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Summer Residence in Pyrgos / Kapsimalis Architects

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 07:00 PM PDT

© Giorgos Sfakianakis © Giorgos Sfakianakis
© Giorgos Sfakianakis © Giorgos Sfakianakis

Text description provided by the architects. The summer residence is located on the outskirts of the traditional village of Pyrgos in Santorini. The building is placed on a mild sloping plot surrounded by vineyards and facing the southwest part of the island and the Aegean sea.

First Floor Plan First Floor Plan
© Giorgos Sfakianakis © Giorgos Sfakianakis

The building is a single residence which can be divided into three separate houses each with its own private outdoor space. The ground floor consists of the main sitting-dining room, the main kitchen, two bedrooms, a bathroom and a secondary kitchenette. Three bedrooms with their bathrooms can be found on the upper floor while in the basement there are supportive storage/bathroom and garage spaces.

© Giorgos Sfakianakis © Giorgos Sfakianakis

The main idea of the design was the the formation of an artificial monolithic rock, diligently standing on a random spot of the landscape, eroded by the time and natural elements. The building is the result of the subtraction of mass from that conceivable solid form. Parts of the remaining mass turn in different angles of orientation, elsewhere are split, leaving semi-open and outdoor passages between them. Fragments of the monolithic synthesis are placed as tracings like the retaining walls of the exterior planted yards. The architectural form of the residence has also references from the traditional Santorinian vaulted roofs, the old fortification towers outside the old castles of the island and the metallic cantilevers used in the old pumice quarries, all pieces of the architectural history of the island, subtly combined and embedded in the monolithic structure.

© Giorgos Sfakianakis © Giorgos Sfakianakis

The bearing structure of the building has been made by reinforced concrete. Local black stone, bricks and thermal insulation have been used for the walls, as also colored earthy plaster for the coatings and the exterior floors. White color plaster and white mosaic for the interior surfaces. Natural wood, marble, rusty steel, cement plaster and clay are used to the built/handmade interior & exterior furniture. Mediterranean plants and cactus complete the integration of the building in the landscape.

© Giorgos Sfakianakis © Giorgos Sfakianakis

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Pines House / The Design Institute of Landscape and Architecture China Academy of Art

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 01:00 PM PDT

Courtyard. Image © Aogovision Courtyard. Image © Aogovision
Bird view of the courtyard. Image © Qiansu Photography Studio Bird view of the courtyard. Image © Qiansu Photography Studio

Text description provided by the architects. Foreword: There is a newly refurbished villa named Pines House, hiding in the hills at the altitude of 700 meters in Bamu Field, Jiande Town, Zhejiang Province in China. It has transformed from the foundation of its owner's ancestral estate, meaning to cherish the owner's childhood memory of beautiful moonlight coming through the pine trees in the front courtyard.

Main entrance. Image © Aogovision Main entrance. Image © Aogovision

The origin: The property owner comes back to the village to bring back the prosperity to the old house, with the help of a design team.

Site plan Site plan

Challenges: Reconstructing two old mud huts and adding three new houses have three major challenges. First, the mud hut almost falls down, and it is very dark inside. Second, the limited movement flow in the architecture and surrounds. Third, a balance between the old and the new.

Loft of annex building. Image © Qiansu Photography Studio Loft of annex building. Image © Qiansu Photography Studio

Solutions: The design team uses steel frame structure to reinforce the weak mud walls, and adds huge glass French windows in-between with risen eaves, to deal with the structure stress issue and insufficient light problem. Also, they allocate new buildings accordingly based on the actual context.

Room of main building. Image © Qiansu Photography Studio Room of main building. Image © Qiansu Photography Studio

Thoughtfully locate all the room entrances at the back side of the building to keep the privacy. Lastly, designers honestly keep the original walls and simply take local wood, rocks and former utensils to strengthen as well as decorate the house, which creates a respectful connection between housing and nature.

Main building. Image © Aogovision Main building. Image © Aogovision

Epilogue: The owner has a dream, and we design the best way to make it come true.

Back view. Image © Aogovision Back view. Image © Aogovision

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Stefano Boeri Combats Rural Decline With Free Initiative

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 09:00 AM PDT

School Exterior Visualization. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti School Exterior Visualization. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti

For the 2018 Venice BiennaleStefano Boeri Architetti presents Slow Food Freespace, the first Slow Village to be constructed in Sichuan, China. Made in collaboration with Slow Food Movement, speakers Stefano Boeri and Carlo Petrini discussed the project at the event "Across Chinese Cities - The Community." 

