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• Family House Jarovce / Compass Architekti
• Fab City Summit Paris 2018 (30% Discount for ArchDaily Readers!)
• Museum and Education Center House of Fate / Attilafk Architects
• Island Houses / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
• Revitalizing Theatrical Hutongscape / MINOR lab
• The Woodside / Morphogenesis
• The Sun Shed of Chun Qin Yuan Ecological Farm Renovation / Mix Architecture
• Daejo-dong Publishing Company ‘KL' / Seoga Architecture
• Duke University Marine Laboratory, Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey Research Laboratory / Gluck+
• This Genetic Algorithm Predicts the Rise of Skyscrapers in Urban Areas
• Shortlist Revealed for World Architecture Festival Awards 2018
• Brucato House / Martin Fenlon Architecture
• Casa Quince / RML diseño
• OMA Releases Images of Albright-Knox Art Gallery Expansion in New York
• Trent University Student Center / Teeple Architects
• The Artist-Architects Who Believed Their Psychedelic Designs Would Promote "Death Resistance"
• Georgica Close / Bates Masi Architects
• What is CI and How to Design a Continuous Insulation System
• Contemporary Religious Architecture That Rethinks Traditional Spaces for Worship
• Imaculada and Cheia de Graça Chapel / Cerejeira Fontes Architects

Family House Jarovce / Compass Architekti Posted: 26 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT © Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice Architects: Compass Architekti Location: Jarovce, Slovakia Lead Architects : J. Benetin, M. Gašparová, M. Grébert, J. Kurpaš Area: 160.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice © Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice Family house Jarovce - a house for grandparents and nine grandchildren The family house is located on the northern edge of the village Jarovce, in a zone of family houses. The site is leveled, with an area of 661 m2. To ensure the optimal use of the property, the house is located in the northern part of the parcel. © Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice House for parents Is exactly that kind of commision which could possibly harm your relationship with your family or with your work. Or even both. Fortunately in this case, things went against the odds. © Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice © Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice We received only three bacis requirements: a small house, no stairs and lots of space for nine grandchildren. © Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice Our answer to the this is the composition of a green atrium complemented by the house. The house shaped in a form of the letter L defines the atrium on its two sides. The south part of the plot is opened to the sun, while the northern part is taken by the house. Plan The horizontal concrete roof slab is omnipresent and connects seamlessly all spaces in the house. The slab leans from the interior to the exterior and leads the narrative of your visit to the house from the very entry part to the most intimate parts of the house. The cantilevered part of the roof is set to regulate the solar radiation and interior climate according to the sun path. © Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice At the intersection of two wings, the roof slab is filled with large radius. This curve creates much wider area of the terrace. It is the perfect spot for dining, the place that integrates the garden and the interior. And to be hones, it looks good on the pictures too. The house is divided very traditonally into two parts. The day part and the night part apart. The day part is transparent, connected to the garden and easy to comprehend. Here, the grandchildren are still visible and supervisied. The night part is located behind the wooden wall and is accompanied by small private garden. This garden serves as a quiet refuge in opposition to the noise and atmosphere in the atrium. Section The design of the interior further develops the spatial concept of the house. It is dominated by a mutual relationship of seamless roof, gery floor and long walls cladded in oak. These basic elements define the space which could be randomly occuiped by people objects and furnishing. © Jakub Skokan, Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Fab City Summit Paris 2018 (30% Discount for ArchDaily Readers!) Posted: 26 Jun 2018 08:30 PM PDT Fab City Summit - Paris 11-3 This summer, July 11–13, the annual Fab City Summit will take place in Paris at the Paris City Hall and Parc de La Villette. The yearly event will gather the core team behind the Fab City Global Initiative together with city officials, innovation ecosystems from civic society and industry. Fab City is a global initiative that was launched by Fab Lab Barcelona | IAAC, the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, and the Fab Foundation in 2014, starting a 40-year countdown to develop a new model for cities to produce everything they consume by 2054. 18 cities have followed the Barcelona pledge, officially joining the initiative through their governments and innovation ecosystems. More cities have applied to pledge in Paris this summer to join the global effort to fight climate change and democratize access to technology for social innovation. The Fab City Summit is hosted by the Fab City Grand Paris Association, the City Government of Paris and the Fab City Foundation. ArchDaily readers are also eligible for a 30% discount when purchasing tickets to the summit! Simply visit the Fab City Summit website to purchase your tickets and enter the promotional code FABDAILY30 when prompted. Title: Fab City Summit Paris 2018 Type: Event Organizers: Fab City Grand Paris & Fab City Global Initiative From: July 11, 2018 09:00 AM Until: July 13, 2018 08:00 PM Venue: Paris, France This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Museum and Education Center House of Fate / Attilafk Architects Posted: 26 Jun 2018 08:00 PM PDT © Tamás Bujnovszky Architects: Attilafk Architects Location: Budapest, Hungary Lead Architect: Attila F. Kovács Project Year: 2015 Photographs: Tamás Bujnovszky © Tamás Bujnovszky Inspiration I wanted to destroy the railway from Budapest to Auschwitz and built a museum out of it. I saw an old station building in my mind transferred to a statue which is standing alone and sinking into a "sea of stones" and become a monument in itself. I also saw two huge towers of railway cars standing on each other in the "sea of stones" in front of the station and connected with a David Star Bridge. I also saw two side building captured in an iron cage - building as a prisoner. Site Plan Design Concept My design concept was to create a huge underground exhibition area under the area in front of the station because I realized there is no chance to built the new museum inside the old station building because it is too small. Although the old buildings had a basement, their areas were not interconnected.  In my concept, everything became accessible from the new underground exhibition area.  © Tamás Bujnovszky And when it was completed... I was enchanted by the scale and the effect of the materials, how they work together, and the sensation of time, and loneliness © Tamás Bujnovszky Why was there a need for such a museum there This was a state investment to erect this new museum to commemorate the 70's anniversary of the horror of the deportation of Jewish people during the second world war. This railway station which was abandoned for approx 16 years was one of the stations where deportations took place in 1944. This will not only be a museum but also an education center, to educate young generation about this part of our history because they don't learn so much about the topic in the normal schools. The topic is a kind of tabu. © Tamás Bujnovszky Information on special materials used in the building I used basically raw materials that are connected to the transportation but in a special context, for example: 1. I used the basalt stone which is the foundation of the railway but I used it in large size approx 5 times bigger, to create the gigantic stone field (6000 sqm) 2. I used tie (the wood under the railway), but I built a fence out of it into the street front (3m high 350 m long) 3. I used old railway cars facades to cover the two holocaust installation towers, and the cars are in vertical position, and they cover the 20m high towers, Section and Floor Plan 4. I used perforated aluminum sheets to cover the David Star bridge, and it was custom made to follow my design in terms of the size and quantity of holes 5. I used a lot of rusty iron, in some areas they are made out of Corten, which symbolizes for me survival despite the destruction. 6. I used naked iron rods (normally used inside concrete constructions,) to create cages of the two side buildings, and also banisters all over the place 7. I used old rails to built stairs and supporting walls in the main axis of the complex at the street front, © Tamás Bujnovszky About its layout It is basically a symmetric composition of the ensemble of buildings from 19th century. I respect it with a twist: the two towers are in the main axis of the old railway station, but I turned them into a diagonal position, so it is still in the middle but it is not symmetric, First Floor Plan Topography The place is next to the big Christian and the Jewish cemetery, the district is used to be the worst district of Budapest:  district  VIII the "Harlem" of Budapest. This area tends to be more fashionable among young crowd, because of the rental price, and also because of the relaxed atmosphere. The criminals were pushed toward to out skirts, the has been gentrified. © Tamás Bujnovszky This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Island Houses / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter Posted: 26 Jun 2018 07:00 PM PDT Courtesy of Tham & Videgård Arkitekter Architects: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter Location: Gothenburg, Sweden Responsible Architects: Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård Project Architect: Mariano Tellechea Team: Mårten Nettelbladt, Carmen Izquierdo, Johanna Redell, Måns Tham, Konrad Krupinski Building Contractor: Robusta Project Year: 2014 Courtesy of Tham & Videgård Arkitekter Text description provided by the architects. The site is on an island on the west coast of Sweden, and has a unique position perched on a steep mountain rock located close to the highest point in the landscape. It offers wide and open views over the sea and the horizon. The client wanted two houses, one for the parents and one for the children that are also adults by now, both with extra rooms for visiting friends. Courtesy of Tham & Videgård Arkitekter The challenge offered by the steep site was solved with two terraced levels built up from the local stones used for foundation walls of many of the older houses on these islands that were originally populated by fishermen and captains. The resulting platforms are integrated within the rocky landscape, set against the protruding bedrock. Above the solid stonewalls and concrete terrace, a light structural framework of wood defines the contour of the houses. An inner ring of large glass sliding doors separate the interior from the terrace, a continuous loggia space encircles all four facades. Courtesy of Tham & Videgård Arkitekter Plan house 1 Courtesy of Tham & Videgård Arkitekter Stairs to access the house platforms are included in the solid base while a few steps and stonewalls are the only additions to the natural environment, the rest has been left untouched. At night the new buildings stand out like beacons, their lights shining from the top of the hill. Courtesy of Tham & Videgård Arkitekter Detail Section This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Revitalizing Theatrical Hutongscape / MINOR lab Posted: 26 Jun 2018 05:00 PM PDT view from courtyard to office. Image © Hao Chen Architects: MINOR lab Location: 26 Sanjing Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing, China Lead Architects: Chen Liu, Yi-Chi Wang, Dan Zhao, Ping-Chen Yeh Area: 255.0 m2 Project Year: 2018 Photographs: Hao Chen, Yi-Chi Wang, Dan Zhao Construction: Beijing Hua Te Client: PAGEONE front view from hutong. Image © Hao Chen Text description provided by the architects. Hutong, the timeline of a Chinese city's prolonged and preserved local memories. Hutong carries the local history that displays historic traces of different times. With the process of modernization, the function of Hutong becomes more dynamic and diversified. One representative example is the particular courtyard house that we explored in this project. Itwas a typical residence in old town Beijing and was once operated as a hostel since 1998; yet in 2014, under the policy of renewing the old town, it was changed to a small theatre in steel structure. Now it will soon serve as the office and exhibition space of PAGEONE Bookstore, though it cannot be permanent either. view from exhibition space to hutong. Image © Yi-Chi Wang Hutong breeds vitality and inclusiveness. Given that the function of the courtyard might change again, we have adopted a light and flexible approach – we aimed for retaining memories of the site and keeping the dynamics of the city and Hutong while refining the main structure; and we managed to present multiple layers of Hutong experiences on top of a limited spatial and temporal condition. AXO Before and After Based on the existing spatial composition, we have redefined the space and its internal substances, contrasted new materials with old ones, and adjusted the spatial scale and light ambiance. Through these endeavors, we have tried to create a unique and authentic Hutong experience under the initial context. exhibition space. Image © Yi-Chi Wang From Hutong to office space, redefining theatrical hutong-scape The sunken theatre space, skylight and the yard are inspiring elements in Hutong. By moderate design, people will experience a series of scenarios while wandering from the hutong street to the layering spaces with gradually changing ambience and scale.People can experience several vivid scenes through shades of light and space if they walk from the Hutong street into this site, just like wandering in a theatre. view from exhibition space to office through courtyard. Image © Hao Chen The