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- Refurbishment of the Justice Palace of Palencia / Aranguren&Gallegos Arquitectos
- Call for ArchDaily Interns: Fall 2018
- The Ship / Strombro Building Workshop
- City Archive Delft / Office Winhov
- V4 HOUSE / TNT architects
- Hexalace / Studio Ardete
- Cedar Lane House / Edward Birch
- Cut Out House / Fougeron Architecture
- 18th & Boulder Townhomes / Meridian 105 Architecture
- 5 Architecture Offices Using VR to Present Their Designs
- Transforming the Parking Garages of Today Into the Housing of Tomorrow
- Cora House / Bloco Arquitetos
- 10 Images of Architecture Reflected in Water
- The Doomed Monuments of Revolutionary Europe Through the Lens of Darmon Richter
- 325 Kent Avenue / SHoP Architects
- Spotlight: Shigeru Ban
- International Arts Center and Hotel at the Sant Julià de Ramis Fortress / Fuses- Viader Architects
| Refurbishment of the Justice Palace of Palencia / Aranguren&Gallegos Arquitectos Posted: 05 Aug 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Jesús Granada
 © Jesús Granada Text description provided by the architects. In order to adapt to the current needs of the Ministry of Justice, the whole building of the Palace of Justice needs to be rehabilitated.  © Jesús Granada  Court Diagrams  © Jesús Granada The functional program of the Courts needs to be adjusted, complying all the new regulations required in the CTE (Technical Construction Code), solving issues such as accesibility for people with disabilities, evacuation and energy efficiency.  © Jesús Granada  Cross Section  © Jesús Granada The intervention highlights the value of the current building, preserving completely its four facades until the level of cornice, replacing and improving the profiles of the windows and undertaking the cleaning and treatment of the stone and brick.  © Jesús Granada Above the first stone cornice, previously there was another floor and an inclined roof, which had worse quality compared to the rest of the building. That’s why it is replaced by a new volume, lighter and diaphanous, that by its material quality tends to merge with the sky, highlighting the noble part of the existing building.  © Jesús Granada The use of a perforated metallic lattice protects the glazed facade of radiation, but achieves permeability allowing the passage of light and views through the building.  © Jesús Granada The new upper volumen acquires a neutral and transparent carácter, dematerialazing above the current cornice during the day and acting as a luminous lantern at night.  Longitudinal Section The soul of the intervention links with an already extensive contemporary tradition of approaching existing buildings with the purpose os revitalizing them, making overlays or additions of new volumes with modern language that helps revive and enhance the inherited.  © Jesús Granada  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Call for ArchDaily Interns: Fall 2018 Posted: 05 Aug 2018 09:00 PM PDT  ArchDaily is looking for a motivated and highly-skilled architecture-lover to join our team of interns for Fall 2018! An ArchDaily Content internship provides a unique opportunity to learn about our site and write engaging, witty and insightful posts. Interested? Then check out the requirements below.
