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- GRAFT's Masterplan for Georgian Railway Headquarters Mimics the Natural Curve of a Railway Junction
- Take Control of the Stages of Construction: 4 Ways To Ease the Process
- Storberget Viewpoint and Rest Stop Area / Pushak
- Villa-T / YTAA - Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates
- Banyan Tree Anji / ZSD + CL3 Architects
- Villa in the Palms / Abraham John Architects
- Jiaxing Qixing Joyful Rural Complex Exhibition Center / Antao Group · ZAN
- Red Wall Café / B336 Design Group
- Blinco Street House / Philip Stejskal Architecture
- Shangjia Maker Space II / HUA Architects
- The Tailored Home / Lloyd Hartley Architects
- Thai's Apartment / INÁ Arquitetura
- Sackett Hill House / Deborah Berke Partners
- Amazon Selects Both New York City and Arlington for HQ2
- espacioSOLO / estudio Herreros
- The First "Maidan Tent" is Built to Aid Refugees in Greece
- Sesc Avenida Paulista / Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados
- The Cynical Optimism of Living Architecture
- MAD Architects Begin Construction on Floating Kindergarten above Historic Beijing Courtyard
| GRAFT's Masterplan for Georgian Railway Headquarters Mimics the Natural Curve of a Railway Junction Posted: 13 Nov 2018 09:00 PM PST .jpg?1541885288 "Courtesy of GRAFT") Courtesy of GRAFT GRAFT has developed a master plan for the Didube Chughureti District in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. The master plan for the business district attempts to provide its inhabitants with a healthy working environment by balancing scenic landscaping with the necessary amenities. The overall complex consists of a pair of complimentary towers: the main tower, in particular, will house the head offices for the Georgian Railway Company. Elements of the façade reflect the railway. The facades, themselves, appear to divide in a similar way to a railway junction. At the base of the tower, the descending curve of the façade plateaus, creating a roof for the new open-air museum, which features locomotives from the Georgian Railway Company. .jpg?1541885310 "Courtesy of GRAFT") Courtesy of GRAFT An essential aspect of the master plan is the large public squares that serve as multi-functional gathering spaces and transitional spaces between the complex's many functions. These areas of landscape design were closely integrated into the overall architecture of both towers. GRAFT specializes in architecture, design, and urban development providing a multi-disciplinary design approach to the project.  Courtesy of GRAFT Particular architectural features enhance one of the design team's major design goals – meshing the buildings into the existing landscape. The curvilinear façade mimics the base of a tree growing out of the ground, creating an even stronger transition between the urban landscaping and the building architecture. News via GRAFT  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Take Control of the Stages of Construction: 4 Ways To Ease the Process Posted: 13 Nov 2018 08:00 PM PST  Trimble In the planning and construction of buildings and landscapes, it's important to recognize the strong correlation between design and construction during the different stages of a project. In fact, these stages can best be viewed as an integrated process where one won't work without the other. To fully understand how these stages work together, let's break it down. Simply put, architecture design is the process of creating the layout of a construction project. It's usually presented through detailed plans, drawings, and specifications. On the other hand, construction planning is a process of identifying steps and resources required to turn those designs into physical reality.  Trimble There's a Method to the MadnessBecause design and construction are a closely integrated system, the planning and execution of these stages can proceed almost simultaneously. You may now be wondering how construction could begin without a completed design? The truth is, when these processes work together, it allows for both viewpoints to be examined with various alternatives, thus eliminating the need for extensive revisions down the road. Why is this important? When revisions are apparent halfway through a project, so are increased costs. Now that we recognize the integration between design and construction, let's evaluate the ways to ease the process. Believe it or not, there's a simple answer: technology. By adding technology to your workflow, you can eliminate many of the hurdles you frequently encounter during the design and construction phases. It wasn't too long ago that contractors used to have to dig through mountains of paperwork to perform any amount of work. From takeoffs and collecting bids to interpreting designs and site instructions; it was all completed via a paper trail. Thankfully, those days are over and with the help of technology, you too can learn to streamline the various stages of design and construction.  Trimble A Step-by-Step Guide to the Easing the Construction ProcessDesign and Preconstruction From design reviews and subcontractor agreements to estimates and purchase orders, technology can help bridge the gap between all these moving parts during design and preconstruction. From an architectural perspective, CAD drawings are drastically innovating, allowing for more detailed designs before passing off to the construction phase. This technology significantly minimizes room for error down the road. When it comes to mobile technology, job and project management mobile apps like Contractor WorkZone allow you to digitally add subcontractors and staff and more easily send instant documentation for different jobs. This results in cleaner organization for each and every project across all staff so that you always manage and track different project details and tasks including purchase orders and more through cloud-based syncing. What used to take many hours a week, can now take half the time, just by adopting construction technology.  Trimble Construction Once the light turns green on any project, it's go-time, leaving little room for catching up on meetings and updates. Thanks to innovations in technology, a construction app like Contractor WorkZone allows you to easily access meeting notes, site instructions, submit change orders and more; throughout the duration of your project. No matter where you are – in office, on the road or on a job site – you'll always have your project information at the tips of your fingers instead of having to search through papers and documents. Gone are the days of going back and forth on design changes and born are the days of streamlined communication via technology.  Trimble Project Closeout One of the often-overlooked phases of construction is a closeout, the final stage of a project. This is best known for a time when architects, engineers, general contractors, and subcontractors will conduct a final review of the project, going through a final checklist as a team. Sounds easy, right? It's not. If there hasn't been concise communication throughout the project, this is when it will show the most. To avoid miscommunication, consider adopting a snag report app like Defects Pro. This mobile technology was built to streamline project closeouts, monitor deadlines, and communicate changes, all from the palm of your hand. Check out their handy punch list taxonomy for a visual representation of common punch out items broken down by rooms for a typical home construction project. By tying design and construction information together in a central technology platform; architects, engineers and contractors are guaranteed to streamline every stage of construction. To learn more about the different phases of construction, click here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Storberget Viewpoint and Rest Stop Area / Pushak Posted: 13 Nov 2018 07:00 PM PST  © Archtic Drone & Photography
