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- MSR House / Brengues Le Pavec architectes
- Summertime Housing / SeARCH
- Paris Longchamp Racecourse / Dominique Perrault Architecte
- Fluid X / Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects & associates
- Veranda House / sigit.kusumawijaya
- Shimotoyama House Renovation / ALTS Design Office
- Sky Farm / VRAP
- DWA NBD Studio / Dan Webster Architecture
- Carbondale Branch Library / Willis Pember Architects
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- AML Apartment / David Ito Arquitetura
- Winners Announced for 2018 Modernism in America Awards
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| MSR House / Brengues Le Pavec architectes Posted: 01 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © rbrengues photo
 © rbrengues photo Text description provided by the architects. In a popular area of the city of Montpellier, in a perfect oasis of calm and yet close to the city center, this townhouse with a bucolic and asserted character has been entirely redesigned in order to recreate large interior spaces and provide the comfort required by modern living. Sensitive to the design and the excellent quality of the materials, the clients wanted to include a certain contemporaneity instead. The challenge was to integrate modernity while maintaining the charm and identity of the house.  © rbrengues photo  Floor Plan 1  © rbrengues photo Significant minor works have been carried out in the living spaces in order to offer maximum volume to the whole. Large folding bays open outward and allow better legibility of the plant life, which is strongly present in the garden. The presence of wood and the warm lights of different lighting methods provide a warm and friendly atmosphere. The flooring throughout the house is the result of reusing the floorboards of freight cars and brings an anecdotal touch.  © rbrengues photo Open to the living room, the kitchen is identified by the imposing black monolith of the kitchen island. All other elements are hidden behind a large set of white wall-hung storage units with invisible doors. Upstairs the layout of the rooms always emphasizes the combination of the present and the past. Finally, the various storage and interior furniture have been designed to meet the needs of future occupants.  © rbrengues photo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 01 May 2018 08:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of SeARCH
 © Ossip van Duivenbode Text description provided by the architects. The ZuidAs business district is pursuing the development of a lively residential area. The 'Summertime' apartments contribute to this with its human scale dimensions and playful appearance.  Scheme 01  Scheme 02  Scheme 03 'Summertime' consists of two pixelated towers. By stacking and shifting apartments as three-dimensional 'Pixels' SeARCH was able to maximize views, sunlight and privacy within a high-density urban environment. This clever offsetting of spaces stretches the relative distance between apartments, offers a large variety of outdoor space and increases the individual readability of the apartments. All while staying within the constraints of the urban plan.  Courtesy of SeARCH  Axonometric  Courtesy of SeARCH Spread across the two towers are 197 rental apartments, mostly for the middle-income segment. An interior atrium provides a generous naturally-lit entrance with subtly coloured balustrades wrapping the 10 floor high void. At ground level 1100 m2 of public space will be realized along with commercial space and a nursery. And below ground a parking garage with a capacity for 150 cars connects the two towers.  Ground Floor Plan Coloured ceramic walls line the large entrance portal. The patterns are inspired by former Dutch bank notes, specifically the golden sunflower of the 50 Guilder and the light house of the 250 Guilder. The exterior facade is animated by the coloured glass balustrades of each apartment. Hues of pink and yellow form a gradient across the building and bring liveliness to the grey office-building dominated surroundings.  Courtesy of SeARCH This project embraces sustainability measures such as alternative energy generation, low temperature heating, grey water recycling and green roofs, meeting the high standard pursued by the municipality of Amsterdam.  Courtesy of SeARCH  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Paris Longchamp Racecourse / Dominique Perrault Architecte Posted: 01 May 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Vincent Fillon
.jpg?1525060726 "© Vincent Fillon") © Vincent Fillon Text description provided by the architects. ParisLongchamp is recognised worldwide as a highly challenging course. After two years of construction work, Longchamp racecourse has become ParisLongchamp. The new racecourse treats visitors to a whole new racing experience.The race for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is the highpoint of the life of the racecourse. Therefore, the main challenge of this project is for it to be able to host this event, which draws up to 60,000 spectators, under exceptional conditions, while also welcoming a much smaller crowd on ordinary racing days. .jpg?1525061390 "© Vincent Fillon") © Vincent Fillon  Master Plan Zoom .jpg?1525060540 "© Vincent Fillon") © Vincent Fillon The project proposes to deconstruct all the stands dating from the 1960s and to replace them with only one stand, the new Jockey-Club tribune, which is both more compact and more functional. Buildings housing support services for the horse races, which are currently scattered around the site, will also be demolished and rebuilt in the form of pavilions. The historic buildings of the racecourse will be renovated.  Track floor plan .jpg?1525060920 "© Vincent Fillon") © Vincent Fillon The architecture of the stand is in motion, like a galloping horse. A slight overhang orients the interplay of superimposed stands toward the finish line. But this gap on the racecourse side creates stands that overlook the course, while on the side of the parade ring, a balcony stand is formed. In fact, all the features―terraces, walkways, transparencies, and open staircases―will provide permanent views of the entire racecourse with, of course, privileged views over the parade ring and over the course itself. The architectural concept is one of transparent "shelves", with neither front nor back, enabling spectators to go back and forth from a view over the stables to a view over the racecourse. .jpg?1525060962 "© Vincent Fillon") © Vincent Fillon The architectural design is very pared down, simple and elegant, allowing the gaze and light to pass through the buildings. The public is always in visual contact and proximity to the horses and professionals, without ever coming into direct contact. One could describe it as fluid architecture that guides movement, as symbolized by the overhang of the grandstand, which also allows the landscape to pass through it. Hidden in nature, The Paris Longchamp racecourse revives the charm of garden parties of the past, of promenades in the wood and the poetry of the Bagatelle gardens, while also offering comfort for all types of public and an effective and efficient facility for all the betters. .jpg?1525060798 "© Vincent Fillon") © Vincent Fillon The project for Paris Longchamp will be a model environmental facility of its kind and thus meet the objectives of the climate plan developed by the city of Paris. In conclusion, the intervention consists of creating a more naturel place encouraging future planting; more ecological, thanks to an innovative design and the integration of both passive and active systems encouraging the use of renewable energy and the energy independence of its buildings; more flexible, by creating a wide variety of places enabling Longchamp to welcome greater numbers under conditions adapted to the diversity of racecourses; and finally, more pleasant, for the comfort of all users of the site, the horses, jockeys, horsemen and women, professionals and the public at large. .jpg?1525060633 "© Vincent Fillon") © Vincent Fillon  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fluid X / Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects & associates Posted: 01 May 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Kaori Ichikawa