If you think that you have what it takes, please fill out the following form by August 10th 10:00 AM EST. Applications will be processed on a rolling basis; once we fill the position we will stop accepting applications. (Read: Submit early!) We will contact potential candidates (and only potential candidates) for follow-ups after August 10th. Late submissions will not be accepted! ArchDaily internships are compensated.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Ship / Strombro Building Workshop Posted: 05 Aug 2018 08:00 PM PDT  © Mikael Olsson
 © Mikael Olsson Background  © Mikael Olsson  Site Plan  © Mikael Olsson With a command bridge in place and the distinct north to south direction (dark to light) we invited the realtors no.1 sales argument with an oversized window to a magnificent view. Without being defined in our sci-fi design strategy, standing in the living room celebrating the last CLT panel being laid in place, the sky opened with a snow storm. Through the snow flakes In the backlight of the crane, sitting on the command bridge step we were warp speeding in to a designer's dream team.  © Mikael Olsson Material  © Mikael Olsson  Plans  © Mikael Olsson Program  © Mikael Olsson  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| City Archive Delft / Office Winhov Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Stefan Müller
 © Stefan Müller Text description provided by the architects. Office Winhov and Gottlieb Paludan Architects designed the new City Archive of Delft. The façade shows a distinct type of brickwork, as it expresses the timeless and robust character of the building with storage as its main purpose.  © Stefan Müller The City Archive was previously located in the centre of the city, but the archives outgrew the building. A new accommodation was needed. Due to the larger capacity of the new building, the archives of other municipalities are also stored here. The new house of the archive is situated at the closing head of a narrow park that connects the site to the historic centre of Delft.  Ground floor plan  © Stefan Müller  First floor plan The building has a compact organization with offices, workshops and reading rooms at the ground floor and the archive depots on the floors above. The efficient layout allows for flexible use whilst supporting the sustainability of the building. The public reading rooms are situated along the entire facade facing the park and form the welcoming address of the building. The rich relief in the facade connects the building to the elaborated tradition of brick buildings in Delft. The white concrete plinth refers to the image of the public buildings in the historic centre of the city.  © Stefan Müller  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 06:00 PM PDT  © Trieu Chien
 © Trieu Chien Text description provided by the architects. Nowadays , most of people have gone too far away from the villages, so when we wake up in noisy city,ouroriginal human ego desires a peaceful green countryside, tranquil forests and blue sky. It's the reason for us to creat a new house based on the "Old man – new coat" spirit. This designis not only a home for man return to nature but also a place where people connect together  © Trieu Chien  Ground floor plan  © Trieu Chien The house that was built on 2,000 square meters in the quiet suburbs has an architectural structure deals with complex and contradictory aspects. It is a model of modern architecture but harmonizing with the surroundings, a space filled many emotions: quiet when manis alone, but overwhelm happinesswhen friends come to visit, or children return from the city. People living here connect much with nature and universe andalso enjoy the convenience of mordern society.  © Trieu Chien The space of house develops the spirit of the traditional northern house but still resembles the existing houses around. The whole structure is divided into three functional blocks that are separated but harmonious with each other.  © Trieu Chien  © Trieu Chien The main building is a large elliptical shape likesvault of heavenwhich covers the whole of house and it's shadow as a time clock in the natural light . This "vault of heaven" is hold up and divided into private - public spaces by 4 solid stone walls representing the east, west, south and north. In particular, the eaveis designed around the elliptical block that imitates the eaves of ancient Vietnamese house. This is the space that transitions the inner part of man to the nature outside and also place where all the main activities of the house take place. The heart of the house is full of philosophy, it is arranged a solid rock to remind of solidarity, sticking in the family.  © Trieu Chien Out of the entire house overlooking from the sky, the whole of elliptical block became a miniature land contains a garden of Eden that everyone wanted to have on the roof. This special garden is not only the place for the children looking up for stars on dreaming sky but also space to take place all summer parties.  First floor plan The remaining two blocks separated from the elliptical block are the rectangular garage in front and the therapeutic triangle pool in the back. The separation provides a separate space for the main building block, avoids vehicle noise and does not affect the relaxation of the pool.  © Trieu Chien But all three blocks are harmoniously connected by the green vegetation of simple fruit trees that are growed freely and change over time. The house was in used today, the ideas on the paper have built successfully. It is the presence of design team in constanting innovation from the old values.  © Trieu Chien  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 05:00 PM PDT  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
 © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj Text description provided by the architects. Hexalace is an open-plan commercial building made primarily for leasing purposes. In a tight commercial plot with challenging building norms, it became perceptible from the beginning that the concept would have to be manifested from the facade. Considering the arduous climatic conditions involving extreme heat, and the building front facing west, the façade emerged as a buffer of stratifying elements.  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj 3 inches thick concrete layer with hexagonal interstices has been used as a shading element. To better preserve the sanctity of shade, the screen flows organically creating an artistic visual dilemma from both inside as well as outside. Another layer of hexagonal silhouette made of metal frames is superimposed horizontally across the semi-permeable concrete screen which doubles up as balcony fence.  Sketch graphic Furthermore, the main curtain wall has been recessed to leave pockets of air between the screen and the main building to increase the time lag and subsequently reduce the heat gain. Therefore, the facade by its inherent virtue of convergence acts as bronchioles for the structure.  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj The balconies also house small clusters of green making the working environment even more rejuvenating for the users within. By the end, what became of an immense effort was an imperative respiratory experience complimented by its bold use of geometry.  © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cedar Lane House / Edward Birch Posted: 05 Aug 2018 03:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Edward Birch
 Courtesy of Edward Birch Text description provided by the architects. On the edge of a forest at the base of a mountain this house was designed to sit comfortably within the landscape and make the most of the expansive views over the dairy farms. The house is situated in a special place on the south coast of Australia where it is not uncommon to see a wombat stroll across the lawn or a wallaby bound by the pool. A recycled brick wall grows out of the ground running the length of the house.  Courtesy of Edward Birch  Ground Floor Plan  Courtesy of Edward Birch The spectacular views are shielded by the wall as one enters on the northern side delaying the revelation until the corner is turned into the living space. the 3 pavilions, lightweight in their construction contrast the solidity of the brick wall and are clad in Australian hardwood allowed to silver and blend seamlessly with the trees surrounding the house. The roofs of the pavilions warp up to catch the northern light, providing dynamic and sculptural ceilings in the internal spaces. The high windows capture views of the trees beyond creating a tranquil feeling of being surrounded by nature.  Courtesy of Edward Birch The eastern pavilion houses the master suite, the central pavilion houses the living and dining rooms while the western pavilion contains the guest bedrooms. This layout allows for the pavilions to be closed off from one another allowing for the house to be tailored to the number of people staying. As the house has no mains water connections the custom formed gutters while providing a sharp architectural line around the building serve a practical purpose of collecting the rainwater to be stored in underground tanks and recirculated around the building.  Courtesy of Edward Birch The recycled bricks have a wash over them to provide a warmth and softness, not often associated with bricks. The concrete slab cantilevers out from the wall below and the edge is left off-form, the landscaping is then left to grow under the slab. From the recycled bricks, rough oak floor to the zinc bench top in the kitchens the internal materials are intended to be imperfect, to mark and scratch and to tell the story of the lives lived inside the house. As the timber cladding silvers and the wash on the bricks get eroded away the house ages gracefully and settle into the landscape around it.  Courtesy of Edward Birch  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cut Out House / Fougeron Architecture Posted: 05 Aug 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Joe Fletcher Photography
 © Joe Fletcher Photography Text description provided by the architects. The Cut Out House is a 2500 square foot, three bedroom complete remodel of a Victorian built over a century ago and previously untouched since the 1920s.  © Joe Fletcher Photography  Victorian Diagram  © Joe Fletcher Photography  Sectional view In order to create a modern home, the existing interior structure had to be completely reorganized. We reversed the original flow, turning the back of the site into the main living area. Each floor is placed between three slots so that the home connects vertically rather than horizontally. Traditional Victorian homes often are poorly lit and are disconnected from floor to floor but by suspending floors, there is brightness and fluidity throughout the Cut Out House. In this exceptionally narrow lot (65 feet x 25 feet), solar orientation and natural light diffusion were paramount for making sure the home felt warm and open. In order to maximize the small footprint of the house, the ground floor was excavated at the rear extension. The back façade, which is tilted at 9 degrees, is built of a custom field-glazed steel frame with insulated glass. The angle over two stories–a canted facade–maximizes space and square footage in the house.  © Joe Fletcher Photography By reconceptualizing the entire space itself and reversing the program orientation of the home, a traditional house is reinvented.  © Joe Fletcher Photography  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 18th & Boulder Townhomes / Meridian 105 Architecture Posted: 05 Aug 2018 11:00 AM PDT  © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105
 © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105 Text description provided by the architects. The 18th & Boulder Townhouse development is situated in Denver's Lower Highlands (Lohi) neighborhood on the North side of Denver's downtown boundary. The Lohi neighborhood has become an especially popular destination for new development and includes a mix of single family homes, commercial buildings, and large apartment blocks, all juxtaposed against one other. Small two-story homes share the same block, adjacent to and in the shadow of 5-story structures. This project resides on a corner lot and shares street frontage with two such structures, including an apartment building to the West and a single-family residence to the South. The context presents a special challenge to new development, requiring both a macro and micro scaled design response.  © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105 Meridian 105's design includes three side-by-side private townhouse residences in a single building structure. Each home is 3-stores in height with a 4th story exterior rooftop deck. The building responds to its larger neighbor to the West with a single formal massing expression along that street front, heavy in its materiality and unbroken geometrically. The façade makes a finer expression in the building material, where brick textures add interest to the mass and bridge the design to a man-made scale. As the building turns the corner, its volumes begin to disseminate with smaller 1 and 2-story void spaces containing exterior decks. These exterior spaces draw the residents out, presenting a more active use to that façade. It was the design team's goal to draw attention to these spaces and has chosen black and white materials in order to offer contrast along the façade.  © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105  Level 2  © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105 One of the early project goals was to enrich the pedestrian experience around the base of the building. This is accomplished in the expression of building materials. Brick veneer, wood siding, and metal screening convey a hand-made quality of work and are acknowledged to be imperfect in their appearance, adding a dimension of unpredictability to each building façade. Shou Sugi Ban siding (charred wood) applied in a lapped installation offers interest in its heavily shadowed look, and a textural surface appreciated again at close proximity. The resulting sheen of this treatment transforms through the day with the changing light. Brick is installed in unconventional bonding patterns and surface orientations.  © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 5 Architecture Offices Using VR to Present Their Designs Posted: 05 Aug 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Presenting designs to third parties can be a challenging task. Architects may find it difficult to describe spaces to their clients, therefore more firms are incorporating virtual reality into their workflows and project presentations. Below are 5 architecture offices using SentioVR to present their designs. To see the content in 360º, click on the image and move the mouse. Utile, Canada |
| Transforming the Parking Garages of Today Into the Housing of Tomorrow Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:00 AM PDT  © Gensler via LA Times Are you in the market for a new home? If so, you may want to consider looking at a former parking garage, because they just might be the next place where developers are looking to build. In the United States alone, there are more than 500 million parking spots for 326 million citizens, covering a staggering 3.5 million square miles of land. Despite the push for a "car-free" future, more of these structures keep springing up across the country. If cities are building parking garages to support the need for the cars of today, how might we rethink their design so they can outfit the autonomous vehicle ambitions of tomorrow?  © LMN via Wired It's also important to consider that the standard design of parking garages are not known for their aesthetically inspiring qualities. These massive concrete structures often disrupt vibrant street life and serve as a painful reminder of just how much we rely on our vehicles. The parking garage's ugly cousin, the parking lot, serves less of a purpose, by covering more area with pavement, creating runoff and pollution for surrounding waterways, and overall, offering less real estate for cars. Enter the architect. In the last few years, practices around the globe have begun to reconsider how parking garages might be transformed into a variety of programs in the future, giving these structures a design and longevity that they have not experienced before. For example, LMN in Seattle is designing a tower that is intended to withstand the next 50-100 years. If current plans are approved, the tower will contain residential units, a hotel, office space, retail, eight floors of underground parking, and four levels of above-grade parking designed to someday take on a new life as more apartment units and offices. The parking garage features completely flat floor plates and an elevator that is used to carry cars between floors. Further down the coast lies Los Angeles, a city where parking is notoriously hard to find, and drivers dream of a day without traffic. Gensler's L.A. office has proposed a garage of the future. Its level, rather than inclined floors, were designed to be the perfect home to new programs. The two levels of underground parking can be transformed into a gym, theater, and other recreational uses, while the upper floors can house more shops and restaurants, and enable quick pick-ups and drop-offs by autonomous cars.  © Gensler via LA Times However ambitious these designs may be, redesigning a parking garage is both a major financial and design challenge. Converting a lot into an inhabitable area for humans calls for a completely new method of construction. The necessary engineering for this is heavier than for parked cars, thus builders must reinforce the floors in a convertible parking garage from the beginning of the building process. They must plan for the future ductwork and piping, space columns accordingly so that they can support future weight, and work with a design flow. These are just some of the factors that must be considered when planning for the future of parking garages. Being that the desire for faster, affordable, and environmentally friendly methods of transportation is on the rise, it's time for all designers to consider how to give these garages a second life. Redesigning buildings for different uses have already proven to be successful. Take industrial warehouses turned into trendy apartments, but now think of the possibility of a parking garage that you live, shop, and work in.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Joana França
 © Joana França Text description provided by the architects. The steep slope towards the back of the lot between its two sides has directed the decision to place the program in two different internal levels. One of them is aligned with the highest point of the topography and the other is aligned with the lowest point of the topography inside the projection of the construction. The house aims to function as a device to exacerbate the perception of its context – the modified topography, the conditions of the local natural light – creating a “promenade architecturale” that could reveal specific views towards its immediate surroundings.  Section C  © Joana França  Section A  © Joana França The maximum height on the main volume´s perimeter is fixed while different inclinations of the roof were manipulated followings the desired heights of the internal ceiling heights. The ramp of the main access follows the approximate inclination of the existing topography under a roof that “compresses” the internal ceiling heights towards the center of the house, expanding it up again towards the existing woodland in the backyard. The same inclination that results from this operation is reflected in the forms of the eaves of the roof in the upper floor.  © Joana França The views to the external area are interspersed by big opaque walls that protect the interiors from the excessive insolation. Two specific views to the outside were framed, one on the top of the stairs (a view to the valley in the distance) and a high window on the corner of the living room (a view to a nearby treetop). The natural light that enters through a linear skylight marks the highest ceiling height inside the house.  © Joana França There are no windows in the front facade, except for the three white doors that vary in size according to their function: direct access to the bedrooms, the service access, and the main access. The house gives up part of its lot to the street, there´s no fences or walls. The solidity of the front facade is opposed to back facade, marked by big transparent openings and by the apparent fragility of the steel structure of the verandas.  © Joana França  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 10 Images of Architecture Reflected in Water Posted: 05 Aug 2018 05:00 AM PDT  © Yao Li This week we have prepared a selection of photographs in which reflections in water is used as the main compositional element. In these images, the surface qualities of the water play a fundamental role in giving the composition its final effect—either acting as a perfect mirror or giving a diffuse touch. Below is a selection of 10 images from prominent photographers such as Lu Hengzhong, Yao Li, and Nico Saieh. Maurizio MarcatoFerrari Operational Headquarters and Research Centre / Studio Fuksas © Maurizio Marcato Fernando GuerraForte Nanshan / SPARK © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG Karina CastroMondadori Headquarter / Oscar Niemeyer © Karina Castro Chunliu YuThe Elegance of the White, the Charm of the Cube / STI Studio © Chunliu Yu Paul WarcholLewis Arts Complex / Steven Holl Architects © Paul Warchol Edmund SumnerRIBA National Architecture Centre / Broadway Malyan © Edmund Sumner Hiroyuki HiraiNine Bridges Country Club / Shigeru Ban Architects © Hiroyuki Hirai Nico SaiehYour Reflection / Guillermo Hevia García + Nicolás Urzúa Soler © Nico Saieh Yao LiNanjing Wanjing Garden Chapel / AZL Architects © Yao Li Lu HengzhongDingli Sculpture Art Museum / ATR Atelier © Lu Hengzhong  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Doomed Monuments of Revolutionary Europe Through the Lens of Darmon Richter Posted: 05 Aug 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Sardarapat Heroic Memorial Complex. Image © Darmon Richter British researcher Darmon Richter has recently released Monumentalism, a visual study of over 200 photographs featuring socialist architecture and designs built by 20th century regimes around the world. These photos were taken in more than 30 different countries and show a broad range of subject matter, from military parades in the former Soviet Union to revolutionary memorial sites. See more after the break.  