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- Let's Taco 'Bout Taqueria Architecture
- Assunção Villa / URBANCORE
- Stefano Boeri Designs the Greenest Apartment Building in Belgium
- School in Vorarlberg / AO Architekten
- Sede Polopique / Filipa Guimarães
- Multigenerational House / Gautschi Lenzin Schenker Architects
- Island Conference Hotel / gad
- Neighbor House / N+architects
- Longyuan School / ZHUBO-AAO + H DESIGN
- Eden / Pamela Tan
- Dubuque Intermodal Transportation Center / Neumann Monson Architects
- Espaço Núcleo Pulso / 23 SUL
- Salicos House / STUDIOARTE
- WORKac Selected to Design the New Beirut Museum of Art
- Chelsea Apartment / BoND
- InVision Launches Free Study Abroad Program for Designers
- Tlaxco Artisans Market / Vrtical
- The 2019 Design Indaba Festival in Cape Town Celebrates Design, Culture, and Creativity
- Siemens to use Expo 2020 Dubai as a Test Bed for Smart Cities
- “La Negra” House / RR & PZ
| Let's Taco 'Bout Taqueria Architecture Posted: 20 Dec 2018 08:00 PM PST  Torchy's Tacos / Chioco Design. Image © Patrick Y. Wong A quintessential characteristic of Mexican culture — in addition to its architecture and rich pre-Colombian identity — is its gastronomy. In 2010, UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list inscribed Mexican Traditional Cuisine. The foundation remarked that "their knowledge and techniques express community identity, reinforce social bonds, and build stronger local, regional and national identities." However, from Mole to Birria and Pozole to Cochinita Pibil, the most iconic, versatile, and tasty meal is the taco. In honor of Mexico's rich history, tradition, and food, take a look at 7 taquerias that can inspire your next project. Paco's Tacos / Techné Architecture + Interior Design Paco's Tacos / Techné Architecture + Interior Design. Image Cortesía de Techné Architecture + Interior Design Torchy's Tacos / Chioco Design Torchy's Tacos / Chioco Design. Image © Patrick Y. Wong Buena Onda / CORE architecture + design Buena Onda / CORE architecture + design. Image © Michael Moran Sierra Madre Taco House / Erbalunga estudio Sierra Madre Taquería / Erbalunga estudio. Image © Iván Casal Nieto Taquería Canalla / By Futura Taquería Canalla / By Futura. Image © By Futura Ah bárbaro Taquería + Silverio Mezcal Bar / TAFF Arquitectos Ah bárbaro Taquería + Silverio Mezcal Bar / TAFF Arquitectos. Image © Wacho Espinosa El Expendio de Maíz / Ludwig Godefroy Architecture El Expendio de Maíz / Ludwig Godefroy Architecture. Image © Ramiro Chávez  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 07:00 PM PST  © Miguel Coelho
 © Miguel Coelho Text description provided by the architects. The villa is located in a quiet area of Santa Maria da Feira (north of Portugal) surrounded by trees. This villa is designed with the intention of protecting its owners from the unorganized and uncharacteristic surroundings. The oak forest to the east belongs to the client and creates an idyllic area in front of the surrounding land. The program is practically developed on a single floor, only the mezzanine office facing the social area is on the upper floor.  © Miguel Coelho  Floor Plans  © Miguel Coelho The house is in the form of a "?", Which allows you to organize your functional program facing an open patio for the oak forest, where almost all the vains of the house are facing, ensuring lighting and views/perspectives while maintaining the privacy of the residents. Only toilets have private patios. The social area of the villa forms an open space, which can be freely divided and closed thanks to sliding walls/panels. The complex shape of the concrete / reinforced concrete cover was adjusted and calibrated on site.  © Miguel Coelho The preparation of all the elements that make up the dwelling required high precision and ability to combine elements designed for a regular geometry applied to a set of planes without parallelism or perpendicularity to the despair of the constructor ...  © Miguel Coelho  Sections  © Miguel Coelho  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Stefano Boeri Designs the Greenest Apartment Building in Belgium Posted: 20 Dec 2018 06:30 PM PST  Palazzo Verde. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti Stefano Boeri Architetti has created a new sustainable housing project for Antwerp, Belgium. Called Palazzo Verde, the design is formed with a semi-public garden at the ground floor and three large terraces of roof gardens. The project will include 86 trees, 2200 shrubs and perennials and 428,88 square meters of green surface. As the firm's first project in the country, the housing will be part of the Nieuw Zuid district to become a new landmark for the city.  Palazzo Verde. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti  Palazzo Verde. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti Palazzo Verde was made to fight air pollution and absorb 5.5 tons of CO2 per year. "We thought that it was very important to have at the center of New Zuid district a new green spot that, whether in the courtyard or on roof gardens, hosts a relevant amount of trees and shrubs and gives back oxygen to the city. We are very satisfied with this first project of ours in Belgium, that shows how even a small residential building can offer to its inhabitants and to the citizens of the neighborhood an unexpected quality of green spaces and social activities", Stefano Boeri comments.  Palazzo Verde. Image Courtesy of Stefano Boeri Architetti The L-shaped building is located in a central plot of the masterplan designed by Bernardo Secchi and Paola Viganò, where it closes the side of the block that faces river Scheldt and embraces a semi-private green courtyard in its central part designed by Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets. From the courtyard, through a series of wide steps that also work as an amphitheater, you can access the Circularity Center where tenants and citizens can fix their bicycles and other domestic objects. Public and private space blend together with through the building's cascading structure.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| School in Vorarlberg / AO Architekten Posted: 20 Dec 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Adolf Bereuter
