the bathroom there are a number of lighting options.  Living room. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook During the day natural light shines down the rear wall where a skylight was cut-out over the shower. After dark, aside from the custom pendant, the shower screen can be lit, which has been fitted with an LED strip along its top edge and provides just enough light to use the bathroom in the middle of the night.  Kitchen. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook White translucent multi cell polycarbonate has been fitted to the entire roof section covering the dining area, providing enough natural light to illuminate the back half of the house well after the neighbours have turned on their lights.  Coutyard. Image © Daniel Aulsebrook  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2018 11:00 AM PST  © Unitu, Yang Liu
 © Unitu, Yang Liu Text description provided by the architects. A Gentle Planet - NIC is a cool rapper with T-shirt and tattoo. However, there is a tender idealist inside. It will be difficult to be understood by the public at beginning. Nic say goodbye to the past with his new boutique shop. This is his own planet. The design is just like a fashion planet. The circular motif is interpreted as different presentations on the first and second floor.  © Unitu, Yang Liu The first floor consists of three elliptical spheres. The luminous ceiling provides the interior of the soft light, depicting the sharp outline of the geometry. The second floor is based on a series of arcs. The ups and downs of the plane delineate the layers of space. Up and down is a group of dualities. The black-white contrast with the colorful, the vertical contrast with the horizontal. Circle is a symbol with a metaphor beyond materiality. Because of the different materials, it does not show a distinctive feature here, but kind of poetic softness.  Floor Plans Walk through a long corridor, as if through the universe of time tunnel, from one planet to another. I think Nic and us are both innovators. Mur Mur Lab focus on the theory of architecture and establishing the relationship between designs and human beings. The geometric order is a powerful tool for us to cut into every complex current situation. The natural narration is the point that we study at present.  © Unitu, Yang Liu There are some special features about Nic's site. it is located in commerce at old residential buildings, which is in a state of disorder. To this end, we need to find a strong geometric order to reintegrate the scattered elements of the site. The circle is the motif we found, which is both extended and centripetal, complete but flexible enough.  © Unitu, Yang Liu  Concept Diagram. Image Courtesy of Mur Mur Lab  © Unitu, Yang Liu The circular combination is compatible with the tortuous boundaries of the site, and providing a strong subjective geometric order. The arc is developed for a series of deductions, stools, exhibition stands, walls, roofs and lamps in the vertical direction, giving the space a distinctive feature. The control of geometric order and the imagination of natural narration will gradually retreat to the background of the form in the future, to be the precipitation of the design philosophy of Mur Mur.  © Unitu, Yang Liu The facade is "simple" . It turns off all the wonderful inside, but it leaves a few round windows for you to explore. The appearance of the form is only a natural occurrence of the results, so there is no need to follow the style. Nic's new shop is like a signal. After the completion of the work, I recommended him to another boutique in Shanghai, where young people get together, and find themselves. Each design of Mur Mur Lab also issues our own invitation to the outside world. It is fun, as like a movement.  © Unitu, Yang Liu  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2018 09:00 AM PST  © Cathy Schusler
 © Cathy Schusler Text description provided by the architects. The 'Church House' is a 2 storey hillside residential extension and adaptation of the heritage listed 'Church of Transfiguration' in the Brisbane suburb of Norman Park. The family home incorporates elements of subtropical design and emphasises a connection to the natural and built context of the site.  Axonometric VIew The Church House extension is a sympathetic adaptation of an existing heritage church into a unique family home. The extension responds to the grand scale and form of the existing church through robust materiality and formal gestures, creating balance between the old and the new. Spatial arrangements of the house consider climatic site conditions to optimise passive heating and cooling strategies. Extensive shading elements provide protection from the predominant western outlook and water harvesting and photovoltaic solar power are featured throughout. Integrated landscaping promotes a strong connection to the natural environment which was important for the client's family and their active lifestyle.  © Cathy Schusler  Ground Floor Plan  © Cathy Schusler The project responds to the unique conditions of the site, including natural and built, positive and challenging. The large portion of elevated land in an inner city suburb afforded the site expansive city views and the luxury of space. The prominent Church of the Transfiguration, built in 1924 lies in a central position on the site along the religious East/West axis and needed to become part of the family home. The extension responds to the existing built context through scale and materiality and the two pavilions (church and house) are linked by a dark Zinc form.  © Cathy Schusler The spatial planning of the Church House engages with the active lifestyle of the client and their family through strong connections to outdoor recreation spaces. The use of voids and bridges encourages interaction and social connections between levels such as family living and upper level bedrooms. The layout of the extension generates social hubs as well as private retreats, creating a home which can grow with the family for years to come.  © Cathy Schusler  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Beautiful Graphics Illustrate JAGG's Competition-Winning Transformation Along France's Garonne River Posted: 03 Jan 2018 08:40 AM PST  Courtesy of JAGG French studio JAGG has been selected as the winners of The Great Mine competition, which sought ideas for the transformation of the Garonne River in Bègles, France, through the intervention of two waterfront sites.  Courtesy of JAGG The proposal aims to create a new "urban sequence" that will act as the entrance to the city and create a new grid of greenery to connect the neighborhood and its surroundings. The plan is organized around 7 key principles:
