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- Baiona Public Library / Murado & Elvira Architects
- Open Call: The Best Student Design-Build Projects
- Santa Clara 1728 / Aires Mateus
- Explore the Future of Productive Cities at the 2018 Fab City Summit in Paris
- Oröd Lada / Jonte Norin
- Participants Announced for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial
- Chameleon Villa / Word of Mouth House
- Yiwu Cultural Square / UAD
- The Garden Roof Parasol / Harsh Vardhan Jain Architect
- Rain of Light / Yuan Architects
- Yagan Square / Lyons Architects + iredale pedersen hook architects + ASPECT Studios
- Rifa House Gen.‘11 / María Inés García + Maximiliano García
- Gewers Pudewill Unveils Competition-Winning Proposal for Vertical Folding Tower in Berlin
- Tartuferia San Paolo / mf+arquitetos
- Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC Transform 19th Century London Exhibition Hall into Creative Hub
- Casa La Quinta / PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados + Alfonso de la Concha Rojas
- 6 Modern Building Types That Will Soon Disappear Forever
- Claudios House / Arquitetura Nacional
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| Baiona Public Library / Murado & Elvira Architects Posted: 04 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530247115 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal
_LR_2600_px.jpg?1530247154 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal Text description provided by the architects. In 2010, when Murado & Elvira Architects won the competition to design the Public Library and Historic Archive of the city of Baiona (Spain), they decided to design a place that would convey a sense of domesticity to its users: they came up with the idea of a warm wooden dress, tailor-made for the ancient building. A dress that covers the interiors of the architectural body, leaving the exterior almost unchanged. The old Sancti Spiritus Hospital thus reconquered its original role, by becoming a new home for scholars and readers. And for tourists too. The city of Baiona, located on the west coast of Spain, is located along the Camino de Santiago and is visited every year by thousands of pilgrims. In addition, the Baiona Historic Archive is one of the most relevant in the area, preserving documents dating back to the discovery of Americas. Baiona was in fact the port where La Pinta, one of the three caravels led by Christopher Columbus towards the New World, arrived on its way back in 1493. _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530246979 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal An incipient hospitality expands into the library. Accommodated within the former Sancti Spiritus Hospital, an existing structure built in the 17th century behind the ex-collegiate church of Santa María, the Baiona Public Library is a two-level building embedded in the sloped historic city center with a garden and an inner courtyard. The building is listed, protected as a 'Bien de Interés Cultural'(Heritage of Cultural Interest). Despite its status, it has suffered major alterations in the course of the centuries, some affecting the patio and garden, that had come to lose their significance; others heavily modifying the interiors, that due to an intervention occured in the 1970s were obliterated and deformed. _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530246905 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal The renovation project by Murado & Elvira aimed to restore the desirable role of the outdoor spaces and redefine the historical identity of the building through the careful design of a succession of rooms in which to host its new public functions. "When we first visited the old building we felt the need for our project to create a new interior identity, connecting and giving continuity to the old structures" Clara Murado and Juan Elvira. History has been carefully observed and questioned by the architects. This can be clearly perceived in the spacial sequence that guides visitors from the open spaces of the urban fabric to the most intimate condition offered by the reading rooms. On the ground floor a large hallway transverses the building like an indoor street that leads to the patio and the garden. It is a real introduction to the new nature of the building, an immediate and unexpected overview of time that passes through it. This main axis is marked by a thick stone wall, reminiscent of the old granite structure, that gathers archeological pieces from the original building, bonding memories and heritage to the new function of the building. _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530246746 "© Hector Santos-Diez") © Hector Santos-Diez _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530247046 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal The solid and material wall structure is counterbalanced by the soft and warm appearance of the wooden box containing the Historic Archive and all the service rooms to the right of the entrance path. The building thus immediately reveals its dual nature and its ability to reaffirm its vocation for welcoming visitors.  Section 1  Section 2 To the other side, opening towards the courtyard, is the children's library, with a distinctive irregular shape that gives it a playful identity. Murado & Elvira used the asymmetric perimeter of the building to their advantage in order to design what may be the most characteristic room of the complex. Its position allows sunlight to come in, while giving to the kids a quiet and safe place to play inside. Textile floors offer a comfortable surface to sit on while some folding surfaces, made of the same material, give shape to inclined planes to recline upon Similarly to the Historic Archive, rooms are completely wrapped in warm maple wood: the architects used curved wooden walls to integrate shelvings and some openings to hidden spaces behind, such as a wardrobe and a puppet theatre. _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530246721 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal Three stairs connect the ground to the upper floor, where the main reading room is located: two outdoor stairs in the courtyard, one indoor stair directly accessible from the inner accessway. Encircling the patio, this open space, where the wooden inner envelope is celebrated, is composed of a series of interstitial rooms, individual study alcoves, bathrooms, offices and bench reading rooms. A double maple wooden skin embraces this space completely, from the floor to the vertical walls. The same maple wood has been used also for the ceiling in a triangulated surface that, while describing an ever-changing volume, adapts to the structure and to the dimensional needs of the mechanical systems. All around the reading room windows open up to the garden, surrounding the North and East sides of the facility. The garden is accessible from the main entrance through a hallway. _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530247127 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal A Warm and Articulated Architectural Space.  