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Conversion of a Townhouse in Brussels / Label architecture
Soft Loft / Line architects
House by the Sea / GERNER GERNER PLUS
Hongyue Garden Community / Hangzhou SSDesign
Mary Help of Christian Church / Juti architects
Esquire Office / Studio Bipolar
Chiryu Afterschool / MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO
Crest Apartments / Michael Maltzan Architecture
Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects
Headquarters of the Mexican Football Federation / ARROYO SOLÍS AGRAZ
Glasgow School of Art Building to be Dismantled Following Fire
Forma Itaim Tower / b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
2018 Young Architects Program Exhibition Opens at MoMA PS1 in New York
Institute of Contemporary Art / Diller Scofidio + Renfro
50 Planning Terms & Concepts All Architects Should Know
EC House / AM30 Taller de Arquitectura + Stephane Arriola
Harvard Researchers Detail the 9 Factors That Make a Healthy Building
The Work of Victor Horta, Art Nouveau's Esteemed Architect
The Green House / architectenbureau cepezed

Conversion of a Townhouse in Brussels / Label architecture

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Architects: Label architecture
Location: Schaerbeek, Belgium
Area: 390.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: bepictures

Text description provided by the architects. The task was to transform a 4 floor's single-family house into two apartments. Therefore, the challenge was to provide separate circulation and outdoor spaces to each dwelling. For this purpose, an extension volume has been built. Its exterior walls are cladded with lozenge tiles, commonly used to cover gable facades.

It is giving it the aesthetic of the typical Brussels houses' additions, enforcing its integration in this typical Brussels urban context. But the volume was thought out as part of a global intervention. It includes a dining- and bedroom for the first duplex apartment and a private terrace for the second one.

Its windows have been designed to warrant privacy of one unit over the other, giving it a monolithic appearance. Interiors have been designed, materials are used indistinctly on floors, walls, and ceilings conferring each space a singularity. Some interventions allow a multifunctional use of the space, recovering historical models in a straightforward way.

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Soft Loft / Line architects

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:00 PM PDT

Architects: Line architects
Location: Chisinau, Moldova
Lead Architects: Dmitry Petrov, Ekaterina Rodina
Area: 171.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Oleg Bajura

Text description provided by the architects. As a matter of fact it reminds more not an apartment, and the house on a roof from where one of the best panoramic kinds on a city opens.

The apartments are on the top floor of the house and occupy most of it. The space is divided into several functional zones each with its own private terrace.

The common area of the living room with an island sofa and a projection on the wall, a dining room with an unusual table for seven and a minimalist kitchen are combined into one whole space.

The private bedroom area is designed as a single and secluded space for two where the bedroom is combined with a bathroom and a dressing room.

The character of the interior is based on soft contrasts where harmoniously combined rough and soft textures, simple and sound materials, cold and warm shades. Despite its industrial character and many different materials, the interior is very soft, warm and cozy.

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House by the Sea / GERNER GERNER PLUS

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 07:00 PM PDT

Architects: GERNER GERNER PLUS
Location: Greece
Area: 250.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Rupert Steiner

Text description provided by the architects. A dream villa created after plans by GERNER GERNER PLUS has taken shape on a park-like plot of land on the Island of Crete.

With the mountains at their back and the sea at their feet, two blocks were arranged in such a way on slightly sloping terrain that the residents are treated to a spectacular 180° panoramic view of the deep-blue Lybian Sea. While one building is intended for guests, situated behind it and somewhat higher is the main building, sixty metres long. The ground plans of both buildings are straight-lined and functionally organised. The living and lounge areas are aligned to face the sea, whereas ancillary rooms and access routes are located in the rear.

Two highlights dominate the grounds: the large-sized pool with outdoor bar and a seating group nearby, also a patio illuminated from above, which is used as a herb garden. Surrounded by stone walls, the plants are protected from strong winds, fine slits simultaneously ensuring sufficient air circulation. The top-class craftsmanship strikes the eye, setting the highest of standards especially in the processing of the stone. For instance, the glass safety barriers were not simply placed onto the stone steps, but integrated into them, and the drain channel crafted in the finest stonemasonry.

Building on Crete
Once a wasteland, now like a paradise garden – but at first it took a considerable outlay to make it viable as a building site. One major issue was the drainage of floods cascading down in heavy rainfall. Building materials were mainly from local sources, hence a large part of the walls is made of a Cretan stone. Despite the mild climate, Austrian standards were priority. Core insulation and underfloor heating ensure warmth and comfort even in the winters, which tend to be somewhat cooler.

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Hongyue Garden Community / Hangzhou SSDesign

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 05:00 PM PDT

Architecture and Garden. Image © Qiu Ripei-AD Photography

Architects: Hangzhou SSDesign
Location: Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
Design Team: Juntian Zhang, Hongfei Sun, Jin Dong, Sui Zhou
Customer: Hongyue Horticultural Corporation
Area: 3000.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Qiu Ripei-AD Photography

Multi - type residential Model. Image © Qiu Ripei-AD Photography

Self-build house of farmer
As one of the important group involved in the rapid development of Chinese cities, farmers' self-building has distinctive Chinese characteristics. Under the mode of rapid expansion and construction, it has a group of morphological characteristics - individual independent colors and decorative elements pieced together by various styles. Farmers' self-built houses have spanned an era. They have replaced traditional wooden houses in the rapid development of urban construction. In today's urban renewal, they have gradually become ruins and problems in the development of new towns under the influence of land acquisition and demolition.

Balconies and Bay Windows. Image © Qiu Ripei-AD Photography

Value in ruins
Individual freedom: the privatization and freedom of farmers to build their own houses are relatively high in the category of residential buildings. Residents often make appropriate adjustments to their residences according to their own living needs. Whether they are balconies, warehouses or large eaves, these additional parts make the living atmosphere of the residences have more diverse connection with the external environment.

Multi - type residential community. Image © Qiu Ripei-AD Photography

Group settlement: the self-built groups have the base of natural villages and often have a certain state, similar to small villages. Different from the rigorous " square grid" in urban planning, these seemingly unorthodox self-built buildings also have a relatively natural texture. Ethnic group awareness and intersection are their precious things, and these clustered elements have become the source of a collective life.

