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- Yellow Box Office / FLXBL Design Consultancy
- Deep Dive Rowing Club / Scenic Architecture Office
- Villa 430 / Moriq
- Beijing Hongkun Valley / ZOE Architecture
- Hawkins\Brown's London Pride Float Celebrates the "Dual Identities" of LGBT+ Architects
- Richard Gray Gallery Warehouse / Wheeler Kearns Architects
- Office Manuals from the Past Century Expose the Realities of Architectural Practice
- ArchDaily's Co-Founder David Basulto Shares Our Guiding Philosophies in Podcast Interview
- Global Switch Data Centre / Reid Brewin Architects
- New Pavilion in Rotterdam's Leuvehaven Port Brings High-Tech Design to a Historical Context
| Yellow Box Office / FLXBL Design Consultancy Posted: 14 Jul 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Harsh Pandya
 © Harsh Pandya Text description provided by the architects. The Yellow Office Box Building serves as a sales office for a construction project in Ahmedabad. The building was conceived as a distinctive branding tool to call attention to the project by way of its portable design and installation. The building is temporary in nature and can be dismantled and reused in similar or other configurations on a different site.  © Harsh Pandya  Ground Floor Plan Yellow Box Office Building challenges the conventional pattern of building low-budget, aesthetically poor, temporary project offices in India which are invariably demolished after they have served their purpose. Designed as a flexible, reusable and transformable space, the Yellow Box Office Building solves the problems of wastage of time, money, material and energy offering a sustainable yet aesthetic solution for temporary buildings.  © Harsh Pandya This mobile building envisioned as a 'Shouting Media Box', has two primary boxes that house the programmatic spaces and a pitched yellow box as a staircase unit connecting with the upper level. The first primary box sits on the ground and is dedicated to the administrative functions. The second box, called the lightbox, levitates above to hold the executive functions.  © Harsh Pandya Keeping with the short-term occupancy for a particular project, the building is erected with flexible, pre-fabricated containers and units that are easily transferable and transformable and which require minimum intervention for installation. The building units are pre-fitted in the factory, deployed by road to the site and craned into the place. Once the purpose is served, the units can be moved and reinstalled at another site.  © Harsh Pandya This allows the building to be reclaimed, reconfigured, relocated and reused for multiple times while having a minimal impact on the environment. The units are designed to be flexible enough for any programmatic upgrades and modifications that may be required elsewhere as per the site conditions. The building takes only a one-fourth of time to get ready compared to what a conventional site office would take to be built.  © Harsh Pandya  Longitudinal Section  © Harsh Pandya  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Deep Dive Rowing Club / Scenic Architecture Office Posted: 14 Jul 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © Shengliang Su
 © Schran Studio Text description provided by the architects. In order to promote and support China's rowing sport for a long term, Vanke Education Group, in collaboration with Shanghai Pudong New District, planned to build a small rowing club in Century Park to organize rowing training and activities for more youth and teenagers. Having 200 trainees each year with 20 to 30 every month, the club needs to store approximately 15-20 rowing boats and provide training & activity rooms, lockers & showers, toilets and seating areas for adolescents. The club will conduct daily training and technical instruction and also open to parents and rowing enthusiasts.  © Schran Studio Century Park is the largest wetland park open to the public in downtown Shanghai. The Zhangjiabang River, which can be partially used for rowing training, is an urban river that crosses the park in a rough width of 35m. Rowing athletes face the opposite direction of advancing when paddling. Due to the considerations of safety and speed change, we set up the club at the bend point of the river with a cove to facilitate two-way departures and arrivals.  Site plan. Image The site was covered with densely planted metasequoia forest, leaving only a 4-meter-wide old pier on the shore. In order to minimize the impact on the original environment, we divided usable spaces into four parts: the pier is located on the south side of the cove, the activity room is placed on the west side of the river, and the changing room is built on the old pier site. The boathouse is then the only part of the project that needs to occupy the existing forest. To avoid large-scale felling or transplanting, we split the boathouse into three thin strips scattering in the forest, roughly corresponding to the direction of the new pier.  © Schran Studio The rowing boats have 4 kinds in size for singles, doubles, fours and eights. The length is about 8-18m and the width is only 30-60cm. The width of the "small home" we designed for the boats is limited to accommodate only one boat yet with four floors, and the length is a combination of the boat length modules. In order to reduce the impact of on-site construction in the park, the structural foundations of the boathouses consist of prefabricated point-like concrete blocks. The column composed by two bolted angle steel, is forked in the upper part like a tree to form a "Y" to support double pitched canopy. On the lower part four "branches" cantilevered from the column serve the rowing boat storage. The slender boathouses are completely open with only necessary roof shelter, making the boat carrying a weight-bearing walk in the forest.  © Schran Studio To reduce transplanting, we measured and recorded the position of each Metasequoia in the site so that the three boathouses could be inserted into the forest from suitable angles. However, it is still difficult to position them on site. Fortunately, the sunlight casting shadows in the forest gave us generous help. Along the shadows were we then able to adjust the angles and find more spaces.  © Schran Studio The changing room built on the original pier is a narrow bar enclosed by Bangkirai panels. The roof is made by folded steel plates supported by gable-shape beams, with skylights bringing natural light into lockers and showers. We hope that the solidity of the changing room will not only satisfy its own need for privacy, but also help us as a barrier between the forest for boathouses and the river where the activity room was located, hence to enclose the pure experiences of these two places.  © Schran Studio The activity room in the river is a waterfront pavilion like "a boat not tied". The bottom is barge-like rectangular steel grating on pipe piles driven into the riverbed. The cover is a 20-meter-long double-pitched roof, supported only by twin steel H-pillars at both ends - this gives freedom and access to the space: between the H-pillars is the door towards exterior platforms, between the twin beams on the pillars becomes the passage for the skylight.  © Schran Studio  Section. Image  © Schran Studio The east side of the activity room is adjacent to the changing room. An eight-meter-long cabinet divides these two spaces, the front is for storage, the rear is a writing board, and the two ends contain the air-conditioners. The other three sides of the activity room are facing the riverfront; on west side three sets of foldable sliding windows provide complete openness to the outside.  © Schran Studio Below the sliding windows is a long and wide wooden sill that can be seated, making this boundary space a place for rest, communication, and viewing. It also established a visual connection between indoor ergometer training and rowing training in the river. We not only allow the pavilion to open itself to the surroundings, but also give it a special identity through its position in the water and a slightly lower floor elevation in comparison with the riverbank. To enter the pavilion requires three steps down from the entrance, it is yet until placing yourself inside this calm space that you start to perceive the merge with the nature outside.  © Schran Studio The pier is located at the boundary between the river and the cove on the south side of the base. The pier floats in the water and is fixed with pipe piles by embracing pulleys. It is covered with plastic wood panels and supported by bundles of buoys. Serving both sides, the pier connects to the shore through a 5.5-meter-wide ramp to the boathouse area, and to the passage between the activity room and the changing room through a small ladder. Both the ramp and the ladder are connected by hinges to comply with the fluctuation of the water level.  © Schran Studio Pier, boathouses, changing room, and activity room are four independent venues that the club requires. We designed a set of convenient and logical circulation that can link them in an organic way. Entering from the park road, following a path into the forest, you will encounter a fork near the entrance to the club.  Floor plan. Image Turn left you will continue walking through the forest on the lane for transporting the boats. Turn right you can cross the forest and arrive at the entrance, which is a courtyard semi-enclosed by the changing room, the extension of a wooden panel wall and a large willow tree. The left path was dispersed to the boathouses in the forest, then gathered again on the shore and reached the pier through the ramp; the path on the right enters the building and become a passage between the changing room and the activity space. When passing out, it arrived pier as well through the ladder. At this point, these two paths were merged again on the pier.  © Schran Studio In this circulation system, we paid special attention to the outdoor area. Apart from the tall metasequoia trees, there are also abundant shrubs, flowers, vegetation, and small animals such as squirrels and turtles that often move between forests and riversides. In order to reduce interfering their environment, we used wood plank paving only on the way to the building entry, but make permeable paths in the area of the boathouses. Along the paths we array 600 small concrete blocks as individual dots, on which stainless steel grills were placed as trails. These transparent walkways still allow plants to grow between them, and keep rooms for the small animals.  © Schran Studio We hope that this club will not only help the promotion and development of the rowing sport, but also be able to exert a subtle influence on the establishment of teenagers' ecological idea through a friendly relation between architecture and natural environment.  © Schran Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Moriq
 Courtesy of Moriq Text description provided by the architects. Earlier Joint Family Homes were a common feature in India but they have dwindled over the years. Few homes have more than two generations living under the same roof. The residence was built over a massive 1900 sq yard plot and is all about family time and relationships.  Courtesy of Moriq This is a functional home where rustic elements meet luxury, spacious interiors, neutral palettes and loads of sunlight and more importantly, a home designed to bring the big joint family together while also giving each member their personal space.  Courtesy of Moriq Even as one enters the residence, lush landscaping and a significant water body that takes a pivotal role in the house planning, welcome you inside. The biggest challenge for the family was to make a plan that could tackle the large linear shape of the plot. The solution was, the first quarter of the plot is made into an independent apartment studio home for the parents who wanted a space of their own. The first floor of the same house has identical rooms for the sons of the house and is interconnected to the main house by a bridge overlooking the main lawn and water body, which also is an interesting feature.  