Axonometric They create a continuum among the various rooms of the complex, thus overturning the more conventional design strategy of providing a building with a unitary external skin. This inner envelope emerges as the most distinctive characteristic of the library designed by Murado & Elvira Architects. While from the outside the Sancti Spiritus Hospital seems to have apparently remained untouched by their renovation project, when stepping inside one is immersed in an unexpected and surprising environment. This new skin rejuvenates the building, which is for the most part mono-material, without erasing its history, making the Sancti Spiritus Hospital a place where everyone can find his own spot, a pilgrimage center for citizens and tourists. _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530247173 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal Emblematic in this sense is the ground floor, where the contrast between the maple wood and the grey of the granite stone welcomes users into a space where the past merges into the present. The archaeological finds embedded in the stones recall memories of the ancient Sancti Spiritus Hospital and are confronted with the wooden box of the Historic Archive, where the heritage is now preserved. On the upper floor, instead, where the spatial organization recalls the historical sequence of rooms, the wooden surfaces envelope the spaces completely, from floor to ceiling, conveying a surprising condition of warmth. Here, a double maple wooden skin envelopes the entire floor, opening a concentric functional band composed by a series of interstitial rooms: individual studies, bathrooms, offices and bench reading rooms. _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530247140 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal Furniture Originates from the Facades. _LR_2600_px.jpg?1530246926 "© Imagen Subliminal") © Imagen Subliminal Murado & Elvira also designed the way-finding signage and the logo for the Baiona library. The wooden surfaces are cut and engraved with a similar technique to the one used to extract the furniture directly from the walls. They also designed unique pieces, such as the lamps for the garden, conceived as curious devices to be used by both humans and non-humans, with a fountain, a plate for birds to drink water from and a mirror.  Elevations  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Open Call: The Best Student Design-Build Projects Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:00 PM PDT  When learning about architecture, there is no replacement for practical experience: seeing how materials can be joined together, how structural elements respond to the stresses placed upon them, or how construction techniques can alter the finished project. For this reason, it is a good idea to give students a chance for some hands-on experience building real structures—something that, due to budgetary constraints and the academic culture of many architecture schools, has sadly been uncommon in the past. However, in recent years, this culture has started to shift, with increasing numbers of architecture schools finding ways for students to be involved in construction projects, from small, temporary interventions and pavilions, to larger permanent buildings. In order to show the excellent work that can be done in an educational context, for the fourth time ArchDaily is calling on students and professors to submit the design-build projects they have completed in the past year. As always, we're teaming up with all of ArchDaily en Español, ArchDaily Brasil, and ArchDaily China, in the hope that we can present the best work from students worldwide to a worldwide audience. Read on to find out how you can take part. Please use the form below to submit a Google Drive Folder containing images and a brief description of your project. Submissions close on Monday, July 23th at 12:00 pm ET. Rules:
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| Santa Clara 1728 / Aires Mateus Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © Juan Rodriguez
 © Renée Kemps Text description provided by the architects. The Santa Clara project envisioned the renovation of a building in Lisbon. A building with undefined history, with different construction periods and transformations, as it is common in historically rich areas.  © Francesco Martello  Ground floor plan  © Francesco Martello  First floor plan  © Francesco Martello The goal was to construct a building that reflects the living experience of the city. A search, not done by the reproduction of traditional elements, but by a recombination of elements, materials, atmospheres and proportions, to bring back this idea of living. A plain architecture, that combines few elements, while striving for quality in the use of real materials. An idea of authenticity and, therefore, an idea of timelessness.  © Renée Kemps  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Explore the Future of Productive Cities at the 2018 Fab City Summit in Paris Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:30 PM PDT The Fab City Global Initiative in collaboration with the City Hall of Paris and the Fab City Grand Paris Association are organizing this year's Fab City Global Initiative in Paris, France from July 11-13. The three-day program will take place at the Parc de la Villette, and bring together 18 Fab City Members and international city leaders to discuss and imagine ways to define the future of productive cities. This global collaboration project combines innovation ecosystems, governments, and industries that enable cities to become more sustainable through 2054.  via Fab City Summit The program will begin with an introduction by the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas. The following days will feature other high-profile international keynote lectures and conversations with speakers such as Dave Hakkens, Dutch founder of Precious Plastic, Sherry Lassiter, the President of the Fab Foundation, and Neil Gershenfeld, professor and director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, among others.  