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- Apartment on Aveiro Street / Branco-delRio Arquitectos
- Single-Family House in Valverde / estudio arn arquitectos
- Music Center Theater Teca / Dapstudio / elena sacco – paolo danelli
- Compact Housing in the Informal Settlements of Maputo / Casas Melhoradas
- Taksila Roots / SGA-STUDIO
- Qiyun Boutique Hotel / Quanwen Interior Design
- Art Museum & Library in Ota / Akihisa Hirata
- MHD House / 7A Architecture Studio
- Xi’an Zhongshu Bookstore / Wutopia Lab
- Stilts House / Natura Futura Arquitectura
- Seaforth House / MASQ architecture
- Ole Scheeren Unveils Design for High Rise 'Barclay Village' Project in Vancouver
- Chesapeake Car Park 4 / Elliott + Associates Architecs
- Glasgow School of Art to Be Rebuilt, According to School's Director
- Universidade Anhembi Morumbi | São José dos Campos Campus / KAAN Architecten + URBsp Arquitetura
- Rem Koolhaas on Identity and Conformity in the Digital City
- Hollyridge Residence / AUX Architecture
- SOM Receives Planning Permission for Angular Skyscraper in City of London
- Portsoken Pavilion / Make Architects
- Why Stadiums Made of Wood Could Be the Next Big Innovation in Sports Architecture
| Apartment on Aveiro Street / Branco-delRio Arquitectos Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © do mal o menos
 © do mal o menos Text description provided by the architects. 3 PIECES OF FURNITURE CREATE A HOME The aim was to convert a former two floor office in a rental apartment. The proposal, which develops at the lower level, focuses on reconverting a small area, originally subdivided and dark, to accommodate the social areas of the house.  © do mal o menos The intervention proposes to let the light flow, converting it into a diaphanous space and thus ncreasing the feeling of spaciousness. The main decision is not to build, intervening by dispensing with traditional construction work, in favor of a dry approach, much simpler, without creating new walls or divisions.  Diagram  Plan To that, the plant is emptied, introducing in the diaphanous space 3 wooden pieces of furniture that will organize the space.Firstly, a box contains wet areas: kitchen and bathroom. A mobile with a bookcase and table gives form to the entrance and to a small office under the stairs. Finally, movable lower furniture separates the living and eating areas.  © do mal o menos With only these three pieces, shape is given to the spaces of the house, always visually connected to maintain unity and flow of southern light.  © do mal o menos This work, closer to carpentry than building construction, focuses on the details and encounters. Reducing to a minimum the elements, fittings, switches, etc. The objects are esigned to provide the greatest possible sobriety, resulting in a high degree of abstraction and giving the house enhanced spatial clarity.  © do mal o menos  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Single-Family House in Valverde / estudio arn arquitectos Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © David Frutos
 © David Frutos Text description provided by the architects. It is a single-family house that is developed in ground floor, with a rotund geometry that is folded to the southeast and opens up to the garden area and the swimming pool.  © David Frutos The local rural building typology has been reinterpreted through the use of a sculptural stone volume with a gabled roof which is combined with a horizontal piece built of exposed reinforced concrete. This concrete piece folds up over itself making [...]up a covered porch and an indoor barbecue and family dining area. The importance of shadow spaces in the house is reinforced by a roof overhang on the south-facing elevation on the living room and dining area that creates another outdoor porch.  © David Frutos  Plan  © David Frutos Continuity between the distribution spaces is used in order to create a fluent and unitary appearance of the spaces and volumes: The indoor stoneware flooring extends to the outside to create a large horizontal platform which is the outdoor terrace area. The swimming pool is integrated in this area and built with the same flooring. The stone façade folds up over itself and conforms the roof. A skin of iroko wood slats covers the façade from the west to the north and integrates all the constructive elements such as doors, moving panels and lattices. This wood paneling is introduced inside the living space conforming the furniture and interior finishes.  © David Frutos The volume encloses on itself on the northern and western façade. On the southern and eastern façade shows a totally different image: A glass skin with large sliding doors maximize the fluidity between inside and outside. The garden is created like an extension of the housing space. This image of house opened to the swimming pool area is strengthened at night time. A line of light runs down the lower face of the terrace platform of the house.  © David Frutos The inner space of the house is organized by placing a sleeping area on the north and an interior courtyard which allows the bathrooms and the dressing room to be naturally illuminated without losing the privacy of this piece that shows an image of closed and opaque volume.  © David Frutos  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Music Center Theater Teca / Dapstudio / elena sacco – paolo danelli Posted: 10 Jul 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Filippo Romano
 © Filippo Romano Text description provided by the architects. Cassano D'Adda Music Center is not only a building for improving musical culture, but it's going to become the location for all the cultural activities of the city.  © Filippo Romano Music Center will be built in the city of Cassano d'Adda, between Milan and Bergamo, on the banks of the river Adda. Despite its small size, Cassano has a catchment area of approximately 160 000 people, so this project is meant to have a territorial role.  © Filippo Romano The area is near the main street from Milan to Treviglio, a few minutes from the center and from the beautiful Villa Borromeo, in a suburb characterized by constructions without value.  © Filippo Romano The building project wants to create a new urban center, a locus for the city and the neighborhood.  The placement of buildings in the masterplan follows the lines of penetration of the area, it divides the lot into a private zone surrounded by residential buildings and a public one with the Music Center overlooking the square. This external space is composed by a few elements like a terraced parterre that connects the street to the building ground height and an arboreal volume in front of it, that works as an outer limit for the square itself.  © Filippo Romano The program is very complex, including different functions and spaces for a real flexibility of use: the foyer can accommodate, for example, events, exhibitions or little concerts like an internal square.  Longitudinal Section Near the lobby, a 300-seat auditorium and commercial spaces (like a cafeteria or a music store) without interior partitions can expand its activity in the adjacent spaces and operate independently from the Music Center.  © Filippo Romano A music school is located on the second floor, strictly connected with others functions and spaces. The building is a compact volume of three floors and a basement on a rectangular base.  Scheme of the plaza The compactness of press-formed perforated white metal covering of the first two levels, white painted, contrasts with a very porous interior. The foyer is a great hollow space that connect different levels and brings together all the activities. From this space comes out the aslope volume of the auditorium, defined by its interior and exterior coating made of white wooden splints.  © Filippo Romano This kind of porousness chosen for the interiors is the same for the black volume of the music school, which compactness is carved by six patios that bring light and air to the classrooms, allocated next to them like an external projections of the interior spaces. This disposition create a multipurpose connecting space.  © Filippo Romano The project has been developed after a participation process that involved local authorities, the school of music teachers, local acting companies, associations, and a representation of users. The Center has been conceived as a house of music open to the community, a public place where people can meet and interact.  © Filippo Romano  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Compact Housing in the Informal Settlements of Maputo / Casas Melhoradas Posted: 10 Jul 2018 06:00 PM PDT  © Johan Mottelson
 © Johan Mottelson Text description provided by the architects. Casas Melhoradas is an applied research project on housing for low-income groups in the informal settlements of Maputo, Mozambique with a three-fold focus:  © Johan Mottelson  First Floor Plan  © Johan Mottelson  Second Floor Plan The project is carried out by the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism & Landscape, at KADK - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design, and Conservation; the Mozambican NGO Estamos and Architects without Borders, Denmark. The project's latest housing prototype was completed in 2018 and consists of a low-rise high-density row-housing typology with six dwellings on a plot where there would otherwise reside a single family. Accordingly, the project demonstrates how space and infrastructure can be utilized more economically and thereby counter urban sprawl and the growing infrastructure deficit.  © Johan Mottelson All the dwellings have small private outdoor areas with kitchens, as cooking is largely an outdoor activity in the informal settlements of Maputo due to the use of charcoal. On the ground floor, the kitchens are placed on the verandas next to the street, adding a semi-private transition zone between the public and private. All kitchens are equipped with gas stoves to reduce air pollution and deforestation caused by the use of charcoal. The project has small common courtyards with shared bathrooms and laundry facilities.  Section A The project has a green roof where an additional floor can be added, which ensures the project a robustness in case further urban densification should be relevant in the area. Furthermore, the evaporation from the roof improves the indoor climate in the dwellings. The project was built using locally produced compressed earth blocks. Thereby, the energy consumption in the construction process was reduced while adding the same red color tone of the local soil to the project.  © Johan Mottelson  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Andre J. Fanthome
 © Andre J. Fanthome Text description provided by the architects. Taksila roots built on 1 acre land caters to the primary department of the Taksila academy and is built well within the city of Akbarpur. Like other under developed cities in India, educational Infrastructure in Akbarpur is inadequate with very little improvement .The client considers this project to be the drop in the ocean and hopes to bring about urban transformation in the city. .jpg?1531086170 "Courtesy of SGA-STUDIO") Courtesy of SGA-STUDIO It is a Primary school with Classes from Nursery to 5th Standard. + activity spaces etc. The building is set on one side of the rectilinear plot, leaving a larger chunk on the south for the playfield, tyre park, service block and the vehicular parking. The building is oriented parallel to the main road, with the longer facade towards the south/ south east.  © Andre J. Fanthome  Circulation  © Andre J. Fanthome The building is designed as a set of cluster blocks connected by a large flying roof and circulation around a courtyard. It is a G +2 storey structure in exposed brick & concrete, with an organizational rule to the project. Each floor has three clusters of classrooms with activity spaces always facing the courtyard or a terrace. Outer spaces such as terraces, corridors and court are treated as educational spaces. The plinth of the project is free- flowing with open access from all sides and connects all the external spaces like stage, Splash pool etc.  © Andre J. Fanthome The courtyard is flanked by two staircases on either side, in a mirrored position. The round cutouts on each terrace serves the purpose of a simple chajja and also adds to the play of light and shadow. The juxtaposition of these round cutouts opens up diagonal views in the project, adding to the ambience of the inner space.  © Andre J. Fanthome The roof as a main feature of the project connects all the blocks together and gives a floating character to the school. It acts as an artificial floor used for playing activities of the kids. The roof when experienced from inside, endows a feeling of shade and protection.  © Andre J. Fanthome The modularity and the exposed RCC structure play a vital role in the visual aesthetics of the project. Special care has been taken in articulation of structural elements with columns allowing for corner windows in each classroom, round columns around the courtyard adding to the sensitive character and the flying roof. The school has no air-conditioning. The orientation of the project, cluster formation (thermal mass), courtyard, chajjas and the flying roof result in achieving optimum temperature in the classrooms.  Courtesy of SGA-STUDIO  First floor plan  © Andre J. Fanthome This project has integrated BALA elements (Building as a Learning Aid) within the main civil construction the building. Flooring patterns, elements in the walls and corridors have puzzles, games and theorems to stimulate children's learning environment.  © Andre J. Fanthome This project is important to the city and to the people involved in it. Apart from the development of skills of local labor and facilitation of local craft, the quality was achieved with no special technology, thereby boosting the confidence of the construction community. It aims to be an urban instigator for betterment of the place and contribute in the future of smaller cities.  © Andre J. Fanthome  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Qiyun Boutique Hotel / Quanwen Interior Design Posted: 10 Jul 2018 04:00 PM PDT  Courtyard. Image © Ripei Qiu