 © Kaori Ichikawa Text description provided by the architects. The project is a residence in Utsunomiya, Japan where climate and temperature greatly fluctuates. Site's climatic characters were analyzed to introduce natural energy into the house while unifying the interior with the exterior. Taking daily activities as well as light, wind and heat flow into consideration, the best layout resulted in an X-shape. Public spaces are allocated to the north and south segment while private areas are in the east and west segment. A corridor from east to west divides the living and dining room and is enclosed by sliding doors that provides partition if needed.  © Kaori Ichikawa The living room in the south wing was designed as a solar collector room during winter time, where the wall position was defined by the sun incidence angle from 10:00 to 15:00 hours during the winter solstice. During daytime, the movable partition in the living room is meant to be closed in order to collect heat and opened after sunset to distribute the heat to the neighboring rooms. During summer the wind flowing from the south is let into the house by a large sliding door which encloses the living room, and a mechanism was set up in order to allow this wind to escape on the north end of the house.  © Kaori Ichikawa  © Kaori Ichikawa  Floor Plan The living room in the south is designed as a solar collector in winter time. During the day, Living room's partition is closed to collect heat and opened after sunset to distribute heat. During summer, wind from the south is let into and out of the house. Given the X-shaped layout, a microclimate is created, allowing wind to circulate and gain speed.  © Kaori Ichikawa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Veranda House / sigit.kusumawijaya Posted: 01 May 2018 03:00 PM PDT _72_dpi_03.jpg?1524626260 "© M. Ifran Nurdin") © M. Ifran Nurdin
_72_dpi_11.jpg?1524626751 "© M. Ifran Nurdin") © M. Ifran Nurdin Text description provided by the architects. The concept of green architecture is integrated with urban farming in this building located in the Cipete area, Jakarta, Indonesia. This house not only offers aesthetic beauty and microclimate conditioning, but it also has the added value of using plants that can be consumed by its owners and users. _72_dpi_01.jpg?1524626211 "© Ade Idea") © Ade Idea The challenge of this project is to facilitate the desires and requirements of the client to have a home that can support the house itself while also running the business of boarding houses for the workers and students who move around South Jakarta. In addition, another requirement is the house must accommodate the vision of urban farming concept that also as a hobby of the owner and apply for urbanites in the middle of dense Jakarta. _72_dpi_13.jpg?1524626795 "© M. Ifran Nurdin") © M. Ifran Nurdin To meet the client's desire to have the area of gardening spacious in the city center, the architect proposed different variants of media for gardening, for example the usage of conventional planted on the ground, or vertically by using verticulture across the façade of the building and railing corridor in boarding houses area, and the other methods for vertical garden. The spacious gardening area also provided on the rooftop of this building which can be accessed directly from the owner on the 2nd floor. _72_dpi.jpg?1524626343 "Ground Floor Plan") Ground Floor Plan By implementing wide openings, skylights in every room and holes for cross ventilation, this building lets sunlight in and natural air to pass through. Vegetation covers most of the building facade, filtering the air that enters the building. _72_dpi_05.jpg?1524626409 "© M. Ifran Nurdin") © M. Ifran Nurdin With the abundance of vegetation planted on almost the entire skin of the building included in the section of rooftop, intended to reduce the micro climate both within the building site itself and also in surrounding areas, as well as lead to the impression of coolness. _72_dpi_02.jpg?1524626235 "© Ade Idea") © Ade Idea The use of natural and raw materials--such as natural wood, unpainted wall, floor hardener, and raw and rusty metal for door and window frames--creates a 'down-to-earth' impression of an oasis in the middle of Jakarta's urban atmosphere. _72_dpi_06(1).jpg?1524626517 "© Ade Idea") © Ade Idea A compact design for the modules of boarding room with a size of about 3,5 x 4 meter which in each boarding room is already available bathroom and WC, beds, desks, cabinets' clothes, bookshelves. It equipped with features such as natural lighting, apart from the window there are also skylights, natural ventilation also with small ventilation holes under study table that can be opened and closed flexibly. _72_dpi.jpg?1524626433 "First Floor Plan") First Floor Plan Moreover, the concept of urban farming on a residential scale introduces healthy lifestyle by cultivating edible plants--instead of only planting decorative one--that can be harvested and consumed, enhancing food security from family level. _72_dpi_08.jpg?1524626579 "© M. Ifran Nurdin") © M. Ifran Nurdin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Shimotoyama House Renovation / ALTS Design Office Posted: 01 May 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Kenta Kawamura
 © Kenta Kawamura Text description provided by the architects. In the surrounding is the countryside landscape, in a 53 yr old Japanese house of 80 tsubos, the young couple and their children purchased it for residence and decided to renovate.  © Kenta Kawamura Making the new concept of living a new life in a 53 yr old Japanese house 53 years ago and continuing to the next generation, we can hope to harmonize between the good ancient things with new things and thought of a house that can interconnect the middle area.  © Kenta Kawamura  Lower Floor Plan  © Kenta Kawamura First of all, we removed the part which was expanded and renovated in the 53 years of construction, returned to the original ricefield character style, and tried to insert new elements there.  © Kenta Kawamura  Upper Floor Plan  © Kenta Kawamura The Original Japanese style room was made into a garden, and the edge side was made to be outside, adding external factors, creating a comfort of the space where various elements interweave. The rich space was created by externalizing the interior and inserting new things while leaving the old stuff.  © Kenta Kawamura  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 01 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT  minimal intervention. Image © Jiang Wang
 effective production space and unique consumer space. Image © Jiang Wang Text description provided by the architects. China, a country where farmers accounted for 97 percent of its total population one hundred years ago, has been run by farmers for four thousand years. Chinese folk wisdom about construction is, more often than not, hidden in some seemingly "heretical" ancient books including Guanzi. Diyuan Chapter, The Book of Burial, The Book on Agriculture and Exploitation of the Works of Nature. The history of traditional rural settlements in China demonstrates how Chinese agricultural techniques have evolved. These traditional rural construction works, led by small-scale peasant economies, are multi-field and trans-scale projects that have admirably inte-grated geography, irrigation works and agriculture. This type of production-promoting compound construc-tion has captured our attention and we have dubbed it "agri-tectonic"
