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- The World Architecture Festival Announces Day Two Winners
- Rethinking Le Corbusier's Manifesto: 6 Explorations That Break Away From Modernist Ideals
- House in Pontaillac / A6A
- Torvehallen / DANØ Arkitektur
- Family House “Heart” / Daniela Polubědovová
- TWIST Studentisches Wohnen ETH Zürich / architektick
- Hey Banda / balbek bureau
- Niloufar Villa / Line Architecture Studio
- ETC House / Rakta Studio
- Nomad House / A D Lab
- Renovation of Beverly Center / Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
- Golfo de Darien House / Cristobal Vial Arquitectos
- the coffee / Studio Boscardin.Corsi Arquitetura
- Aires Mateus Reveals Design for the Toulouse Fine Art Museum
- Split House / hsu-rudolphy
- IKEA and Tom Dixon Collaborate to Design Products for Urban Farming
- ‘GROTTO’ / TAKK
- WAF Day 2 Streaming: Live Lectures from David Adjaye, Francine Houben and Nathalie de Vries
- World Architecture Festival Unveils WAFX 2018 Prize Winners
- Carlo Ratti to Curate Biennale for the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Cities
| The World Architecture Festival Announces Day Two Winners Posted: 29 Nov 2018 05:42 AM PST  WOHA Architects - Kampung Admirality . Image © Patrick Bingham Hall The 2018 World Architecture Festival has announced the second-day winners of this year's edition, featuring works from such diverse firms as SeARCH, Sordo Madaleno, NextOffice, and Grimshaw. The second day's judging categories spanned a wide area, from future masterplanning visions to completed religious structures. The festival, held this year in Amsterdam, will culminate Friday 30 November with the World Building of the Year and Future Project of the Year Awards. These awards, selected from the festival's list of category winners, will be selected by the festival's "super jury": Nathalie de Vries, Frederick Cooper Llosa, Lesley Lokko,Li Xiaodong, and Manuelle Gautrand. The World Architecture Festival features three days of talks, panel discussions, keynotes, and project presentations, this year loosely centred around the concept of 'Identity.' Keynote speakers included Nathalie de Vries, Sir Peter Cook, Lesley Lokko, David Adjaye, and India Mahdavi, covering topics as diverse as the architectural styles of North Sea countries and the deeply personal nature of interior architecture. The full list of WAF 2018's day two winners below: INSIDE AwardsCategory: Residential and Creative Re-Use Very Studio / Che Wang Architects - Sunny Apartment. Image © Te Fang Wang Winner: Very Studio | Che Wang Architecture - Sunny Apartment, Taichung City, Taiwan Highly Commended: studio mk27 - Francesc Macia 10 - FM 10, Barcelona Spain Category: Hotels and Display The Student Hotel Experience Design Team - TSH Campus Barcelona. Image © Luis Beltran Winner: The Student Hotel Experience Design Team - TSH Campus Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Highly Commended: JAC Studios, Yumin Art Nouveau Collection, Phoenix, Jeju, South Korea Category: Civic, Culture & Transport and Bars & Restaurants BVN - Australian Embassy Bangkok. Image © John Gollings Winner: BVN - Australian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand Highly Commended: Concrete - Harrison Urby, Entrance Cafe, Harrison, United States of America  Concrete - Harrison Urby Entrance Cafe .Image © Ewout Huibers Completed BuildingsCategory: Hotel and Leisure Courtesy of SeARCH. ImageSeARCH - Hotel Jakarta Winner: SeARCH - Hotel Jakarta, Javakade, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Category: Housing, Large Scale SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS - The Street, Mathura, India. Image © Dinesh Mehta Winner: SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS - The Street, Mathura, India Highly Commended: WilkinsonEyre - Gasholders London, London, United Kingdom Category: Religion and Shopping Nikken Sekkei - Shanghai Greenland Center. Image © Yang Min Winner: NIKKEN SEKKEI - Shanghai Greenland Center / Greenland Being Funny - Shanghai, China Highly Commended: Foundry of Space [FOS] - MEGAbangna FOODWALK - Samutprakan, Thailand Category: Religion Spheron Architects - Belarusian Memorial Chapel. Image © Joakim Boren Winner: Spheron Architects - Belarusian Memorial Chapel, London, United Kingdom Highly Commended: Fluid Motion Architects, Vali-e-asr Mosque, Tehran, Iran Category: HealthWinner: (Temporary association) AAPROG - BOECKX- B2Ai - Hospital AZ Zeno, Knokke Belgium Category: Higher Education and ResearchWinner: Alison Brooks Architects - Exeter College Cohen Quadrangle, Oxford, United Kingdom Category: House - Future Projects and SchoolWinner: nextoffice - Guyim Vault House Category: VillaWinner: KieranTimberlake - High Horse Ranch, Willits, United States of America Highly Commended: John Wardle Architects - Captain Kelly's Cottage, Bruny Island, Australia Category: TransportWinner: Grimshaw - London Bridge station, London, United Kingdom Category: Mixed Use WOHA Architects - Kampung Admirality. Image © Darren Soh Winner: WOHA - Kampung Admiralty, Singapore, Singapore Future ProjectsCategory: EducationWinner: Warren and Mahoney Architects with Woods Bagot - Lincoln University and AgResearch Joint Facility, Christchurch, New Zealand Category: CultureWinner: Studio 44 Architects - Museum of the siege of Leningrad, St. Petersburg, Russia Category: Masterplanning Sebastian Monsalve + Juan David Hoyos - Medellin River Parks Botanical Park Master Plan. Image © Sebastian Monsalve + Juan David Hoyos Highly Commended: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios - Kirkstall Forge, Leeds, United Kingdom Category: Commercial Mixed UseWinner: Aedas - Commercial Bank Headquarters Mixed-Use Project, Taichung, Taiwan Joint Highly Commended: NEUF architect(e)s - The Mews, Toronto, Canada Joint Highly Commended: TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS - Halic Shipyards, Istanbul, Turkey Category: ResidentialWinner: Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos - Amelia Tulum Highly Commended: Team V Architectuur - HAUT, Amsterdam, Netherlands  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Rethinking Le Corbusier's Manifesto: 6 Explorations That Break Away From Modernist Ideals Posted: 29 Nov 2018 08:00 PM PST  The Society of the Spectacle / Guy Debord