 © Adolf Bereuter Text description provided by the architects. The existing situation with the highly vertically structured building was upgraded to add a significant volume at the south eastern building corner, calming the building structure and also tangibly increasing the presence of the school in the context of the village through its aesthetics. The existing colors and materials were referenced, and the scale and suitability were maintained.  © Adolf Bereuter The extension functionally and structurally simplified the existing building without radical reconstruction measures. Where these interventions were made, they are targeted measures with simple resources. The entrance area was upgraded spatially and in its significance by removing subordinate functions, the new foyer connects the outdoor area with the central hall. Secondary rooms such as cloakrooms etc. were relocated to the basement, teacher's rooms and school management offices were concentrated in the new building. The central multi-storey main space of the hall-type school was also upgraded in its significance and function as a communication center. An additional emergency staircase building was added at the intersection of the existing building and new building to link all storeys of the split level.  © Adolf Bereuter  3rd floor plan  © Adolf Bereuter The extension's position and height were chosen to largely eliminate the need for new access areas. The structural simplification of the entire school was implemented such that all regular classes are hosted in the existing building around the hall, and the special classrooms are located in the extension. Thanks to the ceiling heights, the art rooms, music rooms and a multi-purpose hall resemble ateliers and form an atmospheric counterpart to the main hall. The exterior design, with its extensive windows, reveals special functions in their significance and externally conveys the school's musical and artistic focus as the only academic secondary school in the Bregenzerwald region.  © Adolf Bereuter  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Sede Polopique / Filipa Guimarães Posted: 20 Dec 2018 05:00 PM PST  © João Morgado
 © João Morgado Text description provided by the architects. The stone constructions of Quinta de Vilar, then denominated, go back to the middle 40's and the beginning of the 50's. At that time the owner's house was built, followed by the adjacent buildings destined for farming: the cellar building for the production of wine, and buildings for petting, drying and storage of cereals and fruit.  © João Morgado Since the origin of its construction, dating from the second half of the 1940s, the building has undergone some changes in terms of interior subdivision, elevations, exterior spaces and annexes. Despite all these alterations, motivated by its different users and carried out in a somewhat anarchic and disjointed way, seventy years after its original construction, the house and other constructions continue to contrast sharply in its surroundings by its clean and austere design and its rural image embedded in an industrial context.  © João Morgado The project is made up of four buildings. They were built to serve housing and agricultural activity, and now it is proposed to occupy with the headquarters of a textile group.  © João Morgado The housing building it's the reception of the headquarters; besides the lobby and the service desk, it also has the stairs and elevator to access the upper floor.  Sections On the upper floor, to West, is located the administrative building - the old cellar. This floor is organized with the entire administrative and financial area. It is divided into several work and meeting rooms that formalize the internal organizational needs of the company. It also has sanitary facilities, archiving areas and technical area. The lower floor of this building is divided in two distinct areas: one that develops in "open space" as a working area for staff; and the other that presents itself as a multipurpose space for the various situations of training, reception or presentation of products. At this level you can also access to the exterior from the North and South facade.  © João Morgado From the reception to East is the commercial building – the ancient petting building. This floor is organized in three "open space" working areas aimed at the commercial and designer team. There are also two volumes corresponding to the toilets and two boxes of stairs that connect to the lower floor. The lower floor is also divided into three working areas aimed at product development, three meeting rooms for suppliers services and three meeting rooms for clients, a block of toilets with storage, a technical room and a storage room. It has direct access to the exterior to West, to the reception patio that it is used as in/out access of employees and suppliers, and to East, to the garden patio.  © João Morgado To the south of the reception is the old granary building, transformed into a resting area for the collaborators. Divided in two floors, the lower floor is related to the outer patio, and the upper floor is destined to the cup space where employees can enjoy their meal, with the necessary distance from their work station.  © João Morgado  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Multigenerational House / Gautschi Lenzin Schenker Architects Posted: 20 Dec 2018 04:00 PM PST  © Andreas Graber Photography, Zürich