 Courtesy of PUSHAK Text description provided by the architects. The National Tourist Routes are a selection of roads that stretch through some of the most beautiful landscapes in Norway and are developed and managed by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. Several rest stops and viewpoints are established along the routes, either to highlight specific sights and outlooks or to mark a point of departure for hiking in the landscape. There is an expressed intention of achieving high architectural quality through-out the tourist route project, and several Norwegian architects have been involved in the various designs.  © Archtic Drone & Photography  Situation Plan  © Archtic Drone & Photography The viewpoint at Storberget marks the start of the 66-km-long National Tourist Route Havøysund, a road stretch where PUSHAK also have designed the Lillefjord and Snefjord rest stops. Storberget is characterized by a view to the surrounding open plains and the western horizon above the Revsbotn fjord and the North Sea.  Courtesy of PUSHAK A bright concrete slab follows the curvature of the hilltop without touching the ground. The slab has two levels with integrated benches of wood where visitors can enjoy the view or dip their toes in the heather. A gravel path connects the viewpoint to the parking area and the main road. All concrete is poured into a site, and wooden details are knot free oak.  Courtesy of PUSHAK  Viewing Platform Section  Courtesy of PUSHAK  Viewing Platform Detail  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Villa-T / YTAA - Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates Posted: 13 Nov 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Ieva Saudargaite
 © Iwan Baan  © Iwan Baan Text description provided by the architects. Perched on a steep rocky slope in an area distinguished by its pine forest and captivating views of Beirut and the sea, this house is almost invisible at surface level. Layered, it consists of three flowing expanses of inhabitable concrete. These superposed cantilevered floors support the various elements of the brief, which are tied together by an internal ramp running through the villa. Open floors are presented as horizontal incisions that lend a certain structure to the rugged surroundings. Spacious inside, the cantilevered villa projects itself into empty space. Provocative, it surprises inhabitants with its interpretation of the landscape. With no outer skin, no envelope, it seems no more than an interior, all the more stunning for the way it creates apparently seamless interaction with the exterior.  © Ieva Saudargaite  Section  © Iwan Baan  Ground floor plan  © Iwan Baan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Banyan Tree Anji / ZSD + CL3 Architects Posted: 13 Nov 2018 05:00 PM PST  © b+m Studio
 © b+m Studio Text description provided by the architects. Anji is an exquisite and serene city in south of the Yangtze River, and named after The Book of Songs, which means comfortable and wonderful. Banyan Tree Anji is located in Lingfeng National Tourist Resort, and surrounded by mountains at four sides, water at one side. After entering the national highway, various lakes and reservoirs scatter, peach trees are planted near lakes, tea gardens are layered, secluded yards with white walls and black tiles scatter, fertile soils, beautiful ponds and mulberry and bamboo forests are everywhere, this is exactly a peach colony for people who live in seclusion.  © b+m Studio Greentown and Banyan Tree jointly entrust ZSD to integrally plan the interior design of Banyan Tree Anji, so as to create a more unique Banyan Tree. Based on experience in design and construction and abundant knowledge about hotel operation, ZSD has planned and arranged the hotel space, independently completed designing guest rooms in the main building, and cooperated with CL3 to on designing the main public space of hotel, meanwhile, it also coordinates and leads all teams which participate in hotel design.  © b+m Studio Overview  © b+m Studio By inheriting local style, interior design is aimed at connecting dialogue and perception between man and nature through a thorough spatial shaping and depiction. At the preliminary stage, through comprehending historical scenery in Anji, architects have defined the space as a residence for substantial literary family, expected to deliver the traditional temperament of Banyan Tree by adopting a popular technique in modern times, hence formed an artistic conception of tranquil luxury and contemporary elegance.  G/F Lobby Lobby  © b+m Studio Water courtyard, reception lobby, lounge and book bar are orderly distributed around center courtyard, column-free and spatially raised, unlike the traditional Chinese wooden beam system that separated space, interior design intends to integrally connect these three spaces in series, create extended and broad modern spatial perception with warmly and elegantly warm texture and color, besides, Chinese potted landscape, abstract art and lanterns with metal details are used for embellishing, guests wander between classics and modernity without sensing any conflicts.  © b+m Studio On the right side of water yard, a 20-meter-long timber table top and three sets of waiting sofa lie near both sides of the vertical circulation of reception lobby. At the end of view, there is a set of abstract artistic furniture made of stone, wood and copper, the scattering of textures and volumes are hideously compared to nestled mountain ridges.  © b+m Studio A successive screen is applied to conceal imperfect landscape for one wall side of reception, and hence form a constant background for reception, through traditional doors, windows and bamboo curtain splints, the distant mountain scene and close classical cornices contrast with the reading area at the far end of table top. On the other side, a set of serial island sofa faces center water yard, guests may take a rest while waiting and then enjoy the coming holiday.  © b+m Studio After walking past the lobby, it leads guests to a widely open lobby bar which is the most resplendent part of lobby area and encircled by nearby view, medium view and distant view. The massy water scenery at the center reflects the outdoor scenery and brings it into interior, a set of simple and elegant Chinese modern sofa is arranged on both sides of water, in the daytime, guests can immerse in magnificent landscape, and appreciate breeze and bright moonlight at night.  Lobby Elevation Book bar locates on the left side of water yard, the horizontal inscribed board of Comfortable and Wonderful concisely epitomizes the spirit of the site, custom-made furniture, capacious bookcase and subdued lighting are blended as a whole, paintings, calligraphies and bamboo slips bring out the theme of literary family, set off the beauty of stability by contrast, and comfort souls. Combined art furniture, Chinese screen, and timber table top reappear to echo the opposite lobby reception area.  © b+m Studio Chinese restaurant  © b+m Studio Private dinning rooms are connected by an indoor courtyard, in the courtyard, tree shadows are flickering and rocks are charming in shape, besides, these rooms maintain to be simple and natural. A clustering of lamps in various sizes and shapes are hanging under the traditional sloped roof, a piece of light-colored carpet with peach blossom pattern is laid on the floor, and abstract landscape paintings are dotted to each the outdoor mountains in the distance.  © b+m Studio VIP private dining rooms are installed with individual entrances from the small courtyard, antique furniture collected by owners directly faces the entrance. A round table for 20 people and a round table for 28 people are respectively places in two rooms, it's rather magnificent to see a lantern-like lamp which is hanging from the 6-meter high sloped roof falling on the huge marble table top. Emerald green and gold carpet with pine tree, bamboo and plum blossom figures becomes particularly noble and elegant by matching with the landscape painting on the wall.  © b+m Studio Guest rooms in main building  © ENVANER By abandoning bamboo-centered technique applied by other hotels in Anji, interior design innovates to concentrate on pine, bamboo and plum, adopt color and pattern to carpet, doorplate, background and artwork which are arranged by layers, so as to provide diverse physical and mental experiences to guests.  © ENVANER As for interior layout, nearly all beds directly face to landscape, so guests can fully enjoy the scenery while sitting or lying. Interior design is aimed at creating a relaxed and tranquil home-like atmosphere for guests, wooden floor is amiable and comfortable and silken wallpaper glimmers, for responding to the theme of pine, bamboo and plume, all bed background is painted with plant designs to bring the artistic conception of Chinese literati painting into interior space, the laid carpet and other decorations correspond to related plant theme. The design applies exquisite, soft texture and color, stresses on details and usage convenience, other than focusing on strikingness and particularity, so guests won't be oppressed by the space, and completely relax and merge with the culture in rooms.  © ENVANER Conclusion  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Villa in the Palms / Abraham John Architects Posted: 13 Nov 2018 04:00 PM PST  © Edmund Sumner
 © Edmund Sumner Text description provided by the architects. Villa in the Palms is named after the 19 towering coconut palms that thrived for decades on the land, which dictated the villa's concept and footprint. This four-bedroom house overlooks a field and a seasonal stream.  Axonometric Embedded into the natural landscape, Villa in the Palms appears almost village-like, pockets of small homes nestled between 80-year-old coconut trees, nearly invisible from points further up the approach road. The fact that the trees on site existed for decades gives the overall house a very rooted presence.  © Edmund Sumner Design Concept & Process The studio's design approach is to reconnect architecture with nature. Designing a regular building block would have required the cutting down of several trees to accommodate the programme. To avoid this, the building was carefully designed between the trees, without disrupting the surroundings, and not a single tree was felled during construction.  © Edmund Sumner Consequently, the structure is fragmented rather than monolithic, reminiscent of an old-time Goan village but at the same time entirely modern. Each bedroom on the ground floor, for example, feels like a separate home, replete with an en-suite bathroom, a rear garden, a front garden and an internal courtyard flanked by laterite walls. These independent volumes are interconnected with decks, passages, and bridges that meander through the trees and over pools and gardens.  © Edmund Sumner The building design adopts distinct local features and materials of the tropical coastal state of Goa, with exposed local laterite stone walls, sloping roofs, and screens made from 100-year-old recycled teak wood, while the landscape design consists of local tropical species (mostly various types of palms) that maintain their lush greenery through the year.  Floor Plan - Level 1 Roofs pitched at different angles pay homage to the monsoons and accentuate the staccato nature and fragmented aesthetic of the building. The interstitial roofs which cap each unit individually harvest rainwater, while further visually integrating the building in the lush landscape.  © Edmund Sumner Boundaries between the inside and outside are blurred and vast open spaces connect each living space.
While everything is open and filled with light and air, the house is still very private. The laterite walls thermally and visually shield each room, maintaining privacy while orienting for the best views of the northern field.  © Edmund Sumner The Northern façade, on the other hand, opens with largely recessed glazing to the fields while not increasing the solar gain. With the thermal mass of the laterite walls, open northern facades & open internal courtyards, the house creates and is designed to be environmentally responsible to its siting, sustainable as far as a private home can be, while respecting the local environment and geography.  © Edmund Sumner The main entrance features a kind of dramatic crescendo, with a view that widens with each footstep - first some exposed laterite stone, then a glimpse of the pool, then the gardens and finally the wide field beyond. At one side is a sky-lit living room with internal garden and walls of exposed masonry. At the other side is an open kitchen and dining room featuring a wet bar, all overlooking an expansive deck and pool (three distinct water bodies are separated by teak-wood bridges and tree islands).  © Edmund Sumner The infinity swimming pool is fully integrated with the villa, dividing the semi-private areas from the private ones.  © Edmund Sumner A bedroom abuts the pool, with a slit window along the floor that enables the ripples of water to reflect onto the ceiling. All the lower floor bathrooms have in-built sunken bathtubs to enjoy the adjoining courtyard landscapes. The last bedroom features a serene indoor-outdoor bathroom where light and shadow create ever-changing landscapes  Floor Plan - Level 2 On the upper floor, there is a family room, powder room, top-floor garden, and an exquisite master suite. The latter consists of a bedroom and an open library, with a windowed "sky bridge" separating the bedroom from a walk-in closet and large master bathroom. The views from upstairs consist not only of the open field to the north but also a "Goan jungle view" to the south, replete with red-tiled rooftops of the adjoining village.  © Edmund Sumner  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jiaxing Qixing Joyful Rural Complex Exhibition Center / Antao Group · ZAN Posted: 13 Nov 2018 03:00 PM PST  Terrace plants form different spaces. Image © Xiao Wang
 Xiyue Center inside an organic farm. Image © Xiao Wang It is not an improvisation of experimental architecture, but an instance, aiming at the upgrading space in the countryside. After Chinese cities experienced a rapid progress in construction, accompanying with a lot of disappointments and problems, Chinese architects begin to appear cautious when they treat with rural construction. If it is believed that contemporary urbanization in China could mostly learn something from western foreign, then the construction of countryside is believed undefined.  Facade. Image © Xiao Wang  Elevation Under such time background, we can easily understand the challenges Antao architects faced with, in Jiaxing project, it is an agricultural glass greenhouse, covering an area of 2000㎡. It has been out of repair for many years, waiting for reconstructing eagerly. How to rebuild an ecological agriculture complex without damaging the original site and the architectural scale, under the condition of limited expense and the quick construction period? It seems there are no ready-made rules to follow. However, it becomes a reality in three months. Jiaxing Xi-Yue Village is not an improvisation of experimental architecture, but an instance, aiming at the upgrading modern-space in the countryside.  Facade detail. Image © Xiao Wang In this instance, the Antao group use modern design to finish self-upgrade of modern agricultural space, to provide urban people with a unique space carrier in the countryside for them to spend, and to spark creativity with the innovation of places. These three design strategies bring insight into an operational possibility for us, which are based on the modernism construction theory and the construction frame.
