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- White Concrete Old House / I/O architects
- Qimen Black Tea House / SU Architects
- House H in Korien / Hisashi IKEDA Architects
- ZhangJiang IC Harbor Phase I / Atelier Archmixing + Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects
- Light Corridor House / FIGR Architecture & Design
- JIAKUN Architects Selected to Design First Foreign Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Beijing
- White Oak Music Hall / SCHAUM/SHIEH
- 9 Innovative Projects Tackling the Unexplored Realms of Sea and Space Win Jacques Rougerie Competition
- JAMDS Social Project / Tavares Duayer Arquitetura
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- House in the Lanes / MB Architecture
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| House with a View / Attila KIM Posted: 31 Jan 2018 07:00 PM PST  © Dacian GROZA
 © Dacian GROZA  Axonometric  © Dacian GROZA Text description provided by the architects. The house situated on a picturesque hill of Brasov, Romania, surrounded by mountains and with a unique panorama of the medieval city center, aims to bring a contemporary tribute to a lost early 20th century house, that once existed on this site. The house being visible from the city center, the goal was to define a discrete silhouette, that overlaps the natural background, and to use schematic finishings, such as slate, transforming the house in a model representing the quintessence of the memory of the old house.  © Dacian GROZA The reconstruction after a faulty renovation, causing the loss of the original house, was already started and the ground level partially finished, when the first meeting with the client took place. The main goals were to redesign the building, keeping the newly built parts, and to bring a contemporary tribute to the lost house.  © Kinga TOMOS  First floor plan  © Kinga TOMOS The shape of the original building, a typical house with a symmetrical main volume and a secondary extension, was the starting point. The previous imitative reconstruction used the same footprint as the original building, defining the position on site. The hereby project proposed a functional rearrangement and a new approach for the volume and its expression.  © Kinga TOMOS  © Kinga TOMOS The functional reconfiguration brought the living areas on the first floor, offering this level a 360 degrees panorama. The more private spaces were placed on the ground floor, with a strong connection to the garden, defining outdoor areas, protected by vegetation. Downstairs the walls of the previous project were kept and the space was reorganized. The main feature of the project is the undivided space of the first floor, completely free of structural elements, a concrete shell, comprising the walls and the roof, placed over the existing construction. The memory of the old house is present also in the interior: the owners were nostalgic of the original wooden beams, that are referenced over the kitchen, and serve as the floor of the open study above.  Section BB  Section CC The previously existing level structurally uses concrete frames, arches and brick walls. The new part, above, is entirely made out of reinforced concrete, unloading along the exterior contour of the existing structure. The two main facades use plaster as finishing, as a memory to the old house, however the color is dark grey, in order to offer a more discrete look, that blends in with the surroundings, letting the house to be discovered from the far, instead of dominating the landscape. The slate roof and walls connect, offering a secure management of the rain and ease the overall maintenance of the building.  © Dacian GROZA  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 31 Jan 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Rene de Wit
 © Rene de Wit Text description provided by the architects. eklund_terbeek designs a spacious apartment in a former school. Rotterdam based firm eklund_terbeek architects designed a spatial loft in a former school building from 1912. The building has been transformed into six apartments through Collective Private Commissioning. eklund_terbeek architects were responsible for the transformation of the whole building and designed one apartment in detail. The apartment consists of two former classrooms and the adjacent hallway zone. The wall between the two classrooms is removed to create a large loft-like living space. The ceiling height of five meters offered possibilities for creating new intermediate floors and more intimate areas. In addition to the characteristic mushroom-shaped windows between classroom and corridor, a few strategically placed new openings create sightlines and increase the sense of spatiality and light.  © Rene de Wit  Floor Plans  © Rene de Wit In the living space, a white box is suspended from the ceiling, creating a lower and more intimate sitting area underneath. Inside the box, the workspace is situated, which can be reached by a stair hidden behind the large bookshelves. The workspace has a private atmosphere, with views directed towards the garden, but is yet part of the living. A small opening provides an overview of the kitchen and dining area underneath. The kitchen, mainly consisting of a large concrete island, is placed in the high part at the opposite end of the living space. An oversized extractor hood, suspended from one of the loadbearing beams, mirrors the workspace box on the other side.  © Rene de Wit  © Rene de Wit In the adjacent hallway zone, a mezzanine floor is added to provide space for two bedrooms. The bedrooms have low ceilings and alcove beds. Both rooms have interior windows with a connection to the entrance hall or the living space. On the ground floor, a box containing a walk-in-closet and the stairs to the bedrooms divides the space in entrance hall and bathroom. The main part of the bathroom is designed as a circulation space, directly connected to the dining area, but can be closed off for privacy. The five original school toilets are given different functions and are integrated into the new bathroom. A mirror across the rear wall of the bathroom makes it possible to experience the original length of the school hallway, with its ten toilet doors.  Sections The interior of the apartment merges old and new, contemporary and traditional, refined and rough into a balanced whole. When possible the original details of the school are preserved. Walls and loadbearing beams are rendered white and the rough concrete ceiling is exposed to add contrast and texture and increase spatiality. A family of interior elements in dark walnut wood, such as the large bookshelves, the dining table and the kitchen closets, provide warmth and a sense of continuity. In the hallway zone, the original yellow glazed brickwork is preserved. In the monumental entrance a complementing walnut panel serves as a focal point and in the bathroom, a contrasting matte anthracite tile is added.  © Rene de Wit  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| White Concrete Old House / I/O architects Posted: 31 Jan 2018 04:00 PM PST  © Assen Emilov