 © Andreas Graber Photography, Zürich Text description provided by the architects. The family home including a built-in apartment stands at a prominent position and generates a landmark for the beginning of the village. The surrounding buildings all come in different style and appearance, therefore laying the grounds to go for an independent language of architecture.  © Andreas Graber Photography, Zürich The building was designed as a calm stony block. Part of the façade was made in fair faced concrete and traditional rough trowel plaster, their colours harmonizing with one another to make a homogenous volume. The terrace on the upper floor which is precisely cut out within the volume and the differently set window openings, as well as the changing of the façade material give the rather simple and sharp cut volume an exciting and calm architectonic expression.  © Andreas Graber Photography, Zürich  Ground floor plan  © Andreas Graber Photography, Zürich  First floor plan  © Andreas Graber Photography, Zürich The outer walls are made of a insulating one-brick-system, where the multi-purpose room and the terrace are situated it is made of an insulating concrete. The chosen materials enhance the aspired monolithic expression. By mounting the windows on the inside of the walls the thickness of the material is visible, therefore exposing the compactness of the building´s shell. The solid wood window frames and part of the built-in components are completed in natural timber. Their fine and optical warm surface enhances an adequate contrast towards the rougher and more mineral façade.  © Andreas Graber Photography, Zürich The stairs which are situated in the middle of the building divide the ground floor into the built-in apartment of the grandparents and the entrance, children´s area and multi-purpose room belonging to the family apartment. The stairs connect the ground floor with the basement and the upper floor. It is also possible to go via the built-in apartment directly to the upper floor.  Section Master bedroom, kitchen, living and dining area as well as the viewing sheltered terrace are set on the upper floor. The topography around the house was mostly left alone. Fruit trees arrange the garden and an ironwood hedge shields the property from the main road. The carport is planned as a free-standing object.  © Andreas Graber Photography, Zürich  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 03:00 PM PST  Islamic yard. Image © Jinrong Huang
 Islamic yard. Image © Jinrong Huang Text description provided by the architects. At the turn of the century, although the flourishing Tang Dynasty has gone, our attitude towards the foreign civilizations has changed from the previous perspective of adoring to a more peaceful and confident attitude. Under this transformation, it may be a straightforward and direct gesture to directly select the classics among those splendid civilizations for grafting.  Location Most people believe that a hotel may be a place to relax the body and mind. As the supporting hotel for the permanent site of the International Islands Tourism Conference, the Island Conference Hotel has considered more about the source of culture. The Island Conference Hotel provides accommodation services for 200 participating island countries during the conference: How to allow these foreign guests to experience the different exoticism and participate in the direct and rapid space experience of many classic civilizations? This problem has been plaguing the designers.  Analysis diagram Unique and direct exotic experience  Southeast Asian yard. Image © Jinrong Huang From China to Southeast Asia, from Islam to the Mediterranean, from natural to rational decorative patterns, from complex to simple spatial streamlines, the trans-boundary architectural forms depict the epitome of culture. The building is imposed a certain order in change. The architects make the color of the whole building close to the earth to merge with nature, as if the hotel was an ancient settlement hidden in the island.  Southeast Asian yard_relation with the water. Image © Jinrong Huang Spatial description of the multinational culture  Public area. Image © Jinrong Huang  Public area. Image © Jinrong Huang Conclusion  Mediterranean yard. Image © Jinrong Huang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 01:00 PM PST  © Trung Truong