The connection and combination of window hole, porch and interior. Image © Qiu Ripei-AD Photography

Regeneration in gardening
Hongyue gardening community is located in the Hongyue Gardening，Haining, Zhejiang. There are several groups of farmers who build their own houses within the park. Due to land policy, it is leased by enterprises, which is difficult to build after demolition and can only be put into used after rectification. The farmers' self-built houses in the park site have typical characteristics of Chinese rural houses. The materials and forms are mixed, the colors are different, the porch and eaves are not used, and the architectural groups are not integrated with the park environment.

Participants of nature
In the renovation design, the demolitions of farmers' self-built houses are just partially revealed. Positive attitude and method have been taken to make the buildings that had messy colors and styles participate in the surrounding environment harmoniously. It has offered people diverse life spaces while become the community symbiosis with nature.

Creators of life
The design studies people's living behaviors and did some creative construction on the porches, balconies and windows of the original houses based on various behaviors of people. It also creates more flexible spaces, which brings regions that only have one function more responsibility, thus making space more effective and flexible. More life spaces have been provided by the addition of sunrooms and bay windows, while steel meshes and grids create conditions for nature plants to grow, which makes it possible for residential architectures to interact with natural environment. In this connection, people can experience freedom and proximity brought by nature and discover more fun and imagination in nature life

A naturalized residential community
The remould self-built residential model is relatively diversified, which is divided into small hotels in the form of collective apartments, reception centers in the form of suites, and single houses in the form of families. At the same time, it is equipped with a leisure area that provides small restaurants and cafe. The building complex combines the landscape worked by professional designers around it, and the whole site is more eager to become a garden community full of popularity and natural vitality.

Story of windows, porches and plants. Image © Qiu Ripei-AD Photography

Not only in gardens, no matter where people are in the building, they have the opportunity to get close to nature. From balconies to porches, even in doorways and windows, there are places where people have leisure to fiddle with flowers and plants. These are places where sunshine and air are most abundant, i.e. places where residents live and communicate with nature most intensively, or rely on leisure sofa to bask in the sunshine in the portico, or sit on convex windows to browse books, or stay on balconies to take care of flowers and plants. These are all natural and leisurely life of users.

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Mary Help of Christian Church / Juti architects

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 03:00 PM PDT

Structural Engineer: Sqn.Ldr. Ronayutt Vongmanee
Contractor : Home base construction
Owner: Suratthani Catholic Foundation

Text description provided by the architects. Given the extension of Catholic community and the increasing in tourist in Samui island, Suratthani, who wishes to participate the mass in the then chapel, Bishop Joseph Prathan Sridarunsil, SDB, came up with the idea to build a new church and name it as Mary Help of Christian church. The selected architect, whom inspired by the church name, took part of the Holy Bible relating to holy Annunciation of Mary into his design as follow:

LUKE 1:35
In answer the angel said to her: "Holy spirit will come upon you, and power of the Most High will overshadow you. And for that reason the one who is born will be called holy, God's Son.

LUKE 1:38
Then Mary said: "Look, Jehovah's slave girl. May it happen to me according to your declaration." At that the angel departed from her.

From the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to Luke, 1:35 and 1:38, we can see that the appearance of Angle to convey the Holy message to Mary the virgin was in a humble and simple way yet powerful. It was to accept the Holy Spirit to possess her in order to bear the Redeemer in her womb. She sacrificed herself as a natural mean for human being survival.

"Safe as in mother's womb"

In designing the building, the architect intends to convey this message in a simple way with its internal space with light form that creates a feeling of security as in the mother womb.

Building exterior was designed in a combined form of praying hands, Angle wings and the Rays of the Holy Spirit. The use of natural light through the skylight for interior lighting and shadow of cloud falling on the walls, represent the God mighty that is above all things created by human being. To realize this phenomena in a hot and humid environment of Samui island, the long and narrow light voids in combining with light weight insulation concrete wall running through then were design in order to create a shadow that keep changing with time yet retains the interior comfort.

"No decoration…… Best decoration"

Since the purpose of the church is for praying, the architect intends to minimize the symbolic decoration. Hence, the prayers would focus only on sacrament and its natural environment. Natural material with minimum process are selected, eg. white concrete wall, terrazzo floor, glass, natural white oak furniture and gray marble, were used for interior decoration. Prayers can humbly enjoy their peace of mind while embracing the Glories of the great Creator.

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Esquire Office / Studio Bipolar

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 01:00 PM PDT

Architects: Studio Bipolar
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Lead Architects: Ujjwal Sagar, Sanjana Mathur
Area: 1200.0 ft2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Suryan//Dang

Interior Contractors: Bhavanna & Sons
Lighting Fixtures: DBEL , White Lighting Solutions
Site Supervision: Studio Bipolar
Client: Somprabh Singh

Text description provided by the architects. Esquire being an American men's magazine, published in the United States, is one which screams sophistication, yet it accomplishes this in a quirky and whimsical tone. This thought was to be carried out in the design of their own branded nightclub in the heart of new delhi. For the sole purpose of supervision over the nightclub and its administration, Esquire needed a workspace to be developed for them in Defence Colony Market, New Delhi. This work hub was being developed for the "creative owners of a nightclub" and the design had to reflect this very aspect as well.

The Location being home to a number of restaurants, cafes and high-end shops turned out to be a prime location for their office. The ideology to be adopted by Studio Bipolar was to design a space with the intention of catering to the functional needs of the office, have a sophisticated ambience; yet achieve it in a quirky way.
The concept to be followed was of 'Sophisticated madness. We embraced the idea of primary colors being used in the interiors so as to enact dynamism in the mind-set of the users yet depicting simplicity and minimalism.

Another parameter to be kept in mind was the fact that Esquire emerged in the Art Deco Era when traditionalism gradually converted into modernism. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewellery, fashion, cars, and everyday objects and had arches and asymmetrical shapes as prime elements. The office had to be a reflection of all these parameters in a single connected space.

