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- Cooperative Housing Complex wagnisART / bogevischs buero architekten stadtplaner GmbH + SHAG Schindler Hable
- Zalige Bridge / NEXT architects
- Su-o-jae in Eunpyeong / studio_GAON
- BLUFISH restaurant / SODA architects
- Jaramteo Kindergarten / KHY architects
- Hibou House / Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect
- Clement Blanchet Draws Inspiration from Circus Tents for Competition-Winning Cultural Center in France
- Dr. Gutiérrez Hospital / Mario Corea Arquitectura + Unidad de proyectos Especiales del Gobierno de Santa Fe
- REX's World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Back on Track After Signing 99-Year Lease
- 3LP Residence / substance
- Employees Keep Walking into the Glass Walls at Apple's New Campus
- Akademeia High School in Warsaw / Medusagroup Studio
- Beyond the Viral Images: Inside MVRDV’s Tianjin Binhai Library with #donotsettle
- House ML / Arquipélago Arquitetos
- FaulknerBrowns' Plans for a New Indoor Snow Slope is Inspired by Railway Architecture
| Posted: 16 Feb 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Julia Knop
 © Julia Knop  Site plan  © Julia Knop Text description provided by the architects. The project realised by bogevischs buero architekten and SHAG Architekten was built in the new Domagkpark residential district. The zoning plan offered the possibility to design buildings with little restrictions. This offered the possibility to form the buildings in such a way that courtyards and passages open the property to its surrounding and at the same time form intimate communal spaces for the inhabitants. The housing complex consists of five freestanding buildings, and are organized around large central staircases. On set back top floors the houses are connected to each other via bridges, that generate a roof garden landscape of unique size and variety. On the ground floor of the houses, a large number of common rooms, ateliers, workshops, business spaces and open areas were created to serve the different activities of the residents and the entire neighborhood  Roof plan  © Julia Knop  Ground floor plan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Zalige Bridge / NEXT architects Posted: 16 Feb 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Rutger Hollander
Text description provided by the architects. The Zalige bridge in Nijmegen is the key project linked to water and its uses within the urban river park that was created as part of Room for the River Waal, a nation-wide project initiated by the ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment to prevent flooding. In Nijmegen the measures included the displacement of the dike, combined with the construction of a lateral gully in the widened floodplains. This bypass created a new recreational island and a new urban river park. The Zalige bridge is the icon of the path that runs through the riverpark.  © Rutger Hollander The Zalige bridge is designed as a continuation of the park's path structure on the water. Built on the floodplains, the softly curved bridge changes significantly with the seasons. When the water levels start to rise, the bridge partially submerges, thereby becoming inaccessible a few days a year. Within the river park, the spatial quality of the water is made visible in a poetic way.  Location The experience of the landscape and the recreational value of the surrounding park are the key elements to the Zalige bridge. The bridge is an integral part of the park's path structure. The transition between the bridge and the path is smooth and gradual. At the bridge's landings so-called 'stepping stones' adorn the side of the bridge/path. When water levels are low, these high concrete blocks can be used as benches offering a beautiful view on the countryside and the city of Nijmegen. However, as water levels rise, the function and significance of the stepping stones changes: they become the only access route to the bridge: an intermitted path over the water.  © Jan Daanen In January 2018 the Zalige bridge proved itself for the first time. Water levels rose to 12 m NAP+: the highest point in 15 years. This time however, the high water became an attraction. While the water was rising, the bridge was reachable only through stepping stones, becoming the ultimate place to experience the high water. Eventually, also the stepping stones submerged, making the bridge inaccessible. As a crest above the river, the bridge emphasizes the dynamic character of water by letting people see and experience the changing river landscape.  © Jeroen Bosch  Schema  © Jennie Burgers  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Su-o-jae in Eunpyeong / studio_GAON Posted: 16 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST  © Youngchae Park
