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- Two Detached New Homes and a Studio-Shed / VANDERSALM-aim
- Learning New Design Viz Methods—Is It Worth It?
- MacEwan University, Allard Hall / Revery Architecture
- Social and Cultural Center in Giromagny / Malcotti Roussey Architectes + Thierry Gheza
- Les Lumieres a la Campagne / Arch Studio 314
- Orgeval Community Center and Event Space / f+f architectes
- Hapjeong 359 18 / Simplex Architecture
- Qingli Hotel / Elsedesign + DPD
- Hide and Seek House / Bower Architecture
- Music House / TWS & Partners
- Zhengzhou Twin Towers / gmp Architects
- Sketchfab Launches 3D Model Marketplace For Buying and Selling Models Online
- UChicago Child Development Center Stony Island / Wheeler Kearns Architects
- Inside The Chandigarh Home of Le Corbuiser's Cousin and Collaborator Pierre Jeanneret
- Cal Maritime, Recreation and Aquatic Center / WRNS Studio
- The University of British Columbia's Bacteria-Driven Solar Cell Can Produce Energy Under Cloudy Skies
- Santa Elisa Office / brro arquitetos
- Watch Rem Koolhaas at the Moscow Urban Forum
- Kengo Kuma’s Airbnb Experience to Include Tour of 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium
- Tradition House / Estudio Geya
| Two Detached New Homes and a Studio-Shed / VANDERSALM-aim Posted: 17 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Egbert de Boer
 © Egbert de Boer  Site Plan Text description provided by the architects. VANDERSALM-aim designed two residences and a studio on 't Rozendael - 't Nijenhuis estate. In the context of the 'Red for Red' scheme, the barns/stables of the existing farm on the site were demolished to make way for two new residential objectives. The new arrangement now constitutes a modern farmyard, together with the volume of the existing farm. The positioning of the dwellings suggests the privacy of a farmyard, yet provides specific views of the open pastoral landscape as well. The clients are friends with young adult children. The most important point of departure for the organizational structure of both houses is 'living with the landscape'.  © Egbert de Boer The existing farm is a duplex (front house/rear house), but due to the chosen situation of the new volumes, relevant sight lines remain intact and private areas are created without a view of the neighbors. Continuous garden walls serve to encompass the dwellings in the ascending essenstructuur (series of ground levels originated through time - a typical Dutch landscape). This walled area, therefore, becomes readable as an 'outdoor room' and is visually part of the interior space. The garden walls continue through the plinths of the buildings, an upwards extension of the same stones as the pavement. These are glued, not mortar, so that the texture of the paving becomes a 'stone carpet' and thus comprises a solid base for the residences.  © Egbert de Boer  Elevations - House B The project reflects an interpretation of local barn typologies in a contemporary manifestation. The farmyard appears modest and private due to the dark color scheme and wooden slats. On the other facades, high framed openings offer an unlimited view of the landscape. The houses are constructed with a custom-made wooden loadbearing structure without visible joining elements. Aside from its bearing function, the structure acquires the character of a furniture element. It remains visible throughout and refers to the shed; clear, pragmatic, and sober, but nonetheless finely detailed. In the absence of solutions based on complexity or appearance, the design decisions are solely grounded in materiality, tectonics, and the landscape.  © Egbert de Boer The residences are virtually energy neutral; they are very well-insulated, gas-free, and equipped with an air source heat pump. Each house has roughly 40 photovoltaic (PV) panels which are incorporated in a separate sunken field situated at the edge of the plot. Electric cars can be charged in the parking area, and there is no parking on the farmyard terrain. Both residences have a spacious indoor veranda on the south side, which provides a natural heat buffer during the summer and protection for the greater part of the year.  © Egbert de Boer The ground floor is equipped with low-temperature heating and has a high efficiency due to the monolithic concrete flooring. The building materials are of top quality and comprised primarily of wood. VANDERSALM-aim is an office driven by architectural mastery. The architect as master builder approaches his field from a maker's standpoint and focuses on affection (love for the built environment and the landscape), well-being (groundedness), and the built object as a matter of course (tectonics).  © Egbert de Boer  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Learning New Design Viz Methods—Is It Worth It? Posted: 17 Jul 2018 08:30 PM PDT  Tower Studio by Pawel Mielnik, rendered in real time with Unreal Engine Design visualization just keeps reaching new heights. While renderings remain a common part of design presentation, advances in technology have made new types of media not only possible but within the reach of even small teams and firms. These newer types of media require a change in workflow. Is it worth it? For architectural exteriors, a 360-degree panorama rendering is now fairly easy to produce and gives a richer presentation than a still or around. When such a rendering is loaded by a panorama player, the viewer can navigate the scene in real time, zooming in and out and rotating the view at will. The only downside to a panorama is the rendering time for such a large image. But if a real-time renderer is used instead of an offline renderer, a panoramic image can be generated in the time it takes to save the file to disk. Just ask Pawel Mielnik, a Poland-based architect who recently placed as a Finalist in the Ronen Bekerman CABINS challenge with his very first real-time scene, a rendition of the Tower Studio cabin on Fogo Island. Mielnik's presentation included a panorama, something he would never have attempted in the past due to long render times. By using real-time rendering with Unreal Engine, he was able to generate one in seconds. Mielnik was skeptical at first about trying a new workflow, but after using Unreal Engine's real-time painting tools to generate the island's striking landscape, he's sold. "Being able to paint with the layers was easy and fun," says Mielnik. He adds that it took time to get used to seeing the work in progress continually being rendered in real time, "but now I very much prefer it over the previous way that I worked." Another emerging presentation format is virtual reality. New Zealand-based RealityVirtual specializes in creating hyper-real VR experiences of local structures and landscapes like churches, museums, and iconic landscapes.  