Despite their pranks and dirty politics, the Situationists may have been right after all. The death of architecture students will not be a result of excessive studio work, but will rather occur from the sermonizing repetition of modernist ideals that continue to be taught. In Le Corbusier's manifesto, Vers une Architecture (Toward An Architecture), he advocates for the adoption of modern architecture as the solution to 20th-century global crises, in a way that now seems rather limiting. If the discipline doesn't move past the black-and-white photographs of the Barcelona Pavilion or the reductionist designs of the Bauhaus, students will continue to produce what may now be incorrectly associated with the "right architecture." In order to break away from these stereotypes of what architecture should be, here are six explorations of building, curating and writing that resist these notions: Towards A "Colorful" Architecture via MVRDV MVRDV's Didden Village, a bright blue parapet attached to an existing brick structure in the midst of other such buildings, is proof that one doesn't always need to spray paint their blue foam models white. Color doesn't have to be an afterthought or a poor choice of wallpaper, instead, it can be a defining logic system in the way architecture is designed. Towards An "Impractical" Architecture © Katerina Kamprani "The Uncomfortable" by designer Katerina Kamprani is a series of household objects that are completely unusable; form does not need to follow function. It's time to finally let go of these overused mantras to produce new design and reinterpret how shape and form are viewed. Architecture, though may be purposeful, shouldn't try to become utilitarian and cease the notion of beauty altogether. Towards A "Cute" Architecture Courtesy of Joanna E. Grant Joanna E. Grant's thesis project titled, Overly Attached Cute, argues for the development of a Japanese-aesthetic "kawaii" or the tiny, diminutive, adorable design within the seriousness of architecture discipline. From furniture to fashion, cute and soft objects are normalized design elements, however, they haven't been explored within the field of architecture. Though architects believe every global issue is a problem of architecture, studio projects don't need to (and most probably can't) solve the world in the span of six weeks. Exploring cuteness and simplicity is a new take to this grave discipline. Towards A "Maximalist" Architecture © Plamen Petkov The "Toiletpaper Paradise" exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari is beyond kitsch and explores the theme of tackiness or peculiarity - whatever you wish to call it - in spatial settings. Buildings aren't just empty white walls as architects choose to believe; people inhabit and alter those spaces with individual tastes and experiences. More is more! Towards An "Inclusive" Architecture Courtesy of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects Buildings, designed by the plethora of male architects, are often also created for men. Sarah Wigglesworth's Straw Bale House is a built project that combines the workspace with the domestic space to design for women who have multiple identities: a working woman with a family. She uses the project as a way to redefine the feminist understandings of materiality in both the context and the process of making architecture. Perhaps design needs to start to consider the multiplicity of its users, rather than assuming the same solutions for every user. Towards A "Provocative" Architecture Courtesy of TheLab-Lab If they didn't teach students about the nine-square grid, have they really gone to architecture school? Learning about formalism to understand the spatial form detached from the world has become a somewhat futile exercise. TheLab-Lab's project "Terminal 4 Jetway" is a social commentary in form of a parody that plays on stereotypes of airport security to question the sensibility of virtues deemed to be "good" in South Asian cultures. Though architecture can't solve all of the worlds' problems, the discipline needs to start using its potential for more than just designing buildings - but rather for making a statement.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 07:00 PM PST  © Agnès Clotis
 © Agnès Clotis "To build is to shelter. Raising walls to protect, and put a roof over, make shade." Pierre Lajus.  © Agnès Clotis Building a detached house nowadays, and particularly in the Royan region, a territory marked by the arrival of the modern movement during the 1950s, represents an architectural exercise in its own right.  © Agnès Clotis  Axonometric  © Agnès Clotis The interest is not to bend to an aesthetic or a dogma, but rather to take advantage of this opportunity to better understand its vocabulary and codes. They go well beyond a façade work, and very often push the drawing towards a great intelligence in plan and a strong flexibility in the ways of appropriating it.  © Agnès Clotis  Ground floor plan The idea is to build a two-speed house. First, a place for the couple, whose activity will be gathered on the ground floor. Then, when the family is complete, the floor and its terrace offer the necessary surfaces to accommodate children and grandchildren. We wanted to work an architecture that opens with measure, controlling the light, in the ways of Palazuelo's engravings, where the black (the shade) is torn to occasionally let the white (the light) pass through.  © Agnès Clotis From this desire comes a frank project, heavy. Surrounded by notions as stereotomy, thickness and gravity. The concrete block is coated with white, to catch this light from the ocean, and only the floor and rooftop elements appear in its true raw nature. This gray concrete marks two broad, horizontal lines, anchoring the building further in the ground. A house where you feel sheltered.  © Agnès Clotis  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Thomas Mølvig
