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- Coombe Lane / Ampuero Yutronic
- Resilient Homes Design Challenge
- NP62 / KDVA Architects
- Nishinomiya・House D / Yuichi Yoshida & Associates
- BW House / FeA
- Hanyang Guiyuan Temple Sales Center / Waterfront Design
- House in the Air / TechnoArchitecture
- Bløm Meadworks / Synecdoche Design Studio
- Boolean Operator / MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
- The Imprint / MVRDV
- ZNERA Proposes a Network of Smog Filtering Towers To Combat Delhi's Rising Pollution Levels
- House YY / Alejandro Vargas + Eduardo Tapia + Omar López + Christian Villanueva.
- Does Form Follow Fashion? Viktoria Lytra's Montages Keep Iconic Architecture In Vogue
- Liz Diller Designs Two New Pieces for Prada's 2019 Collection
- NOMA 2.0 / BIG
- This Week in Architecture: Complexity and Contradiction
- Hackney Mews House / HUTCH design
- 111 "Magical Towns" That You Must Visit in Mexico
- Glenn Howells Unveils 55-story Red Brick Tower in Manchester
- Chapel Ruhewald Schloss Tambach / Sacher.Locicero.Architects + Graz / Paris + Gerhard Sacher
| Coombe Lane / Ampuero Yutronic Posted: 21 Sep 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Matteo Bonotto
 © Matteo Bonotto Text description provided by the architects. This previously un-modernised two storey 1930's semi-detached house in South West London has been completely reconfigured to provide much needed new functional spaces to this family home.  © Matteo Bonotto The design extends the ground floor layout at the rear of the house to create additional social spaces, comprising of a new large kitchen and dining area, with direct access to the south-facing garden. The previously dilapidated garage to the side of the main house has been remodeled and extended to align with the neighbouring building to provide a new bedroom, bathroom and ancillary spaces. The first floor is refurbished, offering three bedrooms and a family bathroom.  Section The two new single-storey volumes respond sympathetically to the domestic scale of the existing house and the neighbouring buildings. Their simple form and subdued palette of materials add a subtle yet dynamic intervention within the overall composition of the garden elevation.  © Matteo Bonotto The new buildings are constructed in a white, lightly textured, handmade stock brick with a light-coloured mortar, creating a pale and homogeneous overall appearance, complimenting the white render of the existing façade above. The brick walls are crowned with an exposed concrete coping to form a distinctive edge to the top of the buildings. High performance, metal framed, glazed sliding windows and doors provide direct connections between the garden, the new living spaces and the new bedroom.  First floor plan In addition to the direct sunlight from the predominantly glazed south façade, the new roof is punctuated with a large roof light to bring additional natural light into the heart of the house. The use of light coloured materials is continued inside the house to create simple and harmonious spaces that compliment the exterior of the building. The new pale oak floor runs throughout the ground floor, visually tying together the new and old parts of the house.  © Matteo Bonotto  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Resilient Homes Design Challenge Posted: 21 Sep 2018 09:00 PM PDT  CALLING ALL ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS: DESIGN RESILIENT HOMES FOR PEOPLE IN VULNERABLE REGIONS The World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb and GFDRR are looking for building professionals like you from across the globe to generate designs for cost-effective, sustainable, small homes for people living in underdeveloped areas that both reduce the risk of damage and enable rapid reconstruction following a natural disaster. Winning designs will be published and winners will be invited to exhibit at the World Bank in Washington DC, USA and other select global venues. Winning designs could also eventually inform resilient housing or reconstruction work for World-Bank-funded projects in places like the Caribbean, South and East Asia, etc. Register now for FREE on www.ResilientHomesChallenge.Com to participate in this prestigious, global crowd-solving challenge! WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE? Natural disasters are on the rise. Since 1990, natural disasters have affected 217 million people every single year. Hundreds of floods, storms, heat waves and droughts have left about 606,000 people dead and 4.1 billion injured or homeless around the world since 1995. And it is often the poorest that suffer the most from these shocks. As architects and engineers, we can design resilient and sustainable homes that both reduce the risk of damage and enable rapid reconstruction following a disaster. The World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb and GFDRR are hence calling upon architects and engineers around the world to submit designs for resilient, modular, affordable homes (under $10,000 per unit) which can be easily deployed to affected regions or constructed on the spot using local materials. HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE? - Sign up anytime on www.ResilientHomesChallenge.Com with no registration fee COMPETITION EVALUATION CRITERIA The challenge has been designed for three scenarios. Design teams can submit designs for a single scenario or all three scenarios depending on their preference. - Scenario 1: Earthquakes & tropical storms on islands Design teams are encouraged to look beyond "fully prefabricated" housing designs in order to allow incorporating local building materials into their designs; designs could be part prefabricated with a clear aim towards ease of construction. For detailed guidelines, dimensional criteria and a list of deliverables, please go to www.ResilientHomesChallenge.Com We look forward to welcoming you to the competition and receiving your design submissions! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BuildAcademyNY/
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2018 07:00 PM PDT  © Daria Koloskova
