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Nirvana Home / AGi Architects

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 07:00 PM PST

© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG © Fernando Guerra – FG+SG
  • Design Project Leader: Daniel Muñoz
  • Onsite Project Leaders: Sara Barranco , Samer Mohammad
  • Project Team: Margaux Van Houtte , Abdul Hafiz Bahi El Din Mohamed , Javier Alonso , Nima Haghighatpour , Ana López , Marisa Ollero
  • Engineers: Arturo Macusi , Joseph Thomas
  • Lighting: Lara Elbaz , Rafael Gallego
  • Interior Design: AGi architects
  • Interior Consultant: María Fink
© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG © Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

Text description provided by the architects. There are no words to define the concept of Nirvana, a mental state with effects in the physical and spiritual planes. This makes it difficult to explain and only those who practice meditation can understand how far they are from reaching it.

© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG © Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

These thoughts led us to name this project Nirvana. Words like "house", "villa", or "palace" fail to represent the scale of the building, its materialisation, or its spatial order. We prefer the term "home". The features of a home are not physical, but rather emotional and affective, and Nirvana Home has been designed and built to satisfy the needs of the inhabitants in these terms.

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This home is also a reflection of the culture within which it is developed. In this sense, its point of contact with the location at ground level is a public floor dedicated to socialisation, for the gathering of family and friends. With this purpose in mind, the spaces were designed to look at one another, detached from the surroundings and interconnected through a series of courtyards.

© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG © Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

The series of geometric voids in grey polished marble contrasts with the exterior's white rough ceramic finish. The duality of textures is similar to that found in a marble quarry, where the polished geometric voids contrast with the natural mountain terrain.

© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG © Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

Inside Nirvana Home, little by little, step by step, the horizon and the sea begin to dominate and the building is marked by a formidable diagonal that displaces matter so as to reach maximum transparency, allowing rooms on different façades to look towards the sea. This strategy generates a string of empty spaces that become three-dimensional courtyards holding gardens at different heights and acting as shared spaces for parents and children. The last floor of Nirvana Home is where the private spaces are found, for the exclusive use of the parents who, from this privileged position, are able to preside over the indoor activities of the home without losing sight of the sea and the horizon.

© Fernando Guerra – FG+SG © Fernando Guerra – FG+SG

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MAR- MARLET 1 / Lagula arquitectes

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 06:00 PM PST

© Adrià Goula © Adrià Goula
  • Architects: Lagula arquitectes
  • Location: Barcelona, Catalunya, España
  • Architect In Charge: Antonio Alonso, Martín Ezquerro, Ignacio López Alonso, Marc Zaballa, Manel Morante
  • Area: 1389.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photographs: Adrià Goula
  • Rigger: Aleix Aguilar y Arnau Blancafort
  • Collaborators: Isa Lozano, Gemma Arco, Maria Rosario Herrero, Antonio García, Inés Alomar, Patrizia Etxebarria, Clara Tarrats, Mària Canel, Nando Cabanillas, Toni Cladera, Xavier Font, Albert García-Alzórriz, Aleix Ranera, Martí Bosch,
  • Installations Engineer: Oriol Ruiz (Ordeic)
© Adrià Goula © Adrià Goula

Text description provided by the architects. Marlet 1 is a new engraving, the last one written over its previous traces. It is a palimpsest that gathers the history of the plot. The plot is located in the central area of Ciutat Vella, the Old Quarter in Barcelona. It is circumscribed by the first walls of the Roman city and the successive realities that are still visible throughout the building.

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Marlet 1 is the archaeology that leads from the primitive Roman city to the Jewish Quarter in Barcelona. Next to the city’s Major Synagogue and originally erected as an infirmary to attend the poor and travellers, the building still maintains a 1314 commemorative plate in honour to the rabbi that founded it. On top of it, the medieval city deposits its own traces, up to the level reached by the present building, a restrained and solemn construction from the 19th century.

© Adrià Goula © Adrià Goula
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Marlet 1 is part of the history: it is archaeology, it is preservation, it is the care to preserve and make visible everything that once happened there. But at the same time, it is technology, innovation, sustainability and the freshness that will contain whatever happens tomorrow. It is a proposal to adjust today's lifestyle to a historical environment built in the past.

© Adrià Goula © Adrià Goula

Marlet 1 is a multi-family high-end housing project. It is a unique and incomparable case in the city of Barcelona. A renovation project that exhibits the original and categorical condition of the building. While it safeguards its spaciousness, its high and precious woodwork ceilings, its large windows filtering the Mediterranean light, its majestic balconies and its attic terraces to enjoy Barcelona’s mild climate; it also proposes a new dynamic way of inhabiting, where design, technology and refinement coexist with the good things from the old days.

© Adrià Goula © Adrià Goula
© Adrià Goula © Adrià Goula

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Home in High Latitude / hyperSity architects

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 04:00 PM PST

© Han Ma © Han Ma
  • Architects: hyperSity architects
  • Location: Haerbin, China
  • Lead Architects: Yang Shi, Shaojun Li
  • Design Team: Shiyao Li, Dijin Li, Yinuo Wang, Jiaqi Kang
  • Other Participants: Han Family, SMG Group
  • Area: 28.77 m2
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photographs: Han Ma
© Han Ma © Han Ma

Text description provided by the architects. The project is nominated to the nonprofit program "Dream of Decoration", which is located at 5th Liaoyang Street in Harbin, the heart of the entire city. As a small bungalow at the entrance of the courtyard, the renovated bungalow is located in a large Russian style compound, which is composed of national protected buildings of eclecticism.

© Han Ma © Han Ma

The bungalow was originally a room for security-guard with a floor area of 28.77 square meters only. For some historical reasons, it was changed to ordinary residence, with property rights, and being continuously expanded exteriorly for a family of three.

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The biggest challenge of the entire project is to resolve the current problem to satisfy the family's needs, while still maintains a dialogue with surrounding historic neighborhood. It is neither a simple way to replicate traditional Russian style eclectic architecture, nor to escape the environmental constraints, and it is to be sure to strike a balance between the two.

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© Han Ma © Han Ma
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The new building foundation is dug below 2 meters, so as to effectively avoid the damage caused by frost expansion on the frozen soil layer. The new house is designed as a very wrapped mass, an extra 15cm insulation is added to the foundation, the wall and the roof, which fundamentally solves the problem of stability and cold. In the face of construction in the high latitudes warmth retention property, the sun is one of the most important factors.

© Han Ma © Han Ma
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© Han Ma © Han Ma

Due to the fact that the orientation of the land plot not facing south and north, and is blocked by the surrounding high-rise buildings, it cannot get a good angle of sunlight. Therefore, the design of the new building cuts a triangular opening in the direction of the south, which can guarantee that the whole house has at least three hours of sunshine in the winter, thus to improve the residential comfort of the whole house.

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Southern gables adopted traditional Shou-Sugi-Ban, and northern gable wall adopted Nippon composited board with better thermal insulation and heat preservation. The main body of the building including roof and wall is continually covered by titanium zinc plate, which can effectively avoid the snow cover in roof and reduce the maintenance cost of the owner in the future. 