 Courtesy of JAGG  Courtesy of JAGG  Courtesy of JAGG The design stems from two existing sites. The existing Coliposte building has been reimagined as a hub for the French postal service, containing various workspaces and innovative user-friendly services, while on the other site, the footprint of an old paper mill is "rationalized thanks to an iron-eliminating treatment system and to an optimization of the raw material storage." Learn more about the project, here (French).  Courtesy of JAGG  Courtesy of JAGG  Courtesy of JAGG  Courtesy of JAGG  Courtesy of JAGG  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| RE Apartment / Oficina Conceito Arquitetura Posted: 03 Jan 2018 07:00 AM PST  © Marcelo Donadussi
 © Marcelo Donadussi Text description provided by the architects. It is in the heart of the neighborhood Bom Fim, nice neighborhood of Porto Alegre, which is located this apartment that was totally refurbished for a young couple of doctors. They had occupied the apartment for some time and decided to invest in the renovation to integrate the kitchen with the living room, modernize the spaces and organize the great amount of elements that was part of the daily life of the couple.  Floor Plan We repositioned the kitchen, reformed the bathrooms with low cost and used the office as a connector between intimate and social area. The use of color and some shelves that surround this volume as a form of support of paintings, objects and books make us soon have the perception that there is the heart of the project.  © Marcelo Donadussi The interest of the couple for music, literature, films and obviously for the beautiful dog the "Pacha" is stamped in the great art of Suyê, local artist that we invite to make the mural of the entrance wall. The result is a balance between colors and elements that changes the way we perceive the spaces of the apartment, making it more organized, practical and beautiful!  Diagram  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| SLA Reveals Park and Ski Slope That Will Cap BIG's Groundbreaking Waste-to-Energy Plant Posted: 03 Jan 2018 06:30 AM PST  Bird's Eye View. Image Courtesy of SLA The final designs for one of 2018's most awaited projects have been revealed, as SLA has released plans for the 170,000-square-foot (16,000-square-meter) park and ski slope that will cap the BIG-designed Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Park Diagram. Image Courtesy of SLA Initially master planned by BIG, the unique design seeks to reclaim a typically unused element of a building for the public through the introduction of nature-filled program. During summer months, the SLA-designed rooftop activity park will provide visitors with hiking trails, playgrounds, fitness structures, trail running, climbing walls, and of course, incredible views. In the winter, the park will be joined by a over 1,640 feet (500 meters) of ski slopes designed by BIG. Rising 289 feet (88 meters) into the air, the landscape design required special attention be paid to selecting series of trees and plants that could handle difficult living conditions and a steeply sloping terrain. In addition to security and safety needs, heat from the facility's large energy boilers also needed to be negotiated, as in certain points earth temperatures may reach as high as 140 degrees fahrenheit (60 degrees celsius).  Rendering. Image Courtesy of SLA  Seed Dispersal Tactics. Image Courtesy of SLA "The project to create an attractive and green activity rooftop park on top of Amager Bakke has been very challenging," commented SLA partner Rasmus Astrup. "Not only because of the extreme natural – and unnatural – conditions of the site and the rooftop itself, which put severe stress on plants, trees and landscape. But also because we've had to ensure that the rooftop's many activities are realized in an accessible, intuitive and inviting manner. The goal is to ensure that Amager Bakke will become an eventful recreational public space with a strong aesthetic and sensuous city nature that gives value for all Copenhageners - all year round." Plants for the park were selected through the creation of 1:1 experimental mockups that tested different species resiliency and ability to create an optimal microclimate and wind shelter for visitors. These tests will also help to influence the biome of natural areas throughout the city.  Plan. Image Courtesy of SLA "The rooftop's nature is designed to attract and shelter a wide selection of birds, bees, butterflies and insects, which in itself will mean a dramatic increase in the biodiversity of the area. And utilizing natural pollination and seed dispersal will mean that we can spread the rooftop nature to also benefit the adjacent industry area, parking lots and infrastructure. In this way, Amager Bakke will function as a generous 'green bomb' that will radically green-up the entire area", says Rasmus Astrup. Construction on the Amager Bakke Rooftop Park has now broken ground, and is expected to complete by September 2018.