 © Daria Koloskova Text description provided by the architects. Light white colors, birch plywood, lightness and severity, naturalness and availability are the main requirements of the customer. Demolition of the old five-story houses in Russia under the name "Khrushchevka" begins with the city of Moscow and further touches the entire territory of the country where they exist.  Floor Plan But is it really necessary, remove the old to build a new one? KDVA Architects think differently. Project NP62 is a studio apartment of 33 m2, it is an apartment with a modified layout. We made one opening in the load-bearing wall from the kitchen to the living room, all the other walls and partitions were left unchanged.  © Daria Koloskova The whole apartment is divided into clear areas: sleep, rest, work, kitchen, dining area, bathroom, wardrobe and a hall with a closet in which a washing machine and a water heater hide. Two tables on a metal frame, designed for the kitchen and workplace, can be connected to one dining table and can accommodate up to 8 guests, if necessary. A cube made of plywood forms a sleeping place for two and contains a very capacious hidden space for things.  © Daria Koloskova  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Nishinomiya・House D / Yuichi Yoshida & Associates Posted: 21 Sep 2018 04:00 PM PDT  © Kenta Hasegawa
 © Kenta Hasegawa Text description provided by the architects. The site is a land for the establishment of ridges, made by cutting out mountains in the suburbs of local cities during the period of high growth. Some houses have been built since the time they were sold, some slightly irregular landscapes spread because of the old residential areas, such as rebuilt and refurbishment or renovation or newly built houses . As a house to be built here, we thought that houses would be appropriate as if we had accepted such irregularities.  © Kenta Hasegawa First of all, as a way of construction, instead of setting up a house by setting back on the front road which is a slope like the surroundings, instead of building a house, a blank space is made so as to cross the site straight from the cutting part connecting the oblique road and the premises I picked up the volume to the west side. By doing so, you will not be too far from the front road, keep a good sense of distance from the city, a little bright garden and parking lot can be secured on the east side, this shadow is not dropped too much for the neighboring house on the north side.  © Kenta Hasegawa  © Kenta Hasegawa There is a place to pass a pleasant wind and the building is close to the west side so you can control unnecessary western sun. On top of that, I applied an eccentric gable roof at the apex to the volume that I got to the west, and responded to the environment inside and outside by changing the eaves' out or notching. Inside the big space of the one-room stretched all along the long side, small space such as a bedroom, a bathroom, and a closet is arranged next to each other, and in order to go from the small space to other places it always goes through the big space It is.  Plan Different materials are assigned to each place such as painting, plywood, cloth etc. after increasing or decreasing the amount of air such as wide and high bright place, narrow and low calming place, narrow but high uplift feeling etc , I made various places regardless of the program. This irregularity gives coloring to living in this area, which is an inland climate where the difference in temperature is large throughout the year.  © Kenta Hasegawa  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2018 03:00 PM PDT  © thienthach
-HDR.jpg?1537018916 "© thienthach") © thienthach Text description provided by the architects. The 4 story house is for a family of 4, including parents and 2 grown-up sons. At the moment, those 2 sons are studying abroad and visit home occasionally, the house, therefore, is designed based on requires of the middle-aged couple, who asked for large and airy common spaces without separated walls, to easily keep an eye on each other.  © thienthach  Ground Floor Plan  © thienthach The renovation has been done on an L-shape, 3-story building. We agreed with the investor to remain the old structure in order to shorten construction time and reduce the cost. The house is located at a T-junction and its facade heads west without any sun cover. At this hottest spot, we decided to put the bathroom in the master bedroom and roof it with a small garden.  © thienthach The garden rooftop is playing a role of a green block to reduce the heat, cool down spaces around. Garden and floor of the house are made 600mm higher than the ground to keep it clean and providing a good vision to the surrounding busy streets and park. Garden is merged and in harmony with the building, gives the sense of space but still privacy.  © thienthach  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hanyang Guiyuan Temple Sales Center / Waterfront Design Posted: 21 Sep 2018 02:00 PM PDT  front elevation. Image © Yuchen Chao
 exterior. Image © Yuchen Chao Text description provided by the architects. Each city is given unique character by its history. Unfortunately in China most cities are losing their features after reconstruction and taking on almost the same image. It is imperative for urban real estate developers to retain cultural heritage of the city through balanced and appropriate design solutions.  Conceptual Model Old and new co-existing under curve-shaped roof  night view of exterior. Image © Yuchen Chao Through drawing inspirations from the local culture and the Buddhist architecture, Waterfrom Design created a "sloping rooftop" for the new building, which seems to fly above the land and well integrate with the local context.  details of slope roof. Image © Yuchen Chao Poetically framed in a landscape painting  exhibition gallery. Image © Yuchen Chao Transparent glass curtain wall interacts with reflections of clouds and lights in the water, creating a fascinating view and bringing spiritual peace of "A breeze produces no ripples".  partial view of aisle. Image © Yuchen Chao  Section  partial view of aisle. Image © Yuchen Chao Extending space rhythm along the curved lines  partial view for 1.2 floor. Image © Yuchen Chao  aisle of 2 floor. Image © Yuchen Chao Besides, in the large-scale open space, the curved ceiling and floor-to-ceiling windows outline a natural frame. In VIP area, the two curved 3D walls look like sculptures, enriching the space with artistic beauty.  b1 aisle. Image © Yuchen Chao Capturing familiar experience in daily life  b1 aisle B1. Image © Yuchen Chao The new building exists as a landmark that blends into the urban fabric. Combining deconstruction skill with oriental imagery, Waterfrom Design achieved a balance between historical community protection and commercial real estate development.  exterior. Image © Yuchen Chao  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House in the Air / TechnoArchitecture Posted: 21 Sep 2018 01:00 PM PDT  © Shamanth Patil