The first change: using modern design to arrive modern agricultural space  Spacious entrance hall for holding different events. Image © Xiao Wang The "Food-Ji" in Xi-Yue Village provides abundant production ways to "eat farm products in the fields". Organic vegetables, wheat salad, fruit and vegetable juice and so on are all from the fields of this place by picking instantly. It uses the delicate but simple procedures to ensure the best freshness, restoring the dainty of local farm products as soon as possible.  The development of the space The modernization of this production way prompts architects finish the preliminary intention about the space, which is based on the design framework of construction module. Firstly, the design intensifies the outward face of the building. The pitch roof of the shed which is in geometric sequence and the unit repeated elements creates a kind of particular sense of rhythm. The climbing plants make the facades green and lush. The skylights in the building top have control system for sunshade. It can be used for sun shading and heat insulation in the daytime for the activity places. In winter, it can be used to increase the time of sun exposure and for heat preservation.  Various spaces suits for gallery and performance. Image © Xiao Wang There are not many complex technical barriers in this process. The only notable point is the rencher system with mechanical fans. It utilizes fans to blow the drencher curtains, letting the water evaporate, at the same time the heat is absorbed. It can have a good effect of ventilation heat removal in summer. The construction mode of the whole village possesses the high level of construction completion, which is convenient and feasible. It is consistent with the sustainability and replicability of the agricultural space. The second change: to provide urban people with a unique space for countryside holiday  After three months renovation, the new multifunction spaces are formed. Image © Xiao Wang A large Chinese agricultural population migrates to cities. It is an irreversible fact. While, urban people go back to the countryside and consumes in leisure time becomes a new tendency. There is only an hour's drive from Jiaxing to those three big cities, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. And when it comes to sunshine and green plants, Jiaxing has the unique superiority. But one of the premises to set up consumption space is the urban people's identity with the countryside. Such identity is not only from emotion, but also depends on the aesthetic framework of the physical space.  One square meter unit with 3D landscape. Image © Xiao Wang In this project, the space with 6 meters storey height forms three-dimensional landscape by piling up the structural units, which are all 1 meter square. It creates a shopping place, open but introverted. It is called "Market-Ji", which means market. This market adopts the traditional market form. The stalls are scattered in every corner under the shed and form streets and lanes in some parts. Varied organic farm products, precision-machined subsidiary agricultural products, clothes and fabric art and so on, pass a healthy idea, which is green and pure.  Modulus unit is the basic form the center's space The design layout is from the village concept of traditional residential culture, which is living in a clan. Above the overall space, it builds picturesque disorder activity places. And the space beneath them works as the auxiliary function, providing the space for the party, reception and food processing rooms and so on, to enrich the service idea of the market.  Dining space_dining tables. Image © Xiao Wang The third change: to spark creativity with the innovation of local country living.  Market space. Image © Xiao Wang In the future that city capital reformats rural China, the space chances of Chinese countryside are not only depend on agricultural production and holiday consumption of urban population. If there are some chances, the real charm of Chinese villages is more likely from creative art industries with agricultural characteristics. Where there is an industry, there is popularity. Living and working in peace will only further improve the environment quality of rural China.  A part of the center. Image © Xiao Wang "Echigo-Tsumari Art" in Japanese, "Bishan plan" in Yixian County, Anhui, "Art Restoration Movement" in Xu village, Shanxi and "In the Central Field" plan in Taiwan all indirectly promote creativity upgrading of rural industries to varying degrees. Once agricultural has a stage of creativity, the space would play a role on catalyst randomly.  Dining space. Image © Xiao Wang Therefore, in the "Art-Ji " design of Jiaxing Xi-Yue Village, the key to the future is not the landscape construction, but how to activate creative space, to bring more new industries, to activate countryside resources, to inherit traditional handcraft art, folk art forms and other Chinese folk arts, to let more people create own cultural events and art activities by eating and playing, to enrich the industry pattern of agriculture, culture and tourism in Jiaxing.  The "level-up" design suits the agricultural context. Image © Xiao Wang Beside the expressway to Jiaxing, there is another expressway called "Internet", which also bring Xi-Yue Village people and information. Since the Village open, it has held handcraft cultural festival, light food cultural festival and other festivals successfully, bringing thousands of people interactive experience. Maybe in the foreseeable future, it will have more forms to pass the beauty of countryside leisurely, agreeably and warmly by combing the art and the creation.  Some part of the center remains for further expansion. Image © Xiao Wang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Red Wall Café / B336 Design Group Posted: 13 Nov 2018 01:00 PM PST  © Eric Zhang
 © Eric Zhang Text description provided by the architects. Time Story is a narrative space designed for Red Wall Café on Jing Shan Xi Street, Beijing, by B336 Design Group. During the design, we extracted five scenes From Beijng native's homes, and hoped the color and other elements from these scenes would rouse the inner memories from everyone, then to construct an image world overlapped with themselves and external environment.  © Eric Zhang Red Wall Café locates in the west side of Jing Shan Xi Street, in where the native people has lived for decades, even generations, and they remain living the old way. After the last street remediation, many stores except Red Wall café were removed, it became the only business place on the street, stopped in the old times with the surrounding residents to witness the red color of Jingshan yard wall and the tourists come and go.  Axonometric Chinese people share the unforgettable memories of home and life from the last century, through extracting and collaging from these memories, our design team created five home scenes for Red wall Café, which are Combine-unit, Yard, Livingroom, Closet and Greenhouse. These five scenes are independent and separated from each other, but when it comes to their corresponding dining room functions, they are correlated to each other.  © Eric Zhang Scene I, Combine-Unit: Reception Desk and Bar Counter  © Eric Zhang  Concept Diagram  © Eric Zhang  Concept Diagram  © Eric Zhang Scene II, Yard：Dining area  © Eric Zhang  Concept Diagram  © Eric Zhang Scene III, Livingroom & Scene IV, Closet：Dining area  © Eric Zhang Scene V, Greenhouse：Passageway  © Eric Zhang  © Eric Zhang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Blinco Street House / Philip Stejskal Architecture Posted: 13 Nov 2018 12:00 PM PST  © Bo Wong