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| Vantaa Energy Headquarters / Parviainen Architects Posted: 03 Jan 2018 05:00 AM PST  © Mika Huisman - Decopic
 © Mika Huisman - Decopic Text description provided by the architects. The building is located in a transformational environment where the surrounding area's industrial sites are being converted to residential use. Because Vantaa Energy's site faces streets on three sides, any buildings on the site are highly visible from many different directions. The designed entity consists of three parts: 1) a 3-storey renovated office block built in the 1980s, 2) a new 3-storey office structure, 3) a new glazed single-story joint section. The renovated section's basement contains mechanical equipment rooms as well as a civil defence shelter and a fitness gym and sauna suite.  © Mika Huisman - Decopic Placing the office masses parallel to the streets on the site's northern and eastern edges enables the Peltolantie side to maximise the architectonic effect of the spacious and impressive entrance plaza and its dominant feature, the main entrance's glazed triangle, as well as a large and magnificent Manchurian Ash tree, still in excellent condition, that had stood in the atrium courtyard of the demolished 1970s building. Particular attention has been paid to the site's parking area and the exceptional townscape image qualities of the pedestrian route's border areas on the south side of Peltolantie by using tree rows and cobblestone themes rhythmically.  © Mika Huisman - Decopic The functionally and visually cohesive combination of the renovated section and extension is a compact entity that intentionally blurs the distinction between old and new. Situated at the junction between the masses, a spacious and well-lit glass-roofed entrance and elevator foyer functions as a connective element. At the entrance foyer, various kinds of customer meetings can be held in conference rooms and in connection with the restaurant; short meetings are easily arranged in a furnished section of the foyer. The exposed steel structure supporting the sloped glass roof constitutes the lobby's most expressive theme.  © Mika Huisman - Decopic  Ground Floor Plan  © Mika Huisman - Decopic Besides the entrance foyer, the 1st floor contains customer service facilities, an 80-seat restaurant, as well as dressing and shower rooms for in-house staff and field personnel, who also have their own entrance and servicing door accessed through a fenced yard. The building's waste management facilities and kitchen servicing areas are located on the northern side of the new wing. Office facilities are located on the 2nd and 3rd floors. Office layouts are based on a multi-purpose concept and room programme generated from interviews with users. Although approximately 180 employees work in the building, 20% of the staff have designated workspaces. Architectural, interior and mechanical engineering design has paid particularly close attention to workplace amenability.  © Mika Huisman - Decopic The building's external appearance results from the creative interplay between three different materials – Corten steel, glass, metal panels – and their surface treatments. The dominant facade motif is formed by Corten steel panels, perforated at three different densities, surrounding the building at a distance of 30 cm from the outer skin; the ribbon-like bands also function as sunscreens. The irregular perforation pattern and Corten steel's pleasantly warm colour shade result in attractive and expressive facades. At the south facade, electricity-generating solar panels clad the stair tower.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hi-Tech Hub The 'Dutch Mountains' Planned to Become the World's Largest Wooden Building Posted: 03 Jan 2018 04:00 AM PST  © Studio Marco Vermeulen Plans have been revealed for the "largest wooden building in the world" to be located just outside Eindhoven in the town of Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Known as the Dutch Mountains, the complex was conceived via a multi-disciplinary partnership made up of tech companies, service providers, architects and developers, and would contain a hi-tech, mixed-use program for residents and visitors. Located within the De Run industrial park, the project is the brainchild of a team including BLOC, Studio Marco Vermeulen and Urban XChange; developing partners Asito, Beveco, Dell-EMC, Heyday, Spie and Strukton; and knowledge partners Arup and Off Road Innovations. The complex would be completely self-sufficient, containing closed systems for energy, water and materials. By using wood as the primary construction material, the building would also reduce its overall carbon footprint. The Dutch Mountains is envisioned as a 'total service system,' meaning that all of the necessary infrastructure for a variety of uses are provided as services within the project. Facilities for conferences, commercial spaces, public facilities and a hotel could all be located within the building, and would be powered by the building itself. The building also plans to continually evolve throughout its lifespan by the introduction of the latest technologies that increase building efficiency. For example, the facade has been designed to produce energy – if a more efficient system later becomes available, it will replace the old facade, which will in turn by recycled or processed. The complex will harvest data from its users to optimize how spaces are being used and to adapt to changing market conditions. Project proponents hope the Dutch Mountains will trigger a larger transformation of the De Run area, as outlined by a larger master plan developed by the Veldhoven municipality.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2018 03:00 AM PST  © Gonzalo Viramonte