© Han Ma © Han Ma

By utilizing height on the south side, loft area is designed to enlarge the usage ratio of indoor space. South-facing triangular windows bring light and warmth to the entire living room. The triangular openings of different sizes of the south facade create a rich lighting environment for the interior, as well as a variety of outdoor scenes for the indoor space.

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The linear window in the eastern side opens from the roof to the facade, providing ample light for daily living. The entire wall of the building is designed as a concealed cabinet, which provides large storage areas, as well as functioning the indoor insulation for the building. 

© Han Ma © Han Ma

To satisfy the demands of outdoor activities, the courtyard is accordingly divided into a variety of planting space, from vegetable plot space, shrubs area to recreation space.  Courtyard landscape is the spatial continuation of architectural geometry.

© Han Ma © Han Ma

The new building eventually returns to the original height and planned area, which become the new constituent element in the compound. It is neither the ancillary of the Russian mansion nor the forsaken entity as the former bungalow. It has been re-erected in a new and determined position in the historic district.

© Han Ma © Han Ma

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Residence 414 / Charged Voids

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST

© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain
  • Architects: Charged Voids
  • Location: Panchkula, India
  • Architect In Charge: Aman Aggarwal
  • Area: 450.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photographs: Nakul Jain
  • Artwork: Studio Orah
  • Ms Fabricator: Lohar creations; Anil Dhiman
  • Structure Consultant: Pankaj Chopra
© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain

To freeze emotion into architecture
To practice restraint of opening
To gain the strength of enclosure
To satiate spirit in the space
To celebrate life in dance

© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain

BRIEF. To design a house for a single old lady & her tenants for ensuring security.

CONCEPT. The concept was devised as a free plan around a central courtyard. The levels & accesses were carefully divided between the lady and the tenants to allow for comfort & privacy.

© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain

PLANNING.The overall plan was organized around a central courtyard that interacted differently with the interior spaces on different levels. It is open & accessible on the ground floor while the first floor has a ribbon ventilator to ensure privacy of the ground floor.

© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain

The lower level housed the lady with a master bedroom in the front & guest room at the back. The public spaces like the living room, lobby, dining all flowed into one another along with an open kitchen. A separate spice kitchen along with all other amenities has been provided.

Ground Floor Plan Ground Floor Plan

Since the ground level houses the primary occupant, the volumetric expansion was ensured by having a double height living area. Although, the lady wanted to rent the upper floors but she was very keen to have the terrace to herself. This is organized by a separate elevator access that opens directly on to terrace from her entrance foyer.

© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain

The first floor has a 3-bedroom unit & public areas that flow on to private terraces. The second floor houses a one-bedroom unit with an open pantry. It also has 2 separate units for the domestic helps of the lower floors. They too have been given separate private terraces that are not visible in the façade to ensure the pristine maintenance. 

© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain

The parking & access for the lower floor is from the north eastern side of the site while a separate parking & an access to the upper levels is towards the south.

© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain

MATERIAL PALETTE. The overall material palette is limited to only white marble & sivakasi gold granite along with simple white painted surfaces. The flooring on the ground floor is white marble to ensure a luxurious feel while on the upper floors it is the same granite. The textures & finishes on the granite have been explored using a number of traditional techniques & craftsmen.

© Nakul Jain © Nakul Jain

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Layering Courtyard in Beijing / ARCHSTUDIO

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 12:00 PM PST

Multiple Function Room. Image © CreatAR Images Multiple Function Room. Image © CreatAR Images
  • Architects: ARCHSTUDIO
  • Location: Qianmen, Beijing, China
  • Design Team: Wenqiang Han, Tao Huang
  • Area: 530.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2018
  • Photographs: CreatAR Images, Jin Weiqi
  • Structure Consultant: Fuhua Zhang
  • Hydropower Design: Baowei Zheng
  • Lighting Consultant: Tianhua Dong
  • Furniture Consultant: Guochao Song
Looking Down. Image © CreatAR Images Looking Down. Image © CreatAR Images

"Layering Yard" is hidden in a traditional commercial block near the Qianmen of Beijing, with an area of about 500 square meters. The original architecture was a quadrangle courtyard commercial building with the characteristics of houses in the Republican period.Compared with residential houses, the houses here are bigger and higher. There is a row of arched doors and windows on the south along the street, and two-story houses on the north. Before the renovation, the housing structure was completely rebuilt; with the courtyard there were no doors, windows or walls, but exposed rough wooden structure beams.

Generation Process Generation Process

It is said that it was a brothel in the Republican period, then transformed into a bakery after the foundation of China, and later was left unused after the reconstruction. In the future, the building will be a complex for public activities and living. Therefore, while improving the quality of construction and infrastructure, this renovation focused on creating experience in particular scenes based on the Hutong environment, aiming to attract urban population who have increasingly diversified consumption demands.

Looking down. Image © CreatAR Images Looking down. Image © CreatAR Images

A prominent feature of traditional architecture is the layering courtyard. In a quadrangle courtyard with three layers, a house's function changes as people entering each yard, the privacy gradually increases from outside to inside, giving people an impression of "deep courtyard". 

Courtyard Relationship. Image © CreatAR Images Courtyard Relationship. Image © CreatAR Images

The design was inspired by "multiple layering courtyard" in traditional spaces, thus the previous inner courtyard was changed into a "three-layered courtyard" in order to adapt to the transition from the public spaces to private spaces step by step, besides, the designers took advantage of the yard's layering structure to create a quiet, natural and poetic scene in a noisy Hutong neighborhood. 

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"Layering Yard" has rearranged the relationship between new and old, inside and outside, artificial and natural. Firstly, the designers demolished some parts of the house roof in the south so that the first layer between the interior space and street yard was created, secondly, they added a slope-roof   building between houses on the north and south, and then separated the old and new with two parallel yards. 

Second Courtyard. Image © CreatAR Images Second Courtyard. Image © CreatAR Images

The three-layered courtyard allows all indoor spaces to be accompanied by bamboos and sunlight. The spaces are separate but penetrate with each other, the glass walls with spray patterns look like overlapping peaks, which further strengthen the translucent sense, thus achieving the layering juxtaposition of different scenes and living situations from outside to inside.

Front Courtyard. Image © CreatAR Images Front Courtyard. Image © CreatAR Images
Night View. Image © Jin Weiqi Night View. Image © Jin Weiqi

The house's usage patterns follows the naturally transition from openness to privacy of the three-layered courtyard. The south house is a place for public gathering activities, with an arrangement of reception space, dining room, bar, kitchen, office, warehouse and so on. The original wooden beam and column structure was preserved as much as possible, and two new wooden box service units were placed inside to divide spaces of different scales.

Front Courtyard. Image © CreatAR Images Front Courtyard. Image © CreatAR Images
Canteen. Image © CreatAR Images Canteen. Image © CreatAR Images

Through the first layering yard, the window openings of the original building and the painted doors form the effect of "shadow wall", together they outline a real and colorful Hutong life scenes under the setting of bamboo forest. The house in the middle was changed into a flexible multi-functional space, which can be used together with the front restaurant, or as an independent exhibition hall, or be integrated with the guest room area to become a rest area.