Floor plans Right across the lawn, the brothers live with the rest of the family. A beautiful semi-formal living room with a bar opens onto a massive lawn. The indoor courtyard separates the room from the formal dining room and every corner in this residence is seamless and has a visual connect to the outdoor. The living room is the favorite hangout spot for the family. They have a projector that converts the lawn's wall into a large screen and is ideal for parties and the IPL season. This wall again can be viewed from various points in the house including the bridge that connects both the houses.  Courtesy of Moriq The ground floor also houses the informal living and dining areas and the guest bed room. One flight up you arrive at the identical master bedrooms located next to each other that are fully functional, stylish and sleek with a double height ceiling and seamless bathroom. The classy wallpapers, handpicked curious, art and even motorized sunroofs right above the bathtub are its main features. The best feature of the room is the wardrobe space that is double storied. Apart from the aesthetics, big wardrobes are required as fashion is progressive. Be it occasion wear or weather conducive clothing, one needs a proper place to stack them and it is important to design to the requirement.  Courtesy of Moriq Right across the master suites, the first floor has a little informal seating along with the daughter's room. From a bunk bed and study table to a camp tent, it's all in here in pretty hues of pink. This first floor is where the bridge begins to the other side. Even this little walkway has comfy sofas that make for an ideal evening tea spot for the family.  Courtesy of Moriq The flooring is a combination of high luxury marble that's infused with locally polished limestone and most of the furniture is imported from abroad. From concrete finished walls to a large collection of art and knick-knacks, the house has it all, but nothing comes across as incongruous as it is in coherence with the theme and interiors.  Courtesy of Moriq  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Beijing Hongkun Valley / ZOE Architecture Posted: 14 Jul 2018 11:00 AM PDT  Architecture and Garden Front. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang
 Green Landscape Plaza. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang Text description provided by the architects. The Hongkun Financial Valley Project is located in Xihongmen, Daxing District, Beijing. The overall plan is designed with "the office oxygen bar" as concept to create a pleasant garden-style office environment with an area of 80,592 square meters and a construction area of 145,158 square meters.  Roof Top Space. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang The Beijing Hongkun financial valley project has made different attempts and innovations in functional, spatial and five-sensory experience design, taking the construction itself as the most economical space energy saving device. .jpg?1530200807 "Coutryard. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang") Coutryard. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang  Ground Floor Plan  Architecture Volume. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang To create a comfortable office environment through the rational use of energy saving technologies such as respiratory curtain walls, midcourt air flow guidance, electric baiye sunshade, geothermal pump and soil greening, which achieving a perfect combination of intelligent green building system with architectural design.  Landscape Corridor. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang The construction area of the demonstration building is 11895m2, with 3 floors above ground and 1 underground floor. The office is a large-scale box, located on the second and third floors of the building.  East Perspective. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang  Energy Analysis. Image Courtesy of ZOE ARCHITECTURE  Interior Lift. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang The first-floor space holds the office function in an orderly combination of eight functionally different small boxes, and the functions are organically combined through the atrium. Relying on the terrain, the building is connected to the surrounding environment through green slopes, making the building appear to be located above the park and become a green and energy-saving seed in the park.  Architecture and Landscape. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang The grey space is combined with the atrium space, the terrace is combined with the roof garden, and the space is smart and exquisite. The white wall is lined with swaying trees and shines on sunny days. Respiratory curtains reflect the ever-changing light and shadow, showing different attractive colors in different days and times; the demonstration building consists of a number of independent functional unit boxes, each with its own personality.  Night View. Image © Chaoying Yang, Huiming Zhang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hawkins\Brown's London Pride Float Celebrates the "Dual Identities" of LGBT+ Architects Posted: 14 Jul 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Hawkins\Brown 'A Space For All' by Hawkins\Brown has been announced as the winner of London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Architects LGBT+'s Pride Float Competition, the design representing architecture in Pride London 2018. Forming a crucial part of the LFA's 2018 program, the competition was open to students, graduates, emerging practices and established offices alike, with 'exploring identity' being the brief's core theme. The winning float advocates for increased LGBT+ acceptance and presence within the construction industry, combining "the dual identities of LGBT+ and being an architect."
