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- Nirvana Home / AGi Architects
- MAR- MARLET 1 / Lagula arquitectes
- Home in High Latitude / hyperSity architects
- Residence 414 / Charged Voids
- Layering Courtyard in Beijing / ARCHSTUDIO
- The Tetrisception / Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio
- New Pastoralism Lecture Hall / SYN architects
- Snøhetta Designs Energy-Positive Lakeside Hotel in the Arctic Circle
- Drone Photographs of Bogotá's Grand Architecture Show the "Unedited" Side of the City
- Amar de Lima Restaurant / Barclay & Crousse
- BIG and Carlo Ratti Associati Reveal Design for One of Singapore's Tallest Buildings
- ABAL House-Studio / Benítez González Arquitectos
- 75 Valentines for Architects and (Architecture) Lovers
- How To Invest in Your Online Presence to Help Grow Your Design Business
- Carme Pinós Will Be the First Spanish Architect to Design Australia's MPavilion
- Residence Chiar di Luna / Monica Alejandra Mellace
- 3D Printing Fuses Thai Craftsmanship to Create Habitable Concrete Structures
- SP 21 / A. Burmester Arquitectos Associados
| Posted: 12 Feb 2018 07:00 PM PST  © 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 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.  Axonometric 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 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 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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MAR- MARLET 1 / Lagula arquitectes Posted: 12 Feb 2018 06:00 PM PST  © 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.  Axonometric 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  Floor Plans 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 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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Home in High Latitude / hyperSity architects Posted: 12 Feb 2018 04:00 PM PST  © 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 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.  Exploded Axon 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.  Section  © Han Ma  Section 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  Courtesy of hyperSity architects  © 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.  Birdview 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 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.  1F Axon  2F Axon 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 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 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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST  © Nakul Jain
 © Nakul Jain To freeze emotion into architecture  © 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 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 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 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 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 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 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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Layering Courtyard in Beijing / ARCHSTUDIO Posted: 12 Feb 2018 12:00 PM PST  Multiple Function Room. 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 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 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 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.  Section "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 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  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  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 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 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  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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Tetrisception / Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio Posted: 12 Feb 2018 11:00 AM PST  © 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 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 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.  Sketch 2  © Vibhor Yadav  Sketch 3 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 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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Pastoralism Lecture Hall / SYN architects Posted: 12 Feb 2018 09:00 AM PST  © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan
 © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan
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 Project Location  © 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 The Structure  © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan The Materials  © BenMo Studio / Ming Yan Materials Selection  First floor plan Sustainability / Environmentally Friendly  © 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 "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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Snøhetta Designs Energy-Positive Lakeside Hotel in the Arctic Circle Posted: 12 Feb 2018 07:10 AM PST  © 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 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 "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 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 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.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 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 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 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 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  Glorieta próxima al Museo de los Niños. 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  Líneas cruzadas en la Diagonal 92 con NQS, Bogotá. Image © Camilo Monzón  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Amar de Lima Restaurant / Barclay & Crousse Posted: 12 Feb 2018 05:00 AM PST  © 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.  © Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma  Section AA  © Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma  Sketch 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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 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 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 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'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 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 "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 "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
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| ABAL House-Studio / Benítez González Arquitectos Posted: 12 Feb 2018 03:00 AM PST  © 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 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 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 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 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  Section  © 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 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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 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  © Lu Cone, Gensler Austin  © Gerardo Gandy, Gensler Austin
Gif by Chara Mantopoulou  © Brittany Newman  © Hasna Rozana Rohani
Gif by Sathish Kumar  © Lauren Carter  © Shradha Rane  © Pauline Moskal  © Juan Alberto Arjona Belmonte
Gif by Hjalmar Bolinder  © shahab shoar
Gif by Vahid Kolyaee  © Pauline Moskal  © Shradha Rane  © Chanel Dehond  © Chanel Dehond  © Chanel Dehond  © Chanel Dehond  © Chanel Dehond  © Safia Rahman  © Olivia McLaurin, Gensler Austin  © omid
Gif by Pauline Moskal  © Katie Sawey  © Mark Tanner Schreiber May  © Joy Mondal  © Joy Mondal  © Joy Mondal
Gif by shahab shoar  © Lauren Carter  © Ana Georgieva  © Aleksandra Dineva
Gif by Elina Var  © Ana Georgieva  © Gerardo Gandy, Gensler Austin  © Pauline Moskal  © Chelsea Doorne
Gif by Dafni Nousia  © Pavithra Ravichandran  © Milad Mogharrabian  © Tim Ng  © Shradha Rane
Gif by Gurleen Grewal  © Didem AK  © Dwight De Guzman Dela Cruz  © Zoe Brooks  © Hasna Rozana Rohani  © Marco De Donno  © Mary Beth Robbins  © Shan Li  © Rémon Mulder  © Nang Yu Yu Nwe  © Zahra Bagherian  © Marija Lazarevska  © Pavel Kultyshev  © Marion Roux  © Nastarn Razavi  © Abby Fine  © Besim Krosa  © Shan Li  © Domna Paskaloglou  © Mojtaba Hatami  © Eden Anto  © Jocelyn Winata  © Rosa Lopes  © Marija Lazarevska  © Pavithra Ravichandran  © Kevin Nakover S.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| How To Invest in Your Online Presence to Help Grow Your Design Business Posted: 12 Feb 2018 01:30 AM PST  © 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 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 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 BookThis 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 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. BloggingPerhaps 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.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Carme Pinós Will Be the First Spanish Architect to Design Australia's MPavilion Posted: 12 Feb 2018 01:00 AM PST .jpg?1518149458 "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 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:
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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Residence Chiar di Luna / Monica Alejandra Mellace Posted: 12 Feb 2018 01:00 AM PST  © 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 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 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.  Section  Section 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 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 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 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 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  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Author: Lapyote Prasittisopin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| SP 21 / A. Burmester Arquitectos Associados Posted: 11 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
 © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG 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.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG 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.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG 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.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG 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  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.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG 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.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG 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.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG 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.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG 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 The ventilation system is done by a "cooling pipes" system associated with an insufflation through the "displacement" diffusers.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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