Moreover, here, a large space had to be divided into individual sections which would have a porous nature for the purpose of connectivity and linkage amongst the holders and at the same time, having a provision of privacy to those sections. This led to an idea of punctured partitions. These partitions were composed of slim metal plates bending to form simple geometric shapes which would house tinted glass pieces.

Another eye catching feature, was the black and white striped wallpaper which was visually impactful and served to elongate the space. Again, this feature lent a kinetic touch to these partitions providing a backdrop to let them stand out.
This hub got furnished with some distinctively impactful elements, namely, the yellow carpet, the conference table and the working counter. The concept of the yellow carpet was to direct the circulation as well as provide a 'red carpet' of sorts for clients once they made their way to the boardroom.

Furthermore, the boardroom was to have a conference table that echoed the space around it, Thus the ultimate outcome was a yellow tinted glass table ,made completely frameless which reflected the patterns formed around and lent a warm hue on the floor and walls.

Following this, Studio Bipolar came up with a functional aspect of the working space which was a high table resembling the look of a bar counter. The supporting wall is highlighted by framing iconic Esquire covers reinforcing the brand image throughout the space along with the Art Deco inspiration.

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Chiryu Afterschool / MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 12:00 PM PDT

Courtesy of MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO

Architects: MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO
Location: Chiryu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Lead Architects: Masahiro Harada + MAO (principals-in-charge), Yusuke Kakinoki, Takashi Takei
Area: 536.8 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: FUJITSUKA Mitsumasa

Structural Engineering: Jun Sato structural engineers
Mep: Yuken M&E Design Office
Buildings General Contractor: Obara Construction CO., LTD

Text description provided by the architects. Terakoya for Natural Science
Chiryu city in Aichi Prefecture was the 39th of the Fifty-three post-towns of Tokaido. The site is along the old Tokaido Street where Honjin (officially appointed inn) was once positioned. It is fair to say that it is the center of the town in terms of local history. Based on such historical importance, a Chiryu-based global robot manufacturing company decided to purchase this ownerless land and make a facility for regional contribution.

The program is a complex of an afterschool(=Terakoya) that teaches natural science through scientific experiments in English, as well as a cafe with kitchen studio in which local people, especially mothers, are able to gather and relax. The client had an intention of displaying the way to internationally succeed through the skills of natural science to the local children, as their company has been achieving. To match the ambition, we built two pillars: one was to inherit historic context respecting the history of the site, while the other was to conform to the natural science on the ground of science experiment and robot technology background of the client.

Connect with local history
There are many remaining shrines and temples facing to the old Tokaido that create the calm neighborhood nearby. All of their layouts obey the following order: low-eaved gate facing the street, precinct which also works as a public space, and then large-eaved main building in the back. Following this, the gate part that houses a cafe and a staff room was positioned to face the street, then the hall that corresponds to a precinct, extending to the adjacent park (and the landscape of the big tree) and the large space housing classrooms in the back.

It is very common that when visiting an old shrine, the line of sight would be smoothly led to the sky through a big curved roof of the main temple after walking through the low gate into the precinct. Such experience is also reintroduced by reversing the spatial configuration of the roof to the ceiling warping upward. Moreover, the higher roof of the main volume can be seen beyond the one of low-rafter eave from the old Tokaido: it is the exact appearance of local temples.

Following the principle of natural science
On the other hand, the existence of this architecture is realized by the shape of the catenary curve defined by gravity - the most fundamental element in natural science. The tender roof like a timber cloth, which is supported by two parallel steel Torii-gate-shaped frames, covers the whole space creating an architecture for children gently. This timber fabric was weaved with a warp of short laminated European Red Pine sticks (Length: 1500mm, Width: 105mm) and woof of two steel rods(φ22mm) perforating them. Only tension occurs within the structure due to the property of the catenary curve, so this gentle and soft wooden roof frame enables to cover a large-span (up to 20m) pillarless space.

Simple principle, diverse phenomenon
The completed building acquires gentle atmosphere when looking from the old Tokaido, building up a peaceful historical street view together with the shrines and temples nearby. Meanwhile, it appears to be a pure geometric volume when looking from the adjacent park, displaying the principle of natural science that could be easily learned by children. Furthermore, when entering the interior, there is a tender and relaxed space for the children just like under a sheet. This kind of diverse phenomenon of architecture is not a collection of independent elements but is developed by one simple principle. We believe it would be able to get a timeless and universal strength by opening toward the regional diversity while still holding an intact principle as a backbone. (Masahiro Harada)

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Crest Apartments / Michael Maltzan Architecture

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 10:00 AM PDT

Architects: Michael Maltzan Architecture
Location: Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Area: 45000.0 ft2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Iwan Baan

Structural Engineer: John Labib + Associates
Civil Engineer: Breen Engineering
M/ P Engineer: Khalifeh & Associates
Electrical Engineer: OMB Electrical Engineers
Landscape Architect: SWA Group (Lead Landscape Designer Tina Chee)
Acoustical Consultant: Newson Brown Acoustics
Fire & Life Safety: Exponent
Specifications: AWC West
Survey: Adkan Engineers
Osha Consultant: Lynn Safety
Ca Sp Consultant: Yung Kao
Green Rater: Global Green
Hers Rater: Alternative Energy Systems
Construction Manager: Egan Simon Architecture
General Contractor: Benchmark Contractors
Client: Skid Row Housing Trust
Owner: Skid Row Housing Trust

Text description provided by the architects. The new Crest Apartments for the Skid Row Housing Trust transformed an existing open site in suburban Los Angeles into a 64-apartment complex for formerly homeless veterans. Located on a busy thoroughfare near two freeways, the project introduces a new density in the neighborhood with easy connections to public transportation and area resources. The client's permanent supportive housing model includes individual efficiency apartments with on-site social services and community spaces. These combined programs effectively support the highly vulnerable residents in an effort to reduce chronic homelessness.

