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- Visconde Setúbal House / Alessandro Pepe Arquitecto
- Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter's Sculpture By The Sea Transforms Cottesloe Beach Into Floating Desert Island
- Prince Claus Conservatory / BDG Architects
- Holiday House - Deer / Sintija Vaivade_Arhitekte
- Elephant House / Foster + Partners
- A Box in Disguise / Wahana Architects
- Mushroom House / SPACESPACE
- Expandable House / Urban Rural Systems
- Whare Koa House / Strachan Group Architects
- Let Us Celebrate the Women who are Shaping Architectural Practices Around the World
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| Visconde Setúbal House / Alessandro Pepe Arquitecto Posted: 03 Apr 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Attilio Fiumarella
 © Attilio Fiumarella Text description provided by the architects. This is a student house located in the center of Porto city. The experience of construction workers permitted the development of good level details of construction, even using the simplest materials. The building has a total of four floors: the basement, the ground floor, the first floor and the attic. In the basement is where the community areas are: two kitchens, two bathrooms, a storage space and a technical area. Within the main kitchen, there is an informal living area that - with the help of the backyard garden - offers a continuous space, for social student gatherings.  © Attilio Fiumarella  Floor Plans  © Attilio Fiumarella This hybrid kitchen is the main space of the house.Since the space in which it was inserted couldn't offer condition for a clear separation between kitchen and living space and since we needed to integrate a secondary wooden structure to the existing concrete one, belonging to the 1950s refurbishment of the house, we decided to maintain the original 1900 structure and designed the kitchen furniture to be part of the house structure, using same wood (Portuguese pine) and integrating it in the walls.  © Attilio Fiumarella This mixture of elements has prevailed since the start of the design. The main entrance is from the Rua Visconde Setúbal. And at the end of the staircase is the dorm room hall. The big mirror on this staircase amplifies the perception of the space and creates some visual relation with the existing skylight frame.
In this residence there are a total of eight rooms, six of them are simple, and two are double rooms. The room windows are doubled. We followed the idea to rehabilitate the 1920s wooden elements, even if they didn't perform as present-day frames. Therefore we created a secondary wooden frame with integrated shutter panels. The result is an excellent performance with the same expense of a standard PVC window.  Sections 1  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2018 09:00 PM PDT _Ross_Duggan.jpg?1522798592 "© Ross Duggan") © Ross Duggan On The Desert Island in Cottesloe Beach, Australia, a 72-meter wall of mirrors partitions out a section of the sand, creating a cove of its own. The wall faces the Indian Ocean, and the curved reflection of sand merging with the soft-blue waters and the horizon beyond creates an illusion of an enclosed space; a desert island floating in an endless sea. Conceived of by the Danish architecture studio Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter, the installation was brought to life in Australia during the annual Sculpture By The Sea exhibition last month. It is the largest free public sculpture exhibition in the world, and anyone can submit their ideas. As beachgoers stumbled upon this panorama of the shore upon sand, they danced, took photos, and watched the sunset from the wavering reflections of the mythical island. _David_Dare_Parker.jpg?1522822132 "© David Dare Parker") © David Dare Parker _Clyde_Yee.jpg?1522822481 "© Clyde Yee") © Clyde Yee _Richard_Watson.jpg?1522822029 "© Richard Watson") © Richard Watson It is a sublime installation, where isolation and togetherness mirror each other. Johan Gjøde, creative director and founder of Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter. describes the installation as both a framing of the landscape and a framework for social interaction:
Using simple geeometry and reflection as visual effect, the firm has created an inviting space for people to interact both socially and with the scenery. Not only does the curved wall create the illusion of an isolated island and trigger the imaginaton, people who enter also experience the simple beauty of the ever-changing landscape together. They become part of the reflection of the scenic surroundings and the installation itself. _Richard_Watson.jpg?1522822056 "© Richard Watson") © Richard Watson _Gj%C3%B8de___Partnere_Arkitekter.jpg?1522822633 "© Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter") © Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter And at sunset, it looks like tens of splendid suns have descended upon The Desert Island. _Gj%C3%B8de___Partnere_Arkitekter.jpg?1522822545 "© Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter") © Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter _Gj%C3%B8de___Partnere_Arkitekter.jpg?1522822514 "© Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter") © Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter _Gj%C3%B8de___Partnere_Arkitekter.jpg?1522822610 "© Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter") © Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter _Gj%C3%B8de___Partnere_Arkitekter.jpg?1522822579 "© Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter") © Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter The curved wall that distinguishes this space is a 63.4 meter wide semicircle and covers an area of 880 sqm. While it functions in a mythical way, its construction is more simple, practical, and down-to-earth. It was created by glass mirrors glued to standard sized plywood boards and supported by triangular timber frames. The timber frames are then attached to a steel plate, that is then covered by half a meter of sand. The weight of this sand over steel plates is what fixates the entire installation in the ground so that the semi-circled wall can withstand the enormous wind pressure from the coast. This installation is the largest by the studio Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter. Another prominent project from the firm is The Infinite Bridge, first exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea in 2015 in Aarhus, Denmark, and later rebuilt as a permanent installation at the same location. The video below shows footage of this installation as well as some other impressive, provoking structures that make up Sculpture by the Sea 2018.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Prince Claus Conservatory / BDG Architects Posted: 03 Apr 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © Gerard van Beek
 © Gerard van Beek Text description provided by the architects. In the renewed, extensive and earthquake-proof Prince Claus Conservatory all courses are brought together under one roof: the Jazz department and the department for Classical music. BDG Architects has transformed the old inward-facing building into a visible school that both shows the international standing and the warm-heartedness of the conservatory.  © Gerard van Beek In the new school building, all courses are brought together under one roof: the Jazz department and the department for Classical music. BDG Architects has transformed the old inward-facing building into a visible school that both shows the international standing and the warm-heartedness of the conservatory. On street level classical reliefs were designed that refer to the buildings that used to stand there. The modern façade above it, with yellow golden shades, gives the building literally and figuratively a golden edge. Glass is used in abundance, to show the city what is happening inside the building.  © Gerard van Beek It seemed almost impossible to design a building that both meets acoustic conditions and simultaneously is resistant to earthquakes. Mass is necessary for sound insulation between rooms, while earthquake-resistant buildings require flexible constructions. BDG Architects designed a 'seismic construction' with floors and load-bearing walls, that are able to move during a quake. The two concert halls, the practice rooms and the café were built following a box-in-box construction. These rooms are placed like loose boxes on the floor with rubber springs and packed in thick layers of insulation material. Because the walls in these rooms are relatively light and do not touch the 'seismic construction' anywhere, the conservatory has succeeded in building earthquake-resistant and meanwhile achieving acoustic quality.  