 © Thomas Mølvig 'Torvehallen' – a covered market in Ry  © Thomas Mølvig The building provides a covered space, a flexible shelter from the sun and rain for almost any activities – market, concerts, children's play or just a place to relax, but – equally important - to give the urban space character and identity – even when the structure and the square is left empty.  Timber structure Archetypal longhouse  © Thomas Mølvig From a distance 'Torvehallen' belongs to the surrounding more traditional building typology, but a surprise awaits visitors when stepping inside. The load-bearing construction itself is elegantly built from sawn timber of reddish Douglas Pine. The structure is complex at first sight but is in fact based on a repetitive concept with simple joints – providing the structural stability – an honest all-visible construction.  Section One might imagine a resemblance to the surrounding forest – the tree trunks - the crowns of trees. The sunshine flowing through the building creates a beautiful interplay of shadows, and when darkness falls, the wooden construction is illuminated – presenting its inner playfulness to the outside – adding a warm glow to the entire urban space.  © Thomas Mølvig On the facade along the railway the building is more closed, creating a back to the square, with seats and niches made from plywood, but also large windows to allow lightness and visibility through the building.  Detail facade The second stage of the project will see the addition of two more modules and a small café, and the gables will be closed off with glass. The structure is prepared for large glass sliding doors in the long facade, to be left opened and closed when required - for further flexible use all-year around.  © Thomas Mølvig  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Family House “Heart” / Daniela Polubědovová Posted: 29 Nov 2018 05:00 PM PST .jpg?1543451831 "© Filip Šlapal") © Filip Šlapal
.jpg?1543451382 "© Filip Šlapal") © Filip Šlapal Text description provided by the architects. The assignment of the investor, the shape of the parcel, and the location in Havlíčkův Brod was both an inspiration and an impulse to create an organic form for a new type of a family house. The project was from the start called "The heart" because the floor plan strongly evokes such shape. .jpg?1543450127 "© Filip Šlapal") © Filip Šlapal The sloping terrain of the parcel with its gradual descent creates a difference in height which in relation to the street level is about the height of one standard floor. This newly created space was used as a garage (with direct access from the property) and is used to house all of the necessary amenities like the boiler, storage and a utility room.The main living area of the house is set on the highest part of the property (with relation to the sloping street level). .jpg?1543449242 "© Filip Šlapal") © Filip Šlapal Coming from the street, you will be welcomed by the friendly and open theme we chose for this side of the property. This is why the house is positioned closer to the pavement and is for the most part left without any fences. .jpg?1543450826 "© Filip Šlapal") © Filip Šlapal In the entrance it was necessary to create a feeling of intimacy of a homely living space and the relatively closed facade has only a few windows. The living quarter which contains the bedroom, the living room and the kitchen are facing the garden with an entrance to the balcony with a beautiful view of the nearby forest. .jpg?1543451654 "© Filip Šlapal") © Filip Šlapal In harmony with the surrounding nature we chose to use mostly natural materials and colours. To enhance the elegant curves of the house, the facade is covered in a rusty vertical corrugated metal with a very smooth wave pattern. The pergola is made out of wooden beams which copy the wave pattern of the glass facade and is creating a sort of an eyelash over the open windows of the house. .jpg?1543449542 "Plan") Plan The green roof, wild greenery lawns, thick bamboo patches and rusty rebar poles of the surrounding fences add to a combination of colours which harmoniously fits in with the ever-changing colour palette of the surrounding scenery. .jpg?1543449299 "© Filip Šlapal") © Filip Šlapal We kept with the natural theme in the interior as well. This is not only the colour and material selection such as old wood, natural stone, heavy wooden beams, shades of light green, sky blue, dark green, but also in the design decisions of individual features. Door handles, handrails, pulleys on heating features in bathrooms were specially cast from aluminium, based on real twigs, leaves and wooden stumps which were locally sourced. .jpg?1543449693 "Section") Section The investor's enthusiasm for these experiments and his technical possibilities were a huge help and made the entire process run very smoothly. .jpg?1543450726 "© Filip Šlapal") © Filip Šlapal  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| TWIST Studentisches Wohnen ETH Zürich / architektick Posted: 29 Nov 2018 04:00 PM PST  © René Dürr
 © René Dürr Text description provided by the architects. Three building volumes smoothly interlock. They create a succession of diverse spatial sequences and form a rhythmic open space that is rich in variety and offers a high-quality place to spend time.  © lerichti The route layout becomes a key element and generates a interesting dynamism. On the ground floor, there are common rooms, a classroom for the ETH, a nursery school and supplementary rooms that facilitate the student accommodation.  © René Dürr  Ground floor plan  © ©Achim Birnbaum The standard floors are exclusively reserved for student living and conceived for shared flats. Each shared flat accommodates 6 to 10 people. In total, 63 flats with 485 rooms and 12 studios are provided.  © René Dürr  Facade - concept  © lerichti  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 03:00 PM PST  © Yevhenii Avramenko
 © Yevhenii Avramenko Text description provided by the architects. An extravagant office of the Ukrainian creative agency Banda Agency is located on Vozdvizhenka in the historical district of Kyiv. Banda Agency wanted to create a comfortable working space suitable for an artistic soul. Embracing their desire to make employees feel like they're anywhere else but not at work, we provided the creative office of the agency with an extraordinary meeting room in the form of a swimming pool, a vibrant bar area, and spacious working tables.  © Yevhenii Avramenko  Floor plan  © Yevhenii Avramenko The office is divided into following functional units - a front desk, 4 working spaces, 2 meeting rooms, 2 lounge areas, a kitchen and a terrace.  © Yevhenii Avramenko Vintage retro furniture bought at the flea market was restored and partly refinished. The entire office feels open and light, designed in minimalist style with an industrial look.  © Yevhenii Avramenko  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Niloufar Villa / Line Architecture Studio Posted: 29 Nov 2018 01:00 PM PST  © Deed Studio