 Courtyard. Image © Ripei Qiu Text description provided by the architects. The entinre building of Hangzhou Qiyun Resort was reconstructed from an old residential building. At the beginning of the reconstruction, the original brick bearing structure was removed, only the original facade was retained, and the space was re-integrated with steel structure. While preserving the original architectural features, it also increases the span of the space, reconstructs the continuous public space, makes up for the drawbacks of the narrow indoor space, and improves the spatial quality. Interior design removes complicated decorative elements, and minimalist and light industrial style design permeates every corner.  Room. Image © Ripei Qiu The design uses unprocessed, natural brown logs, and gray bricklaying to create a warm and pleasant atmosphere. Private and exquisite, the only five guest rooms are given different styles of space design. the furniture is made up of famous domestic and foreign designer brands such as hay creaking, Sanskrit wood and wisdom workshops. The hotel presents a simple modern Zen style, lively and warm main color, rough texture of stone, hand-made paint, black wood, moderate steel frame structure, all solid wood furniture, plus cotton and linen curtains, wool carpets and tightly woven Egyptian cotton bedding, which complement each other with cold and warm tones.  Axonometric A large area of ground glass was used in the renovation of the facade, allowing the entire primitive architecture to grow harmoniously in the modern sense. On the first floor, folding slide glass doors were used. stone paving extended to the lobby. when the door was opened, the lobby and courtyard were integrated. Introducing natural light into the room gives the space a transparent feeling. The indoor area extends from indoor to outdoor, and the lush trees planted around also provide natural shade shelters for diners who eat in the courtyard.  Room. Image © Ripei Qiu In the courtyard of the independent cabin, the front-end water bar provides beverage service, and the back is a functional space for cleaning and disinfecting the guest room linen. The roof part retains the original wood frame structure and combines with the movable folding arm window to create a semi-open space to provide food and drink. The corner of the courtyard remained until the cherry trees stood against the wall. The iron frame on the rammed earth wall is surrounded by bamboo strips, which separates the disturbance of the periphery and can also enjoy a quiet place in the downtown.  Floor plans In the hall, the front desk uses a cold grey mechanism wall surface and warm primary color wood to echo each other from afar. the open and closed circuit and the exposed air conditioner are not decorated too much. The tea room area uses the old wooden table top, dense tea atmosphere, slim and elegant scaffolding covered with ethereal white gauze curtains, adding a wonderful amount of money to the space, elegant brass lamps, plain and elegant pure wooden grille, creating a room of elegant leisure.  Courtyard. Image © Ripei Qiu The layout of the guest room design is simple and generous, and the plain material is used to create the atmosphere of the guest room vacation. The design of floating windows and large floor-to-floor glass windows makes the whole space appear transparent and clear. Brass products enrich the color of space and give more space a sense of life.  Room. Image © Ripei Qiu  Section  Room. Image © Ripei Qiu The design of the top floor retains the bare original wooden roof structure, which increases the height of the roof and has more space plasticity at the same time. The use of steel structures has increased the number of attics on the first floor, increasing the space utilization rate, which can be used by friends who travel together or by families of three.  Room. Image © Ripei Qiu The hotel aims to provide a quiet shelter by the stream that will allow guests to retreat from the ever-buzzling city life.  Courtyard. Image © Ripei Qiu  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Art Museum & Library in Ota / Akihisa Hirata Posted: 10 Jul 2018 03:00 PM PDT _daici_ano.jpg?1530935614 "© Daici Ano") © Daici Ano
_daici_ano.jpg?1530935623 "© Daici Ano") © Daici Ano "Let the city bloom"  Axonometric Therefore, for people to easy to walk though and stop by, we aimed for architecture that the town is continuing to the inside. _daici_ano.jpg?1530935517 "© Daici Ano") © Daici Ano Specifically, we proposed a configuration surrounding the slopes of steel frame Rims around five RC construction Boxes. People can walk around on each floor like walking in the city. _daici_ano.jpg?1530935630 "© Daici Ano") © Daici Ano Also, in order to enable people of various age groups and backgrounds to find their own places, we tried to coexist three-dimensionally with places with various characteristics. Like the coral reef system, is.  Plan I wish that the architecture like flower born in front of the station, which was designed with involvement of a large number of citizens and stakeholders, let the bloom new revitalization to the city. _daici_ano.jpg?1530935337 "© Daici Ano") © Daici Ano  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MHD House / 7A Architecture Studio Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of 7A Architecture Studio
 Courtesy of 7A Architecture Studio Text description provided by the architects. The MHD House is built on a plot of land with 7 meters in width and 20 meters in length. The land has front and back approaches, which are used to connect with the small alleys in this old, messy and low-security residential area. The house is built to serve a young couple living with their parents and planning to have kids in the near future.  Diagrams The MHD is built on a plot of land with 7 meters in width and 20 meters in length. The land has front and back approaches, which are used to connect with the small alleys in this old, messy and low-security residential area. The house is built to serve a young couple living with their parents and planning to have kids in the near future.  Courtesy of 7A Architecture Studio Overally, the house consists of two storeys, which is 7 meters wide and 15 meters long. It includes many rectangular cells providing the interior space with the ability to open and close reasonably and bringing as much natural light and wind as possible to the house. The remaining area is reserved for garden and parking.  Plan Linking along the vertical axle of the house are stairs made of solid raw concrete, which are decorated with the natural light from the roof. The separation of the windows also makes the view from the outside to become more lively when the background seems too boring.  Courtesy of 7A Architecture Studio Interior furniture of the house is barely reduced. In this way, the homeowners will have a "backdrop" with large space and the shadows from natural lights which are dynamically change by the time of day. This makes the building a complex of empty, unstable and unfinished spaces. Over time, the changes of the family members will help to fill the house in its way or it could be moved intentionally.  Courtesy of 7A Architecture Studio In other words, the house can be seen as a reflection of the miniature society, where each member of the family can "live together" by the connection between inside and outside space, light and dark, oldness and newness in a common framework, away from the hustle and bustle of daily life.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Xi’an Zhongshu Bookstore / Wutopia Lab Posted: 10 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © CreatAR Images