 © Youngchae Park
Text description provided by the architects. The Eunpyeong Hanok Village in Seoul is a district situated between a large apartment complex and Bukhan Mountain. We designed a hanok (traditional house) in the block. The word 'Hanok' is very ambiguous term. After the modernization, the houses that were built in Western style were called 'Yangok' (literally meaning Western House) and Koreans began to call the regular houses as Hanok (meaning Korean house) as an opposite concept. However, the phrase is a platitude expression that can not contain the full emotion towards our old house.  © Youngchae Park
Recently, we have built several houses that contain the spatial concept of Hanok but they were built in modern frame system. In modern Korea, Hanok only remains intact in some traditional villages and in designated areas, including Bukchon in Seoul. As the government enforced its policy to support construction of Hanok, the number has been gradually increasing.  © Youngchae Park
The owner who bought a lot in Eunpyeong Hanok village three years ago came to us. Eventually we designed a Hanok built in traditional construction process. The role of the carpenter who knows the traditional method is crucial in the construction process of Hanok. Fortunately, an experienced carpenter Hwang In-Beom helped us to fulfill our design intent.  Courtesy of Hyoungnam Lim, Eunjoo Roh in studio_GAON The name of the house is Su-o-jae, which means "to protect one's integrity." Su-o-jae is the name of the house that Jeong Yak-yong's (a famous Joseon scholar) brother lived in. Initially Jeong thought lightly about the meaning, but after many years, he wrote <Su-o-jae-gi> (Essay on Su-o-jae) when he realized how difficult and valuable it is to protect one's integrity.  © Youngchae Park
In fact, we felt the same designing this Hanok. For an architect familiar with learning and designing modern architecture, it was burdensome to design the hanok built in traditional way. It felt like singing alone in an empty room with a ringing sound. The site is shallow and horizontally elongated. Normally, Hanok consists of several houses with different residents and different uses, including the main building and a detached house in a larger area. The yards covered by each house and the outer spaces in between provide wealth of spatial difference in Hanok.  © Youngchae Park
By comparison, the expensive land price of Hanok Village forces the lot to be smaller, and the site touches the path only slightly, which is not suitable for traditional Hanok either. In addition, unlike traditional one storey Hanok, it is usually built two storey high, so the houses stand next to each other.  Courtesy of Hyoungnam Lim, Eunjoo Roh in studio_GAON The house is divided into two independent mass. Residence for married couple and two sons, it is thought that when children grow up they can live in a detached house or it can be rented. The annex building is also connected to the gate and works as a medium to hide and reveal the madang (courtyard) on entry. Entering through the narrow opening, one could sense a larger spatiality of openness and visual effects of madang.  © Youngchae Park
When one enters the traditional Hanok, it is through the madang. But now one goes through vestibule. It was inevitable to spare space for taking off shoes. The basement is for exercise rooms and study. The kitchen, living room and the bedroom are on the first floor and son's rooms are on the third floor. And the courtyard that penetrates the floors above form the basement works as a well to draw the light and wind.  © Youngchae Park
The house has a traditional gabled roof to look simple and honest, but it looks more showy than intended. The banister rails were also designed as a flat shape, rather than a curve, but they are still more decorative than modern houses. We have no choice but ask time to let in the energy of Bukhan mountain, which is spread out to the north of the house.  © Youngchae Park
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| BLUFISH restaurant / SODA architects Posted: 16 Feb 2018 12:00 PM PST  © Xiyu Chen
 © Xiyu Chen Text description provided by the architects. BLUFISH-APM Restaurant is located on the basement level of the APM Shopping Mall in Wangfujing. Our restaurant created an underwater world full of fantasy and mobility with white as basic tone anda blue and pink colored metal mesh extending down from the top of the ceiling.  © Xiyu Chen  Floor Plan  © Xiyu Chen The sense of continuity of two dining areas has been enhanced with the natural curved surface shape of the space, making themaximum useof layer height effectively. Itextended the space as well, creating four unitslike undersea cave as more independent dining location.