For the Slow Food China project, Stefano Boeri Architetti has designed a school, a library and a small museum for the villages involved, free of charge. The program attempts to encourage millions of Chinese farmers to stay in their rural districts, combatting the unprecedented emigration to cities which has grown in the last few years. By offering educational facilities and cultural landmarks to these rural communities, it inspires the preservation of local culture and acknowledges the importance of the agricultural economy.

Territory. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti Territory. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti
Masterplan. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti Masterplan. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti

"We easily forget that the rural areas provide sustainability to our daily lives," explained Stefano Boeri in Shanghai during an invitation from Anhua Chen, Project Leader of Slow Villages Co-Building. "It is an inevitable necessity of architecture to confront the speed of evolution while also feeding it with the richness of the past. For this reason, we have proposed to enhance the agricultural villages with a system of small but precious catalysts of local culture, able to improve the lives of the residents."

School Visualization. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti School Visualization. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti

The school, library and museum become three cultural centers that can act as catalysts for the construction of more facilities and cultural spaces in these disconnected regions. They also promise economic benefits through Chinese and international tourism. The project interprets architecture as a "porous territorial device," able to reactivate the rich and diverse history of rural Chinese communities.

Library Visualization. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti Library Visualization. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti

"Preserving the rural environment means protecting the cultural diversity," confirms Yibo Xu, Shanghai partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti. "Significant efforts have been made in the latest decades in China with regard to the urban questions, and in the future greater attention should be paid to the versatility of expressions, traditions and patrimonies of the countryside."

Elevations and Plans. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti Elevations and Plans. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti
  • Architects: Stefano Boeri Architetti China
  • Partners: Stefano Boeri, Yibo Xu
  • Project Director: Pietro Chiodi
  • Project Architects: Claudia Scaglioni, Moataz Faisal Farid
  • Design Team: Huang Zhiyang, Jiang Linhong, Krista Skujina
  • Graphic Content: Cecilia Picello
  • Pr And Communication: Dong Li, Gong Ting, Xie Ying
  • Collaborators: Lifang, Sebastiano Conti Gallenti
  • Project Year: 2018

News via: Stefano Boeri Architetti.

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Architecture City Guide: 15 Places Every Architect Should Visit in Córdoba, Argentina

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 07:00 AM PDT

via © Wikipedia User: Cambalachero Licensed under Public Domain via © Wikipedia User: Cambalachero Licensed under Public Domain

Located in the central region of Argentina, the historic city of Córdoba is the second most populated city in the country; which means it can be considered an important center for culture, education, and finance. Its dense historic center is characterized by the presence of brick -a product of the work of Togo Díaz- and the particular landscape that links the urban with the natural, resulting in an exclusive atmosphere that invites us to walk its streets.

The characteristic culture of Córdoba is evident in its urban public spaces, its natural streams and its pedestrian areas; where one can appreciate the heterogeneity of classical, modern and contemporary architecture. Below is a list of 15 sites that every architect should visit.

Guía de arquitectura en Córdoba: 15 sitios que todo arquitecto debe visitar

01. Bicentennial Civic Center / Lucio Morini + GGMPU Arquitectos

Address: Rosario de Santa Fe 650

© Claudio Manzoni © Claudio Manzoni

02. Villa el Libertador Príncipe de Asturias Municipal Hospital / Santiago Viale + Ian Dutari + Alejandro Paz

Address: Defensa 1200

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

03. Córdoba Cultural Center / Castañeda, Cohen, Nanzer, Saal, Salassa, Tissot

Address: Av. Poeta Lugones 401

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

04. Edilicio Alas III Complex / Luis Rébora, Abel Ramírez y Alfredo Troilo

Address: Deán Funes 1752

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

05. Emilio Caraffa Fine Arts Museum / GGMPU Arquitectos + Lucio Morini

Address: Av. Hipólito Irigoyen 651

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

06. Córdoba Municipality / S.E.P.R.A.

Address: Av Marcelo T. de Alvear 100

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

07. Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Design FAUD - National University of Córdoba

Address: Av. Haya de la Torre s/n, Ciudad Universitaria

via © Wikipedia User: leandroidecba Licensed under Public Domain via © Wikipedia User: leandroidecba Licensed under Public Domain