The building's arching form stretches the length of the site, creating a sheltered courtyard with tiered terraces above that include open-air outdoor corridors and an expansive ground level landscape zone. The low points of the mass touch down at both the front and back of the site, ensuring a strong volumetric relationship to the smaller scale single-family residences behind the property and the larger commercial facades running along the boulevard. Inviting and light-filled spaces throughout the building form a network of healthy community connections that support residents within the building and build social connections to the city beyond. The lobby and reception area is positioned in the front to welcome in both residents and visitors alike. Additional shared spaces and community resources on the ground level include the residents' lounge, community kitchen, laundry room, conference room, social service offices, health clinic, and an outdoor community garden. Individual studio apartments on the four upper residential floors that hover over the ground plane incorporate natural light, cross ventilation, and views to both the circulation corridors and the city.

The architectural and landscape design forms a symbiotic relationship that enables the efficient use of natural materials. Strict code and program requirements prompted the design team to think of the ground plane as a flexible zone that can accommodate required parking and fire lanes while also providing informal open spaces for residents. By integrating landscape materials such as permeable pavers that can withstand various loads, the demarcation between hardscape, softscape, and functional requirements are blurred to create an interchangeable ground surface. The pervious surface enables rainwater filtration into two bioswales below the parking area. Drought resistant trees and plantings will be used extensively.

The project was certified LEED for Homes Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council. Windows in each unit provide ample natural light and air. Units are equipped with Energy Star-rated refrigerators and range hoods, bio-based marmoleum composition floors, high efficiency bathroom fixtures, and tile made from recycled content. Highly efficient ductless mechanical units for heating/cooling will be utilized. Solar thermal panels on the roof will provide more than 50% of the heated water needs. Paint, grout, mortar, and construction adhesives used throughout the building will be zero or minimal VOC products.

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Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:00 AM PDT

Álvaro Siza (*1933) Évora, Quinta da Malagueira Caderno 1, 1977, Ink on paper, 300 x 210 mm, Image Courtesy Drawing Matter, © The Architect

Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects, an exhibition drawn from the Drawing Matter collection, with additional loans from selected architects, is dedicated to architectural sketchbooks in practice and on display.

Niall McLaughlin (*1962) Detail of a brain, Alzheimer's Respite Centre, Dublin, c. 1999, Coloured felt pen on paper, Image Courtesy Drawing Matter, © The Architect

The exhibition presents a variety of sketchbook and sketch practices by architects whose built work has been largely formed through drawing by hand on paper. In parallel, it explores the parameters of displaying sketchbooks, considering how an object intended to be held and leafed through can be presented within the requirements of a museum setting. The project therefore considers the content and materiality of sketchbooks both within an architect's oeuvre, and in the context of institutional display.

Hans Poelzig (1869-1936), Gefallenendenkmal, 1922, Charcoal on tracing paper, 255 x 325 mm , Image Courtesy Drawing Matter, © Estate of the Architect

The sketchbooks represented are the work of Hans Poelzig, Le Corbusier, Alberto Ponis, Adolfo Natalini/Superstudio, Álvaro Siza, Tony Fretton, Marie-José Van Hee, Peter Märkli, Níall McLaughlin and Riet Eeckhout. The sketchbook practices range from impromptu sketches in a pocket-sized format to the transformation of the sketchbook on the drawing board, and from the systematic sketching of details in numbered volumes to the complete replacement of the bound book by a simple folded sheet carried on site.

Peter Maerkli (*1953), La Congiunta, c. 1992, Ballpoint pen on squared paper, 110 x 140 mm, Image Courtesy Drawing Matter, © The Architect

The exhibition features around 80 drawings and 140 sketchbooks, both bound and disbound, and employs film and audio interviews, virtual and analogue facsimiles to display each individual's practice.

It is curated by Dr Tina di Carlo and Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner, with Niall Hobhouse.

The exhibition is accompanied by a series of online articles at www.drawingmatter.org and by monographic publications on the sketch practices of Alvaro Siza, Adolfo Natalini, Tony Fretton and Niall McLaughlin.

Concurrent with the exhibition a symposium with Nigel Coates and Níall McLaughlin will take place on 30th of June at 3:00 pm at AEDES Network Campus
Berlin: www.ancb.de. We kindly ask you to register for the symposium and the guided press tour.

Download the information related to this event here.

Marie-José Van Hee (*1950), House, c. 1990, Graphite and coloured pencil on tracing paper, 205 x 298 mm, Image Courtesy Drawing Matter, © The Architect

Title: Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects
Type: Exhibition
Website: https://www.drawingmatter.org/events/speaking-through-sketchbooks/
Organizers: Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing
From: June 30, 2018 01:00 PM
Until: October 07, 2018 05:00 PM
Venue: Museum for Architectural Drawing
Address: Christinenstraße 18a, 10119 Berlin, Germany

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Headquarters of the Mexican Football Federation / ARROYO SOLÍS AGRAZ

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:00 AM PDT

Architects: ARROYO SOLÍS AGRAZ
Location: Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico
Team: Héctor Hurtado, Carlos Salas, Antonio Estrada, Erik Rico, Aarón Jassiel, Rubén Susvilla, Daniel Hernández
Management: Salvador Arroyo Irigoyen, Alejandro Solís Gómez, Rosa Eugenia Agraz Sánchez
Area: 16145.8 ft2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Jaime Navarro

Text description provided by the architects. The new building for the headquarters of the Mexican Football Federation is at the center of an eight-hectare plot. The general idea was to have a building surrounded by fields to get visual contact to the game at any time. The set has 5 regulatory courts two of which are natural grass. One of these courts serves as principal and has a direct relationship with the building.

The sixteen thousand square meter building has a central patio that functions as a hall and distribution space to the different operative areas. Being an building of only three levels, it was not necessary to have elevators, so vertical communication is made through three stairs located on three sides of the patio. On the fourth side the patio opens completely towards the main court, which allows a visual connection between the court and the whole building.

The football terraces of the court are located on this side and are roofed by an office bridge that joins the two ends of the courtyard. On this bridge you can find the offices of the directors and the council room. The entrances to the most public areas of the building are located at the access level, two meters above the ground level: cafeteria, sports hall, auditorium, training rooms, boardrooms, affiliation and registration. The building is entered through the first triple height lobby where the control is located before entering the courtyard.