Ground floor plan  Upper floor plan The striking stone facade formed a challenge as well. How do you create an image of detailed masonry on a façade that also has to stay upright during an earthquake? We solved this issue by attaching the stones to concrete elements. And these elements are attached to the construction. This solution makes the façade less vulnerable. At the beginning of January 2018 Groningen was confronted with an earthquake. So immediately after the construction works ended, we could determine that the construction functions well. Jack Siahaya, facility manager at the Prince Claus Conservatoire: "We could clearly feel the shocks here. We immediately looked for cracks in the walls and floors. And we checked the double glass. But everything is as it should be, luckily! "  © Gerard van Beek  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Holiday House - Deer / Sintija Vaivade_Arhitekte Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Māris Lapiņš
 © Māris Lapiņš Text description provided by the architects. The holiday house "Deer" sends a message about the harmonious interaction between contemporary architecture and nature by breaking the boundaries between indoor and outdoor space and making the surrounding the most captivating experience of the building.  © Māris Lapiņš With a gentle approach to the undisturbed landscape, the holiday house "Deer" is located in Kurzeme's natural relief that is surrounded by lake, meadows and century-old trees. The presence of wild reindeer which tend to graze both near the house or more remotely in the woods creates a special context for the robust exterior - a peculiar poetry of minimalist architecture.  © Māris Lapiņš  Plan  © Māris Lapiņš The task was very clear from the outset - the client wanted to see a harsh architecture in terms of expression, which corresponds to the main function of the building - a men's gathering place where fishing, playing cards and unhurried conversations could take place while enjoying a cigar or a glass of wine.  © Māris Lapiņš The video represents two main axis that define overall concept - a visual axis that goes along the new driveway, continues through the building and leads to the lake, while the other shapes the building's architecture according to the terrain. The sculptural image of the building with its different slopes in the facades and the glass structures originates out of the different levels of natural terrain. The silhouette of the building changes from different views revealing various characters of the facades.  Section  © Māris Lapiņš "I perceive concrete as an absolutely living, natural material. I did not seek to achieve an ideal, smooth texture. On the contrary, I kept the joins and the uneven colour. What's more, like all natural materials, concrete 'ages' gracefully: on the outside it's lighter and in four to five years time, under the influence of the sun, it will become altogether white, while remaining grey in the shade." Architect Sintija Vaivade.  © Māris Lapiņš When you enter the hallway you will find a panoramic landscape with the lake. Expansive glazing occupies almost all of the south facade facing the lake, creating fascinating translucency and a sense of nature's presence.  © Māris Lapiņš "This is my understanding of the Latvian landscape, it is my answer to how I see it. The presence of nature is the most important element experienced in this building."Architect Sintija Vaivade  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Elephant House / Foster + Partners Posted: 03 Apr 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Nigel Young
 © Richard Davies  Site Plan Text description provided by the architects. Set within a historic royal park, adjacent to the Frederiksberg Palace, Copenhagen Zoo is among the oldest zoos in Europe and one of Denmark's most popular cultural institutions, with 1.2 million visitors a year. Among the Zoo's most visited inhabitants are the Indian elephants. The starting point for the design of this new Elephant House was to provide these magnificent animals with a healthy, stimulating environment and in the process to create easily accessible spaces from which visitors can see and enjoy them.  © Richard Davies  Sketch Extensive research into elephants' social patterns provided design cues. The tendency for bull elephants in the wild to roam away from the herd suggested a plan organised around two separate enclosures. These enclosures are dug into the sloping site, both to minimise the building's physical impact in the landscape and to optimise its passive thermal performance. Covered with glazed domes, the spaces maintain a strong visual connection with the sky and changing patterns of daylight. From the entrance square visitors enter the foyer and are lead by ramps down into an educational space, with views into the enclosures along the way. At the end of this route, broad public terraces offer splendid views across the herd paddock. Barriers between the animals and visitors are discreet, and the paddock walls are concealed in a linear pool so that the visitor encounters the elephants as another 'surprise' in the landscape of the park.  © Nigel Young Significantly, the building sets new zoological standards in terms of the elephants' physical well-being. The main enclosure enables the six cows and calves to congregate and sleep together, as they would in the wild, while the floors are heated to keep them dry and thus maintain the health of the animals' feet. Other aspects of the design resulted from research into the elephants' natural habitat. The paddocks recreate a section of dry riverbed as found at the edge of the rainforest – a favourite haunt of Asian elephants. With its mud holes, pools and shading objects, it is a place where the animals are able to play and interact freely.  Section  © Richard Davies  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| A Box in Disguise / Wahana Architects Posted: 03 Apr 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © Mario Wibowo
 © Mario Wibowo Text description provided by the architects. Located in residential area in West Jakarta, basically the building is not supposed to be created "pompous", "arrogant" and impressed the enormous weight. Asking and persuading the client about the truly needs is one of solution. With clients who are enthusiastic and helped by the intens communication, the value of understanding the need of space is fulfilled. Since breaking down the building into several main masses was not enough to prevent the building to be impressed pompous, we use horizontal clear lines to break the scale.  © Mario Wibowo A home with the warmth of family relationships is the essence of thinking in this 1800 sqm dwelling set. The challenge of designing a spacious dwelling is how to make the family members who live it always feel close and comfortable. This is a special concept that we offer as an architect through design solutions. This residence becomes special because it is not visible directly from the outside, hidden among the thick dense trees. A different character from the location of this home environment and make it charming green spaces. We utilize an area of 1500 sqm to build three building masses consisting of 3 floors and 1basement, 2 living rooms, dining room, 2 pantry, 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms / powder rooms, work spaces, children room, roof terrace, swimming pool, 3 decorative fountains, 200sqm vertical garden and koi fish pond.  © Mario Wibowo Green spaces around this house can be enjoyed from the inside because of the building is wrapped in a glass wall. For example, the living room facing shady and fresh. Even client can greet the mornings while enjoying coffee at a dinner table that is deliberately exposed out of the dining room. Not only that kids lounge also overlooks the pool that all day enjoy the freshness of sunlight that burst in between the greenery.  