08. Church of Our Lady of Asunción

Address: Independencia 80

via Flickr user: Andrés Landeau CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr user: Andrés Landeau CC BY-SA 2.0

09. El Papagayo Restaurant / Ernesto Bedmar

Address: Arturo M. Bas 69

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

10. Muy Güemes / Agostina Gennaro + María José Péndola

Address: Fructuoso Rivera 260

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

11. Jesuit Monastery of Córdoba

Address: Obispo Trejo 242

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12. The Urban Works of Togo Díaz / José Ignacio Díaz

Address: Boulevard San Juan 311

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

13. President Sarmiento School / Nicolás Juárez Cáceres

Address: Av. Roque Sáenz Peña and calle Gral. Bustos

© Gonzalo Viramonte © Gonzalo Viramonte

14. Emilio Caraffa Fine Arts Museum / GGMPU Arquitectos + Lucio Morini

Address: Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 511

© GGMPU Arquitectos © GGMPU Arquitectos

15. City of Arts Ateliers / Lucio Morini

Address: Av. Pablo Ricchieri 1999

© Sosa Pinilla © Sosa Pinilla

 

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How Ila Bêka Puts People's Emotional Responses to Space On Film

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 06:45 AM PDT

Celebrated for their unique, lively, and intimate take on architecture, in their films Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine break with the traditional representation of architecture, choosing instead to follow people living inside buildings, focusing on them instead of capturing empty structures. In a new videoLouisiana Channel interviews the Italian filmmaker and architect Ila Bêka, in which he discusses the rhythm of everyday life within contemporary architecture projects, and their importance in triggering emotions.

We felt that the movement inside architecture is very important to understand how the architecture works.
– Ila Bêka

Ila Bêka. Image from Bêka & Lemoine Interview: The Emotion of the Space by Louisiana Channel; Video Still Ila Bêka. Image from Bêka & Lemoine Interview: The Emotion of the Space by Louisiana Channel; Video Still

Bêka talks about a selection of films (compiled from the duo's Living Architectures film series) which triggered an emotional response from the people using the space on a daily basis. He wanted to go beyond the picturesque image provided by the owners of the buildings, the architects or the magazines, and focus on the proportionality, functionality, and emotional response to the architecture.

Housekeeper of The Bordeaux House by Koolhaas. Image from Bêka & Lemoine Interview: The Emotion of the Space by Louisiana Channel; Video Still Housekeeper of The Bordeaux House by Koolhaas. Image from Bêka & Lemoine Interview: The Emotion of the Space by Louisiana Channel; Video Still

The interview begins with an in-depth look into the life of the housemaid of Koolhaas' Bordeaux House, and her occasional difficulty in cleaning some areas of the house. The couple spent 2 weeks observing the housekeeper and following her everyday moves in the hopes of understanding the circulation of the space and how well the building flows. Bêka claims that "when you want to think about a new building, you have to think about people cleaning it, as it goes together."

House 8 by BIG. Image from Bêka & Lemoine Interview: The Emotion of the Space by Louisiana Channel; Video Still House 8 by BIG. Image from Bêka & Lemoine Interview: The Emotion of the Space by Louisiana Channel; Video Still

Bêka moves on to describe their 21-day journey in BIG's 8 House, observing plants, animals, and children. Children were crucial in his observation, as they do not understand the rules of architecture. Instead, children feel the space and move around based on their emotional response, which helped Bêka & Lemoine understand the space more deliberately.

Yasuo Moriyama. Image from Bêka & Lemoine Interview: The Emotion of the Space by Louisiana Channel; Video Still Yasuo Moriyama. Image from Bêka & Lemoine Interview: The Emotion of the Space by Louisiana Channel; Video Still

Next, the duo looked for someone who had a strong relationship with a space; someone who couldn't live somewhere else because the building was tailor-made, which is why they chose to study the Moriyama House. The couple noticed that Yasuo Moriyama, the house owner, read books in different places around the house, only to realize that each area in the house reflected a certain mood presented in the books he was reading. Moriyama had a poetic relationship with the space, as described by Bêka, which helped the two underline these poetic moments and turn them into a collection of observations people don't see very often.