 Courtesy of Hawkins\Brown In response to the issues of acceptance within the wider profession, the float places emphasis upon each element's meaning and message, acting as a platform for conversation. The scaffold pole structure - decorated with bold designs from the LGBT+ community - creates an unmistakable link to the built environment, while a series of screens will be animated by various architects during the parade. Vibrant, innovative graphics are showcased on the underside of the simplistic pitched roof, with each element of the design either returned to working sites or auctioned off to "raise money and awareness of LGBT+ causes within the profession."
The design team included John Jeffery, Jonathan Chan, Sarah Habershon, Matthew Goodfellow and Matthew Ruddy; while architectural assistants Ayanna Blair-Ford, Claudia Walton, Fran Lynch, Iulia Cistelecan, Quincy Haynes, Rachel Housley and Thomas Stanley also contributed to the winning design. The jury consisted of:
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| Richard Gray Gallery Warehouse / Wheeler Kearns Architects Posted: 14 Jul 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Tom Rossiter
 © Tom Rossiter Text description provided by the architects. An old machine shop was found, off the beaten path, up against the tracks.  © Tom Rossiter The Sequence  © Tom Rossiter The Work  © Tom Rossiter Within:  © Tom Rossiter  First floor plan - Sections  © Tom Rossiter That's it.  © Tom Rossiter  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Office Manuals from the Past Century Expose the Realities of Architectural Practice Posted: 14 Jul 2018 05:00 AM PDT  © Lars Müller via Metropolis Magazine The guiding principles and priorities that drive the professional practice of architecture are the subject of abundant philosophical ideas and entrenched opinions—but how can we understand the current state of the profession without sweeping generalizations? Towards that goal, OfficeUS (the experimental institution born from the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale) has published a book examining the realities of today's architectural workplace culture based, like countless works of cultural studies across many academic disciplines, on the documents produced by that culture. Specifically, the OfficeUS publication compiles information from office manuals and workplace handbooks spanning the last century of architectural practice to offer a practical but insightful portrait of how architects organize, run, and view their own profession. In a new interview with Metropolis Magazine, OfficeUS Manual editors Eva Franch i Gilabert, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, and Jacob Reidel explain their motivations for the project as well as their perspective on what this unique approach reveals about the culture of today's architectural practice.
 Editors (from left) Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Eva Franch i Gilabert, Jacob Reidel. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/storefront/24015726777'>Flickr user Storefront for Art and Architecture</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/'>CC BY-NC 2.0</a> In the interview, the editors explain that while many firms base their published mission statements around common goals like innovation, collaboration, sustainability and client outcomes, there are also a set of workplace traditions that become visible when comparing the handbooks that firm partners create for their employees. For example, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco explains that "you need only have a look at the 'Hierarchy' section in the book, which collects office structure schemes from different offices from the last century to confirm how centralized power is in the architectural profession." The editors say that a central theme of their book is the fraught relationship between the ideal offices envisioned by the founding partners of firms and the reality that sets in when projects begin. Stated policies about work hours, workspace culture, and shared resource use, for example, seem to show a disconnect between how architects think they want to work and the way they ultimately end up functioning in the office. In light of these observed patterns, the OfficeUS team offers a view of the future that doesn't shy away from drawing bold conclusions: Jacob Reidel goes so far as to say that "if we want to find a way to actually work the way we say we want to, then the profession of architecture needs to be rethought—or even jettisoned altogether." Read the full interview by Metropolis Magazine here; you can also purchase the book itself, OfficeUS Manual, from Lars Müller Publishers, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and on Amazon.