Front Courtyard. Image © CreatAR Images Front Courtyard. Image © CreatAR Images

The designers tried to consider the harmonious relationship between the new building and the two old slope-roof buildings on both sides in terms of the scale, lighting and distance. The inner spaces were built around a linear waterscape garden, and mainly used transparent, translucent, reflective materials and furniture to weaken the spaces' physical feeling and create a light, transparent and floating atmosphere that is different from the old building, making the spaces allusive and concealing in the bamboo courtyard. 

Multiple Function Hall. Image © CreatAR Images Multiple Function Hall. Image © CreatAR Images
Multiple Function Hall. Image © CreatAR Images Multiple Function Hall. Image © CreatAR Images

Houses on the north side are the most private places. The designers made use of the original structure to divide the first floor into four rooms. The rest area and bathroom area were separated from each other by the change of materials. Each guest room has an individual bamboo courtyard, and the inside and outside are stacked with one another. The second floor was divided into three rooms of different sizes. 

1F Guest Room. Image © CreatAR Images 1F Guest Room. Image © CreatAR Images
2F Guest Room. Image © CreatAR Images 2F Guest Room. Image © CreatAR Images

Through the floor glass curtain wall, people can enjoy the best views of layered gray tile roofs, green trees and blue sky. All rooms are equipped with facial recognition and intelligent control system. Guests can book a room online and scan a code to check in, providing an easier and more convenient living experience.

Nigh View. Image © Jin Weiqi Nigh View. Image © Jin Weiqi

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The Tetrisception / Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 11:00 AM PST

© Vibhor Yadav © Vibhor Yadav
  • Interior Designer: Vandana Arora
  • Architectural Design: Virender Singh
  • Architecture Intern: Manav Dang
  • Studio In Charge: Dharminder Kumar
  • Collaborators: Maple Bear Canadian Pre Nursery School
  • Contractor: Star Construction - Umesh Mehta
  • Site Contractor: Star Construction - Sanjay Kumar
  • Lighting: White Lighting Solutions - Siddharth Arora, Udit Duggal, Rahul Kansal
  • Structural Consultant: Devender Damle
  • Client: Nirmal Jain
© Vibhor Yadav © Vibhor Yadav

Text description provided by the architects. Renesa Architecture Design Interiors's design ideology to this pre-nursery school raises an argument to the new style of architecture (A Renaissance of Art) for the learning and growth of the little ones. The idea behind architecturally treating this dilapidated space was to create a reaction and response from a young one in order to make them learn from the exterior environment. Learning environments are ever growing and changing. There is a growing awareness among societies and culture for pre-schools to be diverse and provide learning environments through the built form. As learning spaces re-focus on team-based, interdisciplinary learning, they are moving away from standardized , one-size-fits-all approach to teaching. Instead, it is becoming a norm that students learn in a variety of ways, and the differences be supported. Students often learn better by doing it themselves, so teachers are there to facilitate, not just to instruct. Here, the built Tetris-ized environment becomes an enabler and a catalyst to nurture the young minds of pre-school students. 

© Vibhor Yadav © Vibhor Yadav

Montessori education is an interactive model of learning that emphasizes on independence , freedom within limits and respect for a child's natural , physical and social development. Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio has proposed a method to know children fully and respect their development, so that education accompanies the natural process of life. Thinking the space in this direction, suggests a prepared environment for the child in which there should be elements proportionate to their scale, that allow to direct the child to knowledge. The objects should not be many, but the just and necessary quantity for learning. The elements and their forms must be simple; The space, easy to keep clean, without elements that stand in the way of the environment; In such a way, several activities must be able to be carried out simultaneously.

An old dilapidated residential structure has been carefully transformed into a pre-school- where the colourful Tetris-ized facade ideology along with open learning environment enables children to interpret the flexible space and use it as they see fit. Questioning the idea of traditionally designed pre-nursery schools where learning is restricted to just four walls to hamper the holistic growth. Renesa Architecture Studio went through an intense design scheme scan on the required elements which would force a reaction out of a young kid , hence came up with a design mapping of all the games the kids would play in that age group. Finally reaching to a stage where the Tetris game could be clubbed with the architecture of the skinning of the area. The old dilapidated structure needed a layered outlook with the Tetris design elements adding the right color and volume to the architecture as well as the minds of the little ones. 

© Vibhor Yadav © Vibhor Yadav

Playing Tetris on the facade creates an everlasting impression on the minds of the parents as well as their kids and hence the learning for the kid starts as soon as one enters from outside and slowly taking that learning process inside the complex too. The existing building's structure was modified structurally in order to create more space and ventilation for the required classrooms and common areas. The walls were shifted in accordance to the allowable bandwidth of the existing building and was later joined into the external Tetris-ized layer wall in order to keep the structure strength intact. The strategic and consistent use of color establishes a stimulating and playful identity for the campus, acting as a visual connective tissue throughout the children's daily experience. A running gradient of colours on the Tetris-ized facade creates a value-addition to the already playful facade.

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© Vibhor Yadav © Vibhor Yadav
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The Architecture was simplified to engage and be free of clutter to ease the interaction between the built environment and the natural surroundings. Due to cost and major structural constraints the existing building frame and shell were left intact though exceptions were made to create additional links between interior and exterior spaces and to highlight the main concept of learning through built ideology. Within this predefined framework, playful architectural interventions occurred(Tetris architectural brick volumes) at the children's scale, creating reading nooks between classrooms, formal/impromptu seating areas and sculpted terrain. 

© Vibhor Yadav © Vibhor Yadav

In order to provide three decent sized classrooms with a big discovery room(hall) along with the playground and sandpit arena helped Renesa Architecture Design Interiors find the right structural changes in the existing building and provide the right social environment that supports constructivist educational philosophies and pedagogies. The world keeps changing. The ways of communicating, of learning, of moving evolve. Education is not far behind. It responds to this continuous movement of transformations. Architecture must accompany them; Create spaces conducive to education, spaces capable of transmitting emotions, generating belonging, and facilitating learning in its most natural and simple form.

© Vibhor Yadav © Vibhor Yadav

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New Pastoralism Lecture Hall / SYN architects

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 09:00 AM PST

© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan
  • Architects: SYN architects
  • Location: Yangshan Town, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
  • Architect In Charge: Yingxi Zou
  • Design Team: Jiansheng Liu, Yang Xie
  • Area: 1618.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2014
  • Photographs: BenMo Studio / Ming Yan
  • Cilent: New Pastoralism Investment Co., Ltd.
  • Construction: Huacheng Boyuan Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.
© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan

Indeed, bamboo is like a man of virtue. From deep and resolute roots, straight and honorable stems extend toward the sky. When a gentleman contemplates the nature of bamboo, only a feeling of integrity can come to mind.
——Planting Bamboos, by Bai Juyi.

Since ancient times, Chinese writers and poets have shown a deep appreciation for bamboo. By praising the beauty of exquisitely crafted gardens, these gentlemen created an extensive cultural history immersed in a unique richness of textures. New Pastoralism's Lecture Hall sits at Yangshan –a town close to the city of Wuxi– and uses bamboo as the main building element in its design.

© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan

Project Location
New Pastoralism's Complex at Yangshan, Wuxi, is the first pastoral complex in China. Located in Jiangsu –a province in Southern China–, Yangshan town is famous for growing delicious honey peaches in the suburbs of the renowned city of Wuxi, along the coast of the Taihu Lake. As the landmark of the complex, New Pastoralism's Lecture Hall stands at the heart of the park, perfectly integrated into the pastoral scenery, almost like growing naturally from within.

© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan

Composed by three distinctive areas, the venue's indoors, the outdoors recreation area and an extension towards a vast green landscape; the construction covers an area of 1,618 square meters. Given that the location was originally a bamboo forest; the architect Mr. Zou Yingxi respected the foundations of the area, to establish a dialogue between the Lecture Hall and the surrounding environment through the use of ecological materials, expressing and strengthening the meaning behind the "Site of the Pastoralism's Declaration", in the features of the building.

Concept diagram Concept diagram

The Structure
The building displays an irregular triangular shape. Observed from a distance, its body integrates the indoor and outdoor sections of the Lecture Hall into a grey structure that sits in the middle of the view to the park. At the same time, the contour of the area occupied by the structure equals the hypotenuse of its triangle. The upper and lower sections are connected with bamboo stems, as crossed elements that form a hyperbolical shape designed to penetrate the line of vision, forming a transparent space with a pulsating atmosphere. In this way, from every angle, the Lecture Hall presents unique and properly balanced modeling characteristics.

© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan

The Materials
"Lightness" is one of the distinctive features of the Lecture Hall – light materials, nimble structure. On the one hand, the building is made of a steel structure; the arched elements on the upper level make the roof even more transparent to "give way to" the sky. At the same time, the use of sunlight panels allows natural light to penetrate indoors, while the use of fish beam structures solves the span problem. On the other hand, the building uses bamboo as a protective system. Its vertical support arrangement shows a rich and beautiful sequence, equivalent to a rope structure that creates reverse tension, eventually achieving proper balance of contrary forces to offset the structure.

© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan

Materials Selection
The entire project is based on the concept of "integration", of interpreting landscapes, people and architecture, people and the environment, as well as materials and landscape. The large number of bamboo elements does not affect air circulation or air penetration, as the holes between the bamboo stems and their thin dimensions produce effects of "permeability" and "integration", making the pastoral scenery harmonize with the structure, giving the sensation of an open space. Undoubtedly, bamboo magnificently represents dialogue with the surrounding area, delivering a sense of security, without compromising the appreciation of the visual atmosphere, granting the Lecture Hall with a unique aura, almost as if it were growing from the soil itself, as a natural and unobtrusive living being.

First floor plan First floor plan

Sustainability / Environmentally Friendly
From yet another perspective, the fact that bamboo elements are present from beginning to end in the project denotes an ecological nature. The hollow nature of bamboo is cleverly used to hang beautiful bamboo lamps, while bamboo and wood are combined to form an extension of the bar; also, bamboo and strawboards are used to build the façade… The architect transforms bamboo, from a simple local material, into the very definition of an expressive language for sustainability in buildings.

© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan

In fact, the bamboo used in the project was treated with specialized processes including straitening by drying, lacquering, etc., to improve the quality and durability of the material, extensively reducing maintenance costs. Additionally, the floor of the Lecture Hall uses recycled floor tiles, showing respect for Nature through the appliance of recycled materials, as one of the principles of the architect is to be responsible for the future, "allowing architecture to interact with its surrounding environment over the course of time."

© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan

"The final interpretation of a building can only be achieved through the provision of definite content into its empty spaces. In this case, this implies the use of natural materials that portray real space on empty spaces, while every notion of reality serves emptiness at the same time." When the designer harmoniously unifies incompatible design philosophies with the ideology of pastoralism, the result is an amazing example of unification between urban and rural dimensions, generating a new concept of sustainable architecture.

© BenMo Studio / Ming Yan © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan

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Snøhetta Designs Energy-Positive Lakeside Hotel in the Arctic Circle

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 07:10 AM PST

© Snøhetta/Plompmozes © Snøhetta/Plompmozes

Snøhetta has unveiled its design for "Svart," a hotel for sustainable tourism company Arctic Adventure of Norway. Located within the Arctic Circle, on the edge of Norway's Holandsfjorden fjord at the base of the Svartisen glacier, the building is designed to the "Powerhouse" building standard, a system developed by Snøhetta and a group of collaborators for creating energy-positive sustainable buildings.

© Snøhetta/Plompmozes © Snøhetta/Plompmozes

Designed in a distinctive ring shape that allows visitors to feel in touch with the surroundings, the structure of the building was inspired by traditional Norwegian fishing structures: the "fiskehjell," an A-shaped wooden structure for drying fish, and the "rorbue," a type of seasonal house used by fishermen. These two references contributed to the building's supporting structure of poles that support the building above the water while making minimal contact with the ecosystem. These supports also enable a walkway around the ring of the hotel that visitors will be able to enjoy in the summer.

© Snøhetta/Plompmozes © Snøhetta/Plompmozes

"Building in such a precious environment comes with some clear obligations in terms of preserving the natural beauty and the fauna and flora of the site," said Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, founding partner of Snøhetta. It was important for us to design a sustainable building that will leave a minimal environmental footprint on this beautiful Northern nature. Building an energy positive and low-impact hotel is an essential factor to create a sustainable tourist destination respecting the unique features of the plot."

© Snøhetta/Plompmozes © Snøhetta/Plompmozes

The Powerhouse standard used for the design was developed by Snøhetta alongside Entra, Skanska, the ZERO Emission Resource Organization and Asplan Viak. The standard outlines a requirement for the building to not only be energy-positive, but to generate more renewable energy over a 60-year period than the total amount of energy that would be required to both sustain daily operations and to build, produce materials, and demolish the building.

© Snøhetta/Plompmozes © Snøhetta/Plompmozes

In order to achieve this level of sustainability on the design of Svart, Snøhetta conducted an extensive survey of the solar conditions at the site throughout the year, eventually settling on the ring shape in order to place rooms, restaurants, and terraces in locations that make the most of the available solar energy. Meanwhile solar panels on the roof while harvest energy, producing more energy than buildings slightly further south due to the 24-hour daylight conditions over the summer, and geothermal wells will harness the energy from the ground below for heating purposes.

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Drone Photographs of Bogotá's Grand Architecture Show the "Unedited" Side of the City

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 06:00 AM PST

La Biblioteca Virgilio Barco from a certain perspective inspired by the movie "Inception". Image © Camilo Monzón La Biblioteca Virgilio Barco from a certain perspective inspired by the movie "Inception". Image © Camilo Monzón

Colombian graphic designer and creative director Camilo Monzón's Instagram account is not your average catalog of Bogotá's iconic architecture. 

Camilo explains that his particular way of capturing the city arose while he tried out his drone. "I realized that the tiles from nearby buildings showed me an unedited side of Bogotá that should be revealed and shown to everyone," he said in a conversation with ArchDaily en Español. "I think of it as rediscovering the city."

