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- THE’S House / G+ Architects
- Michael Reynolds to Build Sustainable Public School in Argentina
- This E-Paper Tile Facade Is Inspired by the WW1 Military Optical Illusion "Razzle Dazzle"
- New Padel Pavilion / Saboia+Ruiz Arquitetos
- Young Architects Win First Prize for Museum of Forest Finn Culture in Norway
- A Trip Inside Álvaro Siza Vieira's University of Alicante Rectory Building in Spain
- Townhouses Finkenau / Tchoban Voss Architekten
- DFA Unveil Speculative Proposal for a Mixed-Use District on New York's Pier 40
- New Library in Former Industrial Area / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
| Posted: 17 Feb 2018 12:00 PM PST  © Quang Tran
 © Quang Tran The project is a residence for a young person who works in IT. There is high demand for sleeping area regarding to available space. With a limited budget and the need for a well-ventilated and functional home in a hot and oppresive urban context, the project calls for careful consideration of the constraints to arrive at an optimized proposal.  © Quang Tran  Plans  © Quang Tran The architect wants to bring to the client, a long with a functional home, an experience of space, light, and wind. The proposal consists of an open area - both horizontally and vertically - to make the best use of natural light and wind which are essential in a crowded tropical urban environment.  Section The stair axes, which are distributed flexibly to better connect different spaces, become voids that express openess. The project embraces Le Corbusier's design philosophy of a sequential experience of space: the distance between rooms is increased. Throughout the stair path, the tighter spaces are followed by airier spaces and the opposite. Additionally, ceiling heights vary according to predominant activities: standing, sitting, and lying. They create exciting disruptions in the journey around the house.  © Quang Tran Craig Applegath once asked: "What is the gift provided by this situation that you would not have otherwise had access to without the setback?". We originally wished for connected spaces with minimal decorations that will open up the view and become a backdrop for human activities. The house owner wanted to keep a lot of old items with classical complex forms; this challenges the overall aesthetic. Ultimately, we got a contradicting but liberating space containing both old and new.  © Quang Tran The door has perforations based on the binary names of the client and the designers.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Michael Reynolds to Build Sustainable Public School in Argentina Posted: 17 Feb 2018 08:00 AM PST  The sustainable school built by Michael Reynolds in Uruguay. Image via Earthship Biotecture / Tagma After a successful project in Uruguay—the first in Latin America—it's now Argentina's turn to build its first sustainable public school. The design will use the recycled materials of "garbage warrior" Michael Reynolds, the founder of Earthship Biotecture, and will be constructed as part of the program "A Sustainable School" in the unique biosphere of Mar Chiquita, in the Province of Buenos Aires, from March 1 to 28. Read on for more information about the new project. A Sustainable School is an initiative from the Uruguayan non-profit organization Tagma, in partnership with Earthship Biotecture, that aims to build a sustainable public school in every country in Latin America to create a network of symbolic examples in the region. In this case the Municipality of Mar Chiquita, in the southeast of the province of Buenos Aires, achieved the necessary points to develop this project successfully. The sustainable school will be approximately 300 square meters and will provide a space to teach the 7 principles of sustainability on which the building will be built: the use of recycled materials; treatment of gray and black water; thermal conditioning; application of renewable energy sources; collection and purification of rainwater; organic food production, and the human factor. In addition, outside of school hours, the school will become a community center that will strengthen local ties around education and sustainability. The construction of the school will also include an educational component from March 1 to 28, when the Earthship Academy will be present, in which around 100 participants will partake in constructing the building together with Earthship Biotecture and Tagma, while also being able to learn everything about the construction method developed by Reynolds in theoretical and practical classes. If you are interested in the project, check out possible ways to participate and collaborate here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| This E-Paper Tile Facade Is Inspired by the WW1 Military Optical Illusion "Razzle Dazzle" Posted: 17 Feb 2018 06:00 AM PST San Diego Airport has unveiled their permanent interactive artwork DAZZLE on the Airport's Rental Car Centre commissioned by San Diegos County Regional Airport Authority, that features the debut of E Ink's revolutionary prism technology on a large architectural scale. The installation has been designed to manipulate the form of the façade using inspiration from the World War I military technique "razzle dazzle" that camouflaged the outlines of ships. This phenomenon of visually scrambling the shapes to hide from being spotted can be witnessed in nature too, as the stripes on a zebra equally become an optical illusion to disrupt the predator's perception.  