 © Assen Emilov Text description provided by the architects. Prior to its reconstruction, this house from the 1020-ties was a romantic ruin surrounded by authentic and new-built fragments of ancient Augusta Traiana and rather isolated from the contemporary city, yet in its very center.  © Assen Emilov  Sections  © Assen Emilov The intervention continues the game of time o sets and brings the design to a contemporary interpretation of the avant-garde, at the time the house was built. A new volume of white concrete complements the structure and the program of the old house.  © Assen Emilov The composition of the openings, the ambiguous elements of the addition and the materiality blend the two distinct entities. The space of the new stair and its design bring light into the center of the entire composition. The new glossy white concrete slabs integrate and conceal all the contemporary technology of the house.  © Assen Emilov  Diagram  © Assen Emilov  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Qimen Black Tea House / SU Architects Posted: 31 Jan 2018 02:00 PM PST  Second floor. Image © Xuguo Tang
 East elevation. Image © Xuguo Tang The envelope of the site  Aerial view from southeast side. Image © Xuguo Tang "Nine Ancestral Halls in One Village" - There are hundreds families in Taoyuan village that all surnamed Chen, there are as many as nine ancestral temples which are rarely seen. These temples recorded how flourish and wealthy this village used was in history. During Ming and Qing Dynasties, the merchants from Huizhou were throughout the country, under the influence of strong township consciousness and the nostalgia complex, it was a tradition to construct the ancestral temples and other public buildings when they returned home with fortune . Nowadays, due to the protection of natural environment, the original layout pattern of the village and the Huizhou style architectural appearance are still remain intact. Among them, the nine temples scattered in different location of the village have become the historic preservation buildings that still intact.  Northeast perspective. Image © Xuguo Tang "QiMen Black Tea" - Due to the climatic conditions and business culture, there is always a tradition of making black tea in the area of Qimen, Anhui Province. The tea is exported to other places and the "Qimen black tea" has become a famous brand both in China and oversea. The historical local business "Cha Chang" that starting from the Taoyuan village in 1915, it used to participate in the Panama Pacific Expo in San Francisco, USA, and won the Gold Award for local tea farm business. Till today, the tradition of plant, product, taste and sale tea are still retains as the family business almost in every family here in Taoyuan village.  Entrance. Image © Xuguo Tang To conceive a design  Ancestral hall. Image © Xuguo Tang  Site Plan  West elevation. Image © Xuguo Tang What can we do in such a woodshed of only 60 square meters? Since the λ house is located in a public area, we envisioned two demands for her: On the one hand, as an origin of Keemun Black Tea, although there is black tea in every household, a special black tea experience museum has not been established in the village. Villagers usually sell tea directly in living room. Since there are no tea tasting, connoisseurship and appraisal, Taoyuan Village needs a space for tea ceremony show and tea tasting.  Exploded Axonometric On the other hand, nine ancestral temples in Taoyuan Village were only used during important festivals such as worships.Villagers can only chat in groups in front of the lane. Therefore, we hope that it is also a more relaxed and daily public place open to villagers. As a result, the function of λ house gradually became clearer: to build a daily and ceremonial teahouse in a two-layer, 60-square-meter farmhouse.  Second floor west side. Image © Xuguo Tang Arts and crafts .jpg?1516958932 "First floor south side. Image © Xuguo Tang") First floor south side. Image © Xuguo Tang Fortunately, the roof of the old house and the wall are independent load-bearing system, making it possible to replace the roof without changing the fixed wall. However, the structural stability of hollow bond brick wall itself is relatively poor, and the internal structure needs to be strengthened so as to maintain its stability.In order to protect the old wall from being affected during the construction, before removing the internal wood structure, the workers first use steel mesh and cement to coat the inner wall surface with multiple layers to form the internal reinforcing layer of the old wall, and at the same time, to play the role of protecting the old wall. After that, the roof and the wooden frame were carefully removed.  Second floor north side. Image © Yilong Zhao After the wooden frame was removed, we re-arranged the column net in the rectangular wall, using the most common Chinese fir as the beam-column structure. On the first floor, a traditional column-and-tie construction is continued to use to support the floor plate. While on the second floor, employing Skeuomorphism, the wood structure roof is made a smart cantilevered crown-shape to cover and protect the old wall.  Section Eventually, the ground floor serves as a space for tea tasting. The dim introverted atmosphere of the old house is retained. The focal point of space indoors lies in an only deep color walnut long tea table. The fir beams and columns, vertical and horizontal normal, creates some kind of ceremonial atmosphere. The new fir column is purposely constructed in front of the old window opening, showing such an unobvious relationship between old and new.  First floor south side. Image © Xuguo Tang Due to the rise of the roof, the second floor is left a gap. Therefore,the sense of confinement is completely changed. The gap between the new roof and the old wall allows for more interaction between the inside and the outside: the ancestral halls, idyllic and mountainous landscapes flow in different directions.With the roof as shelter, in the second floor public space, villagers can enjoy the familiar view of whole village from a new deck.  Willing to go upstairs. Image © Xuguo Tang The shape of the architecture is like an old house covered with a crown, accompanied the ancestral hall with a new look. To strengthen the old house with new technology and to vest the newly built house with old look in a traditional method.Through the practice of "renewing the old architecture with new technology，vest the newly built house with old look," we have gained a mixture of locality and modernity.  Ancestral hall view from the second floor. Image © Yilong Zhao Circumstances  Candlelight Dotted. Image © Xuguo Tang To see the sky in a covered space  To see the sky in a covered space. Image © Xuguo Tang Enjoy mountain view through the mountain shaped space  Enjoy mountain view through the mountain shaped space. Image © Xuguo Tang Meiren Kao (a chair wins its name for being sit by beauties and leaned along their back)  Willing to go upstairs. Image © Xuguo Tang Willing to go upstairs  To look up and exchange greetings. Image © Yilong Zhao To look up and exchange greetings  North elevation. Image © Xuguo Tang Postscript  Village. Image © Xuguo Tang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House H in Korien / Hisashi IKEDA Architects Posted: 31 Jan 2018 12:00 PM PST  © Kei Sugino