 © CreatAR Images Text description provided by the architects. Wutopia Lab recently designed an entirely white Zhongshu Bookstore in Xi'an, one of the most ancient cities in China which used to be the capital for thirteen dynasties, with 300 tons of steel and 30,000 meters of light strips.  © CreatAR Images We aborted our design of a direct entry into the bookstore, and created a glittering entrance in the commercial space on the fourth floor; this required to make free of the floor slab of fifth floor into the main area of the bookstore without destroying the main structure. We built a pillarless white curvy staircase, highlighted by a spiral white panel, surrounded by custom-made white acrylic walls. Readers coming from their everyday life, heading up the stairs step by step, and are encouraged by the spirit of knowledge and curiosity displayed through the books around them to enter the bookstore over the clouds.  © CreatAR Images  Fifth Floor Plan  © CreatAR Images The basic space of the bookstore consists of popular book recommendation areas and public reading areas. We decided to make a reading paradise over the "clouds", and it should have a light and streamlined free space, but in order to follow the restrictions of fire codes, we had to challenge the traditional types and materials of the bookshelf. For the first time, we used 5mm thick steel plates to customize curved bookshelves. After precise structural calculations, the steel frame that is hidden behind the foundation is used as the support of the structure.The over 3,000 meters long steel plated bookshelf floats in the air as a cantilevered structure. Digital concepts and technologies are used in order to realize such a soft and free space: each piece of steel plate has been optimized through programming, processed by CNC machine tools, and then assembled on site according to the numbering.  © CreatAR Images  Section  © CreatAR Images The free flowing bookshelf outlined by a curve has a total of ten levels, making full use of the corners of the public reading area. The rounded chamfers leave the space with no sharp corner, the back panel is made by a translucent acrylic; whereas the book recommendation area of the white bookstore is to suspend the triangular steel plate with a slender screw, so that the books displayed above seem to float in the air. This is a brand new experience to the Zhongshu bookstore branches.  © CreatAR Images There is a pantheon in central of the public reading area. In the center of the floor structural beams stands an exquisite displaying rack for Zhongshu's "Book of the Month" selection, and can only be held by one person at a time. The floor slab here was replaced with a glass floor in order to mimic an illusion of water surface. The space underneath it holds a room for reading meeting or a mini conference. This invisible academy and the visible pantheon together form the center of Zhongshu Bookstore — an oasis where the mind and soul can be rejuvenated and set free.  © CreatAR Images Zhongshu Bookstore's children's library is a crystal structure hidden in the forest. It was inspired by the trees and animal silhouettes of the nine-colored deer to protect the children's Wonderland. Kids will find their own hidden entrances, a hidden world of playful tricks and caves, and have the skylines of the architecture, blue skies and starry nights. This is a world for children.  © CreatAR Images Zhongshu Bookstore has ensured that the core shopping area is not only a quiet zone, but also a motion zone based on the streamline and operation of the cinema combined with the coffee and meal service with more dining tables and booths. The bookstore, thus, is creatively merged with the cinema.  © CreatAR Images The design and construction of Zhongshu Bookstore which lasted 600 days is not only the transcendence of Zhongshu Bookstore itself, but also represents the great urban revival that Xi'an is currently experiencing. The whitest bookstore is filled with various kinds of ancient souls of various temperatures with pure thoughts, memories, and hopes.  © CreatAR Images I hope my architectural practices reiterate our everyday life through immense imaginations and dramatic artistic expressions. I also hop that it transforms reality into a "magic reality" and creates an illusion that uncovers bits of truths in our life. Miracle, raising from ordinary life, is believed to be both a magnification and a fated outcome of ordinary life — the stories of which can be colored and told in an extraordinary fashion. Zhongshu Bookstore pays the tribute and performs a white Divine Comedy to the capital of thirteen dynasties — Xi'an.  © CreatAR Images  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Stilts House / Natura Futura Arquitectura Posted: 10 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © JAG Studio
 © JAG Studio Text description provided by the architects. An architecture that re-appropriates the idea of traditional and flexible as a way of dwelling in the city.  © JAG Studio The project was to capture the essence of the environment, the lifestyle.  © JAG Studio  Plans  © JAG Studio Stilts House, located in Villamil, Guayas province, Ecuador, a satellite city of Guayaquil with a population of 33.560 inhabitants, where at the time of the colony was a port of fishermen settled on ancient indigenous populations while maintaining the tradition today, in 1982 the UNESCO declared General Villamil Beaches as the second best climate in the world after a mountainous place in Australia, it is also known for its great work of local labor craft.  Collage It is proposed in its composite surround this with baked bricks that are also a traditional material in the local area, with some of the main objectives, do not use glass in their windows, incorporating traditional elements such as chazas, where it allows ventilation and the shadow that are necessary for the tropical climate of the place.  © JAG Studio It occurs in a horizontal plane high; lightened by a system of pillars of teak which serves to support the breadwinner walls and cover, leaving it to the naked on the volume of " private" aiming to develop through a proprietary architecture of the tropics, a proposal that meets the needs of the client; on the ground floor, and integrated with the outside and their day-to-day activities, there is a social area that closes in on itself, and opens toward the interior of the house as a rest area with hammocks. This will generate micro-climates, through the material and its new features.  © JAG Studio It is suggested with the material, the architectural program of project, highlighted with different logics of implementation of brick to provide privacy and permeability.  © JAG Studio Define a response of urban housing that through different strategies such as the application of principles of sustainable design, are still in the process of searching for ways to question the possibility of having a solution of city closest to reality, to our traditions and the optimization of resources.  © JAG Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Seaforth House / MASQ architecture Posted: 10 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Ben Guthrie