 © Trung Truong 1 - Design ideas:  © Trung Truong The sympathy through their story is the source of my feelings to fine ideas for this project. My main idea is from the shape of the tiled roofed houses that closed together but not straight away behinds lots of trees. Then the shape of the building is stylized from that idea, and parallel is the layout of the space with the similarities of the village houses. Besides, the combination of traditional and modern materials will create a building that suitable with the present life but still bearing the friendliness of a village house.  © Trung Truong 2 - Target:  © Trung Truong  Section  © Trung Truong 3 - Design philosophy:  © Trung Truong  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Longyuan School / ZHUBO-AAO + H DESIGN Posted: 20 Dec 2018 12:00 PM PST  Atrium of middle school teaching building. Image © Schran Image
 Social corridor. Image © Schran Image Text description provided by the architects. Along with times changing and urban space juxtaposition, open teaching has been gradually taking place of traditional indoctrinating teaching. Such open-ended teaching requires not only indoor classrooms, but also outdoor teaching places. Based on the situation of limited urban space, unique regional culture as well as sundry education environmental requirement, how to make a school meets all the requirements of a new era is a question now.  Aerial night view of the northeast corner . Image © Schran Image Located in the new area of Longgang Town, Longyuan School affiliated to Central China Normal University is a nine-year comprehensive campus that meets functional needs of 3,360 students in 72 classes, mainly serving the surrounding residential people. The design of the project is based on the principle of 'creating a nature-friendly open teaching environment'. Inspired by the combination of corridors and alleys in traditional Chinese architecture and based on the principle of openness and flexibility, colorful outdoor learning, living and interactive space are created through the full use of space. Architects bring an unique green valley in the corner of urban high buildings.  Distribution of functional space Unlike common school, this is an unconventional school with a plot ratio of 1.24. In the case of such a narrow space, how to lay out the teaching space to meet the needs of compatibility of traditional teaching and open teaching is a major design challenge.  Primary school atrium. Image © Schran Image  Primary school atrium. Image © Schran Image At the beginning of project, design team studied the teaching content, teaching methods, psychological characteristics and learning pressure of primary and middle schools respectively, finding that the imaginative primary school students are more suitable for diverse spaces and playful places, while the self-conscious gradually matured middle school students prefer quiet places, independent spaces for group discussions and exercise on the court.  Primary school courtyards. Image © Qingshan Wu  Primary school atrium. Image © Schran Image Based on demand, Longyuan School has a L-shaped layout in architecture plan. On one hand, similar teaching units are placed relatively concentratedly, ensuring appropriate lighting condition in close distance and forming courtyards with different style. The courtyard is not directly landed, but placed on a splendid green slope to create a garden-like campus environment and ample activities. The indoor sports arena is placed next to the outdoor sports field, forming a clear division of active and quiet with the school's teaching area. The administrative office building is placed at the entrance to facilitate the management of the traffic flow. Canteen is placed in the southwest corner of the site to facilitate logistics and transportation. It is also following Shenzhen's leading wind direction, which is easy for the odor to spread out.  Courtyard analysis As partition between teaching area and sports area, the social corridor runs through the whole campus space like a "Dreamy Passageway". Five different color mass of "Golden Forum", "Wooden Stage", "Water Sound Room", "Fire Painting Pavilion" and "Earth Workshop" are connected with corridors through stairs and ramps. At the same time, a lot of diverse communication spaces such as platforms and staircase spaces are added into the corridors. This enriches the corridors space morphology and also reduces the interference of the stadium to the teaching area. Children stroll, play, meet, communicate and discuss here, making learning a fun way of life.  Primary School Entrance. Image © Schran Image The main spatial layout of Longyuan School is divided into primary school teaching building, middle school teaching building, lecture theater, corridor area, gymnasium, staff dormitory building and canteen. Different functional areas connect with each other through steps, ramps, lanes, corridors and courtyards, creating an interactive teaching system with functional space that do not interfere with each other but conveniently connected.  Social courtyard analysis The teaching room is placed in a quiet inner area which is divided into aboveground part and the landscape part functionally. The aboveground part is the conventional classrooms. Primary and middle schools are located on the south and north sides of the teaching area. They have separate entrances and pedestrian streamlines. The specialized classrooms are set between the primary school and middle school, which is convenient for the arrival of students of different grades. At the same time, it conforms to the idea of sharing hardware and software resources of nine-year school.  