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Uncle's House / Paola Ruffo Ruffo – Montserrat Perpuli Hallal Arquitectas

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 06:00 AM PDT

© Ruso Ortiz © Ruso Ortiz
  • Construction: Eng. Jorge Santiago Becerra
  • Structure: Eng. Jorge Santiago Becerra
© Ruso Ortiz © Ruso Ortiz

Text description provided by the architects. The client, a pianist who is single and has a limited budget, requires a one-person home with a basic necessities list which includes a space for a grand piano in the living room, a dressing room with a study piano and a crafts studio. His spatial expectations are outdoors connection, spaciousness, and privacy.

Floor Plan Floor Plan

A 255 square meters flat lot, is located in a suburb on a hill with sunrise and hills views. There are some abandoned houses in front of the lot, visible from street level. The lot conditions and the client’s necessities force us to maintain a certain degree of enclosure, searching for greater privacy, opening the spaces towards the interior of the lot at street level, and making the most of the space. 

Therefore, the basic architectural program was solved using three volumes with different heights and degrees of enclosure that contain both public and private areas. A lattice welcomes and leads towards the main volume access. The lattice is inserted through the main volume guiding towards the second volume, separating public areas from service areas.

Elevation 1 Elevation 1

The main volume contains a double-height ceiling living room, a service hallway behind the lattice leads to a storage, a bathroom and the service yard. As well as the stairs to the mezzanine which serves as a craft studio with privileged sunrise and hills views.

© Ruso Ortiz © Ruso Ortiz

The second volume, with a high ceiling kitchen and dining, has a long concrete island that includes the stove and the dining table. The kitchen, one of the main spaces in a Mexican home, serves as a bonding place between social and private zones.

Section 1 Section 1

The third volume, fully private, has the bedroom, main bathroom and an area that serves two functions: dressing room and rehearsal room. This space has no windows and can be closed, isolating sound to and from the exterior, furthermore, the clothes help to improve the acoustic properties of the space.

© Ruso Ortiz © Ruso Ortiz

To guarantee spaciousness and spatial continuity, the public areas open to interior gardens, ensuring cross ventilation. The use of concrete in its natural state as a finish harmonizes the design language through the spaces.

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Bee Breeders Announce Winners of Nemrut Volcano Eyes Competition

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 05:00 AM PDT

First Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders First Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders

Bee Breeders have announced the winners of the Nemrut Volcano Eyes Competition, where participants were tasked with designing a visitor observation platform on top of Nemrut, a dormant volcano in eastern Turkey. With the unique natural environment, including a caldera and a pair of lakes, the observation platform is intended to provide unobstructed views of the extraordinary landscape. The jury encouraged submissions that were cost-effective, environmentally-responsible, and energy-efficient.

Below are the winners of the competition: 

First Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders First Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders

First Prize + Student Award

 Upservatory: Fernando Irizarry, Marcos Ortiz, Gabriel Rivera (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus)

The winning proposal takes inspiration from the ballooning sites over the vast Cappadocia in central Turkey. The 20 square meter platform hovers over the environment and is attached to a rail that controls its trajectory. Thus, creating a circular journey that moves from views of the city into the volcano's crater. The platform is accessed from an entry station near the mountain's ski lift. Once elevated, the balloon-carried deck follows a guided rail cantilevered well over the peak's edge, permitting visitors unrestricted views of the caldera and the surrounding geography.

Second Prize

Second Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Second Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders

Nemrut Caldera Observation Route: Keremcan Kirilmaz, Erdem Batirbek

This proposal's form is inspired by the movement of a lava flow. This relates to "Nemrut's history as a mountain constantly sculpted by movements from within and below." The bridge from the ski station to the viewing station is comprised of corten rails and perforated stairs.

Third Prize

Third Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Third Prize. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders

A Walk Beyond The Edge: Giuseppe Pastonesi, Desislava Georgieva, Marchela Varbanova, Nina Gerosa

'A Walk Beyond the Edge' is a triangulated platform with viewing points to the crater and Lake Van. Visitors can enter the steel and wood structure via a footbridge and opaque 'tunnel.' The platform "then dissolves as the wooden floor gives way to perforated decking and guardrails, allowing views below."

Green Award

Green Award. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders Green Award. Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders

Obsidian & Steel: Sam Naylor, Elaine Stokes

This proposal consists of a series of weathered Corten steel retaining plates and scattered obsidian stones, which guide hikers towards the peak. As they walk on the natural terrain, the only guides are scattered poles of light. In the final approach, visitors are compressed between two walls of corten plates that begin to rotate, first directing views to the valley below and then revealing the caldera.