exhibition space at the entrance is bright and lively, whereas the following corridor on the eastern side of the yard isredesigned as a tranquil and dark gallery. The dialogue between itself and the yard is specified as a personal reading space that extends out into the courtyard. the entrance of office space and the kitchenette. Image © Yi-Chi Wang The gallery connects two spaces of separate functions, namely the exhibition space and the office space, leveraging light in order to deliver a message to visitors at large – there exists a gradual transition from external bustle to internal tranquility. gallery loop around office space(in-use). Image © Hao Chen The initial sunken space is reconstructed as the office space. A layer of metal mesh is installed to suspend above the office area, emphasizing the boundary and taming the direct sunlight. It also meets the needs of office lighting and poster hanging. Additionally, the height of the metal mesh layer rescales the sunken space into a comfortable office space. Section The ground floor around the sunken space functions as an annular circulated gallery for visitors. We keep the initial flooring-the black embossed steel plate from the entrance to the office space. While walking it through, people can get a feeling of walking onto the stage and be reminded of the venue's previous usage, thanks to the unique texture of the steel plate and the layering space of initial steel plate walls and newly inserted perforated plate cabinets. front view of office space at ground level (artificial lighting). Image © Hao Chen © Hao Chen Placed along the two long sides of the space, the two sides of cabinets grow upward and offer ample storage for the office space; as for the gallery, the shelves on the top serve as displaying, reading and writing space for visitors. Furthermore, it stands as a seeing/seen interface between office users and visitors. gallery loop . Image © Hao Chen Releasing space by opening up Hutong The entrance, the north and south facades of the yard are the three transparentinterfaces that link the entire space toHutong. Visually speaking, all the connected spaces can be seen through, including Hutong, the exhibition space, the yard and the office space. These spaces stand alone and stay associated. After opening the aligned sliding doors of the three facades, a straight path turns the separate spaces into one flowing space. Front Gallery The entrance space is used for exhibitions and meetings. Besides, exhibition activities will be held regularly to interact with the community outside and the library on the opposite side. In order to divide spaces flexibly, we have implantedcross-shaped movable walls made of OSB boards and steel rails member under the existing steel structure. With these walls being moved, the two small meeting rooms on the east side can be merged into one large meeting room; or else, they can be used as an extension of the exhibition space on the west side. entrance (when the aligned sliding doors of the three transparent facades are opened). Image © Hao Chen In terms of selecting materials for the revitalization, we have taken the critical requirements of time and budget into account – we used the effective plywood and OSB board, as well as the galvanized steel sheet, metal mesh and polycarbonate sheet which usually appear in illegal additions to Hutong houses. We have tried to take advantage of common and economical materials in Hutong in hope of realizing their quality and value in most appropriate settings. view from exhibition space to meeting room(in-use). Image © Hao Chen The composition of hutong becomes complex and even fragmented,in the progress of modernization and urbanization. Comparatively, our attempt can also be a part of the overall social transformation. Therefore, from its design, construction to being in use, the project represents our objective of creating free spaces, so that people can have the opportunity of accumulating the individual Hutong memories and gradually become an urban collective memory of the hutong, a particular Hutongscape. meeting room view from hutong (two small meeting rooms mode). Image © Hao Chen This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Woodside / Morphogenesis Posted: 26 Jun 2018 03:00 PM PDT © Suryan Dang Architects: Morphogenesis Location: Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India Lead Architects: Manit Rastogi, Sonali Rastogi Area: 125000.0 ft2 Project Year: 2016 Photographs: Suryan Dang Structure: BMSF Design Consultants Hvac, Plumbing, Electrical: Saviram Engineering Consultants Pvt. Ltd Landscape Design: Integral Designs © Suryan Dang Text description provided by the architects. The Woodside is a low-density luxury residential mountain villa development comprising of 37 villas built on a 12-acre site in the picturesque environs of Kasauli, India. Kasauli falls in an interesting topographic and climatic zone where one needs to deal with mountainous terrain and cool winters, while summers can get as warm as the plains. The site is a highly contoured piece of land with level differences of about 100 m within the site. The neighborhood is predominantly used for agriculture and vegetation, and hence the site exists within a vast green and mountainous landscape. The organizing principle for the development is formalized keeping in mind natural swales and ridges. Site Plan The villas and the internal road networks are strategically placed in order to minimize the amount of cutting and filling to the natural terrain as well as to retain maximum existing vegetation. Morphogenesis designed each cottage in a two-wing format that is connected at a pin joint, which can swing open or close, depending on how and what the ground would allow one to engage with at that point. © Suryan Dang This leads to some level of uniformity even though all these houses are different from each other. The cottages are positioned on the slope in a manner that ensures unobstructed panoramic views of the scenic hills of the Shimla valley; the largest ones enjoy a view right up to the city of Chandigarh on a good day. This is achieved by maintaining a minimum height difference between the roof level of each cottage and the ground level of the preceding cottage uphill. © Suryan Dang Generous living spaces with apertures that maximize the panoramic views extend into lawns, plunge pool decks, and wide balconies. Various environmental strategies are adopted to secure water and energy conservation throughout the development. The water supply and replenishment system are designed to minimize wastage of water and to utilize rainwater harvesting systems, while process wastewater from the sewage treatment plant supports irrigation needs for all the landscaping. Ground Floor Plan First Floor Plan The 350- mm-thick outer walls of the cottages provide thermal mass that keeps the cottages cool in the summers and traps much-needed warmth in the winters, considerably reducing energy consumption. The site is well equipped with rainwater harvesting facilities that help to reduce water wastage. Rainwater harvesting pits are established at regular intervals within the site, which further helps in the storage of surface runoff. The collected water is then used for the purpose of irrigation downhill and the remaining water is channelized further downhill to be collected in a sump to be reused later. © Suryan Dang This project also aims at developing a community and hence, special features have been incorporated to pledge the exclusivity of the site. For example overhanging cliffs, and a glass Tea House on the summit referencing the British legacy of the area and the evening tea ritual. The clubhouse affords 360-degree views on all sides. An existing water body on the site is retained and the onsite vegetation is maintained as well in order to preserve the sanctity of the site. In addition, locally available materials like stone, timber, slate, and rubble are used for construction. © Suryan Dang The Morphogenesis approach to this design was to change very little in the land formation–to "touch the earth lightly," quoting Glenn Murcutt. The unusual site and unique brief elicited a design response that is intrinsically rooted to the high specificity of the site's topography, geography, and immediate context; it aspires to visually engage with the end user's imagination by creating a unique identity amidst a serene landscape. © Suryan Dang This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Sun Shed of Chun Qin Yuan Ecological Farm Renovation / Mix Architecture Posted: 26 Jun 2018 01:00 PM PDT Multiple Function Room Bamboo Umbrella and Star. Image © Lin Cong Architects: Mix Architecture Location: Qingshui Village, Zhenzhou town, Yizheng, Jiangsu, China Design Team: Tao Tang, Suning Zhou, Ziye Wu, Zhuju Wei, Bin Peng Construction Team: Yizheng Guanshuiling Construction Service Co., Ltd. Area: 6800.0 m2 Project Year: 2018 Photographs: Lin Cong Entrance. Image © Lin Cong Text description provided by the architects. 2017 Mix Architecture was commissioned by Chun Qin Yuan Ecological Farm, the north of the Yizheng City ecological Farm in a sun shed for the renovation design. The farmer hopes to adjust its function with less input and use the banquet hall as its main function to maximize its benefits. The main body of the Sun shed is the common concrete foundation, light steel structure and sunlight board in rural farm, which is used to cultivate economic seedling. After field research, we found that the project itself is relatively isolated, the surrounding environment to the development of rural areas, there is no unique natural and cultural landscape, the arrival of the urban population is not very convenient. The Edge and Partial of Umbrella. Image © Lin Cong Therefore, how to break through all kinds of restrictive conditions, as far as possible to excavate the potential of the project itself, and to find a breakthrough to enhance the value of space, the effective stimulation of local rural vitality is the whole design process we need to ponder and solve the problem. Plan Design Concept The design starts in the countryside and ends in the countryside. Our design concept stems from a rural scene: the blue sky, innocent fields, buzzing frogs, the fragrant air in the shade of the trees. It attracts you to stay, stay, or suffocate, or play. You can feel the protection of the sun and the moon, the cold and the hot summer, and you can feel the power of nature. Entrance. Image © Lin Cong Spatial Strategy The design of a common middle-axis one-word banquet space model, adjusted to the central stage as the basis of the circular radiation-type banquet space, the formation of the location of the centripetal and the good. Feasting people no longer have primary and secondary, the weight of the points, can feel at home. Selection of materials to reflect the country elements, the use of the farm planted yew seedlings surrounding space to form a true tree-lined background, yew release of oxygen to enhance the climate conditions of the site. Multiple Function Room Entrance. Image © Lin Cong Yellow-brown bamboo woven into 12 tree-shaped pillars, not only hidden the original construction of steel pillars, weakened its industrial traces, but also in an abstract form of the tree under the space form, forming a forest in the ballroom. The ground uses the cement to polish the road surface, the green stone ground, the grassland, the flower field synthesis treatment. Functional services and be serviced space at a glance, streamline reasonable, non-interference. Diagram Industrial Transformation After entering the operation stage, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the actual demand for social activities far exceeds the design expectations. The space originally conceived is only used as a banquet function such as a wedding birthday and is now selected by a wider range of social activities such as the local marathon team annual meeting, the music performance of country singers, the venue of entertainment programs, and the release of corporate products in the future. meeting. Central Stage. Image © Lin Cong These objective and real needs of social activities provide an additional opportunity for the transformation of the farm industry. People are attracted to it, making its use more diversified and more unexpected. This will continue to enhance its value, but also bring this village more vitality and passion. Activity and Performance. Image Courtesy of Mix Architecture Some Thoughts The pursuit of space is the architect's inborn belief. Space starts with sensibility and ends with reason. When it is completed, it stands there quietly, watching the scenes of the actual scene, the curtain opening. The curtain call was overwhelming and it remained motionless. Perspective Section Most of the time, the architect has arranged for it some specific, specific functions, such as the ballroom in the case, but more often it will not necessarily follow the path of the architect's director. It may be able to take on More responsibilities, greater ability to play, more value. This is the value that design can bring, and what we have always hoped to see – the true change that design brings to society and brings to the country. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Daejo-dong Publishing Company ‘KL' / Seoga Architecture Posted: 26 Jun 2018 12:00 PM PDT © Shin kyungsub Architects: Seoga Architecture Location: Daejo-dong, South Korea Lead Architects: Park Haesun, Oh Seunghyun Area: 414.03 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: Shin kyungsub, Studio Texture on Texture Structure Engineer: Thekujo Mechanical Engineer: Bow Engineering Electrical Engineer: Sungji Engineering Construction: Dasan Construction Engineering © Shin kyungsub Development and Change Daejo-dong was an typical multi- family houses district which was developed in 1980's and 1990's. However, these days, the urban mixed-use dwellings with small shops begin to be built in the narrow back-streets. It makes a change gradually but clearly in this area on the surge of development, high-density, and speed. © Shin kyungsub Limited space and complicated program We planned the six-stories building with a complicated space program. The building mainly consists of two different sections: a publishing company and two households. As the staffs of publishing company work on desk most of time, we planned the office more comfortable and relaxed than usual case. It was a challenge to meet all the requirements: floor heated working space, small kitchen and dining room, and individual workrooms for writers. The company also needs the multi-purpose space to hold various meetings and events. © Studio Texture on Texture The fourth floor unit is planned for the old lady of the client. She wasn't willing to part with the yard of her old house, so we sited the balcony wide enough for gardening, leading from the outside to the inside. We also maximize storage space to complement the reduced floor space. Section The fifth floor unit with an attic is for the client, a single man, who required the private place to relax. As the floor area of fifth unit is rather limited by the restriction on construction, we should distribute the incapacious space efficiently. We minimized the size of living room and bed room vacant for most of daytime, and arranged the room for the hobby as a main space. © Studio Texture on Texture It was important to design the moving lines accordingly, since the building consists of office space and households. An elevator is provided for the exclusive use of the old lady, and consequently, it makes separated moving lines for office staffs and residents. The multi-purpose space in the basement level also has an independent entrance, since it would be used by mostly visitors of company's events. In this way, the office, households, and the multi-purpose space could secured individual entries and moving lines. © Studio Texture on Texture Street landscape The architectural slant line for daylight affects the strategy significantly in a high-density residental area. After serious consideration, we planned to reveal the invisible legal slant as the exterior characteristic of the building. The slant edge gives a uncommon impression, not usual in formal dwelling, to the interior space. The whole facade is finished with only one kind of material, brown-colored bricks, including the slant wall, so the building gets the a simple and decent look. During the night time, the windows in the stair case, each designed differently, would glow and breathe some life into this old but changing back-street. © Shin kyungsub This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Duke University Marine Laboratory, Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey Research Laboratory / Gluck+ Posted: 26 Jun 2018 10:00 AM PDT © Paul Warchol Architects: GLUCK+ Location: Pivers Island, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States Project Team: Shannon Bambenek, Brock Benninger, Andy Fawcett, Peter Gluck, Eric Krancevic, Malena Ng, Scott Scales and Stacie Wong Area: 14000.0 ft2 Project Year: 2014 Photographs: Paul Warchol, GLUCK+ Civil Engineer: Eco Engineering Geotech Engineer: S&ME Structural Engineer: Silman Mechanical And Environmental Engineer: IBC Engineering Services Inc. Lighting: Lux Populi Leed Consultant: System WorCx Glazing Consultant: Forst Consulting © Paul Warchol Text description provided by the architects. The Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey Research Laboratory is a new state-of-the-art, LEED Gold marine science research building for Duke University Marine Laboratory on Pivers Island. The Duke University Marine Laboratory coastal campus is a unique 'window on the sea', providing experiential learning that combines the classroom context with fieldwork, theory with practice, and encourages wise, local land management and protection of natural resources due to engagement in the field. For the new research laboratory, every design decision reinforced the concept of providing a window on the sea, both ­figuratively and literally. © Paul Warchol Designed to stringent environmental and sustainable standards, it incorporates design solutions to address hurricane force winds, sea level rise, and storm surge concerns. The building form is a metaphor for sea-level rise (SLR), in which the laboratory containing mission-critical equipment and irreplaceable specimens is elevated well above projected SLR and storm-surge levels. The building structure and envelope use wood-framed construction and concrete masonry foundations in response to dominant local construction techniques. Material transitions are introduced at critical heights as protection from potential water damage. Plan L1 Plan L2 The building's solid expression was dual purpose – maximize wall space for equipment and storage while considering hurricane protection. The ground floor is concentrated around social spaces. Coined by then Marine Lab Director, Cindy L Van Dover as the 'Collisional Commons', it is where ideas from the entire marine lab community collide informally. Visually and spatially porous, it opens to outdoor porches protected from seasonally shifting winds all times of day. The 'Collisional Commons' is surrounded by faculty offices, a PhD bullpen, teaching lab and service spaces in separate boxes. The jagged footprint is better equipped than a flat façade to reduce storm-surge velocity. Surrounding landscape berms create higher ground to minimize scour along the building's edges, and the need for hard stormwater structures is removed through the promotion of infiltration at scupper discharge locations. Clad in wood and large expanses of glass, it reflects the architecture of the original campus quad built in the 1930s, while opening up dramatic views to the coast. © Paul Warchol The second floor is a 'laboratory loft' that houses equipment-intensive research spaces, and features an elevated deck with views to downtown Beaufort, North Carolina, and the surrounding islands.  Research faculty required maximizing real estate for equipment and storage, resulting in the strategic placement of windows at desk height to create unexpected framed 'windows to the sea' without sacri­ficing the program. Protected by a modern panelized system, it conveys the scientific and forward-thinking research taking place within. © Paul Warchol Developed on the heels of the 2008 economic crisis, the budget was ­fixed and modest, which made the Architect-Led Design–Build (ALDB) process critical to addressing budget and program incompatibility.  ALDB relies on access to subcontractors during the design period to obtain market feedback, and to allow early redesign without program loss by reshaping the building and making the design better. Through this back-and-forth process, the architecture team realized that the spaces in-between and not the overall building form defined the essence of the design. This was only discovered through the ALDB process. The building visually and conceptually became not only about SLR, but about the collisional and collaborative nature of research. Construction knowledge, largely obtained via direct interaction with local subcontractors, honed the design. © Paul Warchol This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

This Genetic Algorithm Predicts the Rise of Skyscrapers in Urban Areas Posted: 26 Jun 2018 09:30 AM PDT Researchers @FECYT_Ciencia have developed a genetic algorithm that predicts the vertical growth of cities. @physorg_com with the details: https://t.co/QsnRA1nTxz pic.twitter.com/JFB6DMJRmR — Retina Images (@retinaimages) June 5, 2018 The growth and expansion of metropolitan areas has been evident over the past decade. Buildings are getting taller, and urban areas are getting larger. What if there was a way to predict this growth and expansion? A new study by Spanish researchers from the University of A Coruna has discovered that the increase of skyscrapers in a city reflects the pattern "of certain self-organized biological systems," as reported by ScienceDaily. The study uses "genetic evolutionary algorithms" to predict urban growth, looking specifically at Tokyo's Minato Ward. Architect Ivan Pazos, the lead author of the new study, explained the science behind the algorithm: "We operate within evolutionary computation, a branch of artificial intelligence and machine learning that uses the basic rules of genetics and Darwin's natural selection logic to make predictions." Read on for more about the study and what it could mean for the possibility of estimating vertical urban development. © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/kndynt2099/30750199901/in/photolist-NRhP7n-NVNnwW-N2dnR1-NRgfjR-NVPp1f-NwtcxY-NRhphP-Nwsve1-NwtkL1-NZ3r1x-NZ2vUx-NwsNGY-N2e4Dh-N1WcGV-NRgiNz-5oBfVT-DahKdD-21J4AYj-EFeSGL-22L6ANU-EFhaPs-Eghj9s-EgkyRN-22p5JyF-213FY9V-21iMZTo-Egodgo-213FAJv-CKx792-22kJzZq-Egj8AE-HsoWAz-22kQ63q-21iTpAJ-21iJfVW-22p27Sr-HsndYP-21iRAzw-22oYjsg-21iQHbu-HsiaEH-22kMhqw-EggqBj-213FuSR-HshDaK-213FKrR-21iLdz9-21iMzrs-22oZBdZ-CKAdHi'>Flickr user Dennis Amith</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Adapted from various genetic algorithms, the study combines genetic tendencies with historical construction data to "learn the growth patterns of urban districts," explains ScienceDaily. The algorithm not only predicts the number of skyscrapers in a specific area, but it can also predict the most likely placement of the buildings within specific urban districts. The study focused on one of the neighborhoods with the highest vertical growth in the world in recent years: the Minato Ward in Tokyo. The authors used the data and algorithm to generate 3D maps of the Minato Ward in 2015, and have since compared the evolutionary model results with ongoing high-rise developments. © Ivan Pazos et al "The predictions of the algorithm have been very accurate with respect to the actual evolution of the Minato skyline in 2016 and 2017," says Pazos. "Now, we are evaluating their accuracy for 2018 and 2019 and it seems, according to the observations, that they will be 80 percent correct." The authors of the study predict the findings may provide an accurate estimate of a city's vertical expansion using "genetic evolutionary computation." News via: ScienceDaily and Phys.org This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Shortlist Revealed for World Architecture Festival Awards 2018 Posted: 26 Jun 2018 08:05 AM PDT The World Architecture Festival has announced the shortlist for their 2018 awards slate, featuring 536 projects ranging from  small family homes, to schools, stations, museums, large infrastructure and landscape projects. The world's largest architectural award program, the WAF Awards year saw more participation this year than ever before, with more than 1000 entries received from projects located in 81 countries across the world. At the 2018 World Architecture Festival in November, the shortlisted teams will be invited to present their designs to a jury of more than 100 international judges, who will determine the best projects within the completed and future project categories. These finalists will then move on to present to the 2018 Super Jury who will determine the winners of for the 2018 World Building of the Year, Future Project of the Year and Landscape of the Year. To learn more about this year's festival and book tickets to the event, visit the WAF website here. Completed Buildings Civic and Community Palace of Justice / Mecanoo + AYESA. Image credit Fernando Alta AOUMM - Save The Children Pavillon Expo Milan 2015 & Refugee School Lebanon 2016, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Atelier TeamMinus - Aranya Ideas Youth Camp and Community Centre, Qinhuangdao, China BVN - Australian Embassy Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand CHROFI with McGregor Coxall - Maitland Riverlink, Maitland, Australia HDD - Mulan Weichang Vistor Centre, Mulan Weichang, China ingenhoven architects - Freiburg Town Hall, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany KieranTimberlake - US Embassy in London, London, United Kingdom Kimmel Eshkolot Architects with Kalush Chechick architects - Mount Herzl Memorial, Jerusalem, Israel Lacime Architects - Culture Matters: Vanke Big Family housing community center, Suzhou, China Marlon Blackwell Architects - Shelby Farms Park, Memphis, United States of America Mecanoo and AYESA - Palace of Justice, Córdoba, Spain Onearth Architect - Macha Village Centre, Gansu Province, China ONG&ONG - Heartbeat @ Bedok, Singapore, Singapore Tanner Kibble Denton Architects - Warrumbungle National Park Visitor Centre, Warrumbungle, Australia Wingårdh Arkitektkontor - Sundbyberg Cemetery Pavilion, Sundbyberg, Sweden Zarch Collaboratives - Jacob Ballas Children's Garden, Singapore, Singapore Culture Pálás cinema By dePaor. Image credit: David Grandorge and Peter Maybury Beijing Institute of Architectural Design - Zhuhai Opera House, Zhuhai, China Bennetts Associates - Storyhouse, Chester, United Kingdom BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group - TIRPITZ, Blåvand, Denmark China Architecture Design Group - The Society of Kunqu Opera in West Creek Village, Kunshan, China Conrad Gargett - The Piano Mill, Stanthorpe, Australia dePaor  - Pálás cinema, Galway, Ireland Dorte Mandrup - Wadden Sea Centre, Ribe, Denmark EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture - Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey GOA - Fengying Stone Art Museum, Chongwu, China Office for Metropolitan Architecture - MPavilion, Melbourne, Australia Office for Metropolitan Architecture - Qatar National Library  , Doha, Qatar Rojkind Arquitectos - Foro Boca Concert Hall, Boca Del Río, Mexico Shan Jun Atelier - Museum of Traditional Mongolian Medicine, Tongliao, China [Shift] Process Practice - White Gallery, Tehran, Iran STAPATI - BIENNALE PAVILION, Kochi, India Vermilion Zhou Design Group - Song Art Museum, Beijing, China Display HOUSEMOTION By TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS. Image credit: Paolo Consaga AIX Architects - Kata Gård, Varnhem, Varnhem, Sweden Arkitema Architects - Hammershus Visitors Centre, Allinge, Denmark Grimshaw - Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, Miami, United States of America Kris Lin Internatinal Design - Light Waterfall, Wuhan, China Kris Lin Internatinal Design - Waving Ribbon, Zhengzhou, China People's Architecture Office - The People's Station, Yantai, China Robabecciah - The Egyptian National Pavilion "Robabecciah - The Informal City", Venice, Italy SPEECH - Pavilion for artistic presentations, Moscow, Russia studio mk27 - Micasa Vol.C, Sao Paulo, Brazil Studio Pacific Architecture - He Tohu Document Room, Wellington, New Zealand TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS – HOUSEMOTION, Milano, Italy Universal Design Studio - Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?, London, United Kingdom Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Bamboo stalactite, Venice, Italy W.DESIGN - Qingdao Hopetune Imported Car Exhibition Hall | Free and Unchained Power of Life on the Horizon, Qing Dao, China W.DESIGN - The Sales Center of One Majesty, Beijing, China West-line Studio - Shui Cultural Center, Sandu County, China Health Studio Dental. Image credit Kevin Scott Arcop - Bamyan Provincial Hospital, Bamyan, Afghanistan art & architecture associates - Alpha Healing Center, Godhara, India Asadov Architectural Bureau - International Medicine Cluster in Skolkovo, phase 1, Moscow, Russia B2Ai - Hospital AZ Zeno, Knokke, Belgium HDR inc. and Architectus Brisbane - Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Birtinya, Australia Helin & Co Architects - Health and well-being centre Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland HKS - Kachumbala Health Centre 3, Maternity Unit, Kachumbala, Uganda Memorial Healthcare Group Project Management - Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital, İstanbul,Turkey Montalba Architects - Studio Dental II, San Francisco, United States of America NIKKEN HOUSING SYSTEM - Wellcare Garden Fukasawa, Tokyo, Japan Nordic — Office of Architecture - LHL Hospital, Gardermoen, Norway ORIGEN 19º 41' 53' N - Refugio Para Mujeres Víctimas de Violencia, Michoacán, México Silver Thomas Hanley with Bates Smart - Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo, Australia Higher Education and Research Royal Academy of Music Theatre and Recital Hall By Ian Ritchie Architects. Image credit: Adam Scott AIX Architects - Sustainability House at Campus KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Alison Brooks Architects - Exeter College Cohen Quadrangle, Oxford, United Kingdom Architectus - Macquarie University Incubator, Macquarie Park, Australia Erkal Architects - Museum and Center for Biodiversity, Ankara, Turkey Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios - University of Roehampton Library, London, United Kingdom Ian Ritchie Architects - Royal Academy of Music Theatre and Recital Hall, London, United Kingdom IDOM - New lecture room block at the Alioune Diop University, Bambey, Senegal John Wardle Architect - Learning and Teaching Building, Clayton, Australia KPMB Architects - Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building & Louis A. Simpson International Building, Princeton University, Princeton, United States of America KRIS YAO | ARTECH - NTU Cosmology Hall, Taipei, Taiwan McCullough Mulvin Architects with DesignPlus Associates - Thapar University Student Accommodation, Patiala, India Opus Architecture - New Law & Management building for The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter – NTNU Gjøvik, Gjøvik, Norway Stanton Williams - Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom SUP Atelier - Central Canteen and Student Center of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China The Living - Embodied Computation Lab, Princeton, United States of America Zaha Hadid Architects - King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre KAPSARC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  Hotel and Leisure Freycinet Lodge Coastal Pavilions By Liminal Architecture. Image credit: Dianna Snape 70F architecture - Hof van Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten, Netherlands AchterboschZantman Architecten - Eco Resort Meijie Garden Valley, Liyang, China AVCI ARCHITECTS - Kintele Congress Hotel, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Batlle i Roig Arquitectura - SBGlow Hotel, Barcelona, Spain Camilo Moraes - Piedras Bayas Beachcamp, Piedras Bayas, Chile Department of Architecture - Mist Hot-spring Hotel, Xuchang, China ENOTA - Termalija Family Wellness , Podčetrtek, Slovenia GOA - HE Restaurant, Nanjing, China Jacques Ferrier Architecture - Aqualagon Waterpark, Marne la Vallée, France KEY OPERATION INC. / ARCHITECTS - Kanda Terrace, Tokyo, Japan Liminal Architecture - Freycinet Lodge Coastal Pavilions, Coles Bay, Australia Matsuya Art Works with KTX archiLAB - The Edge of the Wood, Miki City, Japan Monoarchi - Treewow Retreat, Yuyao, China Neri&Hu Design and Research Office - The Walled - Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat, Yangzhou, China noa* network of architecture - Zallinger: Back to the origins, Saltria, Italy Taylor and Hinds Architects - krakani lumi, Wukalina, Australia  House Cottage in the Vineyard By Ramón Esteve Estudio. Image credit: Ramón Esteve Estudio Ario Andito - Rumah Gerbong, South Tangerang, Indonesia Austin Maynard Architects - King Bill, Melbourne, Australia Bernardes Arquitetura - Peninsula House, Guarujá, Brazil bureau^proberts - Bardon House, Brisbane, Australia Cavill Architects - Gibbon St, Brisbane, Australia CplusC Architectural -Workshop - Iron Maiden House, Sydney, Australia David Leech Architects - A house in a garden - 81 Hollybrook Grove, Dublin, Ireland HDD - Container Home, Shanghai, China John Wardle Architects - Boneo Country House, Boneo, Australia Mio Tachibana Architects - Hinge House, Tokyo, Japan MJARC Arquitetcos Associados - Douro Valley House, Marco de Canaveses, Portugal nabil gholam architects - The House with two lives, Bois de Bologne, Lebanon noa* network of architecture - Messner: A childhood dream comes true, South Tyrol, Italy ORIGIN ARCHITECT - Forest Patrols - Valley Villas at the foot of Changbai Mountain, Changbai Mountain, China Ramón Esteve Estudio - Cottage in the Vineyard, Fontanars dels Alforins, Spain RTA Studio - Turama House, Rotorua, New Zealand  [Shift] Process Practice - [in]Exterior|Falahatian Yardhouse, Qaleh-Sarshir, Iran Wutopia Lab - Plain House, Shanghai, China Housing, Small Scale Ullevål tårn By Code Arkitektur. Image credit: Ivan Brodey Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Signal Townhouses, London, United Kingdom Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Weston Street, London, United Kingdom Code Arkitektur - Ullevål tårn, Oslo, Norway CPDA Arquitectos + Arquitectos - TOLSA 61, Mexico City, Mexico DKO Architecture - Peel Street, Collingwood, Australia Fouad Samara Architects – Modulofts, Beirut, Lebanon Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter - U31- Climate friendly housing for youth, Oslo, Norway Sasaki Architecture with Atelier Modelia - Days Gokokuji, Tokyo, Japan Skarn Chaiyawat, Rina Shindo and Witee Wisuthumporn - Novice Living Quarters, Buddhanimit Temple, Udon Thani, Thailand studio CACHOUA TORRES CAMILLETTI - Insurgentes 160, Mexico City, Mexico TDCoffice - Saba Residence, Tehran, Iran Woods Bagot - Elwood House, Melbourne, Australia Woods Bagot - Short Lane, Sydney, Australia Housing, Large Scale Gasholders London / Wilkinson Eyre. Image © Peter Landers 5+design - Crystal Laputa, Chengdu, China AGi architects - Wind Tower, Salmiya, Kuwait Allen Jack+Cottier - Urbanest Darling Square Building 1, Sydney, Australia Arons en Gelauff architecten – Pontsteiger, Amsterdam, Netherlands Arons en Gelauff architecten - Wiener & Co, Amsterdam, Netherlands BKA architecture - Watsons Grove, Sydney, Australia DDS+ - Îlot Sacré, Brussels, Belgium McBride Charles Ryan - Banksia, New Quay, Melbourne, Australia New Wave Architecture - Meygoun Residential Complex, Tehran, Iran RT+Q Architects - Fennel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS - The Street, Mathura, India Shibanee & Kamal Architects - Windmills of Your Mind, Bangalore, India Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos - Alcazar de Toledo , Mexico City, Mexico studio mk27 – Somosaguas, Madrid, Spain WilkinsonEyre - Gasholders London, London, United Kingdom WOHA - Huaku Sky Garden, Taipei, Taiwan Zaha Hadid Architects - 520 West 28th, New York City, United States of America Mixed-Use Vali-e-asr Mosque By Fluid Motion Architects. Image credit: Fluid Motion Architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Television Centre, London, United Kingdom Behnisch Architekten - Dorotheen Quartier, Stuttgart, Germany EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture - Mecidiyekoy Towers, Istanbul, Turkey Fluid Motion Architects - Ava Center, Tehran, Iran Hawkins\Brown, Here East - London, United Kingdom ingenhoven architects - Marina One Singapore, Singapore, Singapore LAB Architecture Studio - Nanjing GEI Centre Tower B, Nanjing, China Leigh & Orange - Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Fund Town, Shenzhen, China MDM Architects - Platz am Meer, Swakopmund, Namibia Segmento Urbano – Metamorphosis, Luanda, Angola SPEECH - Federation Tower, Moscow, Russia Squire and Partners - One Tower Bridge, London, United Kingdom WOHA - Kampung Admiralty, Singapore, Singapore Woods Bagot - Sunshine Insurance Plaza, Sanya, China New and Old Zeitz MOCAA By Heatherwick Studio. Image credit: Iwan Baan Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands AP Valletta - The Coach House, Balzan, Malta China Architecture Design Group - Zhu's Old Brick Kiln Reuse, Kunshan, China DOMANI Architectural Concepts - UR Flagship Store – Canyon, Shanghai, China Donald Insall Associates - Temperate House Precinct Project, London, United Kingdom Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios - Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom Heatherwick Studio - Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa Kerstin Thompson Architects - Victorian College of the Arts School of Art Former Mounted Police Stables, Melbourne, Australia KOKO architects - Baltic Station Market reconstruction, Tallinn, Estonia Looney Ricks Kiss with DIALOG - Crosstown Concourse, Memphis, United States of America NOW Biuro Architektoniczne - The new headquarters for Comarch with revitalised former factory building, Łódź, Poland RSAA/ Büro Ziyu Zhuang - Tongling Recluse, Tongling, China Skarn Chaiyawat, Rina Shindo and Witee Wisuthumporn - Novice Living Quarters, Buddhanimit Temple Udon, Thani, Thailand studioMilou - La Comedie de St-Etienne, St-Etienne, France SUP Atelier - Village Lounge of Shangcun, Jixi, China White Arkitekter - Carlanderska Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden White Arkitekter - Chalmers Department for Architecture and Civil Engineering, Gothenburg, Sweden Youssef Haidar Architecte - Beit Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Office Bloomberg's European HQ / Foster + Partners. Image credit Nigel Young Aedas - Lè Architecture, Taipei, Taiwan Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - White Collar Factory, London, United Kingdom Arcop - Telenor 345 Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan Batlle i Roig Arquitectura - Stradivarius Headquarters, Barcelona, Spain BVN - Synergy, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute - KCI. Group Headquarters Offices, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Eric Parry Architects - Four Pancras Square, London, United Kingdom Form4 Architecture - Innovation Curve, Palo Alto, United States of America Foster + Partners - Bloomberg, London, London, United Kingdom Henning Larsen - Nordea Bank Headquarters in Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Ho Khue – Architects, Da Nang, Viet Nam Hypothesis – Werk, Bangkok, Thailand INNOCAD Architecture - C&P Corporate Headquarters, Graz, Austria Kate Otten Architects - Law on Keyes, Johannesburg, South Africa KG Mimarlık – Kumport, Istanbul, Turkey stu/D/O Architects Co. - Inter Crop Group Headquarter, Bangkok, Thailand Takenaka Corporation - Nippon Kaiji Kentei Kyokai Headquarters , Tokyo, Japan Tzannes - International House Sydney, Sydney, Australia Production Energy and Recycling Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre / Arup Associates. Image © Simon Kennedy A.26 Architectures - The Chapelle International Urban Logistics Centre, Paris, France Arup - Jaguar Land Rover Engine Manufacturing Centre, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Christoph Hesse Architects - Villa F - How does one power and recycling plant headquarters change a whole village?, Titmaringhausen, Germany HDD - Transformable Home, Beijing, China IDOM - Beronia Rueda Winery, Rueda, Spain LAUD Architects - Tiong Seng Building, Singapore, Singapore Mehran Khoshroo - System Warehouse, Karaj-Alborz Province, Iran Parviainen Architects - Länsisalmi Power Station, Vantaa, Finland Studio Ardete – Bavilion, Garshankar, India TAKENAKA CORPORATION - Hanamaruki Miso-making Experience, Ina Nagano, Japan Tchoban Voss Architekten - SKF Test Centre , Schweinfurt, Germany WZWX architecture group - Laboratory for Shihlien Chemical Bio-tech Salt Plant, Huai'an, Jiangsu, China Religion Chapel Our Lady of Fátima By Plano Humano Arquitectos. Image credit: João Morgado A Tasarim Mimarlik - Ali Osman Ozturk - Yasamkent Mosque, Ankara, Turkey EKAR - Sukha - 'Nutdhi Santi Parang Sukhang' - A blissful place where people can relief and find peace, Phetchabun, Thailand Fluid Motion Architects - Vali-e-asr Mosque, Tehran, Iran Hassa Architecture Engineering Construction - Marmara University Faculty of Theology Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey Lippmann Partnership - Emanuel Synagogue, Sydney, Australia Mandiwala Qutub & Associates – Mosque, Kanpur, India Plano Humano Arquitectos - Chapel Our Lady of Fátima, Castelo Branco, Portugal Poieses Architects - The People's Chapel - Emmanuel @ Everitt, Singapore, Singapore Spheron Architects - Belarusian Memorial Chapel , London, United Kingdom School Noor-e-Mobin Sports Hall / FEA Studio. Image credit Arash Nasiri BVN - Artemis Centre, Melbourne Girls Grammar School - South Yarra, Australia feastudio - the noor e mobin school - Bastam, Iran Hayball South Melbourne - Primary School - Melbourne, Australia iredale pedersen hook architects - Highgate Primary School New Teaching Spaces - Perth, Australia LAUD Architects - PCF Large Child Care Centre - Singapore, Singapore Mangera Yvars Architects - Dumpsite Horticultural School and Pavilion - Rabat, Morocco Realrich Architecture Workshop - School & Workshop of Alfa Omega - Tangerang, Indonesia Scott Brownrigg - Three Rivers Academy - Walton-on-Thames, United Kingdom Tezuka Architects - Muku Nursery School - Fuji City, Japan West-line Studio - Dushan School Complex - Dushan County, China Shopping Mega Foodwalk / FOS. Image credit Rungkit