 © Kei Sugino Text description provided by the architects. House H in Korien is sited in the suburbs of Osaka, the second biggest city in Japan. This area was developed for housing about 100 years ago. Old houses are located behind large gardens, trees, and hedges. On the other hand, relatively new houses that were built in finely divided lands aren't able to have gardens and greens. As a result, the backs of houses reveal unintentionally and cars occupy small outside spaces.  © Kei Sugino This house is built in a small divided site like other new houses. We designed retaining wall/building foundation, fence/exterior wall seamlessly because we think it is important for houses, inhabitants and town to take part in streets. Floor planning is an irregular cross-shaped to face the streets, therefore the house has neighbouring and distant greens views between surrounding houses. It makes inhabitants feel this house more spacious than it really is.  © Kei Sugino  Floor Plans  © Kei Sugino  Sections We tried to make relationships among rooms and inhabitants freer. Standard planning of housing have one main room plus other rooms, in contrast, this house has two main rooms on the first and second floor to make resident's feelings and relationships be released. These main rooms make relationships among inside and outside spaces relative.  © Kei Sugino  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ZhangJiang IC Harbor Phase I / Atelier Archmixing + Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects Posted: 31 Jan 2018 11:00 AM PST  Primary courtyard. Image © Hao Chen
 Aerial. Image © Hao Chen Text description provided by the architects. The project ZhangJiang IC Harbor Phase I China Fortune Wisdom Mark is jointly designed by Atelier Archmixing and Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects. The site is east to Dangui road, west to Middle Ring road.  Faced to Dangui road. Image © Hao Chen The main planning strategy is to form a highly integrated semi-enclosed space structure with six seven-story R & D office buildings, based on the site shape and the surrounding environment, and create two courtyards of different sizes for two future user.  Semi-enclosed structure to form two green courtyard  Analysis of traffic nuclear location These two courtyards are connected with an elevated space of three-story-height, and expected to establish contact with the ZhangJiang IC Harbour Phase II in the north.  Rest verandah. Image © Hao Chen The main greenery facing the city park introduce nice view for each office. By opening to the streets, it turns into a place for rest, relaxation and communication.  Connect the two green courtyards with three-story-height elevated space. Image © Hao Chen Each floor of the building is flexibly equipped with outward-facing hallway sunshades on the façade, which cleverly integrate the equipment platform, the rest verandah and the evacuation staircase and form a vivid elevation.  Connect the two green courtyards with three-story-height elevated space. Image © Hao Chen Through the careful control of the overall environment, architectural form and shading facade an office building with high surplus-value has achieved.  Main entrance. Image © Hao Chen  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Light Corridor House / FIGR Architecture & Design Posted: 31 Jan 2018 09:00 AM PST  © Tom Blachford & Kate Balli
 © Tom Blachford & Kate Balli Text description provided by the architects. Light Corridor House is an extension which celebrates the journey through the old to the new. Upon arrival, the property presents itself as a familiar Victorian worker's cottage. The heritage façade has been restored to its former glory, and careful consideration has been given to retaining and celebrating the period features in the original part of the property. As visitors move down the typical Victorian gun barrel corridor, they arrive at a double-height spotted gum tunnel which is the beginning of the journey from old to new. This tunnel conceals the laundry and main bathroom, creating a seamless transition.  © Tom Blachford & Kate Balli  Floor Plan  © Tom Blachford & Kate Balli As visitors exit the darkness of the tunnel, the experience of moving into the new addition is dramatic in both texture and atmosphere. The highlight window is immediately apparent and is a key element of the light corridor house. An intimate living room, which is expressed through contrasting material change and a light portal, transitions into the kitchen. From here, there is a direct link to the outside verandah area which is surrounded by foliage, creating the sense of a private oasis in the busy urban setting of Cremorne.  © Tom Blachford & Kate Balli  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| JIAKUN Architects Selected to Design First Foreign Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Beijing Posted: 31 Jan 2018 08:15 AM PST  Render of the Serpentine Pavilion Beijing 2018, Design by Jiakun Architects. Image © JIAKUN Architects The Serpentine Galleries has announced the expansion of their popular summer pavilion program, collaborating with Beijing's WF Central to commission the inaugural Serpentine Pavilion Beijing. The first Serpentine Pavilion to be built outside of the Galleries' Kensington Gardens home in London, the Beijing Pavilion will be located just 600 meters away from the historic Forbidden City in the Dongcheng District, where it will host a program of cultural activities and events. The inaugural pavilion has been designed by emerging Chinese studio JIAKUN Architects, led by architect Liu Jiakun. Drawing both from the historical and social of Beijing and from the storied 17-year history of the Serpentine Pavilion commission, the design features an arched form that balances forces of tensions and compression.  Render of the Serpentine Pavilion Beijing 2018, Design by Jiakun Architects. Image © JIAKUN Architects  Render of the Serpentine Pavilion Beijing 2018, Design by Jiakun Architects. Image © JIAKUN Architects "JIAKUN Architects' Serpentine Pavilion Beijing takes inspiration from Confucianism with an architecture that is a physical representation of the traditional pursuit of Junzi," explains the Serpentine Pavilion in a press release. "The design is characterised by a the figure of the Archer, in the form of a curved cantilever beam that incorporates the forces of elasticity through cables stretched between steel plates. Although modern architecture in Beijing has developed a series of powerful techniques to fight the external forces of fierce winds and unpredictable earthquakes, the Pavilion's integral structures aims – like the Tai Chi Master – to conquer the harness of those forces with softness."  Render of the Serpentine Pavilion Beijing 2018, Design by Jiakun Architects. Image © JIAKUN Architects  Render of the Serpentine Pavilion Beijing 2018, Design by Jiakun Architects. Image © JIAKUN Architects JIAKUN Architects' design was chosen by an 8-person selection committee that included:
The inaugural Serpentine Pavilion Beijing will launch in May 2018 and will remain on display at WF Central for six months. News via Serpentine Galleries  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| White Oak Music Hall / SCHAUM/SHIEH Posted: 31 Jan 2018 07:00 AM PST  © Peter Molick