 © Bo Wong Text description provided by the architects. Our client was a single FIFO worker at the start of the project, who wanted a laid-back and robust sanctuary back home. He would arrive by car from the airport after a month off-shore and wanted the house to be instrumental in readjusting his mindset back into an on-shore, city-based existence for the ensuing month. The home needed to allow a gradual adjustment. Nothing too abrupt. Connection with Fremantle, but also plenty of privacy and dimly lit space to enjoy solitude. A place that was gentle on the senses, yet also engaging. Together with the client, we devised an entrance sequence to perform the initial reset.  © Bo Wong From the garage, entry is via a back gate, which provides access to a protected porch with lush potted vegetation. From here a solid front door with a high light window. Pass through this into a narrow space with brick floor and walls, dark stained plywood cabinetry and a pond visible through a frameless glass door. A compressive and contemplative space. A right turn leads into a circular space with a low ceiling: the library, which doubles as circulation nexus. From here go straight ahead into the living room; turn right for the spiral stairwell; left for the kitchen; or hook right for the toilet.  © Bo Wong  Sectional Perspective  © Bo Wong A place to re-orientate and also to remember. The final stop before passing through deep thresholds to parts of the house where local living can begin. The kitchen, still dimly lit and cross-ventilated through louvers from the pond, is a galley and becomes a built-in dining booth at the northern end. The dining room shares a single story volume with the kitchen, which gives way to a double height volume passing East towards the living room. The living room is where the solitude of the ground floor encounters the cheer of a brighter and more outward looking on the first floor, via a double height volume.  © Bo Wong  Ground Floor Plan  © Bo Wong This transition is less gradual in the spiral staircase, where black-stained treads switch to lime-washed ones just below the first-floor landing. Lime-washed timbers and white walls predominate on the first floor, which is brightened by many windows and a double-glazed skylight over the corridor. Doors are frameless and skirting boards integrated. The focus is downwards and outwards. To the North, a full-width operable lattice screen provides sun protection and privacy for both levels of the house.  © Bo Wong  Exploded Axonometric  © Bo Wong The screen is made of Hardie Lattice, an economical off-the-shelf product appropriated to painted Duragal frames on simple pin hinges and rod stays. They, along with abundant quantities of face brick, painted concrete floors, integrated glazed brick splashbacks and plywood lend the home a rudimentary and relaxed feel. The client wanted to kick off his shoes, walk in off the beach, have his friends over without worrying too much. The surfaces have been designed with this in mind, as robust and hardy finishes.  © Bo Wong  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Shangjia Maker Space II / HUA Architects Posted: 13 Nov 2018 11:00 AM PST  Lobby. Image © Haiting Sun
 Lobby. Image © Haiting Sun Space Design  Lobby. Image © Haiting Sun According to analysis of natural lighting, we can find that the area which is 6 ~ 7 meters far away from the external walls and windows meets the natural lighting standard for office space and thus can be used as office space; the middle area with poor lighting needs supplementary artificial lighting and can be used as traffic space and shared space.  Lobby. Image © Haiting Sun With regard to ventilation, after comparing various plans, we finally chose to drill big holes in floorslabs of the second floor and adopt mechanical ventilation at the top of the second floor to make the air volume and air changing frequency meet the standard for office space. During transformation, the owner needed to keep a part of function as the plant building on the first floor, so only one big hole has been drilled.  Lighting and setting. Image © Haiting Sun Above analysis of lighting and ventilation for the building basically defines the space structure of this case.  Comparison of different ventilation schemes Design of Movable Multifunctional Partitions
When a team is observed from the angle of life circle, the development trace of its scale is distributed in a normal fashion on the time axis. Different teams sharing a big space have different development degrees at some point on the time axis, so there is a situation that normal curves of all teams overlap at the same time point. As the time axis moves, scales of all teams also change, and the team scale is reflected as space size in the space, which means that – in the whole space, interfaces among parts of the space must be dynamic and not static.  Different organ's life span in the space There are lifting wheels at the top of movable multifunctional partitions, which can freely slide in the grid tracks to meet combined needs of all kinds of spaces.A partition takes steel frames as its structure, and its panels, which can be substituted freely, can be felts, sunlight boards, wooden planks or panels of other materials. The both sides of a steel frame have two AA columns to which multifunctional components including bookshelf boards and drawers, desktops, coat hangers, curtain frames, magnetic white boards and desk lamp clamps with different heights and depths can be fixed. These components and panels can be combined freely depending on demands and be continuously extended to meet the use functions of all teams.  Second floor office space. Image © Haiting Sun To ensure that the partitions have general properties, sizes for all partitions are all the same. Because non-modular sizes are needed among partitions and between partitions and buildings, we designed a pair of movable doors which can overlap to deal with these sizes. The movable doors which can overlap can be used as not only doors for each part but also a partition between two spaces.  Entrance. Image © Haiting Sun To adapt to dynamic space changes, the positions of light fittings must be movable. According to the design, intelligent sockets are arranged at certain intervals in the tracks at the top. There are two ways of fixing light fittings: the first is overhead lights which are fixed in the track at the top with a kind of fixing components; the second is wall lamps, which are fixed to AA columns of partitions with another kind of fixing components. Two kinds of light fittings can be energized though intelligent sockets. Therefore, possibility for wireless lighting control and flexible moving for light fittings are realized.  Lighting and setting. Image © Haiting Sun  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Tailored Home / Lloyd Hartley Architects Posted: 13 Nov 2018 09:00 AM PST  © David Straight
