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- Bioclimatic 'Longère' House / J Guillo Architecte
- CasaNearShore Parcelle A&B / Groupe3Architectes + Omar Aloui + Taoufik El Oufir
- The Twist and Shout House / MSSM ASSOCIATES
- Sixian Xiaozhu of Fengxian District / Atelier GOM
- Sattva Galleria / Sudhakar Pai Associates
- .JPG COFFEE / Infinity Nide
- Mahapragya / Mahapragya Architects
- Small Bridges at Warren College UCSD / Kevin deFreitas Architects
- House for Beth / Salmela Architect
- Comparing Tree Coverage in 10 Major Cities Around the World
- Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter Middle School / Studio Twenty Seven Architecture
- BIG's Relocated Serpentine Pavilion Nears Completion in Toronto as Landmark Tower Tops Out in Vancouver
- Cottage in Sutton / Paul Bernier Architecte
- How to Bring Construction into the Future
- House in El Maitén / bernardo rosello - arquitectura
- ETH Zurich Fabricated the World's First Full-Scale Architectural Project Using 3-D Sand Printing
- The 9 Bars That Every Architect Needs to Visit
| Bioclimatic 'Longère' House / J Guillo Architecte Posted: 03 Aug 2018 10:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of J Guillo Architecte
 Courtesy of J Guillo Architecte Text description provided by the architects. Located in Crach, in the French region of Britanny, this modern project was designed for being the habitual residence of a couple and hosting guests. It stands out for its location and the comfort provided during all the year, especially due to the spacious winter garden, that plays the role of a natural and free thermal buffer.  Plan To integrate the project into the natural environment, a heritage area, where Britanny traditional buildings predominate, natural slate was chosen and used as a « leaf », folded around the house. It offers a good protection from the local oceanic climate, combinated to a good insulation that ensures its energy optimization all the year.  Courtesy of J Guillo Architecte The house, with a rectangular and elongated floor plan, allows the owners to enjoy the sun and natural light to the fullest. In this building scheme, construction costs were optimized focusing towards a direct connection to the winter garden, extremely versatile and pleasant at any time of year, as well as using qualitative and sustainable materials.  Sections Josselin Guillo, project architect who worked in combination with Dorothée Martin, co-designer, claimed: «We were inspired by the single-family houses typical of Brittany. However, the materials of these ancient buildings have been reinterpreted creating a thermally efficient contemporary architecture, looking for sobriety and finesse.»  Courtesy of J Guillo Architecte  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| CasaNearShore Parcelle A&B / Groupe3Architectes + Omar Aloui + Taoufik El Oufir Posted: 03 Aug 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Stefano Berca
 © Stefano Berca Text description provided by the architects. The project revolves around the implementation of the first installment of the Casa Shore Park operation, located within the B and C plots, across a surface of approximately 2 Hectares. Our intervention consists mainly in providing a number of office floors, service areas, along with the complementary landscaping necessary to the accommodation of the "Business process offshoring".  © Stefano Berca Our architectural response in regard of this first phase is one that highlights the different problematic that will be treated across the site, while also responding to its specific constraints.  © Stefano Berca A- Specific constraints of the first instalment:  © Stefano Berca In view of its location along the road leading to the prefectures, the first housing complex expresses the dialectic between the urban public space and the interior landscape of the park. The flux management is optimized though control, hierarchy and fluid access.  Situation The arrangement of spaces must allow great flexibility so that the projected buildings may satisfy the diverse and rapidly evolving requirements business structures.  © Stefano Berca B. Site related constraints:  © Stefano Berca The project, in its overall configuration, will be designed in a way that favors a harmonious integration with its environment,  Plan C. The architectural statement:  © Stefano Berca Through the diverse and numerous combinations it allows, this arrangement provides great flexibility in area distribution possibilities, easing the integration of the project in both its urban and natural landscapes. This morphology creates a homogenous urban facade overlooking the road, paired with a more disparate interior space overlooking the forest. Between the main body of the building and its satellites, the contrasting heights provide a dynamic scale varying from function to function.  © Stefano Berca  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Twist and Shout House / MSSM ASSOCIATES Posted: 03 Aug 2018 04:00 PM PDT  © Sonny Sandjaya
 © Sonny Sandjaya Text description provided by the architects. Examining the city as a living, breathing organism is a school of thought that has become increasingly grounded. With rapid changes in the demographic and environmental condition of Semarang, the city has been forced to adapt to these changes, similar to the way a living organism adapts to changes in environment. It is only through a successful adaptation does the city ensure its longevity. More importantly however, this transformation in the city fabric must take place at every scale, and not only the global one.  © Sonny Sandjaya The Twist and Shout house addresses this issue at a local scale. One of the first residential units in the City of Semarang to address the challenge in construction and design. The Twist and Shout house takes a completely Avant Garde, progressive and unique approach to lifting the urban fabric of Semarang at a local scale to compete with other urban tissues at an international level. The interplay between function, form, light, environmental performance, social response and local assimilation has transformed what is usually considered to be a mundane residential dwelling, to one that has pushed the boundaries of construction and design evolving into an architectural landmark that has become unique to the fabric of the city.  Diagram Above all, the city fabric is defined by its components, and so, the Twist and Shout house aims to play an important role in opening the dialogue between the significance of these components and their influence to transform the city of Semarang on both a local and global scales.  © Sonny Sandjaya From the project's onset, the design has been a great challenge as the client's requirements were very specific and detailed; the primary difficulty was to address the client's request to live in a home that is visually stunning and unique, yet simultaneously maintain the conventional cultural requirements of a 'Semarangian' home. This request stem's from the client's traditional background of having a strong belief in Fengshui and a demand to stand out from the environment. Although essential to address, this was one of the greatest challenges when attempting to develop a free-form plan and structural solution for the home. The second challenge arose from the complicated yet very specific flow of activities required within the entire project; where the house serves as a base for the client's profession without hindering in the slightest the day to day residential activities of the home's occupants.  © Sonny Sandjaya In addition to the above, the client required the design and distribution of internal spaces of the home to allow for hosting frequent social events on a multitude of different scales while simultaneously maintaining a high level of privacy for the other occupants of the home. Finally, the client's admiration for challenging structural methods and techniques has allowed us to explore inventive structural design methods that contribute to all of the client's requirements as well as ensure the project is adapted seamlessly to the location's environmental and geographic conditions. Therefore, careful consideration and assimilation to the external environment was of utmost importance.  Plan 02 The geometric exploration of the home's morphology aimed to maximize the site's potential, a series of well defined and calculated geometric and sculpture like interventions on the facade exploits the tension between conflicting elements. In contracts to the internal areas, which are designed to have greater fluidity in transition between the spaces in both the horizontal as well as the vertical; allowing for uninterrupted continuity and harmony between adjacent spaces.  © Sonny Sandjaya The house is divided into three zones : The basement garage which doubles as a service area; the ground level which serves as the heart of the home, providing a communal space that includes the sitting room, family room, dining and pantry areas, and consummated by the external pool area that serves as a vignetter to the spectacular view across Semarang City. In contrast to the public and uninterrupted communal spaces of the ground floor, the first floor is distributed with greater privacy for its occupants; connecting the bedrooms through a single hallway that is made unique through a series of custom patterned openings that contribute significantly to the streamlined ambience of the home's image while simultaneously allowing for natural ventilation and lighting to the different internal spaces of the property.  © Sonny Sandjaya One of the significant features that defines the design of the project is the application of a parametric-based system for the primary facade of the structure that expresses fluidity in motion. The approach was driven through a detailed solar analysis on the structure, with great attentiveness given to the eastern and western facades. This axis is the cause for the majority of the thermal transfer from the external environment; as such, the geometry's formal attributes were adapted to limit and control the thermal conductivity into the structure.  © Sonny Sandjaya The distribution of the facade's openings were heavily contingent on three factors - view axes, occupant height, and the uniform distribution of natural light throughout the entirety of the internal spaces. In addition to their distribution, the geometry of the openings themselves were designed to also signify movement and flow. The result is a dynamic interplay of light and shadow that generates a sufficient amount of natural luminance yet retains a comfortable ambient temperature throughout the home's interior.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sixian Xiaozhu of Fengxian District / Atelier GOM Posted: 03 Aug 2018 03:00 PM PDT  During Construction. Image © CreatAR Images
 © Wei He Text description provided by the architects. Some people asked me why GOM would make out an elliptical building which seldom appeared in our designing history. It was because the landscape design company insisted to make the site into an oval as a way to intervene in existed architecture and landscape.  © CreatAR Images As a result of this, in the beginning, we designed plans and structure based on the mathematical definition of ellipse which is "the sum of the distance between any point on the outer circle and the two focal points are equal" to deal with the site. We split two layers for the building. The lower layer was for supporting facilities and public toilets.  During Construction. Image © Wei He  Concept  © CreatAR Images The upper layer is used as coffeehouse. Then, we tried to add a children sandpit on the southeast side of the unit. After this, we added an arched long wall between the sandpit and hard ground on the southeast side. The arched long wall was extremely important to us. It properly dealt with the relation between Sixian Xiaozhu and the sandpit, keeping apart but not afar, both isolated and interacting. We also add a foot washing pool for children in the public toilet on the first floor.  © CreatAR Images  During Construction. Image © CreatAR Images Many excellent design is developing with a detailed task book and a cooperative construction company. However, in this project, we have none of these two factors. However, since the scale of this project was too small and the design of it was too "surprising", it brought large difficulty for the construction company. Moreover, it replaced the construction company after the civil engineering process ended. As a result of the rough construction, this project has a rustic effect.  © CreatAR Images Washstone is the favorite and the most commonly used external wall material of GOM. Terrazzo is the favorite and the most commonly used flooring of GOM.  © CreatAR Images  During Construction. Image © CreatAR Images Anyway, this piece of landscape architecture perfectly fit in with the lake of "Shanghai Fish" Park, the children sandpit, the oval site and those tentative functions which are children public toilets and coffeehouse. We also expect that the further evolution of Sixian Xiaozhu can add its vitality as architecture.  © Jiajing Zhang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sattva Galleria / Sudhakar Pai Associates Posted: 03 Aug 2018 02:00 PM PDT  © Shamanth Patil
 © Shamanth Patil Text description provided by the architects. Sattva Galleria is located on Bellary Road, which leads on to the Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore,India. The Office cum Retail (ORC) building is equidistant from the city center and the airport. The building programme was aimed at mixed-use format, allowing for quality retail on the lower floors and office spaces on the upper floors.  Conceptual form Design on the project started in 2009. At the crux of all design ideas was creation of a simple, functional and responsive building that was not only efficient and sensitive to its surroundings, but also a piece of iconic architecture that reflected the city in spirit.  © Shamanth Patil Located on a trapezoidal site, the building takes on the shape of site to maximise the usable areas. The design intent to provide functional and usable rectangular floor plates for offices resulted in the triangular extensions on building rear forming circulation and service cores on all floors, and on front as podium of lower retail floors.  © Shamanth Patil While the building form took cues from both need of preferred rectilinear floor plate as well as the angular site lines, the built form is imagined as a metaphor of a sailing ship. The solar shading 'sails' behave as brise soleil keeping out the harsh western sun, while filtering slivers of north light that bounce off the inner wall surface onto the main work spaces. The sails are also punctuated with methodically placed smaller slits, a representation of Corbusian aesthetics that create synchronised sequences of light and shadow throughout the day on the work floor.  © Shamanth Patil The form was design fitted with a high performance façade that takes its prompt from building orientation. Glazing on the harsh west and south of the structure has been restricted to a minimum. The northern facade of the building however presents an inverse face, as it looks to allow to as much light as possible. The minimal glazing is treated with foliage pattern ceramic frit which helps to diffuse light and heat while alluding to the reputation of Bangalore as 'Garden City'.  Master Plan All surfaces exposed to harsh weather have been covered with HPL panels with a rear ventilated system that improves functional performance of the façade with respect to heat reduction, noise reduction, increasing weather protection, thereby improving the overall sustainability of the building. Double glazed units have been used on the western facade to further increase the thermal efficiency and significantly reduce energy costs over the life of the building. The combination of these two façade systems also results in efficient sound insulation, which was one of the priorities given the location of the building next to a national highway. The net effect is a well-lit and quiet indoor environment. The project was completed in 2018 and was awarded LEED Gold certification.  © Shamanth Patil  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Aug 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Haochang Cao
 © Haochang Cao Text description provided by the architects. The migration of human beings that follows the operation of society has existed since ancient times. Under the rapid development of urbanization, the typical migration phenomenon must be the "Urban Tide", which refers to the fact in urban area that every morning millions of people flood into working areas from living areas, while every evening those people back to living areas. "Urban Tide" is considered as an inevitable derivative during the process of urbanization.  © Haochang Cao China is in the economic transition period, along with the everyday changing information and technology, results in rapid expansion of urbanization. People float up and away in the unshaped cities, following the monotonous day-to-day routine. All together tends to regularize, synchronize, even benumb the ways they think, live and feel. With the spirituality which are now imprisoned under the suits and ties, people are desperate to to search for a way out that allows them to let their guards down, return to ego truly and experiencing freewheeling social activities.  © Haochang Cao  © Haochang Cao Located in Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou, one of China's three national CBDs, .jpg breaks the surrounding dense and towering gray tone with the dazzling yellow facade, just like the guiding light in a concrete jungle. Entering into the dim interior, which is less than 25m2 and sharply contrasts with the bright facade, a long concrete bar is set in the centre and emphasizes the baristas and the coffee-making process. The limited but unconstrained activity space eliminates the sense of distance and baristas' intimate service warms not only customers' tastes but also their hearts.  Plan The walls and ceiling are fully covered by overlapped and crossed timbers. The timbers were originally wasted pine wood recycled from the construction site, the color of which became dark as charcoal after the carbonation process. Through irregular interweave and assembly, the timbers enfold the whole space as if they are floating in vacuum. Light from different angles travel through the gap, forming an impressive visual effect and creating a novel and unique spatial experience.  © Haochang Cao The business model of take-away only and set no tables and chairs within satisfy the fast-paced coffee experience of modern people and facilitate the open social behavior. There are only two beverage pallets being extended out from deep in the timbers by slender metals and set alongside the window. Watching at the busy street outside with a freshly prepared coffee gives a temporary sense of belonging to the urban people leading stressful busy life.  © Haochang Cao China is now reach the excessively rapid urbanization period. The never-stopping shift in population, occupation, region, and culture can hardly maintain a sense of belonging for the modern people. Over the long-term social distance and repressed real emotions deep down the hearts, the urban morbidity of insensitivity comes with a reason.  © Haochang Cao  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Mahapragya / Mahapragya Architects Posted: 03 Aug 2018 12:00 PM PDT  © Subhash G. Patil
 © Subhash G. Patil "Mahapragya " located in rapidly expanding zone of Solapur City; the mere solution of contemporary tropical urban living within plot area of 380.90 sqm.  © Subhash G. Patil G+3 storey structure was planned to suit multifunctional purpose - An architectural design Studio on first floor, a house for small family on the second floor and the recreational space - amphitheater & terrace garden on the top floor.  © Subhash G. Patil Basically as an architect & also the user, we have come up with a concept "The art of living with time". Our thought to express qualities of the material that goes hand in hand with climate. The layout and the space planning of each floor are specifically designed to provide cross ventilation in order to create thermal comfort and connect with nature. The separation of each zone is according to daily functional activities.  © Subhash G. Patil The building is oriented such as the North and East side has wide openings to welcome natural light and ensure ventilation. Spaces linking along with vertical axes of the house are solid raw which are decorated with natural light. The light scatters in all direction that enhances the beauty of space.  Ground floor plan Moving to the interiors, a luxurious look is imparted viz. Italian marble flooring and wooden flooring has been used across the rooms on the first & second floor. The formal living room is done in rich textures with carefully placed sitout to maintain maximum outside view.  © Subhash G. Patil While designing the Children's Bedroom, mezzanine floor was added to create a quiet zone for their academic activities whilst maintaining the grandeur of the space by doubling the floor height. A subdued color palette of beiges, umber, grey or white characterizes the functional office area. The similar color palette comes through in the master, guest bedroom and the kitchen area.  First floor plan Interior plays a significant role in order to capture the visual sense of an individual, and to do so designing of each floor was made into different material to make each space deliver its own aesthetic sensitivity. .jpg?1533010727 "© Subhash G. Patil") © Subhash G. Patil The house can be seen as a reflection of the miniature society, where each member of the family can live together, by the connection between inside and outside space, the light and dark impact of colors in a common framework, always away from the hustle & bustle of daily life.  Second floor plan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Small Bridges at Warren College UCSD / Kevin deFreitas Architects Posted: 03 Aug 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © Darren Bradley