 © Deed Studio Text description provided by the architects. Niloufar villa with a total area of 700m2 is constructed on an area of 800m2 in Lavasan.  © Deed Studio This project is located in a relatively dense urban neighborhood in a narrow, uneven terrain. The owner decided to use the villa temporarily for holidays and the program was based due to this fact.  © Deed Studio In addition, his desire was to build the maximum possible construction and use of heights for a wider prospect due to lack of land for landscaping.Due to the limited width of the terrain in the northern section where the villa should be constructed, the architects, decided to layout the spaces considering the limitations and spaces priority. In this way, the whole project is categorized internally and externally to a specified mass that shows inside and outside as an integrated unit, and this integration brings freedom of action for the residents.  © Deed Studio Accordingly to this applied concept, the masses rotate and this rotation leads outdoor light and scenes, to penetrate all spaces of the project, resulting in a house with numerous small and large courtyard and terraces. It keeps the volume live to see and to be seen.Creating a functional and attractive scenario for residents from the very first time entering the villa by connecting space and simultaneous control of natural landscape ,may result in a fluid and diverse mix of closed, semi-open, and open space, available at every corner of the project.  © Deed Studio The vertical and horizontal movement of the inhabitants of the house,slips slowly alongside each other to give a dynamic and continuous change of vision and perspective to the project.In this villa empty space plays a detailed role in internal and exterior volumes, and the project, accompanies the users,using their senses all over the project.  © Deed Studio Open space penetration into the volume influences the organization of the model horizontally and vertically This route is clearly understood inside and outside the project, and architects, without fear of weakening the main concept, provide the maximum diversity and visibility into it.  © Deed Studio  Section A-A  © Deed Studio From this point on, the design process of volume changes, and the open and semi-open spaces are the priorities of the project.  © Deed Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 12:00 PM PST  © KIE
 © KIE Text description provided by the architects. Located in a residential complex, the ETC hobby house is a 150 m2 building that was built to meet the need of a personal basketball playground for the children of the house owner. The three children have a hobby playing basketball and their friends often gather there to spend their free time.  © KIE The "Rakta Studio" Architecture Firm chosen by the house owner to create a "hobby house", applies the Japanesse style design concept combined with the Tropical Modern style that has become a characteristic design of Rakta Studio itself.  Section ETC hobby house has the following space functions: sitting room, kitchen, toilet, and carport. The building also has a garden planted with grass and ornamental plants so as to provide cool air and comfort for those who enter it. Ornamental plant pots are also placed on the side of the building, facing the ranks of iron pillars that function as a dividing wall.  © KIE The inner wall is decorated with pictures of basketball games in the form of a black silhouette, thus clarifying the function of the building as a place to play basketball. This wall borders a simple modern kitchen.  © KIE When the day was approaching late afternoon, the beautiful lights mounted on the floor of the hallway exuded a nuanced feel and beautified the room. In the corner of the room is a bamboo hanging chair that can be a place to relax while watching a basketball game or a place to rest.  © KIE Standing among other residences, ETC house hobbies are the most unique homes among other houses and always attract the attention of everyone who passes them.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 11:00 AM PST  © Elliot Lee, Studio Three Sixteen
 © Elliot Lee, Studio Three Sixteen Text description provided by the architects. An intriguing element of the brief for this corner terrace house in Central Singapore became the inspiration for its design. The owners approached architects AD Lab Pte Ltd with a desire to live in the house as nomads, moving the living and sleeping areas from room to room, and having the ability to alter the function and meaning of the spaces over time.  © Elliot Lee, Studio Three Sixteen Situated at the end of a row of terrace houses with a green reserve toward the rear of the house, the site naturally had one side that was limited by the boundary wall, and the other that was more related to the surrounding greenery. The designers took advantage of the linked boundary wall to house a linear strip of the "function" or "service" elements of the house, leaving the more open and flexible space to face the side garden and long swimming pool, front balcony and rear views to the greenery.  © Elliot Lee, Studio Three Sixteen This organization of service and served spaces is clearly expressed in the façade with the left side of the house being more solid, built in heavy cast in-situ concrete, to accommodate the bathrooms, kitchen, staircase and store rooms. In contrast, the right side of the house is constructed of lightweight steel and expressed as an open, glass and aluminium-clad structure.  Section 01 This organizational logic carries through to the interiors of the house, with its contrast of the darker and more enclosed "service" side and light and open flexible side. Even in the basement of the house, the openness is felt through shimmering light emanating from long windows directly into the side of the swimming pool which stretches across the entire length of the house.  © Elliot Lee, Studio Three Sixteen  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Renovation of Beverly Center / Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Posted: 29 Nov 2018 09:00 AM PST  © John Linden