 © Ben Guthrie Text description provided by the architects. Sitting on the escarpment at Seaforth the site is blessed with spectacular south facing views down to the Spit. Central to the idea of the project is how the natural environment can be extended and form an integral part of the house. The green escarpment is carried through the front garden and the path to the entry slowly transforms from natural to more formed and solid as the approach continues. Ultimately with the garden mature the building will appear to be completely part of the surrounding landscape; a monolithic form rising out of a green base.  © Ben Guthrie The house is conceived of as two distinct pavilions; a public wing with the living spaces and a private wing containing bedrooms and ancillary spaces.  Ground floor plan  © Ben Guthrie  First floor plan The living areas open both to the front and rear gardens. The roof kicks up to the west allowing a large north window to occupy the highest section providing north sun and light into a south orientated living room. The kitchen tucks onto the back of the space opening to the rear patio and external living areas. The private wing is L-shaped in plan with bedrooms at the upper level. The layout allows for a large undercover outdoor area that wraps around a ground level courtyard. A small strip of landscape allows the rear garden to flow into the courtyard, thereby continuing the idea of the natural environment being as much a part of the house as possible.  © Ben Guthrie The material palette is deliberately restrained with the use of concrete blocks, off form concrete and timber cladding for the upper level. The house is solid at its base and becomes lighter above the ground floor datum. The house is earthed and feels connected to the ground with both the concrete blocks and timber cladding brought internally to reinforce this notion.  © Ben Guthrie  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Ole Scheeren Unveils Design for High Rise 'Barclay Village' Project in Vancouver Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:05 AM PDT  Courtesy of Ole Scheeren Buro Ole Scheeren recently revealed their design for two new towers to be built between Davie and Robson Villages in Vancouver, Canada. Named "Barclay Village," the project combines residential units (with 30 percent of the units reserved for social housing), a variety of public amenities, and green terraces. The design was inspired by the "texture and scale of the surrounding urban fabric and folds the typologies of the two historic villages."  Courtesy of Ole Scheeren Commenting on the project, Scheeren said, "Whereas tower typologies by default reinforce isolation and division, 'Barclay Village' proposes a design that becomes an extension of the local neighborhood and community and that opens up the confines of the tower to reconnect architecture with its natural and social environment."  Courtesy of Ole Scheeren Vancouver's West End, where the project will be constructed, is known for its medium-scale buildings and dense green spaces. The building's design is comprised of stacked cubic volumes that are offset to create balconies and receding platforms.  Courtesy of Ole Scheeren The two towers were imagined as one united construction with a multi-level bridge at the base that joins the two residential structures and creates an internal courtyard. This allows the project to have a permeable approach that can extend the residential green spaces into the nature around the site. The ground level bridge contains the lobbies, retail areas, a gym, recreational facilities, and a daycare, among other programs.  Courtesy of Ole Scheeren News via: Ole Scheeren  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Chesapeake Car Park 4 / Elliott + Associates Architecs Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Scott McDonald - Hedrich Blessing
 © Scott McDonald - Hedrich Blessing Text description provided by the architects. Project Goals:
 © Scott McDonald - Hedrich Blessing Focus on Function
 © Scott McDonald - Hedrich Blessing  Floor Plan 01  © Scott McDonald - Hedrich Blessing Sensitivity to Safety
 © Scott McDonald - Hedrich Blessing Fun Experience
 © Scott McDonald - Hedrich Blessing Campus Compatibility
 © Scott McDonald - Hedrich Blessing Unique Features of Car Park 4
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| Glasgow School of Art to Be Rebuilt, According to School's Director Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:50 AM PDT  © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/paisleyorguk/28218682697'>Flickr user paisleyorguk</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> In his first public statement since the June 16th fire, Glasgow School of Art director Tom Inns said today that the Mackintosh Building would be rebuilt. This commitment, while putting an end to weeks of speculation, is still no guarantee of the famed structure's future. As Inns explained to The Guardian, "The building is insured and we're confident that we can rebuild the building based on that." The renovations that were begun after the first fire that hit the building in 2014 and damaged around a third of the interior, were made possible by large-scale fundraising efforts from both the public and government bodies. However, it is unclear whether similar efforts will be necessary for future rebuilding efforts, with Inns maintaining that "at the moment, we're not requesting support from either government [Scottish or UK]." In the interview, Inns also emphasized that the construction team working on the previous renovation, Kier Construction, had an adequate fire safety strategy that had been "professionally checked" by the school. He was unable to offer any new insight, however, on the cause of the fire, saying that the ongoing investigation by the Scottish fire and rescue service would provide the answers many people are seeking. Experts have begun dismantling damaged sections of the building to determine how much of the remaining structure is salvageable. While it is currently unclear how much can be saved, extensive digital modeling undertaken during initial restoration efforts has helped speed up this process. Many of the building's fixtures, which were restored from fragments after the first fire, were also in storage at the time of the blaze this year. Since the second fire, opinion has been divided on whether the Glasgow School of Art should be rebuilt at all given the extent of the damage suffered. In the interview with The Guardian, Inns and others at the school were insistent that in their view, rebuilding was the only choice. "The beauty of the Mack was that in its design it really considered the internal environment needed for the disciplines that were housed in it," said Sally Stewart, the school's head of architecture. "In terms of the light within the studios, how the studios were scaled, to tinker with any of that is really tricky." Others in the architectural community have suggested that a restoration similar to that carried out at the Neues Museum in Berlin might be more appropriate, where the remaining structure was incorporated into an otherwise modern renovation, showing the history of the building and the story of the damage it sustained. But ironically, among the strongest voices in favor of reconstruction has been David Chipperfield, the architect of the Neues Museum renovation, who told The Architects' Journal "on Neues Museum, there was no budget before we had developed the approach according to a framework that involved international restoration experts. The approach comes first, the costs come as a consequence." News via The Guardian.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Universidade Anhembi Morumbi | São José dos Campos Campus / KAAN Architecten + URBsp Arquitetura Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Fran Parente