Elevation B  © Mario Wibowo Large homes should not make family members far apart. Therefore, the width of three children's rooms is as a kids lounge so that the siblings can gather together while doing school work, study or play together. The zoning arrangement of the linearly lined children's room is done at the end of the hall. So both parents can easily communicate with children and give birth to new habits such as saying good night by going through every child's room before going into the master bedroom. The child room corridor is formed by columns and walls covered in teak wood, the door handle is intentionally removed to reinforce the impression of a contionuous wall as if there is no door.  © Mario Wibowo In terms of interior design, interior designer choose to adjust the selection of tone color of furniture that follows the architecture design. Soil colors like brown, grey, beige and black harmoniously align the warm atmosphere in the corners of space. So the challenge of a house on a very wide scale can be muffled through the selection of interior colors that are warmed ambience space. In addition, all the wood used for this dwelling much use property of the previous owner's house. Through a good recycling treatment, making the wood can be reused maximally without having to dispose of the material. Although many details of the room that uses old wood, but the new results did not show the impression of ancient and actually very modern impression.  © Mario Wibowo The selection of furniture is dominated by a number of internationally renowned interior brands like Naoto Fukasawa, Jean Paul Gaultier, Carlo Colombo, Vincent van Duysen, and Poliform performed with the owner and interior designer. With the intense communication and the best product quality, it is no doubt to make room by room appear in accordance with the owner's dynamic personal touch. An important combination of playing texture detail from building materials. The exterior of the building that blends with the interior through open sliding doors and transparent glass walls, then natural or artificial lighting in architecture and interior, succeeds in creating a homy atmosphere that feels in every space.  © Mario Wibowo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Koichi Torimura
 © Koichi Torimura  Floor Plan Text description provided by the architects. We designed this house for a dual-career couple who have meals together only on every morning and their day off.  © Koichi Torimura This house is situated at the foot of a small mountain range where old folk dwellings line along the gently‐sloping topography unlike the new residential area leveled with rollers.  © Koichi Torimura This deformed pentagonal shape site is situated at the end of a sloping community road extending from the nearest station, and a telegraph pole is in the center of boundary line.  © Koichi Torimura  Section There is a comparatively large kitchen in the ground floor because the act of cooking and eating is the center of their life and those ingredients are grown in the south garden used as a fruit and herb garden or in the near rental farm.  © Koichi Torimura  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Expandable House / Urban Rural Systems Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Dio Guna Putra
 © Dio Guna Putra Text description provided by the architects. The expandable house ('rumah tambah' in Bahasa Indonesia, or rubah for short) is designed to be one part of a sustainable response to the challenges of rapidly developing cities like Batam, in Indonesia's Riau Archipelago. Once a collection of sleepy fishing villages of a few thousand inhabitants, Batam developed to be a cosmopolitan city of over one million people in less than 40 years. This remarkable growth, fueled by a new free trade agreement and Batam's proximity to Singapore, has not abated. Young migrants from all over Indonesia moved there to seek their fortune. By 2015 Batam was named the fastest growing city in the world. As a consequence, the city was confronted by major planning problems: How to accommodate the influx of migrants? How to provide sufficient housing, and appropriate water and sewage systems? How to fund adequate transport infrastructure, and provide schools, universities and hospitals?  © Dio Guna Putra The expandable house project focuses on the challenge of housing. It does so by allowing the building to be flexibly configured around the fluctuating patterns of resource consumption and expenditure, or metabolism, of its residents. Practically this means understanding the patterns of household income generation and expenditure, water, energy and food consumption, as well as waste production. As this metabolism is usually uneven and often precarious, it is important that the architecture can be a dwelling and income generating unit, that manages its own waste, water and energy locally.  © Dio Guna Putra The expandable house is designed around the following five principles: 1. Sandwich Section. The house provides a roof that can be hoisted, and floor and foundations (the bread) that can support up to three additional floors (the filling). This system allows flexible financing whereby the developer or state housing agency provides the roof and foundations, while the residents provide infill as their circumstances require and budget allows. It also helps accommodate crucial income generating functions (shop, café, garage, cottage industry) along with dwelling.  © Dio Guna Putra 2. Domestic Density. The house encourages domestic densification in the vertical dimension. This supports the benefits of co-location of dwellings and employment. It also helps to reduce the settlement footprint on arable land, and the demand for expensive infrastructures (roads, electrical and potable water networks).  © Dio Guna Putra 3. Decentralized Systems. Rainwater harvesting and solar electricity generating technologies, sewage and septic tank systems, and passive cooling principles are integrated locally with the expandable house, avoiding expensive and often unreliable centralized, or 'big pipe', approaches to infrastructure provision.  Plan 4. Productive Landscapes. The expandable house integrates food and building material production capacity locally. This is achieved by integrating bamboo plantations and kitchen gardens into the planning logic of the house, and helps further diversify the resource base of the expandable house.  © Dio Guna Putra 5. Seed Package. The expandable house is designed as a seed package, containing technologies, material strategies and planning guidelines that can develop in different ways depending on local social, cultural and environmental conditions. We intend that diverse tropical towns will grow from the common seed package.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Whare Koa House / Strachan Group Architects Posted: 03 Apr 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Simon Devitt
 © Simon Devitt Text description provided by the architects. Opahi Bay has been the McGreal family holiday destination since the early 1950's when Ray McGreal built the original fibrolite family bach and tennis court on the eastward-sloping site towards the idyllic bay. Whare Koa, the new house of Ray's youngest daughter and her family required a sensitive and thoughtful approach to a unique and special place, filled with memories and family history.  © Simon Devitt The home had to accommodate a very active and gregarious live-work lifestyle and see them into retirement. Having been involved with the community for over fifty years, the brief for the family's new house was beyond the normal requirements of a contemporary three-bedroom home. The family's new house was to become part home, part workshop/studio and part community facility to accommodate weekly tennis games and community meetings.  © Simon Devitt The floor plan is T shaped, with the head anchored to the low part of the site, directly atop the footprint of the old bach, accommodating two east facing bedrooms and the art studio with the main living spaces and kitchen above, all oriented towards the viewer. An open atrium occupies the space between this living wing and the workshop with master suite above, with views beyond via the glazed roof and clerestory.  