Las Torres del Parque, designed by Rogelio Salmona. Image © Camilo Monzón Las Torres del Parque, designed by Rogelio Salmona. Image © Camilo Monzón

His images use Photoshop to merge Bogotá's notable buildings like the Planetario Distrital, Plaza de Toros de Santamaría and the Torres del Parque, with photographs of the roadways and roundabouts that dot the Colombian capital.  "The work of Rogelio Salmona is iconic and obviously beautiful, but there are other places where one can find a visual richness that is not necessarily linked to Salmona's work," says Monzón.

Light, shadow, and geometry that "breaks with what we are traditionally used to seeing in drone photography," are the key elements that Monzón takes into account when he photographs the city.

Planetario Distrital de Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón Planetario Distrital de Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón

When asked about the success of his photographs and montages, the author recognizes that he would like to have an exhibition or book featuring his work under the name "the other face of the capital." "Hopefully it will happen at some point," he adds.

Follow Camilo Monzón on Instagram to see more of his work.

Plaza de Toros de Santamaría. Image © Camilo Monzón Plaza de Toros de Santamaría. Image © Camilo Monzón

Glorieta próxima al Museo de los Niños. Image © Camilo Monzón Glorieta próxima al Museo de los Niños. Image © Camilo Monzón

La circunvalación de la Diagonal 117 de Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón La circunvalación de la Diagonal 117 de Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón

Intersección de la Calle 100 con la Carrera 15 en Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón Intersección de la Calle 100 con la Carrera 15 en Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón

Líneas cruzadas en la Diagonal 92 con NQS, Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón Líneas cruzadas en la Diagonal 92 con NQS, Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón

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Amar de Lima Restaurant / Barclay & Crousse

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 05:00 AM PST

© Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma © Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma
  • Architects: Barclay & Crousse
  • Location: Chachi Dibós 1201, Distrito de Chorrillos 15063, Peru
  • Author Architects: Sandra Barclay y Jean Pierre Crousse
  • Project Manager: Diego Torres Paez
  • Area: 633.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2015
  • Photographs: Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma
  • Structural Engineer: Jorge Indacochea
  • Client: Club de Regatas "Lima"
  • Constructor: EITAL
© Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma © Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma

Text description provided by the architects. The restaurant is located in the extension of the sports pier of the regatta club, founded in 1875. The project takes up the elements and materials with which the first nautical venue was built, which remained unchanged until the 1920s:

-Light cover as a horizontal plane.
-Lucernarios as a means of lighting indoor environments.
- Absence of enclosures in its perimeter towards the sea, creating a "large terrace" covered exterior.
-The preponderant use of wood painted white and natural wood characterizing the overall appearance of the building.

© Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma © Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma
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The project of the new restaurant takes these elements in contemporary key, without pretending to make a pastiche of the old premises, and setting a benchmark for the future, without renouncing the lessons of the past.

© Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma © Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma

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BIG and Carlo Ratti Associati Reveal Design for One of Singapore's Tallest Buildings

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 03:10 AM PST

© BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group & VMW © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group & VMW

Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati have broken ground on 88 Market Street, a new skyscraper at the heart of Singapore's business district. Transforming a site which was previously occupied by a parking structure from the 1980s, the 280-meter-tall building will include plentiful greenery both on its facades and internally. Inside, the building will include offices, 299 serviced residential units, and ancillary retail space.

© BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

The building's key design move is in the vertical fins rising the height of the tower, which are pulled open at certain locations to expose the tropical vegetation inside the building. At the ground floor, visitors to the building will be met with a public "rainforest plaza" and park, featuring a number of "activity pockets" which provide space for fitness sessions, art installations, or other community events. This park will flow into the "city room," a 19-meter-high entry space inside the tower which creates separate lobbies for the building's offices and residential units, and also leads to the "food center" for shoppers and diners.

© BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

"BIG's design seeks to continue Singapore's pioneering vertical urbanism with the 280m tall diverse community of places to work, live and play inside as well as outside," said Bjarke Ingels. "At multiple elevations, the facade peels open to reveal urban oases for its users and the surrounding city – animating the elegant smoothness of modern architecture with the ubiquitous tropical nature."

© BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

The residential units will be located in the lower 8 floors of the tower itself, while offices occupy the top 29 floors. Between the two are 4 floors of what the architects are calling the "Green Oasis"--a 30-meter high open landscaped area with interconnected levels forming a spiraling "botanical promenade," providing viewpoints of both the Green Oasis itself and the city beyond.

© BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

"In this building, green areas are made accessible to the public at different heights, allowing the city's exuberance to extend throughout the entire tower," explained Carlo Ratti. "Working in nature will be as essential to the experience of the building as the most advanced digital technologies, offering us a glimpse of tomorrow's offices."

© BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group & VMW © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group & VMW

"As someone with Singaporean heritage, I'm honored and humbled by the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing evolution of architecture in Singapore – the home of tropical modernism," added Brian Yang, a partner in charge of the project at BIG. "BIG's design looks to further this local typology by distinctly yet seamlessly blending the contemporary high-rise with abundant greenery in-between the offices, residences, amenities and recreation spaces."

© BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
  • Architects: BIG, Carlo Ratti Associati
  • Location: 88 Market St, Singapore
  • Big Partners In Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Brian Yang
  • Big Project Manager: Günther Weber
  • Big Design Lead: Song He
  • Big Design Team: Aime Desert, Aleksander Wadas, Aleksandra Domian, Alessandro Zanini, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Andrew Lo, Anke Kristina Schramm, Antonio Sollo, Augusto Lavieri Zamperlini, Bartosz Kobylakiewicz, Dalma Ujvari, David Schwarzman, David Vega y Rojo, Dimitrie Grigorescu, Dina Brændstrup, Dominika Trybe, Elise Cauchard, Eriko Maekawa, Espen Vik, Ewa Szajda, Filippo Lorenzi, Francisco Castellanos, Frederik Skou Jensen, Gabrielé Ubareviciute, Gorka Calzada Medina, Helen Chen, Hongduo Zhou, Jakub Wlodarczyk, Jonas Käckenmester, Julieta Muzzillo, Kirsty Badenoch, Luca Pileri, Luis Torsten Wagenführer, Lukas Kerner, Malgorzata Mutkowska, Maria Teresa Fernandez Rojo, Matilde Tavanti, Moa Carlsson, Niu Jing, Orges Guga, Patrycja Lyszczyk, Pedro Savio jobim Pinheiro, Philip Rufus Knauf, Praewa Samachai, Rahul Girish, Ramon Julio Muros Cortes, Rebecca Carrai, Roberto Fabbri, Ryohei Koike, Samuel Rubio Sanchez, Shuhei Kamiya, Sorcha Burke, Steen Kortbæk Svendsen, Szymon Kolecki, Talia Fatte, Teodor Fratila Cristian, Tore Banke, Ulla Hornsyld, Viktoria Millentrup, Vilius Linge, Vinish Sethi, Xin Su, Xinying Zhang, Zhen Tong
  • Cra Design Team: Carlo Ratti, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Saverio Panata (Project lead), Monika Love, Antonio Atripaldi, Andrea Giordano, Chiara de Grandi, Damiano Gui, Mariachiara Mondini, Andrea Pedrina, Andrea Riva
  • 3 D Visualization: Alberto Bottero, Gary di Silvio, Gianluca Zimbardi
  • Consultants: dotdotdot - Alessandro Masserdotti, Fabrizio Pignoloni, Gabriele Gambotto
  • Other Collaborators: RSP Architects, Dragages Singapore, BIG Ideas, BIG Landscape
  • Client: CapitaLand
  • Area: 93000.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2021

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ABAL House-Studio / Benítez González Arquitectos

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 03:00 AM PST

© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González
© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González

Text description provided by the architects. ABAL House-Studio aims to establish a relationship between home and work, where all spaces are useful, complement each other, form a whole, and at the same time have their own identity.

© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González

In a residential environment close to the historic center of the municipality, the project reverses the idea of housing as a forceful central mass and offers instead a central void, where the house looks inside, it is understood from the patio, something so important in the Andalusian architecture and that with so much excellence is shown in the Alhambra, its palaces surrounding each patio, the nature integrated in harmony, the water that crosses and crosses the spaces, the way to gradually enter from the public to the private, the nuance of light and shadow.

Floor Plan Floor Plan

These basic principles for any building, together with the good orientation of each room, the cross ventilation, vegetation that offers shade in summer and sun in winter, increased by contemporary construction systems such as geothermal energy and external insulation. of facade, which is applied here even on deck, are what give this result.

© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González

The architecture of the environment is not relevant, they are isolated detached houses of 2 floors + attic that exhaust their buildability as if there were no tomorrow, houses where whole plants are in disuse; It would be good to apply there issues such as sustainability, energy efficiency and respect for the solea-ment of neighboring homes.

© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González

ABAL House-Studio has an area of 130m2 on a plot of 450m2, it has been tried to adjust the measurements of each space for the people who will use it, taking into account that excess built m2 is an economic and Innesario resources, and so take advantage of the limited budget for constructive improvements in insulation and air conditioning.

© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González
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© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González

The site until 50 years ago was an old era where cereal was threshed and that maintains its topography practically unaltered thanks to the fact that it has a large part of rocky surface, which is shown and disappears creating suggestive reliefs. The project integrates both the patio and perimeter areas that stone surface of the land.

© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González

The house adapts to the land and with very little movement of land, comfortable and functional vertical relationships are achieved. The construction is carried out by means of a "skin" of continuous insulation, both on the roof, façade and floor. For this purpose, the "SATE" system is projected, which provides exterior insulation of 15 cm, which is placed on 20 cm thick reinforced concrete slab walls. This system, used both in facade and roof, according to the manufacturer's data, is the first time it is done, providing an innovative solution. In addition, the air conditioning is made by geothermal energy, obtained through a well of 100m deep that make the project an energy reference for the municipality.

© Sonia Benítez González © Sonia Benítez González

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75 Valentines for Architects and (Architecture) Lovers

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 02:05 AM PST

Spread the love! These 75 architecture valentines—handmade by ArchDaily readers from around the world—were chosen out of nearly 400 submissions. 

The message that we wrote last year is so important that we'll say it again: ArchDaily's mission is to improve the quality of life of the world's inhabitants by publishing content for architects, designers, and decision-makers. We also realize how important tolerance, acceptance, and love are to the process of building a better world. So, from us to you, and from your fellow readers to the world, may you feel a wealth of love on this Valentine's Day. <3

Featured gif by Amy Trick.

© Zoe Brooks © Zoe Brooks
© Lu Cone, Gensler Austin © Lu Cone, Gensler Austin
© Gerardo Gandy, Gensler Austin © Gerardo Gandy, Gensler Austin

Gif by Chara Mantopoulou

© Brittany Newman © Brittany Newman
© Hasna Rozana Rohani © Hasna Rozana Rohani

Gif by Sathish Kumar

© Lauren Carter © Lauren Carter
© Shradha Rane © Shradha Rane
© Pauline Moskal © Pauline Moskal
© Juan Alberto Arjona Belmonte © Juan Alberto Arjona Belmonte

Gif by Hjalmar Bolinder

© shahab shoar © shahab shoar

Gif by Vahid Kolyaee

© Pauline Moskal © Pauline Moskal
© Shradha Rane © Shradha Rane
© Chanel Dehond © Chanel Dehond
© Chanel Dehond © Chanel Dehond
© Chanel Dehond © Chanel Dehond
© Chanel Dehond © Chanel Dehond
© Chanel Dehond © Chanel Dehond
© Safia Rahman © Safia Rahman
© Olivia McLaurin, Gensler Austin © Olivia McLaurin, Gensler Austin
© omid © omid

Gif by Pauline Moskal

© Katie Sawey © Katie Sawey
© Mark Tanner Schreiber May © Mark Tanner Schreiber May
© Joy Mondal © Joy Mondal
© Joy Mondal © Joy Mondal
© Joy Mondal © Joy Mondal

Gif by shahab shoar

© Lauren Carter © Lauren Carter
© Ana Georgieva © Ana Georgieva
© Aleksandra Dineva © Aleksandra Dineva

Gif by Elina Var 

© Ana Georgieva © Ana Georgieva
© Gerardo Gandy, Gensler Austin © Gerardo Gandy, Gensler Austin
© Pauline Moskal © Pauline Moskal
© Chelsea Doorne © Chelsea Doorne

Gif by Dafni Nousia

© Pavithra Ravichandran © Pavithra Ravichandran
© Milad Mogharrabian © Milad Mogharrabian
© Tim Ng © Tim Ng
© Shradha Rane © Shradha Rane

Gif by Gurleen Grewal

© Didem AK © Didem AK
© Dwight De Guzman Dela Cruz © Dwight De Guzman Dela Cruz
© Zoe Brooks © Zoe Brooks
© Hasna Rozana Rohani © Hasna Rozana Rohani
© Marco De Donno © Marco De Donno
© Mary Beth Robbins © Mary Beth Robbins
© Shan Li © Shan Li
© Rémon Mulder © Rémon Mulder
© Nang Yu Yu Nwe © Nang Yu Yu Nwe
© Zahra Bagherian © Zahra Bagherian
© Marija Lazarevska © Marija Lazarevska
© Pavel Kultyshev © Pavel Kultyshev
© Marion Roux © Marion Roux
© Nastarn Razavi © Nastarn Razavi
© Abby Fine © Abby Fine
© Besim Krosa © Besim Krosa
© Shan Li © Shan Li
© Domna Paskaloglou © Domna Paskaloglou
© Mojtaba Hatami © Mojtaba Hatami
© Eden Anto © Eden Anto
© Jocelyn Winata © Jocelyn Winata
© Rosa Lopes © Rosa Lopes
© Marija Lazarevska © Marija Lazarevska
© Pavithra Ravichandran © Pavithra Ravichandran
© Kevin Nakover S. © Kevin Nakover S.

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How To Invest in Your Online Presence to Help Grow Your Design Business

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 01:30 AM PST

© Andrea Vasquez © Andrea Vasquez

We live in a world that spends more time online than outside. And as architects and designers, we invest in creating a more engaging world by means of enhancing life through our buildings. However, through a perhaps unique form of tunnel vision, we are missing an incredible opportunity to leverage alternative mediums to impact more people through our design businesses.