 © Shamanth Patil Text description provided by the architects. The brief required a House for a family of four on a 2,400 square feet site, located in South Bangalore. The clients aspired for a Contemporary design, iconic house in the locality that housed not only a living unit but also work and entertainment zones on different levels.  © Shamanth Patil At the same time they wanted Landscape ideas that could interact between all spaces internally and externally. The client's penchant was towards a slick modernist vocabulary that amalgamated the habitable spaces with the landscape. Working closely with the client – a brief emerged which sought to carefully create a Contemporary house, with a more fluid arrangement of spaces, rather than just a functional design.  Section A  Section B The first move was the architecture is subjected to the shade conditions to the use of prevailing wind (North-East).Elevating the space at +2.4 meters was the key to re-think a better space for the integral development of the client. Aware of this situation almost revealing in itself, we think of a house that is no longer an instrument of ego, we actually draw in a sacred chest where they will keep their laughs, cries, desires, dreams and aspirations of an even better future.  © Shamanth Patil The ground floor essentially consists of public and semi-public activities which overlooks into a common landscape area which overhangs towards the street. The interior and the exterior spaces blend seamlessly into each other on the same platform. The private room are placed in the upper levels with ample view of the front landscape garden, positioned right on the entry steps, cantilevered structural support and hence the name "HOUSE IN THE AIR".  © Shamanth Patil Natural light floods through the home with strategically positioned skylights. One of the key features of the Home is the parabolic curved staircase which connects the upper levels with the entertainment zone in the terrace area, in turn overlooking the double height living room. This volume subtly changes the shape and depth of the space.  © Shamanth Patil The architecture has required to respond climatically and aesthetically to its context and at the same time to be sustainable. The building captures all the rain water into the harvesting pit. Architectural features such as the timber cladding, huge overhangs and cantilevers not only add to the design vocabulary but assists in reducing the heat gain into the building.  © Shamanth Patil  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bløm Meadworks / Synecdoche Design Studio Posted: 21 Sep 2018 12:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Synecdoche Design Studio
 Courtesy of Synecdoche Design Studio Text description provided by the architects. Lingering encouraged. Locally Sourced. Michigan Mead. Inspired by the owner's Scandinavian heritage and DIY attitude, Bløm Meadworks was designed with simplicity in mind. Clean white lines and natural raw materials emphasize the crisp sweetness of the session style mead they serve. The varied seating arrangements: a customized concrete-finished bar, large communal cherry wood tables, and wall-mounted two-top counters; offer a variety of dining experiences within the 2,900 sqft Meadery.  Courtesy of Synecdoche Design Studio  Floor Plan  Courtesy of Synecdoche Design Studio Upon entry, a bright yellow path leads the way through an open display of the mead fermentation process and into a modern taproom full of Synecdoche-fabricated mobile tables intended to accommodate overflow seating. Created with the intention of flexibility, this space is segmented by a transparent garage door doubling as a community space that hosts events, classes, and workshops.  Courtesy of Synecdoche Design Studio  Courtesy of Synecdoche Design Studio The hickory and cherry wood used to build the tables, shelving and Synecdoche-fabricated soffit were sourced from the client's family farm. The fabricated soffit composed of slatted hickory boards sourced from the client's family farm define the area over the bar. Acoustic panels within the soffit help with sound absorption. Communal tables built using cherry wood that was sourced from the client's family farm. This style of seating encourages conversation, board games, and movie watching; all of which are encouraged at Bløm.  Courtesy of Synecdoche Design Studio A transparent garage-style door segments a flex-space dubbed "The Workshop" while still offering a peek into the production process and scheduled community events. The bright yellow path leads the way through an open display of the mead production process and into The Workshop. Fermenting tanks are named after the owner's closest friends, family member's dogs, to give the space a personal connection and story.  Courtesy of Synecdoche Design Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Boolean Operator / MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY Posted: 21 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT  © NAARO
Text description provided by the architects. For the event of the Jinji Lake Biennial, MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY installed a large-scale outdoor pavilion on the elevated plaza of the Suzhou Center. Its undulating enclosure interrupts the usual traffic, as an unexpected, emergent environment. It appears to have bubbled up from the ground, or dropped from the sky. The structure, both massive in scale and delicate in white aluminum, lands lightly on an ultra-thin edge.
Boolean Operator—so named for the function that determines relationships between statements, geometries or forms—makes an impression from a distance. Unlike the surrounding texture of the city, this curious structure radiates an otherworldly quality. It casts a strange shadow. It seems to conceal something behind its porous shell. Like seeing the full moon on a clear night, you can start to identify its surface, its irregular craters, and its possible depths. You are drawn closer into its gravitational pull.
THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE Entering the structure is a revelatory experience. Something between a vessel that's carefully engineered to "move" you and a destination in itself, Boolean Operator transcends the surrounding environment, even as it remains embedded in it. Typically, we argue for the contextual; here were interested in a point of departure. Looking to the extraordinary paths around the moon, to the bottom of the sea, and into the center of the earth, we take inspiration from the celebrated author Jules Verne. Across the 54 volumes that make up his Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne opens portals to other universes, but he also delights in the means of travelling there. The ship that takes Captain Nemo to the bottom of the sea is described as both a tactical vehicle and a lush interior, outfitted with an organ, salon, and a formal dining room.