Museum interior preserved in hyper-real VR by RealityVirtual RealityVirtual's goal is to preserve New Zealand culture through hyper-real virtual reality—you can put your virtual nose an inch away from a virtual object and see it as you would in real life, down to the pores on a rock or the fibers on a painting's canvas. Such a level of detail requires photogrammetry (high-resolution photos) and 3D scanning. Even with the huge datasets generated by this workflow, RealityVirtual is able to achieve a VR playback speed of 90fps at 1080p with Unreal Engine. Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) are virtual reality's souped-up cousins. With AR, the virtual reality experience is enhanced with hotspots that a visitor can touch to teleport to another part of the scene or make something happen in real time. More and more VR experiences are now incorporating AR. Even television shows have gotten into the game. The infamous Hacker Hostel from the HBO Series Silicon Valley now has its own VR/AR experience, an inch-accurate reproduction of the programmers' hangout down to the last detail. Visitors are greeted at the door by messages from the cast, and the experience includes more than 750 interactive objects so visitors can do just about everything the characters do—play games, eat, drink, make a mess, and help with coding problems, just to name a few.  Silicon Valley's Hacker Hostel VR experience With Mixed Reality, virtual reality elements are projected onto real-world objects from the viewer's perspective in real time, providing an overlay that looks as if it's actually on the object. Mixed Reality is currently getting a lot of use in automotive visualization, where a designer can sit in a physical form of a car interior and see a specific car's dashboard inside their goggles. Some systems even project a moving landscape that appears to be outside the windows, giving the viewer a sense of what it's like to drive or ride in the car.  BMW Mixed Reality lab offers test drives while the car is still in the design phase. BMW is one of the automotive giants at the forefront of this movement, with in-house VR/MR labs for designers to collaborate across the globe. Volkswagen has gone a step further and used VR/MR to demonstrate a car to potential buyers in a showroom. Even before a prototype is ready for public test drives, buyers can see the virtual car's exterior in photoreal, real-time VR, and sit in the car's interior and swap out different upholstery and trim in real time. These "new" presentation formats aren't necessarily so new—VR, for example, has been around for decades in some form or another—but the difference is that now they're within reach. With the low cost of VR headsets, and with real-time rendering by Unreal Engine available as a free beta, just about anyone can get into the game and start experimenting with stereo panoramas and virtual reality. Unreal Engine is included as part of Unreal Studio, a suite of tools, especially for design visualization professionals. Download the free Unreal Studio beta today and get started on your own journey to these new presentation methods.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MacEwan University, Allard Hall / Revery Architecture Posted: 17 Jul 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © Ema Peter
 © Ema Peter Text description provided by the architects. MacEwan University's new urban center for arts and culture, Allard Hall, creates an elegant entrance landmark to its City Centre Campus in Edmonton, AB. The building's focal point is its central multi-story, double atria crossed by dramatic angled pedestrian bridges linking each of its five-floor from the ground up to the top floor where natural light pours in via clerestoreys.  Site Plan  © Ema Peter A balcony at each stairway creates a 'nest' at circulation intersections, offering a zone (perch) for pause and informal learning in contrast to the building's social and collaborative learning hubs. The building's design emphasizes Allard Hall's identity as a hub for converging ideas and social interaction by showcasing a vibrant spectrum of student, staff, and visitor activities.  © Ema Peter  © Ema Peter Offering a perfect combination of cutting-edge academic and cultural functions, Allard Hall's array of performance and educational spaces includes; studios, classrooms, educational and office spaces; a 450-seat proscenium theatre, a 200-seat recital hall, a 100-seat black-box theatre; galleries, and a range of high-tech computer labs, visual arts, digital and sound studios.  © Ema Peter  © Ema Peter The building's captivating exterior presents a modern, sleek curtain wall façade featuring wavy forms to subtly reference a stage curtain, an apt metaphor for the dynamics and function of the building. Latest energy modeling techniques optimized the composition of the façade and the energy efficiency of mechanical systems which is crucial for Edmonton's cold winters and will aid its LEED Silver target.  © Ema Peter  © Ema Peter Allard Hall is a complex place of interaction and collaboration that encourages exploration, creativity, and learning. With its galleries and multiple theatres, it also functions as a premier public performance and event venue in the heart of Edmonton's downtown.  Section A  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Social and Cultural Center in Giromagny / Malcotti Roussey Architectes + Thierry Gheza Posted: 17 Jul 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Nicolas Waltefaugle