 © Darren Bradley Text description provided by the architects. Douglas Hall and its 3 identical sister buildings at UC San Diego epitomize the repetitive, institutional, and aging soulless student housing found on many university campus' that simply lack any "there", there. So when a stack of concrete bridges spanning over the main pedestrian/bike path connecting this residence hall to the main campus became structurally compromised, the University seized the opportunity to implement this modest initial refresh as a test case for some exciting new ideas to be implemented as part of the entire Warren College residential neighborhood update already on the books.  © Darren Bradley The problem: © Darren Bradley The solution:  © Darren Bradley  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House for Beth / Salmela Architect Posted: 03 Aug 2018 08:00 AM PDT  © Paul Crosby
 © Paul Crosby Text description provided by the architects. There are three basic landscape settings in Door County, Wisconsin: the lake shore, the forest, and the farm field. Although the number of farmsteads have declined, many weathered pine-sided barns still exist. The ones left have a memorable quality to their stature. Our client Beth loves the open farm field landscape of the area. This project is in many ways her vision.  © Paul Crosby The House for Beth is a narrow three-room building with stepped pitched roofs that reflect the functions within. The tallest roof defines a bright, open living space with views to the landscape in all directions. The lower pitched roof houses the bathroom and bedrooms. A third lean-to structure is attached to the back which contains the mechanical room.  © Paul Crosby The building runs east-west with terraces on the north and south to provide both sunny and shaded exterior spaces throughout the seasons. White painted fences partially surround the house and define the parking area and pathway to the house. Standing metal seam roofs reflect the direct sunlight, and the natural cedar siding is left untreated to weather. A splash band of black Richlite wraps the base of the house to protect the wood siding from snow and rain. White windows and trim match the fences while complimenting the natural materials that predominate.  Plan & Sections The interiors consist of simple white painted drywall with natural pine floors. Sequences of large fixed windows and smaller operable windows create an immediate visual connection to the surrounding site while providing ample opportunity for breezes to passively ventilate this narrow house. Natural wood trim add warmth, and a narrow black band of Richlite above a continuous pine shelf mimicking the black splash band on the exterior. The open kitchen is bright and fresh with white casework, stone countertops, highlighted by a blue tile cooking surround. The furnishings are simple, modern, and affordable, all from IKEA.  © Paul Crosby  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Comparing Tree Coverage in 10 Major Cities Around the World Posted: 03 Aug 2018 07:00 AM PDT  New York. Image via flickr user "quintanomedia"licensed under CC BY 2.0 Throughout the last two years, researchers at the MIT Senseable City Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts have been using Google Street View data to study some of the world's most prominent cities in terms of tree coverage. Developed in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, "Treepedia" seeks to promote awareness of the role of green canopies in urban life, and asks how citizens can be more integral to the process of greening their neighborhoods. The ever-growing list studies cities both around and beyond the USA, using an innovative metric called the "Green View Index," which uses Google Street View panoramas to evaluate and compare green canopy coverage in major cities. Through monitoring the urban tree coverage, citizens and planners can see which areas in their city are green and not green, compare their green canopy with other cities, and play a more active role in enhancing their local environment. Below, we have rounded up ten cities from around the world covered by Treepedia, offering an insight into global hubs such as London, Paris, New York, and Sao Paolo. For each listing, the "Green View Index" represents the total percentage of the city covered by trees. More interactive data can be found on the official Treepedia platform here. Boston Boston. Image via flickr user "boblinsdell"licensed under CC BY 2.0 Green View Index: 18.2% Cape Town Cape Town. Image via flickr user "wenzday01"licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Green View Index: 13.4% London London. Image via flickr user "The man behind the mirror"licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 Green View Index: 12.7% Los Angeles Los Angeles. Image via flickr user "lulek"licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Green View Index: 15.2% Montreal Montreal. Image via flickr user "husseinabdallah"licensed under CC BY 2.0 Green View Index: 25.5% New York New York. Image via flickr user "Wolfgang Bücker" licensed under CC BY 2.0 Green View Index: 13.5% Paris Paris. Image via pixabay user "teleistapix" licensed under CC BY 2.0 Green View Index: 8.8% Oslo Oslo. Image via flickr user "dconvertini" licensed under CC BY 2.0 Green View Index: 28.8% Sao Paolo Sao Paolo. Image via pixabay user "joelfotos" licensed under CC BY 2.0 Green View Index: 11.7% Tel Aviv Tel Aviv. Image via flickr user "Tim Rochte" licensed under CC BY 2.0 Green View Index: 17.5% News via: MIT Senseable City Lab  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter Middle School / Studio Twenty Seven Architecture Posted: 03 Aug 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Hoachlander Davis Photography
 © Hoachlander Davis Photography Text description provided by the architects. Achievement Preparatory Academy is a high-performing, college preparatory school located east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. Founded to close the achievement gap and address the educational needs of the community, Achievement Prep is an award-winning school that has been recognized for having an immediate impact in closing the achievement gap between low-income and affluent students in Washington, DC. Achievement Prep scholars have been among the top performing scholars in the District, often outperforming their peers in more affluent neighborhoods. The new middle school is a building designed to close the achievement gap in the District's Ward 8 Community.  © Hoachlander Davis Photography  Floor Plans and Elevations  © Hoachlander Davis Photography Achievement Preparatory Academy is a charter school that achieves remarkable results through an unwavering belief that all students can, must, and will learn at high levels. A clear, college-bound mission that is understood and supported by all school members is the key to their success. This submission illustrates how the architectural design of their new middle school facility promoted and enhanced the school's ability to institute its educational program.  