 © David Straight Text description provided by the architects. Presented with a client holding a prominent position within the New Zealand couture fashion industry, we explored the metaphor of tailoring to provide an altered silhouette and 'clothing' for an existing plastered home with Modernist intentions. As such, this project became a study in finding methods to express hems, darts and trims to create a crafted and bespoke re-clad solution.  © David Straight  Axonometry  © David Straight The materiality was selected to enhance the handcrafted nature of the dwelling's new clothes. The narrow cedar boards suggest a finely woven suiting material and the carefully crafted folded seams of the aluminium roofing panels further emphasize this tailored approach.  © David Straight The fitted garment notion is most explicitly seen in the Entry where the upper and lower levels of the building are connected using an overlay device of backlit perforated metal screens to create a type of facing or cuff to define the Entry. The perforated metal panels are defined through a gold piping and are given a fabric like bias through the directional back lighting. The soffit to wall junction over this area is deliberately negotiated using a folded metal flashing to provide a hem to the base of the vertical cedar cladding, stopping the visual unravelling of this edge and concealing the underside of the ever present cavity closer.  © David Straight The home now reads as a cohesive whole, cutting a fine figure on its prominent waterfront site.  © David Straight  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Thai's Apartment / INÁ Arquitetura Posted: 13 Nov 2018 08:00 AM PST  © Maíra Acayaba
 © Maíra Acayaba  © Maíra Acayaba Text description provided by the architects. Thai’s apartment was a renovation of an old apartment in one of São Paulo’s biggest avenues, 9 de Julho, to house a young single man who just moved back into the city and loves cooking and having people over. The building was built around the 1950s and has a privilegie view to Paulista, one of the most important avenue of the state, which had an important part in the design concept alongside the redistribution of the rooms, prioritizing the social areas and the renovation for a cleaner and more contemporary approach in the design. With the expansion of the living room by joining the extra bedroom and kitchen, the social area was completely renovated making a lot more space for Thai to host all the people he’d like and still be able to switch the layout around to better suit his needs in a fluid manner.
The finishings touches of the design are led by simplicity and keeping the true aspects of the materials originally used, such as the concrete of the beams and pillars, the parquet wooden floor that was restaured after being covered by carpet flooring for years, and even the restauration of the original wooden window frames. For making the city skyline the center of the design concept and keeping the ceiling as clean as possible, all lighting work was done indirectly by sconces and light strips integrated to the walls and furniture. The kitchen also went through a complete renovation: starting by the dark granite countertop with over one meter of width that limits the room and allows plenty of working space for cooking all kinds of food, comfortably. The white polyurethane floor gets mixed visually with the white walls and brings out the darker cabinets and black steelframe of the glass pannel that separates the laundry area.  © Maíra Acayaba  © Maíra Acayaba Besides the demolished walls, the toilet was remodeled to have its door to the living areas instead of the kitchen. The space was brought to life by a vibrant blue paint and indirect lighting as the rest of the apartment. The suíte’s bathroom was also redone. Keeping the black and white color scheme of the other wet areas, the size of the room was exploited for making it not only functional but a place for relaxation, with two ceiling-showers and a marble seat inside the shower area. The renovation was completed in a few months and Thai was able to move into his new home that presents a lot more functionality and actually translates his personality and lifestyle so he can enjoy his new begining in the city and the beautiful view from his new apartment.
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| Sackett Hill House / Deborah Berke Partners Posted: 13 Nov 2018 06:00 AM PST  © Catherine Tighe
 © Michael Granacki Text description provided by the architects. On a large property in northwestern Connecticut, we designed this modern house to frame a long view to the south. The property is accessed by a long curving driveway through the densely wooded site. Upon arrival at the pea gravel parking area, visitors walk on a stone path through an opening in a historic stone fence to reach the house, a subtle threshold that heightens awareness of the landscape. Inside, the expansive view of the rolling grassy hills and the pool are revealed.  © Michael Granacki  Plan  © Catherine Tighe All of the family's program—four bedrooms, a library, home office, kitchen, screen porch and large open living area—are on one floor in two long volumes forming an "L," one side of which contains the public areas, the other side the more private spaces. Polished concrete floors reflect the abundant natural night. Pale wood paneling lines the walls of many of the interior volumes, adding warmth and texture to the interiors.  © Catherine Tighe  © Catherine Tighe The rigorously-modern composition of glass and blackened wood contrasts with the rustic wooded hillside and old stone walls on the property. The dark horizontal massing of the house has the effect of disappearing into the shadows below the tree line. The house offers numerous physical and visual connections to the meadow outside and mountains beyond.  © Catherine Tighe  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Amazon Selects Both New York City and Arlington for HQ2 Posted: 13 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PST  Amazon Seattle HQ. Image © Flickr user Joe Behr licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 Amazon has selected New York City and Arlington for it's next headquarters, set to become two of the biggest economic development projects in the United States. Instead of choosing one site, Amazon will spread over $5 billion in construction and investments across the two locations. The tech giant will house at least 25,000 employees in each city, and could receive more than $2 billion in tax incentives. The new announcement ends a 14-month competition among cities across the country.  via Amazon Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said in a statement that "with Amazon committing to expand its headquarters in Long Island City, New York can proudly say that we have attracted one of the largest, most competitive economic development investments in U.S. history." Amazon may receive up to $1.2 billion in incentives from New York state's Excelsior program, while in Virginia, the company could receive up to $550 million in cash incentives. In January, Amazon narrowed the list to 20 locations, with places in nine of the 10 largest regions in the country. The tech company, based in Seattle, selected the finalists from more than 238 applications from cities located in Mexico, Canada and the United States, each hoping to raise their global profile and jump start their individual economies with the 50,000 new jobs the company said it would create. Amazon is now set to become one of the largest private tech employers on the East Coast, and will start hiring in New York and Virginia in 2019. News via New York Times  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| espacioSOLO / estudio Herreros Posted: 13 Nov 2018 04:00 AM PST  © Javier Callejas