 © Gonzalo Viramonte Text description provided by the architects. Located in a typical residential area on a tilted hillside overlooking the mountains, this project leveraged the property’s assets opening itself towards the rear view. From the street, the only visible volume is the social area, turning the ground floor into a perfectly private space. The living room, dining room, study,kitchen and outdoor social area were combined in a single space framed by a floor-to-ceiling door wall which opens completely revealing unobstructed mountain views. The master bedroom was also designed as a unique set of fluid spaces. There are no doors between the bedroom, bathroom and walk-in closet.  © Gonzalo Viramonte  Floor Plan  © Gonzalo Viramonte Certainly, they are all exposed to the mountain views and the pool, which mirrors the house’s length. Natural lighting is the star in this home and artificial lighting is just another material that aligns with every aspect of the project.  © Gonzalo Viramonte The simple choice of materials, together with a stone base, exposed concrete and pure volume, was another strategy to keep the design in tune with the site and the environment.  Axonometric View Consequently, this house is the creation of a livable space that promotes a simple, minimalist, flexible and diverse lifestyle.  © Gonzalo Viramonte  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| LOT-EK: “The Shipping Container Is a Vehicle to Invent New Architecture” Posted: 03 Jan 2018 01:30 AM PST  PUMA City, 2008. Image © Danny Bright Shipping containers, once a darling of architectural upcycling, have received a lot of criticism recently, as architects are beginning to recognize that their perceived advantages—ready-made habitable space and structure, and an opportunity to recycle a widely available material—are based in little more than hopeful PR spin. But for one of the most prominent practices which regularly uses shipping containers in their work, LOT-EK, the attraction of these architectural ready-mades always went beyond the ecological and practical rationalizations provided by others. In this interview at the firm's New York studio, part of Vladimir Belogolovsky's "City of Ideas" series, LOT-EK founders Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano discuss the conceptual foundations of their fascination with shipping container architecture.  Drivelines Studios, Maboneng, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2017. Image © Nati Trassierra Ada Tolla: ...Giuseppe and I, we have our own path. We like to do our own work; it is not about following what is preached at the moment. We don't care about what is trendy. We recognize the value of artistry and authorship, and personal voice, and our own agenda. And we've been pushing our work in that direction. We also teach and push our students the same way. We try to suspend them by saying—now you have all this knowledge, do something with it, discover your own voice. You are not just a student, you are an artist, you are a thinker. Show your voice. Once they are out of school I want them to be prepared to take another path, their own path, whatever it may be. For example, we never encourage them to use shipping containers; that's what we do. Giuseppe Lignano: Our practice is conceptual and therefore obsessive. And that's what we teach our students—to be conceptual and obsessive. Vladimir Belogolovsky: You both graduated from university in Napoli and came here on scholarship to study at Columbia University. What did you do after graduation? Did you work for anyone or were you on your own from the very beginning? AT: Yes, we were; somehow we knew our own way. We found a loft in the Meatpacking District, which in the early 90s was a terrible place to be in, and yet it was a fantastic place. We started our careers more as artists, while working at restaurants at night to make a living. We like the idea of having our thoughts uncontaminated. From the beginning, our work was all about responding to things we would find on the streets of New York. You come across a piece of furniture, a cardboard box, or foam packing, and you ask a question: What do you do with it? We like the idea of not starting something from scratch but rather transforming what already exists. Things that are not architecture have a strong presence in our intellectual environment. By looking and recording, we are learning and thinking. We like assembling and disassembling; we may be respectful to something or disrespectful. At first, we brought all kinds of junk into our studio and simply organized it by shape, material, color, etc. But our idea was not recycling; it was about doing something new—reinventing space, reimagining functions. Our early works included art installations for galleries and museums, and temporary structures for theater events, and so on. Especially then, our work did not fit general expectations of what architecture is. LOT-EK is a concept and we work to materialize this concept in any format—permanent-temporary, stationary-mobile, urban-object...  