 © Fran Parente Text description provided by the architects. Both buildings have been driven by the same design choices: to create an elegant yet strong architectural identity for the campuses of the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi through a non-scale approach to the representative façades, providing the students and the institution with a generous central common space that promotes social interaction and responds to the hot Brazilian climate of these regions by allowing greater circulation of natural air..  © Fran Parente Located in proximity to a main road junction, the future campus in São José dos Campos stands like a modern day Acropolis on an elevated plot, which creates isolation and the ideal conditions to turn it into a new reference point amid the dense urban fabric. By optimizing the topographical characteristics of their areas and thanks to the balanced façade geometries, the project is landmarks that firmly and visually open themselves to the city, giving the University a recognizable position within the architectural panorama.  © Fran Parente The buildig has a compact structure and consists of three floors with a total area of 5.300 sqm, which are organized in two wings, north and south separated by a large central atrium;  Ground floor plan The intense Brazilian solar radiation is mitigated by a fully encompassing system of vertical slabs that fulfills the need for shade in every façade. Choosing a regular structural system enabled KAAN Architecten to feature glass in between the thin concrete slabs and the roof beams. In the case of São José dos Campos, this was molded in-situ, relying on the expertise of the local workforce,  © Fran Parente The wide use of glass in the façades enhances transparency and reveals a deep connection with the architecture of the cities. Moreover, a caramel resin floor comfortably reflects the abundant natural light in the social core and passageways of the buildings. The natural ventilation and light are optimized via a ceiling pergola in concrete and smaller wooden elements acting as sun blades.  © Fran Parente The shared program features classrooms, diverse laboratories for practice exercises and simulation, a space for the cafeteria, physiotherapy facilities, a library and offices. All educational spaces are situated alongside the longitudinal glazed façades to take advantage of the natural light and have been oriented towards the large-scale central void, to embody the buildings’ core social identity and its essence as a place for encounters, human connection and knowledge exchange.  © Fran Parente Following a careful analysis of the structural opportunities, a system of ribbed slabs made possible by in-situ molded concrete was adopted in the São José dos Campos building. In Piracicaba instead a system of alveolar slabs was employed, exploring the best possibilities of precast concrete. These choices allow wide free spans and a significant modularity of space based on a rigid 1.50 x 1.50 meter grid. Moreover, the in-depth study into solar radiation results in large floor-to-ceiling windows, which grant abundant daylight to classrooms and laboratories, playing with the deep shadows generated by the vertical concrete elements.  © Fran Parente  Second floor plan Sustainability plays a central role in the design of the two campuses, which feature an innovative energy management system for thermal control to prevent refrigeration waste and enhance the efficiency of the roof system with chimney effect. The use of BIM software and technology is also at the core of both projects: each façade has been designed following specific comfort studies, resulting in a wide protection porch for the north and south elevations, and in a dense grid of vertical brise-soleil for the east and west elevations  © Fran Parente  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rem Koolhaas on Identity and Conformity in the Digital City Posted: 10 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  De Rotterdam. Image © Richard John Seymour As identity-based politics continues to grow in influence, we may do well to examine the effect it has on the way we think about and design our cities. In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Rem Koolhaas discusses these changes - and how they mark an evolution from the generic city concept he introduced in S,M,L, XL. "... I said postmodernism would be the style of the generic city. We can see that this sensibility anticipated and preceded today's fuller reassertion of identity but still in the global context. ...It is ironic that just as people want to see a built environment that reflects who they are, what we are seeing in much of the world is that urban planning is scarcely possible because market economies are not generating the necessary funds for it." The interview continues on to discuss the city as it may develop under the direction of smart technology, including self-driving cars and hyperloop systems. "If we simply let cyberspace run its course to a future determined by Silicon Valley, those libertarian-minded engineers will paradoxically lead us to cities shackled by algorithmic conformity. It would be a neural network, yes, but one that operates in lock step." To see the full interview with Nathan Gardels of the Washington Post, click here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hollyridge Residence / AUX Architecture Posted: 10 Jul 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Marc Angeles – Unlimited Style Photography