 © Peter Molick Text description provided by the architects. SCHAUM/SHIEH, Houston and New York based architects, have designed a dynamic cluster of music venues in Houston consisting of The White Oak Music Hall, The Lawn, and Raven Tower Pavilion. The project is a seven acre assemblage of new and adapted buildings, open-air structures, landscaped areas, and paved and decked surfaces along the Little White Oak Bayou. Pieced together from one large main site and a collection of smaller lots, the project is a unique example of urban infill, feathered into the fabric of the neighborhood on both sides of the bayou floodway and offering views of the Houston skyline. Owned and operated by a diverse and local group of live music fans and professionals, the venues offer a new state-of-the-art, transit oriented cultural hub for the Near Northside neighborhood and for the city.  © Peter Molick White Oak Music Hall (WOMH) is the anchor of the project. Completed in 2017, the building houses two performance halls: WOMH Downstairs and WOMH Upstairs. With a 1200person capacity, WOMH Downstairs is the main hall and the heart of the building, containing two levels lined with cedar slats that are spaced to acoustically tune the room and provide pockets for ambient lighting. WOMH Upstairs' 200person capacity provides a more intimate setting for up-and-coming acts. Windows behind the stage allow audience members to peek at the skyline while watching a show. Throughout the building, the material palette is matter-of-fact and elemental: steel bar, concrete bar, wood bar. The aesthetic is deliberately direct: the circulation is painted in immersive bright colors that pop in contrast to the dark performance and tech rooms and mark the different zones of the building. Like the industrial buildings that have traditionally housed rock and roll venues, the building is built for vigorous use; the materials selected and detailed to sturdily meet and wear with the rough handling expected.  © Peter Molick The White Oak Lawn is a 3,800 capacity amphitheater that was sculpted to frame the landscape around the bayou and the skyline. Prevailing winds keep concertgoers cool even on hot summer nights. Balconies and a roof deck add a vertical orientation to the venue, and support an intimate audience experience.  © Peter Molick Lastly, an existing metal warehouse and unique landmark steel tower were converted into the Raven Tower Pavilion, slated to reopen as a bar and small performance space in late February / early March 2018. Large arched openings were surgically sliced into the steel building to open it to natural ventilation and views. The existing 20ton steel crane became the proscenium to a small performance area. A decked patio along the bayou conceals a water detention pond, extending and integrating the performance space back into the laidback landscape.  First floor plan  © Peter Molick  Section Architect Troy Schaum elaborated on the new venues: "We designed the performance spaces to be tough in character and a little compressed in proportion. The rawness of the materials invites people to touch, to kick, and rub up against them. They are meant to used and to wear their use over time." The architects emphasized the nesting scales within the project, from the intimacy of WOMH Upstairs to the modest grandeur of WOMH Downstairs, the main hall, culminating in The Lawn as an outdoor, urban living room for the city.  © Peter Molick Of the amphitheater, architect Rosalyne Shieh said: "When The Lawn is teeming during an outdoor show, the gray form of the Main Venue emerges from the banks of the bayou, hulking behind the crowd like a geologic object, facing, across the distance, the skyline of downtown Houston."  © Peter Molick Beyond contributing to the cultural life of Houston in an exceptional way, this cluster of venues keys into the expanded light rail at Quitman Street as well as the latest extension of the Houston Bayou Hike and Bike trail network. In a city defined by automobiles, White Oak Music Hall builds upon and encourages the use of public transit and bicycles.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 31 Jan 2018 05:10 AM PST  Platinum City, Worlds First Post-Human City / Sean Thomas Allen; UK. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation Nine visionary projects focused on living within the relatively unexplored terrains of sea and space have been selected as winners of the 2017 Jacques Rougerie international architecture competition. Established in 2011, the competition aims to foster the creativity of young architects by challenging them to complete "innovative, audacious and promising projects" that imagine new methods of sustainable development within the realms of sea and space. Architectural submissions were awarded this year within three categories: Innovation and Architecture for the Sea, Innovation and Architecture for Space, and Architecture and Sea Level Rise. Within these categories, projects were selected in three disciplines: the overall Grand Prix, the "Focus" theme award, and the Coup de Coeur. Check out the winning projects below. Innovation and Architecture for the SeaGrand Prix Currents for Currents, Blue is the new green / Deo Alrashid T. Alam, Robert Andrew P. Galano, Pierre Michael Monjardin; Phillippines .jpg?1517424660 "Currents for Currents, Blue is the new green / Deo Alrashid T. Alam, Robert Andrew P. Galano, Pierre Michael Monjardin; Phillippines. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation") Currents for Currents, Blue is the new green / Deo Alrashid T. Alam, Robert Andrew P. Galano, Pierre Michael Monjardin; Phillippines. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation With "blue as the new green" as its design philosophy, Currents for Currents is a housing solution to both the vulnerability of coastal communities to harsh natural calamities, and the lack of reliable power infrastructure in these far-flung areas. With resilience as one of the primary concerns, the structures were designed with as much flexibility as possible to adapt to the sea's ever-changing conditions The heart of the project, however, lies in the way it has been designed to use their unique at-sea context to their operational advantage. The houses are powered by both tidal and solar energy harvested by technology incorporated within the units themselves, thus rendering the entire community to be completely off-the-grid and self-sufficient. Focus Award: "Ports of the Future" Ephemere Highrise Floating Power Station & Liquid Metal Battery Charging Station / Dimo Ivanov; Bulgaria .jpg?1517424669 "Ephemere Highrise Floating Power Station & Liquid Metal Battery Charging Station / Dimo Ivanov; Bulgaria. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation") Ephemere Highrise Floating Power Station & Liquid Metal Battery Charging Station / Dimo Ivanov; Bulgaria. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation Inspired by professor Donald Sadoway's notion of giant container sized liquid metal battery, Ephemere Highrise proposes the idea of a floating power station and liquid metal battery charging station. The team of professor Sadoway – Ambri aims to develop a giant battery that fits in a 40-foot shipping container for placement in the field. And this has a nameplate capacity of two megawatt-hours. That's enough energy to meet the daily electrical needs of 200 households. Coup de Coeur BIOLUM_REEF : an eco-friendly inhabited reef / Olivier Bocquet, Lisa Tanet, Laurence Casalot, François Desruelles, Christian Tamburini; France  BIOLUM_REEF : an eco-friendly inhabited reef / Olivier Bocquet, Lisa Tanet, Laurence Casalot, François Desruelles, Christian Tamburini; France. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation The Frioul archipelago is located in the Calanques National Park. It marks the geographical epicentre of Marseille, the global capital of the submarine life. The fragile ecosystem of this island chain is exposed to numerous risks – various wastes, eradication of Posidonia meadows, coastal erosion, pollution… BIOLUM_REEF F is a biomimetic response having a triple objective: 1/ promote the development of marine biodiversity via an artificial reef. 2/ create three semi-submerged and autonomous habitats within the reef. 3/ propose an "energy-free" and depolluting ecovirtuous cycle, in which wastes = resources. Innovation and Architecture for SpaceGrand Prix Platinum City, Worlds First Post-Human City / Sean Thomas Allen; UK  Platinum City, Worlds First Post-Human City / Sean Thomas Allen; UK. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation Born at the advent of the worlds first post-human industry of asteroid mining, sat proudly upon the surface of the Rosetta Asteroid located in the depths of a magnificent asteroid crater at the foot of the 1,700-meter high Putoran Mountains lies Platinum City! A pop up industrial city that embodies bio-mechanical characters within its urban fabric, Platinum City exists somewhere between a pristinely manicured garden and a well-oiled machine. Platinum city is an industrial platinum mining outpost in outer space on the surface of the Ore grade A Rosetta asteroid in high lunar orbit around our moon. The worlds first self-sufficient post-human space colony is a city fathomed as an organic computer, with its grandiose, drone crafted asteroid regolith architectures engorged on wet technologies grown over time and anchored to the platinum rich Rosetta Asteroid by a vast network of biomechanical tendril like roots. Focus Award: "Solar Power Satellites" Martian Chronicle : Informed strategy for the urbanisation of Mars / Dylan Collins; France  Martian Chronicle : Informed strategy for the urbanisation of Mars / Dylan Collins; France. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation My project aims to explore an informed strategy that uses Martian environmental constraints for the development of a flourishing scientific society. All the elements for the production of construction materials can be found in the planet's soil and air. The main challenge therefore is the production of energy. It is said that Mars is a frozen planet, with temperatures reaching down to 120°C. While this is true, it is a view that sees the glass as half empty. At the right place and the right time, Mars can be clement, with temperatures reaching up to 30°C. A nomadic strategy, consisting in following the cyclical course of the sun during the year, takes advantage of the seasons on Mars to maximize solar exposition and leading to an average annual temperature of 16,4°C and a solar energy efficiency of 557 W/m2. Coup de Coeur SOLAR SPORE, An algae photobioreactor in outer space / Pierre-Jacques Truyman, Alexandre Brassart, Sylve Truyman; France .jpg?1517424651 "SOLAR SPORE, An algae photobioreactor in outer space / Pierre-Jacques Truyman, Alexandre Brassart, Sylve Truyman; France. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation") SOLAR SPORE, An algae photobioreactor in outer space / Pierre-Jacques Truyman, Alexandre Brassart, Sylve Truyman; France. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation Inspired by the algae photobioreactors functioning in France, in the United States, or on the facade of the algae house in Hamburg, we've designed a solar power station that uses eukaryotic microalgae to produce electrical energy, oxygen and hydrogen. Launched from a rocket, this bio-morphologic architecture opens up in space like a flower while reaching its orbit. Architecture and Sea Level RiseGrand Prix Translated Utopia: a Tuvaluan Archipelago in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Elizabeth Yarina; USA .jpg?1517424645 "Translated Utopia: a Tuvaluan Archipelago in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Elizabeth Yarina; USA. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation") Translated Utopia: a Tuvaluan Archipelago in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Elizabeth Yarina; USA. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation This project proposes a utopian vision for a translated Tuvaluan archipelago in Auckland, New Zealand. Instead of replacing the atolls–whose futures, while threatened, remain uncertain–this alternative archipelago envisions an additional semi-autonomous network for Tuvaluan cultures and livelihoods to flourish. Focus Award: "The African Coastline" Tofinu: living 'on the path of the water' on the Beninese coast / Kemi Amede, Don Do; Benin, France, Australia .jpg?1517424631 "Tofinu: living 'on the path of the water' on the Beninese coast / Kemi Amede, Don Do; Benin, France, Australia. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation") Tofinu: living 'on the path of the water' on the Beninese coast / Kemi Amede, Don Do; Benin, France, Australia. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation South Benin is a tropical wetland area, with bands of swamps, lagoons and land parallel to the coastline. In the early 19th century, human settlement was organized around traditional fishing villages with stilted houses on the lake. People lived organically in harmony with nature, structured by family, social hierarchy and religion. Generally, the sea was seen as a wilder place, and one would not build permanently near the coast. The Tofinu project seeks to establish a starting grid or framework as a guide for the traditional forms and ways of living to re-establish, not as a rigid and permanent structure but as a starter culture that will weather and evolve over 100 years. Coup de Coeur Refuge-ground : Towards habitable offshore salt platforms / Lambert David, France .jpg?1517424637 "Refuge-ground : Towards habitable offshore salt platforms / Lambert David, France. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation") Refuge-ground : Towards habitable offshore salt platforms / Lambert David, France. Image Courtesy of Jacques Rougerie Foundation In a country flooded with salt water, Bangladeshis build a new ground by extracting salt from seawater, pervasive in most parts of the country. Able to reconfigure seawater desalination techniques (already used today in the middle east), they transform the brine (obtained through electrodialysis) into a construction material. The sodium chloride present in the water passes from a disordered liquid state to an ordered rigid material. Thereby, salt, once responsible for the biotic transformation of Bangladesh and the disappearance of good soil, is being used in the development of an artificial, hybrid nature of architectural elements and rocks salt. A new refuge ground takes shape above seawater, by agglomeration of crystalline salt. Learn more about this year's winning projects, here, and check out the full database of entries past and present, here. News via Jacques Rougerie Foundation  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| JAMDS Social Project / Tavares Duayer Arquitetura Posted: 31 Jan 2018 05:00 AM PST  © João Duayer & Nathalie Ventura