 © John Linden Text description provided by the architects. Roma-based architectural and urban design firm Studio Fuksas www.fuksas.com, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, was selected as the design architect for the renovation of the 886,000 sq. ft. Beverly Center in Los Angeles, California. Thirty-four months of construction and five hundred million dollars later a reimagined Center was officially unveiled on November 2, 2018. The mall, a monolithic eight-story structure located at the edge of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, now boasts a new glimmering white skin made of a highly textured stucco surmounting a metal mesh which changes transparency through the day and according to the viewer's vantage point.  Section Due to its sheer size, on a total land area of approximately eight acres, the Beverly Center could be very well considered a city block. The unusually large scale amplifies the relationship between the exterior and the surrounding neighborhood. The sinuosity, and the glossy white, of the metal mesh wrapping the entire perimeter, enables both absorption and reverberation of natural light. The exterior appears calm and diaphanous in the morning. Dynamic and fiercely contrasting in the afternoon. Dematerialized in a soft and wavy 300-yard long kaleidoscope at night when the mesh up lights turn on.  © John Linden Inside the mall, the challenge was to increase the space permeability to the natural light. With this goal in mind, it was implemented a 25,000 sq. ft., gently curving, a high-performance skylight that triples the former roof sections opened to the sky. The reconfigured floor openings allow direct sunlight to reach with the same intensity all floors, especially the lower ones. Offsetting the floor openings greatly improved sight lines through the floors and the skylight. The skylight runs almost for the entire length of the roof acting like a river of light with its banks of shimmering metal panels made precious by a platinum automotive-finish paint and, at night, by a series of backlit micro-perforations. The combination of abundant well-modulated natural light and more permeable floor decks made the mall interior a much more pleasant space where the connection with the outdoors is never lost.  Skylight Exploded Isometric The four stories high Center Court, with an impressive 20 ft x 35 ft LED screen, was redesigned as a flexible space to host events, exhibitions, installations and to encourage the patrons to mingle and freely explore the mall which has been for decades an iconic fashion destination for locals, celebrities and international visitors. Pedestrian and vehicular circulation has been also greatly enhanced. A lush streetscape, with drought-resistant greenery, makes more pleasant reaching the mall on foot, or bicycle, while a state-of-the-art smart parking system dramatically improves the arrival and departure experience throughout the four parking decks. Studio Fuksas not only rethought the design of the new façade to improve the aesthetic qualities of the building but, beyond renovating the image of the shopping center, it also created new meeting spaces for the luxury market in California.  © John Linden  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Golfo de Darien House / Cristobal Vial Arquitectos Posted: 29 Nov 2018 08:00 AM PST  © Cristóbal Vial
 © Cristóbal Vial Text description provided by the architects. This work corresponds to the rehabilitation and expansion of a house built in 1970 in the commune of Las Condes, city of Santiago. It is part of a set of 25 one-story houses, designed by the architects Christian de Groote, Victor Gubbins and Hector Mery. All the houses are arranged in such a way that they adjoin each other, allowing a better use of the land, granting each one a garden to the north and another one to the south. The dividing walls, in turn, consolidate an intermediate walled yard.  © Cristóbal Vial For this particular work, intended for a family with three children, it was requested to intervene and adapt it to the needs of its new users. The first thing was to eliminate all the modifications suffered in the time, as they are light and material extensions that presented a clear wear. Thus, it is proposed as a strategy to open perimeter walls to integrate the views of the courtyards, enhance existing skylight and give greater prominence of the light yard. The chimney is also eliminated, replacing it with a floating concrete wall that fulfills the double function of space separator and at the same time of the shelf.  © Cristóbal Vial  Location  © Cristóbal Vial The house built with reinforced masonry, slab and reinforced concrete beams, maintains the same constructive logic in its new surface. Projecting the completely new service area, incorporating two light yard and a new skylight on its roof, which follows the same logic as the existing ones. For the bedroom sector, a new bathroom is incorporated and for both the exterior wall is released, building a structural element hanging and separated from the facade that allows greater spaciousness, privacy and brightness inside.  Sections The entire heating system is renewed, incorporating the use of high efficiency aerothermal heat pump and radiant slab system. In addition to the incorporation of thermopanel crystals for all its openings. The exterior renovation, starts from the street access, building a new access that is configured by a curved wall of exposed concrete that leads to the door of the house. This in turn, is used to define the new sector of parking and barbecue area.  © Cristóbal Vial The consolidation of the three courtyards of the house, allows a fluid journey, in a same level. For the intermediate courtyard a wooden deck is projected, which gives greater warmth and permanence to the space. The predominant materials used in this work are wood, stone, glass, steel and exposed concrete, always trying to put in value the original structure and adding a contemporary language that not only accounts for its interior, but more well of a whole that integrates the vegetation to the work.  © Cristóbal Vial  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| the coffee / Studio Boscardin.Corsi Arquitetura Posted: 29 Nov 2018 06:00 AM PST  © Eduardo Macarios