 © Marc Angeles – Unlimited Style Photography Text description provided by the architects. Once owned by Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, this two-story residence built on its rock and roll past to join the most notable modern homes of the Hollywood Hills. A recent renovation transformed it from a mish-mash of architectural styles into a light-filled hillside home that captures enormous views of the nearby Hollywood sign.  © Marc Angeles – Unlimited Style Photography _HOLLYRIDGE_FIRST_FLOOR_PLAN-01.jpg?1531089738 "First floor plan") First floor plan  © Marc Angeles – Unlimited Style Photography _HOLLYRIDGE_SECOND_FLOOR_PLAN-01.jpg?1531089744 "Second floor plan") Second floor plan The home had previously undergone multiple owners and renovations, giving it a mostly Southern California Mediterranean look with a Spanish tile roof and tiny windows. AUX Architecture, led by Brian Wickersham, worked within a budget to produce an impactful and transformative design without structurally changing the home's rooflines. The main focus was on opening the house up to the Hollywood sign view and emphasizing indoor-outdoor living with lighter and brighter spaces. AUX's design used a strong contrast between a black exterior and a bright white, museum-quality interior. The home features glass walls (Fleetwood), upgraded cabinets and closets (Poliform), and installed luxury fixtures (Porcelanosa). The result is a completely new look for a home that anchors one of Los Angeles' most desirable streets.  © Marc Angeles – Unlimited Style Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| SOM Receives Planning Permission for Angular Skyscraper in City of London Posted: 10 Jul 2018 05:20 AM PDT  Courtesy of SOM This morning, planning permission was awarded for the construction of 100 Leadenhall Street, an SOM-designed skyscraper in the eastern cluster of skyscrapers in the City of London. At 263.4 meters tall, the building will be the third tallest in the cluster, trailing only 1 Undershaft (305 meters), which is approved but yet to begin construction, and 22 Bishopsgate (278 meters), which is currently under construction. The Shard, at 310 meters, is also nearby on the south of the river.  Courtesy of SOM Like the Leadenhall Building designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, also known as the Cheesegrater, SOM's design tapers to the north in order to protect views of St Paul's Cathedral, resulting in an angular design which is reinforced by the diamond glazing pattern of the facade. The building will dedicate four floors to a viewing gallery, with 360-degree views from the 55th floor and a triple-height gallery with views to the South, East, and West on the 56th floor.  Courtesy of SOM At the ground level, the design includes limestone cladding at its base in deference to the surrounding stone buildings of the area around Leadenhall street, and adds both retail spaces and a number of new public spaces, with a courtyard at the south entrance, an open space at the north entrance, connected by a double-height public lobby. The scheme will also reinstate the eastern churchyard of the adjoining church, St Andrew Undershaft, and introduce pedestrian routes between Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe and Bury Street.  Courtesy of SOM The sustainability features have also been carefully considered, with the development targeting a BREEAM Excellent rating. In total, the building will add around 121,000 square meters (1.3 million square feet) of office space to the City of London.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Portsoken Pavilion / Make Architects Posted: 10 Jul 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects
 © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects Text description provided by the architects. Portsoken Pavilion is the centrepiece structure in a new landscaped public square commissioned by the City of London Corporation that has replaced a former gyratory and subways. The small building is a part of a larger civic aim to provide space for events and leisure, improve wellbeing and provide natural surveillance.  Ground floor plan The new 'Aldgate Square' is one of the largest new public spaces in London's Square Mile and improves the connection for the two distinctive listed heritage buildings that sit either side of the square: the St Botolph without Aldgate church and Sir John Cass's Foundation Primary School.  © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects Make Architects was briefed to create a new pavilion to sit proudly in this new landscape. It was to have an aesthetic relationship with their RIBA Award-winning City of London Information Centre adjacent to St Paul's Cathedral, which was also commissioned by the client.  © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects This latest pavilion picks up on the asymmetrical angles of its predecessor, with an angular monocoque structure that folds down to meet the ground at just three points, with glazing in between. Corten cladding panels form a rigid structural skin, a faceted surface that reduces the overall profile of the pavilion and provides its character. The channels created by the layered cladding are also functional, allowing the rainwater to run down them into discreet drains located where the steel meets the Yorkstone paving.  © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects The warm tones of the weathered steel chime with the brown brick of the Grade I-listed church and the red brick Grade II-listed primary school. Over time the steel will darken and provide an earthy, complementary counterpoint.  © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects Designed parametrically, the pavilion's form has been carefully designed with respect to key pedestrian approaches to the new square. As such, it has no rear, and its three glazed elevations provide clear views into and through the structure and deliver natural surveillance, as well as entrances into the pavilion on all sides.  © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects Internally the bands of the cladding are mimicked on the soffit, with layered geometric white laminate timber panels, which have punched slots to aid the acoustics and, when up-lit at night, provide a glowing effect to the whole building. Two large asymmetrical rooflights sit over the central counter to draw light into the building. Outside, the roof overhangs the entrances to allow seating to spill out.  Section It is a single storey above-ground but has utilised part of the former subterranean tunnels to accommodate a basement level for plant, back-of-house facilities, kitchens and toilets. This has significantly reduced the quantity of land needed above ground and therefore delivered more public space for the gardens.  © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects The constant temperature of the concrete tunnels also work to help regulate the temperature of the building: air is drawn through the tunnels and up into the café, heating it in the winter or cooling it in the summer. The large overhangs on the roof are also attuned to the orientation of the sun and provide solar shading to the interior at peak times of the day.  © Martina Ferrera – in house at Make Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Why Stadiums Made of Wood Could Be the Next Big Innovation in Sports Architecture Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:30 AM PDT  A rendering of a stadium constructed with Bear Stadiums and Rubner Holzbau's modular wood systems. Image Courtesy of Rubner Holzbau This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Could Modular Wood Stadium Construction Be a Game Changer?" Imagine a sports stadium that could expand and contract with its fan base and team's fortunes, one that could pick up and move to greener (and more lucrative) pastures. Given team owners' history of playing fans against each other, making stadiums more mobile isn't likely to give pennant-wavers a sense of security, but the concept is an incredible breakthrough for building technology. Endlessly modular and made of ultralow-impact mass timber, this vision of low-carbon construction, conceived by engineered-wood manufacturer Rubner Holzbau and prefabricated stadium designer Bear Stadiums, could soon materialize at a soccer pitch near you.