To protect the patio from rain and from the sun it was covered with solar panels that generate a third of the energy necessary for the operation of the building.

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Glasgow School of Art Building to be Dismantled Following Fire

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 07:00 AM PDT

© Flickr user Paisley Scotland. Licensed under CC BY 2.0

It has been confirmed that parts of the Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh building are to be dismantled. A statement by Glasgow City Council, reported by the BBC, revealed that substantial movement in the building's walls had been detected from surveys following the June 15th fire, indicating the sudden partial collapse of the structure was likely.

Work on the dismantling is to begin "as a matter of urgency" focusing on the south façade, which was the most seriously damaged during the fire; the second blaze to devastate the building in four years.

The difficult decision was taken after remote and close-in surveys indicated a more substantial movement in its walls than previously thought. While the south façade remains the most fragile, concern has also been expressed about the east and west gables, which have continued to move and deteriorate.

Glasgow City Council's Head of Building Control Raymond Barlow has assessed that "with each passing day, a sudden collapse becomes more likely" as a warning of falling bricks and stonework remains in place on Sauchiehall Street. Barlow also stated that in the process of dismantling the south façade, it is likely that "other walls will also need to be reduced."

There is now a requirement to at least partially dismantle sections of the building as a matter of urgency. However, the dangerous nature of the site - which includes the Mackintosh building and the O2 ABC - is such that it will take around two days to devise a methodology for taking down the south facade, which is the most seriously affected part of the building. The west gable of the Mackintosh building has continued to deteriorate and the east gable has continued to move outwards. It is not possible at this time to say exactly when the work will begin, but it will be as soon as possible.
-Glasgow City Council statement

A fire investigation is currently underway to establish the cause of the fire. You can read an overview of the fire, and views on the future of the Mackintosh, from our recent summary of the incident.

News via: BBC

The Glasgow School of Art Fire: What Happened, and What Happens Next?

Ten days after fire engulfed Charles Rennie Mackintosh's iconic Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art for the second time in four years, there is still much to learn about how the fire started, how it could have been prevented, and what should now happen to the ruined masterpiece.

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Forma Itaim Tower / b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:00 AM PDT

Architects: b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
Location: R. Min. Jesuíno Cardoso, 148 - Vila Nova Conceição, São Paulo - SP, 04544-050, Brazil
B720 Fermin Vazquez Arquitectos Team: Fermin Vazquez, Francesc de Fuentes, Sonia Cruz, Aline Foltran, Marc Pi, Albert Freixes, Gemma Ojea, David Sebastian, Miguel Yurrita
Area: 11533.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Nelson Kon

Structure: Aluízio D'Ávila Engenharia de Projetos
Facilities: Green Solutions/Steluti Engenharia/Studio Serradura
Constructor: Corporate Participações e Serviços Ltda
Promoter: Huma Desenvolvimento Imobiliário /GR Properties /ERC

Text description provided by the architects. The apartments tower is located in Itaim Bibi in São Paulo, a neighbourhood in a deep transformation, which is moving from the traditional fabric of horizontal single-family homes to a skyline of buildings in height, mainly homes that meet a growing residential demand for a prosperous upper middle class in the economic capital of the country.

The building has 123 apartments and consists of a tower of 25 floors with a base of common areas (squash, indoor pool, restaurant, social room, etc.) and parking above ground. The tower, highly conditioned by the volumetric limitations imposed by the regulations and the strict requirements of functional optimization, hosts small houses with large individual terraces. The project seeks to maximize the slenderness of the volume and highlight, without stridency, in the monotonous sea of undifferentiated skyscrapers of São Paulo as a "singularity of good manners".

The floors are articulated in two parallel bays and a central communications core that includes two batteries of panoramic elevators. The main openings of the houses are oriented to north and south, with deep balconies to mitigate the intense Brazilian solar radiation, while the east and west facades, the most exposed in the climate of São Paulo, are solved with a predominance of opaque protected surface by a ventilated façade of large-format glazed ceramic pieces.

On the balconies sides, the ceramic coating becomes lattices which preserves the houses privacy and frame the views from the inside. The combination of colours of the covering pieces seeks the chromatic individualization of each level, as well as the research of singularity that provides the differential qualitative value sought out by the client, who specifically wanted a colourful tower.

The building thus becomes a slender tower in which, however, it is possible to
recognize the different housing units by the colour and the framework that governs the construction. On the upper floors, the extension of the central core and larger apartments finish the building in a stepped way to merge with the urban profile and generate large terraces for the enjoyment of the unbeatable views over the city.

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2018 Young Architects Program Exhibition Opens at MoMA PS1 in New York

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 05:00 AM PDT

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has opened its exhibition of the Young Architects Program 2018 at its MoMA PS1 location in Long Island City, New York. Now in its 19th edition, the Young Architects Program offers emerging talent in the architectural world the opportunity to "design and present innovative projects, challenging each year's winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation that provides shade, seating, and water."

The winning project this year was "Hide & Seek" by Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of Dream The Combine, working on collaboration with Clayton Binkey of ARUP.

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The Young Architects Program exhibition will showcase the winning project alongside this year's other finalists, namely "Shelf Life" by LeCavalier R+D (Jesse LeVavalier), "Out of the Picture" by FreelandBuck (David Freeland and Brennan Buck), "Loudlines" by BairBalliet (Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet), and "The Beastie" by OFICINAA (Silvia Benedito and Alexander Hausler).

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The winning scheme, "Hide & Seek" features a landscape of kinetic, responsive elements that connect the courtyards of the MoMA PS1 site to its surrounding streets, inspired by "the jostle of relationships found in the contemporary city."

Each of the installation's horizontal structures house two inward-facing, gimbaled mirrors that move in the wind or with human touch, warping views and creating unexpected relationships between spatial elements. In addition, clouds of mist and light occupy the steel structures' upper levels, creating atmospheric conditions that respond to the activity of MoMA PS1's Warm Up events below. Other occupiable elements include a runway and an oversized hammock.