Floor Plans The atrium is a multi-functioning space from which the home is entered, its transparency breaks down the bulk and scale of the building. Floor levels respond to the sloping site and are linked with a connecting glazed stair gallery, reminiscent of the original path connecting the old bach to the shared tennis court along the north face of the building. The head of the stair opens to a pavilion-like room with a double height-pivoting door that opens to the west providing links with the community and extended family located next door.  © Simon Devitt  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Let Us Celebrate the Women who are Shaping Architectural Practices Around the World Posted: 03 Apr 2018 09:00 AM PDT  "Where are the women architects?" Despina Stratigakos, an architectural historian and professor, lamented in her book about women in the practice. (She even titled her book that very question.) The sentiment was certainly a resounding one, well-understood by many women who have worked in the profession and had to break through a male citadel. We know the number of women in architecture is small, and it gets smaller the higher up we look. Which is why we wanted to recognize the women who are at the top, leading practices, and paving the way. To celebrate International Women's Day this month, we launched an open call to recognize women who run their own firms all around the world. And if their projects had never been published by us before, we were going to give them the spotlight. What we found were an incredible group of women who impressed us with their designs, their work ethic, and their dedication towards the profession. Not only do these women design and build, but they lead teams, manage offices, and eventually took the leap to be their own bosses and do things their own way. 1. Ânia Gabriel Abrantesfirm: Ânia Gabriel Abrantes arquitectura | Aveiro, Portugal  Courtesy of Ânia Gabriel Abrantes arquitectura Ânia: "I base my practice on this principle: each project is understood as a singular case. This philosophy seeks to integrate art and architecture with an obligatory web of relations between the project, the work, the site, the framework, the program, limitations and, ultimately, the users." 2. Husna Rahamanfirm: Fulcrum studio | Bangalore, India  Courtesy of Fulcrum studio Husna: "We are adventurers, discoverers and rambunctious playmates. This joy and calm comes through the lines we draft, the dreams that we weave and the zeal with which we stake our claim to reality with the finished project." 3. Roxana Mendoza Courtesy of Agave Arquitectos firm: Agave Arquitectos | Hermosillo, Mexico Roxana: "I see my work as a daily mission to accomplish basic human needs. Architecture is an opportunity to transform cities and I am empowered to do so. I, as architect, am the conscious of the city. I have the ability to tell people what is good and bad, what will be a temporary satisfaction or an everlasting pleasure. Architecture is magic, it defines our behavior. Cities don't live through people, they live through architecture. People come and go, good architecture stays forever." 4. Hulda Jónsdóttirfirm: Huldajons | Copenhagen, Denmark  Courtesy of Huldajons Hulda: "I work on residential architecture in Iceland. I built my first house for a client in 2016 all by myself. Two years later I am still independent and have been designing and drawing houses for independent clients in Iceland as well as working in collaborations with architect forums. I focus on designing a sanctuary for the client, so I work in close collaboration with the client to find the best solution to his wishes. At the same time, I think about how to make the design practical, timeless and fun." 5. Georgia Lobo and Anita Freirefirm: Oficina D.A. | São Paulo, Brazil  Courtesy of Oficina D.A. Anita and Georgia: "Oficina D.A. is a firm formed by architects Anita Freire and Georgia Lobo. We works on several fronts: architecture projects, urban studies, furniture and photography. Both of us graduated in 2008 from Escola da Cidade and worked until 2011 at SIAA, a São Paulo-based office. From 2011 to 2013, Anita worked in the company Diagonal, coordinating Integrated Diagnostics in socioeconomics and territorial research. From 2009 to 2013, Georgia worked on the Museum of History of São Paulo together with architect Pedro Mendes da Rocha." 6. Ursula Emery McClurefirm: emerymcclure architecture, llc. | Lafayette, LA, United States  Courtesy of emerymcclure architecture, llc. Ursula: "Our research practice speculates on the role of design in the confluence of multiple, seemingly contrary systems and aspires to develop tectonics that configure their futures. Our sites are never grounded, our conditions are never predictable, and our parameters are always in flux; they exist at the edges and transformational zones. Our practice searches to define potentialities found within complex systems and to contribute to the rich and unique global traditions where sociocultural and physical contexts are entrenched in architecture." 7. Nathalie Eldanfirm: NEA | Paris, France  Courtesy of NEA Nathalie: "NEA is a Paris-based international studio for architecture, research and urban strategies. NEA operates on the entire spectrum of architecture from building and urban design to city interventions, research and publications, developing projects with an ethical approach to territory, society and environment." 8. Débora Vieira Mendes de Oliveirafirm: Tetro Arquitetura | Belo Horizonte, Brazil  Courtesy of Tetro Arquitetura Débora: "Based in Belo Horizonte, I graduated from the Federal Univsersity of Minas Gerais in 2005 and is a partner at the firm Tetro Arquitetura. Working in architecture, interior design and landscaping projects, I seek a practice that responds to the current demands of the society, that explores diverse constructive methods, and, creates unusual interactions with the natural or constructed environment." 9. Mariana Pereyrafirm: 20 metros cuadrados | Montevideo, Uruguay  Courtesy of 20 metros cuadrados Mariana: "I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and am an architect from University De La República (2009). In 2011 I formed, together with the architect Javier Tournier, the studio "20 square meters" that specializes in the design of layouts for shows. My work involves the production of events, assembly schedules, design of technical solutions and design of stages, backstages and dressing rooms, among other tasks." 10. Marina Panzoldo Canhadasfirm: Marina Canhadas | São Paulo, Brazil  Courtesy of Marina Canhadas Marina: "I'm an architect, researcher and teacher. I'm currently working on writing projects and I collaborate freely with other architects and artists. I am constantly moving between the scale of architecture and object and works within the contexts of Latin American metropolises of São Paulo and Mexico City. I base my practice both in theoretical and experimental approaches." 11. Marina Villelabeitiafirm: estudio 3S LAB | Rada Tilly, Argentina  Courtesy of estudio 3S LAB Marina: "I am an Architect and Cultural Manager from FADU/ UBA. I work independently in Buenos Aires and Patagonia, investigating landscape-identity-culture correspondences through explorations that draw on different disciplines. My series called MUNDO PETROLEO has been selected for the Argentinean exhibition at the Venice Bienniale, within the framework of the exhibition larger VERTIGO HORIZONTAL, which won the national contest for proposals organized by the Chancellery." 12. Lyudmila Castro and Estefanía Grandalfirm: Encaixe Arquitectura | O Porriño, Pontevedra, Spain  Courtesy of Encaixe Arquitectura Ludmila and Estafaniá: "Estefanía Grandal Leirós (Architect ETSAC 2012) and Lyudmila Castro Fiorito (Architect Escola Superior Gallaecia 2016) are partners in Encaixe Arquitectura, a small studio founded in 2015 and established in O Porriño, Spain. Our vocation is to help people design spaces with life that respond to the needs of users, by enhancing the material and spatial qualities to create unique places with personality." 13. Beatriz Marquesfirm: Sabiá Arquitetos | São Paulo, Brazil  Courtesy of Sabiá Arquitetos Beatriz: "From furniture and interior design to buildings and public spaces, my firm Sabiá Arquitetos is open to collaborations with professionals from different disciplines. Our aim is to expand our own field of activity. Through a careful analysis of each project's specificities we hope to provide solutions in a clear and sustainable way, with maximum use of available material and social resources."