Public space. Image © Qingshan Wu  Primary School courtyards. Image © Schran Image The landscape part is a collection of personalized teaching space, including music classroom, art classroom, dance classroom, gymnastics room and indoor sports arena. Landscape design closely links the overhead courtyard on the first floor with the platform on the second floor. The undulating grassland slopes and outdoor platforms form a rich and interesting public space system, which provides a suitable place for various open and exploratory learning methods, so that children can wander in the green hill garden with undulating ground and learn in nature environment.  Primary school entrance atrium. Image © Schran Image Kids in primary school prefer more lively and diverse space forms. Instead of using traditional symbolic and concretization design techniques for children, designers use multi-form space layout on the overhead floor of the entrance of primary school to form space tunnels like in fantasy scenes. They really treat architectural space as a playground for children to play and stimulate children's playfulness. The corridor uses a large area of blue which represents "origin" and "fantasy", and matches with the yellow tone of the school as a whole. It is more friendly and interesting. The quiet and relaxing atmosphere forms a dynamic contrast with the liveliness of children.  © Schran Image  Middle school courtyard analysis The architectural form of the middle school is a cuboid space enclosed by two teaching buildings and multilayer corridors. The outer side of the building maintains the overall yellow appearance of the school. The wall facing the atrium uses simple white to reflect strong sunlight. The light blue columns enclosing a small leisure space and terrace. The multilayer terrace and overhead corridor connecting teaching buildings on both sides. It not only meets space requirement for traffic, but also enlarges the size of public space. In addition, it creates more outdoor places for communication and interaction among different grades.  Indoor classroom. Image © Qingshan Wu  Indoor classroom. Image © Qingshan Wu The wooden desks and chairs in the interest classroom are matched with wooden stairs, which is warm and cosy. The aluminum sheets for the ceiling has joints, such design with sense of sequence increases sound absorption effect.  Library . Image © Qingshan Wu  Library . Image © Qingshan Wu The design of the library mainly utilizes the space layout of the original wall. Reading area is added to the oak bookshelf. Fabric art is used to create color jumping effect to excite the space atmosphere, and to ensure safety and produce visual impact.  Executive building lobby. Image © Qingshan Wu The administrative building lobby combines environmental friendly materials such as aluminum sheet, aluminum rectangular tube and artificial stone. Aluminum sheets are pierced into artistic patterns to highlight the theme of the background. Large area of green are used, adding a fresh and vibrant atmosphere to the interior.  Landscape layer . Image © John Siu The main users of a school are the children who will retain childhood memories in the school. In the condition that the spacial form of traditional classroom can not be changed, from a more humanistic and creative point of view, the design of Langhong School creates more accessible "blank" space to stimulate student interaction and give children the happy space they should have at their age.  The indoor space adjacent to the stadium. 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| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 11:00 AM PST  © David Yeow
 © David Yeow "My feet may be stuck on earth,  © David Yeow 'Eden' blurs the boundaries between man-made wonders and the beauty of nature. The installation is a celebration of natural elements with wondrous landscape referenced from the mythical story of the 'Garden of Eden'.  © David Yeow  Front Elevation  © David Yeow 'Eden' invites you to re-discover how nature can be experienced by magnifying subtle details through its organic structures, transporting you to another world unlike anything you have encountered. An all-white landscape awaits as your senses are treated to the calm & serene environment, akin to being in the grounds of a mythical temple. A pathway covered with crystal-white pebbles leads you through an arched passageway inspired by Victorian-era steel conservatory structures. It's light, skeletal structure is a nod to the architectural and engineering marvel of the 'Crystal Palace'; a massive cast-iron structure built to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.  © David Yeow In 'Eden', the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, as elements melt and merge together becoming a single growing structure. Here, the garden passageway gives form to hanging 'vines' hovering above the arches, imitating stalagmites in a cave. Where vertical and horizontal vines converge to form seating areas as if they were organically grown from ancient tree roots.  © David Yeow Upon closer observation, glass spheres can be seen delicately perched on the cusp of the hanging vines; echoing water droplets balancing on the edge of leaves after rain has subsided. A cathedral-like space is achieved with the varying heights of the vines casting an intricate play of shadow upon its surroundings. Jules Verne's drawings for the 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' provided the inspiration for 'Eden's' cavernous-like quality. Enhancing the overall spatial experience of the journey.  © David Yeow 'Eden' wishes to bring you to re-discover the joys of looking closer, to cause you to momentarily suspend your beliefs and become a child once again. To believe, if only for a moment, that you are actually in paradise.  © David Yeow  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Dubuque Intermodal Transportation Center / Neumann Monson Architects Posted: 20 Dec 2018 09:00 AM PST  © Integrated Studio