Charoenwat Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architects - Ganja Mall - Ganja, Azerbaijan Foundry of Space [FOS] - MEGAbangna FOODWALK - Samutprakan, Thailand NH Architecture - Barossa Co-op - Nuriootpa, Australia NIKKEN SEKKEI - Shanghai Greenland Center / Greenland Being Funny - Shanghai, China Pace - The Avenues Phase IV - Kuwait City, Kuwait SB Architects - Miami Design District - Miami, United States of America Stanton Williams - Mailbox, Birmingham - Birmingham, United Kingdom Urbis Westfield Chermside - Outdoor Dining and Leisure Precinct - Brisbane, Australia Sport Mercedes Benz Stadium. Image via HOK ADEPT - Vestre Fjord Park, Aalborg, Denmark Central-South Architectural Design Institute - Zhejiang HuangLong Swimming and Diving Gymnasium Sports Center, Hangzhou, China Chiangmai Life Architects - Bamboo Sports Hall at Panyaden International School , Chiang Mai, Thailand Erkal Architects - Çankaya University Sports Center, Ankara, Turkey FaulknerBrowns Architects - Sportcampus Zuiderpark, The Hague, Netherlands HASSELL - Optus Stadium, Perth, Australia HOK - Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, United States of America Koffi & Diabaté - Gymansium, Blaise Pascal Hight School, Anidjan, Ivory Coast PAD Studio - Canoe Lake Leisure Tennis Pavilion, Southsea, United Kingdom SPEECH - Luzhniki stadium, Moscow, Russia ZJA Zwarts & Jansma Architects - Thialf Ice Arena, Heerenveen, Netherlands Transport Pioneer Village / aLL Design. Image credit Wade Zimmerman aLL Design - Pioneer Village, Toronto, Canada AREP - Lorient-Bretagne Sud Railway Station, Lorient, France Ashley Halliday Architects - Kangaroo Island Air Terminal, Kingscote, Australia Batlle i Roig Arquitectura - Helix Cruise Terminal, Barcelona, Spain Beca Architects - Manukau Bus Station, Auckland, New Zealand Benthem Crouwel Architects - North South Line, Amsterdam, Netherlands Grimshaw - London Bridge station, London, United Kingdom Hanyang University with Suh-Han Architects & Enginners - Pyoungchang Train Station, Pyoungchang, South Korea John Wardle Architects with NADAAA and Oculus - Tanderrum Bridge, Melbourne, Australia Nordic — Office of Architecture - Bergen Airport, Bergen, Norway sporaarchitects with térhálózat -Győr- Gönyű National Public Port Control Building, Gönyű, Hungary Warren and Mahoney Architects - Memorial Bridge, Christchurch, New Zealand Warren and Mahoney Architects - Waterview Connection, Auckland, New Zealand Villa Cabin Kvitfjell By Lund Hagem Architects. Image credit: Marc Goodwin ADR - Red Head Peninsula, Ingonish, Canada Allen Jack+Cottier - Kiama House, Kiama, Australia Bild Architecture - Panopticon House, Cape Otway, Australia CHROFI - Lune de Sang Pavilion, Federal, Australia Crosson Architects - DNA House, Coromandel, New Zealand iredale pedersen hook architects - Glen Forrest House + Church, Perth, Australia John Wardle Architects - Captain Kelly's Cottage, Bruny Island, Australia KieranTimberlake - High Horse Ranch, Willits, United States of America Lund Hagem Architects - Cabin Kvitfjell, Kvitfjell, Norway Miguel Arruda Arquitectos Associados - House in Fuzeta, Olhão, Portugal MYP Arquitectura - Casa RSF154, Huasca de Ocampo, Mexico Nextoffice - Safadasht Dual, Safadasht, Iran OOAK architects - Patio House, Karpathos, Greece Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter - Two-In-One House, Ekeberglia, Norway Future Projects Civic Nora Mosque. Image Courtesy of Emre Arolat Architecture AECOM - Shams Central Mosque, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates BAAD Studio - The Sunken Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes of Cabetican, Bacolor, Philippines EAA Emre Arolat Architecture - Nora Mosque and Community Center, Ajman, UAE HCMA Architecture + Design - Clayton Community Centre, Surrey, Canada Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects - Troodos Star Observatory, Agridia, Cyprus LandLAB - Ponsonby Park +, Auckland, New Zealand Perkins+Will - Northtown Affordable Housing and Public Library, Chicago, USA Provencher_Roy - The reception pavilion of Québec's National Assembly, Québec, Canada Studio Link-Arc - Luhu Cultural Center, Shenzhen, China TEGET + Studio Evren Başbuğ Architects - Gallipoli Memorial Gardens, Çanakkale, Turkey Commercial Mixed-Use Gala Avenue Westside. Image Courtesy of Benoy Aedas - Commercial Bank Headquarters Mixed-Use Project, Taichung, Taiwan ARCHIMATIKA - Smart Plaza, Kyiv, Ukraine Archipedia - Lake Garden, Johor, Malaysia Benoy - Gala Ave Westside, Shanghai, China CAATStudio - Chitgar Commercial Bridge, Tehran, Iran DESIGN AND MORE INTERNATIONAL - PILGRIMS OASIS, MAKKAH, SAUDI ARABIA Fluid Motion Architects - Tehran World Trade Center, Tehran, Iran Kamran Heirati Architects - The Floating City, Salmanshahr, Iran MBO Architects and Consultants - Basket, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia MBO Architects and Consultants - Kensington High Street, London, United Kingdom NEUF architect(e)s - The Mews, Toronto, Canada PDG Architects - Antalya Local Products Bazaar, Antalya, Turkey Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos - Constitución 999, Monterrey, Mexico TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS - Halic Shipyards, Istanbul, Turkey Woods Bagot - Melbourne Innovation Precinct, Melbourne, Australia Woods Bagot - Younghusband Woolstore Redevelopment, Melbourne, Australia Competition Entries Science Loop. Image Courtesy of Donghua Chen & Partners Afsarmanesh Architects - Mosque in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Benoy - Suzhou Old Town Retail, Street Suzhou, China Donghua Chen & Partners - Lithuanian National Science and Innovation Centert, Kaunas, Lithuania Dr.Magyar - International Conference Centre - Windblown Icon, Riga, Latvia Hayball - Melbourne University Innovation Precinct, Student Accommodation, Melbourne, Australia IND architects - Klenovyi Bulvar Subway Station Concept, Moscow, Russia IND architects - Water Tower Redevelopment Concept, Moscow, Russia KoningEizenberg with Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman & Spurlock Landscape Architects - EPCM + science park, El Paso, United States of America Nextoffice - Sadra Civic Center, Sadra, Iran Pilbrow and Partners - The Blade Gate, London, United Kingdom Savage Dodd Architects with Urban Works - Tower on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa Shane Thompson Architects - Darwin Bombings Memorial, Darwin, Australia Sheltainer - Where Humanity Meets Hope, Egypt Studio Gang - Tour Montparnasse, Paris, France Studioninedots – REBEL, Amsterdam, Netherlands Warren and Mahoney Architects - University of Waikato Marae and Multi-Purpose Facility, Hamilton, New Zealand Culture Waterfront Cultural Museum. Imagecredit Helen and Hard 3XN Architects with BVN, Aspects Studio & WallnerWeiss - Sydney Fish Market, Sydney, Australia AECOM - Zhayeba Village Renovation and Overall Masterplan, Tibet, China Amkna Design Studio - Sedhiou Cultural Center, Sedhiou, Senegal CHROFI - The Ian Potter National Conservatory, Canberra, Australia Gerber Architekten - The Nobel Quran Oasis, Madinah, Saudi-Arabia Helen & Hard Architects - Navet - new museum building for Vest Agder Museum, Kristiansand, Norway Laboratory for Diverse Status - Atman and Art, Beijing, China Lund Hagem Architects and Atelier Oslo - Deichman Library, Oslo, Norway Mashabane Rose & Associates - Dinosaur Interpretive Centre, Golden Gate Highlands National Park, Clarens, South Africa Pilbrow & Partners - Walthamstow EMD Cinema, London, United Kingdom SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS - Shiva Museum, Jaipur, India Steven Chilton Architects - Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre, Wuxi, China Studio 44 Architects - Museum of the siege of Leningrad, St. Petersburg, Russia TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS - Ataturak Cultue Center, Istanbul, Turkey TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS - M. K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre, Kaunas, Lithuania wHY with GRAS - The Butterfly Pavilion, Edinburgh - International Design Competition, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Education Architectus - Carey Baptist Grammar School, Kew, Australia Boogertman + Partners Architects - Tatu City Education Village, Niarobi, Kenya BRT RUS - Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia BVN - Carlton Connect, Melbourne, Australia CetraRuddy Architecture - The Choice School Thiruvalla, Thiruvalla, India Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp - University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia KANT Arkitekter - TEC H.C. Ørsted Gymnasiet, Copenhagen, Denmark SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS - The Learning Squares, Mumbai, India Stantec Architecture with KPMB Architects - Destination Project - Science & Academic Building, Lethbridge, Canada Studio 44 Architects - Educational centre for gifted children, Sochi, Russia Warren and Mahoney Architects - Lincoln University and AgResearch Joint Facility, Christchurch, New Zealand Woods Bagot - St Mary's Calne School Library, Calne, United Kingdom Experimental KANVA's IMAGO. Image credit KANVA AECOM - 3D printed Wave Dissipation System, Qingdao, China Desitecture - Ariel City, China E.L.R. Architects and Planners - Merging Architecture and Biology - Dead Sea Resurrection Project, Dead Sea, Israel KANVA - Imago, Montreal, Canada LandLAB - Island, Auckland, New Zealand NIKKEN SEKKEI - Cool Tree, Tokyo, Japan NIKKEN SEKKEI - W350Project, Tokyo, Japan PLP Architecture - SkyPod, Shenzhen, China RUFproject - Eine Phantastische Kunstwerk, Vancouver, Canada Scott Brownrigg with Crown Architecture & Consulting - Reinventing New York's Park Avenue Medians - The Wind Turbine, New York City, United States of America ZNERA - The Smog Project, Delhi, India Health Aamer Architects - St John's, Singapore, Singapore Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - The Alder Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom HDR Inc. - Sydney University Health Precinct – Stage 1, Camperdown, Australia Stantec Architecture - Cambridge Memorial Hospital Redevelopment, Cambridge, Canada Studio Gang - Beloit College Powerhouse, Beloit, United States of America White Arkitekter - Panzi Hospital Bukavu, Republic of Congo House Modern Office of Design + Architecture - Lakeview Residence, Calgary, Canada Nextoffice - Guyim Vault House, Shiraz, Iran Pilbrow & Partners - Private House in Kensington, London, United Kingdom PROARH - The Seagull, Baćina, Croatia RTA Studio - Arrowtown House, Arrowtown, New Zealand SJB Architects - Sydney Harbour Residence, Sydney, Australia Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos - Casa San Juan, Tulum, Mexico WEST GROUP ARCHITECTURE - Glass House Snagov, Snagov, Romania Infrastructure 70F architecture - Highway Solarpanel Field, Almere, Netherlands AECOM - Eco-Shoreline Design, Hong Kong, Hong Kong AECOM and Cepezed - Schiphol New Pier, Schiphol, Netherlands Corgan - Connect: A Mega Skyport, Multiple locations, United States of America Hawkins\Brown - Thames Tideway Tunnel, London, United Kingdom Monk Mackenzie + Jasmax - Te Whau, Auckland, New Zealand Monk Mackenzie – Thiruvalluvar, Kanyakumari, India Paul Lukez Architecture - The Floating Bridge, Boston, United States of America Rodeo architects - Action Plan for increased city life; Strategy for a car free Oslo, Oslo, Norway SPF:architects - Rumblefish - a.k.a. The Taylor Yard Bike & Pedestrian Bridge, Los Angeles, United States of America Sturgess Architecture - Green Line Light Rail Transit, Calgary, Canada ZuidZuidPlus Architects - a collaboration between Team V Architecture, Zwarts & Jansma and Bosch Slabbers - Zuidasdok Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Leisure Led Development Zig Zag Hotel. Image Courtesy of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group - Audemars Piguet Hôtel des Horlogers, Le Brassus, Switzerland CLOU architects - Wuyi Yuansu Hot Spring Resort, Yuansu, China Coldefy & Associates Architects Urban Planners - Tropicalia, Rang-du-Fliers, France GOA - Alila Wuzhen, Jiaxing, China HDR Inc. - FOMO, Fremantle, Australia MVSA Architects with Arcadis - Holland Casino Venlo, Venlo, Netherlands Neo Dimensions Architects - PEMBI Nature Conservation Area, Tete Province, Mozambique Omar González Pérez - Plaza Avandaro, Valle de Bravo, Mexico RUFproject - Lusail Stadium & Sportpark, Lusail, Qatar Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos - Tree House, Acapulco, Mexico SPLYCE INTERIOR DESIGN - Shibui Spa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Studio Seilern Architects - Restaurant Gütsch, Andermatt, Switzerland Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Chicland Hotel, Da Nang, Vietnam Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Sheraton Phu Quoc, Phu Quoc, Vietnam Wei Sun Architects - Wenling Resort, Taizhou, China ZUO STUDIO - Bamboo Pavilion, World Flora Exposition, Taipei City, Taiwan Masterplanning Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Blossom Street, E1, London, United Kingdom Benoy - Central Quay, Cardiff, United Kingdom Directors of the bureau: Oleg Shapiro and Dmitry Likin - Moscow's Monorail Transport System, Revitalisation, Moscow, Russia Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios - Kirkstall Forge, Leeds, United Kingdom IF (Integrated Field) - Cuchi Organic Eco Farm, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam LandLAB - Queenstown Town Centre Masterplan, Queenstown, New Zealand MAI hung trung Architect - &Lang, Hanoi, Vietnam Omarniyoun - Heritage District, Makkah, Saudi Arabia PENG ARCHITECTS INC. - Child Friendly Public Space, Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine Pilbrow & Partners - 8 Albert Embankment,London, United Kingdom RAU with karres+brands & SeArch - Triango, Paris, France Rodeo architects - Action Plan for increased city life; Strategy for a car free Oslo, Oslo, Norway Sebastian Monsalve + Juan David Hoyos - Medellin River Parks / Botanical Park Master Plan, Medellin, Colombia Shma Company Limited, 10 KM - Bangkok, Thailand Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Shanghai Huangpu Old Town Urban Design, Shanghai, China SPEECH - District of low-rise housing in Sergiev Posad, Sergiev Posad, Russia Office 3XN Architects - Olympic House - International Olympic Comittee HQ, Lausanne, Switzerland