 © Nicolas Waltefaugle Text description provided by the architects. The building is part of the military wasteland requalification project leads by the city Giromagny. It is placed on the orthogonal grid of the ancient barrack, that will be rehabillited soon. He is located on the exact place of the old administration building and the ancient stables whose subsist slight traces.  © Nicolas Waltefaugle  Ground floor plan On its west side, the site is borded by a large parc located in center of the city, browse by a little river « La savoureuse », who give it name to the building. The social center is the point of convergence of many hiking trail, and ways connected to the city-center are created to allow soft modes of transport.  © Nicolas Waltefaugle Built on two floors, the project wraps a preexisting little theater built since 1980s. He is absorbed and implanted at the gravity center of the new complex : the theater gives it a cultural value and the complex, in return, allow new potential audience and news activity. The prominence of the roof re-profiled forms the new building's signal.  © Nicolas Waltefaugle The project has a great diversity of intergenerational programms : theater, multi-purpose hall for sportive activity, media library, manual work's and animate's space, place for extended day programm, office space and technical rooms dedicated. Each area as the theater are articulated by one distributive place : the entrance hall, a large and generous double height space. Outside it will be covered and lighty raised in relation to the road : in this way pedestrians are protected of vehicle traffic.  © Nicolas Waltefaugle  Section This centered disposition apparatus, enable a perfect optimization of the circulation, an efficience of the plan (short distances) and an easy control. It also allows polarity : the center gathers and works like an hearth. The great compacity of the bulding had allowed to applicate basic's bioclimatics princips on it and to optimize summer confort and solar gains for every facade (label BBC Effinergie)  © Nicolas Waltefaugle A double skin composed by shading devices (material : métal déployé) on the first floor, protects the facade against sun in summer and allows it to pass in the winter. This filters play adds nice variety of perceptions inside and towards the outside. This interval place organises also a space rich of use : weather protection for ground floor, terrace who extends activities on the first floor. Constructive princips: Steel and concrete mixed structure, envelope curtain wall, double skins for south and west facades, shading devices, flat green roof, geothermal energy, heating floors and refreshing.  © Nicolas Waltefaugle The entrance hall continue the rigorous logic of the building and unfold to compose a place of multi-purpose : parking, playground, volleyball courts. The strict geometry to this landscape is broken by the repetition games of beacons, that, by the association of the same modules, will morphs into bench, racks bike, simple beacon, or even games. The woods choosed respect the presence of the great linden and black pine, by proposing trees with medium development taken from the local flora. Its also allow to shade and organise the place.  © Nicolas Waltefaugle  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Les Lumieres a la Campagne / Arch Studio 314 Posted: 17 Jul 2018 06:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of 314 Architecture Studio
 Courtesy of 314 Architecture Studio Text description provided by the architects. The project turns a 60's house in Glyfada into an architectural practice. The main idea of the renovation was the creation of an intense contradiction between the existing traditional form of the house and a new contemporary design. Interventions are focusing on materiality, lighting and a new imaginable roof.  Courtesy of 314 Architecture Studio New materials have been used in a way they underline any damages caused during time passed. Both exterior and interior walls are painted in white oil paint reflecting light and creating intense shadows. Silver curtains are placed in order to separate different rooms/ office spaces which alongside with mirror cladded doors they highlight a futuristic atmosphere. Moreover, a garden delimiting the property is covered by white pebbles supporting the presence of white color in the synthesis while silver ribbons are decorating olive and lemon trees.  Courtesy of 314 Architecture Studio LED tapes are following the shapes of interior spaces culminating the most precious thing in architecture; the plan, while providing gradient light at the walls. In every room, white light balls are placed embracing a more nostalgic character. A vertical lightweight construction resembling a cage describes an imaginable roof. Following the same romantic direction, the roof floor is painted in magenta color.  Courtesy of 314 Architecture Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Orgeval Community Center and Event Space / f+f architectes Posted: 17 Jul 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Camille Gharbi
 © Camille Gharbi Text description provided by the architects. At the heart of the urban renewal of the Orgeval district in Reims, that is a worn-down sixties housing estate area with its problematics, the building opens up on a new large plaza and three different streets, while being largely contiguous to a housing and service block.  Site Plan This building combines 2 distinct programmes. First The Salle Municipale, or Event Space, clad in dark brick, is a large multipurpose event space. With a movable seating system it can host everything from larger gatherings to concerts, projections and theatre performances. The interior of the main space is in concrete, alternating smooth and textured surfaces. The wall elements are skewed, never parallel between each other, to break sound reflexes and for best acoustic performance.  © Camille Gharbi The second main component, the community center or Maison the Quartier, on the other hand offers more day-to-day facilities for the areas inhabitants with sports, gym and boxing spaces, classrooms and workshops, daycare, but also spaces and activities for youth and elderly, as well as social services.  © Camille Gharbi The building uses the differentiations in the shifts of the topography on the site in its organization. The building is symbolically open to the exterior with its upheaved built mass and transparent socle. A large ramp, that works as an extension of the plaza, leads to the main entrance hall.  © Camille Gharbi The activities, workshops and sports area are lowered with large glazed surfaces to the street and the new square, giving them a distinct atelier character. Thus it offers them to the view of the inhabitants of the neighborhood to whom this building is devoted.  © Camille Gharbi Spaces for children and daycare are raised and isolated from the plaza. They are organized around and open up to a large patio that serves as their outdoor playarea. On hot summer days, this patio can be covered and shaded with a mechanical textile covering.  © Camille Gharbi The organization of the many disparate functions is organic, yet striated, differentiated. This translates into the façades as the building sets itself apart from the surrounding architecture giving an identity to the renewal of this area.  © Camille Gharbi Product Description: Two different brick types (dark and light) where used in the project two differentiate the two main programmes (Community center (light grey brick) and event space (dark brick).  © Camille Gharbi The light grey brick is From Vandersanden , reference Quartis, and is what is called handmade brick (irregular surface with a creased texture, with a specific indentation in the bed surface) that is homogenous in color but irregular in shape. The dark brick is from Wienerberger , reference Hectic Black. The surface is smoother than a handmade brick, but with a special choked heat drying process and additives every brick has an individual heterogeneous surface color giving a distinct pattern to the building.  © Camille Gharbi The brick is used as façade cladding (mounted on steel consoles that are fixed on the concrete, with the the mineral insulation in-between). We didn't want the mortar joints nor the regulatory vertical expansion joints to be visible. The mortar was put in very thin layers, recessed by 3-4 cm. For the vertical expansion joints (mandatory every 60 sqm) : they were simply treated as open seams between the bricks running vertically every 10-15 meters.  Section  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hapjeong 359 18 / Simplex Architecture Posted: 17 Jul 2018 04:00 PM PDT  © SongYuSub
 © SongYuSub Text description provided by the architects. Mapo-gu, Hapjeong-dong is undergoing many changes. Dangin-ri Power Plant, the first thermal power plant in Korea, has been responsible for supplying power to the city for more than 80 years. In the 2000s, due to the aging of the generator and to enhance the cityscape of Seoul, the city decided to underground the power plant and create a park above. Due to these changes, the area near the Dangin-ri power plant gradually underwent the process of gentrification, and many of the residential buildings in this area, which had low land prices, have been transformed into commercial spaces.  © SongYuSub  Diagram Hapjeong 359-18 was remodeled in this background. The existing building, which was composed of three floors, was a residential building. The first floor was rented and the second and third floors were used by the owner. The client bought the building and changed it to a commercial building in accordance with the changing trend of Hapjongdong, so as to rent it to restaurants, cafes and offices. In addition, the building was built of brick and had to undergo a lot of structural reinforcement for remodeling.  © SongYuSub The existing building had a door on the right side of the entrance to be used by the tenant on the first floor, and a doorway used by the owner and an indoor staircase to the second and third floors were located on the front. Especially, the stairs going up from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor were too steep and had to be changed with proper stairs. This building was expanded to four story building and the stairway position was changed outwards, allowing independent entry from outside stairs to each floor, thereby maximizing the visual exposure of each floor. In addition, the fourth floor which is connected with the interior stairs from the third floor has a separate roof terrace that provides a view towards the newly constructed Dangin-ri Park.  © SongYuSub The existing building was originally cladded with red brick. While the south, north, and west elevations that have little visual exposure from the main access road were painted white to minimize the construction cost, the east elevation which is the main façade was cladded with white stucco, contrasting with the black steel frame of the window.  © SongYuSub  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Qingli Hotel / Elsedesign + DPD Posted: 17 Jul 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © BAI Yu
 © BAI Yu Text description provided by the architects. The projects start with an invitation from one 80's couple, they like to make a small hotel after they visited Weizhou Island. It is my first time to hear about this island and our studio is excited to accept the commission.  © BAI Yu Weizhou Island is located at the Beihai sea region, north is the Beihai City and South is the Hainan Island. The area of the island is 24.74sq.km, it is the youngest volcano island and also biggest island at Guangxi. Our project is located at the Dishui Village where having the best sea view.  © BAI Yu The client rents a four storey building. total area is around 400sqm and it is built by local villagers. Because of management and cost issue, the building quality in general is not satisfactory. We also need to face the aspects of poor infrastructure, high labor cost and lack of material supply.  © BAI Yu The site is in rectangular shape, west side is facing sea while east side is main road. The building in plan is 9mx12m, 4 storeys total. In terms of spatial quality, we want to emphasis the relationship between human and nature, how we provide a quiet living experience in this primitive village?  © BAI Yu First floor of the building is the public area with reception, bar and restaurant. It is an open plan design and full height glass doors facing the sea. When good weather or party, the floor can be used together with the garden. The main material is self levelling floor plus wood furniture, the cross lighting at the ceiling enhances the sense of space division.  © BAI Yu From 2nd to 4th floor are the guest rooms, we have designed 13 rooms including single room, double room, family room and Japanese style room. The design concept is to make people feel like living at home. The room is designed with concerns of views to the sea: the long shape seafront washroom , the side rooms triangle balcony and the top floor skylight bathroom etc.  © BAI Yu The whole building is painted in white, it is quietly settled between the blue sky and ocean. We wish QINGLI is not only a hotel, but also the place we may appreciate our nature. .jpg?1477752161 "© BAI Yu") © BAI Yu  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hide and Seek House / Bower Architecture Posted: 17 Jul 2018 02:00 PM PDT  © Shannon McGrath
 © Shannon McGrath  Section Text description provided by the architects. In a quiet street, this sensitive but tough new beach house creates an intriguing sanctuary, integrated with context and landscape. Driven by the local vernacular of gently gabled houses, a sensitive building form is nestled between its neighbours. Two entry experiences - the most apparent an informal outdoor shower which celebrates the ritual of the beach return, while a more discreet side entry leads into a central courtyard at the heart of the house.  © Shannon McGrath Defined living spaces avoid vast open planning and bridge between separate distinct bedroom areas. These living spaces are unveiled and re-experienced through glimpses and framed views from differing perspectives. Outlook within and beyond shifts through these spaces, which change in character over day and season. Investment in the structure and shell of the house, its considered bones and materials results in a calm and surprising journey integrated with users, site and its surrounds.  © Shannon McGrath  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Fernando Gomulya
.jpg?1531795197 "© Fernando Gomulya") © Fernando Gomulya Text description provided by the architects. Music House is a 420 sqm residential built at Alam Sutera, Indonesia, for a musician family. This house is designed to cater the activity of family and guests, such as playing instruments, recitals and rehearsals. .jpg?1531795068 "© Fernando Gomulya") © Fernando Gomulya The building carries the continuity and harmony of strains of musical tones as its design concept. The facade consists of 2 types of element, solid and semi-transparent, just like how music has vocal weight. Solid facade illustrates heavy tones such as tenor, baritone or bass; semi-transparent facade illustrates high singing tones like soprano. The "solid element" is represented with materials like concrete, while the "semi-transparent element" is represented with glass and concrete grill to create the not-so-transparent effect.  First Floor Plan The final shape of the building is a translation of one basic form into a seamless form that promotes continuity and connectivity from first floor to second floor level. The building mass at the back is created higher than the front to recite the flow of music tones, similar to how the music goes from low tone to high tone. From interior perspective, this house minimizes the use of partitions to create continuous and open living space. The stair creates the flow of space, and also functions as a space for displaying artworks . .jpg?1531795144 "© Fernando Gomulya") © Fernando Gomulya Inside the house, a large semi-transparent space functions as a living room. Then, the space continues to dining and kitchen area, and a large terrace with skylight functioned as an area for music rehearsal. The terrace is enclosed with curved pivot doors with glass to create dynamic look and open plan. .jpg?1531795090 "© Fernando Gomulya") © Fernando Gomulya .jpg?1531795002 "© Fernando Gomulya") © Fernando Gomulya  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Zhengzhou Twin Towers / gmp Architects Posted: 17 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © ZMG China
 View from railway station. Image © Jianghe Zeng Text description provided by the architects. Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, is experiencing ongoing growth. According to current estimates, the metropolis on the Yellow River will have over 11 million inhabitants by 2020. In order to prepare for this development, a new railway station has been built in recent years to the east of the city to create a central traffic interchange.  View from the west. Image © Jianghe Zeng  Site Plan The new buildings by gmp close off an urban design axis to the west, an axis that leads from the new railway station towards the city center. Like an entrance door to the city, the high-rise buildings form a vertical counterpoise to the horizontal building of the railway station. A plaza between the towers forms a linking element. Owing to their height of 284 meters, the twin towers are significantly higher than the other high-rise buildings in the vicinity and, as identity-creating buildings in the skyline of Zhengzhou, are visible from afar.  Sky Lobby. Image © Jianghe Zeng The 63 stories of the Greenland Towers accommodate mostly offices. One tower comprises about 232,000 square meters—a comparatively large area for a high-rise building of this height, which is due to the very large area per floor of 4,000 square meters. This makes it possible to flexibly divide the floor area of each floor into up to 15 units.  