We're proud to share the brilliant work of these women. They've become set designers, landscape designers, researchers, and architects for all sorts of buildings from residential houses to museums - and bosses! Cheers to them! And to the women out there who are contemplating starting a firm, may this list serve as inspiration. In a profession that is highly skewed towards men, we're glad that these women are paving the way for a new generation of leaders to come.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Evandro Nunes de Oliveira – Bevah Fotografia
 © Evandro Nunes de Oliveira – Bevah Fotografia Text description provided by the architects. This house located at Nova Granada, a city located at approximately 500km of São Paulo city (Brazil), was design by Estúdio HAA!. It respects some principles initially established, some relative to the studio’s production, and some to the client’s preferences.  © Evandro Nunes de Oliveira – Bevah Fotografia From the principals of Estúdio HAA!, comes the frank and generous communication with the exterior, abundance of natural illumination and ventilation. And discouragement to radical changes on the site’s topography, always when possible we search to maintain the pre-existential characteristics. Both to avoid technical issues, costs and reduce the impact of the new implantation.  © Evandro Nunes de Oliveira – Bevah Fotografia In this project, the site was already all plan, fruit of the planning of the allotment made centuries ago, we searched to transfer the original unevenness to the light block’s roof, with the intention to simulate the natural terrain mirrored, meanwhile the floor level remains constant in the entire terrain.  Ground floor plan  First floor plan From the clients come the requests to use double ceiling height on the social area, and a big balcony with a view to the city’s rural zone, beyond the basic program of compartments.  © Evandro Nunes de Oliveira – Bevah Fotografia The project is divided in three blocks. The first, the rigid block, containing: TV room and toilet at the first floor; rooms, bathrooms, home office and balcony at the second floor. This block was made in reinforced concrete, with a couple of inverted beams, big gaps, and small slabs plans overhanging. The access stair to the second floor is made bolting custom-made metallic parts with the superposition of wooden steps, the side protection of the stair was made with steel cables that comer from the steps and rises to the ceiling slab.  © Evandro Nunes de Oliveira – Bevah Fotografia The second block, the light block, which contains the dinner and living room with a connection to the side garden, was made with metal structure and glass. The goal was to enable an integration with the garden, making the limits between the interior/exterior more subtle, for times the garden enters the living room and times you can have dinner at the garden. The block’s roofing also collaborates to create an atmosphere of exterior space, with a generous natural light, experience of rain and leaf’s rustles.  Gif. Image Cortesia de Estúdio HAA! Right after the light block is found the main suite at the ground floor, that was one of the clients requests: do not need to walk up the stairs when they wanted. This suites also contains a integration with the exterior space.  © Evandro Nunes de Oliveira – Bevah Fotografia  © Evandro Nunes de Oliveira – Bevah Fotografia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| A Tale of Misplaced Trust in News Media Wins 2018 Fairy Tales Competition Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:20 AM PDT  1st Place: Deep Pool That Never Dries. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Blank Space, in collaboration with The National Building Museum, has announced winners of their fifth annual Fairy Tales competition, unveiled in front of a live audience at the Washington D.C. National Building Museum. The competition saw submissions from 65 countries, with 3 prize winners, a runner-up, and 9 honorable mentions chosen for their exploration of current events and the creative process through well-crafted short stories and artwork. The winners were chosen by a jury of 20 leading architects, including Daniel Libeskind, Bjarke Ingels, and Maria Aiolova.
The winning entry for 2018 went to Louis Liu and Senyao Wei, whose narrative set in Beijing confronts the difference between physical and virtual perceptions of the city, within the context of news media. Read on to find out more about this Fairy Tale, as well as the remaining 3 winners and 9 honorable mentions. FIRST PRIZE: Louis Liu and Senyao Wei for "Deep Pool That Never Dries"  1st Place: Deep Pool That Never Dries. Image Courtesy of Blank Space First Prize was awarded to Louis Liu and Senyao Wei, both currently based in China, for their work entitled "Deep Pool That Never Dries." The narrative questions the validity of news reporting within the city, and stresses the value of experiencing the city in real time rather than relying solely on third-party reporting.
SECOND PRIZE: Sasha Topolnytska for "Ascension"  2nd Place: Ascension. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Second Prize was awarded to Sasha Topolnytska, currently based in New York City, for her work entitled "Ascension." The narrative is set in a future world shaped by the consequence of human activity, told through the medium of "the diary of the unknown survivor."