In late 2015, Vernacular Research and Practice (VRAP) began to apply the concept of agri-tectonic to a num-ber of micro-projects. With "agriculture inclusive urbanism", a means to realize urban renewal, we try to find the possibility of agriculture feeding cities by designing an experimental model. "Sky Farm", located in a vil-lage in Nantou in Shenzhen, is one of these projects that emphasizes production-promoting compound public space in an urban village.  agriculture inclusive urbanism With ten thousand yuan, one could only buy an inch of land in the center area of Beijing or one square meter of space in Cangzhou, Hebei province, while with the same capital our team was able to build Sky Farm in an area of 400 square meters in Nantou village in Shenzhen. Sky Farm is an "agri-tectonic device" that functions simultaneously as a rain collector, an urban agriculture promotion and a community builder. Aiming to discover the potential ecological significance and productivity of "ur-ban villages", Sky Farm, with minimal land occupation, manages to provide extra space for social gatherings as well as a brand new way to run a community. In Shenzhen, around 10 percent of the land is covered by urban villages that accommodate nearly 50 percent of the city's population. These urban villages exist as a special form in urban space where small-scale peasant economy is mixed with small-scale industries and where constructions are designed to potentially be inte-grated closely with local settlements. For urban villages that lack public space, Sky Farm is an iterative prod-uct that can transform cheap residential space into effective production space and unique consumer space, which is why Sky Farm is so suitable for the new urban village economy.  standardized structure and amateur construction  minimal intervention of black boxes. Image © Lei Yang At a reasonable cost, Sky Farm can provide a highly productive space and thus help achieve the maximum promotion effect possible. PVC, easy to obtain in urban villages, has been chosen as the main material. Also, a standardized structure featuring convenient dismantling and transportation processes has been applied so that the device can be built even by ordinary people. On four sides of the device are farming nets for climbing vines with relatively large meshes to make space for plants and fruits while an anti-bird net is placed on the top for fruit protection and rain water collection.  aquaponic system and rainwater collection  children's paradise. Image © Lei Yang Since the site where Sky Farm was built used to be filled with construction waste, an aquaponic system has been applied in Sky Farm for better plant growth as well as a means for possible alterations to the functions of the site in the future. With no water resource at the chosen site, nine "black boxes" have been set to collect rain water in which hundreds of fish are bred. Through a low-pressure water pump, "nutrient water with fish excrement" from those black boxes can be recycled to water and fertilize the plants. In this manner, a Sky Farm covering 400 square meters operates with extremely low cost, land occupation and maintenance. It is estimated that in a summer, Sky Farm is able to collect 300 tons of rain water, breed more than 200 fish and produce more than 200 jin (400 kilograms) of vegetables or fruits (cucumber has been taken as a test example).  Conceptual model of Sky Farm in the second round  Photo of Sky Farm taken by UAV. Image © Peng Deng Sky farm, with its treillage capable of resizing as required, can be built on rooftops, in streets or in any availa-ble space that's larger than 1.5 square meters, making it a veritable "mobile farm". As for the structure of this device, its lower part is designed to leave maximum space for public use while its upper part opens maximum space for plant proliferation.  productive farming nets and water-collecting ananti-bird net. Image © Lei Yang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| DWA NBD Studio / Dan Webster Architecture Posted: 01 May 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Eve Wilson
 © Eve Wilson Text description provided by the architects. The shared studio of Nathan Burkett Design and Dan Webster Architecture was created by the pair in collaboration with renowned interior stylist, Simone Haag.  © Eve Wilson  © Eve Wilson The building (circa early 1900's) has a colorful history of many forms of retail and industry, which attributed to its industrial canvas. Simone's soft approach to furniture selection and styling effortlessly compliments the vision. The rich features and textures, combined with the exposed beams, brickwork and greenery, provide a space that is light, harmonious and a gift to creativity.  © Eve Wilson  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Carbondale Branch Library / Willis Pember Architects Posted: 01 May 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Greg Watts
 © Greg Watts "Of Carbondale, not in Carbondale" was the team's statement of intent in achieving a meaningful, organic connection to the community as well as an interconnection to the site that would inform the architecture's making. Carbondale was voted among the "the fifty next great towns" in the US in 2008 by National Geographic and is home to an eclectic mix of artists, architects, foodies, environmentalists and recreationists. The design team researched this history in depth to lay the groundwork for working in this exceptional setting.  © Greg Watts Borrowing from Lawrence Halprin's 60's era outreach efforts in Berkeley, CA, the team developed a Take Part! series of open-house meet and greet sessions with the community. The public met with the designers informally and commented on aspects of design organized by subject; landscape, architecture, sustainability, the library program and entitlements. Initial feedback suggested strong support for landscape 'green walls' and public outdoor space, with less enthusiasm expressed for conventional architectural imagery. 'Illustrations', as a technique of representation, proved most effective in communicating design intent.  © Greg Watts A 'call for entries' from regional artists and artisans to participate and collaborate with the design team on security gates, furniture, light fixtures and column surrounds also brought community arts involvement to the project and enabled the community to feel that their fingerprints on the project.  © Greg Watts The building transitions from a residential scale building at the north to a civic scale presence at the south quad. Green site walls at the margins 'grow' the architecture. Generous outdoor social spaces include a continuous north porch along Sopris Avenue, a reading porch at the quad, an outdoor community table and public blackboard at the NE corner of the site.  © Greg Watts Interiority is created through a varied ceiling hierarchy and is played off a uniform ground plane, creating varied spatial and day-lighting conditions across an open field of program areas. Circulation was developed with the idea of a choreographed meandering that allows the experience of Mt Sopris to be slowly revealed through a field of architectural encounters as one enters the building. This purposeful slowness is also supportive of the library experience which relies on serendipitous encounters with other library materials and patrons, both inside and outside of the envelope.  