Parc de La Villette, main venue of the Fab City Summit (Paris, July 2018). Image via Fab City Summit  via Fab City Summit A special campus will also be open to the public after the event, and provide an opportunity for people to understand what life would be like in a Fab City, with events that include a store, public food commons, an upcycling exhibition, and even a "Tour de Fab" guided bike tour. The Paris summit will also welcome new cities to the Fab City network, expanding upon the 18 cities (Barcelona, Boston, Santiago de Chile, Cambridge, Kerala, Shenzhen, among others) who are already participants.  via Fab City Summit ArchDaily readers are also eligible for a 30% discount when purchasing tickets to the summit! Simply visit the Fab City Summit website to purchase your tickets and enter the promotional code FABDAILY30 when prompted. Read more about the Fab City Summit here. News via: Fab City Summit  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Jonte Norin
 Courtesy of Jonte Norin Text description provided by the architects. To get closer to family and nature, the client decided to move from Stockholm and build a new home in the little village Oröd in the south of Sweden. The plot, which is strongly sloping with a peak in the middle, spans between a small lake to the west and a gravel road to the east. At the lake there is an old cottage from the 70's where the family could house during the construction which the clients wished to lead themselves. In the brief, there was a wish for a simple and economical volume, but at the same time, a rich and complex home with space for play, projects, cultivation, a lot of people and large gatherings.  Courtesy of Jonte Norin The new house was placed near the peak, which gives a light interior and views towards both forest and lake. A new entrance to the site was constructed from the eastern side. The house has a typical barn shape; a narrow and long plan with low facades and a steep gable roof at 45 degrees. The facade consists of a plane wooden panel treated with copperas, wooden windows and doors, and aluzink steel plating on the roof.  Courtesy of Jonte Norin  Ground floor plan  Courtesy of Jonte Norin In the east and west there are doors and large windows, rhythmically placed, facing the patios and the view. In the north, where the neighboring house stands close by, the facade is relatively closed with only small windows for ventilation. To the south there is a large glass facade that follows the slope of the gable roof and covers the entire end of the building.  Sections As an answer to the program only three quarters of the house is fully insulated while the last quarter has a flexible climate between outdoor and indoor environments. In the same way as in many old homes where these kind of spaces were always present, the strong Swedish seasons can be taken advantage of, while at the same time a smaller area is fully heated in winter.  Courtesy of Jonte Norin This is a flexible space for the whole family, for projects as well as everyday chores, for resting, eating and socializing for a large part of the year, to plant and grow early in the season, conserve plants and food or paint and cobble when it is cold outdoors. The room is heated in the winter by the fireplace in the living room which has openings in both directions.  Courtesy of Jonte Norin Half of the building has a loft while the other half has a generous ceiling height of around 6 m. In the loft there are surfaces mainly for the children. Roof windows add skylight to bedroom, family room, the stair case and the entrance in the lower level. An opening in the wall of the loft to the living room allows the air to circulate and for communication between the plans. Towards the living room, the loft shoots out above kitchen, which in this way feels both protected and open. The interior is bright and warm with white interior walls, plywood clad exterior walls and ceilings, and milled concrete floors.  Courtesy of Jonte Norin  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Participants Announced for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial Posted: 04 Jul 2018 06:30 PM PDT  Yapi Kredit Kultur Yayincilik, photo by Koray Senturk via IKVS The 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, curated by Jan Boelen with Nadine Botha and Vera Sacchetti, has just announced the participants of this year's edition. Under the theme "A School of Schools", it seeks to explore how design education, and education in general, can evolve and adapt in a new age of artificial intelligence. Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by VitrA, the Biennial will bring together old and new knowledge, academic and amateur, professional and personal, engaging multigenerational, transdisciplinary practitioners from Turkey and abroad. The event will run for six weeks, from September 22 to November 4, and willinhabit six of the city's most iconic cultural institutions, which will play host to the biennial's many schools, exploring the multiple dimensions of design as learning. Details about the venues and participants:  Z33 at the Salone Milan 2018, photo by Ilco Kemmere via IKVS At Akbank Sanat, the Unmaking School emphasizes the irrepressible human instinct to be creative as a pedagogical dynamo that drives innovation in production, redefines the future of work, and reframes our engagement with our cities; at Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, the Currents School explores flows, networks, distribution, and hierarchies of information and subjects, both digital and analogue, abstract and embodied, to critically examine new technology and systems. At Pera Museum, the Scales School investigates the fluidity of taxonomies, quantifications, and institutionalised norms, standards and values to highlight biases and assumptions in our social, economic and intellectual agreements; at Arter, the Earth School asks what is natural, what is disaster, and what is evolution when the planet and human are forced to renegotiate their pedagogical relationship. At SALT Galata, the Time School travels from hyper-speed and acceleration into the expansiveness of deep time, learning about contested pasts and speculative futures from paradoxical durational perspectives and the objects that dictate them; at Studio-X Istanbul, the Digestion School learns from metabolic systems, patterns of consumption, cultural rituals, and food infrastructure to consider how circular education and lifelong learning manifest. Biennial participants include:
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| Chameleon Villa / Word of Mouth House Posted: 04 Jul 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Daniel Koh
 © Daniel Koh "Chameleon Villa" located in Buwit, a village in the lush interiors of the southwest coastal area of Bali. Constructed on an acre of land, overlooking a dense forest and a gentle river below, the villa sits on a steep contour with an 11-meter difference of level between the arrival area and the river that runs the western length of the property. Given such a spectacular location, the challenge was to create an architecture that truly connected with its surroundings and that integrated well with the topography of the site.  © Daniel Koh We worked on the idea of 'landscaped architecture', by blurring the boundaries between natural and built environments. As a result, the buildings appear to be a part of the land itself sometimes disappearing within it, and then at other times, emerging from it.  © Daniel Koh The buildings are situated on different levels of the land and they follow the contour lines in a way to take in the vantage points towards the river below and the forest across. The rotation of the volumes on the land follow these criteria and allows the creation of in - between spaces and gardens to enjoy which would otherwise be difficult to experience on a land of such a steep pitch.  Ground floor plan As per traditional Balinese architecture the different pavillions accomodate different functions and all communal spaces are kept open towards the elements whereas the bedrooms and other more private spaces such as office, gym and media room are closeable volumes.  © Daniel Koh Throughout the property a sense of discovery develops from the moment we land in the parking. Across us we can only see an uninterrupted view of the forest ahead to then discover we are looking over the roof of the building below, to the moment we dive into a deep slit in the land and we find out it is the way to the guest bedrooms positioned at a lower level.  © Daniel Koh The main building which is on two levels follows the idea of rectangular volumes stacked on one another off-axis as if they were resting on the land. They are composed of an outer frame which holds and protects the inner one where people would tend to spend most of their time.  © Daniel Koh The purpose of the outer frame is to protect the spaces from the elements and provide insulation. The supporting 'camouflaged' roofs provide a cooling effect to the spaces below and assist with rainwater collection whereas the spaces below these frames have been used to store all the technical equipment.  © Daniel Koh The result is a composition of volumes that are clean and modern but at the same time they feel 'earthy' and organic. The material palette is largely comprised of natural and locally sourced materials, meaning that not only could local suppliers and artisans be supported by this initiative, but it also minimized the home's carbon footprint.  © Daniel Koh Green systems considered for this project, besides passive cooling and sustainable materials selection, have been the use of solar panels to produce electricity and a water recycling and rainwater collection system for garden irrigation.  © Daniel Koh  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2018 03:00 PM PDT  Architecture Street View. Image © Qiang Zhao
 South West Bird View. Image © Qiang Zhao Text description provided by the architects. Yiwu is famous for small commodities. Small and medium-sized enterprises are densely concentrated in this place where the private economy is highly developed. In terms of urban construction, this means that the city is filled with a large number of homogenized and small-scale buildings featuring high density.  Public Area For Citizen. Image © Qiang Zhao  Theater Section  View From Stage to Seats. Image © Qiang Zhao Local citizens have a desire for iconic city architecture and open places for public activities. After being included in the central city planning of Zhejiang province, Yiwu has begun to take firm steps toward becoming an international metropolis and hoped to take constructing Yiwu Cultural Center as an opportunity to declare to the public its cultural confidence featuring openness to the international society and the future.  View From Sunken Plaza. Image © Qiang Zhao Yiwu Cultural Square is a large-scale cultural complex combining various functions of culture and entertainment, education and training, sports and fitness, etc. Its design, which is minimalist with huge building volume, differs from that of ordinary buildings in the city. Its center is not a grand indoor hall, but a three-dimensional courtyard where a sunken square is linked with a roof garden through ramps and big steps.  Metal Panel glittering. Image © Qiang Zhao  North West Section  Main Entrance Lighting Effect. Image © Qiang Zhao The space is organized with circulation and transforms step by step, and the landscape presented to people can be different as they walk around this place. Such a design technique learns from the space organization of traditional Chinese garden and builds on it.  View From Stairs to Stages. Image © Qiang Zhao At the main entrance, the huge roof is like the clouds in the sky, and the huge gray space under the entrance is derived from the traditional public space model from Jiangnan regions, such as stage, ancestral hall, etc. This meets the needs of public cultural activities of Jiangnan regions.  Masterplan The design of combining the sunken square and the audience area is suitable for organizing public cultural activities with Chinese characteristics. When people walk across the long and big steps and reach the roof top which is open and wide, they are able to see the beautiful views from the distance: Yiwu River, Diaoyu Rock, and Lion Mountain.  Roof Top Patio. Image © Qiang Zhao The minimalist facade along the river can change into a huge screen after nightfall, and this changing screen can be even more glamorous with the gleaming reflection of Yiwu River, becoming stunning scenery of the city.  Youth Center 1F Entrance. Image © Qiang Zhao  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Garden Roof Parasol / Harsh Vardhan Jain Architect Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Nakul Jain