 © João Duayer & Nathalie Ventura Text description provided by the architects. The JAMDS Social Project welcomes more than 50 children and teenagers with different types of disabilities, making a difference through education and sports. This project was developed in a humble house, but with the donation of a new area in the neighborhood of Paciência, Rio de Janeiro, it was expanded and today it has become a reference center in the region.  © João Duayer & Nathalie Ventura  Floor Plan  © João Duayer & Nathalie Ventura Upon using containers, a fluid space with natural ventilation was developed. They were arranged so as to create a circulation axis between them, covered by a fiber-cement roof, which protects from rain and sun.  © João Duayer & Nathalie Ventura The program required dance hall and Jiu-Jitsu, computer room, classrooms, room for psychologists and director, as well as a shared kitchen and accessible bathroom. The container modules were adapted to the needs of each space. A geometric pattern with blue, orange and white, next to the wooden floor and the white cover, ensured the unity of the blocks.  © João Duayer & Nathalie Ventura  Plans  © João Duayer & Nathalie Ventura The area with quite extensive space provided room for a soccer field. Playground and vegetable garden were implanted in the external area. Grass was chosen throughout the area to mitigate the heat and allow greater soil permeability. It was a work of low environmental impact, low garbage generation and fast execution. Photovoltaic panels were installed, producing about 70% of electricity consumption.  © João Duayer & Nathalie Ventura  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 5 Promising Young Firms Selected as 2018 New Practices New York Award Winners Posted: 31 Jan 2018 04:15 AM PST  Testbed by Agency-Agency. Credit: Agency-Agency AIA New York and the Center for Architecture have announced five practices as winners of the 2018 New Practices New York awards, founded to identify and promote the city's emerging young architects. Established in 2006, the awards are given biennially to practices headquartered in New York and in operation for 10 or fewer years. Under this year's theme of Consequences, firms were asked to submit portfolios containing design ideas that promoted "the capacity of architectural practice to offer transformative value within the broader context of the city." "In these uncertain political, societal, economic, and cultural times, architecture can often feel secondary, relegated to the margins, or perhaps even the superfluous," explained the competition prompt. "Changing paradigms compound the already difficult terrain new practices in NYC must navigate. And yet, unstable circumstances offer an incredible opportunity to liberate architectural practice, challenge given assumptions, rethink established strategies, and develop new frameworks and ideas for the future." "For this year's New Practices New York competition, we are looking for firms that choose not to remain on the margins but rather actively and constructively engage their city, their society, and their context. We seek firms that offer new modes of thinking, create opportunities for thoughtful architecture, and take agency as designers in NYC. How are you shaping your practice to have consequence? How is your practice shaping and transforming the built environment and its future? How does your work resonate beyond the boundaries of the profession? How do you choose to define your role and in what context?" The 2018 winners include: Agency-Agency Testbed by Agency-Agency. Credit: Agency-Agency Founded by Tei Carpenter, the practice seeks out an expanded agency for architecture's role in society, engaging both buildings and the systems beyond buildings. The practice is currently involved with three types of design work: non-profit, client-based built projects; competition-winning speculative designs; and self-initiated sponsored research fueled by a sense of optimism and the possibility for public engagement. Methodologically, the practice combines research, teaching, and design to engage in discussions within the discipline and more broadly.  Pla-Kappa: A Cautionary Tale of Accumulation by Agency-Agency. Credit: Agency-Agency MABU + Matt Burgermaster Alterations to a Spy Base by MABU + Matt Burgermaster. Credit: MABU + Matt Burgermaster MABU's work focuses on the material, spatial, and environmental leftovers of others. Both by choice and by coincidence, much of the firm's work re-imagines buildings produced by a modernity that has exhausted itself. The things we discard don't just go away, nor are the trash heaps of history only filled with old junk. In this new era where everything has been altered by human activity, the MABU chooses to recognize old buildings as material and cultural resources.  Unbuilding Long Branch by MABU + Matt Burgermaster. Credit: MABU + Matt Burgermaster N H D M / Nayhun Hwang + David Eugin Moon Wolgok Youth Platform: Youth Co-Living Prototype by N H D M. Credit: N H D M NHDM is a collaborative practice for design in research in architecture and urbanism, founded in 2010 by Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon. The practice strongly believes in the agency of architecture to articulate and address complex social, political, cultural, and environmental issues. Contemporary cities and their extended geographies serve not only as subjects of investigation but as sources of critical inspiration and fertile testing grounds for experimentation and transformation.  Open Ground at Nam June Paik Art Center by N H D M. Credit: Nam June Paik Art Center Only If Irregular Development by Only If. Courtesy of Only If Only If is a design practice for architecture and urbanism founded in 2013 by Karolina Czeczek and Adam Frampton, AIA. Their work is based on an intimate engagement with construction processes, local policies and conditions, and cultural and community organizations. The firm translates urban techniques to an architectural scale to rethink qualities of duration and change. Only If believes that, rather than imposing additional complexity, the role of the designer is to envision simple gestures and forms to impose structure, coherence, and identity.  Fourth Regional Plan by Only If in collaboration with One Architecture. Credit: Only If in collaboration with One Architecture P.R.O. – Peterson Rich Office Telfair Studio by Peterson Rich Office. Courtesy of Peterson Rich Office Founded by Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich, P.R.O. advocates for an expanded role for design that crosses disciplinary boundaries. P.R.O. believes that design professionals are able to play the role of imaginative mediator, consensus builder, and trusted ally to multiple stakeholders simultaneously. This privileged role, one often overlooked by traditional firms, is not easily played by those outside of the practice.  Mental Health by Design by Peterson Rich Office. Courtesy of Peterson Rich Office News and project descriptions via AIANY
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| House in the Lanes / MB Architecture Posted: 31 Jan 2018 03:00 AM PST  © Matthew Carbone