Floor Plan The north porch light well and channel glass rain screen allows southern light to animate the north side entrance. This day-lighting effect forms the representational content of the public face of the library and is intended to seduce.  © Greg Watts  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Video Shows Foster + Partners' Vision for Cargo-Carrying Hyperloop Network Posted: 01 May 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Foster + Partners Foster + Partners has released a video depicting their vision for a future high-speed transportation infrastructure, taking advantage of recent advances in hyperloop technology. Designed for DP World Cargospeed, a collaboration between cargo giant DP World and Virgin Hyperloop One, Foster + Partners' vision for an infrastructural network seeks to create a new ecosystem where urban centers and rural landscapes are interconnected, as are humans and nature. Foster + Partners' concept is in response to society's shift towards an instant "on-demand" lifestyle where goods, services, and products are expected to be sent and received at an unprecedently rapid rate. The DP World Cargospeed system seeks to move freight "quickly, safely, on-demand, and connects seamlessly with existing modes of transportation." While much focus has been given to the passenger potential of Hyperloop One, utilizing the same network for freight creates the opportunity for goods to move quickly and effectively to the hearts of cities, within the context of an autonomous network.  Courtesy of Foster + Partners Powered by renewable energy, the network is envisioned as being safe and clean, with no carbon emissions. Cargo contained in the Hyperloop pod would be accelerated through electric propulsion in a low-pressure tube, hurtling at aircraft speeds by means of magnetic levitation. The network would be fully enclosed and autonomous, eliminating hazards associated with weather, climate, and pilot error. The project is expected to take its first steps in Dubai, where Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) and Virgin are both striving to dominate the future industry.  Courtesy of Foster + Partners
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| AML Apartment / David Ito Arquitetura Posted: 01 May 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Pedro Kok
 © Pedro Kok Text description provided by the architects. Meeting the residents' desire to obtain large spaces in a light atmosphere, using delicate colors, this project seeks to value two important characteristics of the apartment: its great natural light and its large social area.  © Pedro Kok  Ground floor plan  © Pedro Kok The dining, living and television rooms are arranged in a single environment that is integrated to the gourmet terrace and kitchen. The 12 meter long ripped panel acts as a backdrop for all the social area. The hinged doors are camouflaged in the same panel, connecting the kitchen, the dining room and the door that gives access to the intimate area of the apartment, sheltering the entire wooden-clad entrance hall.  © Pedro Kok The predominance of white walls, slatted panel, metal shelves, ceramics, corian countertops, curtains and the furniture, favored the optimal distribution of natural light, allowing the artificial lighting to be practically all indirect.  © Pedro Kok The white surfaces are differentiated by their textures and reflections, and together with all the wood used, they form the ideal base to receive the desired colours. The way the lighting was designed enabled the absence of ceiling plaster in the rooms and bedrooms. Providing clear environments that have a higher ceiling and no points of light that pollute visually.  © Pedro Kok The colourful environment in the apartment enhances the national culture, using traditional elements such as the tile and the ceramic panel signed by the artist Alexandre Mancini. The furniture and the vegetation are in perfect harmony with the colours used.
 diagram The identity of the social area permeates the intimate wing, emphasizing the furniture for underwear in the closet, which has small colourful pivot doors alluding to the magic cube. The design of this furniture, as well as the dining table, carries the signature of the office.  © Pedro Kok  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Winners Announced for 2018 Modernism in America Awards Posted: 01 May 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Starship Chicago. Image © James Steinkamp Thirteen projects have been announced as winners of Docomomo US' 2018 Modernism in America Awards, honoring projects within the United States that highlight and advocate for the restoration of postwar architecture and landscapes. Now in its fifth year, the Modernism in America Awards were founded to celebrate "the people and projects working to preserve, restore and rehabilitate our modern heritage sensitively and productively. The program seeks to advance those preservation efforts; to increase appreciation for the period and to raise awareness of the on-going threats against modern architecture and design." Below, we have rounded up the successful schemes, and an organizer's description of their significance. Design Award of ExcellenceGeneral Motors Design Dome and Auditorium  General Motors Design Dome and Auditorium. Image © James Haefner Photography The Commercial Design Award of Excellence is given for the restoration of General Motor's Design Dome and Auditorium located on their corporate campus in Warren, Michigan. Designed by the world-renowned architect Eero Saarinen and Harley Earl in 1956, both Saarinen and Earl worked closely with the styling team and placed special attention on the spaces concerned with designing, prototyping, and evaluating new automobiles. The 180-foot diameter Dome has become an iconic piece of automotive design and one that organizations from around the world have prototyped for facilities of their own. General Motors initiated the renovation with the design team at SmithGroupJJR, which looked to enhance the Design Auditorium as an evaluation and presentation center for critiquing and displaying the next generation of automotive product design. The overall design intent was not just to modernize the facility but to do so in a manner consistent with the original detailing while implementing sustainable solutions to lower energy and maintenance costs. Lenox Health Greenwich Village  Lenox Health Greenwich Village. Image © Chris Cooper, Courtesy Perkins Eastman The Commercial Design Award of Excellence is awarded for the restoration of the Lenox Health Greenwich Village, formerly known as the Joseph Curran Building and the O'Toole Medical Services Building, in New York City. Designed by Albert C. Ledner in 1964, the building, which served as the National Maritime Union headquarters, was bold in its appropriate ship-like design, in its deference to circular forms (illustrating fairness and equality), and in its stark contrast with the more historic architecture that typifies Greenwich Village. In 1973, the building was purchased by St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers and became the Edward & Theresa O'Toole Medical Services building. After St. Vincent closed their doors, a herculean effort was made by preservation advocates to save the building, resulting in the commitment of the new owners, Northwell Health. The design team, led by Perkins Eastman, painstakingly restored and adapted the historically significant building within a landmarked district to capture the original design vision, while creating a leading-edge medical facility—the first of its kind in Manhattan. Hill College House Renovation  Hill College House