APA Wojciechowski - GreenProperties for GetResponse HQ, Gdańsk, Poland Benthem Crouwel Architects - Headquarter Goede Doelen Loterijen, Amsterdam, Netherlands DSDHA - Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom Form4 Architecture - Binary Harmonics, Oakland, United States of America Helen & Hard Architects with SAAHA - Bjergsted Financial Park, Bjergsted, Norway Monk Mackenzie Architects - FSNI, Auckland, New Zealand New Wave Architecture - Turoboseal Tech Headquarter , Tehran, Iran RB Systems - 265 West 45th Street, New York City, United States of America SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS - C C OFFICES, Nashik, India SPEECH - Mixed-use office building on 2-aya Brestskaya, Moscow, Russia TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS - TEHRAN TRADE TOWERS, Tehran, Iran Tchoban Voss Architekten - Wooden Offices, Berlin, Germany Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Nanoco Head Office, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Urban Farming Office, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Residential Amsterdam HAUT. Image credit Team V Architekten Wannenmacher + Möller - Student Housing Grünewaldstraße, Bielefeld, Germany AURA - Jefaira- Phase III, Marsa Matrouh, Egypt Bio-architecture Formosana - Taisugar's Circular Village, Tainan, Taiwan blocher partners - Santa Elena Nature Condos, Laguna, Phippines Bulnes Arquitectos - Helea Tower, Puebla, México EAA Emre Arolat Architecture - Golkoy Houses, Bodrum-Mugla, Turkey Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architects - Notos Kaş Vacation Houses, Antalya, Turkey Jestico + Whiles - Sakura. Prague, Czech Republic Lendager Group with MOE A/S - The Resource Rows, Copenhagen, Denmark Magi Design Studio - Parigi Residences, Tangerang, Indonesia opia - Niavaran residential, Tehran, Iran PLP Architecture with University of Cambridge & Provast - Oakwood Tower II, Netherlands Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos - Amelia Tulum, Tulum, Mexico Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos - Sweetwater Student Housing, Sweetwater, United States of America Studio Gang - Amsterdam Tower, Amsterdam, Netherlands Team V Architecture - HAUT, Amsterdam, Netherlands Landscape Rural Projects AECOM - Singapore-Nanjing Eco Island Waterfront Scenic Belt Phase 1, Nanjing, China Batlle i Roig Arquitectura - Pedestrian Path along the Gypsum Mines, Barcelona, Spain Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter with Landskapsfabrikken - Uredd rest area, Gildeskål Municipality, Norway Shma Company - Lupin Research Park, Pune, India TERROIR - Koondrook Wharf, Koondrook, Australia Urban Projects Zaryadye Park, Moscow. Image credit Diller Scofidio + Renfro ANTAO Group - Pride of Life, Kunming, China Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning & Design Institute - Olympic Committee Headquarters translation, Beijing, China Ecoland Planning and Design - Laoximen - Urban Transformation Phase I, Changde, China Gustafson Porter + Bowman - Marina One, Singapore, Singapore HASSELL - Darling Harbour Public Realm, Sydney, Australia HASSELL - Optus Stadium and Stadium Park, Perth, Australia SCHØNHERR - Kokkedal Climate Adaptation, Kokkedal, Denmark Sebastián Monsalve Arquitectura - Medellin River Parks, Medellin, Colombia Sergey Kuznetsov, Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Heargreaves Associates & Citymakers - Zaryadye Park, Moscow, Russia Shenzhen AUBE Architectural Engineering Design - Shenzhen Talent Park, Shenzhen, China studioMilou - Place de la Breche, Noirt, France Turenscape - Puyangjiang River Corridor: Building A Greenway, Jinhua, China Yazgan Design Architecture - Hamamyolu Urban Deck, Eskisehir, Turkey News via: WAF This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Brucato House / Martin Fenlon Architecture Posted: 26 Jun 2018 08:00 AM PDT © John Linden Architects: Martin Fenlon Architecture Location: Highland Park-Garvanza, Los Angeles, California, United States Area: 2200.0 ft2 Project Year: 2016 Photographs: John Linden, Martin Fenlon Architecture © John Linden Text description provided by the architects. The Brucato house is a rare example of new construction within a Historic Preservation Zone (HPOZ) in the city of Los Angeles. Located in the Highland Park-Garvanza district, which is the largest HPOZ in Los Angeles, the project consists of a new house that replaced the client's small, aging bungalow. Since the original house was determined to be historically insignificant, its replacement would have to be compatible with the historic context and subject to the HPOZ board's approval. And with a limited budget, it was critical to reuse certain elements of the structure, such as the existing foundation and parts of the existing framing. © John Linden The design takes cues from the neighboring historic architecture, comprised of a row of historic Airplane Bungalows. From the street, the massing and materiality of the new house appears similar to these neighboring structures. The second story of the house is stepped-back, and the new shiplap siding is painted in a similar brown color. References to mid-century modern architecture become apparent, specifically of the nearby work of Buff & Hensman (best known for their Case Study Houses). Ground Floor First floor A post & beam system organizes the primary spaces. Its light tan color differentiates it from the colors of the exterior cladding and interior spaces. In its original context, post & beam architecture implied a continuity of space; beams seamlessly passed from interior to exterior in one homogeneous, continuous flow. Here, the beams transition two very different spaces. Emerging from the depths of a private domesticity, they reach out past the building envelope, framing spaces of light, air, and sky. © John Linden This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Casa Quince / RML diseño Posted: 26 Jun 2018 06:00 AM PDT © The raws Architects: RML diseño Location: Guadalupe, Mexico Architect In Charge: Luis Exiquio Ruiz, Humberto Barrera Hinojosa Area: 220.0 m2 Project Year: 2018 Photographs: The raws Structural Calculation: A3 Render, Grupo HA Administration And Execution: Kubika Construction & Design © The raws Text description provided by the architects. The two main axes of Casa Quince are the integration of the project to the area, which presents irregular public facades and sidewalks, and the other the height of the building, to make free visual contact to the south, with the mountain and to the north with the wooded area of "La Pastora" and the BBVA Bancomer stadium. © The raws The distribution is made up of 2 floors and a semi-roofed area at the top. On the first floor, take placed the social areas. On the second floor, the bedrooms and a living room. These rooms are illuminated and divided by 2 glazed ventilation cubicles of double height which have a view to the south. First floor plan Second floor plan The 3 floors are connected by 2 staircases, the first one is interpreted as an independent tunnel covered with a black aluminum panel. The second staircase connects the 2nd floor with the roof terrace in a exterior way,  this stair is placed in a south direction, to the Cerro de la Silla. © The raws This stair is preceded by a small urban garden which is located on the roof of the garage and where you can enjoy a moment of contemplation and rest. Section A The use of apparent concrete with stave formwork is mainly used in the facade of the house, to give a more rough and simple appearance. In the interior, all looks more "industrial" by using mud brick in strategically placed walls and exposing the installations placed on the slab. © The raws This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

OMA Releases Images of Albright-Knox Art Gallery Expansion in New York Posted: 26 Jun 2018 05:00 AM PDT Courtesy of OMA OMA has released new images of their proposed expansion project to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. The "bold, freestanding building" forms part of the AK360 expansion project, which also includes an OMA-led preservation and improvement project of the existing campus. The new building will add 29,000 square feet of much-needed space for the display of exhibitions and the museum's art collection, while also incorporating visitor amenities linked through a wraparound promenade. Courtesy of OMA Further works on the campus by OMA include a new education wing at the lower level of the existing 1960s building, the transformation of a surface parking lot into a landscaped gathering space, and alterations to the façade of the 1960s building. A new bridge will connect the North Building to the 1905 building via Olmstead Park, while a new roof enclosure to an open-air garden will enable year-round events regardless of weather. The north building comprises three levels offering diverse gallery experiences. Encircling the second level gallery is a double-height promenade, a flexible space with 360-degree views to the surrounding buildings and Olmsted landscape. The building is enveloped by a translucent façade that achieves an open and ephemeral quality and engages the external environment. Layers of visual and spatial connections throughout the north building foster dialogue with the architectural legacy of the Albright-Knox while inviting contemporary audiences to discover the diverse activities within. -Shohei Shigematsu, Partner, OMA Courtesy of OMA and MVVA The project has received $125 million in donations for the projected $155 million total cost. Having been announced as design partners in 2016, OMA will continue design development until autumn 2019, with the opening expected in 2021. News via: OMA This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Trent University Student Center / Teeple Architects Posted: 26 Jun 2018 04:00 AM PDT © Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille Architects: Teeple Architects Location: Peterborough, ON, Canada Project Team: Stephen Teeple, Chris Radigan, Darryl Biedron, Eric Boelling, Aiden Mitchelmore, Julie Jira, Polly Auyeung, Tanya Cazzin Area: 34000.0 ft2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs: Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille Structural Engineer: LEA Consulting Ltd Mechanical Engineer: Crossey Engineering Ltd Electrical Engineer: Crossey Engineering Ltd It/Telecom/Security: Crossey Engineering Ltd Sustainability/Leed Consultant: Zon Engineering Inc Landscape Architecture: Basterfield & Associates Inc Civil Engineer: D.M. Wills Associates Ltd Acoustic Design Consultant: Novus Environmental Inc Food Services: Kaizen Foodservice Planning & Design Inc Accessibility: DesignABLE Environments Inc Building Code Consultant: David Hine Engineering © Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille Text description provided by the architects. Located at the main entrance to the Trent University's iconic Symons Campus, the new Student Center is a concise exploration of connections: connecting the building with the bucolic adjacent Otonabee River landscape; connecting new construction to the historical precedent of the surrounding original campus architecture—designed by Canadian modern architectural master Ron Thom; and, most importantly, connecting the students with one another in a dynamic and inspiring setting. © Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille CONTEXT & PROGRAM Directly adjacent to the University's iconic Bata Library on the campus' waterfront, the building creates important new links from campus entry points to the riverside and surrounding landscape. Replacing a parking lot, the site is framed by the campus entry road to the west, the existing library to the north, the Otonabee River and pedestrian "Founders Walk" to the east, and a mature woodlot to the south, with the University's existing Athletic Center beyond. The main entrance of the building addresses the principal bus stop at the campus gateway, through which thousands of students arrive each week. Another entrance connects the pedestrian path along the campus entry road. Both of these circulation paths form an 'X', where a new indoor student "Forum" connects directly to the riverside—naturally connecting campus elements that had previously been isolated. © Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille Concept Diagram © Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille PROGRAM & INTERNAL ORGANIZATION A unique feature of the facility is that it seamlessly integrates both student centre and formal learning spaces, which have been arranged to ensure all building areas are well used and animated over the course of each day. Program areas include a variety of informal student lounges, collaboration and study spaces, student club spaces, new offices for the Trent Student Association, a multi-purpose event space, and a range of classroom/lecture spaces. The new student spaces were intended to relieve pressure from overcrowding in the adjacent existing library, and work to create a larger student social and study precinct at the heart of the campus. © Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille The three storey building is organized around the Forum, which rises through the full 3-storey height of the structure and from which one can view all of the activities of the building. The centrality and visibility of the forum is key to the design, acting as a hub for social activities as well as for intuitively navigating and accessing all of the facility's programs. Students follow the larger urban flow of circulation into this space and up through the building via a circulation spine composed of stairs, benches, lounges, and a variety of adjoining study areas. The flexibility of the forum space will also allow it to host concerts, job fairs, and other events central to Trent student life. Transverse section Longitudinal section DESIGN & TECHNICAL PRINCIPLES Featuring a solid ground-level façade on the road side, the building opens to panoramic views south to the river, and to the larger campus and surrounding landscape from the upper storeys. A true indoor-outdoor space, interior gathering spaces open to exterior patios and terraces. From the river side, the legibility of the building's floor plates subtly references the geometry of the adjacent Bata library in a more elongated, organic language. © Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille Responding to a desire to connect with the original Trent campus design but also to arrive at a unique and contemporary approach to the natural beauty of the site, the road-facing side of the building is clad with a unique photo-etched precast concrete. The precast panels' exterior finish was created from an image of the distinctive rough aggregate concrete used on the Bata Library and throughout the original campus, enhanced by dynamic folds in the panel forms. Visible exterior wood roof structure—comprised of 200mm deep douglas fir glulam beams—ties both to the surrounding wooded environment as well as detailing in the original university buildings. Together, the materiality, detailing and strong horizontal expression of floor levels serve to communicate with and offer a lighter, respectful contemporary counterpoint to the materiality and formal logic of the Ron Thom campus. First floor plan A pragmatic sustainable strategy underpins the design of the building, centred on passive approaches. The building's carefully considered orientation and solid-to-void relationships take advantage of heat gain in winter from the south and east but deep canopies ensure key areas are shaded from summer sun. Natural ventilation is provided through the Center's large 3-storey forum. The curtain wall glazing achieves high-performance through use of Low-E, tinted and fritted glazing units that are filled with argon. Other measures include energy reclamation on air handling units, LED lighting and low flow plumbing fixtures. Underpinning a desire for social sustainability and to continue Trent's history as a socially progressive institution, the building meets University's stringent accessibility guidelines, and incorporates important spaces such as gender free washrooms and a breastfeeding area. © Scott Norsworthy - Andrew Latreille This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Artist-Architects Who Believed Their Psychedelic Designs Would Promote "Death Resistance" Posted: 26 Jun 2018 02:30 AM PDT Reversible Destiny Lofts – In Memory of Helen Keller (exterior), Tokyo (2005). Image © 2005 Estate of Madeline Gins. Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Madeline Gins; Courtesy Masataka Nakano This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "These Architects Sought to Solve the Ultimate Human Design Flaw—Death." Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins—visual artists, conceptual writers, self-taught architects—believed that, through a radical recalibration of the built environment, humans could solve the ultimate design flaw: death. (Your move, Norman Foster.) Arakawa and Gins completed five projects in their lifetimes—three in Japan, two in America—and to call them unconventional is a gross understatement. There's an acid trip of a park; an eye-poppingly colorful, plucked-from-Pixar apartment building; and doorless lofts with bumpy, uneven flooring. Rather than whimsy or quirkiness, their ethos—dubbed Reversible Destiny—aimed to seriously promote longevity by activating and stimulating the body and mind. Arakawa and Madeline Gins Perspectival view showing entrance to "Bridge of Reversible Destiny," 1989. Image © Estate of Madeline Gins/ Nicholas Knight / Columbia GSAPP "They thought about death as a process, which the body is constantly trying to fight against," says ST Luk, project manager at Arakawa and Gins's New York-based Reversible Destiny Foundation. "Our bodies are conditioned by our surrounding environments and our architecture, and we naturally adapt to whatever space we are given. Once you feel comfortable, your body begins to deteriorate. The architecture basically tries to keep you from fully adapting to it." Arakawa and Gins are decidedly not household names. They belong to no school, their time as builders is only one part of an unfairly neglected 50-year artistic career, and their work exists outside the traditional canon. In other words, architecture students rarely encounter them. There's some irony, then, that the Columbia University Graduate School of School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) would provide a long overdue reintroduction. Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient is a compact, refreshing, and stimulating show on view at Columbia's Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery through June 16. Roughly spanning 1983 through 1991, it tracks Arakawa and Gins's move from the visual arts to architecture through previously unseen illustrations, large-scale paintings/design plans, and text pieces. Taken together, it forms a potent record of a high-wire artistic act. Arakawa and Madeline Gins Drawing for "Container of Perceiving," 1984. Image © Estate of Madeline Gins/ Nicholas Knight / Columbia GSAPP "I think it's interesting to get architecture in dialogue with another field that it isn't normally in dialogue with," says curator Irene Sunwoo, who also directs exhibitions at GSAPP. "When was the last time you heard about a poet working in architecture with a painter?" Arakawa was already an established conceptual artist in Japan when he decamped for New York in 1961. Two years later, he met Gins, a native New Yorker five years his junior, at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Her medium was text—experimental poetry and, later, books like WORD RAIN: Or, a Discursive Introduction to the Philosophical Investigation of G,R,E,T,A, G,A,R,B,O, It Says (1969) that challenged readers' concepts and ideas of language and form. They soon married and became inseparable collaborators. Almost from the start, their work was physical and spatial. Their seminal The Mechanism of Meaning, begun in 1963 and iterated upon numerous times over the decades, pointed toward the concepts, practices, and philosophies that would define their practice. Originally created with 80 panels, each measuring 90 x 66 inches, the piece moves viewers through different experiences via text and mixed-media art, forcing an intellectual and sensory encounter with words, objects, and philosophical questions. Installation view of Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient at Columbia's GSAPP. Image © James Ewing Arakawa and Gins followed that monumental piece with two decades of architecturally inflected art, from Sculpting II (1971), a "floor plan of speech," to the spatial-textual rendering-like Waiting Voice(1976). Arakawa also began constructing physical experiences for gallery installations: ramps viewers had to walk or pull themselves onto to view paintings, images printed on floors, a moving walkway. "As an artist, we'd say these were architectural in scale," says Stephen Hepworth, director of collections at the Reversible Destiny Foundation. "In a sense, we can talk about Arakawa kind of always pushing towards the body within a built or experienced space." Eventually, that led to architecture directly. Eternal Gradient locates 1983 as the flashpoint, when Arakawa and Gins are tapped to develop a project on the Venetian lagoon island Madonna del Monte. If built, Container for Mind-Blank-Body would have been an epic, multi-stage experience that deployed fabricated material like wire meshing alongside natural formations to stimulate self-reflection and self-discovery. Nevertheless, conceptualizing the physical and psychological experiences for the island proved pivotal. Reversible Destiny Office (Interior), Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro Park, Gifu, Japan (1997). Image © 1997 Estate of Madeline Gins. Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Madeline Gins; Courtesy the Site of Reversible Destiny Yoro Park From 1985 to 1987, Arakawa drew 24 Screen-Valves, vertical containers resembling dense mesh pods (displayed for the first time at Columbia) that interrogate architectural space. The artists believed the material and spatial potential of the screen-valve could eventually replace walls, floors, doors, even bodies—a concept that led directly to another work, The Process in Question/Bridge of Reversible Destiny. Conceived in 1987, the bridge was to span a river in Epinal, France, and include containers of unfamiliar landscapes "designed to trigger uncharted perceptual and bodily responses," Sunwoo writes. A 42-foot-long model was exhibited in New York in 1990 and a far smaller model is included in Eternal Gradient. The full-scale bridge was never built. Still, the experience led to a permanent shift to architecture. Gins published her third book, Helen Keller or Arakawa, in 1994, but Arakawa's attention was fully on building things. "He buried a very substantial art career by just not bothering with it any longer, which is why we haven't heard of him," Hepworth says. Luk adds, "I just think that because they were always moving forward they felt like they had moved ahead." Arakawa and Gins finally realized a project in 1994. Ubiquitous Site * Nagi's Ryoanji * Architectural Body was completed at the Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art in Okayama, Japan, and the experience would make Lewis Carroll proud. Upon entering the site from a dark staircase, visitors emerge inside a light-filled, physics-bending inclined tube where the grounded bench and seesaw are mirrored on the ceiling and the walls are replicas of Japan's Temple of Ryoanji's historic rock garden. Reversible Destiny Lofts – In Memory of Helen Keller (interior: Kitchen and Sphere room), Tokyo (2005). Image © 2005 Estate of Madeline Gins. Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Madeline Gins; Courtesy Masataka Nakano The playfulness, cognitive dissonance, and physical discomforts found at the Nagi appear and mature in the artists' subsequent projects: the 195,000-square-foot park, "Site of Reversible Destiny—Yoro" (1995), in Gifu prefecture, which has such extreme grades kids are provided with helmets; Tokyo's "Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA—In Memory of Helen Keller" (2005); "Bioscleave House" (2008), in East Hampton, NY; and the "Biotopological Scale-Juggling Escalator" (2013), installed in Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons space at New York's upscale Dover Street Market. "None of the projects came out the way they fully envisioned them," Luk says. "But at least Madeline used to say that Nagi was 90 percent." Still, the residential projects are the fullest realization of their reversible destiny ethos. The uneven floors resemble a nubby, prairie-dog-infested plain; ceilings are low where they should be high; entrances are in strange places, like under the kitchen; and common amenities, like doors to the bathroom, are missing. Even if the literal-minded snickered, and they did, Arakawa and Gins stated repeatedly that these architectural features promoted "death resistance" by demanding an unusual, uncomfortable interaction with the space. By design, you have to think—hard—about how you engage with the spaces. Arakawa and Gins's Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa), in East Hampton, New York (2008). Image © 2008 Estate of Madeline Gins. Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Madeline Gins; Courtesy Dimitris Yeros "Most times when you see the term 'reversible destiny' it's equated with eternal life, which I don't think is what they were getting at," Sunwoo says. "To me, it's more of a prompt to understand how to live to your fullest, to understand all of your body's capacities, how it interacts with the world on every single level: through your senses, through your mind and how your mind can construct the world around you. And in doing so, one is able to experience life so much more exponentially than we can ever understand." The couple left numerous grandiose plans—"Isle of Reversible Destiny," a city in Tokyo Bay; "The Reversible Destiny Healing Fun House"—when they died: Arakawa in 2010 at 73, Gins in 2014 at 72. But even if they couldn't extend their lives, their work is proving resilient. Besides Eternal Gradient, models and drawings are included in the touring show Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness and The Future Starts Here, which opened this month at London's Victoria & Albert Museum. The Reversible Destiny Foundation is also working with Gagosian gallery, which represents Gins's estate, on an exhibition and publication due next spring. All that represents a boom for Arakawa and Gins, conceptual artists, and untraditional architects who defy easy categorization. But in this Instagram era, the world might have finally caught up with their visually evocative work—be it a page of text, a drawing on drafting paper, or wild loft spaces. "There's this one phrase that one of their colleagues told me they would say over and over again, and it's 'Choose everything,'" Sunwoo says. "That's amazing, just having that freedom not to be tied to your professional identity and just contaminate your thinking always." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Georgica Close / Bates Masi Architects Posted: 26 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT Courtesy of Bates Masi + Architects Architects: Bates Masi Architects Location: East Hampton, United States Lead Architect: Paul Masi, AIA, LEED AP Structural Engineer: Steven L. Maresca Area: 3500.0 ft2 Project Year: 2016 Courtesy of Bates Masi + Architects Text description provided by the architects. The clients of this new home had been living in a house built in the 1960's designed by a disciple of Marcel Breuer, one of the "modernist masters". The site is situated along the shore of a coastal lagoon, and became a victim of the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy. Distraught by the destruction of their home, the clients sought to rebuild in an effort to restore the strong emotional connection they had to the previous dwelling.  Site Plan Through research and a careful examination of the previous structure, the qualities the clients admired were carefully considered. First and foremost was the simplicity and truthfulness of the former architecture. It was evident in its exposed steel frame connections and the use of contemporary technologies of the day. To build on these virtues, the new house similarly uses a steel frame to support a roof comprised entirely of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panels. This new building system provided an ideal solution, as the panels provide long free spans, can be prefabricated, and bring a warm character to the residence when left exposed. To further celebrate their application, additional building systems are integrated into these prefabricated panels: lights are set into milled recesses, skylights cut through them reveal the solid nature of their construction, and active shading systems are unified with the large roof overhangs. By manufacturing these components offsite, a large portion of the home was delivered and assembled like a kit of parts.  