Van Alen Books, Flatiron District, New York, USA, 2011. Image © Danny Bright VB: Why did you name your firm LOT-EK? GL: From the very beginning, what we had in mind was the idea of reusing objects and systems. We wanted to express in our name the idea of tension between low-tech and high-tech, between two of us working together. And we changed the spelling of LO and TEK to LOT and EK. There is something of a computer language in it and the idea of a different way of looking at things. And we thought it was a good brand. This is something we really wanted to do—to create a brand. AT: Not just a brand but a new idea, new concept, new direction, new vision...  Carroll House, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2016. Image © Danny Bright VB: Your recently built house in Greenpoint, Brooklyn was a real shock to me. I made a special effort to find it and I was very happy to see it in person because it is an extremely rare example of truly experimental architecture in New York, which is very conservative when it comes to freestanding single-family houses. In fact, this house is one of not that many here that disregards a predictable colonial model and instead poses a question: What is a contemporary dwelling? What do you think about this breakthrough? GL: It is true; the people who may commission an experimental house typically live in apartments here, not in houses. So if they want a house, they commission a second home in the suburbs, not in the city.  Carroll House, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2016. Image © Danny Bright VB: A freestanding single-family house is the foundation of architecture. That's where architecture begins and New York is missing it entirely. There are practically no modernist houses in New York City; there are no Post-modernist houses either. House after house is modeled on pre-20th-century ideas. Someone could say that New York does not have freestanding single-family houses. But we have more houses than most other cities. We probably have at least one million houses. OK, let's say we have very particular clients here who are different from clients in Los Angeles, Sydney, or Mexico City. But what about the architects themselves? Why don't they build their own experimental houses here? AT: Well, it is a challenging place... On the other hand, it is very exciting working here and every time we get a project, we always try to see things differently from what we already know. How can we invent something that we haven't invented yet?  Irving Place Carriage House, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2014. Image © Danny Bright VB: Shipping containers are an element that you use again and again. Still, in relation to this house, what are the advantages of using containers, as opposed to typical walls and floors? AT: First of all, we never built a house with shipping containers before, so we had to! We have been playing with them and designing for a long time, always with the ambition to do real architecture with it, not just temporary pop-up structures with cute colors...  Carroll House, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2016. Image © Danny Bright VB: But what is the advantage of the container in designing a house? AT: There are materials and objects that we are interested in, and the shipping container is one of them. To us, it is an ongoing speculation. We always modify the container, but this project offered the opportunity to think in a slightly different mode—we started from the container stack, and cut it. The house did not begin with a single container, but with the modification of an assembly, a mass. By doing this, we immediately took advantage of the inherent ability of the container to come together, to form much larger volumes than its own self. We started from the generic stack you see near ports and highways. GL: The other interesting coincidence is that our lot, which is typical in New York, is 25 feet wide and 100 feet long. So we used three eight-foot-wide containers on the short front, with two 40-foot-long containers and one 20-foot-long container along the side.  Carroll House, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2016. Image © Danny Bright VB: And what was the main idea? GL: We wanted to manipulate a container stack and do something monolithic and sculptural to create private space on the inside and, at the same time, open up the space to interesting possibilities. So we stacked the containers and then cut them on the diagonal, both on top and bottom. The top cut opens up containers and, every time the diagonal meets the top of the container, we close it with glass. Now every floor has both inside and outside space. And the sides of the containers, along the 100 feet of the house, provide privacy for these outside spaces, which are very exposed on this corner lot. The use of the containers allowed us to get away from the existing typology and create a new one.  