VECTORS OF TRANSLATION Like Verne's Nautilus, a ship modeled on an early French submarine, our ultra-thin shell structure is a transporting vessel. The vector of translation from one world to another is highly engineered, and for Verne, ahead of its time. Disguised as a kind of sea creature in steel sheet metal, the Nautilus becomes a conspicuous part of the habitat it navigates. The technology described in the Voyages Extraordinaires prefigures the innovations with which we are familiar today: u-boats, satellites, spacecrafts, and television. A century and a half after Verne, THEVERYMANY are dedicated to making real the fantasies otherwise relegated to the digital and we are practiced in fabricating architecture that defies convention. Over a decade of prototyping double-curving constructions and realizing "crawling assemblies"-- the rigorous pursuit of another kind of architectural experience -- has taken us to this site across the world from our Brooklyn studio.
THE INSTANCE OF THE SKIN -- CROSSING A THRESHOLD In one respect, our journey happens in an instance: you cross the threshold and you are, all of a sudden, somewhere else entirely. The drama of the interior atmosphere makes you feel as if you have suddenly descended into some other world, despite the thinness of the enclosure that separates you from the familiar terrain beyond.  © NAARO Suffuse in light, the details come into and out of focus. A continuous surface grows from a network of columns that peel open into the enclosing shell. Topologically, there is no simple dichotomy between envelope and supports, but the two are made from a continuous skin that self-supports throughout. The relationship is like an unwrapping: what is inside of the columns eventually becomes the outside of the shell. In aluminum parts as thin as 1mm in places where the curvature is tightest and up to 2mm thick on the largest spans, the structure maintains a light impact on the ground.  © NAARO The intricacy of the skin asserts a density: of limbs, of openings, of parts and their connections. You have to let your eyes adjust to the resolution of the experience. Unfocusing your gaze again, the whole scene overwhelms, strikes awe, compels you to move closer, deeper, and through an edgeless space. The doubly-curved surfaces cast no regular shadows, giving little information to the eye to perceive its scale or depth. The only way to understand the space is to move through it. Your winding path isn't designed, but implied by a swirl of light, plotted on a map of your own desires. And so it becomes an irresistible terrain f or play. All the instances where columns branch and recombine into the bulbous shell, make for an architecture that opens to climbing, ducking, hurdling, hiding and seeking. Children are the best explorers of this environment, while attending parents wonder how the structure sustains this activity despite being so thin.  © NAARO TRAVELING AGENTS A constellation of openings in the skin are also the result of a kind of exploration. Crawling agents of a computational search protocol find their way across the aggregated mesh, leaving a trail of non-linear stripes in one pass and apertures between them in another. The two directions of flow curves result from a structural analysis on the digital 3D geometry. Agents determine the directional fitness as well as the maximum length of stripes along these paths so that they can be accommodated on a conventional sheet of aluminum. In another direction, sometimes aligned with the parts, sometimes snaking across them, agents locate opportunities to eat away at the envelope, leaving the minimum material to sustain the structure, but augmenting the experience through a complex game of shadows. Visitors to the site retrace these paths with their gaze or their hands: even in close range, there are hidden dimensions.  © NAARO A PUBLIC INTERIOR TO DISCOVER AND REDISCOVER MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY approaches public art as the art of experiencing public space: In intricate and impactful installations, we make place by altering daily experience of those that live or work or travel through a neighborhood. These structures assert a distinct presence on the urban scale and maintain enchantment down to their rivets.  © NAARO Boolean Operator is a public room that is unlike anything that lives in the city. It's an art experience catches you off guard, a surprising interior to be found among the usual business of the Suzhou Center. It must be entered to be discovered, but as it becomes known and mapped by Suzhou locals, it becomes a site to pursue, to seek out, and to transport you over and over again.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2018 07:28 AM PDT  © Ossip van Duivenbode
 © Ossip van Duivenbode Text description provided by the architects. MVRDV has completed construction on The Imprint, a new 2-building art-entertainment complex in close proximity to Seoul's Incheon Airport. Featuring a nightclub in one building and indoor theme park in the other, the windowless structures feature three key design elements: imprints of the façade features of surrounding buildings, lifted entrances, and a golden entrance spot covering one corner of the nightclub building.  © Ossip van Duivenbode  © Ossip van Duivenbode MVRDV's The Imprint is part of the larger Paradise City complex of 6 buildings in total, which will provide a full suite of entertainment and hotel attractions less than a kilometre away from South Korea's largest airport.  Courtesy of MVRDV Given the proposed programme of the 2 buildings – a nightclub and indoor theme park – the client required a design with no windows, yet one that still integrated with the other buildings in the complex. The design of The Imprint therefore arises from a simple question: can we design an expressive façade that connects with its surroundings even though it has no windows?  © Ossip van Duivenbode The design achieves this by projecting the façades of the surrounding buildings in the complex, which are 'draped' over the simple building forms and plazas like a shadow, and 'imprinted' as a relief pattern onto the façades.  © Ossip van Duivenbode "By placing, as it were, surrounding buildings into the facades of our buildings and in the central plaza, we connect The Imprint with the neighbours," says Winy Maas, principal and co-founder of MVRDV. "This ensures coherence. Paradise City is not a collection of individual objects such as Las Vegas, but a real city."  © Ossip van Duivenbode In order to achieve the desired 'imprint' of the surrounding buildings, the façade of The Imprint is constructed of glass-fibre reinforced concrete panels. As many of the 3,869 panels are unique, the construction required moulds to be individually produced using MVRDV's 3D modelling files from the design phase. Once installed, these panels were painted white in order to emphasise the relief in the design.  © Ossip van Duivenbode As Winy Maas explains: "Two months ago most of the cladding was done and client said, 'this is an art piece. What is interesting about that is that they are looking for that momentum—that entertainment can become art or that the building can become artistic in that way. What, then, is the difference between architecture an art? The project plays with that and I think that abstraction is part of it, but it has to surprise, seduce and it has to calm down."  © Ossip van Duivenbode The golden spot is the project's most obvious and attention-grabbing expressive element, even catching the eyes of passengers coming in to land at Incheon Airport. The golden colour is achieved simply, by using gold paint instead of white, and is reinforced by the lighting of the facades at night: while the majority of the façade is lit from below, the gold spot is highlighted from above."Even in the night, visitors from abroad, landing in Incheon, are welcomed by this ray of light", says Maas.  © Ossip van Duivenbode The entrances, where the façades are lifted like a curtain to reveal mirrored ceilings and glass media floors, exude a sense of the excitement happening inside. "Reflection and theatricality are therefore combined," concludes Maas. "With our design, after the nightly escapades, a zen-like silence follows during the day, providing an almost literally reflective situation for the after parties. Giorgio de Chirico would have liked to paint it, I think."  © Ossip van Duivenbode  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ZNERA Proposes a Network of Smog Filtering Towers To Combat Delhi's Rising Pollution Levels Posted: 21 Sep 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Smog Project. Image Courtesy of R Code + ZNERA Dubai-based architecture firm Znera Space have released "The Smog Project," a design to clean the air in Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities. Shortlisted in the World Architecture Festival's Experimental Project Category, the Smog Project hopes to address Delhi's noxious air quality by adding a network of smog filtering towers throughout the entire city. India's capital has become known for toxic smog levels from overcrowding and industrial waste. Znera's proposal hopes to cleanse the smog chamber and generate smog free air.  Smog Project. Image Courtesy of R Code + ZNERA  Smog Project. Image Courtesy of R Code + ZNERA Many factors have come together to define Delhi's air quality. Industrial waste and vehicles, burning diesel and kerosene, add to the pollution from power plants located within city limits. The pollution level is worsened by crop burning in the adjacent Haryana and Punjab region. The burning has exacerbated the prevailing pollution crisis and is being blamed as the primary reason for the sudden toxic smog enveloping the city and its neighboring areas.The proposed network of smog free towers will help the city cleanse its air and make it breathable again.  Smog Project. Image Courtesy of R Code + ZNERA Utilizing solar power as a renewable source of energy, the project was created with hexagonal grid that follows the urban grid of Lutyen's Delhi. Each 100 meter tower is meticulously placed at a key city node, and would create a volume of semi-clean air within two kilometers. The vertical air cleaning tower would be connected by sky bridges that are built with Hydrogen Generating Cells to power the towers. Znera argues for a localized approach, stating that the construction could start with a single district to judge the success rate before a larger network is built.  Smog Project. Image Courtesy of R Code + ZNERA Specifically designed to remove smog and contaminants from the air, the project uses a filtration pod at the base and air propellers at the top. Inflows at the base of a tower suck in air and pass it through five stages of filtration -- including charcoal-activated carbon, negative ion generators and electrostatically-charged plasma -- to trap airborne particles. Air is forced upwards where it passes through a photo-catalyst filter to sterilize bacteria and viruses, before being released into the atmosphere.The towers would produce 3.2 million cubic meters of clean air per day. The Smog project was designed as provocation and statement to create awareness about the precarious world health problem in India.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House YY / Alejandro Vargas + Eduardo Tapia + Omar López + Christian Villanueva. Posted: 21 Sep 2018 06:00 AM PDT  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía
 © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía Text description provided by the architects. The project’s protagonist it’s a great mesquite wich already has been growing in the land, the site has a much longer than wide proportions, therefore, and it was decided to enlarge the promenades inside the house in order to have the largest amount of living space, but withouth residual spaces.  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía  Process  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía This project was an exhaustive exercise of integration between the mesquite with the house, where the result was a synergy between the natural environment and the building, as well as a constant interior-exterior relationship. In this way we choose to respect the tree entirely without touching it or wrapping it , which resulted in a diagonal axis that gives us the longest side of the site, generating a deconstruction of the most common house typology in the area which is characterized by a parking space in front and a courtyard garden in the background, In this case the diagonal axis of the project gives us the opportunity to create two open gardens on the sides, separating us from the adjoining areas and giving lighting and ventilation to the whole house.  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía  Ground Floor  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía Following with the desire to incorporate the tree to every single space inside the house, a terrace emerges in the upper floor whose shade is generated by the foliage of the same tree, being able to live the element from all angles, taking the analogy of the "little tree house" that many of us dreamed of as children, this is a house made to contemplate the tree and live along with it.  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía The main materials of the project are in general terms concrete, mud and glass; elements that we relate to the stone, earth and air that are the essence of the site. Nevertheless, these become architectural elements that provides the house with a very cozy atmosphere.  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía The apparent concrete walls, the bridge and the concrete floor on the ground floor, seek timelessness and in turn give prominence to the vegetation of the side gardens and the tree itself. It also has been sought to incorporate traditional elements of mexican architecture such as mud lattices, zotehuela tiles, vaults and handcrafted mosaic, evoking the memory of the home.  