View of facade. Image © Jianghe Zeng At their base, both towers have to their side L-shaped plinth buildings that accommodate commercial functions. By separating the towers from the plinth buildings, there is unrestricted access to the lobbies of the towers from all sides. Almost 12,000 people cross the foyer of each tower every day on their way to the upper floors.  Swimming pool in the spa. Image © Jianghe Zeng In plan, the layout of the towers has been arranged offset in windmill fashion around the square core of the building. All offices benefit from natural ventilation via concealed openings in the facade profiles. With the sky lobbies on every eighth floor, the office towers have prestigious areas in the vertical that can be used in many different ways by the local companies. An unusual feature in a high-rise building of this size is that the employees are given the opportunity to use an outside terrace at high level and, from here, to enjoy the view across the cityscape of Zhengzhou.  Foyer. Image © Jianghe Zeng The top stories of the Greenland Towers accommodate the eight-story Sky Atrium, which is reserved for exclusive functions: the co-called "Sky Commerce" with restaurants, shops, and a spa extends across three floors next to the atrium. Luxurious offices in the north tower and exclusive club facilities and apartments in the south tower make up the uppermost floors of the towers. With the Sky Atrium, an attractive public venue has been created for art exhibitions and concerts, thus enriching vertical urban life in China with a new attraction at a height of 240 meters.  Staircase in „Sky Atrium" . Image © Jianghe Zeng  Illumination by night. Image © Jianghe Zeng  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sketchfab Launches 3D Model Marketplace For Buying and Selling Models Online Posted: 17 Jul 2018 11:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Sketchfab Late last month, Sketchfab launched an online store which will make it easier for designers to buy and sell 3D models. The platform's 1.5 million creative professionals can monetize their work and customers who are working on a range of 3D projects will have the opportunity to purchase tens of thousands of high-quality 3D models and textures. The new launch also features a first-in-market, "Model Inspector."  Courtesy of Sketchfab Sketchfab is already used by top worldwide industry brands such as Oath, Sony, HTC, and Amazon. The company also recently announced content partnerships with Facebook at f8, integrating their increasingly popular AR studio platform, and also with Apple at WWDC. Prior to launch, the store was in a six-month open beta program where buyers and sellers gave feedback so that Sketchfab could integrate new features to develop the best web experience possible. The Sketchfab Store features a browser-based 3D player with an advanced "Model Inspector," which reviews every aspect of a 3D model in real-time. This allows customers to buy their models with confidence by taking out some of the guesswork out of purchasing 3D digital files online. The Sketchfab viewer also supports VR and AR out of the box, providing additional ways to explore the store's content. Check out Sketchfab's online store, here. News via Sketchfab  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| UChicago Child Development Center Stony Island / Wheeler Kearns Architects Posted: 17 Jul 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing
 © Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing Text description provided by the architects. Inspired by an adjacent historic landscape, the University of Chicago Childcare Development Center - Stony Island integrates the natural environment with its architecture and child-centered curriculum. Instead of creating a place dominated by synthetic play equipment and primary colors, the design allows children to be immersed in the natural world to discover first principles first-hand.  © Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing The building, with a z-shaped footprint, responds to the narrow infill site, optimizing limited sun exposure and leveraging visual connections between the interior and exterior. Outdoor play courts, which parallel the two classroom wings, provide for age-appropriate physical challenges and exploration in a natural environment. The eastern wing, clad in tree bark siding, provides spaces for infants and toddlers. The western wing, clad in an unpainted cement board siding, serves older children up to age five.  Section Perspective A gently folded roof, vegetated over its eastern half, directs light to the interior and rainwater toward the play courts. The wings overlap at the midpoint, where a glassy lobby serves as the building's emotional center. Here, the University community bonds around the mission of having children learn nature's first principles first hand, in view of a play court surrounded by monumental boulders, a gabion stone fence, and ornamental trees.  © Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing  © Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing Unencumbered open plan tandem classrooms are leveraged for long-term flexibility and adaptability. Common classroom-related support functions including teacher workstations, diaper changing, children lavatories, and toilets, are placed in a shared zone between pairs of classrooms. The open sharing arrangement allows teachers to supervise the other classroom when needed.  © Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing The 13,300 square-foot facility is more "look-within-me" than "look-at-me." Rather than competing with the size or glamour of the adjacent University buildings, the focus of the center remains on the child's perspective and outdoor play. Rainwater cascades from the roof into splash tanks. A squash house, a live willow tunnel, a trike path, and sand and water zones encourage exploration. Different surfaces invite children to crawl, roll, ride, climb and walk—to learn about their five senses while interacting with nature. If children learn what they live, they will not only learn from nature, but they will learn to value it. Additionally, the curriculum of the center is fully integrated with this mission.  © Steve Hall / Hedrich Blessing  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Inside The Chandigarh Home of Le Corbuiser's Cousin and Collaborator Pierre Jeanneret Posted: 17 Jul 2018 09:00 AM PDT .jpg?1531851210 "© Paul Clemence") © Paul Clemence Paul Clemence of Archi-Photo shares rare images of the house of Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh. The photographer described the experience in an article published in Modern Magazine, which is republished below with permission. .jpg?1531851173 "© Paul Clemence") © Paul Clemence Even today, Jeanneret's legacy looms large in Chandigarh (he even requested his ashes be spread at its Lake Sukhna Lake): the city restored his residence—where he lived for nearly ten years—and recently turned it into a museum celebrating his many contributions to the city's development, both during the construction of the Capitol Complex, and later, as its official Chief Architect. .jpg?1531851056 "© Paul Clemence") © Paul Clemence The house not only provided a place for Jeanneret to reside but also served as an experiment of sorts, allowing him to test ideas that he would later develop for large-scale residential projects. Part of a cluster of housing for government employees, the home features staples of modern design, such as a compact, functional floor plan and plenty of open and semi-open spaces, creating a dynamic play of light and shadow throughout the building. And even with a tight budget, simple yet elegant details—including the perforated brick screens, the Yves Klein blue walls, and the geometric built-in niche frames and wall shelves—lend the house a look of sophistication. Inside, visitors can get a rare glimpse into Jeanneret's time in India and his creative process through the many trinkets, photographs, and letters, as well as his own seldom-seen wood furniture on display. For those urbanists, a detailed presentation sheds light on the lesser-known architect's extensive contribution to the creation of the watershed urban plan of Chandigarh. .jpg?1531851197 "© Paul Clemence") © Paul Clemence  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cal Maritime, Recreation and Aquatic Center / WRNS Studio Posted: 17 Jul 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Jeremy Bittermann
 © Jeremy Bittermann Text description provided by the architects. As the only degree-granting maritime academy on the Pacific Ocean, California State University Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime) is known for cultivating leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators within the global maritime profession. With a competition-level NCAA gymnasium, ample training and fitness areas, and a 50-meter pool, the Recreation and Aquatic Center serves as the primary recreation and sports outlet for the Academy's 1200 cadets.  Lower Floor Plan Visible from Interstate 80, which connects the San Francisco Bay Area with Sacramento, this new public face and memorable campus gateway evokes maritime references, and specifically the campus's training ship, the Golden Bear, while avoiding trivialization. A brick base provides continuity with the historic building material of the campus.  © Jeremy Bittermann Organized to be welcoming and easily accessible by both cadets and visitors, the main entry is a trellis-covered courtyard leading to the pool deck and the Center. Physical therapy, strength and conditioning areas, and locker rooms surround the entry and knot the two distinct programmatic volumes together. The multipurpose room, a double height space which allows for volleyball and basketball use, is located on the east edge of the facility and acts as a sentinel.  © Jeremy Bittermann Wrapped in channel glass, the multipurpose room features diffused soft natural light, gaining additional significance at night as a glowing lantern. The other segment, a competition-level NCAA gymnasium, is offset from the multi-purpose to create a welcoming entry gesture for the campus.  © Jeremy Bittermann Designed for multiple uses, the 50-meter pool accommodates competitive level swimming, water sports, and recreational use, and it is equipped with a wave machine to simulate storm conditions for coast guard training. To provide a sense of enclosure and protection from the wind it is surrounded by walls and secure fencing.  © Jeremy Bittermann Utility infrastructure and foundations have been provided in anticipation for a future enclosure to be constructed at the University's discretion. With its high visibility and gateway location, the Recreation and Aquatic Center marks Cal Maritime as a place of distinction within the broader landscape of maritime education.  © Jeremy Bittermann  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  UBC researchers have found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using bacteria that convert light to energy. Image Courtesy of Flickr/LillyAndersen via University of British Columbia Researchers at the University of British Columbia have unveiled details of their recently-designed "bacteria-powered solar cell" capable of converting light to energy, even in overcast conditions. Hailed as a "cheap, sustainable" method of renewable energy extraction, the cell can generate a current stronger than any previously recorded from similar devices. Development of the cell opens new possibilities for typically-overcast regions such as British Columbia and Northern Europe, where the world's first solar panel road debuted in France.  The technology is particularly applicable to the overcast conditions common in British Columbia and Northern Europe, where the world's first solar panel road debuted in France. Image UBC's "biogenic" solar cells contain living organisms, building on previous efforts which focused on extracting the natural dye that bacteria use for photosynthesis. Addressing the traditionally costly and complex process involved in dye extraction, researchers at UBC, led by Professor Vikramaditya Yadav, have switched their focus to genetically-engineered E. coli to produce large amounts of lycopene, a dye which is efficient at harvesting light for energy.