THIRD PRIZE: Ifigeneia Liangi for "The Paper Moon"  3rd Place: The Paper Moon. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Third Prize was awarded to Ifigeneia Liangi, currently based in London, for her work entitled "The Paper Moon." The narrative seeks to challenge the idea of a classical fairytale, seeking to engage with wider ideas aimed at both adults and children.
RUNNER UP: NEMESTUDIO for "Middle Earth: Dioramas for the Planet"  Runner Up: Middle Earth: Diaramas for the Planet. Image Courtesy of Blank Space The Runner-Up position was awarded to the architecture office NEMESTUDIO for their entry entitled "Middle Earth: Dioramas for the Planet." Drawing inspiration from dioramas in natural history museums, the entry questions how architecture can contribute to a new understanding of our contemporary environment with regards to politics and climate change.
The jury also awarded 9 honorable mentions to the following entries. Zhang Haotian and Li Tianying for "How to Make an Architect"  How to Make an Architect. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Carl Ydergård for "Rat King"  Rat King. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Kah Mun Tham for "Red Cape and the Scarlet Knights"  Red Cape and the Scarlet Knights. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Lorena Cano Acosta and Nicolás Mendoza Ramos for "Light of Life"  Light of Life. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Eric Wong for "Cohesion: The blueprint for a united kingdom"  Cohesion: The blueprint for a united kingdom. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Lambert David for "Refuge-ground : Towards habitable offshore salt platforms"  Refuge-ground : Towards habitable offshore salt platforms. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Fouad Addou and Sulejman Gusic for "The Walls of Freedom"  The Walls of Freedom. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Samantha Anderson for "The Torus"  The Torus. Image Courtesy of Blank Space Alberto de Salvatierra for "Cities of the Celestial Sovereigns"  Cities of the Celestial Sovereigns. Image Courtesy of Blank Space News via: Blank Space
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| De Verkenner Tower / Mei architects and planners Posted: 03 Apr 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Jeroen Musch
 © Ossip van Duivenbode Text description provided by the architects. Residential tower 'De Verkenner' in Utrecht (NL) gives a big impetus to the development of the typical post-war reconstruction district Kanaleneiland. The 50-metre-tall building, with a mixed programme of housing, acts as a gatekeeper to this area. The 'slow-made' concrete facade with an incorporated poetry artwork gives a unique identity to the building.  © Ossip van Duivenbode  Section  © Jeroen Musch 'Slow made' facade gives De Verkenner identity  © Ossip van Duivenbode The brown concrete elements, each two floors tall, feature a surface texture and relief details. This effect is enhanced by the incorporation of 13,000 ceramic tiles, made by Royal Tichelaar Makkum -the oldest company in the Netherlands and world-famous for its ceramics designs. Based on a design by visual artist Milou van Ham in collaboration with poet Tsead Bruinja, these tiles feature 16 different lines of poetry that lend the building an identity specific to the location. Scant attention is usually paid in Kanaleneiland to the finishing of the undersides of balconies and galleries, elements that are clearly visible to passers-by. Mei architects and planners, therefore, extended the facade finish beneath the balconies and galleries. The result is a very inviting building. By contracting the facade separately, Mei succeeded in realizing this unique facade.  © Ossip van Duivenbode  Facade Element  © Jeroen Musch Sunny appearance  © Ossip van Duivenbode Roses & Concrete Artwork These mini-stories concern ordinary events and real people. They deal with living together in a house, a building, a neighbourhood or a city in the past, present and future. The ceramic tiles are inserted into the facade elements randomly. As a result, the way you read the lines and connect them to one another is different to a poem where the sequence is fixed. In passing, you can read the lines in isolation, separately from the other tiles. Together they form a varied and exciting composition. Since Dutch politics has restricted project development by housing corporations, De Verkenner is for the present the last construction project with private housing for corporation Mitros. Client Mitros is particularly pleased: it is a wonderful building and all dwellings were rented before completion.  © Ossip van Duivenbode  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Images Revealed of BIG's Latest New York City Skyscraper Posted: 03 Apr 2018 05:40 AM PDT  Image <a href='https://newyorkyimby.com/2018/04/bjarke-ingels-designed-29th-5th-revealed-hfz-capitals-new-nomad-office-tower-at-3-west-29th-street.html'>via New York YIMBY</a> New York YIMBY has revealed initial renderings of BIG's proposed office skyscraper at West 29th Street, New York, on the site of the old Bancroft Bank Building. Officially named "29th and 5th," the scheme will offer a LEED-certified design focused on wellness and sustainability, featuring outdoor terraces stacked alongside a glass curtain façade.  Image <a href='https://newyorkyimby.com/2018/04/bjarke-ingels-designed-29th-5th-revealed-hfz-capitals-new-nomad-office-tower-at-3-west-29th-street.html'>via New York YIMBY</a>  Image <a href='https://newyorkyimby.com/2018/04/bjarke-ingels-designed-29th-5th-revealed-hfz-capitals-new-nomad-office-tower-at-3-west-29th-street.html'>via New York YIMBY</a> Situated in Midtown Manhattan, in close proximity to the Empire State Building, the scheme seeks to "promote employee connectivity, communal workspaces, and fitness options that will pioneer a new frontier of wellness and sustainability within the workplace." The building will cover a footprint of 13,400 square feet (1250 square meters), allowing for green landscaping at ground level to surround the tower. Further landscaping is provided by outdoor terraces on all levels, formed by an adjacent platform structure rising alongside the glass-clad office skyscraper.  Image <a href='https://newyorkyimby.com/2018/04/bjarke-ingels-designed-29th-5th-revealed-hfz-capitals-new-nomad-office-tower-at-3-west-29th-street.html'>via New York YIMBY</a>  Image <a href='https://newyorkyimby.com/2018/04/bjarke-ingels-designed-29th-5th-revealed-hfz-capitals-new-nomad-office-tower-at-3-west-29th-street.html'>via New York YIMBY</a> The scheme will join other BIG-designed schemes in New York City including "The Spiral," a 65-story winding glass residential skyscraper for New York's Hudson Yards neighborhood, and "The Eleventh," BIG's twisting residential towers located near Chelsea Piers, currently under construction. News via: New York YIMBY  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| albino ortega house / Rozana Montiel | Estudio de Arquitectura Posted: 03 Apr 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Sandra Pereznieto
 © Sandra Pereznieto Text description provided by the architects. This house located in Tepoztlán has an artisanal base, made of Texcal stone, occupied by part of the house’s program. It changes from an outside hermetic façade to a great open space that integrates the garden’s exuberant vegetation.  Longitudinal Section Stone and wood predominate. Surfaces covered in texcal stone and vegetation build habitable half-lit enclosures.  © Sandra Pereznieto Water is present both inside and outside the house, refreshing all spaces, filling them with air and sound. Like a cloister, the tour of the house intertwines interior and exterior all the way to the terrace and the great open garden. The main room stands out as a wooden floating house on the second floor; and on the first floor there is an ambulatory pond.  Lower Plan The house combines different intimate spaces with enjoyment of nature and the exterior pool as well as a small secret garden home to a plum tree peeking behind a stonewall at the bottom of the main garden are perfect examples of this.  © Sandra Pereznieto  © Sandra Pereznieto  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Why Designing a Person's Home is the Most Challenging, Thrilling Task an Architect Can Face Posted: 03 Apr 2018 02:30 AM PDT  <a href='https://www.archdaily.com/874409/caring-wood-macdonald-wright-architects'>Caring Wood / James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell</a>. Image © James Morris This article was originally published by Common Edge as "Why Homes Are the Original Architecture." Homes may be the most powerful projection of architectural value. Because shelter is essential for all of us, the home is architecture's universal function. We're all experts on what our own home must be, to us. But architects often have a different view of home. Twenty years ago—during the recession before the last recession—I remember hearing an architect declare that he could earn a living designing houses until "real work came along." Another architectural meme is the classic first job: designing a house for your parents.