Section A-A' The architectural program is easy to read and the paths are very functionals, on the ground floor we have the social area with a double height and an very open space, a fairly large kitchen with an island that serves as a dining room. And to the sides we have the gardens that allows to expand the interior space but also allows us to always keep in mind the view of the mesquite from different frames.  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía Upstairs we find the private area with two bedrooms that are connected through a bridge from which we can appreciate the spaciousness of the social area through the double height with the vaults. These rooms share a terrace already mentioned, and through which we can have a direct dialogue between the tree, the person and the sky, being perhaps the most intimate space.  Second floor The façade closes to the west to protect the sun from the southwest and breathes through the east, illuminated by the morning sun. Towards the street we have a volume that is supported by a pair of inclined columns and by a concrete wall, again we have an analogy of the tree that emerges from the earth and is covered by its foliage; on one side and coexisting , we have the great tree in the foreground partially dressed by a lattice that from the outside allows us to appreciate it but leaves some mystery to invite you to explore the space from the inside.  © Desireé Brito, Arándano fotografía  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Does Form Follow Fashion? Viktoria Lytra's Montages Keep Iconic Architecture In Vogue Posted: 21 Sep 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Pleats till now were considered to be garments' element. However, pleating in architecture creates unconventional forms such as the Reggio Emilia train station in Italy designed by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra Greek architect Viktoria Lytra has created a set of images exploring the relationship and interaction between architecture and fashion. FormFollowsFashion investigates the common purpose of architecture fashion, to create shelter for the human body, placing aesthetic as a common factor in novel approaches to the design of clothes and buildings. Lytra's series features various movements and styles, such as minimalism, deconstructivism, and postmodernism, playing on common geometric characteristics such as folks, pleats, curves, prints, and twists.  The conical shape used for different reasons, both by Frank Lloyd Wright at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and by Hussein Chalayan in the Table Dress AW2000, created two iconic examples of architecture and fashion. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra
 Sculptural forms emerge from the use of curves in architecture and fashion. Interior staircase in Boston residence designed by the architectural office Steven Harris Architects and Rossie Assoulin Resort 2015 collection. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra Reflecting on the curating process behind FormsFollowsFashion, Lytra tells ArchDaily of the complex pursuit of imagery, as architecture evolves slowly, while fashion evolves incredibly fast.
 The fabric usage gives a huge morphological potential in architecture as in the case of the twisted facade of the King Fahad National Library in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by Geber Architekten. Respectively, Origami twisted designs were used in a coat designed by Alexandra Verschueren. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra The entirety of Lytra's work can be explored on the FormFollowsFashion website here.  Inflatable structures in fashion and architecture point to art objects. Golden Balloon Installation at Tokyo Mot 2014 exhibition by AMID.CERO9 and Action Dolls Haute Couture AW17 collection by Viktor and Rolf. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra  Biorhythmic buildings or 'blobs', as they called, and clothes emerge from the potential given by new technologies in both design and construction. The Vanke Pavilion at Milan Exhibition designed by the famous architect Daniel Libeskind and garment from the Comme des Garcons AW18 catwalk. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra  Fashion and architecture are often inspired by nature and its curved forms, that result in organic shapes. Distinct chapel among olive groves in South Africa designed by Steyn Studio and Ashi Studio Haute Couture AW17-18 collection. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra  Blurring lines leads to extraordinary shapes that form buildings and garments such as the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health Nevada, USA, by Frank Gehry and Givenchy FW18 runway. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra  Structural mesh used in architecture such as pavillion Metropol Parasol, in Seville Spain, designed by Juergen Mayer reminds of Junya's Watanabe AW2015 catwalk. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra  Color and undulated planes create a distinctive building in Reversible Destiny Park in Japan designed by architects Shusaka Arakawa and Madeline Gins. A color palette inspired by Lego as well as asymmetrical fabric surfaces dominate the Marni SS16 collection. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra  Solid and void is a classic but versatile architectural theme. It creates different patterns in building facades, which in the case of Al Bahr twin towers in Abu Dhabi from Aedas Architects is relative to lighting management. Whenever this strategy is used in fashion, it receives a different role when it has not any more to do with function but serves a concept, like Iris Van Herpen Ready-to-Wear SS16 collection. Image Courtesy of Viktoria Al. Lytra News via: FormFollowsFashion  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Liz Diller Designs Two New Pieces for Prada's 2019 Collection Posted: 21 Sep 2018 04:45 AM PDT  © Diller Scofidio + Renfro DS+R partner Elizabeth Diller has designed two new pieces for Prada's 2019 spring/summer womenswear collection. Created from Prada nylon as part of the Prada Invites project, the two pieces include a garment bag with utilitarian zippers and buckles and a raincoat that transforms from the same yoke style bag. The yoke style bag was also imagined as a lighter item for women to carry sketchpads, sandwiches and lipstick. The Prada invitation was made to expand the company's fascination with multifaceted representations of contemporary femininity. Revealed as part of the 2019 spring/summer collection at the Deposito, the two Diller pieces are part of the "Prada Invites" project with three leading female architects – Elizabeth Diller, Kazuyo Sejima, and Cini Boeri. Each were asked to design items for women crafted from nylon fabric. Sejima also created two items, both a curved and long multipocket travel bag. She made one to use as a neck pillow an another to hang on the wall. Boeri created a messenger bag with interchangeable modules.  © Kazuyo Sejima  © Kazuyo Sejima The "Prada Invites" project was created to encompass an examination of the intersectionality of design, exploring unexpected conversations between different disciplines.This marks the second iteration of the "Prada Invites" project, which was first unveiled last January with renowned designers and architects Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Konstantin Grcic, Herzog & de Meuron and Rem Koolhaas.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2018 04:00 AM PDT  © Rasmus Hjortshoj