 © Matthew Carbone Text description provided by the architects. The 'lanes' in Amagansett, New York, are a set of walkable streets perpendicular to Main street, dotted with a diverse range of houses and styles, that is walking distance to the ocean. One of our challenges was to create a home that would accommodate the owners wish for a maintenance-free house with longevity, inside and outside. This led to building shapes and materials that would be hardy, devoid of delicate detailing, and requiring no re-finishing over time. All exterior materials, from the charred cypress to raw concrete walls, to the zinc roof, are chosen for their ability to weather and patina naturally over time. Windows and doors are pushed tight up to the forward plane of the clapboards to keep a tight weather seal.  © Matthew Carbone In a departure from recent additions to the area, where houses extend from side to side, on a given parcel, often choking it, we opted to let the side facade, the narrow end, be the street-front. By doing so, we were able to let the longer side of the house face south and direct sun, while maintaining a suitable distance to the neighbors. The front yard is softened with a green buffer, a meadow, which over time will grow and create a natural green zone along the street while creating privacy for the homeowners. The first impression of the house is that of a raw, unfinished, concrete wall sitting in this meadow; its profile echoing the familiar shape of a barn. It hides the garage and scales the front face of the house down to meet that of older homes that were prevalent in the lanes.  © Matthew Carbone  Floor Plans  © Matthew Carbone Quickly, the concrete gives way to a slightly charred cypress (an organic anti-termite material), starting a play between these two materials that extends throughout the house — contrasting spaces of a recluse (wood) with foundational anchoring walls (concrete). The ground level is dedicated to living spaces and offers a bedroom for guests. In the living room, a raw steel box is inserted into a concrete wall providing accessible storage for our client's collection of rare and vintage vinyl records. The connection with the outdoors, size of windows and overhangs, is carefully managed to both addresses the clients' wish for a strong sense of interiority, as well as the filtering of natural light.  © Matthew Carbone The second floor holds the parent's bedroom, at the far end. It is separated from the children's bedrooms with a second-floor porch and roof 'cut-out'. The porch is entered through a south-facing sliding glass door that, together with the north-facing ribbon window, allow natural light to filter into the house and reflect down into the heart of the house via narrow slits, and openings, along with the staircase and its concrete stair-wall. A sunken courtyard on the south side of the house and a generous light-well on the north break the flatness of the site and allow light to be filtered into the lower level, transforming a basement into a well-lit family room with a private outdoor space.  © Matthew Carbone  Sections  © Matthew Carbone  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Architecture On Screen: Illustrated Plans From 6 Award-Winning Films of 2017 Posted: 31 Jan 2018 01:30 AM PST
Why does a film garner critical acclaim? Is it captivating performances from its actors? Stunning tableaus and cinematic moments? Or, could it be the intricate sets where tales of drama, laughter, love, and loss play out? Following her stunning watercolor prints of last year's Oscar nominees and the Netflix sensation Stranger Things, architect and illustrator Boryana Ilieva provides a glimpse into the elaborate sets of 6 stand-out films from 2017. With the Golden Globes broadcasted earlier this month and the Academy Awards only a few weeks away, the homes in these award-winning motion pictures deserve as many accolades as the Hollywood stars who inhabit them. 1. Get Out © Boryana Ilieva Jordan Peele's directorial debut was a box office smash that deftly blended horror with comedy and has since garnered multiple Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Original Screenplay. The traditional and deliberately elitist atmosphere of the Colonial Revival Armitage home—where a majority of the tension and horror mount—conceals hidden chambers below where secret brain transplants take place. The insidious architectural facade by production designer Rusty Smith remains a poignant metaphor for the structures of white supremacy. 2. Mother! © Boryana Ilieva In this hard-to-classify film by David Aronofsky, much of the drama occurring between the nameless couple (perhaps a metaphor for God and the Earth) happens in the childhood home of Javier Bardem's Him—so much so that it is an extension of Jennifer Lawrence's titular character mother. She exhaustively labours over renovating the dilapidated house, created by production designer Philip Messina, only for the structure to ultimately crumble. Without spoiling the ending, Aronofsky makes sure this house endures as much stress, torment and horror as the characters inside. 3. A Ghost Story © Boryana Ilieva Writer/director David Lowery's poetic mediation on mourning and the enormity of time plays out between the studs of a suburban bungalow. After a tragic car crash, the bed sheet-clad ghost of a nameless songwriter played by Casey Affleck returns to haunt the former home shared with his partner, portrayed by Rooney Mara. Seemingly tethered to the house as it gradually changes occupancy only to be demolished in the wake of a futuristic supercity, Affleck's specter reminds us that all places have their ghosts. 4. Call Me By Your Name © Boryana Ilieva  © Boryana Ilieva This adaptation of André Aciman's 2007 queer-coming-of-age tale stars Armie Hammer (Oliver) and Timothée Chalame (Elio), whose tale of star-crossed love entangles within a 17th Century villa in Lombardy, Italy. Heritage furnishings mingle with maps, engravings and worldly artifacts staged by set designer Visconti di Mondrone to capture the emotional depths of this Oscar nominee for Best Picture. From the golden drawing room to a shared bedroom with twin beds intimately pressed together, Ilieva vividly renders the lush world of the Villa Albergoni. 5. Personal Shopper © Boryana Ilieva In an estate on the outskirts of Paris, Kristen Stuart's Maureen attempts to contact the spirit of her recently deceased brother in this supernatural thriller from director Olivier Assayas. Riffing on the trope of the gothic mansion, the weathered and worn structure houses an other-worldly presence that may or may not be her brother and may or may not be benevolent. This ghostly interaction is only the first in a string of haunting psychological confrontations from a film that won a range of awards at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. 6. Blade Runner 2049 © Boryana Ilieva While architecture features heavily in this sequel to Ridley Scott's Postmodern classic—from locations like the Barbican in London and Secessionist structures in Hungary to the Wallace Corporation headquarters inspired by an unbuilt proposal by Barozzi Veiga—the sparse residence of replicant K (Ryan Gosling) is as articulate in staging a dystopic future. With brooding sets by designer Dennis Gassner interwoven with dreams of advanced technology, it's no surprise director Dennis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 has received Oscar nominations for Cinematography, Visual Effects, Production Design, and more. Visit Ilieva's Instagram account for more architecture on film.