Morton Loft, West Village, New York, USA, 2000. Image © Paul Warchol VB: Why containers? How did you discover them in the first place? AT: The first objects we used for our architectural projects were truck containers, which are made of aluminum and are much lighter. What we liked was the fact that they were transportable (carried by truck), they contained space, and they were modular. One day we were going to New Jersey and by chance we entered a whole depot of shipping containers. It was incredible and transformative. Initially, what was interesting to us was the scale. It was like being in a city—there were avenues, streets, piazzas, buildings. Immediately we realized that the potential of this box was not simply itself, but what you can do by altering this simultaneously dumb and intelligent object that can be picked up, moved from ship to truck, and that can reach everywhere.  TV-Tank, New York, 1998. Image © Paul Warchol VB: It says on your site that LOT-EK scans the environment in search of manmade objects and systems. Could you explain the intentions of your work? AT: Our intention is to engage with the idea of two things—leftovers and overproduction, and we do it with a positive attitude. We love these big sturdy things made out of steel. What can we do with them? We find this idea super exciting. We don't see any limitations; we see them as open-ended and endlessly inspiring. That's our agenda from the very beginning. We are curious about cutting these things into pieces and slices. The most interesting aspect of using the containers is the fact that we are using objects and volumes, as opposed to posts and beams, or a poured material. It is this use of these objects and volumes that suggests certain possibilities that otherwise would not have presented themselves. We are interested in these discoveries as provocations.  APAP Open School, Anyang, Korea, 2010. Image © Kim Myoung-Sik VB: You mentioned that containers are not the only material you use. Do you see limits in your work? Would you do a project with no containers at all? AT: It would be hard for us to do architecture made of conventional materials. We use objects in our projects, but not just containers. We upcycled other manufactured objects and systems—including truck bodies, tanks, airplane fuselages, reclaimed steel doors, sinks, antennas, billboards, ducts, packaging, plumbing, and scaffolding—as structural and spatial interventions to design buildings and interiors. Our goal is to not only recycle an object, but to recycle the intelligence that went into the object's development. GL: First, we are architects and we wish our work would be seen independently of the fact that we use containers. We see it as our material but we want to be known not for the containers but for what can be done with them. For us the container is simply a vehicle to invent new architecture.  Qiyun Mountain Camp, Huangshan, China, 2015. Image © Noah Sheldon VB: Using containers and other objects is a way of bringing discipline to your work and having a set of constraints, right? AT: Absolutely. In a way, we are blind to the objects we use. Meaning, we try to find our own interpretations and new uses for everything that comes our way. It is the objects themselves that guide our curiosity. I feel we can do anything. GL: Even conventional materials we use very unconventionally. For example, we often expose things that are typically buried behind walls. We always try to find our own way of seeing and using things. Discipline is the key. Our work is more conceptual than compositional. For example, we always work with one object at a time. It's not only that we don't mix them up, but we typically use just one operation—diagonal cuts in case of the Carroll House or shifting at the Puma City. And we try to use just one color at a time.  PUMA City, 2008. Image © Danny Bright VB: We started this conversation by discussing your ways of teaching and encouraging your students to develop their own agendas and visions. How would you summarize your unique point of view? GL: The idea of creating new aesthetics is important to us. We try to create tension. On the one hand, we want our architecture to be low-tech, handmade, textured, brutal, organic, and romantic. On the other hand, we want it to be high-tech, geometric, graphic, obstruct, perfect, and otherworldly, like a dream. We want tension and balance between these extreme ideas. We design our projects by making and building things, not by drawing something from scratch.  Whitney Studio, New York, USA, 2011. Image © Danny Bright VB: What single words would you choose to describe your work? AT: Raw and conceptual. GL: Raw and precise, strong gesture. AT: Chance and intention, assembly. GL: Organic and super-rational. AT: Playful.  