Renovation. Image © Aislinn Weidele The Civic/Institutional Design Award of Excellence is given for the restoration of the Hill College House. Located on the University of Pennsylvania's campus, the building was designed by Eero Saarinen with landscapes by Dan Kiley in 1960. Saarinen grounded his design for the five-story, 195,000-square-foot brick residence in the idea of a self-sufficient village; it was the first purpose-built women's dormitory at Penn. No major renovation had been performed at Hill College House since it was built, and although the architecture continued to foster a strong sense of community, dated systems and finishes needed updating. Penn wanted to bring the residence up to 21st century standards while retaining its unique features, and the design team's collaborative approach involved conservation, laboratory materials analyses, and archival research to understand Saarinen's original details and appropriate contemporary replacements or complements. After undergoing a 15-month, LEED Gold certified comprehensive renovation, the landmark reopened to 500 student residents in August 2017. George Kraigher House  George Kraigher House. Image © Frontera Media The Residential Design Award of Excellence is given to the restoration of the George Kraigher House in Brownsville, Texas. Designed and built for Pan American pilot George Kraigher in 1937, the house is the only single-family home in Texas designed by Richard Neutra and the first International Style house built in the state. Threatened by neglect, fire, vandalism, and water penetration, the Kraigher House was the focus of nearly two decades of preservation efforts. Beginning in 2005, a unique partnership of community activists, city officials and, the University of Texas, Brownsville/Texas Southmost College came together to secure and restore the house. Instead of a team of architects and consultants, the restoration team was led by University professor and rehabilitation projects manager Lawrence V. Lof and assisted by his students. A Historic Rehabilitation Practicum evolved from this work and now provides students in the Industrial Technology Department hands-on experience with historic restoration construction. Imagining the Modern: The Architecture and Urbanism of Postwar Pittsburgh  Imagining the Modern. Image © Bob O'Conner The Survey/Inventory Award of Excellence is given to the Imagining the Modern: The Architecture and Urbanism of Postwar Pittsburgh exhibition. In 2015, the architecture and design firm over, under was selected by the Carnegie Museum of Art's Heinz Architectural Center to design the inaugural exhibition of a new initiative known as HAC Lab. The firm curated, designed, fabricated, and installed a nine-month exhibition with a series of programmed events and broadsheet publications (the results of this effort are currently being transformed into a book, to be published by the Monacelli Press in 2019). Imagining the Modern sought to untangle Pittsburgh's complicated relationship with modern architecture and planning and addressed both positive and negative impacts of the era by examining what took place during the city's urban renewal era, what was gained and lost, and what these histories might suggest for the city's future. Starship Chicago: A Film by Nathan Eddy  Starship Chicago. Image © James Steinkamp The Advocacy Award of Excellence is given to Starship Chicago: A Film by Nathan Eddy. The 16-minute short film proactively seeks to bring attention to the controversial and threatened 1985 James R. Thompson Center designed by Helmet Jahn. In the film, Eddy chronicles the significance of the building and its contributions to the architectural history of Chicago by layering provocative interviews with key stakeholders including Helmut Jahn, Stanley Tigerman, preservation professionals and architectural critics with dramatic panoramic cinematography that flies and often floats over the design. Tom Little: Georgia Advocacy  Tom Little: Georgia Advocacy. Image © Tom Little The Advocacy Award of Excellence is given to long-standing Docomomo US/Georgia chapter president Tom Little. Tom quietly and persistently advocated for modern buildings in Georgia including the Constitution Building as well as the round Sun Trust Plaza branch bank building, which was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places after its near demolition for a mini-storage facility. Tom also sought to raise public awareness of the significance of the Atlanta Fulton County Central Library, designed by Marcel Breuer and completed in 1980. Citation of Merit115, Geotronics Labs Building  115, Geotronics Labs Building. Image © Craig Blackmon The jury awards a Citation of Merit for the restoration of the 115, Geotronics Labs Building in Dallas, Texas. Designed by the noted architectural firm of Prinz and Brooks in 1962 for a geosciences company, Geotronic Labs, Inc. was the sole occupant of the building until 2003 and it then sat vacant for the next eleven years until 2014, when it was acquired and renovated by the architectural firm DSGN Associates for its own offices. George Washington Bridge Bus Station  George Washington Bridge Bus Station. Image © John Bartelstone Photography The jury awards a Citation of Merit for the restoration of the George Washington Bridge (GWB) Bus Station. One of two buildings in the United States designed by Dr. Pier Luigi Nervi, the George Washington Bridge Bus Station opened in 1963 in conjunction with the lower level of the George Washington Bridge and the Trans-Manhattan Expressway. The facility's architectural expression is a tour-de-force that incorporates concrete trusses and a unique butterfly-like roofscape above the West Building. After suffering from a certain degree of benign neglect, the building was identified in an Authority-wide study as a prime opportunity for revenue enhancement. In 2008, the Port Authority of NY & NJ selected a developer and STV, Inc. as the restoration architects. Although the GWB Bus Station is not a designated landmark, it was treated as such, and conceptual efforts were shared with the New York State Historic Preservation Office and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Great attention was paid to developing a 'modern intervention' that is respectful of the historic structure, and in fact celebrates the structure, by its sensitive incorporation into the new program. Lurie House  Lurie House. Image © Thad Russell The jury awards a Citation of Merit for the sensitive restoration of the Lurie House, designed by Japanese architect Kaneji Domoto. Designed in 1949, it is one of five houses completed by Domoto in Usonia, a suburb in Westchester, New York. The Lurie House was part of Domoto's experimentation with 'Japanese' motifs couched in low-cost construction, landscape design, and environmental responsiveness. Architect Lynette Widder and her team worked to sensitively restore the original building materials while finding creative solutions that brought the house's heating and mechanical systems up to date but minimally impacted the original design. Banking on Beauty  Banking on Beauty by Adam Arenson. Image © Docomomo The jury awards a Citation of Merit to Adam Arenson for his research, inventory, and subsequent book titled Banking on Beauty documenting the art and architecture of Millard Sheets. The Millard Sheets Studio is responsible for creating more than two hundred works of commercial art and architecture in California and across the country. Arenson was driven to document the work of Sheets in 2009 after reading a Millard Sheets mural had been painted over in a former Home Savings and Loan Branch. His body of research illuminates the history of corporate sponsorship of art and architecture in