To echo the theme of the restaurant and express the warm colors of the scene, after several rounds of deliberations and attempts, we chose six kinds of hand-drawn sketches that looks fairy tales-like, easy and warm to represent the underwater coral and aquatic plants and fish groups.  © Xiyu Chen And use laser to cut the metal mesh to make these patterns, then attached them to the white curved surface model. In order to create a unique underwater image: gorgeous, translucent, vague, unstable visual effects.It is expected that people will feel cozy and relaxed indoors, as if there is fresh air of the Mediterranean Sea in Southern France blowing.  Patterns  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jaramteo Kindergarten / KHY architects Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:00 AM PST  © Hwang Hyo Chel
 © Hwang Hyo Chel Text description provided by the architects. JARAMTEO KINDERGARTEN, a district kindergarten of Gwangjin-Gu is sited at a typical residential area where multi-household houses cluster in Junggok-dong. Due to narrowness of the site, facing little to the road and closely surrounded by buildings, JARAMTEO KINDERGARTEN was designed to stand out symbolically as a kindergarten, while blending in with the neighborhood. Restrictions such as, confined site area, accommodation requirement and barrier-free certification derived plans and sections. So the focus of design was on shapes of openings that determinethe image of an elevation.  Model  Model  Model Nursing rooms where children spend most of their times are placed towards South for quality lighting, and towards North are placed stairs, elevator, and ancillary rooms. This placement derives contrastingshapes of windows on each side due to different function. Consequently, South and North elevation end up with contrasting looks. .jpg?1518432856 "© Hwang Hyo Chel") © Hwang Hyo Chel South elevation has varying shapes of windows on a simple rectangular background, with repetition of 1.2m height rectangular sliding windows (which promotes lighting and ventilation), and semicircular or triangular polycarbonate fixed windows (for additional lighting at eyelevel of children). On the contrary, North elevation has irregular outlines shaped by elements such as entry, parking space, rooftop playground, outdoor staircase and an elevator.  © Hwang Hyo Chel This order of facade is also invited inside. Semicircular openings between nursing room and common use space not only emphasize the entrance, but also generate playful sceneries by adding another layer of openings between northern and southern walls.  © Hwang Hyo Chel Unburnt clay bricks of yellow are mainly used for outer walls as kindergarten would have warm presence in the neighborhood and blend in with surrounding brick houses. However, for areas that have alterations in shapes, yellow aluminum sheet or stucco is applied in order to emphasize the playfulness of facade. In addition, pink stone material is applied as a visual connection between rectangular, triangular and semicircular windows to bring out the rhythm even more. Yellow storm sewer pipe is also intended as one of these playful elements.  © Hwang Hyo Chel  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hibou House / Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Posted: 16 Feb 2018 09:00 AM PST  © Scott Norsworthy
 © Scott Norsworthy Text description provided by the architects. Designed for a young family that values connection – both with one another and with their friends and neighbours. This renovation thoughtfully updates an existing traditional 1950's style home for a more modern lifestyle – one that feels relaxed and comfortable yet easily adapted for entertaining. The layout improves the flow between the spaces in a way that makes the most sense for how the family lives.  Elevations 1 The material palette is both subdued and raw: Raw, unfinished steel details contrast the warm woods, and clean white volumes to create a subtle background for life to be lived – rather than previously maintained. The clean backdrop allows the family's artwork and objects to stand out and be showcased.  © Scott Norsworthy  Ground Floor Plan  © Scott Norsworthy Dark smoked oak floors work with a modest ceiling height to create a sense of warmth and intimacy within the larger, now open, layout. The custom millwork pieces function as large volumes, defining smaller spaces within the open plan, and custom details are located at key tactile moments, such as the custom flat bar steel handrail and panelled walnut guards.  © Scott Norsworthy The new addition – a minimal blackened wood-clad volume – contrasts again with the bright light-filled interior and the large sliding doors and windows at the rear of the house open up to maximize views to the garden, creating a strong connection between the interior and exterior livable spaces.  © Scott Norsworthy  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2018 08:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture Clément Blanchet Architecture has been selected as the winner of an international competition for the design of a new cultural center to be located in the Paris suburb of Gonesse, France, beating out proposals from Bernard Tschumi & Moreau Kusunoki. Named Circus³, the facility features a unique tensile roof evocative of a circus pavilion, and will house a 1,500 seat theater for a variety of cultural performances and events.  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture "This a unique performance venue to EuropaCity and the region, that will be designed specifically to host an internationally branded show, featuring advanced technical features," explain the architects.  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture CIRCUS ³ is focused around three principle design moves:
The resulting design produces an urban effect that gestures toward the public plaza and becomes a new piece of "transparent infrastructure" where the public can gather and interact.  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture "The contemporary circus is the demonstration of an historical synthesis and at the same time of a technological engagement," the architects explain. "The superposition of programs and potentials improves the great entertainment but also maintains a collective memory of the classical typology." The central element of the building, the performance space, will use top-of-the-line technology to transform into a variety of configurations capable of housing shows of different types and sizes.  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture .jpg?1518815109 "Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture") Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture According to the architects, the show is greater than just what is being formed on stage, but must resonate throughout the entire design. "The place is the show, is show; make the show, make the place."  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture  Courtesy of Clement Blanchet Architecture
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| Posted: 16 Feb 2018 07:00 AM PST  © Gustavo Frittegotto
 © Gustavo Frittegotto Text description provided by the architects. The new building for the Dr Gutiérrez Hospital of Venado Tuerto, Argentina is a highly complex regional hospital that is innovative in terms of its architectural design and advanced technology as well the healthcare services it provides.  Site Plan Background  © Gustavo Frittegotto Evolutionary Hospital  Ground Floor Plan Hospital Dr Gutiérrez  © Gustavo Frittegotto The interior spaces are organized around a series of patios, which provide natural light and ventilation, factors that have been shown to contribute to the improvement of patients, as well as to the greater work efficiency of medical personnel. The language of the facades is also systematic and modular, which means that they will not be altered by any interior modifications.  Sections As an integral part of the program being developed in the province of Santa Fe, the Dr Gutiérrez Hospital responds to the new concepts emerging in contemporary healthcare such as sustainability, environmental impact, and intelligent use of natural and economic resources. The resulting strategy is based on a network that is composed of both general and specialist hospitals as well as healthcare centres of varying complexity, all integrated into an interrelated system accessible to the citizens.  © Gustavo Frittegotto  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| REX's World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Back on Track After Signing 99-Year Lease Posted: 16 Feb 2018 06:30 AM PST  Image © Luxigon After funding issues threatened to halt the project last year, plans for the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center are now back on track after an agreement made between the venue and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.  Image © Luxigon Earlier today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the 99-year deal that will allow World Trade Center Performing Arts Center, Inc. to lease the land for just $1 per year. In return, the Center will pay the Port Authority $48 million from funding to cover the cost of the building's below-ground construction, which is already underway and scheduled to finish this year. Of the building's estimated $363 million price tag, about $295 million has already been raised, including a $75 million gift from the building's namesake, businessman Ronald O. Perelman.  Image © Luxigon  Image © Luxigon The center will be located between SOM's One World Trade Center and Santiago Calatrava's Transportation Hub. A performing arts venue of some kind has been in the works since Daniel Libeskind's original masterplan for the site in 2003, including a scrapped design by Frank Gehry. The Perelman Center is expected to be completed as soon as 2020. Learn more about the project in our previous post: News via The New York Times, Curbed
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| Posted: 16 Feb 2018 05:00 AM PST  © Paul Crosby