Sink Wall, Chelsea, New York, USA, 2000. Image © Danny Bright VLADIMIR BELOGOLOVSKY is the founder of the New York-based non-profit Curatorial Project. Trained as an architect at Cooper Union in New York, he has written five books, including Conversations with Architects in the Age of Celebrity (DOM, 2015), Harry Seidler: LIFEWORK (Rizzoli, 2014), and Soviet Modernism: 1955-1985 (TATLIN, 2010). Among his numerous exhibitions: Anthony Ames: Object-Type Landscapes at Casa Curutchet, La Plata, Argentina (2015); Colombia: Transformed (American Tour, 2013-15); Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture (world tour since 2012); and Chess Game for Russian Pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale (2008). Belogolovsky is the American correspondent for Berlin-based architectural journal SPEECH and he has lectured at universities and museums in more than 20 countries. Belogolovsky's column, City of Ideas, introduces ArchDaily's readers to his latest and ongoing conversations with the most innovative architects from around the world. These intimate discussions are a part of the curator's upcoming exhibition with the same title which premiered at the University of Sydney in June 2016. The City of Ideas exhibition will travel to venues around the world to explore ever-evolving content and design.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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.jpg?1513787005 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi Text description provided by the architects. The XinXian Inn Hotel is located in the centre of Beijing, the Dongcheng District around the corner of Galaxy Soho on the eastern 2nd Ring road. The low-budget Hotel is neighbouring the Xinxian Hutong, a large area with traditional Chinese courtyard houses, which entrances are now mostly blocked by newly constructed commercial buildings. Throughout Beijing, the rich culture and vivid life-style of the Hutong areas are mostly getting replaced by high-profitable and shallow real-estate blocks. With the XinXian Inn Hotel, we tried to incorporate the atmosphere and history of the Hutong areas into a hospitality design. .jpg?1513786942 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi .jpg?1513786963 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi The client was intrigued by this idea to focus on the traditional forms and materials of the surrounding neighbourhood for several reasons. As every young entrepreneur he was on a small budget for the hotel. And throughout his life he liked the Beijing Hutong areas and this was one reason he chose this location. "I remember, one day in late 2016 a young guy knocked our Office Door and came in with an idea to revive a former traditional guesthouse. He also had written down 4000 Chinese characters that emphasised on his vision and on the history and rich culture of the district. This impressed me deeply, so we got started right away." recalled Dayong Sun. .jpg?1513786829 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi .jpg?1513786787 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi The 1.000 sqm building was a former traditional guesthouse stretched over 2 floors, with small rooms and limited daylight. On the hotel's main facade we integrated a reversed view of a traditional Hutong House. The silhouette was cut into a massive brick-wall and executed as a large glass facade which brings daylight into the lounge and lobby area. The facade is a visible icon toward the storefront and mirrors the surrounding Hutong area with its dark bricks, natural wood and glass. The glass front is an open gesture to the outside and invites guests into the hotel. "Seeing guests chatting and relaxing, reflects in a way the traditional image Beijing, where the streets of a Hutong area was a public space and people would discuss, take a rest, dance or play cards in front of their houses. I also reminded me when I first came to Beijing before the Olympic Games. A lot has changed since then," says Chris Precht. .jpg?1513786984 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi The original space was composed of a hall on the first floor, not very large, mainly for reception, and guest rooms on the second floor. .jpg?1513786922 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi Due to the absence of elevator, the client wished to add a room on the first floor for guests who have problems walking stairs. Being close to Beijing Railway Station and key hospitals, the hotel was and would still be frequented by elder tourists and patients from afar looking for better treatment in the capital. .jpg?1513786911 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi Now, the first floor also features the public areas of the hotel, like the lobby and a lounge for visitors. All of the main functions are in a separate, wooden shelter. Walking into the hotel, the hallway seems like an alley wending through a neighbourhood of little houses. We placed a lot of plants along the way, so the atmosphere between inside and outside fades and the hotel creates a little Hutong by itself. .jpg?1513786777 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi On the second floor, the existing layout had a 50m long tedious corridor with rooms on left and right. We reduced the amount of rooms to 50 and offered public areas into the new layout to break the monotony on one hand and offer working and meeting spaces for the guests. The idea to create gathering spaces, public areas or a neighbourhood atmosphere is a topic throughout the hotel. .jpg?1513786808 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi .jpg?1513786860 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi For the hallway, we also chose dark bricks on the walls to intensify the atmosphere of walking in an alleyway through a Hutong. The wooden shelters are in a strong contrast to the haptic walls and should feel like little gazebos placed along the path. .jpg?1513786685 "© Xia Zhi") © Xia Zhi The hotel was designed on one main theme: "Retrieving Memories." Although Hutongs are an integral part of the "old" Beijing, we want them to serve as a cultural reminder in the city's presence. An architectural heritage and culture of a place is shaped over centuries and should be a constant valuable companion in a future developments of the city.