 © Rasmus Hjortshoj Text description provided by the architects. Situated between two lakes and within the community of Christiania, the new Noma is built on the site of a protected ex-military warehouse once used to store mines for the Royal Danish Navy. Imagined as an intimate culinary garden village, guests are welcomed to experience a new menu and philosophy that will redefine Noma for years to come.  © Rasmus Hjortshoj Central to the design was the idea of dissolving the restaurant's individual functions and organising them into a collection of separate yet connected buildings. A total of 11 spaces, each tailored to their specific needs and built of the finest materials best suited for their functions, are densely clustered around restaurant's heart putting the chefs at the heard of it all. Every part of the restaurant experience - the arrival, the lounge, the barbeque, the wine selection and the private company - are all clustered around the chefs. From their central position, they have a perfect overview to every corner of the restaurant while allowing every single guest to follow what would traditionally happen behind-the-scenes.  © Rasmus Hjortshoj The 40-cover dining room and adjacent private dining room are made of stacked timber planks that resemble neatly piled wood at a lumber yard. A large skylight and an expansive set of windows that slide to reveal the outdoor permagarden allow guests to truly sense all of the seasons and the restaurant's natural surrounds. Outside, the restaurant's three greenhouses are used as a garden, test kitchen and bakery.  © Rasmus Hjortshoj Each 'building within the building' is connected by glass covered paths for chefs and guests to follow the changes in weather, daylight and seasons - making the natural environment an integral part of the culinary experience. Guests have the opportunity to walk through each of the surrounding buildings and to experience a variety of Nordic materials and building techniques: the barbecue is a giant walk-in hut, and the lounge looks and feels like a giant, cozy fireplace made entirely of brick inside and out.  © Rasmus Hjortshoj  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| This Week in Architecture: Complexity and Contradiction Posted: 21 Sep 2018 02:30 AM PDT  © Denise Scott Brown Robert Venturi - and the postmodernist movement he helped to form - was occasionally a divisive figure. For hardcore modernists, the referencing of prior styles was an affront to the future-facing architecture they had tried to promote. For traditionalists, the ebullient and kitschy take on classicism was an insult to the elegance of the past. But on closer examination, post-modernism is not about contradiction, but of mixing. It combines the best of both modernism and classicism: it is pragmatic and functional, exhuberant and thoughtful about the past. Venturi was keenly aware of the active role architecture plays in our lives, but rather than intellectualizing it in abstraction encouraged us all to think in more honest terms. Do you love it? Do you hate it? Minimalism is not necessarily a marker of quality; less can indeed be a bore. This week, we cherish a figure who shone nothing but light on architecture, who saw buildings as the remit of not just architects but of us all. Saying GoodbyeRobert Venturi, famed-postmodernist and icon of American architecture, passed away Tuesday at the age of 93. Among Venturi's many accolades were the 1991 Pritzker Prize, a Fellowship from the American Institute of Architects, and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects. He started his firm in 1964, running it with his partner and wife Denise Scott Brown from 1967 until 2012. His legacy lives on as the firm continues under the name VSBA (Venturi Scott Brown Associates). Venturi, Scott Brown + Vegas © Public Domain user Jean Beaufort licensed under CC0 Public Domain Though the Las Vegas Strip may be garish to some, with its borderline intrusive décor and "pseudo-historical" architecture, some professional architects, most notably Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown, have become captivated by the "ornamental-symbolic elements" the buildings present. Love in the Lights © Rollin LaFrance / VSBA Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's partnership is one for the ages. But how and where did their story begin? In the bright lights and sandy expanse of Las Vegas, of course. This story from 99% Invisible tells how they met, how they fell in love, and how their shared vision created a movement that lives on today. Projects to Catch Up On Courtesy of Glenn Howells
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| Hackney Mews House / HUTCH design Posted: 21 Sep 2018 02:00 AM PDT  © Helen Cathcart
 © Helen Cathcart Text description provided by the architects. A complete reconfiguration and extension of a Mews House in Hackney, for a young, growing family. The original two-storey, brick property was embedded amongst a series of buildings at the back of Broadway Market, and as a consequence, felt claustrophobic, confined, and had little source of natural light. To turn this small property, into a larger, more usable modern home, we had to be inventive in its use of space.  Axonometric / Before +After We reconfigured the floor levels to increase the ceiling heights across a staggered ground floor, which is comprised of three split-levels, promoting views and interaction between different areas of the home. The new home-office opens up to the living area, and the open-plan kitchen looks down unto the living and dining spaces below. The home-office also doubles as a third bedroom, which can be closed off with its bespoke-built folding wall.  © Helen Cathcart The feeling of continuous space, rather than individual rooms, is enhanced by using similar materials throughout the house. To create a calm, light interior we added larger timber windows and a full-width roof-light over the stair – bringing more natural light into the centre of the house and to the kitchen at the rear. In addition, storage, important to the family home, was maximised and concealed throughout  Axonometric / Kitchen + Stair  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 111 "Magical Towns" That You Must Visit in Mexico Posted: 21 Sep 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Tulúm / Quintana Roo. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México In 2001, the Mexican Secretary of Tourism (SECTUR) created an initiative called "Pueblo Mágico/Magical Town." This program seeks to highlight towns around the country that offer a unique and "magical experience – by reason of their natural beauty, cultural richness, traditions, folklore, historical relevance, cuisine, arts & crafts, and hospitality." You can find SECTUR's "Magical Town" definition here.