 © Paul Crosby Text description provided by the architects. This renovation of a private residence on a wooded, exurban site near Iowa City, Iowa draws upon the imbedded formal logic of the original structure to create a contemporary home for a family of four. The three "slices" (eating, living, sleeping) implicit in the existing home were reinforced. The angled wall at the entry was straightened and realigned to clarify the plan. Interior partitions separating the dining space from the kitchen and living spaces were removed to create large, open volumes.  © Paul Crosby The stair was relocated to open up the living area, and the thresholds between slices were delineated. Wall–to-wall operable openings were placed at the ends of the "slices" to connect the airy, day-lit interior to the wooded site and enhance the sense of entry from the street. Finally, a large deck was created to unify the rear elevation and provide space for exterior entertaining. While the renovation added less than 300 square feet to the home, the visual impact is immense.  © Paul Crosby  Diagram  © Paul Crosby A limited material palette was used throughout to further unify the home. New fenestration connects the owners to the wooded site, as well as providing a more welcoming entry, and the new deck allows the interior to spill out into the woods. The result is a thorough transformation that takes full advantage of the home's site, interior volume, and daylight to create a modern contemporary home.  © Paul Crosby  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Employees Keep Walking into the Glass Walls at Apple's New Campus Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:00 AM PST  A shot of the Apple Park Visitor Center. Image Courtesy of Foster + Partners Apple's unwavering love for glass and seamless edges is one of the reasons designers flock in masses to purchase their products. But that aesthetic has caused a bit of a snafu at the company's new Foster+Partners-designed headquarters in Cupertino, where employees are running into the highly transparent glass walls at an alarming rate. According to a report from Market Watch, there have already been at least two incidents of people injuring themselves badly enough that local emergency services were needed to be called. Both cases resulted in minor cuts and bruises but ended up not requiring hospitalization. Other sources have claimed that seven people reported injuries on the building's first day of use, with speculation that even more incidents have gone unreported. A follow-up report by Bloomberg claims that some staff members had begun to use sticky Post-It notes to mark the locations of glass doors, but were asked to removed them as they detracted from the building's aesthetic. The Apple Park campus features an abundance of glass throughout the building, including 45-foot tall safety glass walls, glass-walled work "pods" and other glass barriers. The work pods are said to have been the brainchild of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as a way to mix individual workstations into larger social areas. In California, workplace safety involving potentially dangerous transparent barriers is mandated by law, stating that "employees shall be protected against the hazard of walking through glass by barriers or by conspicuous durable markings." If Apple is found in violation of this law, they could be required to install demarcations to increase visibility. News via Market Watch, Bloomberg  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Akademeia High School in Warsaw / Medusagroup Studio Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:00 AM PST  © Juliusz
 © Juliusz Text description provided by the architects. Changes in the public education system in Poland have not kept up with the modern changes in the lives and activities of young people. Generation of the so-called millenials, which entered the high school age, forced a thorough reformulation of the approach to education. It also forced a review of the principles of shaping school buildings.  © Juliusz Akademeia High School in Warsaw is the place where everyone works in the system of oval tables, the teachers do not have a teacher's room, and they remain permanently part of a compact, educational ecosystem. This was the basis of the overall idea of creating a lifestyle atmosphere, encouraging to stay in school after hours of classes.  Ground Floor Plan A huge tribune is organising the space in center of the schoolyard. An universal element, a meeting place that inspires students and teachers to atypical WF classes, geography, biology or literature.  © Juliusz A canteen closer to a fashionable restaurant than a traditional school diner. This was a way of understanding the modern day room. The main difference is that this place is open not only at lunchtime, but it works continuously changing its functions, from the canteen, to the cafes with the reading room and the live art-desk. This is a place where you can work with literature, meet with a psychologist, wait for parents and at the same time sit at a laptop and do homework, preparing the elders. We wanted pupils in small groups to learn the culinary art from the kitchen, get to know the flavors and make inspiring, culinary travels - geography with gastronomy in one. That is why we decided to extend this program to the roof space, where the garden will be located. I think that there may be activities related to biology, but also physics, astronomy or geography. All this will probably mean that students will want to get to this roof. There you will be able to produce hives during the summer season, you can grow basil, rosemary, thyme, herbs used later in the school canteen. Increasingly, urban planning speaks of the use of these roof spaces and the introduction of additional greenery to the city.  © Jędrzej Sokołowscy  © Jędrzej Sokołowscy Hall is nothing like school corridors, rather a scaled, wooden hollow. We do not wanted the bench or seat to be associated only with the chair. We want young people to sit on what they like to sit in the city public spaces or big city malls. It is known that in the classroom they are sitting on chairs, but there is also a tribune where you can lie down and sunbathe during breaks, do some push-ups in PE classes or do jumps while training a sprint. This was what we were looking for when designing this place - ambiguous, multifunctional and inspiring places.  © Juliusz The intention was alsow to obtain the highest level of certification in the LEED certification system, which is a unique approach to educational construction in our country.  © Jędrzej Sokołowscy  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Beyond the Viral Images: Inside MVRDV’s Tianjin Binhai Library with #donotsettle Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:30 AM PST #donotsettle is an online video project created by Wahyu Pratomo and Kris Provoost about architecture and the way it is perceived by users. They visit buildings, make videos and write extended stories in their exclusive column on ArchDaily, #donotsettle Extra. Yes, that library. The images of the Tianjin Binhai Library have appeared everywhere, from architecture blogs and news broadcasts to going completely viral on social media. We had to go see it and show you what the space is really like. So, we teamed up with MVRDV who sent us to Tianjin to see it up close. Tianjin Binhai Library, designed by MVRDV, is part of the bigger master plan for the new Binhai Cultural Center (masterplanned by Germany's GMP). The building has seen phenomenal success on social media reaching all corners of the world. Since the opening, the number of visitors has been constantly increasing, with many of them coming from way beyond Tianjin. It is a library as destination point, redefined. From sunrise to sunset, there was never an empty moment. Visitors line up at the entrance doors, eagerly waiting for their peek inside. With their smartphones in hand, visitors come through the doors with joyful reactions—it almost feels like Disneyland. This enthusiasm has definitely brought a soul to the building. The fact that the library is located 50 kilometers away from downtown Tianjin, in an area still largely in development, makes it even more fascinating. We met visitors that came all the way from Beijing (over 150 kilometers away from Tianjin Binhai) or even other Chinese cities to come see this building with their own eyes. This MVRDV-designed library simply cannot be seen as "just" a library anymore. It is an attraction, a public space, and a tourist destination. Is this perhaps the first of its kind? Now, let's dive into the waves of books. The building consists of two different parts: First off is the main atrium, the eye-catching space, where the social activity takes place; we called it "The Cave." Second is the collection of reading rooms and supportive functions surrounding and directly connected to The Cave. Thanks to these spaces, this is largely a traditional library in a sense.  © Ossip van Duivenbode A Sea Of BooksWhen entering, the obvious attention-seekers are the endless flowing bookshelves. The space itself is hard to define. Stairs flow into walls which turn flawlessly into the ceiling. The strict delineations between floor, wall, and ceiling disappear. It is, first and foremost, an informal space, which stands in strong contrast to other more traditional libraries. People are spread out over the entire area, making their own investigation of the space they only saw in photos beforehand and capturing abundant photos of their own of every nook and cranny, as well as of themselves. The bookshelves and platforms offer an ideal place to take a rest, reminisce, and observe fellow visitors. With guards doing overtime on stopping kids from crawling up the stairs, we flow through the space observing people having a great time. Speaking to the library director, he is proud to have this already-famous building to manage. He shows us his favorite spots and even after a few weeks of opening we see him snapping some more pictures, adding to his probably extensive photo library. On the weekend, he notes, the line outside the building measures 200 meters long. Who said libraries, and books in general, are boring? Sunlight is a crucial element in the design. It is admitted through an opening above the sphere and large transparent surfaces on the east and west of the building. The central sunlight corridor gives a dramatic eclipse effect due to the spherical shape of the auditorium, while the east-west openings give the building a connection to the park and patio respectively.  © Ossip van Duivenbode An (Un)Traditional LibraryMeanwhile, a traditional library is present in the other parts of the building. Reading rooms are varied according to the needs and requirements (including audio-visual rooms, IT rooms, a kids' library, and magazine reading rooms among others). The rooms are off-centered away from the large atrium and sphere, without losing that important connection. On the lower floors, the rooms offer a direct link, pinching into the omnipresent stairs. On the upper floors there is a visual link through the skylight, which gives interesting vantage points and glimpses back into the main atrium space. The sphere in the center of The Cave feels spatially integrated into the wave-like form of the stairs and ceiling. The white surface of the ball is filled with LEDs, which project different imagery and motion graphics in all directions. Inside, there is a spherical auditorium giving interesting sound effects due to its shape.  © Ossip van Duivenbode A Social Space ForemostCurrently, the upper bookshelves in the main atrium are inaccessible, due to strict local fire regulation. Visitors may be disappointed by the printed books on perforated aluminum plates on the upper shelves, but after they start to appreciate the space and the impact on their own personal emotions, they do forget about it. Not all visitors come for books. When asking visitors for their opinions on this library, the printed books were never among their concerns. The social happiness overtakes any discomfort. Perhaps, the next typology of library will not require any physical books? Many architects have taken their shot at redefining the library typology. No doubt libraries will evolve tremendously over the coming decades, moving more towards digital content. Should libraries play an important part in creating social interactions and create awareness of the benefits of reading? Do you think the Tianjin Binhai Library could represent the library of the future?  © Ossip van Duivenbode #donotsettle is a project about Architecture and Experience. Watch 100+ more videos related to Architecture on our YouTube Channel, or see what we are up to on Instagram and Facebook. Tianjin Binhai Library / MVRDV + Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House ML / Arquipélago Arquitetos Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:00 AM PST  © Pedro Napolitano Prata
 © Pedro Napolitano Prata Text description provided by the architects. Located in a rainforest glade of difficult access in the Mountain range of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, the project of the house was premised on dry methods that provides comfort in a warm and humid environment.  © Pedro Napolitano Prata  Floor Plan  © Pedro Napolitano Prata The constructive party considered from the outset the use of lightweight and pre-fabricated components - easy to transport and low generation of residues - such as partitions in cement panels, wood frame structure and metal tiles with thermal insulation as outer closure.  © Pedro Napolitano Prata The house seeks to frame the best view for each ambient: the intimate part opens to the enclosed forest, the social part to the clearing and the valley.  Section 1  © Pedro Napolitano Prata  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| FaulknerBrowns' Plans for a New Indoor Snow Slope is Inspired by Railway Architecture Posted: 16 Feb 2018 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of FaulknerBrowns Architects FaulknerBrowns Architects have recently submitted a planning application for a new major indoor snow and leisure center in Swindon, marked as a priority by Swindon Borough Council. The scheme is set the help regenerate the previously industrial area into a vibrant shopping district, located opposite the existing Oasis Leisure Centre. Russ Davenport, Partner at FaulknerBrowns Architects, said:
 Courtesy of FaulknerBrowns Architects  Courtesy of FaulknerBrowns Architects The development will bring a 2,000 square meter snow center including two real-snow slopes, accompanied by a twelve-screen cinema with the largest IMAX screen in the UK, a bowling alley, an indoor trampolining center, a 130-room hotel and a variety of shops, restaurants, and bars. Drawing on the heritage of the location, the former site of the Great Western Railway Works will see a sweeping roof structure inspired by curved Victorian railway stations, similar to Bristol Temple Meads further down the track. Central to the composition of the building will be a rotunda facilitating the restaurants with terraces and the cinema above, defined either side by the sloping structure towards the center that will be linked with a bright, glass atrium to greet you upon entering.  Courtesy of FaulknerBrowns Architects The externals of the building have been miraculously planned to further emanate railway architecture; the red brickwork will form arches around the base that will distinguish the shopfronts and give the scheme its distinct character. To vertically divide the expanse of the snow box, the red brick will clad the large steel columns supporting the structure and subdivide the façade and the radial steel columns on the outside of the rotunda will receive a similar expression as brick piers, tied together by a band of brickwork around the circumference.
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