 © Nakul Jain Text description provided by the architects. The site is located on an urban fringe between the urban village and planned settlement of the South-East New Delhi area. The idea was to create a space that acts like an oasis in the derelict landscape.  © Nakul Jain The approach was to create a space for a newly wedded couple. The existing building structure provided us with a stair, a room and a courtyard in between. The concept was to create an overarching roof over the undulations of the existing structure therefore providing us with a unified space and a double height volume.  Plan The structure is a simple prefabricated frame that is expressed on the façade and gave us the flexibility to sculpt the interior volume. The nature of construction was such that steel was the relevant choice in contrast to the conventional ways of brick and mortar.  © Niveditaa Gupta
 © Niveditaa Gupta In the interiors you can find how the stair creates a perch like condition, overlooking the larger space. The access to the perch is a piece of furniture that doubles up as a tv console and storage.  © Nakul Jain  Section  © Nakul Jain Delhi presents itself as a low-rise, high density city with very few public green spaces, but the flat terraces provided us with an opportunity as a way of creating courts which are greening the city.  © Nakul Jain  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rain of Light / Yuan Architects Posted: 04 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Max Lee
 © Max Lee Text description provided by the architects. This space is a multipurpose co-working and gathering space of FutureWard located on the basement level. It is a flexible venue which can be adjusted according to different needs of its users - for work, rest, meetings, classes, or events. The white panels snake and bend about to form the skin of the space, shaping its ceiling, walls, and shelves. Arching across the warm-toned walls, the panels carve out the different heights and layers of different spaces, all diffused under a soft glow to form a cohesive whole.  © Max Lee  Basement Plan  © Max Lee The only natural light in the space comes in from the sunroof and flows along the white panels that extend down from the ceiling to form the walls, simultaneously defining the structure of the space. Those white panels are spaced in such a way to not only provide a sort of insulation from the sun but also give a rhythm to its shadows as they reflect the light and enable it to dance with the shadows across the room or smoothly spread out in soft sections of light.  Section Rendering Depending on the time of day, the light changes in intensity, giving the space a certain 'Rain of Light', as the light sprinkles in like rain and floods the space with countless sparks of creativity. It makes for a work environment where people can actually breathe in sync with the weather seen through the ceiling, letting its light be like an "Inspiration Point" that flows into space as a steady stream of creativity. A palace of inspiration, imagination, and light.  © Max Lee  Exploded Axonometry  © Max Lee  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Yagan Square / Lyons Architects + iredale pedersen hook architects + ASPECT Studios Posted: 04 Jul 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Peter Bennetts
 © Peter Bennetts The Project  © Peter Bennetts The design develops a clear cultural idea about the place of Yagan Square within the city and country, and is representative of the idea of convergence: of geologies, ecologies, tracks, narratives, of indigenous and non-indigenous people. The design elements of the meeting place, the digital tower, marketplace, playground, landscape ecologies and art are arranged to repair and amplify connections to the adjacent areas of the city and Northbridge.  Plan Site  © Peter Bennetts Within such an idea of 'the project', the 'site' is both the unbounded city itself, the physical boundaries and context of the subject site, as well as a site of living history and culture, a kind of story. And this story needs revealing, needs a telling, through the design. On the one hand the site tells a familiar story of urbanism, of the city rail yards, the tracks held in the grip of the historic Horseshoe Bridge – which stands as a physical embodiment of the disconnection developed between the land and the people, the river and its lakes, the city and its cultural institutions. On the other hand the site is the place of disrupted but unbroken stories of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation (the traditional owners that have occupied this land for over 40,000 years), brought into Yagan Square, in memory of an aboriginal warrior executed in 1833.  © Peter Bennetts Context  Axonometric Plans Established in the late 1800's the rail corridor running inland to the Indian Ocean dismembered the CBD from the northern suburbs. The Horseshoe Bridge, opened for traffic in 1904, offered the only crossing within a kilometre either side of the Central Station. The Library, Art Gallery, Theatre and Museum are also on the 'wrong side of the tracks', isolated from the city's inhabitants, further reinforcing the inaccessibility of the city's cultural institutions. The project becomes an idea of both cultural repair and urban repair.  © Peter Bennetts Creative Design Engagement The success of this story-based and symbol-based approach is illustrated in the way the key Noongar figures for Yagan Square -Yagan and proud aboriginal woman Balbuk - both shamefully treated in their own day - are acknowledged and the legacy of their political leadership respectfully and powerfully embodied in the choreography of Yagan Square. Repair is generative when the scars are acknowledged, not glossed over; in the wake of recognition pain can turn towards the creative reclamation of place.  © Peter Bennetts Repairing Ecologies  North Elevations The tracks, traversing through the new landscape of the Square, provide an invitation to enter and encouragement to pass through safely. A meeting place is formed at their convergence, an unprogrammed space, resembling a clearing in the red earth, designed for city-scale sociability, open to performative cultural exchange. Worn stone contours step down to form an amphitheatre, gathering around a staging area and fire pit for Noongar ceremonies. The memory of the colonial rail yards, which for so long separated Northbridge from the CBD and the people from Swan River, recedes with each new passage through Yagan Square along the tracks to future destinations.  © Peter Bennetts Western Australian tree species, grown from local provenance seed, will increase ecological diversity within the city's urban forest, together with a range of environments, from native wildflower gardens, to an elevated forest, a tree grove, and a small constructed watercourse. Each of these provide habitat to birds, bees and insects. The watercourse adds delight and play, and the combination of flowing water along the edge of the walking tracks attenuate the severe heat of Perth. The shimmering 'lakes', which float above the meeting place, provide dappled shade within the heart of Yagan Square.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rifa House Gen.‘11 / María Inés García + Maximiliano García Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Marcos Guiponi