News via: Bee Breeders

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Conxita House / ESCOLANO + STEEGMANN

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT

© José Hevia. © José Hevia.
  • Architect: ESCOLANO + STEEGMANN
  • Location: Barcelona, Spain
  • Architects In Charge: Adrià Escolano, David Steegmann.
  • Area: 84.0 m2
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photographer: José Hevia., Roger Casas
  • Structures: José Ovejero
  • Constructors: Barnamodul
  • Constructor Manager: Robert Bagó
© José Hevia. © José Hevia.

Text description provided by the architects. Living on a terrace. The project is conceived according to the client's main desire: a house turned towards the exterior. The operation, however, is not so much to open the views to the terrace as in providing the interior with attributes of the exterior, resonances of the landscape of the roofs of the city, often invaded by clothes hanging in the sun.

Programs Programs
First Level Axonometric First Level Axonometric

The east-west orientation of the apartment suggests not resorting to an orthodox distribution with night and day zones associated with each of the two facades. Instead, the program is articulated through two 'segregable' rooms located on opposite sides of the house and, beyond the idea of ​​'living room', a chain of common spaces of similar magnitude that extends from the facade of the street to the inner courtyard. Against the spatial unity of the loft, the house is 'divided' by its longitudinal axis into an area of ​​public vocation, in contact with the entrance, and another of more private inclination, next to the patio of lights, where the technical and storage spaces are accumulated.

© José Hevia. © José Hevia.
Plans Plans
© José Hevia. © José Hevia.

The project is ordered, in this sense, from two main elements: a smooth topography, whose different levels solve the relationship of the house with a terrace at a 40cm difference height, and a 'shedding' of practicable light planes that crosses the house from end to end, from the front of the street to the inner courtyard. The materiality of the project is simple, defining the two main elements that make it up: wood for the tectonic - as a definition of the mobile elements, and ceramic tiles, habitual in most of the roofs of the city, for the stereotomy - as a definition of the static.

© Roger Casas © Roger Casas
© José Hevia. © José Hevia.

The program is not fixed, but mostly suggested. The topography 'gives rise' to the different scenes of domesticity. The project is revealed as the development of a series of more or less stable, periodic or fleeting activities in a territory of opportunities. In contrast, the sliding surface filter works as a dynamic device that introduces complexity into the plant, allowing the construction of various forms of spatial arrangement. The house is organized, from a theatrical point of view, through the dialectics of different degrees of transversal relationship between possible domestic scenes, subject to different degrees of privacy or mutual exclusion.

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Spotlight: Carlo Scarpa

Posted: 02 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT

Museo Castelvecchio. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreaosti/4505639981/'>Flickr user andreaosti</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Museo Castelvecchio. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreaosti/4505639981/'>Flickr user andreaosti</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>

One of the most enigmatic and underappreciated architects of the 20th century, Carlo Scarpa (June 2, 1906 – November 28, 1978) is best known for his instinctive approach to materials, combining time-honored crafts with modern manufacturing processes. In a 1996 documentary directed by Murray Grigor, Egle Trincanato, the President of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia for whom Scarpa renovated a Venetian palace in 1963, described how "above all, he was exceptionally skillful in knowing how to combine a base material with a precious one."

Carlo Scarpa studying drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954. Image © Mario De Biasi (public domain) Carlo Scarpa studying drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954. Image © Mario De Biasi (public domain)
Museo Castelvecchio. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/leonl/6121652268/'>Flickr user leonl</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Museo Castelvecchio. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/leonl/6121652268/'>Flickr user leonl</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>

Born in Venice, Scarpa spent most of his early childhood in Vicenza, before his family moved back to Venice after the death of his mother in 1919. Scarpa studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, and from 1932 until 1947 he was director of the Venini Glassworks. It was here that he first displayed his appreciation for craft, often working with the Venini glassblowers late into the night to perfect new designs.