Here are 5 ways to utilize your creativity to produce unique content that will help enhance your impact on the world of design, and in turn, push you and your design business forward:

1. Start a Podcast

© Andrea Vasquez © Andrea Vasquez

Perhaps the fastest growing form of content online, podcasts provide a great platform for sharing longer form content in a more streamlined manner. Episodes can range from short, useful advice on a particular topic, to longer, more in-depth dialogue that tells a story or anecdote ultimately teaching listeners valuable lessons relative to your topic. You might be wary about not having a specific topic in mind, but that's not a problem. A lot of the more popular podcast shows today feature a group of hosts simply sharing their experiences and learning from each other. This is something we all can do, and odds are there is someone out there wanting to learn exactly what you have to offer.

2. YouTube

© Andrea Vasquez © Andrea Vasquez

Today, YouTube is the second largest search engine on the internet. And because it is owned by the first largest search engine (Google), YouTube videos often receive higher priority in searches. Search terms like "How to…" and "How do I…" usually yield a majority of video results, and because of this, tutorial videos are by far the most popular choice when getting started with video. If you have a specific skill that you have mastered and have always wanted to share that skill with others, YouTube is the perfect platform. But more importantly, as designers, YouTube offers yet another opportunity to push our creative abilities to the limit and experiment with the different aspects of photography and cinematography that will inevitably improve our design minds. Eric Reinholdt is a great case study of how to directly implement everyday architectural activities into beautiful video content. Check out his channel, 30X40 Design Workshop, for some great inspiration to get you started.

3. Write a Book

This is perhaps the most strenuous option on this list but has the opportunity to reap the greatest reward. Many of the "starchitect" firms today have printed large volumes of their work, but perhaps the most popular prints have been those that found a way to translate a big idea into written form. One of the most widely-recognized examples of this is Bjarke Ingels' archicomic Yes Is More. The book isn't just a way to showcase BIG's work, but the book itself is designed to emulate BIG's overall mission as a practice.

4. Social Media

© Andrea Vasquez © Andrea Vasquez

There are very few architecture firms taking full advantage of social media, specifically the heavyweights: Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. The firms who are taking advantage, however, are seeing the results. With the advancements in advertising capabilities on Instagram and Facebook, it is now easier than ever to reach thousands of people with just a few images or a short video. And like YouTube, Instagram stories also have the potential to provide your followers with curated creative content all while growing a community around you and your work.

5. Blogging

Perhaps the easiest option to get started with, but the most difficult to achieve success from, starting a blog is a great way to quickly share your ideas and stories with the world. Around five years ago, pioneer bloggers enjoyed earning a living simply by putting their lives on the internet, but today because of the growing popularity and appeal of Tim Ferriss' 4 Hour Work Week way of life, hitting it big via blogging is nearly a shot in the dark. While admittedly the main appeal for putting some effort into blogging is this longshot, blogging can also help you hone your written communication skills; something we often neglect as architects.

Overall, a loyal community is the biggest thing to gain from utilizing any of the above. A community around you and your business is the number one way to spread your philosophy as a designer, while also serving as a direct link to potential customers or clients. Make an investment in growing the online presence of you and/or your design business via these alternate methods, and it might just produce results.

Images for this article were kindly provided by Andrea Vasquez.

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Carme Pinós Will Be the First Spanish Architect to Design Australia's MPavilion

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 01:00 AM PST

Carme Pinós. Image © Livio Matticchio Carme Pinós. Image © Livio Matticchio

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that the fifth edition of the MPavilion will be designed by the Spanish architect Carme Pinós. The MPavilion 2018 will be the first public work commissioned to a Spanish architect in Australia and will be the successor of the pavilion designed by OMA / Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten in 2017. The 2017 pavilion received more than 117,000 visitors and hosted 477 free events over 133 days.

On the choice of the Australian foundation, Naomi Milgrom stressed that Pinós' career "honors the responsibility of architecture to serve a community, by creating spaces that place human experience and environment at the center of her designs."

MPavilion 2017 diseñado por OMA. Image © John Gollings MPavilion 2017 diseñado por OMA. Image © John Gollings

Since its first edition in 2014, the MPavilion has received 351,000 visitors and its fifth edition—to be inaugurated on October 8, 2018—expects to repeat the success of previous editions. Regarding the assignment, Carme Pinós commented:

It is my honor and pleasure to have this opportunity to design a new pavilion for the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. It is a great responsibility to create a unique place in this special park with views over Melbourne—a city to which I have deep attachments. I am inspired by the fact that this new project will become a cultural destination for the city.

As the winner of the Berkeley-Rupp Award in 2016, Pinós has been celebrated for her contributions to gender equality in the field of architecture. With her humanistic approach to seeing architecture, she has been in charge of noteworthy projects related to urban remodeling, social housing, public works and furniture design. Among her most significant works are the Crematorio de Igualada in Barcelona, the CaixaForum Zaragoza and the Cube 2 Office Tower in Jalisco, Mexico.

The MPavilion is supported by the Mayor's Office of Melbourne, the State Government of Victoria through Creative Victoria, and ANZ bank.

News via MPavilion.

CaixaForum Zaragoza / Estudio Carme Pinos. Image Courtesy of Estudio Carme Pinós CaixaForum Zaragoza / Estudio Carme Pinos. Image Courtesy of Estudio Carme Pinós

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Residence Chiar di Luna / Monica Alejandra Mellace

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 01:00 AM PST

© Pietro Savorelli © Pietro Savorelli
  • Structure : Ing. Giovanni B. Rubino
  • Artistic Direction: Monica Alejandra Mellace, Dario Morelli, Paolo Pastore
  • Consultants: Studio di Ingegneria Rubino Geomm. Giovanni Masi, Giusi Pellegrini
© Pietro Savorelli © Pietro Savorelli

Text description provided by the architects. The elaboration of the project is the result of a happy communication and collaboration of intent between the designer and the Client-Executor of the works, which has granted, both in the design and execution phase, ample space for expression and provided suggestions and ideas that have guided, together with the characteristics of the place and the personal design research, the process and the conception of the composition.

© Pietro Savorelli © Pietro Savorelli

In short, the elements and themes of the project can be summarized as follows:

- Compositional, typological and constructive articulation similar to tradition

- insertion into the landscape skyline

© Pietro Savorelli © Pietro Savorelli

The complex is shaped on the site and rests softly on the degrading profile of the existing country plan by harmoniously integrating itself into the natural skyline.

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The reclining of the volumes on the morphology of the ground, according to twelve different levels, has made the body lighter, thanks to its articulation, composition, chromaticity and texture.

© Pietro Savorelli © Pietro Savorelli

The architectural language and the chosen themes are taken from the local residential building tradition and more generally from the Mediterranean architecture, remodeling its shapes, materials, typology, and typical elements: the loggia, the balcony, the pergola, the small courtyard, the open stairways, openings to the surrounding area, permeability, compositional articulation and the presence of greenery. The shapes of the composition are small, avoiding large signs and heavy masses.

© Pietro Savorelli © Pietro Savorelli

The choice of material and color, cut stone, white plaster and glass, helps to make the project more compatible with the context.