 © Marcos Guiponi  © Marcos Guiponi  Ground Floor  © Marcos Guiponi Text description provided by the architects. The neighborhood is characterized by the presence of constructions that consolidate the morphology in the frontal limits of the properties. At the same time, the bases of the contest contemplated two possibilities that come of from the regulations: the first was to use the setback area as it is and the second was to build in the whole area with agreement (not to exceed the heights of the adjacent constructions). Based on these two alternatives, the first project decision is to conserve the predominant morphology so the second option is chosen.  © Elías Martíez  Section BB  © Elías Martíez The implantation responds in the first instance to these guidelines. At the same time, the housing program is divided into two volumes whose activities could be distinguished as social and intimate respectively. These volumes are stacked one on top of the other to release the ground and create expansions to the outside that counteract the limited projections to the sidewalk. The social area is the one that touch the ground and also is separated from the edge of the property to avoid the restrictions that the ochava (chamfer limit) could impose to the interior space organization. Additionally, the corten steel shell appears to generate the boundary with the public space along the entire perimeter. The disposition of the ground floor allows to concentrate the service areas below the other volume encouraging to conceive the rest of the property as a single exterior space that is crossed by the living-dining area. A good orientation of the intimate area volume is considered a priority, therefore the bedrooms are projected to the northeast to get a favorable sunlight. The outer areas roofed below this volume are used for the for the main access, the garage and the secondary access.  © Marcos Guiponi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Gewers Pudewill Unveils Competition-Winning Proposal for Vertical Folding Tower in Berlin Posted: 04 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Gewers Pudewill Last October, Germany-based Gewers Pudewill was awarded first place in an invited competition to design the Stream Tower, a new office high-rise in Berlin. The 24-story scheme elaborates on a vertical folding theme expressed through the slabs and façade, creating a programmatic sculpture depicted in recently-unveiled imagery. Situated next to the city's Mercedes-Benz Arena, the tower will reach a height of 300 feet (90 meters), and a floor area of 430,000 square feet (42,000 square meters). Upon completion, the scheme will host the popular online fashion retailer Zalando.  Courtesy of Gewers Pudewill Starting from the ground level, each floor folds itself upwards to articulate the slabs and exterior walls without any breaks. The tower is designed to have only two floorplans, alternating as the tower rises. While the folds alternate from east to west, the north and south facades are glazed to offer views over Berlin, becoming more spectacular as the scheme rises above its 7-story neighbors.  Courtesy of Gewers Pudewill  Courtesy of Gewers Pudewill Stream Tower also features two outdoor terrace spaces at each level, orientated east and west for solar gain, in addition to a variety of lounge and meeting spaces designed to create a forward-thinking and modern office space. News via Gewers Pudewill  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tartuferia San Paolo / mf+arquitetos Posted: 04 Jul 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Felipe Araujo
 © Felipe Araujo Text description provided by the architects. The use of green in space is something we always use, to give life to the environment, it is necessary. Based on this principle, we design the restaurant integrating the interior with the exterior, through large openings, facilitating the use of lighting and natural ventilation. The formal purity with straight lines and few volumes, planes that lengthen and at the same time unite the environments, natural materials like wood, concrete and stone are elements that characterize the project.  © Felipe Araujo The well-designed and prominent carpentry compose the use of the restaurant, as well as part of the decoration, which is always thought of details of materials, furniture and textures. A warm and neutral decoration, translating a welcoming and unique environment for each project with similarities between them.  © Felipe Araujo  Floor Plan  © Felipe Araujo When we enter the Tartuferia San Paolo, the aroma of the place is delicious! You immediately think: I want to eat this! The history of the truffle touches our senses. And this project, with these natural, receptive and welcoming characteristics, reminds us of the feeling of living…  © Felipe Araujo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC Transform 19th Century London Exhibition Hall into Creative Hub Posted: 04 Jul 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Heatherwick Studio / SPPARC New images have been released of the $925million (£700million) redevelopment of west London's Olympia Exhibition Centre, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC Architecture. The project will see an extensive renovation of the existing exhibition halls, and the addition of creative offices, studios, and co-working space. The 130-year-old center will be transformed into a creative hub with 2.5 acres of public space, intended to "support ambitious enhancement to focus on creative industries, entrepreneurship, and new green space for community and visitors."  Courtesy of Heatherwick Studio / SPPARC Under the plans, 70,000 square feet (6,500 square meters) of co-working spaces and 600,000 square feet (55,000 square meters) of creative offices and studios will be supported by restaurants, hotels, and cinemas. Continuing Olympia's centuries-old role as a prime champion of the arts, the redevelopment also includes 73,000 square feet (6,700 square meters) of theater and performing arts space.