small commercial buildings, something that is often overlooked. U.C. San Diego Campus-wide Historic Context Statement and Historic Resource Survey  UC San Diego Campus-wide Historic Context Statement and Historic Resource Survey. Image © Geisel Architectural Resources Group The jury awards a Citation of Merit for the UC San Diego Campus-wide Historic Context Statement and Historic Resource Survey. Between 2015 and 2017, Architectural Resources Group worked closely with UC San Diego's campus planners to identify, inventory, document, and develop policies to preserve its wealth of modern resources. The campus' early buildings were designed by some of the most renowned figures in Los Angeles and San Diego Modernism at the time: William Pereira, A. Quincy Jones, Robert Mosher, and Lloyd Ruocco, and what resulted was a collection of buildings and landscapes were remarkably bold, and collectively stand as a showcase of Modernism in all of its forms. Ruocco's Post‐and‐Beam style laboratory at Scripps (1963); Pereira's imposing, Brutalist-style Geisel Library (1970), and the collection of Brutalist style buildings comprising Muir College (1967‐1971) are celebrated as some of San Diego's very best examples of their respective Modern architectural styles. For years, UC San Diego's rich architectural history was well known but not well documented. The historic context statement and survey provide a level of nuance and detail that was not there before and generated an official inventory of historically and culturally significant sites on campus that will help guide future development in a manner that is sensitive to, and cognizant of, the campus's historic character. Special Award of Restoration ExcellenceUnity Temple  Unity Temple. Image © Tom Rossiter A Special Award of Restoration Excellence is given for the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois. Originally completed in 1908, Unity Temple is one of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest works. It is a National Historic Landmark and is included as one of the ten Key Works of Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright nominated to the World Heritage list. His concept for the building was to create a space for both the sacred and secular which resulted in two separate masses, Unity Temple and Unity House, connected by a lower foyer. Harboe Architects, PC spent nearly a year conducting in-depth research and physical trial mockups to determine the best ways to authentically restore and fully modernize this international treasure. Completed in 2017, construction took over two years and involved all aspects of the building. The restoration of Unity Temple not only returns this internationally significant work of architecture to its original appearance but gives new life to a building that will allow it to continue to successfully serve its original purpose as a house of worship for its congregation as well as a tourist destination for Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiasts from all over the world. The jury bestows this special award of restoration excellence for the high level of expertise and care that went into the restoration but also in recognition of the importance of the building to modernism that is without parallel. The 2018 Modernism in America Awards will be awarded on the night of Wednesday, June 20, 2018, at the Design Within Reach Third Avenue Studio in New York City. Learn more about the award and this year's winners, here. News and project descriptions via Docomomo US.
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| Chickadee / Surround Architecture Posted: 01 May 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Jensen Walker
 © Jensen Walker Text description provided by the architects. Located in West Boulder, tucked into the base of the foothills, the site was among a handful of properties that were originally settled at the turn of the century as small residential farms with water rights bound to each property. With a water source fed from high in the Rocky Mountains, the neighborhood is dense with mature trees, apple orchards, and mountain wildlife.  © Dale Hubbard Strategically organized to utilize as much of the one-acre site as possible and responding to the long driveway access condition, vehicular access is limited on the site as the garage sits forward to cede the majority of the wooded lot to the home itself. An elevated glassy breezeway connects the two structures, allowing the historic ditch to flow beneath while providing a unique experiential threshold to the home beyond.  © Jensen Walker  Site Plan  © Jensen Walker The formal configuration of Chickadee is described by simple, geometric, and additive agrarian forms which orient to the front and back yards with two outdoor patio spaces intended to provide sun and shade as desired. The home flows to these exterior living spaces in all directions, maximizing the connection to the outdoors with the use of lift slide, bi-fold, and Dutch doors. The upper level layout is clean and simple, with a common loft area between the owner's suite and kids' bedrooms. An exterior palette of limestone masonry and rainscreen applications of steel paneling and cedar siding is punctuated by structural steel components.  © Dale Hubbard The interiors concept is envisioned as bright, simple, and functional family space described by natural materials and glass that find their way from the exterior to within. Wide-plank French oak floors, architectural concrete, limestone masonry, blackened steel beams, finished timbers, and painted or stained T&G all reinforce how these materials find their way from the exterior to the space within.  © Dale Hubbard  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Firms Like Zaha Hadid Architects Are Revolutionizing Office Design Using Big Data Posted: 01 May 2018 02:30 AM PDT  The Analytics and Insight unit at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has developed data-driven space-planning models for workplaces that can be changed or adapted in real time. The team, led by architect Uli Blum and Arjun Kaicker, applies their research directly to ZHA projects, including the Sberbank Technopark at the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Moscow, Russia (seen here), and the Galaxy SOHO Beijing, which was built in 2012. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects This article was originially published by Metropolis Magazine as "Architects, Armed with Data, Are Seeing the Workplace Like Never Before." A workplace that improves employee productivity and efficiency has been a white whale of corporate managers for decades. But even before the office as we know it today was born, designers and innovators were already studying sites of labor, such as the factory, to devise strategies to boost worker performance. By the 1960s, Robert Propst, the inventor behind Herman Miller's Action Office line of workplace furniture, and others were conducting workspace research that would ultimately lead to the creation of the modern cubicle. These developments relied largely on observation and intuition to organize office workers in purportedly effective ways. Now, advances in technology allow designers to take a more sophisticated approach, using sensors, internet-connected furniture and fixtures, and data analytics to study offices in real time. "You can take into account every single employee, and people are very different," says London architect Uli Blum. "It's about solving the fundamental problems of getting people the environment they need. And the easiest way is to ask them," he adds. But finding out the needs of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of workers can quickly become an exercise in futility.