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ArchDaily's Co-Founder David Basulto Shares Our Guiding Philosophies in Podcast Interview Posted: 14 Jul 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Courtesy of The Midnight Charette In the ten years since our site was launched, ArchDaily has grown into the world's most visited architecture website; it is now a project with greater reach and scale than the site's founders could ever have anticipated. Thanks to our readers, contributors and leadership, the initial iteration of the site (based in Chile and known as Plataforma Arquitectura) has evolved into a global architecture media network that includes the English site you're reading right now as well as region and language-specific sister sites in Brazil, China, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. The story of ArchDaily's growth is one of the many topics covered in a new 114-minute interview with ArchDaily's co-founder David Basulto on this week's episode of the Midnight Charette podcast. Hosted by David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, the podcast features weekly discussions on design issues of the day and interviews with figures in the architecture community. In their talk with Basulto, the conversation wanders from the story of our company and some behind-the-scenes trivia about how our site works (did you know our custom content management system is named after the biblical Tower of Babel's designer?) to insights on how architects will shape our future cities and the ways that data collection and analysis could shape the designs of tomorrow. The podcast episode is embedded above, and it is also available on Midnight Charette's website, iTunes, Spotify, and other podcatcher apps. For more on the topics of conversation covered in the interview, and to help you navaigate to certain topics, here are some highlights of the podcast:
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| Global Switch Data Centre / Reid Brewin Architects Posted: 14 Jul 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Jerome Epaillard
 © Jerome Epaillard Text description provided by the architects. Reid Brewin Architects assisted one of the world's leading carrier and cloud neutral data centre providers, Global Switch to design a major extension to their Paris campus. The new data centre, Paris West, was built adjacent to their existing Paris East data centre, with the campus now providing over 50,000m2 of space over six levels, making it one of the largest data centre campus' in France. The project also included the refurbishment of Paris East in order to free-up underused areas. Furthermore, the entrance hall and atrium were completely reworked to create a series of dynamic spaces and to provide a setting for a sculpture by artist Chris Fox.  © Jerome Epaillard The data centre has been designed in a sober, monolithic style in order that the volumes integrate harmoniously with the urban landscape. Since the site is next to the new Parc des Impressionnistes, particular attention was paid to the facade treatment. This high tech building has a pure and elegant architectural form. Its facade consists of thin metal louvres and vertical spines which highlight the building's structure. The louvres refer to the concept of ventilation, which is one of the primary functions of the building's skin - to expel waste heat from the computers and to allow cool air to enter from outside to cool the plant. The copper colour echoes the huge quantity of copper cabling used throughout the building.  © Jerome Epaillard  Elevations  © Jerome Epaillard  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Pavilion in Rotterdam's Leuvehaven Port Brings High-Tech Design to a Historical Context Posted: 14 Jul 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of MoederscheimMoonen Architects A new public pavilion from MoedersheimMoonen Architects is set to be built in the old 'Leuvehaven' port in Rotterdam. Located near the Erasmus Bridge, the pavilion intends to bring new life to the historic port of Rotterdam. The municipality of Rotterdam is also set to invest in a bustling residential climate, with this new pavilion housing multiple programs that will contribute to a "lively" and "greener" Maritime District. The building will replace three existing pavilions, providing a new perspective for visitors to the Leuvehaven. Much of the structure and foundation from the existing buildings are reused in the new design, promoting sustainability, honoring the present conditions of the site, and bringing high-tech design elements to the historical context. The various programs for the Pavilion will include "the Port Information Point of the Port of Rotterdam, two publicly accessible workshops from the Maritime Museum Rotterdam and two catering establishments with terraces by the water," with the surrounding exteriors space also to be renewed in phases.  Courtesy of MoederscheimMoonen Architects  Courtesy of MoederscheimMoonen Architects  Courtesy of MoederscheimMoonen Architects Architect Erik Moederscheim said of the new design, "The location and the city of Rotterdam are subject to a lot of change. The port of Rotterdam is also subject to change. Whereas the former port is mainly 'low-tech' and communicates a tough and somewhat rough language, today's port is largely computer-controlled and quite 'high-tech'. We have tried to express this layering in our design."  Courtesy of MoederscheimMoonen Architects  Courtesy of MoederscheimMoonen Architects  Courtesy of MoederscheimMoonen Architects
The demolition of the current pavilions is expected to start this year, with the construction of the new pavilion commencing in 2019. The intention is that the pavilion, together with the surrounding exterior space, will be completed by the end of 2019 / early 2020.  Courtesy of MoederscheimMoonen Architects
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