Memorial House, Tjentište. Image © Darmon Richter Richter has spent the last 10 years exploring Eastern Europe with his camera, creating the ongoing project to document and preserve these vestiges of past revolutions and regimes. "Today, many of these monuments are in terrible condition, marked with graffiti and falling apart," explains Richter. "In Croatia there are Yugoslav monuments dedicated to the victims of Croatian war criminals; while in Serbia, in the 1990s, Slobodan Milošević tarnished the Yugoslav brand by endorsing ethnic cleansing under the banner of the Yugoslav People's Army. In neither country do the surviving Yugoslav monuments always offer a particularly comfortable narrative." In many Eastern European countries, these relics of socialist-era monumentalism represent half a century of work by artists, sculptors, and architects. As Richter continues to catalog and document the architecture and monuments, many have begun to already disappear. "Piece by piece they disintegrate, getting smaller from one visit to the next. So that's why I'm doing what I do; I photograph doomed monuments before they vanish forever." Read more about this project here, and find in-depth essays about many of these locations on The Bohemian Blog.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 325 Kent Avenue / SHoP Architects Posted: 05 Aug 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of SHoP Architects
 Courtesy of SHoP Architects Text description provided by the architects. Working closely with developer Two Trees, SHoP designed 325 Kent – an 80/20 affordable residential building on Brooklyn's East River waterfront. 325 Kent is the first complete building of SHoP's master plan for the Domino Sugar Refinery Development in Brooklyn, New York. The development will provide a mix of office space, market-rate and affordable housing, retail, and community facilities while adding 60% more publicly-accessible space to the area's original plan creating a new form of open architecture that connects the existing neighborhood to the new quarter-mile waterfront.  Courtesy of SHoP Architects 325 Kent's size and program were determined by our team's thorough analysis of the economic and social existing conditions and opportunities of the site, including the renovated Domino Sugar Refinery building next door. In the building's central courtyard, 325 Kent features a large opening where light and air from the waterfront flow through into the neighborhood. The building steps back from its peak at Domino Square, a new urban waterfront plaza, and tapers into the neighborhood's existing fabric.  3D View Virtually every unit in this new residence features outdoor space and a view out to the East River and the Manhattan skyline beyond. Further, the units facing the courtyard have terraced balconies and the top floor offers amenities that are shared among the residential community. The building's metal façade is perforated in a variable pattern. This design is both beautiful and performative as it allows the building's HVAC system to "breath" while providing a cost-effective and energy-efficient mechanical strategy. The variability of the façade's perforation pattern required hundreds of unique, custom-punched panels, the complexity of which was managed through a close relationship between SHoP, Two Tree's construction team, and our fabricator.  Courtesy of SHoP Architects  Courtesy of SHoP Architects The copper panels were installed without a factory produced finish so that, left exposed to natural elements, they will weather and patina over time. This cost-effective strategy also creates a dynamic façade that draws in visitors in the park. It is our team's goal that this building will engage the public as it adapts over the course of its lifespan. The once shiny orange façade has already begun to darken and patina and some areas are already turning green. Recalling the Statue of Liberty – just down the river from our site – our team harnessed the city's signature material to re-imagine what affordable housing can look like for New York.  Courtesy of SHoP Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Aug 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Aspen Art Museum. Image © Michael Moran Shigeru Ban (born August 5th 1957) is a Japanese architect who won the 2014 Pritzker Prize for his significant contributions in architectural innovation and philanthropy. His ability to re-apply conventional knowledge in differing contexts has resulted in a breadth of work that is characterized by structural sophistication and unconventional techniques and materials. Ban has used these innovations not only to create beautiful architecture but as a tool to help those in need, by creating fast, economical, and sustainable housing solutions for the homeless and the displaced. As the Pritzker jury cites: "Shigeru Ban is a tireless architect whose work exudes optimism."  Courtesy of Shigeru Ban Architects Born in Tokyo to a businessman father who enjoyed classical music and a mother who designed haute couture clothing, Ban's upbringing was a creative one from the start. He grew up in a Japanese wooden house that was often being renovated by carpenters, which sparked the child's fascination for traditional carpentry. As a teenager, Ban originally intended to attend the Tokyo University of the Arts, until he came across an article on John Hejduk, who was the dean of the Cooper Union School of Architecture at the time. The models and plans of unbuilt buildings by this "paper architect" were revolutionary for the young Shigeru Ban and convinced to him to pursue his studies in architecture at Cooper Union.  