Blum helped found the Analytics and Insight unit at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) three years ago. His team has focused its early efforts on devising methods to study the workplace and anticipate employee needs. Naturally, Blum decided to experiment with his own office first: "We installed sensors to understand our own workplace better," he explains, referring to a cluster of devices that monitor visibility, noise, humidity, light, temperature, and air quality. Among these were smart surveillance cameras that track the location, but not the identity, of workers over time. "They don't know who they see," Blum says reassuringly.  Blum's analysis was applied to ZHA's Galaxy SOHO Beijing in order to gauge daylight, visibility, and connectivity conditions. (Seen here is the daylight study.) Such studies identify ways office space should be most productively allocated to staff at various points in the day, while at the same time offering a greater promise of personalization. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects The ongoing experiment gauges how employees navigate their workplace to find the spaces that work best for them. It has also become a tool for justifying the firm's signature aesthetic. "A lot of our designers produce beautiful shapes," he says. "But we need to be able to prove why those shapes are better than others. So we look at ways to compare, and that involves looking at spatial data." An effective workplace design, Blum suggests, is not one that optimizes all areas to the same standard, but one that accommodates the whole range of space and personal preferences. Yet in this way, he shares a fundamental assumption with the designers of the past: A space either helps or hinders the organization that uses it, and the designer's challenge lies in finding out exactly which differences in a workspace will make a difference for the organization. Frederick Winslow Taylor is widely known for shaping conditions of industrial labor in the early 20th century, but his work also had a significant impact on the development of the modern office. Scientific management, the field Taylor pioneered, improved productivity on factory floors by streamlining industrial processes according to insights gleaned from observation. By understanding the machine, worker, and factory as integrally connected components of enterprise, disciples of Taylorism established the basic tenets of the modern workplace as the meeting of people, place and equipment. Contemporaries of Taylor, such as the husband-and-wife team Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, maximized worker productivity by reducing "waste time and motion"—as they called unnecessary movements in their many time-motion studies—from repetitive operations. Their techniques vastly improved output in an array of contexts like typing and brick-laying. But this approach had its limits: Workers can only move so fast, and they inevitably become fatigued. One way past this hurdle was to shift the focus from workers to their environment, and to ask how space itself might alleviate stress and improve wellbeing. The installation of air conditioning in factories at the turn of the century was motivated by the promise of increased machine efficiency, but it was also, incidentally, an early instance of workplace design for wellness. The idea worked, and it was a similar logic that saw AC become commonplace in the modern office, where early studies claimed gains in typist productivity of nearly a quarter.  Last year, Steelcase launched their Smart + Connected Workplace concept (seen here), which also uses a sensor-based system to help organize and optimize office space, for managers as well as employees. Image Courtesy of Steelcase Today's workplace experts like Blum are similarly concentrating on the relationship between work environments and employee efficiency. As the nature of work continues to evolve, finding the best ways to support workers remains a moving target. The furniture manufacturer Steelcase recently developed a digital and physical infrastructure that helps organizations use their space more effectively as more work takes place online. According to Scott Sadler, category product manager at Steelcase, "nearly half of all workspace is simply not being used." The "Smart + Connected Workplace," as the new concept is called, aims to streamline employee access to workspace and meeting rooms, and help organizations understand how their space is working. Connected sensors, signage, and furniture provide space availability data on a proprietary app down to the minute. Workers can seamlessly set up meetings by finding an available space that meets their needs through the app, then inviting attendees. The app will even reserve meeting rooms on both ends of a teleconference between employees working in different offices. "We try to bring all that data together so it can be where it's most effective—in the palm of the employee's hand," Sadler says.  Makers of office furniture systems have also invested a lot in similar space-planning research. Humanscale, for example, unveiled its OfficeIQ tool (seen here) at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. Image Courtesy of Humanscale These new, immediate possibilities motivate workplace consultants like Arjun Kaicker, a collaborator of Blum's at ZHA and the former head of workplace design at Foster + Partners. "In the past it was incredibly difficult to have a sophisticated approach to dealing with people individually," he explains, and so more often than not planners spoke only to leadership. Even then, he adds, "if you had even 20 people, you had too many computational variables. Now we can do it instantly for 4,000 people." Kaicker's method suggests a turn toward mass customization in which workspace supply can be perfectly tuned to demand. "It lets us bring the user in," he says. "Every workstation is different, so we can help people find the spaces that are best for them to work in. That's never been done before." But not all architects are crunching numbers in search of an answer. For Jeffrey Inaba, a principal of the Brooklyn-based architecture firm Inaba Williams, the key to effective workplace design isn't necessarily more information, but rather thinking strategically about what architecture can do for an organization as a whole. Spaces that can anticipate and respond to future changes in the business, such as rapid growth or downsizing, ensure that workplace architecture can effectively serve an organization in all scenarios. "The real architectural service is in thinking about how to question what the client needs," Inaba says. "It's the role of the architect to be projective about what can be introduced, rather than what is appropriate and obvious." Digital-first business models are loading other demands onto the workplace, which is called upon to be an outward-facing, real-world representation of a company that customers have mostly encountered online. "The people who are coming to us realize that as the world becomes more virtual, and work becomes more immaterial, architecture becomes more important to their business," he says. "It's a way for them to stand out, to produce spaces that are special because they are physical." The definition of an effective workplace is, as ever, constantly changing. And for Inaba, every client's needs are different. "In many cases the turn to the physical is one that they're making for the first time," he says. "Design is about revealing the questions that a company needs to ask itself." This article is part of the "tech x interiors" special section that was guest-edited by the design firm Studio O+A. The section, which appeared in the April 2018 issue of Metropolis Magazine, explores how technology is reshaping the workplace. You can find the full section online here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Pórtico Palmeto Building / TACO taller de arquitectura contextual Posted: 01 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Leo Espinosa