 Courtesy of Heatherwick Studio / SPPARC The project is being supported by Olympia London owners Deutsche Finance and Yoo Capital, and is expected to be submitted to planning September 2018. News of the Olympia Center comes weeks after Heatherwick Studio's Zeitz MOCAA in South Africa was shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Awards 2018. News via: Heatherwick Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Casa La Quinta / PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados + Alfonso de la Concha Rojas Posted: 04 Jul 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Rafael Gamo
 © Rafael Gamo Text description provided by the architects. Casa La Quinta is a weekend house located in the town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. After visiting the site and considering the requirements of the program, the conclusion was to respect the identity of the place, built context and the importance of the height of the neighboring preexistent walls.  © Rafael Gamo  Ground Floor Plan  © Rafael Gamo  First Floor Plan  © Rafael Gamo This lastwere taken and conceived as limits that would define the empty space between them. The distribution in the ground floor plan comes from this concept, leaving the social space without divisions and boundaries with the outdoor space.  © Rafael Gamo Having a scheme that works inwards all the restrictions and having no nearby views to the landscape, 3 void spaces were proposed in the plan in the form of patios, each one with different character, use, and program. These voids give the project its character, producing a different perception of scale to the user, a high contrast of light and shadows, spaces of silence and rest.  © Rafael Gamo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 6 Modern Building Types That Will Soon Disappear Forever Posted: 04 Jul 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Corner Shop (2000). Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/8431398@N04/2535026759'>Flickr user Andrea_44</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Architecture is often seen as something which provides a place-marker in history, reflecting the zeitgeist of an era. But how do we design architecture in a world that is changing faster than ever before, where entire types of buildings disappear seemingly in a flash? Here, we round up six types of buildings that came into existence in modern times and are fading as fast as they appeared. Mostly banal and previously ubiquitous, the nostalgia associated with the disappearance of these buildings taps into something emotional, rather than intellectual admiration. Memory and architecture are closely linked, with Juhani Pallasmaa in his book The Eyes of the Skin describing how "the body knows and remembers. Architectural meaning derives from archaic responses and reactions remembered by the body and the senses." Some of the structures below have become obsolete within half a lifespan—an interesting point to consider in a discipline that has historically valued permanence above all. If structures no longer serve a social function, will they be remembered? Corner Stores Milk Bar, West Footscray, Australia. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/spin_spin/97439414'>Flickr user Susan Fitzgerald</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/'>CC BY-ND 2.0</a> Corner stores exist around the world, under a variety of names: New York's bodegas, Australia's milk bars, sari-sari stores in the Philippines. One thing they all have in common is that most people have fond memories associated with them, from chats with the family who run them, to saving up coins to buy a chocolate bar as a child. New York bodegas sprang up in the 1940s and 50s after waves of immigrants arrived in New York from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. In Australia, the milk bar is a familiar sight on suburban street corners; an oasis stocked with ice-cream during the Australian summer. However, with the rise of shopping centers and franchises, the family-owned corner store has been on a sharp decline. Brightly-lit 7-Elevens have a vastly different atmosphere to the crowded messiness and individuality of the traditional corner store, touchstones of community that are fast disappearing.  East New York Deli (2007). Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_lowry/2036783500'>Flickr user Paul Lowry </a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Phone Booths UK Phone Booth . Image via Pixabay From Doctor Who to Superman, and even the cliche of the pay phone that mysteriously rings by itself—the phone booth is a profound cultural artifact that became obsolete seemingly overnight. Easily recognizable and just large enough to fit a person and a phone, booths were such a ubiquitous part of society that not even a decade ago many still existed, littered across cities but mostly unused. The first pay phone as we know it was designed in 1889 by William Gray, who created a coin-operated public telephone that did not need an attendant. Public phone booths began to be built in the early 1900s, and the glass and aluminum boxes we know today became popular in the 1950s. However, with the rise of the mobile phone, the end of phone booths was inevitable. Jordan, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden have eliminated pay phones altogether, and they continue to decline across the world. Some cities have converted them into wi-fi hotspots to retain use for the structures. Many of the iconic red phone booths in Britain have been repurposed into tiny cafes, mobile phone repair shops, or even defibrillator machines by a generation that refuses to let go. Video Rental Stores Closing down sale at Blockbuster Video, Bank Street, Galashiels. Image © <a href='https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/6638'>Walter Baxter</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Ten years ago, if you wanted to spend a night in, the local video store was your first stop. "Netflix and chill" was years away, so if you wanted a good night, it was time to rewind the VHS and hit play. VHS, DVDs, and Blu-Ray came and went in one generation, and in their place have sprung a crop of new streaming services, rendering the physical space obsolete. In Australia, over 95% of these stores are now closed, leaving in their wake thousands of purpose-built outlets, rotting in the suburban landscape. Among the few remaining Blockbuster video stores in the United States are three stores in Alaska, where cold winters and slower internet connections make video rental more appealing; and one store that lies three hours outside of Portland, Oregon, its existence owing to the fact that local customers see it as more "personal" than Netflix or other streaming sites. Service Stations Valley Heights Shell Service Station, Now Demolished (1983). Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_mountains_library_-_local_studies/8356092220'>Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> For over a hundred years, the local gas station has acted as a retailer of convenience, a hub for repairs and upkeep, and a corporate standard. More than that though, the ubiquitous gas station, seen from city blocks to isolated interstates, was a symbol of the automotive revolution. Their broad canopies acted as billboards and often included gracefully sweeping lines and minimal supports—giving the impression of weightlessness. The accompanying pumps and wide bays left a seemingly-indelible imprint on the built environment, with retailers often modulating their designs to complement the community around them. However, as gas usage has decreased, and the cost of land has skyrocketed, many station owners are selling up shop. With their large footprint and lack of existing development, gas stations have become attractive prospects for redevelopment, with former stations now serving as art galleries, office spaces, and restaurants.  