Courtesy of E Ink  Courtesy of E Ink DAZZLE is comprised of 2,100 autonomous E Ink Prism tiles integrated with photovoltaic solar cells to power them wirelessly. The artist team Ueberall International, selected by the Airport Authority, are responsible for a gigantic canvas of e-paper that they can program to display many different patterns across the pixels. Each of the tiles has a unique address, enabling the host computer to map transitions from black to white, evoking water ripples or moving traffic. The information is then transmitted to wireless transmitters facing the building that forward the data to clusters of tiles which is passed along. The e-paper tiles are arranged across the façade in algorithmic distances to each other as each tile is articulated in a parallelogram shape for a dynamic effect even when the pixels are stationary.  E Ink Paper Tiles . Image Courtesy of Paul Godwin  Courtesy of E Ink E Ink is the world's leading innovator of electronic paper technology, famously used in eReaders producing a low power, durable display. The artwork will use prism, an E Ink product line has an overall consumption of less than two of the tiles as panel TVs powered by the integrated solar cells. Their prism technology uses pigments to create a similar matte appearance to traditional paper surfaces specifically designed for the architecture and design industry.  Courtesy of E Ink  Courtesy of E Ink  Process. Image Courtesy of E Ink  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Padel Pavilion / Saboia+Ruiz Arquitetos Posted: 17 Feb 2018 05:00 AM PST  © Alexandre Kenji Okabaiasse
 © Alexandre Kenji Okabaiasse Text description provided by the architects. The New Padel Pavillion softens with its presence the material frontiers between public and private space at the Parolin neighborhood in Curitiba, Brazil. This is specially noticed during the day, due to the players flows around the club headquarters, or during the evening, when the pavilion acts as a significant, LED light, urban lamp. The physical impermeability, common to massive private sport pavilions, is reduced in this project for the simplicity of its architectonic strategy based in three elements: limits defined by green walls, base in podium and encasement as a suspended box.  Plan - Ground Floor  © Alexandre Ruiz The site for the New Padel Pavillion is contiguous, though outside the walls, to the already consolidated Lucius Smythe Tennis Headquarter that belongs to Curitibano Club. This separation obliges the club associates to cross the outside boundary streets in order to move between sport locations. This forced urban dialogue, rare to private sport clubs, was the motivation for an architecture that related to the public space at the Parolin Neighborhood in Curitiba – acting, with the due restrictions, as a counterpoint to the introverted residential buildings of the surroundings, hidden behind fences and high walls, and the neighborhood social stigma, often associated with criminality and drugs.  © Alexandre Kenji Okabaiasse Green walls  Section  © Alexandre Kenji Okabaiasse In accordance to the offset limits imposed by urban legislation, the site was able to host four padel courts, measuring 10X20meters each. The court structure, of Spanish manufacture, is a combination of large tempered glass panels, structured by galvanized steel tubes profiles. The transparency of these court boxes allows the whole vision of the site limits, therefore the sensitive visual boundary for the player extends from the game limits to the green walls that surround the pavilion, at the neighborhood skirts. The wall, edge between the public and private domain, assumes, consequently, the role of the visual limit of the lot through its development: it widens to host greenery, it staggers to obey the pedestrian scale, and it ends as a niche to control the pavilions access.  © Alexandre Kenji Okabaiasse Podium The plot’s original ground had a strong declivity that was modified for the creation of a podium area for the four paddle courts, as well as a terrace which profits from views towards the city skyline. The elevated area was structurally planned to accommodate extra public weight when stands are placed at competitions. The underground area, close to the changing rooms, houses the rain water reuse tanks, serving the whole complex. At the front street level, at the lower portion of the site, a sloped parking lot was placed, minimizing its visual impact from the courts.  © Alexandre Kenji Okabaiasse Suspended Box The New Padel headquarters for Curitibano Club intends to be a center of national reference for the practice and competitions of such sport in Brazil. The project also required flexibility for the installations of stands, assuming that their views would not be affected by structural elements. Thus, from these constraints, the limits of the sports pavilion and its eight stilts (visually read as only four supports) were defined. Over the round tubular metallic supports lies two longitudinal trusses measuring 50 meters long and six meters high, which hang the two other transversal trusses measuring approximately 24 meters long. The twelve meters cantilever at all four extremities help to emphasize the lightness and suspension of the pavilion box, while allowing a better structural behavior of the central span, as it reduces the bending moment at the main trusses. The whole structure is locked sideways by a metallic pergola, element that also acts as a scale regulator at the living area, once it does not facilitate from this place the perception of the total volume of the sports ground.  © Alexandre Kenji Okabaiasse  Model 3  © Alexandre Kenji Okabaiasse The cladding enclosure of the box is done with translucent polycarbonate industrial shutters, material that allows diffused sun light incidence and plenty of natural ventilation. At the days of greater solar luminosity, it enables to practice at the paddle courts without having to turn the artificial lights on. This lucid skin also avoids sun glaring at the players during the games, as it equalizes the strong contrasts of luminosity between the suspended box and the glass panels at the padel court level - where the views from the surrounding green walls or the distant Sea Mountains expand the sensitive bound.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Young Architects Win First Prize for Museum of Forest Finn Culture in Norway Posted: 17 Feb 2018 04:00 AM PST  Exterior View. Image Courtesy of Lipinsky Lasovsky Johansson An international team of young architects based in Copenhagen have won first prize for their proposal 'Finnskogens Hus' in a competition for a new Museum of Forest Finn Culture in Svullrya, Norway. The fourth largest architectural competition in Norway, the new museum aims to inform and educate visitors about the Forest Finns, Finnish migrants who settled in Swedish and Norwegian forests in the late 16th to 17th centuries. The team's proposal, 'Finnskogens Hus', is a museum in the forest. Surrounded by a forest of columns, it creates an interesting transition between the forest it sits within and the perimeter of the museum. The interaction between building and landscape, inside and outside, works together to present the history and culture of the Forest Finns. During the dark hours, the light from within the museum bleeds through the forest of columns and gently illuminates the surrounding woodland.  Hide and Seek. Image Courtesy of Lipinsky Lasovsky Johansson  Site Plan The entrance of the building appears as a glade through a thicket of columns, leading the visitor into the reception area, café and library. Once inside the museum, the columns are still present but more dispersed, and natural light is filtered through the ceiling, a reference to the Forest Finns building technique where smoke was ventilated out through a smoke hatch.  Inside the Museum. Image Courtesy of Lipinsky Lasovsky Johansson The building itself holds many references to the culture of the Forest Finns, such as the primary building material being wood. Burnt wood is also used to tell a story about the slash-and-burn agricultural technique of the Forest Finns. The large gabled roof of the museum creates a link to the similarly gabled roofs of the surrounding buildings, while the plan of the building is straightforward and simple to ensure a clear circulation through the different sections of the museum. It is also designed to have the flexibility of extending the building through a second building phase.  View from Outside. Image Courtesy of Lipinsky Lasovsky Johansson
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| A Trip Inside Álvaro Siza Vieira's University of Alicante Rectory Building in Spain Posted: 17 Feb 2018 01:30 AM PST In 1998, Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira completed the University of Alicante Rectory Building in Alicante, Spain. Twenty years later, ArcDog captures the building in their latest film. The Rectory Building fights the harsh Spanish heat with its fortress-like form. Two carefully proportioned courtyards become the focus of this design and, consequently, of the film.  © ArcDog  © ArcDog  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Townhouses Finkenau / Tchoban Voss Architekten Posted: 17 Feb 2018 01:00 AM PST  © Rolf Otzipka
 © Rolf Otzipka Text description provided by the architects. UpTownhouses is an impressing residential ensemble located in the northern part of Hamburg. Consisting of 26 houses it results from the cooperation of eight architectural offices. Having two to three floors as well as for the most part stepped storeys this particular building row appears as a vivid mix of forms with subtle façade accents.  © Rolf Otzipka The four completed houses are based on two different types with various floor plans which are mirrored and located on different positions within the complex. The total area of one type is 174 square metres; the other one has 179 square metres. Both buildings have protruding and staggered parts, which are developed out of the floor plans. Generous loggias, roof terraces or galleries offer the inhabitants a diversity of spaces. With the choice of sustainable high quality materials, such as brick and wood, and with flexible floor plans the townhouses offer a timeless solution which addresses all generations.  