 © Eduardo Macarios Text description provided by the architects. To transform small urban fragments, sensitize, bring a new concept and also change the routine of the people. The modern cities, so consolidated in their centers, almost leave no room for expansion. However, it is a mistake to think so, because there are small urban slots that can be adapted if you have a vision of urban and commercial architecture. A small service door, formerly unusable by the restaurant next door and seemed to have no grace at all, has been seen as a potential spot and turned into a business.  Floor Plan And it was with this vision, inspired by Japanese simplicity and minimalism, that The Coffee. appears. Amid the turmoil of today's world and day-to-day running, where time is money and caffeine is needed to restore the energies, nothing is more providential than a "takeaway" style coffee. Or, those who have more time enjoy coffee standing on the sidewalk or sitting on the bench in front. Before the sidewalk that gave space to the pedestrian movement, today is a meeting point, there are queues and experiences that did not exist before. And it is part of the whole project, integrated with the concept of the space.  © Eduardo Macarios The architecture project is related to the concept of The Coffee, minimal and functional. And, to stand out from the other buildings on the side, the option was to verticalize the facade so that, even narrow, it gained an imposing. With a contrasting color and unusual materials, the coffee shop loosened from the sides. The composition of materials is simple. Metal strips, light wood, and an acrylic box that, when lit, reveals the best: light. The light cube, in acrylic, it is the focal point of the coffee, marking the entrance, making the protection on rainy days and shining at nightfall (and also on typical cloudy days in Curitiba).  © Eduardo Macarios Now about the biggest challenge: the inner area. The small interior of 3sqm did not allow for many layout possibilities. The espresso machine should be positioned so that the barista is always on the customer's side, never on his back. The idea of the slats, present in the facade, enter inside but here, in another material. The slatted in light wood makes the bottom part and the lining of the coffee and plays with the light.  Internal Elevation In addition, as a side finish, the black subway tile, very urban, like the whole concept of the coffee shop. As you approach the workbench, you can place the order through the tablet and wait to retrieve your coffee. Meanwhile, you can have a good chat with the barista, who already knows the whole movement of the street. Cosmopolitan, urban and timeless. So The Coffee is not just an architectural proposition, it is an experience, a new way of customer service relationship, a new way of interacting with the public space.  © Eduardo Macarios  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Aires Mateus Reveals Design for the Toulouse Fine Art Museum Posted: 29 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PST  Musée des Augustins à Toulouse. Image Courtesy of Aires Mateus Portuguese architectural practice Aires Mateus have designed a new addition and entrance to the Museum of Augustins in Toulouse, France. Bringing together the museum and the Convent of Augustins, the proposal was made to clearly open to the city. The design aims to respect the spatial values of the convent and museum while standing out from its context and historical reference.  Musée des Augustins à Toulouse. Image Courtesy of Aires Mateus As Aires Mateus said, the Museum of Augustins has overlaped the Convent of Augustins throughout history. Their design plays upon the charm of the museum and the symbiosis between art works and museography alongside the convent. The new composition occupies the old southern wing of the cloister, recovering the dimension of the disappeared Chapelle de l'Ecce. It aims to bring the city and the convent closer together. This volume brings back thickness to the south wing of the convent and reopens its connections, according to the original composition of the cloister.  Musée des Augustins à Toulouse. Image Courtesy of Aires Mateus  Musée des Augustins à Toulouse. Image Courtesy of Aires Mateus A clear entrance was made for the museum, marked by an opening that draws visitors inside. This opening reveals a deep and mineral void, which leads the visitor to the cloister. The orientation of the space established the longest possible trajectory between the city and the cloister. The path is enhanced by an almost imperceptible slope that flows subtly from the entrance towards the cloister. On the cloister side, two ancient passages are reopened and illuminate the gallery. The first one, a monumental ogival arch, is completely recovered, creating now a passage between the new building and the convent. The second, an arch, becomes a window, bringing light into the building and creating a visual discovery of the cloister from the entrance area. The big entrance also communicates with a smaller space that monumentalizes the facade of the adjacent building, allowing the light reflected by the bricks to invade the space. In a contemporary city immersed in images, movements and noise, the new entrance is a void to which visitors can naturally turn.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 04:00 AM PST  Cortesía de Ian Hsü
 Cortesía de Ian Hsü Objective - Independence between Adults and Youth spaces  First Floor Plan All the enclosures have a unique lake view  Cortesía de Ian Hsü Geometry: How to Wrap the program with the minimum surface
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| IKEA and Tom Dixon Collaborate to Design Products for Urban Farming Posted: 29 Nov 2018 03:00 AM PST  © IKEA IKEA and Tom Dixon have collaborated to investigate the future of urban farming, "making homes the new farmland." In an upcoming entry to the Chelsea Flower Show, the UK's most popular landscape event, the team will share their first ideas on how "affordable, forward-thinking solutions can be used to grow plants and vegetables at home and beyond." The ethos behind the collaboration is to celebrate food as a crucial part of everyday life, and inspiring a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. Identifying the potential savings in transport miles, water usage, and food waste, the team will use IKEA's democratic design principles to "develop affordable, sustainable food farming and consumption within our homes and urban communities."