 © Javier Callejas Text description provided by the architects. espacioSOLO is the headquarters and archive of an art collection. It gives shelter to an artistic panorama linked to post-pop and post-street-art movements in all formats. It aims to bring artists closer to the people, to excite young people with the world of creativity, to stimulate a thousand conversations, and to explore new ways of looking and thinking. It is a place of work, an environment for the sheer pleasure of being lost in time, a multifunctional meeting point, and a scenario that allows people to connect and participate in multiple conversations.  © Javier Callejas  Floor Plan  © Javier Callejas The layout is organized into corridors that function as an urban system of streets and squares, invoking the context of urban art: grey concrete floors, walls of industrial cement panels and wood fiber have an impressive presence thanks to spectacular lighting. As in the city, these itineraries vary in width; from a narrow passage to an expanded plaza-like space where collective activity can be improvised.  © Javier Callejas  © Javier Callejas The series of spaces includes austere, museum-like exhibition halls, furnished spaces that introduce a domestic content into the experience, storage spaces, technical spaces for management, and high-rise spaces capable of housing large-format works (such as a lobby that connects the space with the city) or the welcoming auditorium that ends the visit in an enveloping configuration. It makes the trajectory feel like a Möbius strip and invites visitors to return to the exhibition circuit. The overall experience is one of continuous movement as if the collection is in permanent transformation.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The First "Maidan Tent" is Built to Aid Refugees in Greece Posted: 13 Nov 2018 03:00 AM PST  © Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti In an effort to aid the plight of refugees around the world fleeing war and persecution, two young architects in 2016 embarked on a project designed to improve the mental health of refugees in camps. Led by Bonaventura Visconti di Modrone and Leo Bettini Oberkalmsteiner, and supported by the UN International Organization for Migration, "Maidan Tent" allows refugees to benefit from indoor public space – a communal area to counteract the psychological trauma induced by war, persecution, and forced migration. Two years on, the first tent has been installed at the Ritsona refugee camp in Greece, currently hosting more than 800 refugees. The camp which now hosts the inaugural Maidan Tent was also the subject site where the design team made eight visits to throughout the past two years.  © Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti During the visits, the team reflected on their conversations with refugees. They recognized a psychological 'migration trauma' within the community, the result of dangerous journeys in improvised or unsafe rafts across the Mediterranean Sea.  © Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti In refugee camps, a sprawling arrangement of tents and containers, and a lack of common areas can generate alienation and disorientation. The design team, therefore, believe that the public, organized common area offered by Maidan Tent can allow the community to play, interact, and empathize under a moveable, sheltered, expressive structure. The word 'Maidan' is itself derived from the Arabic for 'square', further reflecting the scheme's dedication to social interaction.  © Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti Maidan Tent covers an area of 200 square meters, with an aluminum structure covered by a water, wind, and fire resistant textile offering a sheltered, safe environment for up to 100 people. The shelter is inherently flexible, with standardized components allowing for easy installation and maintenance, and eight modular spaces which can be adapted for a range of uses.  © Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti The scheme's circular shape is a conscious attempt to invite people to enter from any direction, where a series of semi-private spaces can enable refugees to establish personal relationships.  © Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti Learn more about Maidan Tent from the official website here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sesc Avenida Paulista / Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados Posted: 13 Nov 2018 02:00 AM PST  © Pedro Vannucchi
 © Pedro Vannucchi Text description provided by the architects. The new unit stands out as an extension of the Avenue itself, establishing itself as a free territory to be appropriated by the general public. Among its structural characteristics, the concept is developed in the large accesses, in the various areas of coexistence - with internal squares and a terrace at the top - and even in the choice of materials, such as the use of non-reflective glass. The option for the material, which appears conjugated to zinc plates on the facade, reveals the various activities carried out inside the building. Architecture is only completed when activated by the movement of people, and for this relationship every structure was conceived with the actions that will be developed in the Unit, guided by the "Body-Art-Technology" trinomial.  © Pedro Vannucchi "The configuration of the east and west facades, with horizontal features, allows users a new look at the city while breaking with the typical typology of Paulista Avenue office buildings, announcing a new use of the old building (designed by Sérgio Pileggi and Euclides de Oliveira in the 1970s), divided between Sesc and Fecomércio, and a new and democratic audience, "says Gianfranco Vannucchi, the architect responsible for the project.  © Pedro Vannucchi Access to the new unit, from Av. Paulista, takes place in a large area of coexistence with multipurpose space and a paracycle with capacity for 40 bicycles. In the ground floor there are also two escalators, 6 elevators and two pressurized fire stairs for access to the upper floors. In the 2nd Floor is the Relationship Center and living area, as well as the Sesc store.  © Pedro Vannucchi  Pilotis Plan  © Pedro Vannucchi The various spaces and services - Café Terrace, Library, Children's Room, Technology and Arts, Sports halls and Shows, Shop and Dental Offices - were distributed over 17 floors, with four basic aspects: the neighborhood between similar activities, levels of noise produced by the activities, the volume of the public accessing the unit and the external visuals.  © Pedro Vannucchi Reinforcing this integration between the activities and the pavements of exposure there are voids in the slabs, totally open. Stairs were created between floors, visually and physically integrating the activities of the unit. It was also tried to leave the pavements as free as possible in order to allow great flexibility in their uses.  © Pedro Vannucchi In addition to the aesthetic effect, the large glass slide acts as an acoustic and thermal antechamber, always flanked by a naturally ventilated internal terrace, which acts as a screen for refrigerated environments. These, in turn, have their corridor seals defined from the amount of light desired, in glass with solar control and spaces for shows and exhibitions are contemplated with blackout. The other facades are sealed with light precast or masonry, reducing in this way the thermal and acoustic loads coming from the outside.  © Pedro Vannucchi  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Cynical Optimism of Living Architecture Posted: 13 Nov 2018 01:30 AM PST  Dune House / JVA. Image © Nils Petter Dale Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project - a joyful, democratically-minded concept to share quality architecture in the UK - was borne out of personal crisis. The Swiss-born philosopher and author gained fame in both popular and architectural circles following the release of his book, "The Architecture of Happiness." The book was immediately successful (movie buffs may recall its brief cameo in the 2009 film 500 Days of Summer), but the response unsettled Botton. "...However pleasing it is two write a book about an issue one feels passionately about," he explained to Assemble Papers, "the truth is that - a few exceptions aside - books don't change anything. I realized that if I cared so much about architecture, writing was a coward's way out; the real challenge was to build." More specifically, the real challenge was to build well and build openly. So much of architecture (particularly at the domestic scale) is held privately and exists only in staged photos to the general public. Even in this typology photos focus more on the interplay of light, form, and material, rather than on domestic scenes. People are an afterthought, used more to indicate scale than to suggest animation. It's no wonder "architecture" seems out of reach. Botton's answer to this challenge was Living Architecture, a series of homes designed by architects available to the public for rent and deployed across the UK. The isolated and occasionally mundane locations of the homes are by intention. Botton posits that much of the UK's reticence toward modern architecture stems from the fact that, for the majority of people, modern is synonymous with either luxurious mansions or decrepit housing estates. In short, either unachievable or undesirable. But there is a middle ground, and Living Architecture aims to make it more visible to the general public. As Peter Zumthor's Secular Retreat quickly approaches completion, it's an opportune moment to look at the variety of interpretations the chosen architects have of a modern, middle-class home. And despite the provocative nature of many of the projects, it's a more sensible experiment than it might initially seem. So much of architecture depends on outside impressions and staged glimpses. Experience - even only briefly - offers a more genuine impression of how architecture can be interwoven in daily life. With the UK's housing crisis deepening, perhaps it's wise to not just make plans and design buildings but feel them also. Architecture can - and should - be an active element in enhancing the quality of life. Secular Retreat - Peter Zumthor Secular Retreat / Peter Zumthor. Image Courtesy of Peter Zumthor, Living Architecture Zumthor's house lies in the hills of Devon, in an undulating landscape of fields and valleys. Like much of his oeuvre, Zumthor's Secular Retreat is a delicate balance between architecture and the environment, revealing how good design can be an inextricable part of its context. House for Essex - FAT & Grayson Perry A House for Essex / FAT & Grayson Perry. Image © Gilbert McCarragher FAT, the legendary London studio, created this house in Essex with artist Grayson Perry as their last official work before disbanding. The house is sumptuously decorated and references a wide range of architectural movements and contexts - not least among them Essex itself. Shingle House - NORD (Northern Office for Research and Design) NORD Architects. ImageShingle House / NORD Located on the shingle beach of Dungeness, NORD's Shingle House is one of only a few structures in the area. The house is clad in tarred black timber, creating a strong and geometric silhouette in the empty landscape. Inside, the timber panelled walls are left white to create a bright and light-filled space for reflection and relaxation. Life House - John Pawson Life House / John Pawson . Image © Gilbert McCarragher John Pawson, the famed British minimalist behind London's Design Museum took a characteristically restrained approach to his project. The house draws inspiration from Walden, it's isolated and insulated location providing the ideal space for a calm and reflective retreat. Indeed, the house very nearly blends into its setting, with the dark exterior brickwork matching the blackened gorse of the surrounding fields. Balancing Barn - MVRDV © Edmund Sumner. ImageBalancing Barn / MVRDV MVRDV's take on the challenge is arguably the outlier in the set. Seemingly mundane from the front (the entry elevation is reminiscent of a child's drawing of a house), the house then extends backward to cantilever precipitously off the edge of a hill. The cantilever is both a dramatic architectural move and creates a second, exterior space for living. It's a bold interpretation of what a house can be: a place that is as animated as the lives it houses. Long House - Hopkins Architects ©Hopkins Architects / Living Architecture. ImageLong House / Hopkins Architects Hopkins Architects' Long House, takes a traditional and basic housing structure and pulls it apart, creating a clerestory level that admits light into the stone-clad house. The structure - one of the largest in Living Architecture's portfolio - fits comfortably in its agricultural context. Dune House - Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects Dune House / JVA. Image © Nils Petter Dale The Dune House, by Jarmund / Vigsnæs reinterprets the undulating form of a dune in angular geometries. Multiple pitched roofs cover the open plan structure, which is finished inside with light timber and board-formed concrete.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MAD Architects Begin Construction on Floating Kindergarten above Historic Beijing Courtyard Posted: 13 Nov 2018 01:00 AM PST  © SAN Construction has begun on MAD Architect's "Courtyard Kindergarten" in Beijing. Located on the site of a traditional siheyuan courtyard dating from 1725, MAD's proposal sees a new building inserted to protect the surroundings, and reinvigorate the existing buildings into use. The courtyard will be surrounded by a "dynamic floating roof" offering a "multi-layered urban narrative, where old and new co-exist." The rooftop element is envisioned as a "place full of magic – a playful escape for the children that is a symbol of freedom and endless imagination."  © SAN The new addition adopts a low, gentle posture, creating a colorful playground for outdoor sports and activities. The southwest side features an undulating surface of hills and plains, forming a playful landscape of high and low terrains.  © SAN Beneath the roof, the kindergarten's interior contains open-concept teaching spaces, a library, small theater, and gymnasium. The open nature of the space lends to "a free and inclusive atmosphere" for 400 children. The positioning of the learning space, opening towards historic buildings, offers alternating views of old and new throughout the scheme, allow children to deepen their understanding of time and dimension.  © SAN The form of the scheme was also heavily influenced by the need to respect and envelope three ancient trees on the site, from which MAD have created outdoor spaces to flood the interior with natural light.  © SAN
 © SAN The scheme is currently under construction, with the scheme expected to open in autumn 2019. Principal Partners in Charge: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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