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 3D Printed Hexagonal Pods Could House New York City's Homeless Posted: 03 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Framlab Across the world, homelessness in fast-paced metropolises such as New York City is at a record high since the Great Depression of the 1930s, more than 60,000 people are in shelters every night while many others must find a place to sleep on the streets, the subway or other public spaces. The real estate industry has caused the increasing rents and a high demand for any remaining plots; many of the new builds are luxury apartments, rather than the low-cost housing that is so desperately needed. As a result, thousands of people are forced onto the streets and charities struggle to provide adequate help for everyone.  Mural artwork by Viktor Miller-Gausa. Image Courtesy of Framlab Framlab's proposal for a 'homeless shelter with dignity' seeks to capitalize the vertical unused plots found on the blank sidewalls of buildings to provide available land within the city. Their 3D printed hexagonal modules will connect to a scaffolding framework up against the side of a building for a versatile space, reminiscent of the single-room occupancies from the 1950s. The honeycomb structures will allow a densely packed, active community to form in the most unlikely of places for those less fortunate.  Courtesy of Framlab Each pod will be built from steel and oxidized aluminum whilst the interiors will be 3D printed polycarbonate clad in wood. PMMA smart glass on the front face of the modules will offer great views out to the city and when they are clustered together it will form a screen for art installations or adverts. The compact rooms will have furniture, equipment, and cabinets integrated into the wood-clad interior for a soft and friendly atmosphere that is efficient and clean; wellness modules in the structure include sanitary provisions between the occupants.  Courtesy of Framlab For an ever-changing and evolving urban landscape, the modules will be easily transportable and can be assembled and dissembled in a few days. The proposal offers year-round housing to withstand the elements and provide a cool space in the summer with natural ventilation integrated into the frame of the windows.  Courtesy of Framlab  Courtesy of Framlab News via: Framlab.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Look Inside a Collection of Shanghai-Based Architecture Offices, Photographed by Marc Goodwin Posted: 02 Jan 2018 10:00 PM PST  SHL. Image © Marc Goodwin Through his series of architectural photographs, photographer, Marc Goodwin, is giving us an inside look into the architecture firms of the world's greatest cities. His work has brought us through a collection of Nordic architectural offices, firms both large and small in London, numerous studios within Beijing, a selection of practices in Seoul, and a compendium of offices through the French capital. Shanghai is the next to be added to his list with his most recent collection showcasing the rich architectural culture of China's largest city. anySCALE Architecture Deisng Consultants Co. Ltd.
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 SHL. Image © Marc Goodwin David Chipperfield Architects Shanghai Ltd.
 David Chipperfield. Image © Marc Goodwin  David Chipperfield. Image © Marc Goodwin  David Chipperfield. Image © Marc Goodwin Spark Design Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
 Spark. Image © Marc Goodwin  Spark. Image © Marc Goodwin Atelier Deshaus
 Atelier Deshaus. Image © Marc Goodwin  Atelier Deshaus. Image © Marc Goodwin  Atelier Deshaus. Image © Marc Goodwin MORE Architecture
 MORE. Image © Marc Goodwin  MORE. Image © Marc Goodwin Aim Architecture Design Consulting (Shanghai) Company Ltd.
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 logon. Image © Marc Goodwin  logon. Image © Marc Goodwin LUKSTUDIO
 LUKSTUDIO. Image © Marc Goodwin  LUKSTUDIO. Image © Marc Goodwin  LUKSTUDIO. Image © Marc Goodwin Archi-Union Architects
 Archi-Union. Image © Marc Goodwin  Neri&Hu. Image © Marc Goodwin  Archi-Union. Image © Marc Goodwin Linehouse
 Linehouse. Image © Marc Goodwin  Linehouse. Image © Marc Goodwin  Linehouse. Image © Marc Goodwin Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
 Neri&Hu. Image © Marc Goodwin  Neri&Hu. Image © Marc Goodwin PES-Architects Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
 PES. Image © Marc Goodwin Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners Shanghai Office
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