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| Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre / Niall McLaughlin Architects Posted: 31 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST  © Nick Kane
 © Nick Kane Text description provided by the architects. The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre is a new building housing a large lecture theatre, a student learning space, seminar rooms and a dance studio. The project is not simply the provision of new facilities, but also the development and enhancement of the setting of this significant part of the College site. Whilst the relationship between the new buildings and the listed parkland is important, it is only one part of a complex arrangement.  © Nick Kane  Floor Plan  © Nick Kane The building has been designed as a theatre in a garden. It is raised on a podium. A curved stone auditorium opens directly onto an oak-ceilinged foyer that extends out to pergolas and terraces overlooking the cricket pitch. The theatre is framed by a high stone screen that rises to allow clerestory light into the space. It is surmounted by a pleated ceiling sweeping down to the stage. It can operate either as a fully enclosed, darkened environment or as a bright day lit space surrounded by gardens on all sides. The dance studio stands at the end of a long serpentine lake that connects it back to the ancient heart of the College.  © Nick Kane  Section 01  © Nick Kane  Section 02  © Nick Kane As you arrive through the gatehouse from Worcester Place, you are presented with a new open court that frames a view out over the lake to parkland. We use this square to connect MJP's superb Welcome Building to our new proposal and to link them both to the surroundings courts and gardens.  © Nick Kane  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Deepen Your Understanding of Construction and Materials With These Online Courses Posted: 31 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST  © ArchDaily | José Tomás Franco How much do you wish you knew about carpentry, solar energy or masonry? Leonardo Da Vinci said, "the noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." Those who are open to learning and expanding their horizons are more likely improve their approach to design. If you've always wanted to understand more about construction processes, structures or materials, this list of online courses is for you. We scoured MOOC platforms and databases to highlight a series of online courses related to construction and building materials. Many of the courses are permanently available and can be taken immediately; we've also provided information so that you may contact the universities or instructors to inquire about start dates, certificates, costs, course language and other relevant details. Materials Science: 10 Things Every Engineer Should KnowCreated by: University of California, Davis Solar EnergyCreated by: DelftX Mechanics of Deformable Structures: Part 1Created by: MITx Structural Materials: Selection and EconomicsCreated by: MITx Understanding SuperstructuresCreated by: University of Liverpool Structures 2Created by: Universidad de Michigan Introduction to MasonryCreated by: US AID Tiny House Design Part 2: ConstructionCreated by: Macy Miller Diploma in Carpentry StudiesCreated by: US AID Diploma in Electrical StudiesCreated by: US AID The Engineering of Structures Around UsCreated by: DarmouthX Reinforced Concrete I: Essentials and DerivationsCreated by: Hamid Sami El Darwich Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Part 1: Linear Elastic BehaviorCreated by: MITx Introduction to Sustainable ConstructionCreated by: Universidad de Cantabria Curves in Engineering and ArchitectureCreated by: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Cómo Autoconstruir tu Vivienda (How To Build Your Own House)Created by: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Go to ArchDaily en Español for a list of courses offered in Spanish only.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The World's First Freeform 3D-Printed House Enters Development Phase Posted: 30 Jan 2018 10:00 PM PST  Courtesy of WATG Urban WATG Urban's first prize design for The Freeform Home Design Challenge in 2016 is now moving one step closer to becoming a reality. Since winning the competition, WATG's Chicago office has been developing the winning design, dubbed Curve Appeal, alongside Branch Technology. Curve Appeal is now undergoing the "wall section testing, research and development phase" with an anticipated goal of breaking ground later this year. This revolutionary project could change the way we construct complex, freeform structures.  Courtesy of WATG Urban The design for Curve Appeal is derived from the Case Study Houses developed between 1945-1966. The Case Study House program strived to reinvent the modern house using easier and less expensive construction techniques. Many of the program's architects were celebrated for their innovation in minimalist materials and the integration of open-plan living spaces that maximized natural light. "Employing many of the same modernist design principles, Curve Appeal is the next evolutionary step" in modern residential design.  Courtesy of WATG Urban Branch Technology's innovation in the 3D-printing process opens the door for the creation of more complex design forms, making them much easier and less expensive to construct. "The arching form provides structural rigidity to the residence, using various spring points throughout the floor plan, allowing the structure to carry roof loads and provide large open-plan living spaces, shaping structures in new ways without any restrictions."  Courtesy of WATG Urban
Also enlisting the work of United States Gypsum, WATG and Branch Technology have been researching "a variety of gypsum material components (including gypsum spray foam and other innovative solutions provided by United States Gypsum's research and development department)" that could be applied to the printed structure to work as fire protection, structural reinforcement, and to create a substrate for the application of other wall finish materials. WATG and Branch Technology have also engaged Interface, a high-performance mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design firm, "to design a passive mechanical system with the aim of making the house net-zero-energy."  Courtesy of WATG Urban Steps away from the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, the site for Curve Appeal allows for the building to blend seamlessly into the wooded area while also being protected from solar heat gain. "WATG is currently producing detailed design drawings and working in collaboration with the City of Chattanooga to ensure the project is advancing according to the intended timeline." News via: WATG Urban.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST  © João Morgado
 © João Morgado Text description provided by the architects. The project was to demolish a single-family dwelling and build another one in its place in the center of V. N. de Famalicão. The proposal is on a triangular urban plot of land covering an area of 940.80 m2. The topography includes a 7.60 m slope down from west to east, so the elevations in the corner converge with those on the surrounding roads. The building on the site was of poor quality. Everything was demolished apart from the garage, below the elevation of the patio with level access from the road at the lower level. The surrounding walls also held back the earth, below the street level to the west and above street level to the east.  Axonometric The house has a 367.20 m2 footprint and a gross area of 408.90 m2 on two floors. Floor 0 is 99.30 m2 and it was rehabilitated and expanded, preserving the garage, entrance, vertical access and storage area. Floor 1, at the level of the interior of the plot, is 309.60 m2, and this is where the main structure of the house is – service area, social zone and reserved zone (bedrooms).  © João Morgado The land is highly exposed because of the different topographies between the adjoining streets. This is why the house sits 1 m from the western boundary, below the street and does not show any wall or elevation. It is closed to the north for urbanistic and thermal reasons. This is also why the house is open to the east where light enters the kitchen and the whole of the south-facing front is open under a curved shade cover.  © João Morgado  First Floor Plan  © João Morgado The illumination of the other rooms comes from small patios cut out of the volume.  © João Morgado  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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