The team estimates that the process could reduce the cost of dye production by 90%, marking a significant leap forward for the technology's feasibility. Refusing to rest on their laurels, the team is continuing the push forward, searching for a process that doesn't kill the bacteria, and thus produces dye indefinitely. If successfully developed, the technology could also be applicable to mining, deep-sea exploration, and other low-light environments. New via: The University of British Columbia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Santa Elisa Office / brro arquitetos Posted: 17 Jul 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © André Scarpa
 © André Scarpa Text description provided by the architects. The Project for the new office of the Santa Elisa, an orange producer farm, is part of a series of projects being carried out in order to modernize and adapt its facilities.  Plan The office specifically intended to bring together the various management offices within the farm, that were previously scattered around small buildings created at different times over the years, or old houses converted into offices. The goal here was to bring the business and field workers activities closer.  © André Scarpa In order to achieve this goal one of the main premises was to create a continuous space, free of structural elements where separations could be seen trough to connect visually and physically people within the building and its surroundings.  © André Scarpa Therefore, metallic frames were designed to hold a big metallic roof, creating a space without pillars, and that contains all superior infrastructure elements. The floor is made of concrete slab supported by a metallic platform that doesn't touch the ground held by small metallic pillars, this way the construction can be characterized in two big planes filled with the project program in the middle. The floor level was determined by the height where people could get a view of the orange fields while in their workstations, most importantly from the conference room.  Axonometric The interior architectural program consists in a room for the commercial department and human resources, located in front of the farm's main access road since both of this rooms are intended for the outside public, as well as the harvest workers and employees of other activities.  © André Scarpa Facing the opposite way, being more secluded from the public access, with a more reserved view of the fields, are the conference and transit rooms, destined for the regular and temporary service providers, such as consultants and clients. In this same side, facing west protected from direct sunlight, are the restrooms and pantry, enclosed and directed to the interior of the ensemble.  © André Scarpa All of the rooms in the building have system of lightweight seal in the walls with visible cement plates in the exterior and paint in the interior. The see trough closings are made of tempered glass with aluminum profile and tubular metallic interlocking. For the roof a metallic ceiling in a 7,5x7,5 cm grid that allow the structure to be viewed and also for maintenance of electrical and lightning to be conducted.  © André Scarpa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Watch Rem Koolhaas at the Moscow Urban Forum Posted: 17 Jul 2018 05:52 AM PDT At the Moscow Urban Forum, Rem Koolhaas spoke to Vladimir Pozner about his life and work, including how he has been influenced by Russian architecture. The pair discuss how the city of Moscow has evolved and the role that it currently has in the world. The event was originally streamed live on YouTube, meaning you can watch the recording of the discussion above.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Kengo Kuma’s Airbnb Experience to Include Tour of 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium Posted: 17 Jul 2018 05:30 AM PDT  © Japan Sports Council / via Curbed Five lucky architecture enthusiasts and Airbnb users have been offered the unique experience to accompany Kengo Kuma on a guided tour of the 2020 Olympic stadium in Tokyo. The renowned architect has collaborated with Airbnb to offer the exclusive experience, described as a "visit to Kengo's under-construction Olympic stadium, along with a meet and greet at his studio and tea with the celebrated architect." The July 31st tour, sadly fully booked, offers an insightful example of architects collaborating with leaders of the "gig economy" to offer design experiences directly to the public.  Courtesy of Airbnb The $180 tour will begin at Kuma's studio in Tokyo's Aoyama neighborhood, from where the architect will accompany the five guests to the architecturally-significant Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which hosted the 1964 Olympics. Along the way, Kuma will discuss the roots of his architectural career, and the influence of the Yoyogi gymnasium on his perspectives in architecture and design. The tour will continue with a visit to Kuma's New National Stadium, currently under construction ahead of the 2020 Olympics. Guests will learn about the materiality and inspiration for the scheme, and the lengthy design and construction process involved in its delivery.  © Japan Sports Council / via Curbed
 Courtesy of Airbnb The tour will conclude on the rooftop of a nearby tea shop, the exterior latticework of which was designed by Kuma. Over pineapple cakes and tea, guests can use the setting for a leisurely conversation with one of the icons of modern architecture. You can learn more about Kengo Kuma's design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium here. News via: Airbnb  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tradition House / Estudio Geya Posted: 17 Jul 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Albano Garcia
 © Albano Garcia Text description provided by the architects. The house is located within a closed neighborhood in Francisco Álvarez, western area of the province of Buenos Aires, within a corner lot of 750 m2 and with the peculiarity of having only one neighbor, since the land is adjacent to a shared space in it opposite front.  Ground Floor Plan  © Albano Garcia The proposal arose in response to the field´s conditions. A house closed towards both bordering streets, giving privacy to the daily life powered by its south orientation; and open on the opposite sides, allowing the entrance of the sun in the first environments while taking advantage of the park view.  Site Plan  © Albano Garcia The living room, dining room, and kitchen emerge behind the blind concrete wall seen from the ground floor. All these spaces are open towards the opposite side with sliding carpentry that "disappear", allowing total integration with the exterior. Also, the roof changes its height with a slight slope, making the higher spaces look even higher. The rest of the ground floor is completed with the parking space, the laundry room, and a service bathroom. In addition, the concrete wall serves as a support for the furniture and the staircase while protecting the privacy of the house
The upper floor consists of two white boxes with sloping ceilings connected by a wooden bellow where a small study, the arrival of the staircase and the corridor come together. One of the boxes contains two bedrooms and a bathroom. The other one, the master suite with its dressing room. As on the ground floor, the services look south and closed to the street and the bedrooms open onto the garden and the sun.  © Albano Garcia The design of the house was the result of the conditions imposed by the implantation and way of life of its owners, together with the naturalness of each material used and the search for integration with the surrounding landscape. The game between geometries, transparencies, and reflections enhances the architecture of the house.  Section  © Albano Garcia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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