Circulation Diagram The new Achievement Preparatory Academy middle school building is located on an existing school campus in South East Washington DC. Since 2008, APA operated the middle school program out of an existing, unrenovated school building built in 1962. Because of inadequate space in the existing school building, APA had to move their elementary and early childhood programs out of the existing school and into leased buildings in other locations around Ward 8. The new middle school building allows APA to consolidate all programs on to a single campus that effectively continues to serve the immediate neighborhood.  © Hoachlander Davis Photography The massing and material selection of the new middle school is complementary to the existing school building. The goal is to create an architecturally unified campus that is a landmark in the neighborhood. Care is taken to organize arrival and dismissal and to establish different entrances for students of the different schools, segregated from vehicular traffic. The site is organized inwards with opportunities for play and outdoor learning between and around the two buildings.  © Hoachlander Davis Photography But most of all, the new building illustrates how the architectural design of the new facility promotes and enhances the school's ability to institute its educational program and "close the achievement gap". Working with only one-third of the facility allowance provided to traditional public schools, charter schools in the District of Columbia require innovative and extremely cost conscious design to foster their educational programs.  © Hoachlander Davis Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 03 Aug 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Unzipped Toronto. Image Courtesy of Westbank The collaboration of Bjarke Ingels Group and Westbank are celebrating two milestones in Canada, as the topping out of their innovative Vancouver House coincides with the advanced construction of their relocated Serpentine Pavilion in Toronto. The two BIG-designed structures, located on opposite coasts, have both been recognized for their architectural innovation. The LEED-Platinum Vancouver House was awarded the World Architecture Festival's Future Building of the Year in 2015, while the "unzipped wall" is the first Serpentine Pavilion to embark on a multi-city tour of this kind, before ultimately landing in a permanent home on the Vancouver waterfront.  Unzipped Toronto. Image Courtesy of Westbank  Unzipped Toronto. Image Courtesy of Westbank BIG's 2016 Serpentine Pavilion "unzipped wall" played on one of the most basic elements of architecture: the brick wall. Over 1800 extruded fiberglass blocks were stacked on top of each other, parting to form an "unzipped" entrance to an interior cavern. While open in Hyde Park from June to October 2016, the pavilion attracted a record number of visits. Since its dismantlement, the pavilion has been re-assembled to Toronto, where it will form the centerpiece for a new exhibition entitled "Unzipped." The 46-foot (14-meter)-high and 88-foot (27-meter)-long pavilion will serve as an architectural showcase during the day, before becoming a "destination for unique programming, dialogue, and events" by night.  Vancouver House. Image Courtesy of Westbank  Vancouver House. Image Courtesy of Westbank Meanwhile, over 2000 miles (3300 kilometers) away, on the other side of Canada, the 500-foot (150-meter)-high Vancouver House has topped out in the downtown area. Designed by BIG and local architect DIALOG, and developed by Westbank, the landmark scheme is defined by a striking silhouette expanding upwards from a triangular base to a rectangular tower.  Vancouver House. Image Courtesy of Westbank  Vancouver House. Image Courtesy of Westbank Set to become one of Vancouver's tallest buildings, the scheme has been described as "one of the world's most technologically advanced high-rise residential buildings and first LEED Platinum-certified residential towers." Aside from 480 residential units, the scheme will feature base levels activated by a farmer's market, restaurants, pop-up shops, and creative workspace.  Vancouver House. Image Courtesy of Westbank  Vancouver House. Image Courtesy of Westbank Vancouver House is expected to open in 2019. Meanwhile, "Unzipped" will be open to the public from September to November 2018. News via: Westbank  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cottage in Sutton / Paul Bernier Architecte Posted: 03 Aug 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Claude Dagenais
 © Claude Dagenais Text description provided by the architects. A mountain cottage for ski weekends, for a family with 2 children. The project simply draws itself through the landscape as a black stroke hurtling down the slope. This axis, heavily marked by the shape of the house, points towards the south as well as Mount Sutton, a view which we wanted to prioritize.  © Claude Dagenais  Upper Floor Plan  © Claude Dagenais The roof slope is inverted to the site's topography. Hence, the house has 2 levels to its south end, with wide openings, whereas its north end has a low facade with few openings and is protected by a car shelter. The shelter's concrete wall also protects the house from runoff waters coming from the mountain, which are heavy during the melting season. The house is completely covered by cedar planks dyed black on its outdoor walls, and white on the inside faces.  © Claude Dagenais The plank siding is displayed horizontally, with a vertical plank corresponding to the position of each of the structural columns inserted in the side walls. Inside, one can see the roof beams supported by these columns which give rhythm to the space. Seen from the road, the green roof is the cottage's most visible element, the house being downwards. When seen from the north, during summer and winter with its snow cover, the house thus melts itself through the landscape.  © Claude Dagenais  Section  © Claude Dagenais  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| How to Bring Construction into the Future Posted: 03 Aug 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects. ImageOne Thousand Museum high-rise residential building in Miami, Florida, will feature a curving exoskeleton finished with glass fiber-reinforced concrete. This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "The 4 Forces That Will Take on Concrete and Make Construction Smart." When it comes to building a bridge, what prevents it from having the most enduring and sustainable life span? What is its worst enemy? The answer is, simply, the bridge itself—its own weight. Built with today's construction processes, bridges and buildings are so overly massed with energy and material that they're inherently unsustainable. While concrete is quite literally one of the foundations of modern construction, it's not the best building material. It's sensitive to pollution. It cracks, stains, and collapses in reaction to rain and carbon dioxide. It's a dead weight: Take San Francisco's sinking, leaning Millennium Tower as an example. Modern, smart construction can and will do better. A convergent set of technologies will soon radically change how the construction industry builds and what it builds with.
 Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects. ImageOne Thousand Museum high-rise residential building in Miami, Florida, will feature a curving exoskeleton finished with glass fiber-reinforced concrete. A holistic shift toward new materials, additive manufacturing, robotics, and a new generation of synthetic brains (including FPGAs, aka Field Programmable Gate Array devices) will drive innovative "construction workcells"—automated manufacturing ecosystems that will use robotics to build smart surfaces, objects, and even buildings. Combining these four forces will drive the construction industry through a sea change, enabling smarter and more sustainably built cities. Imagine construction robots having the intelligence to infuse smart functionality into building material. Say, for example, you're sitting in a room that feels too hot. It's unresponsive to your discomfort; it can't gauge what you want, and the temperature won't change until you turn down the thermostat. But if the room is built with a smart composite material, the wall acts more like a skin that can sense your mood and react to you. A smart bridge or road can mean multiple things. It can be smart because Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables it to be responsive. Or it can be smart because it's sustainable, perhaps constructed with an advanced weave of natural and engineered fibers instead of concrete and rebar. Achieving responsiveness requires embedding multifunctionality into the bridge or the road. Wouldn't it be way more efficient to 3D print a channel of wire into a bridge beam rather than add an external wire as a secondary process in construction? Why not integrate the functionality into one process?  A close-up of the fiberglass panels being constructed for One Thousand Museum. . Image Courtesy of Kreysler & Associates With additive manufacturing, design complexity is never a challenge. Through robotics and 3D printing, smart infrastructure (bridges, roads, or houses) can be manufactured in ways previously impossible for humans to accomplish by hand. For example, people traditionally build more orthogonal, right-angled structures; 3D-printing robot workers operate without those human biases and constraints. Tomorrow's construction projects will use more flexible materials—engineered substances such as carbon fiber and polymer or natural materials such as silk and cotton. There will be many more sustainable, lightweight, and cheaper alternatives to dense and inflexible concrete. These kinds of advances are already being used to create futuristic furniture and high-performance vehicles such as 3D-printed yachts. Integrate sensors within lighter, more powerful materials that can carry information—and even store energy like a battery—and this new generation of construction will come to life. Unlike concrete, composite, FPGA-fused material is continuous and sustainable. With 3D printing, sensors and wires can be incorporated during the building process, giving bridge beams, roads, houses, and structures the ability to monitor themselves—measuring temperature, pressure, and other parameters like the human nervous system does. These structures could even communicate and repair themselves like the human body, which could result in longer building life spans.  In-progress photo of the Boathouse Pavilion in Tulsa, Oklahoma, composed of 130 sail-like, fiberglass-reinforced polymer panels.. Image Courtesy of Kreysler & Associates Kreysler & Associates president Bill Kreysler has already pioneered this kind of reactive, lifelike material, incorporating it into projects ranging from Tulsa's Boathouse Pavilion gathering center to Zaha Hadid Architects' soaring One Thousand Museum residential tower in Miami. And thanks to Kreysler, who started his career building racing sailboats, fiberglass is now a common construction material. Composite materials have also been central to the evolving automotive industry,which uses light, synthetic substances to cut vehicle weight and reduce emissions. Meanwhile, the potential for biological-like responses in these kinds of materials makes the skin comparison even more apt. With increased sensory capabilities, a building will be able to instantly adapt to environmental changes. The walls of the future will be able to act like biological material and "heal" themselves when they're damaged.  Courtesy of Redshift.. ImageSelf-healing materials such as concrete will seal cracks, similar to the way human bodies heal cuts. Say you're building with a smart fiber material. The fiber will have some resin inside, like your blood. Inside the resin, there will be a microbubble of an uncured, epoxy-like substance. When broken, the substance comes into contact with air and starts to oxidize. The process can seal cracks, reacting much the same way that a human body triggers a chemical reaction to begin healing a cut. Like skin, the mechanical sensors will act like nerve endings, allowing for constant adaptation. Numerous self-healing concrete experiments have already shown this idea taking root, but using composite materials as building blocks will evolve the concept—and much more sustainably. While it may seem like science fiction, all of this technology is real today. And with human support, these seemingly far-fetched ideas could become reality over the next decade. But for this kind of advanced construction to catch on in the mainstream, the industry needs to start experimenting by building landmarks to show that these projects are possible. By demonstrating new concepts on facades and other nonessential structural components, Kreysler and like-minded innovators can prove that these types of projects are safe, sustainable, affordable, and efficient. To show what's possible tomorrow, the construction industry needs to build educational and informational infrastructure today. The construction advances of the future will come only when builders embrace the potential of the present.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House in El Maitén / bernardo rosello - arquitectura Posted: 03 Aug 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Ramiro Sosa