 © Leo Espinosa Text description provided by the architects. Portico Palmeto is a multifunctional building that arises within what was the Palmetum (collection of palm trees) of iconic "Vivero Cholul", a green lung of 2.5 hectares extension and several years old, located in Cholul´s heart; a Mayan-colonial origin community belonging to the municipality of Merida, southeast of Mexico.  © Leo Espinosa The general objective was to develop a way of living in contact with a natural and social consolidated environment, at the same time of being a functional, versatile and inspiring building for the activities that would be developed in it.  © Leo Espinosa  Lower Plan  © Leo Espinosa The main activity that takes place in the complex is that of architecture workshop / studio"; However, the spaces were designed away from a stereotype related to a traditional work space and focused on making the experience of working in it more welcoming and domestic, due to the awareness of being a place where people spend much of their day time. For the visitors, the objective was to establish a sensorial connection with architectural-constructive values promoted by the workshop. Socio-cultural activities are carried out as a secondary activity.  Longitudinal Sections The program consists of a permeable multifunctional esplanade, a "garden / pedestrian path" as part of the master plan, a programmed portico with terraces and relaxation areas that also orders acces public and private areas, a "living room / meetings room", a kitchenette, a full bathroom, a storage room, a work area, a central patio and an open roof terrace with two half bathrooms and a machine room.  © Leo Espinosa The construction is located at the back of the land due to functional considerations and progressivity in the master plan of which is a part, and maintains its visibility from the street as a neighborhood security strategy. Its volumetry is defined from an existing tree survey, as well as from the passive systems it implements (zenith openings for hot air evacuation, orientation based on sunlight, cross ventilation, high ceilings, etc.). The portico has a series of deployable bamboo panels produced in the area, which work to control the insolation, the level of privacy and the security of the building against vandalism and hurricanes.  Transversal Sections The construction system is the most common in the region, based on blocks, joists and cement slabs. The roof was cast in site with waterproof concrete and is thermally insulated with polystyrene panels. Hydrosanitary facilities separate gray and black waters, which are treated by means of a grease trap and a biodigester, respectively. Lighting is LED and the equipment implement Inverter technology.  © Leo Espinosa In terms of materiality, the architectural finishes are apparent to reduce maintenance. The floors are made of white concrete (with echocrete joints to release moisture from the floor), as well as the pre-cast plates on site with which the fixed furniture was assembled. The walls and ceilings have burnished stucco that was pigmented with the earth tone of the site. The carpentry used hard wood resistant to termites. Windows were made with natural aluminum and tempered glass. All interior spaces consider mosquito nets.  © Carlos Patrón The colors are perceived in the access thresholds to public areas and also in furniture pieces. These were chosen from site’s popular architecture, as well as by their ability to dialogue with the tones of preexisting vegetation, which was reinforced with endemic species that attract wild birds, aromatic species and species of human consumption present in the traditional "Mayan Solar". Likewise, aquatic gardens that function as mosquito controllers and fauna attractants were implemented. These considerations add to the range of intangible sensations that can be perceived in the building.  © Leo Espinosa Its aspiration is to be a syncretic building capable of abstracting the qualities of a regional architectural heritage that ranges from the coherence of the Mayan vernacular architecture, the sobriety and mysticism of the Franciscan convents and the functionality of the Yucatan haciendas (among others); to reconcile them with the characteristics of the historical moment in which it is situated.  © Leo Espinosa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| This Instagram Account Uses Paper Cut-Outs to Turn Architecture Into Surreal Scenes Posted: 01 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Have you ever thought a building looked suspiciously similar to a futuristic tank? Or, perhaps a gothic spire was eerily reminiscent of a matchstick? You're not alone. Rich McCor, aka paperboy, has been traveling the world since 2015 filling his Instagram account with whimsical photographs of black paper cut-outs that transform often serious works of architecture into playful cartoon-like images. Taking Christoph Niemann's surreal account abstractsunday as a starting point, McCor was inspired to disrupt the norms of architecture and embellish the everyday. Though the account originally began while McCor was exploring the UK "it's taken me way beyond London to corners of the world I never thought I'd see," he says. It's easy to see why his humorous images of golf ball domes, beach-side creatures, and a pyramid-turned-magic trick have garnered McCor over 350k followers.
See more recent work from paperboyo below as well as our previous coverage of McCor here and here.
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| New Extension for Revit Exports Models Directly to Sketchfab for Online Sharing Posted: 30 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT
Sketchfab, the powerful architectural visualization software and database, is more convenient than ever thanks to a new extension for Revit developed by Emanuel Favreau of Montreal firm Larose McCallum Architects. Adding Revit to Sketchfab's extensive list of software add-ons is a big win for the Building Information Modeling (BIM) community. The new extension will allow Revit users to export models and scenes directly to Sketchfab, where they can be viewed in 3D and virtual reality from any device simply by following a link.
Sketchfab's jump into the BIM scene allows for complex and detailed building models done in Revit to be quickly shared and reviewed with clients. The extension strips away the majority of BIM-related information in the model, leaving the essential geometric and visualization information needed to create the VR and animation-compatible models. To see if this new tool fits into your workflow, you can find out more about Sketchfab and the Revit extension here. Correction Update: This article originally identified the Revit extension as an official release by Sketchfab. It was in fact created by Emanuel Favreau of Larose McCallum Architects, although Sketchfab has offered the creators feedback and support for the extension.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Damião de Góis Museum and the Victims of the Inquisition / spaceworkers Posted: 30 Apr 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
 © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Text description provided by the architects. Intervening in an existing building is in itself a good challenge, when we have added centuries of history to the pre-existence, the challenge is even greater. The intervention focuses on the creation of an exhibition structure, alluding to the life and historical legacy of Damião de Gois, inside an old, restored church in Alenquer. The church, now emptied of this function, is now a "container" space with its own identity, marked by the geometry of its vaulted ceilings and the texture of its brick walls, with great plastic value.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The proposal seeks precisely to value the plastic characteristics of space and minimize its impact on pre-existence, respecting the existing, moving away from the walls, seeking a central position in space, assuming a geometry that is familiar to the building, originated by an offset to the shapes of the ceiling and walls, capturing the configuration of the void that exists in a kind of dark colored, fragmented nucleus that receives and organizes the exhibition and the visitors.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  Axonometric  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG This nucleus, although fragmented, gives the visitor an idea of virtual continuity, where their voids are understood as moments of pause and contemplation of the existent and as moments of penetration inside the nucleus, exploring this ancestral relationship of interior and exterior, which has fascinated us since the beginning of the project.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  Plan  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG The exhibition space is assumed as a delicate black element that invites its discovery and that stands out from the remaining chromatism of the existing space, without ever overlapping it but without losing its spatial characteristics.  © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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