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The Young Architects Program 2018 exhibition opens today at MoMA PS1, running through September 3rd, and sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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Institute of Contemporary Art / Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 04:00 AM PDT

Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Location: 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA 02210, United States
Lead Architect: Diller Sofidio + Renfro
Executive Architect: Perry Dean Rogers and Partners
Area: 65000.0 ft2
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Iwan Baan, Nic Lehoux

Project Management: Seamus Henchy and Associates
General Contractor: Skanska USA
Theater Consultant: Fisher Dachs Associates
Acoustical Consultant: Jaffe Holden Acoustics
Lighting: ARUP

Text description provided by the architects. The ICA is the first museum to be built in Boston in 100 years. The 65,000 sf building includes temporary and permanent galleries, a 330 seat multi–purpose theater, a restaurant, bookstore, education/workshop facilities, and administrative offices. It straddles the competing objectives of a dynamic civic building for public programs and an intimate, contemplative environment for viewing art.

The site is bound on two sides by the Harbor Walk, a 47–mile public walkway. The Harborwalk is used as a civic surface that extends up to form the public grandstand, flattens into the theater stage, and wraps the surfaces of the theater extending into a horizontal tray that holds the gallery and shelters the grandstand. The waterfront is both a great asset for the museum and a distraction from its inwardly focused program.

A choreographed passage through the building dispenses the visual context in small doses. Upon entry, the view is compressed under the belly of the theater, then scanned by the glass elevator, used as a variable backdrop in the theater, denied entirely in the galleries, and revealed as a panorama at the crossover gallery. The mediatheque suspended under the cantilever edits the context from view, leaving only the texture of water. The Institute of Contemporary Art is a collaboration with Perry Dean Rogers as Associate Architect.

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50 Planning Terms & Concepts All Architects Should Know

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:30 AM PDT

Superkilen / Topotek 1 + BIG Architects + Superflex. Image © Iwan Baan

As architects, we often use a niche set of words that are sometimes unnecessarily complex and confusing to our non-architect friends. In 2015 we compiled a list of these, ranging from "typology" to "Blobitecture." Here we've rounded up 50 urban planning terms that might be a bit less familiar but just as important to know.

From weird portmanteaus such as "Boomburb" to cute-sounding acronyms such as "YIMBY", here is a fun A to Z in urban planning language that will make future collaboration easier.

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Abutter: Means the same as "adjacent landowner." Usually, the person who hates progress and wishes everything still looked the same as it did in 1800.

Arcology: What happens when you splice the words "Architecture" and "Ecology." Used to describe self-contained megastructures that reduce human impacts on the environment (basically, the conceptual projects that architects love to design and no-one loves to pay for.)

Archigram's Walking City proposal.. Image © Deutsches Architekturmuseum

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Boomburb: Boom(ing) (su)burb. Areas that have the population density of a city with the ugly buildings of the suburbs.

Brownfield land: Potentially contaminated former commercial or industrial land, which your real estate developer client will insist on referring to as "opportune".

Brusselization: The act of plonking modern high-rises in the middle of cities with no regard for its context. The name derives from the fact that the city of Brussels did it a lot.

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Community greens: Shared green spaces in residential neighborhoods. What you mean when you color your plan green in certain areas and call it "sustainable design."

Conscious city: A city that understands you better than your therapist.

Conurbation: The urban equivalent of the Blob: an area formed by multiple towns and cities merging together to create one district.

Coving: An urban planning method of winding roads and non-uniform lots. Sounds fun until you drive by the same house 4 times and realize you have no idea where you are.

Changing demographics and new technologies promise to reshape American suburbs. Seen here: Colorado Springs Suburbs. Image© <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/chriswaits/7285246358'>Flickr user Chris Waits</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>

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Edge city: A secondary CBD on the edge of the city.

Ekistics: The fancy science behind urban planning. A term used by people who really care about The Power of Design™.

Elbow roomers: People who leave the city for the countryside (AKA the winners of Farmer Wants a Wife).

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Facadism: A practice vehemently hated by many architects, it mostly consists of badly hiding a glass box behind a skinned heritage building.

Floor area ratio: Total floor area of building. Area of the plot.

Fused grid: A type of street network pattern that looks like an IQ test.

Diagram of a fused grid district showing four neighbourhoods and a mixed use zone

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Green belt: A policy used in urban planning to retain a "belt" of the natural environment around urban areas, because if there's still a tiny strip of green we can keep pretending we're not destroying the Earth.

Greenfield land: The opposite of Brownfield land: land that is untouched and pristine.

Greyfield land: Buildings or real estate land that is economically useless, such as "dead malls" with seas of empty asphalt around them.

Grid plan: Pretty obvious what this means. A plan in the shape of a grid.

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Infill: Filling in the gaps between buildings with more buildings.

Isovist: A measurement referring to the set of points visible from a certain point in space.

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Mansionization: When people build humongous houses because they can. And because they want to show how rich they are.

Missing Middle Housing: The missing jigsaw piece that fits in between cramped one-bedroom apartments and McMansions.

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New Urbanism: An urban design movement that promotes pedestrian-friendly cities that are environmentally sustainable and built for communities.

New Suburbanism: You guessed it! New Urbanism…but with the suburbs.

NIMBY: An acronym for Not In My Backyard. The sort of people who believe shelters should be built for the homeless as long as they're not anywhere within a 5-mile radius of their own house.

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Out growth: An urban area growing out from an existing town or city.

Overdevelopment: The radical idea that maybe ceaseless population growth and building development might negatively affect the world.

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Permeability: How cheese hole-y an urban area is. New Urbanists love this.

Placemaking: The art of making "places" rather than stand-alone pretty buildings.

PLVI: Peak Land Value Intersection. The best land value for your buck (AKA Park Lane.)

Protected view: When a view is so beautiful you have to protect it.

Allied Works (US) with artist Robert Montgomery for London Holocaust Memorial. Image © Allied Works Architecture & Malcolm Reading Consultants

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Ribbon development: When developments occur alongside a ribbon, usually main roads and railway stations. Leads to urban sprawl.