Section As a citation of the city's architecture the brick cladding in warm red brown palette finds a harmonious combination with the discrete tone of the window frames and glass railings of the galleries and balconies. The overhangs and staggered parts of the façades are emphasized through the mix of even and slightly corrugated surfaces. At first glance the backside of the houses gives an impression of a simpler structure. Towards the terraces and little gardens the houses demonstrate completely white façades without big movements on their surfaces. However by looking more precisely it becomes evident that there are several little accents emphasizing this calmer side of the buildings, such as corrugated surfaces, staggered floors or different window scales.  © Rolf Otzipka  © Rolf Otzipka Flexible floor plans make it possible to design different living spaces, which can be attractive for a majority of users: singles, couples or families. One of the house types offers generous heights and open series of rooms, the other one works with more clearly defined spaces and additional guest sections. Little gardens have a modular structure, which can be designed individually according to the inhabitants' wishes. High individuality inside the given construction could be seen as the most important feature of the four houses as well as the whole new building ensemble. The high recognition value of the buildings allows the inhabitants to identify very fast with their new home.  © Rolf Otzipka  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| DFA Unveil Speculative Proposal for a Mixed-Use District on New York's Pier 40 Posted: 17 Feb 2018 12:00 AM PST  Courtesy of DFA Multidisciplinary firm DFA unveil their vision for the future of New York City's Pier 40, re-imagined as an innovative mixed-use district of commerce, recreation, and affordable housing. The self-initiated proposal by the New York-based studio would transform the existing 15-acre pier by revitalizing deteriorating infrastructure while maintaining the popular recreation area and soccer field on the site.  Courtesy of DFA To frame the pier's current recreational use, DFA imagines four tower typologies that would disperse housing across the site to reduce overall density and address the city-wide concern for affordable housing. 19 residential towers will accommodate 450 units and five residence types across 11 tower clusters that will range in height from 96 to 455 feet. An algorithm was employed to determine the optimal positioning of each tower typology turning Pier 40 into a "foundation for a new community."  Courtesy of DFA
 Courtesy of DFA DFA's vision also takes into consideration the future of the site. As the sea level is expected to increase by up to 30 inches by 2050, the design accommodates potential flooding through pier level lobbies for current use while integrating a landscape deck to allow access to a 360 observation deck as water levels rise. Connected to the elevator cores, this deck will become the main point of access when the site eventually floods.  Courtesy of DFA The rolling landscape deck that surrounds the towers is lifted to provide space for retail, cultural, and additional recreational programs that compliment designs for landscape pods, oyster beds, and plantings oriented to absorb wave energy during large storms.  Courtesy of DFA  Courtesy of DFA While the project has no official backing as of yet, DFA's speculative proposal offers a unique vision for sustainable urban development in the city. News via DFA.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Library in Former Industrial Area / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia Posted: 16 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST  © Luc Boegly
 © Luc Boegly Text description provided by the architects. The proposed intervention is the creation of a new urban "center", propulsive and functional according to the will of the Administration to recreate a place that provides meeting spaces, reading and entertainment. The program includes the creation of a living space in which to host a small auditorium, a reading area for children, the administrative centre, and the offices for the library in addition to the archives and the rooms dedicated to the book reading and consultation.  © Luc Boegly The idea of this challenging but fascinating project comes from the belief that reading and culture if identified with a dedicated place, can become an opportunity for growth, training, socialization. The project was immediately thought as a device of connection and sharing, of perception and rediscovery. Our intention was not the one of an overlapping abuse, to go alongside by denying, but to report the pre-existence, by inserting the interior with the exterior, of the urban landscape with the territory.  Sections Everything is developed according to a grammar of design that emphasizes the identity of the individual parts and the relationship between them with radical honesty: the relationship with matter, the enhancement of the main characters in her, from the independence of interventions designed as "actions" in space and for the space, the "architectural promenade" that will accompany the use of this space as a discovery of existing buildings and their context.  © Stefano Anzini  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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