Kerry's Service Station, Blackheath (1983). Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_mountains_library_-_local_studies/7174970286'>Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Newsstands Newsstand at Third & Pike (1946). Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/3829976019/'>Seattle Municipal Archives </a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Once a mainstay of the city street, newsstands were structures with a clear purpose. The headlines screamed out to passers-by, keeping people connected even if they never read a paper. With minimal setup costs, newsstands provided entrepreneurs with a chance at upward mobility. Here, many immigrants and military veterans sat like sentinels all day long, hawking the news and a candy bar. Such people likely never envisaged a world where their small, individualized stores of wood or steel would be practically digitized. The stands that remain are increasingly standardized, with NYC installing thousands of identical metal-and-glass structures to replace traditional vendors.  Newsstand at Night, NYC (1980). Image© <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/picturing_it/2580881465'>Flickr user Jlm Ronan</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/'>CC BY-SA 2.0</a> Photo Booths via Pixabay Let's be honest: we've all seen someone's Facebook post of a silly photobooth strip and rolled our eyes. However, this modern usage of photography as a novelty for parties and functions belies a rich history of portraiture dating back over a century. Since the 1960s, automated booths have allowed us to truly be ourselves away from judging eyes. Although the structure was simply a tiny box, they were spaces in shopping malls or train stations that allowed intimate narratives to unfold. These booths, and the photographs they represent captured many tender moments in time... and the occasional passport photo.  Photobooth photos. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/simpleinsomnia/11980473896/in/album-72157637046542045/'>Flickr user simpleinsomnia </a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a>  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Claudios House / Arquitetura Nacional Posted: 04 Jul 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Pedro Kok
 © Pedro Kok Text description provided by the architects. The clients, a couple with a small child seeking tranquility for their day to day life, decided to build a house in a closed condominium, in a city near Porto Alegre. In spite of the choice of this refuge, they like to give parties and receive friends at home.  © Pedro Kok
 © Pedro Kok The land chosen by them is located in a gated community, bordering an ecological reserve and a river. The view, through the river, is the skyline of the city of Porto Alegre, but is blocked by the mass of vegetation of the reserve. However, from 2.5m height the view is completely clear. Since the area of greatest permanence of the house is the social one, the solution adopted was to reverse the uses - social area above and intimate area below.  © Pedro Kok In the main access of the house, a hall creates the separation of the spaces. In the ground floor we have five suites plus service area. On the second floor, there is the social area - a large open space with office, living room and dining room connected with a gourmet kitchen (with barbecue and grill). The only closed rooms are the kitchen and a guest toilet.  © Pedro Kok  Section B  © Pedro Kok The main highlight is the structure: on the second floor, two blue metal trusses create a 7m cantlever in front of the house - the garage cover. The entire assembly of this structure took, in total, 5 days. The ground floor features concrete structure, with wooden pannels covering, creating privacy for the bedrooms and a visual unity for the base of the house. The coating of the second floor is made of Profilit glass on the east façade and on the west there is drywall with hydraulic floor tiles in a minimalist pattern.  © Pedro Kok
 © Pedro Kok The landscaping privileged Brazilian native plants, in an organic and unpretentious composition. The pool deck is movable, covering it completely and allowing the garden flexibility, enlarging the area for events.  © Pedro Kok  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Award-Winning Sketching App 'Concepts' Releases New Update Including Customized Brushes Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of David Clynk Being a 21st-century designer is not always a walk in the park, but it certainly has its perks. Fortunately, innovative product and software designers have created numerous programs that transform our ideas and visions into visual and tangible reality. Concepts, the "next-generation design platform" is an iOS application, suitable for all design and engineering fields. Accommodating almost 80% of all design tasks, product designers, fashion designers, game designers, and industrial engineers can benefit from what the application has to offer. The TopHatch creation - which is trusted by leading designers at Disney, Apple, Nike, PlayStation, Unity, and several other leading corporations - was initiated as a simple prototype, and gradually built on feedback and innovative updates. Following our Top Apps for Architects article, the award-winning vector-based app, is launching a brand new update, with exclusive features that enable a limitless, customized, and more precise creative experience, exclusively shared with ArchDaily readers. What's New?Custom Brushes, Live Smoothing, and Gallery Organization Courtesy of Concepts The new 5.1 update offers 30 new artistic brushes, with the ability to create and customize your own tools, providing every designer with total control over his/her projects and devices. Basically, the update allows you to create and use your own custom brush shapes and textures, adjust, manipulate, rotate, and scatter the "stamps" however way it suits your project, and share your customized brushes and packs with other users. You can also tune the pressure curve, tilt, and velocity, meaning that ink will be able to react to the amount of pressure or speed you apply to the strokes. Concepts have also exclusively created the option of adding up to 9 different stamps to a single stroke, enhancing the quality of brushes, and creating a more rendered visual. Drawings have never been more personal.  Courtesy of Concepts  Courtesy of Concepts
The new update also offers its users the ability to control the smoothness of every stroke, with prompt results as they draw. Every drawing, complete or not, can now be stored in an organized gallery. The "Sections" option in the gallery helps users divide their work, and store them in separate, custom-named sections, making it easier to show every client his/her respective drawing, without going through all the executed work. Another handy way of presenting projects and finding drawings is iOS's "pinch-to-zoom-and-see" option which can display up to 10 columns all at once (on iPads). The users can "multi-select" drawings and manage them however way they please.  Courtesy of Osama Elfar  Courtesy of Concepts
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