The Chelsea Flower Show exhibition in May 2019 will place the team's ideas on public display. The entry will consider the future of the environment and the importance of growing food locally, while also investigating the contrast between hyper-natural and hyper-tech methods of farming.
Following the display at the Chelsea Flower Show, the team will begin developing a series of products on urban growing, available in IKEA stores globally in 2021. News via: IKEA  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 02:00 AM PST  © José Hevia
 © José Hevia Text description provided by the architects. Traditionally architecture has focused its attention in concepts such as structure, form or space, relegating to a second place other issues such as finishings or ornaments, by considering them as “minor” works linked to crafts or even to the feminine. This imbalance, an inheritor of an elitist and patriarchal way of understanding the profession, rewards in contrast other concepts such as high cost, fine materials or structural effort, associating them to apparently “desirable” values like pure, accurate, or even virile. When we decide to use a certain material, or a color, for instance the soft materialities, or the use of ornamental geometries, we are not only offering some certain physical properties to the user, but we are also setting a discussion with the history of architecture or with our society’s symbolic imaginary given to a certain color or material. We understand that architecture takes a key role on the building of fair and democratic societies, in charge of building the spaces for cohabiting and for relationship. Hence our attention on researching in which way our practice can contribute with new tools in this process.  © José Hevia In this sense, the project tries to redefine the classic configuration of a store that is strictly intended to the sale of products and do a more complex proposal. “Grotto” is a space where, as well as seeing and buying the classical watches of the Swiss brand, the focus of its attention is to generate a place for meeting where we can propose other public activities such as lectures, workshops or debates. For that purpose a single, organic, soft, festive, and with geological references space is proposed.  © José Hevia In this way the space generates places where the user can choose how to live them. (S)he can seat at a 40cm height or at a 2m height. Either alone or with other people. (S)he can chill and have a coffee or climb the walls. To this end we get inspired in spaces such as caves, caverns or quarries. How the light gets in them, and how they generate appropiable spaces.  © José Hevia The contemporaneous creation can’t be understood without the participation of other interests such as global warming, the impact of new technologies or the end of gender binarism, for instance. The project takes as a starting point these new states of mind where we have other referents, where nature is more present, where we are more conscious that our impact goes beyond what we really produce, both in a material and symbolic way.  © José Hevia Coming to its construction, the project is organized in six domes that are concatenated around a central pillar and making space, function and structure coincident. The top part of these domes allows the access of light through a hidden lighting system behind a floral pattern that, if wished, it can cause the highlighting of the space through its projected shadows. The vertical dome walls are organically deformed so to absorb a part of the proposed functionality, using openings or holes as seats or improvised tribunes. Finally, the biggest dome is used as the main shopping space. A curtain specially built for the occasion through a catenary system made out of chains and foam pieces wraps the exhibition space for watches and achieves a unique experience of watching and selling in the complex.  © José Hevia  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| WAF Day 2 Streaming: Live Lectures from David Adjaye, Francine Houben and Nathalie de Vries Posted: 29 Nov 2018 01:30 AM PST  Make sure to tune in to our Facebook live streams of today's selection of lectures. We'll also be streaming the winners at 19:15 CET. To see the previous day's streams, click here. 9:00 CET - Miranda Milanovic 10:05 CET - Keith Priest 10:50 CET - Prof Lesley Lokko 12:00 CET - India Mahdavi 13:00 CET - James O' Callaghan and Brian Eckersley 14:00 CET - Nathalie de Vries 14:45 CET - Maria Warner Wong 16:50 CET - Misak Terzibasiyan 18:15 CET - Sir David Adjaye 19:15 CET - Category Winner Announcements  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| World Architecture Festival Unveils WAFX 2018 Prize Winners Posted: 29 Nov 2018 01:00 AM PST  NIKKEN SEKKEI - W350Project. Image © Nikken Sekkei The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the ten winners of the WAFX prizes, awarded to "future projects that identify key ecological and societal challenges which architects are actively seeking to address over the next ten years." This year, participants tackled issues such as climate change, water waste, and aging populations, with winning proposals including river parks in Colombia, a transformed coal plant in the United States, and solar panel fields in the Netherlands. We've rounded up the winners below, along with further information about the upcoming 2018 World Architecture Festival taking place in Amsterdam this November. Tickets for the festival are available online now, with a 20% discount available for ArchDaily readers who enter the code ARCHDAILY20 at checkout. Our site will also have news coverage and live-streams of festival events. WAFX Re-Use WinnerBeloit College Powerhouse / Studio Gang  Studio Gang - Beloit College Powerhouse. Image Courtesy of Studio Gang WAF: "Transforming a former power plant into a student union and recreation facility, Studio Gang's Beloit College Powerhouse Project seeks to replace an old model of energy with a new model to support the health and wellbeing of its many inhabitants." WAFX Climate, Energy, and Carbon WinnerHighway Solarpanel Field / 70F Architecture  70F architecture - Highway Solarpanel Field. Image © 70F Architecture WAF: "70F Architecture's proposed project looks to suspend vast arrays of solar panels above highways, rather than