Courtesy of Bates Masi + Architects The transverse layering and honesty of assembly exhibited by the CLT panels are further reflected in the detailing in the home. Steel columns in the walls are meticulously revealed to highlight the structural tectonics at play. The cabinets are constructed of a bamboo plywood that shares a similar lamination technique, mirroring the architecture of the roof at a smaller scale. This commonality is evident when observing the grain direction on the deliberately exposed edges and eased finger pulls. Additional materials seek to heighten the sense of warmth in the home, including large cypress boards that coalesce interior and exterior space, and a burnished bronze fireplace that anchors the central public zone.  Courtesy of Bates Masi + Architects Courtesy of Bates Masi + Architects To comply with new flood zone requirements for the site, the house is elevated above the previous floor level. This elevation change is softened on the approach side by a series of terraces. On the water side however, the foundation is recessed in the shadows so the house appears to float above the ground, celebrating its height. The interior spaces are arranged on several clear axes, which expand views to the water, and provide perspectives through the architecture to the landscape beyond. These gestures ground the home in the landscape, and reinforce the client's connection to the natural features of their property.  Courtesy of Bates Masi + Architects The architecture's recognition of history allows the new home to become a familiar part of the couple's lives, a child of the previous home. Drawing from the client's memories, the new home becomes meaningful to them, restoring and strengthening their sense of place. Courtesy of Bates Masi + Architects This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

What is CI and How to Design a Continuous Insulation System Posted: 26 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT Courtesy of STO CI (Continuous Insulation System) is an insulated facade system for walls and ventilated slabs that works through the superposition of 5 skins: fixation, insulation, waterproofing (open to the diffusion of the vapor and resistant to impact), and an outer cladding layer. How are these components installed, and how do they work? Is it a system for new projects or can it be incorporated into existing buildings (retrofit)? How to design an CI correctly for my architecture project? Find these and other answers, below. Components of a CI Fixation for Insulating Material It is usually composed of adhesive mortar. In some cases, mechanical fixings are added, especially if the project has large wind suctions or if a very heavy coating has been placed. StoTherm | StoTherm Silt StoTherm / StoTherm Silt . Image Courtesy of STO Insulation Material It depends on the choice of the client and the specific needs of the project. There are a large number of insulators on the market, but the most commonly used are EPS, XPS, Mineral Wool, Insulation Materials derived from Wood, Rigid Silicate Foams, Phenolic Foams, among others. EPS | EPS Graphite Courtesy of STO Rock Wool | Wood Wool Courtesy of STO Mineral Foam | Phenolic Foam Courtesy of STO Base layer of mortar with polymers + reinforcement mesh The base layer, as determined by the European Union, works as waterproofing liquid and a vapor permeable water, while the reinforcement mesh allows the system to properly resist impacts, weather conditions, and other external stimuli. Courtesy of STO Cladding It's the final layer and is visible from the outside. It can be chosen from a wide spectrum of coatings, paints, and other finishes. On what surfaces can it be applied? These systems originally arose to improve existing buildings, so they can be applied on any type of surface: masonry walls, concrete (coated or not), prefabricated systems, lightweight wooden or metal partitions, OSB, fiber cement, gypsum boards for exteriors, among others. Being that it is composed of air, it is a lightweight system that doesn't add extra weight. It's important to note that in developed markets, this type of system has been regulated so that it's a single manufacturer delivering the complete product. Thus, the performance will correspond to a single provider. Concrete | Baumax Prefabricated Partitions | SIP Panel Courtesy of STO Fiber Cement Lightweight Partition | OSB plate | Exterior Gypsum Board Courtesy of STO Masonry | Existing wall coated Courtesy of STO Prefabricated EPS (ICF or Exacta) Courtesy of STO Design Considerations 1. Start by asking: How much do I want to isolate? Before designing an CI system, we must answer the following questions: Was an energy analysis of the project carried out? Is there a U value (thermal transmittance) that must be achieved? Is it a project developed under the air pollution program, with stricter U values? If our CI system is designed to achieve the U value required by the project, we can rest assured of its thermal behavior in the future. 2. Determine how wide the system is based on your specific conditions The width of the system is varied and can range from 2.5 cm to 20 cm, the most common being a width of 8 cm. First, the envelope must be defined: what surface will separate the conditioned spaces from the non-conditioned ones? Is it a public building that faces the street? What impact risks will it have on the system? It's not the same to design a CI under an eave in a 3rd floor than one that is at street level or exposed to weather conditions (rain, hail, direct sun, wind, others). Detalles Constructivos. Image Courtesy of STO 3. Choose the insulating material according to the project's needs As previously stated, you cannot design a CI for a standard wall or a ventilated slab in the same manner as a site with water damage. Different insulating solutions can be mixed in the same project, depending on the area where the system is located. Also, the U values will be different if the CI is applied to a wall or a ventilated slab. Detalles Constructivos. Image Courtesy of STO 4. Define the connection between the CI and the insulation systems of the roof, the base, windows, and others As it's not a system for roofs or submurations, CI forces us to determine how our wall insulation will be connected to the roof insulation: should I wrap everything and fit the CI in the roof insulation system? Or can it be applied to the wall without the need for splicing? As for the base, we must also define how far the insulation will go, and how it will be connected to the floors' insulation. Detalles Constructivos. Image Courtesy of STO 5. Resolve the connection between the CI and the elements that "interrupt" the system In addition to the roof and the base, all those elements that could "interrupt" the system must be identified and resolved: doors, windows, lighting, and others. In existing buildings, all these pre-existences must be considered, and at the same time the substrate on which the system will be applied must be studied: is it a stucco or paint that is easily peeled off? Do you need to scrape? Can I simply use a primer that improves the adhesion between the wall and the system? Detalles Constructivos. Image Courtesy of STO 6. Look for advice and analyze the technical characteristics of the CI offered CI is not a painting; It's a solution that has a certain volume and, therefore, requires professional advice to ensure its proper functioning. In this sense, it's important to understand the technical characteristics of the product, and require a set of instructions that explains everything we need to know before applying it to our project. * CI systems are also known as EIFS (Exterior Insulation Finish Systems), SATE (External Thermal Insulation System), EWIS (External Wall Insulation System), ETICS (External Wall Insulation Composite System), WDVS (Wärmedämmverbund System) or Thermohaut ("Thermal Skin"). The images in this article have been developed by Nicolás Schultz, STO Chile Product Manager. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Contemporary Religious Architecture That Rethinks Traditional Spaces for Worship Posted: 25 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT © Fabrice Fouillet Constructing places of worship has always been an intricate practice, managing to detach the human, and release the boundary between body, mind, and spirit. Holy presence has been crucial in designing and constructing sacred places, which is why almost all religious building possessed similar characteristics: grandiosity, monolithic material, natural elements, and a plan that compliments an individual's circulation through the space. Contemporary religious structures, however, found a way to adapt to the evolution of architecture. Unlike the Gothic or Baroque periods, modern-day architecture does not have a dominant identity. It is, in fact, a combination of postmodernism, futurism, minimalism, and everything in between. Architects have found a way to transform these exclusive, religion-devoted places into structures of spirituality, manifestation, and fascination. Here is a selection of contemporary religious buildings that prove once again that architects are breaking all boundaries of creativity. The San Josemaría Escrivá Church © Fran Parente Bosjes Chapel © Adam Letch Rippon Chapel Courtesy of Kojii Fuji / Nacasa & Partners Inc. KAPSARC Masjid © Abdulrahman Alolyan Mohammad Rasul-Allah Mosque © Ahmad Mirzaee Chapel in Valleaceron Courtesy of S.M.A.O Sunset Chapel © Esteban Suarez Reading Between the Lines © Filip Dujardin Sancaklar Mosque Courtesy of EAA Emre Arolat Architects Wotruba Church © Denis Esacov Parish Church © Vicens & Ramos Temple in Stone and Light © Akash Kumar Das Oasis - Pastoral Care Voestalpine © David Schreyer Bahai Temple Courtesy of Asamblea Espiritual Nacional de los Bah'Ìs de Chile + Hariri Pontarini Architects Lotus Temple Courtesy of Futo Tussauds Agri Chapel © Yousuke Harigane Suzhou Chapel © Pedro Pegenaute Pilgrimage Church © Laurian Ghinitoiu Poland's Anti-Communism "Solidarity" Churches Cathedral of Northern Lights © Adam Mork Thorncrown Chapel © Randall Connaughton Temporary Chapel for the Deaconesses of St. Loup © Milo Keller Chapel of Reconciliation Courtesy of Wikimedia User Ansgar Koreng / CC BY 3.0 (DE) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Imaculada and Cheia de Graça Chapel / Cerejeira Fontes Architects Posted: 25 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT © Nelson Garrido Architect: Cerejeira Fontes Architects Location: Braga, Portugal Authors: António Jorge Fontes, Asbjörn Andresen, André Fontes Area: 701.0 m2 Project Year: 2016 Photographer: Nelson Garrido Paints: Lisa Sigfridsson Liturgical: Joaquim Felix Collaborators: António Dias, Bruno Marques, Nuno Cruz, Orlando Rodrigues, Duarte Vilaça, Cristóvão Piairo, Sónia Sousa, Mafalda Ribeiro Engineers: TDP Projecto e Fiscalização, lda - Projecto de Estruturas - Joaquim Carvalho LAM Engenharia - Projecto de Infra-estruturas de telecomunicações - Liliana Costa Otrivius Engenharia, lda - Plano de Prevenção e Gestão de Resíduos de Construção - Eugénia Fontes, Otrivius Engenharia, lda - Demolição e Plano de Segurança e Saúde - Eugénia Fontes TDP Projecto e Fiscalização, lda - Restantes Especialidades - Manuel Palinhos Contractor: Costeira - Engenharia e Construção SA © Nelson Garrido Text description provided by the architects. Cheia de Graça Chape is inserted in the Imaculada Chapel, in Braga.  The project focused on the restoration of the Imaculada Chapel and the high-choir, transforming it into a reserved space for the inhabitants of de Seminary – the Cheia de Graça Chapel. The total ceiling height of the intervening space and the outer walls of the room were taken advantage of, leaving the existing “skin” of stone that manifests around the chapels in a sculptural away. © Nelson Garrido The Chapel erected in wood, from the support structure to the planes conferring the space composed of several pieces of wood, fitted together, creating a balanced structure that manifests as a forest at the entrance of the sacred space. Its canopy creates a space dedicated to the inhabitants of the Seminary and its trunks a filter between the profane space and the sacred space, allowing the visitor to surrender to the space, surrender to the dimension of senses. © Nelson Garrido Axonometric © Nelson Garrido A concrete vault surrounds the chapels, imposing itself simple, light and suspended in space, defying its own materiallism. The openings in the dome that extend through its concrete walls create moments of openness, filtering the sunlight and granting a «quiet» accuracy and greater dignity to the structural elements of the roof. The vault creates, along with the remaining elements, a space of absolute “restless silence” remitting to introspection. © Nelson Garrido This concrete dome has a thickness of 12cm and it is supported by a steel structure almost imperceptible to the observer, allowing it to appear suspended. Plans Sections The space is also endowed with an acoustic superior quality, its composition of acoustic sandwich panel on the roof and the elongated form of the dome allow for better performance. This brings another level of spatial interpretation, allowing space to be manifested by sound, creating a dialogue between space and the user. Because of this vault, Cheia de Graça Chapel assumes a circular form favoring the meeting, privacy and introspection to the inhabitants of the Seminary. © Nelson Garrido In the background, a marble slit rises, backlit naturally, transporting the viewer to another physical and spiritual dimension. Thus, by its composition and scale was given to this space a level of superior intelligibility and a spiritual dimension, allowing the dialogue between space, the individual and the divine. © Nelson Garrido This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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