Road verge: Synonyms: Curb Strip, Nature Strip, Devil Strip, Hell Strip, Furniture Zone, Government Grass…Feel like this says a lot about the city each name comes from.

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Setback (land use): The minimum distance to which a building must be set back from a street, road or natural feature.

Smart city: Similar to the conscious city, the smart city uses data collection to gain information about its residents in order to manage the city effectively. Has the potential to vastly improve how we live, but also sounds like a Black Mirror episode.

Strollology: Exactly what it sounds like. The science of strolling. Not just through beautiful meadows but through the reality of our cities, full of greyfields, boomburbs and Brusselization.

V&A Museum / AL_A. Image © Hufton + Crow

Synekism: The co-dependence of city-states under one leader.

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Tactical urbanism: Similar to a tac munt (see: tactical spew), it involves a small-scale, temporary intervention for the greater good.

Terminating vista: Super important buildings that stand at the end of a road, so you can't escape the view.

Third place: First place is the home, second place is the workplace, and third place is all the other community-creating environments that are good for the soul.

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Urban prairie: Urban land that has reverted to green space. For those of us that live outside America, it conjures up a vague image of green fields and blonde little girls in bonnets.

Urban acupuncture: Surprisingly exactly what it sounds like: the intersection of urban design and traditional Chinese acupuncture. Consists of targeting small areas to relieve the stress of the overall city and listening to chanting music while trying to ignore the fact that thousands of needles are being stabbed into your body.

Urbicide: Not quite as scary as other -cide words (but possibly worse if you're an architect), it means "violence against the city."

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Vancouverism: The urban planning tricks that led to Vancouver being consistently ranked as one of the most liveable cities in the world.

Viewshed: Just means the view from a certain point, with math added to it.

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Walkability: The degree to which an area loves its pedestrians.

Wildlife corridor: A green corridor connecting wildlife populations that have been separated due to human development. Increases biodiversity and allows safe migration for animals.

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YIMBY: The opposite of NIMBY, YIMBYs are usually well-off Millennials who love gentrification and want as much development as possible, even if it is horribly designed.

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Zone of transition: A zone of flux and change in the concentric urban model created by Ernest Burgess.

The Burgess model. From out to in: Commuter zone, Residential zone, Working class zone, Zone of Transition, Factory zone, CBD

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EC House / AM30 Taller de Arquitectura + Stephane Arriola

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT

Architects: AM30 Taller de Arquitectura, Stephane Arriola
Location: Atemajac de Brizuela, Mexico
Architect In Charge: Emilia Sartoris, Bernardo Hernandez, Stephane Arriola
Area: 385.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographer: Lorena Darquea Schettini

Structural Calculation: Rafael Martin del Campo

Text description provided by the architects. Situated on the outskirts of the town in a densely vegetated area, the site has a gentle slope with views of the surrounding mountains. Architecture in the area is deeply rooted in tradition, and materials found in the landscape greatly influence the way spaces are built. The EC house embraces these cultural features and adapts them to the needs of a family of city dwellers.

The main objective was to place the house with minimum disturbance to the location while allowing the inhabitants to be in constant interaction with the landscape. Our approach was adapting to the natural elements on site, splitting the program into different volumes and placing them around the existing pine trees.

Three volumes arranged around a circulation core constitute the main house. Designed with spatial richness in mind, the main floor adjusts to the terrain surface and inner patios provide light and ventilation creating atmospheres with unique characteristics. A terraced courtyard functions as a central plaza linking the front and back of the plot, as well as creating a space for interaction between the main house and the guest rooms. Across the main social areas on the ground floor, a visual axis is respected to facilitate communication between spaces.

Hardwood flooring was used to create a continuous surface that extends the public spaces into outer decks reinforcing the interaction with the surrounding vegetation. A metallic formwork was designed to build the stone walls that enclose the volumes, updating traditional building methods and accelerating the overall construction process. Our goal was to bring together the timeless with the modern, the local with the universal, the village and the city into a weekend house in the forest.

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Harvard Researchers Detail the 9 Factors That Make a Healthy Building

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT

Last month Harvard University's School of Public Health re-launched their Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, introducing new partnerships and a new director for the institutional home of Dr. Joseph Allen's Healthy Buildings initiative. With the stated mission of "improving the lives of all people, in all buildings, everywhere, every day," the Healthy Buildings Team is leading research on how today's built environments impact the health, productivity, and well-being of the people who inhabit them; as well as how future buildings can help us live healthier lives.

In the interest of defining their terms and presenting their research in a way that audiences outside academia can understand and incorporate into their work, the Healthy Buildings team have released an exhaustive list that details the simple foundations of making a building healthy.

The 9 foundations for healthy buildings are as follows:

Ventilation

Outdoor air ventilation rate guidelines should be met or exceeded. Recirculated and outdoor air should be filtered so that even nano-particles are removed efficiently. Outdoor air intakes should be placed away from street-level pollutant sources.

Air Quality

Materials and furnishings with low chemical emissions should be used. Vapor barriers are necessary for limiting vapor intrusion and humidity levels must be stabilized to control odors.

Thermal Health

Thermal conditions should meet comfort standards and maintain consistent temperature and humidity levels throughout the day.

Moisture

Regular inspections should be conducted to find and remedy any moisture sources and condensation spots within the building's envelope.

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Dust & Pests

Surfaces should be cleaned and vacuumed regularly. Pest issues should be avoided by taking preventative measures such as sealing entry points, preventing moisture buildup, and removing trash promptly.

Safety & Security

Sufficient lighting, video monitoring, incident reporting protocols, fire safety preparations, and maintaining an emergency action plan can ease safety concerns and reduce stress within a building.

Water Quality

Water should be regularly tested and maintained to National Drinking Water Standards, with a water purification system to eliminate contamination. Steps should be taken to avoid water stagnation in pipes.

Noise

Protection from outdoor noises and measures to control indoor noise should be controlled. Sources should keep background noise below 35db and maximum reverberation time under 0.7 seconds.