on fields, leaving farmland free for farming and doubling the ground-usage of infrastructure." WAFX Ageing and Health WinnerThe Alder Center / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris  Allford Hall Monaghan Morrisn - The Alder Centre. Image © Allford Hall Monaghan Morris WAF: "The Alder Centre was established in 1989 by a small group of health care professionals in partnership with bereaved parents who identified a gap in the services available." WAFX Food WinnerCuchi Organic Eco Farm / IF (Integrated Field)  IF (Integrated Field) - Cuchi Organic Eco Farm. Image © IF (Intergrated Field) WAF: "Cuchi Organic Eco Farm (COEF) is a masterplan design proposal for a 600 hectare de-commissioned rubber plantation in Cuchi, Vietnam, aiming to transform the under-utilised site to be an organic farm focusing on the production of animal feed, livestock, fruit and vegetables in a closed-cycle operation." WAFX Building and Technology WinnerW350Project / Nikken Sekkei  NIKKEN SEKKEI - W350Project. Image © Nikken Sekkei WAF: "Nikken Sekkei's research project seeks to demonstrate how developing a green city with timber structures can inspire a "more comfortable" global environment, and specifically how 350m super high-rise timber construction could be a symbol of future urban construction." WAFX Power and Justice WinnerTower Inten City / Savage + Dodd Architects with UrbanWorks  Savage + Dodd Architects with UrbanWorks - Tower on Main. Image © Savage Dodd Architects with UrbanWorks WAF: "A range of spaces feature in this substantial mixed-use redevelopment of a tower in Johannesburg, South Africa, from dedicated event spaces at the top of the building, to residential and commercial office floors." WAFX Water WinnerMedellin River Parks and Botanic Park Master Plan / Sebastian Monsalve + Juan David Hoyos  Sebastian Monsalve + Juan David Hoyos - Medellin River Parks Botanical Park Master Plan. Image © Sebastian Monsalve + Juan David Hoyos WAF: "Based upon a system of integrated projects in Medellin, Colombia, creating new parks and public green spaces, the designers sought to address issues such as urban sprawl, global warming, urban conflict, poverty, segregation and inequality." WAFX Ethics and Value WinnerSheltainer – Where Humanity Meets Hope / Sheltainer  Sheltainer - Sheltiner - Where Humanity Meets Hope. Image © Sheltainer WAF: "Sheltainer is a building initiative that targets different categories of people including refugees, asylum seekers, students and low-income families. It intends to provide a solution that can be readily built anywhere in the world, easy to construct and affordable – hence, the shipping containers." WAFX Smart Cities Winner10 KM / Shma Company Limited  Shma Company Limited - 10 KM. Image © Shma Company Limited WAF: "The 10km long green corridor proposed by Shma Company sets out a series of re-appropriated spaces, parks, footpaths and bridges to reconnect vast swathes of Bangkok along a north-south axis." WAFX Cultural Identity WinnerAtaturk Culture Center / Tabanlioglu Architects  TABANLIOGLU ARCHITECTS - Ataturak Cultue Center. Image © Tabanlioglu Architects WAF: "The Ataturk Culture Center in Istanbul, Turkey, has been a focal point for the city since the building was constructed in 1960s, and was redeveloped after it burned down in 1970." News of the winners comes weeks after Rem Koolhaas was announced as the closing keynote speaker at the 2018 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam. The full shortlist for the World Architecture Festival awards can be found here. At the event in November, the shortlisted teams will be invited to present their designs to a jury of more than 100 international judges, who will determine the best projects within the completed and future project categories. These finalists will then move on to present to the 2018 Super Jury who will determine the winners of for the 2018 World Building of the Year, Future Project of the Year and Landscape of the Year. News via: World Architecture Festival  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Carlo Ratti to Curate Biennale for the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Cities Posted: 29 Nov 2018 01:00 AM PST  Roboat. Image © MIT and AMS_www roboat org Carlo Ratti has been announced as Chief Curator for the 2019 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. He will join Academic Curators Politecnico di Torino and South China University to critically explore the impact of artificial intelligence on communities and urban space. The team will investigate "how our relationship with the city might change when buildings become able to respond to our presence." Ratti's expertise in the area of future technology and artificial intelligence is reflected in his role within the MIT Senseable City Lab, whose experiments propagate future scenarios for the built environment.  Obama - One People - The City. Image © MIT Senseable City Lab
 Minimum Fleet. Image © MIT Senseable City Lab The team will reflect on the accelerated growth in artificial intelligence throughout the last two decades, and the emergence of the Internet of Things. They will reflect on how these radical changes have impacted on the built environment, with a particular focus on China where technological advancements such as AI and facial recognition have allowed the built environment to sense people's needs in real time.  Cityways. Image © MIT Senseable City Lab The event will draw on Shenzhen's unique features, from its geopolitical status between Hong Kong and the rest of the Pearl River Delta, to its rapid urbanization and position as a hub of innovation. The 2019 UABB will use these features as a starting point to "reimagine the relationship between new technologies and urban futures.  Cityways. Image © MIT Senseable City Lab The team is seeking contributions for an open platform for human recognition, on the topic of the "eyes of the city" which can be addressed to uabb2018@carloratti.com. The 8th edition of the Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale will open in Shenzhen, China, in late 2019 and will run until Spring 2020. Chief Curators: Carlo Ratti, Meng Jianmin, Fabio Cavallucci News via: Carlo Ratti Associati  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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