Central Pavilion in the Giardini at the Venice Biennale. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/10160349164/'>Flickr user dalbera</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Central Pavilion in the Giardini at the Venice Biennale. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/10160349164/'>Flickr user dalbera</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>
Garden at the Querini Stampalia. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/8142985275'>Flickr user dalbera</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Garden at the Querini Stampalia. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/8142985275'>Flickr user dalbera</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>

It was not until after World War II that Scarpa began to be recognized internationally for his architecture. This recognition led to a series of commissions in and around Venice—many of them involving the renovation of existing buildings, which became something of a trademark for Scarpa. Perhaps most famously, Scarpa's renovation for the Museo Castelvecchio completed in 1964 carefully balanced new and old, revealing the history of the original building where appropriate. A revelation at the time, this approach has now become a common approach to renovation, perhaps most notably exhibited by David Chipperfield's Neues Museum.

Olivetti Showroom. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/8068024216'>Flickr user dalbera</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Olivetti Showroom. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/8068024216'>Flickr user dalbera</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>
Olivetti Showroom. Image © Orch_chemollo Olivetti Showroom. Image © Orch_chemollo

Scarpa's attention to detail is almost unmatched among modern architects. His appreciation of craft often led him to revel in the smallest of details, for example the brass supports under the stairs at his Olivetti Showroom, or the "viewing device" at the Brion Tomb and Sanctuary, which focuses the user's gaze in the direction of the town of San Vito d'Altivole by means of a small metal element embedded in a vertical slit in the concrete wall.

Brion Tomb and Sanctuary. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/leonl/6106113845/'>Flickr user leonl</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Brion Tomb and Sanctuary. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/leonl/6106113845/'>Flickr user leonl</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>
Brion Tomb and Sanctuary. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/batintherain/8192243875'>Flickr user batintherain</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Brion Tomb and Sanctuary. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/batintherain/8192243875'>Flickr user batintherain</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a>

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References: "Carlo Scarpa," a 1996 documentary directed by Murray Grigor; Famous Architects website; Wikipedia.

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New Library at the University of Bedfordshire / MCW Architects

Posted: 01 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

© Hufton+Crow © Hufton+Crow
  • Project Manager: AECOM
  • Mep Engineers: AECOM
  • Civil & Structural Engineers: AECOM
  • Planning Consultant: Fisher German
  • Contractor: Willmott Dixon Construction
  • Client: University of Bedfordshire
© Hufton+Crow © Hufton+Crow

Text description provided by the architects. The new library for the University of Bedfordshire is a vital step in the on-going regeneration of their town centre campus in Luton.

© Hufton+Crow © Hufton+Crow

The provision of this 6,950m2 building minimises the impact of future phases of redevelopment on the student experience through the relocation of this core activity into a brand-new facility, located at a focal point between academic space and new residential accommodation. The University has consulted widely with the students and looked at comparable recent new library schemes both in the UK and worldwide. 

© Jim Stephenson © Jim Stephenson
Programs Programs
© Hufton+Crow © Hufton+Crow

The building reflects the University's aspiration for an efficient, serious and scholarly place that supports and enables improvements in academic and institutional performance.
The vision for the scheme was to create a facility that:

  • Enhances the reputation of the University of Bedfordshire

  • Is adaptable to changing learning and teaching patterns

  • Provides an excellent environment for students and staff

  • Is inclusive and welcoming to all

  • Is comfortable and easy to use   

© Jim Stephenson © Jim Stephenson

The site is challenging because of the available 'footprint', resulting in a relatively tall building at nine floors. Taking this aspect as an opportunity, silent study spaces on each of the upper floors make a 'study wall' with excellent views and daylight whilst fulfilling the increasing demand by students for more silent working space. The increased scale of this site had been established with the Local Authority through the Development Framework that the University had previously agreed.

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The University were keen to create a strong civic gesture. MCW worked closely with Thorp Precast to develop a simple, robust language of precast concrete cladding. Long span coffered slabs generate large areas of column free space at each floor. A double height entrance space addresses the street-scape and contains a suspended mezzanine level where students can meet with the academic support team.  

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The project was delivered within the original project budget allocation and opened to students ahead of the academic year 2016/17. The building has achieved BREEAM Excellent.
The scheme plays a vital role in how the University can more effectively engage with the local community and town-centre. The ground floor café and information access area is fully glazed offering a welcoming, publicly accessible environment.

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"MCW have been extremely effective at working closely with the University as a true partner. They have been and will continue to be instrumental in advising, supporting and actively making our campus redevelopment the success that it is. Their ability to provide considered strategic thinking as well as take a lead role in the design and delivery of emerging projects is a valuable offer." — Ash Carline - Head of Major Projects University of Bedfordshire

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