 © Ramiro Sosa Text description provided by the architects. The house is located on a plot of 730 m2 in El Maitén, a suburban residential neighborhood of the city of Bahia Blanca. It was financed with a PROCREAR loan granted by the Argentine state. At the request of the owner, its realization was planned two construction stages: made, a house with an area of 70 sqm plus the gallery, which meets the needs of basic use for the single user, and the second stage with two bedrooms and a bathroom for future growth.  Floor Plans 1 The positioning of the house in the lot is transverse, leaving 2 empty spaces: one back where the garden is located that is visually related to the main interior spaces and frequently used (first stage); and one to the front, planned to position the second stage of construction.  © Ramiro Sosa  Floor Plan  © Ramiro Sosa The gallery to the east sheltered with its lateral fronts generates a protected area of the strong prevailing winds of the west; turn, and not obscure the interior of the house, covered with translucent polycarbonate, allowing its use in rainy days. Towards the west, the house closes in its entirety to protect itself from the hostile sun in summer. Only high windows are projected to guarantee the interior movement of the air, renewing its volume in a few minutes.  © Ramiro Sosa  Facade Details 2  © Ramiro Sosa The house is made with a mixed construction system, consisting of supporting walls of the steelframe type, and columns that support laminated wooden beams modulated every two meters. The roof is made with a single sheet, slightly curved, that drain with slopes towards both facades.  © Ramiro Sosa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ETH Zurich Fabricated the World's First Full-Scale Architectural Project Using 3-D Sand Printing Posted: 03 Aug 2018 01:00 AM PDT Complex designs often require bulky structural systems to support imaginative forms. But 3D printing technology has begun to provide unlimited architectural potential without compromising design or structural durability. Researchers at ETH Zurich, under the leadership of Benjamin Dillenburger, have now developed an innovative 3D sand printing technique that allows for quick molding and material reuse. They have used this technique to create a formwork to fabricate an 80 square meter lightweight concrete slab at the DFAB House, the first and largest construction of its kind. The "Smart Slab," which carries a two-story timber unit above it, merges the structural durability and strength of concrete with the design liberation of 3D printing.  © ETH Zurich / Mike Lyrenmann Step by Step Process The design team refrained from 3D printing all building components, but rather, created a mold that would produce an intricately-designed ceiling able to maintain its load-bearing characteristics. This is why the team chose to use a large 3D sand printer, whose precision is narrowed down to millimeters. Upon completion, the mold can be dismantled and reused for other projects.  Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Andrei Jipa The project's research group was able to develop a new software to fabricate the mold's elements. The software coordinates and records all the room's parameters, resulting in a precise production. The curved wall, which acts as a main support for the concrete ceiling, was accurately scanned to the scale of individual millimeters. As a result, each point in the fabricated element adapts to the slab's geometry and structural necessities. After a thorough analysis is complete, a simple push of a button sends the data to the machines to begin the fabrication. During this phase, teams of various industrial fields contributed their expertise to create the Smart Slab. The first team was responsible for the high-resolution 3D-printed sand formworks. Due to transportation and printing reasons, the engineers chose to divide the molds into pallet-sized sections. The second team fabricated the timber form-work using a CNC laser cutting machine. The timber form-work was used on the slab's upper half, leaving hollow spaces for electrical cables and reducing both weight and material. The designers made sure the final form had embedded spaces for technical installations such as lighting and sprinklers. The production work of these two teams was then combined with the help of a third team, whose responsibility was to work with fiber-reinforced concrete. The first step was to spray the sand mold with the concrete material, creating an organic, ribbed surface. The team then cast the remaining concrete into the timber form-work, creating the final form. .jpg?1533120793 "Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Tom Mundy") Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Tom Mundy .jpg?1533120727 "Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Andrei Jipa") Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Andrei Jipa Eleven segments were set aside for two weeks for the hardening process, and as soon as the blocks were ready, they were transported to NEST, the designated site. Installation time on site was reduced to a minimum due to the efficiency of prefabrication planning. The installation team used a crane and steel cables to pre-stress the concrete mold into the structure. .jpg?1533120755 "Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Andrei Jipa") Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Andrei Jipa .jpg?1533120743 "Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Demetris Shammas") Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Demetris Shammas