Ground Floor Plan Ground Floor Plan

The project was drawn up by pursuing the objective of safeguarding and enhancing the landscape, in compliance with existing values ​​and a qualified transformation with respect to the pre-work structure, in compliance with the provisions for protecting the PUTT for the C area.

© Pietro Savorelli © Pietro Savorelli

The visual perception of the landscape has been assumed as an architectural theme so that, through the cuts in correspondence of the staircases, the building opens allowing the view of the surroundings to be completely blocked by its presence. In order to better integrate the complex with the surrounding landscape, the greenery, besides excelling along the fences, is also present in the pergolas of the roofs and in the flowerbeds inside the staircases. The climbing and native species typical of the Mediterranean scrub, guided by guardians, reach the level of the roofs, making the stairwells elements of transition between the built and green. The plantations planned along the north-east wall, will contribute over time to the renaturalization of the place.

© Pietro Savorelli © Pietro Savorelli

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3D Printing Fuses Thai Craftsmanship to Create Habitable Concrete Structures

Posted: 11 Feb 2018 10:00 PM PST

Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation

Siam Research and Innovation Company (SRI) is a Thailand-based cement manufacturer that has been developing innovations to push the limits of 3D printing in architecture. Their project 'Triple S' –developed in 2017– is based on traditional Thai craftsmanship to generate Surface, Structure, and Shelter in a single process; its specific artisanal form creating beautiful framework for structural purposes, easily building living spaces.

Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation

From the architects. 3D Concrete Printing - Triple "S" is a new evolution in 3D printing consisting of Surface, Structure, and Shelter design concepts. The size is 3.0 x 3.5 x 3.0 meters. Unlike previous developments, the design and 3D printing technology platforms work side-by-side. The advanced research of printing and materials allows the improvement of other dimensions such as structure, engineering, and architecture.

Diagram 3D Printing Diagram 3D Printing

The Triple "S" represents a surface transformation on the human scale using a function of the suitable size of printing nozzle compared to the pattern scale design to formulate a new surface transformation to function - the most sophisticated design method in architecture in this 3D printing work.

Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation

Typically, the outer surface layer and the inner truss of the 3D printing objects are included while designing. The inner truss is designed for structural purpose in order to withstand the load. The new surface transformation to function is designed to implement the outer surface layer to have the structural performance as inner truss; meanwhile, not leaving delicate and vigorous appearance from the outer surface. The designed surface can perform in both aesthetic and structural functions. Indeed, texture patterns developed in the Triple "S" derived from moving paths on load-bearing concrete structures.

Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation

The design concept of Triple "S" derives from Thai folk handicraft creating around 250 years ago in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, the previous Thai capital. The weaving pattern is a fish-shaped ornament made of coconut leaf. The weaving pattern is designed to be modular and implement in a concrete block. The concrete is being extruded using 3D printing to increase its dimensions as its weaving appearance. After printing, the 3D printing concrete panel is fabricated with the pattern and serves as a structure for holding its weight. After fabrication, the weaving pattern of final module acts as a truss for structural purposes.    

Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation

The complexity of cementitious material technology is applied and incorporates 3D printing technology, along with the full understanding of the mechanism of printer movement allowing for less weight compared to a traditional fabrication unit such as precast. This allows the compressive strength greater than 45 MPa and the flexural strength greater than 80 MPa. Furthermore, a new surface transformation to function consumes less material since a double structure cladding system used in GRC technology is needed in order to support the weight itself for a more sustainable technique. With this new design creation and research in material technology, SCG believes it to be one of the leading developers in 3D printing for large structures.

Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation
Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation Courtesy of Lapyote Prasittisopin, Chanita Chuaysiri / Siam Research and Innovation

Author: Lapyote Prasittisopin
Architect: Chanita Chuaysiri
Location: Siam Research and Innovation, Co. Ltd., 51 Moo 8 Tubkwang Kheangkhoi, Saraburi, Thailand
Year: 2017
Production Architect: Wannapol Sadakorn, Panus Pongpisitkul, Suppasith Wilaipun
Development Team: Chalermwut Snguanyat, Chawis Thongyothee, Naphat Taweekarn, Reakchai Sulakul, Phakhinai Thiphasri
Program: Office guardhouse
Size: 3.0 x 3.5 x 3.0 m
Material: 3D printing mortar

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SP 21 / A. Burmester Arquitectos Associados

Posted: 11 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST

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  • Architects: A. Burmester Arquitectos Associados
  • Location: 3750-064 Borralha, Portugal
  • Architect In Charge: Alexandre Burmester
  • Design Team: Jose Carlos Gonçalves, Jorge Toscano, Guilherme Burmester, Helder Magalhães
  • Collaborators : Afaconsult / Protermia / EDP
  • Area: 22000.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
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Text description provided by the architects. This project corresponds to the construction of the first industrial unit, located in Águeda - Portugal, whose owner is SAKTHI PORTUGAL SP21, SA.

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The site as 200.000.00 m2 and this construction is situated in the extreme North, this location is a result of the operating requirements imposed by the manufacturing processes and a general study of the future development that will house other manufacturing units for the same company.

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The design of the building is based on its geometry as a way of "covering" the SAKTHI layout. It compelled us to resolve its closure without interfering with it and only shaping the building. The solution corresponds to the most efficient way complying the culture of the company, seeking to find solutions of excellence, which combine with values of simplicity, economy and functionality.

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The shape of the building was designed as a "Shed" type, taking advantage of the fact that it is oriented on the North / South axis. The openings oriented to the North correspond to the work areas and those oriented to the South to the technical areas. It allows with this solution to solve with great amount of natural light its interior spaces and to control the solar incidence.

Sketch 01 Sketch 01
Construction detail Construction detail

This form will also facilitate the installation of smoke canals and their respective solutions, thus providing an efficient solution in the fight against fire and the protection of people. The drawing is based on the superposition of two porticos, which allow different openings according to the North and South.

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The solution promotes different perceptions of the construction according to the side of the view. its geometry, the altimetry of the building also adapts to the conditioning of the layout, allowing with the right feet according to the needs. Thus, the general useful right foot is variable between the 25 meters in the casting area and the 12 in the storage areas.

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Built with a mixed structure composed of reinforced concrete and metallic pillars, the building is coated with a metallic solution of cover. The cover is composed of self-supporting plates that surpass the spans that vary between 20 and 30 meters thick. This solution avoids the use of support structures.

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The covering of the roof is made with trapezoidal finishing plate on thermal insulation and the vertical closing of the building executed with sandwich plates, with thermal insulation in its interior.

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The interior space is characterized by large spaces and with little compartmentation. They will correspond to the manufacturing layout, the partitioning will correspond to the division and closure of sectors, or the compartmentalization of equipment.

Ground floor plan Ground floor plan

The ventilation system is done by a "cooling pipes" system associated with an insufflation through the "displacement" diffusers.
The "cooling pipes" system uses pipes buried about 2 m deep, with a length of more than 20 meters, associated with axial fans of conduit, with an air velocity between 6 m / s. The system uses the earth as exchanger, allowing to obtain differences greater than 2 ºC with respect to the temperature of entrance.

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