 © Duo Dickinson In school we were shown houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer. The venerated Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe was almost excruciatingly referenced. A special category is the ultimate commission—architects designing houses for themselves: think Philip Johnson's Glass House, Frank Gehry's addition, John Soane's home. It's a fascinating window into the mind of a designer, and their Platonic (or fevered) perceptions of everyday life. But the universal reality of a home, the one place that everyone needs and knows, offers up value for architects, and it has nothing to do with style. There are extreme variations found in how homes are presented, from the most cynical pandering of homebuilder marketing, to the lazy thoughtless style-branding by realtors, to the dismissive prejudice of most academic or "serious" architects who discount "vernacular" (i.e. not modernist) homes.  <a href='https://www.archdaily.com/776909/vila-matilde-house-terra-e-tuma-arquitetos'>Vila Matilde House / Terra e Tuma Arquitetos Associados</a>. Image © Pedro Kok Homes offer lessons to designers because they're at once infinitely personal and culturally pervasive. They can be as simple as a glass of water, or as complex as an eight-course meal. I thought it might be valuable to lay out the slippery realities that I have discovered designing, building, writing and talking about homes for the last 40 years:
 <a href='https://www.archdaily.com/562727/sambade-house-spaceworkers'>Sambade House / spaceworkers</a>. Image © Fernando Guerra FG|SG None of these observations deal with sites, or neighborhoods, or cultures, because all buildings must deal with larger contexts. The domestic flavor has a huge bandwidth: homes can be "machines for living" or "home sweet home," but the character of where we live is always revelatory and personal (otherwise, it's just a bed, any place). Maybe it's all in the name: perhaps "house" is a place to live, but a "home" is a fusion of place, family, and the people who use it. The vast majority of people simply buy or rent them and decorate; perhaps 2% use designers to create a fused, evolved and thought-out reality. You're free to interpret this as "reality." Our homes are our most expensive object, no matter how big or small. They can be used to make money by simple appreciation, or they can wreck net worths, as millions discovered in the last decade.  <a href='https://www.archdaily.com/518304/house-for-trees-vo-trong-nghia-architects'>House for Trees / VTN Architects</a>. Image © Hiroyuki Oki Architects can dive into the values and perceptions of the homeowners they design for, or they can design for themselves. It's much harder to listen than speak, especially for those who live to design. Residential architects can be more valuable than HOUZZ, but only if we offer more than the realtor, the developer, or the landlord. The only way to offer more is to partner in the risky act making a home. Here's the final paradox: Creating a home is the most personal act that architects can be part of. But the challenge is that despite our training and skill we're not the experts. Those who live in what we design know more than us about the manifestation of their hopes and dreams. We just have to listen well enough to lead. Duo Dickinson has been an architect for more than 30 years. The author of eight books, he is the architecture critic for the New Haven Register, writes on design and culture for the Hartford Courant, and is on the faculty at the Building Beauty Program at Sant'Anna Institute in Sorrento, Italy.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Uppsala University Main Building / AIX Arkitekter Posted: 03 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Anders Fredriksén
 © Anders Fredriksén Text description provided by the architects. The Uppsala University Main Building is a listed building part of the Swedish architectural heritage. The building and the park were built according to the drawings of Theodor Holmgren between 1877 and 1887, next to the Cathedral and the University's first central building at the time, the Gustavianum. The vestibule is one of Sweden's most prominent space creations crowned by three uniform glass domes. The semi-circular aula is the heart of the building and can hold up to 2000 people. There are also lecture halls and many other classrooms in the building. The original activity, education, and teaching are ongoing in the building today and its role as a collective point is strengthened, as the institutions move to the campus outside the city. In order for the activity to continue, AIX Arkitekter has worked with the accessibility adaptation, fire safety and renewed of technical equipment.  © Anders Fredriksén  Site Plan  © Anders Fredriksén AIX has also worked with the conservation and restoration of stone details in the facades and some other minor adjustments that the large range of activities needs constantly. Technical equipment that is part of today's needs has been inserted without damaging the overall impression and as far as possible without major intervention. Maintenance has been done with traditional materials and methods, for example, worn-out façade has been replaced where serious damage has been found against new, broken and chopped in a traditional way. Parts of minor and harmless damage have been saved as part of the building's patina. The interior decorative paintings have been attached and taken by conservators. Mona Lantzourakis is the conservation architect since 2012.  © Anders Fredriksén In artist lodges and staff, spaces were problems with poor wood flooring, AIX has rebuilt new ones with new, more purposeful floor solutions. A new reception and shop have been built in the hall. Acoustic measures have been implemented in aula and in the lecture halls, integrated into artistic ornaments. In the design, models and practical tests have been used as widely as possible. For example, a test room in a classroom has been built and door automation tested on an existing door pair. To improve accessibility, a number of measures have been implemented. At the aula, the scene has been made accessible through a new platform and rebuilding of the scoreboard. A large number of doors have been rebuilt, either by moving fittings or by completing them with electrical contacts.  © Anders Fredriksén  Section 1  © Anders Fredriksén A new worthy entrance solution has been created on the front of the building. The lighting has been supplemented with new light sources or switched to modern ones in to increase lighting levels. The rails have been rebuilt and supplemented. Stairs have been completed with contrast markings. New signs and information boards welcome visitors. All the electrical system and AV-system has been renewed and improved. New fire safety equipment has been integrated into the architecture. A new fire-resistant wardrobe has been built to reduce fire stress. Many existing doors have been retained by fire protection measures and provided with intumescent seals.  © Anders Fredriksén  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Forensic Architecture to Create a 3D Simulation of the Grenfell Tower Fire with Crowdsourced Video Posted: 03 Apr 2018 01:00 AM PDT Since the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, the people of London have been searching for an answer to the exact cause of the fire that killed 71 people. Now Forensic Architecture—the Goldsmiths, University of London-based research group headed by Eyal Weizman—seeks to aid in the search for answers with their new Grenfell Media Archive. This online crowdsourcing database intended to collect people's first-person accounts in order to map them onto a 3D model of the tower and analyze exactly what happened to the tower. .jpg?1522701937 "© Natalie Oxford <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grenfell_Tower_fire_(wider_view).jpg'>via Wikimedia</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en'>CC BY 4.0</a>") © Natalie Oxford <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grenfell_Tower_fire_(wider_view).jpg'>via Wikimedia</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en'>CC BY 4.0</a> With the investigation still ongoing, Forensic Architecture is calling on the public to assist in creating their comprehensive record of the tragedy. All of the footage submitted will be put into a digital visualization created by Forensic Architecture. The videos will be placed within the visualization and then mapped onto the building to recreate a realistic representation of the fire. The 3D video "will allow the user to investigate the fire, and will sit within a web platform which will ultimately act as a freely available public resource."
Find out more about the archive from Forensic Architecture here.
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| Bee Breeders Announces Winners of Sydney Affordable Housing Challenge Posted: 02 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT  First Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Bee Breeders has announced the winners of the recent Sydney Affordable Housing Challenge. The international architecture competition asked entrants to address the growing affordable housing crisis in Sydney. The challenge aimed at "garnering global attention to the important issue of housing in Sydney, Australia, where the economy is strong but the residential market is among the least affordable, according to surveys of major metropolitan markets." First PrizeBridging Affordable Housing: Tae Jung, Pauline Sipin, Hazel Ventura, Diana Lopez  First Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders The winning proposal is comprised of "a simple module: a structural bridge pier with decking that contains prefabricated housing units topped by a green roof." The design takes the traditional approach of stacked housing, and instead weaves the homes through the urban fabric raised above the street. Parks are formed on top of the units, creating a system of green bridges throughout the city.  First Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders  First Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Second Prize + BB Student AwardNewborn in the Crevice: Xu Jiatong, Gao Xinyuan, Shi Ying, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts  Second Prize + BB Student Award. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Designed to fit inbetween the existing density of Sydney's urban center, this vertical arrangement of units provides a combination of housing units and common spaces. The overall simple form is offset by "colorful openings of various sizes" within the underlying structural grid.  Second Prize + BB Student Award. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders  Second Prize + BB Student Award. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Third PrizeTOD and Waterfront Housing: Olga Filipowska, Tomasz Twaróg, Podhale State College of Applied Sciences in Nowy Targ  Third Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders This submission features "stacked prefabricated units floating within the bays of Sydney." Transit-oriented development (TOD) on an urban scale transforms waterfront industrial sites into housing and commercial spaces just outside the density of the city along a rail system as a means to decrease the use of cars.  Third Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders  Third Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders BB Green AwardWater Smart Home Sydney: Kevin Pham, Alex Hoang  Green Award. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders This entry incorporates a complex environmental system into the building design to create a community that boasts an independent water system. Through active and passive sustainable systems, the building harnesses energy via multiple different sources while also incorporating modular construction.  Green Award. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders  Green Award. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders News via: Bee Breeders.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ETH Zurich Uses Robots To Construct Three-Story Timber-Framed House Posted: 02 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of ETH Zurich Digital technology has broken into the timber construction scene at ETH Zurich, where a research team is using programmed robots to construct load-bearing timber modules. These modules are being used to stabilize the top two levels of their DFAB HOUSE project, a three-story residential unit located in Dübendorf, which aims to bring a variety of digital construction methods together under one roof. The process is quite simple. First, the robot takes a timber beam and guides it into a saw where it is cut to the correct size. After an automatic tool change, a second robot drills holes into the wood where the beams will be connected. In the third and final step, the two robots work together to position the beams, where workers then manually bolt them together. To prevent the robots from colliding during this process, the researchers developed a computer algorithm that calculates the path of motion for the robots each step of the way.  Courtesy of ETH Zurich  Courtesy of ETH Zurich  Courtesy of ETH Zurich A total of six unique timber modules will be prefabricated using this technology for the first time. Once complete, they will be transported to the DFAB HOUSE construction site in Dübendorf, where they will be joined to build a three-story residential unit with more than 100 square meters of floor space.  Courtesy of ETH Zurich  Courtesy of ETH Zurich This project is being spearheaded by Matthias Kohler, Professor of Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich, who also led a team of researchers to design "Rock Print" at the inaugural Chicago Biennal in 2015. According to Kohler, "If any change is made to the project overall, the computer model can be constantly adjusted to meet the new requirements. This kind of integrated digital architecture is closing the gap between design, planning, and execution." News via: ETH Zurich  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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