Bear Stadiums and Rubner Holzbau's arenas are to be made of Nordic spruce fitted into glulam (or "glue-laminated wood") mass timber, shipped to the location, and assembled on-site. These stadiums are small- to medium-size, 1,500 to 20,000 seats, with a full set of templates between these capacities. Both companies are based in Italy and envision that their first arena projects will be soccer stadiums; however, they anticipate that many outdoor sports, such as rugby, cricket, and baseball, could be accommodated. Rubner Holzbau has already constructed numerous large-scale wood structures, ranging from agricultural buildings to infrastructure facilities, across Europe.  The roof of Portugal's National Velodrome at Sangalhos, Anadia was completed in just 18 weeks. Image Courtesy of Rubner Holzbau Like all mass timber, fabricating this glulam system generates few greenhouse gases, and its primary material—wood—sequesters carbon. "The forest does not require any [external] form of energy to grow," says architect Jaime Manca di Villahermosa of Bear Stadiums. Villahermosa envisions solar panels and wind turbines making these stadiums nearly carbon-neutral when not in use (notwithstanding the intense lighting requirements of game days). This emphasis on sustainable building practices aligns with the UN Climate Neutral Now initiative, which the FIFA organization has joined, committing to becoming climate-neutral by the latter half of this century. Glulam is a type of composite engineered mass timber comprising individual strips of wood glued together with grains running parallel. More established in Europe than in the United States, mass timber can offer shocking strength-to-weight efficiencies, even compared to steel and concrete, allowing for ever-larger and taller buildings that require less carbon to produce and build. Glulam structures, for example, can be pound-for-pound stronger than steel and two times lighter.  Bear Stadiums and Rubner Holzbau's modular wood systems can be scaled to accommodate a range of capacities; this rendering depicts a 10,000-seat structure. Image Courtesy of Rubner Holzbau The Bear Stadiums modular system uses glulam diagonal cross-bracing trusses to support the vertical and horizontal structural elements. They're joined with a metal fastener–coupling system and anchored to a lightweight concrete platform. It's strong, but "extremely flexible," Villahermosa says. "The Bear Stadiums team works with Autodesk 2D and 3D design tools," he adds, "both for the general layout and for the detailed design, in collaboration with a Roman architecture studio, which is also preparing a utilities and fixtures layout in BIM." Glulam is notable for its ability to bend and curve when stressed, which can be employed to create an aesthetic flourish—or, more practically, the extra flexibility can absorb the destructive forces of earthquakes and other disasters, allowing the structure to bend without breaking. "Since glulam is an extremely elastic material, which is excellent in earthquake-prone areas, you also have to make the structure rigid by using these diagonal trusses," Villahermosa says. Bear Stadiums and Rubner Holzbau are fielding interest from soccer clubs in Italy's top two leagues, Serie A and Serie B. They also envision a global market for these buildings, especially applicable to modest budgets in the developing world. The per-seat costs of this system are projected to be lower than traditional stadiums, and much of the labor can be done by unskilled workers, though 10 percent of the workforce will require specialized knowledge in modular wood construction. Smaller stadiums can be put together in six to eight months; larger stadiums might take nearly a year.  The San Marino Stadium multipurpose stadium in Serravalle, San Marino, Italy. Image Courtesy of Rubner Holzbau And while these stadiums offer a truncated construction timeline compared to traditional models, they still offer a full suite of amenities for teams and fans. The largest stadium designs spread these across three levels: locker rooms, team offices, and an infirmary on the ground level; hospitality spaces (concessions, bars, and restaurants) on the second level; and sky boxes and exclusive suites on the top level. Throughout, the interiors are conventional, shying away from the trendy "all-plywood everything" interior look popular with the Dwell crowd, despite its earthy emphasis on the wood-based construction. This modular system means that these stadiums can occupy a middle ground between permanent and temporary. The structural elements are guaranteed for 50 years, Villahermosa says, longer than many stadiums of any sort last. But, "[They] can certainly be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere, which means that they can serve as both permanent and temporary structures," he says. Much of this durability is related to wood's unique properties. Because it doesn't expand and contract in response to temperature changes as much as steel, it's easier to waterproof and seal. And wood doesn't absorb and radiate heat like structures made of concrete (a "roasting stone," Villahermosa says) or steel ("roasting on a BBQ grill"), which is especially helpful for outdoor venues that invite patrons to sit in the sun for an entire afternoon of sport.  The structure surrounding the cableway on Italy's Lake Garda was designed to be harmonious with the surrounding landscape. Image Courtesy of Rubner Holzbau The stadium design's fundamental, indivisible unit is a six-meter (approximately 19.5-foot) section containing 36 seats. This modular unit size is determined by the constraints of shipping containers: Two sections fit into one container. Most sections of these stadiums, aside from the main "stem," which houses much of the nonseating infrastructure, can be added and subtracted to with this individual modular unit. And this modular flexibility makes these stadiums attuned to the natural rhythms of soccer, as repairs, additions, and subtractions can easily fit into the sport's fourth-month off-season. "Thanks to the glulam technology and the modular system," Villahermosa says, "we can provide infrastructure [within] a very quick time frame." A common complaint lobbed at sports stadiums is that they cost many millions and sit unused for vast swaths of the year. But this new kind of modular flexibility hints at multipurpose stadiums that can serve more events. Maybe the next generation of sports stadiums can double as a festival marketplace, concert venue, or outdoor exhibition space during the off-season; less a hallowed temple of sport and more a casual and mutable community resource.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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