Aspen Art Museum. Image © Michael Moran Unfortunately, Cooper Union did not accept international students at the time, so in 1977, Ban travelled to California to learn English and to attend the Southern California Institute of the Architecture (SCI-arc). While in Los Angeles, Ban became interested in the Case Study Houses, many of which showed traces of the influence of traditional Japanese architecture.  Nomadic Museum, Santa Monica. Image © <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/paolomazzoleni/248929123'>Flickr user paolomazzoleni</a> licensed under <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'>CC BY 2.0</a> Ban transferred to Cooper Union in 1980, where he met his future partner, Dean Maltz, as a classmate. He was taught by Ricardo Scofidio, Tod Williams, Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, and John Hejduk. Before graduating in 1984, he took a year of absence from his studies to work at Arata Isozaki's office in Tokyo. He also accompanied the photographer Yukio Fukagawa on a trip to Europe, where he became inspired by the materials of Alvar Aalto's architecture in Finland.  Curtain Wall House. Image © Hiroyuki Hirai The effect of Ban's upbringing and early life experiences can be seen in the development of his architectural projects. When Ban started his own practice in 1985, he had no prior working experience; he spent this first year designing installations for various exhibitions as the curator of Axis Gallery in Tokyo. For an installation exhibiting Alvar Aalto's work, he developed and utilized paper-tube structures, which has since become a recurring theme in his work. Around the same time, he also designed a series of Case Study Houses (PC Pile House, House of Double Roof, Furniture House, Curtain Wall House, 2/5 House, Wall-Less House, and Naked House) which reflected the experimental nature of domestic architecture in his native country.  Tamedia Office Building. Image © Didier Boy de la Tour Ban's developments in architecture focused on experimental approaches to materials and structural systems. In many cases, he uses ordinary materials such as paper, wood, fabric, and shipping containers, to assemble buildings in extraordinary ways. He used shipping containers as a building material for the Nomadic Museum, and applied traditional joinery techniques to create the Tamedia Office Building in Zurich; the building's interlocking timber structural system is completely devoid of joint hardware and glue. Ban's unconventional approach leads to an elegant simplicity and apparent effortlessness in his work, a quality seen best in the Centre Pompidou-Metz in Paris, a competition he won in 2001.  Centre Pompidou Metz. Image © Didier Boy de la Tour In the 1990s Ban realized that his innovations could be used to improve the lives of displaced refugees and victims of natural calamities. In 1994, he proposed his paper-tube shelters to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, where he was subsequently hired as a consultant. After a few temporary housing projects, Ban established the NGO Voluntary Architects' Network (VAN) to start disaster relief activities, providing assistance in Turkey, India, Sri Lanka, China, Italy, Haiti and Japan among other countries. His paper-tube structures proved to be cheap, easy to assemble and most importantly customizable. His expertise in resilient architecture and post-disaster design has made him a valuable commodity to cities and governments around the world. In 2017, Ban visited Mexico City to advise on reconstruction efforts after a devastating series of earthquakes rocked the country in September of that year. He has also developed housing prototypes for refugees in Kenya, and as recently as July 2018 designed shelter for victims of flooding in Japan. 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| International Arts Center and Hotel at the Sant Julià de Ramis Fortress / Fuses- Viader Architects Posted: 04 Aug 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Carlos Suárez-Kilzi
 © Jordi Mas  © Jordi Mas Text description provided by the architects. The project sets the restoration of the Sant Julià's Castle enclosure - 19th century fortress- and the recovery of its surroundings, through the creation of a facility to host a Contemporary Arts Centre, accompanied of complementary services: workshops for artists, auditorium, hotel and restaurants. The fortress is formed by a set of units, built with vaults and walls made of stone with considerable thickness, the majority of them half-buried and communicated through tunnels that run across the mountain.  © Carlos Suárez-Kilzi The lower level of the set hosts the museum area and the hotel is placed at the top, the area that was formerly known as the stronghold, the zone where the explosives used to be stored. A big auditorium with oval section 7,5m high with a reinforced concrete vault cast with natural soil formwork, is placed at the center of the set, next to the main entrance. All the new buildings also incorporate exposed reinforced concrete as prominent building material.  © Josep M. Torra  Cross Section  © Carlos Suárez-Kilzi Being a project that combines restoration and new construction there are two basic building solutions. The prominent one keeps the austere fortress spirit of the existing castle, with half-buried walls and green roof covered with soil and vegetation. This concept is complemented in certain areas with glazed walls buildings with lightweight facades and roofs made out of corten steel.  © Carlos Suárez-Kilzi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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