"Magical Towns" are required to have a population of 20,000 inhabitants and must be located no more than 200 kilometers from a tourist destination. The criteria of incorporation and permanence can be found in the SECTUR Guide here. Continue reading for the complete list of Magical Towns by state. Baja California Loreto / Baja California. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México  Tecate / Baja California. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México ChihuahuaArteaga  Batopilas / Chihuahua. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México  Casas Grandes / Chihuahua. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México  Creel / Chihuahua. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Coahuila Viesca / Coahuila. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Durango Mapimi / Durango. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Nuevo León Linares / Nuevo León. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Sinaloa El Rosario / Sinaloa. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México  El Fuerte / Sinaloa. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Sonora Álamos / Sonora. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México TamaulipasMier Tula  Tamaulipas / Tula. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México AguascalientesCalvillo  Calvillo / Aguascalientes. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México San José de Gracia Real de Asientos  Real de Asientos / Aguascalientes. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México ColimaComala  Comala / Colima. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Estado de MéxicoValle de Bravo  Valle de Bravo / Estado de México. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Aculco  Aculco / Estado de México. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México El Oro San Juan Teotihuacán y San Martín de las Pirámides  Teotihuacán / Estado de México. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Villa del Carbón  Villa del Carbón / Estado de México. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Tepotzotlán  Tepotzotlán / Estado de México. Image via Pueblos Mágicos de México Ixtapan de la Sal Metepec Malinalco  Malinalco / Estado de México. 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| Glenn Howells Unveils 55-story Red Brick Tower in Manchester Posted: 20 Sep 2018 11:00 PM PDT  Courtesy of Glen Howells Architects Housing developer Student Castle has partnered with Glenn Howells Architects to create a 55-story red brick tower in Manchester city center. Built to include 850 rooms and co-working space for students and start-up businesses, the new skyscraper would overlook Oxford Road station next to Great Marlborough Street tower. Glenn Howells says the scheme pays homage to the red brick chimneys that once dominated the city's skyline. Designed as a new landmark in Manchester, the tower would stand 500 feet tall but less than 45 feet wide. Student Castle consulted with Historic England and design panel Places Matter over the proposed height prior to submitting plans. Student Castle founder Edward Cade has said that "The building presents a significant windfall opportunity to redevelop a portion of an existing multi-storey car park adjacent to Manchester Oxford Road station into a fully managed purpose-built student residence." Deloitte is the planning consultant for Hulme Street, while AECOM will be the project manager.  Courtesy of Glen Howells Architects Glenn Howells director Dav Bansal said, "Rising among its context of red brick warehouses, the scheme will be the most slender structure in Manchester. The slenderness is reinforced by its homogenous skin of brick panels that alternates on every floor to open up glazed slots and add relief to the façade. The use of modern construction technologies will enable us to deliver traditional brick material at such heights in prefabricated modules." Alan McCartney, Studio Director for Glenn Howells, said that "The design's proximity to local universities, transport hubs and the city core makes the site location ideal for an emerging student development, combined with an ambitious vision to design high quality student living where students would want to live. The provision of SME incubation space also offers opportunities for small businesses to have an affordable workspace." GHA were appointed to undertake design proposals for the site on behalf of GMS (Parking) Ltd. Construction is scheduled for completion in 2022.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Chapel Ruhewald Schloss Tambach / Sacher.Locicero.Architects + Graz / Paris + Gerhard Sacher Posted: 20 Sep 2018 10:00 PM PDT  © Sebastian Kolm
 © Sebastian Kolm Text description provided by the architects. Tambach Castle, whose owner Heinrich Graf zu Ortenburg runs the "Ruhewald Schloss Tambach", is embedded in the gently hilly landscape near the town of Coburg.  © Sebastian Kolm The forest cemetery „Ruhewald Schloss Tambach" offers people to find their final resting place in the nature of the forest. The tree population of the forest cemetery has a landscapepark-like character.  © Sebastian Kolm In many religions and cultures the cemetery is a sacred place and is usually located in very special scenic places. Tombs and places of worship are sometimes among the oldest testimonies of human civilization. In its clear form, the devotional room follows the proportions of the golden section according to the teachings of the "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo da Vinci. It should convey simplicity and openness and offer visitors and their survivors a protective cover.  Scheme 04 The chapel has a floor space of about 36 square meters and is constructed as a wooden construction. Seven wooden arches rising upwards form the inner space. Starting with the lower arch at the entrance side, whose height of 4.79m is exactly the width of the chapel, up to the highest arch, whose height of 7.75m corresponds exactly to the length of the chapel.  © Sebastian Kolm The outer cladding consists of split larch wood shingles which will fuse with the environment over the years due to natural weathering. The generously glazed gable sides integrate the seasons into the interior and create different lighting moods.  © Sebastian Kolm The interior consists only of 3 simple wooden benches and 3 altar tables. The court in the front of the chapel takes up the form of the devotional space in fragments and is intended as a transition between the forest cementary and the devotional space. Seating stones inlaid in the natural area of Bamberg sandstones allow visitors to rest at this place of remembrance even outside opening hours.  © Sebastian Kolm Harmoniously integrated into the trees of the cementary forest, this devotional room will create an extraordinary atmosphere. The clear orientation of the room and the directing of the view into the forest create an interplay between nature, man and sacred space.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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