Lighting & Views

All work and habitation spaces should have direct lines of sight to exterior windows. There should be sufficient task lighting, and as much natural daylight as possible without causing glare.

Having identified these factors, the team explains that they can be assessed using performance metrics to show how a building's health functions can be improved or optimized.

In the full 36-page report, which is available for download on their website, the team breaks down the specific ways that each concept impacts human health, explains the underlying science behind them and provides links to the primary literature that their research is based upon. They also include a guide with specific advice for addressing each of their foundations in building designs.

While their basic assertions may seem obvious, the depth of explanation and thorough, comprehensive approach to this important topic makes this guide a helpful resource for anyone involved or interested in improving a space of any kind.

News via: The Harvard Gazette

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The Work of Victor Horta, Art Nouveau's Esteemed Architect

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

Situated throughout Brussels, Victor Horta's architecture ranges from innocuous to avant-garde. While many of his buildings were completed in the traditional Beaux Arts style, it is Horta's Art Nouveau works—most of them built as townhouses for the Belgian elite—that are most beloved. Emerging from the decorative arts tradition and, in some ways, anticipating the coming onslaught of modernism, Horta's Art Nouveau buildings were erected during a fleeting decade: roughly 1893 to 1903.

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Only upon close inspection does a Horta house stand out on a Brussels street. Intricately wrought iron balconies and column capitals take on plant-like forms across Horta's Art Nouveau facades, but the architect employs a distinctive, organic pattern for each residence. Natural motifs continue into Horta's interiors, where vines seem to grow in iron from trusses and in paint on wall murals.

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Along with similarly ecological designs on tiled floors and stained glass windows, these patterns create a fabricated naturalistic haven away from the street and city. Engaging Gesamtkunstwerk—or, "total work of art"—practices, the architect also produced customized furniture for each of the houses he designed. The plant forms in skylights and floor tiling are carried through to chairs and bureaus, where abstracted vines and animal forms bring everyday domestic objects to life. As David Dernie and Alastair Carew Cox write in their book on Horta, "The Style Horta attempted to be all pervasive, closed to outside influences and affecting every detail from brass hinge to mosaic floor. Quite literally one senses Horta's hand in every part of the interiors, they are worlds unified by an artistic genius, and quite perturbing in their sense of isolation."

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Although Horta's designs—much like those produced in the Arts and Crafts movement—are characterized by an emphasis on the natural world, his architectural works mark a deviation from the decorative arts tradition in their built and functional three-dimensionality. Also departing from the floral patterns of the Arts and Crafts movement, Horta famously said, "it is not the flower that I like to take as a decorative element, but the stem."

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Likewise, even though Horta's buildings are rife with the kind of industrial materials that would come to define modern architecture (like glass and iron), they are generally used as ornament rather than for their functional properties. Curving and organic, the iron is not yet minimalist, but rather purposefully hand-crafted.

Although Horta's work is often recognized as the most definitive example of Art Nouveau architecture, it is nonetheless deeply personalized. As a critic wrote of Horta in 1899, "[he] is not a builder, he is an artist. . . . he does not combine, he creates; he is of no school, he has assumed a genre; it is better than originality; it is mastery. He has a conception of line which belongs to him alone."

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The Green House / architectenbureau cepezed

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Architects: architectenbureau cepezed
Location: Croeselaan 16, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Project Team: Ronald Schleurholts, Jaap Bosch, Ruben Molendijk, Robertus de Bruin, Mathieu de Danschutter
Area: 680.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: cepezed | Lucas van der Wee

Interior Architect: Coster Design, Arnhem, Netherlands
Constructions Advisor : Pieters Bouwtechniek, Delft, Netherlands
Mep Consultant : Strukton Worksphere, Maarssen, Netherlands
Building Physics, Acoustics, Fire Safety & Sustainability: DGMR, The Hague, Netherlands
Building Contractor: Ballast Nedam, Nieuwegein Netherlands
Client : R Creators, Maarssen, Netherlands

Text description provided by the architects. In 2014 cepezed was commissioned to make a modern government office from the former Knoopkazerne on the Croeselaan in Utrecht. The Central Government Real Estate Company also requested a solution for the space between the Knoopkazerne and the adjacent head office of Rabobank. Because a definitive destination for this location will be decided in fifteen years, a temporary interpretation was sought that could make the area that would otherwise remain vacant, more lively. cepezed developed a plan in which both the function and the architecture are based on circularity.

The Green House accommodates a 'circular' restaurant concept plus meeting facilities. In accordance with the principles of circularity, the building (including the foundation of prefab concrete blocks) is completely dismountable. In fifteen years it can be built up elsewhere. The aim was also to implement reusable materials as much as possible.

The two-storey pavilion is designed as a generic building kit with a removable steel frame made of galvanized profiles. The dimensions are derived from those of the smoke glass facade panels of the former Knoopkazerne; these have been re-used for the second skin and the greenhouse of the pavilion. The circularity of the building also lies in the choice of the right floor in the right place. Street clinkers from an old quay in Tiel replace the classic ground floor that has been poured. They are located on a compacted sand bed with underfloor heating.

The first floor consists of prefabricated wooden elements. In view of the acoustics in the restaurant, the sub-plating is perforated and the elements are filled with insulation. For the roof, the choice fell on a light steel sheet that was also perforated and filled with insulation. With a glass curtain wall, the plinth of the pavilion is completely transparent. For the closed parts of the façade on the first floor, prefabricated timber frame panels were used. These are 100% recyclable and (H) CFC-free.

The vertical farming greenhouse of eighty square meters is located on the floor next to the meeting rooms. Here vegetables and herbs are grown for the restaurant kitchen. A vide in the pavilion makes the publicly accessible greenhouse visible from the restaurant below. The large green wall also contributes significantly to the experience of The Green House. The roof of the pavilion is filled with solar panels.

The Green House is the first to have a ac-plug-free kitchen in which food is prepared without electricity but with energy-efficient ovens fired with renewable fuels. With urban mining a large part of the interior has been found and the new furniture that has been used is made from recycled materials.

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