Several architecture and engineering firms have begun using 3D sand printing in their projects. However, the majority of these projects have been produced in small-to-medium sized scales (furniture, products, installations). Rael San Fratello's Emerging Objects line includes an array of 3D sand printed furniture pieces and small installations, similarly to Studio RAP's robotic concrete printing used to create their Watertaxi Stop. Arup developed affordable 3D-printing sand casts for complex steel structural elements, resulting in "endless possibilities in mass customization, weight reduction, product integration, and more." The Smart Slab opens a world of intriguing potential for the future of highly-optimized building components, without compromising scale or design complexity. .jpg?1533120877 "Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Andrei Jipa") Courtesy of ETH Zurich / Andrei Jipa Looking to the future, we can only begin to imagine what architects and engineers can accomplish with such a liberated platform. For the project's development, ETH Zurich credits the following researchers and companies for their involvement: ETH Zurich Chair for Digital Building Technologies: Benjamin Dillenburger  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The 9 Bars That Every Architect Needs to Visit Posted: 02 Aug 2018 11:00 PM PDT  The cafe and bar at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London / Zaha Hadid Architects. . Image © Luke Hayes When you think of your favorite spot to grab a beer, what architectural features come to mind? Is it the swanky furniture, themed artwork, or the heavily designed cocktail menu? Today, the aesthetics of bars are now as much a draw as the drinks themselves. From movie set inspired spaces to rooftops that offer spectacular city views, we've compiled a list of nine bars and beer gardens that every architect needs to cross off their list. The American Bar / Adolf Loos / Vienna, Austria  The American Bar was designed by Adolf Loos in 1908, after he spent three years living in the United States. The bar was commissioned to introduce the American style of cocktails to Vienna, a traditionally cafe style society. In typical Loosian fashion, the interior is decorated with marble, brass, and leather, and the walls are clad in mirrors, making the space appear larger than it really is.  © Jorge Royan / <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.royan.com.ar">http://www.royan.com.ar</a> As one of Munich's largest tourist attractions, the Hofbrauhaus is among Bavaria's best known beer halls, and was founded in 1589 by Wilhelm V. After World War II, legions of American soldiers stationed in Bavaria brought home beer mugs with the famous "HB" logo, and people began flocking to Germany to experience the culture. Today, the three-storey space is the place to visit for German food, dinner shows, and, of course, pints of beer. Atrium Champagne Bar / Foster + Partners / London, England  © Francisco Guerrero Housed within the ME Hotel in London, the Atrium Champagne Bar is a nine-storey pyramid, clad in white marble with a highly reflective black granite floor. The space features a triangular-shaped skylight, which allows light to flow into the bar, emphasizing the height of the space. Instead of traditional artwork, projections of jellyfish that slowly float across the walls towards the ceiling. Foster also designed all of the furniture for the bar, including a 30 meter long curved couch. Yakitori Barby / Kengo Kuma / Kichijoji, Japan  © Erieta Attali Kuma's 325 square-foot Yakitori Barby project uses almost exclusively recycled materials (including ethernet cables) to give the restaurant a distinctively textured appearance. Other melted acrylic products are used to furnish the bar, leaving the space to blend in with the stools and tables. The exterior of the bar retains its black-market stall feel, which was popular during the post-war period. Bar Luce / Wes Anderson / Milan, Italy Located in the Fondazione Prada, Bar Luce looks like it was plucked right off of a Wes Anderson film set. Which, in a sense, it was. The interior features colored formica tables, whimsical wallpaper, speckled floors, and even a Steve Zissou inspired pinball machine. Visitors have said that the space "gives a Grand Budapest Hotel feel," and is "extremely Instagrammable." Karlovy Lázně / Prague, Czech Republic Karlovy Lázně, which translates to "Charles Spa", is a five story nightclub in Prague on the bank of the Vltava River. The building itself was a bathhouse dating from the 14th century, and even retains some of its original features such as mosaic wall tiles and Roman pools, which are now used as dance floors. Each level of the club features a different style of music. Karlovy Lázně is one of the most popular clubs in Prague, and claims to be the largest nightclub complex in Central Europe. The Magazine / Zaha Hadid / London, England  © Luke Hayes The Magazine is part of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery Extension in London. The space features an undulating fabric roof which meets the ground at three points. Tables in the restaurant portion are organized around sculptural columns, and the surrounding gardens can be seen through the full height glass windows. The OZONE Bar / Hong Kong ![By Patty Mooney from San Diego, USA [<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY 2.0 </a>], <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Ritz-Carlton_Hong_Kong_The_Ozone_201703.jpg">via Wikimedia Commons</a>](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5b58/d82d/f197/ccdb/8400/0008/medium_jpg/The_Ritz-Carlton_Hong_Kong_The_Ozone_201703.jpg?1532549162 "By Patty Mooney from San Diego, USA [<a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\">CC BY 2.0 </a>], <a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Ritz-Carlton_Hong_Kong_The_Ozone_201703.jpg\">via Wikimedia Commons</a>") By Patty Mooney from San Diego, USA [<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY 2.0 </a>], <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Ritz-Carlton_Hong_Kong_The_Ozone_201703.jpg">via Wikimedia Commons</a> The OZONE bar sits on the 118th floor atop the Ritz-Carlton at the ICC tower in Hong Kong. The OZONE, which claims to be the highest bar in the world, offers an expansive interior and terrace space where visitors can take in spectacular views onto the city. The interior features a marble bar and geometric patterns on the floor that extend up to the ceiling. The ICC tower itself holds a world record for the largest light and sound show on a single building. Hirschgarten / Munich, Germany Founded in 1791, the Hirschgarten is known as the largest beer garden in the world, and seats more than 8,000 guests. Visitors sit outdoors and can enjoy the playgrounds, animal sanctuary, food stalls, water features, a skatepark, and other public spaces.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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