 © Integrated Studio Text description provided by the architects. Situated within the Historic Millwork District, which is bordered between a state highway and the edge of downtown, this intermodal transportation center aims to regenerate the historic district with Local, Federal and State funded infrastructure. It is capable of accommodating a potential future passenger train connecting to Chicago and Minneapolis. Three components make up this campus: a structured parking garage for 292 vehicles (with an eventual expansion to 450 vehicles), an overhead walkway, and the terminal building which provides ticketing for both local and interstate bus services, transit office space, and public restrooms for the area.  © Integrated Studio The programmatic elements of the buildings are situated intentionally to create a backdrop for the district and screen the area from the highway. The solution also helps create an urban edge for the district and frames a future public green space proposed in the district master plan.  Floor Plan The scale and proportioning of the buildings reference its historic setting through column and window spacing that recall the rhythm of surrounding warehouse building facades. This also meets the State's historical preservation guidelines for new buildings.  © Integrated Studio Terracotta is the primary cladding material and compliments the district's brick construction: baguettes clad the parking component and a terracotta rain-screen system clads the terminal building. The varying angles and locations of the baguettes aid in screening parked vehicles while meeting openness requirements. This resulting pattern is reflected at a reduced scale in the perforated aluminum panels, which are used as a unifying element to highlight pedestrian circulation between the buildings.  © Integrated Studio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 08:00 AM PST  © Pedro Kok
 © Pedro Kok Text description provided by the architects. Espaço Núcleo Pulso is body awareness and therapeutic space in the center of São Paulo. The institution is located on the last floor of a tall building, hosting different sorts of activities.  © Pedro Kok The teacher and psychologist Mariana Camarote – head of Espaço Núcleo Pulso – wanted to implement different spaces for individual personal therapy and group activities, as well as corporal expression dynamics, related to Body Movement in Brazil.  © Pedro Kok The concept of the refurbishment design was to transform a typical open-space office without subdivisions and modular mineral lining with a low-ceiling challenge, into a space that could host the main hall among the rest of the program: a waiting area, a dressing room which eventually became the gateway to the main hall – a decompression and transition space –, an office for individual therapies, kitchen, two toilets and individual locker rooms.  © Pedro Kok  Floor Plan  © Pedro Kok One of the biggest challenges was the coexistence of dance space in an office building, where silence is a key factor. In order to accomplish this specific need, a noise abatement system with vibration-absorbing bulkheads has been implemented. The elevated floor, capable of absorbing impacts and sounds - as well as the use of foam plates between the slabs of the ribbed concrete slab. These elements were painted in black to serve as an infinite background for the wooden structure beneath the ceiling, inspired by Japanese wood handling, which reinforces the rigidity of the constructive axes of the window frames, in contrast with the flatness and homogeneity of the bamboo flooring the dance floor.  © Pedro Kok  Axonometric  © Pedro Kok  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 06:00 AM PST  © Da Cruz Photo
 © Da Cruz Photo Text description provided by the architects. An actual interpretation of the Mediterranean Modernist Architecture in a balanced fusion with Portuguese Cubist Architecture references. A pure white minimalistic contemporary family house located at Quinta dos Salicos, Carvoeiro, Algarve (Portugal). Based on a natural organic layout design, the main shape (trapezoidal) of the building is following the plot’s itself shape and directing the different facades for the most efficient, sunny and pleasant views, in a constant open visual and physical relation between indoor and outdoor spaces (natural fusion).  © Da Cruz Photo  Ground floor plan  © Da Cruz Photo A concept with pure straight lines, uniform colors (white), flat roofing (living terraces) and volumes shaped by the irregular angles and defined by the relation between light/shade over the irregular volumes setting. A building concept following an eco-friendly approach based on optimizing the climate and natural lighting/ventilation conditions.  © Da Cruz Photo The ground floor volume is parallel to the plot’s side limits. The almost “blind” northern facade contrast with the remaining facades, where the three volumes with generous glazed plans orientated in different angles, build the relation between the house, terraces and the landscape. The first floor follows the same concept with a “clean” north facade. The remaining facades and their irregular plans emphasize the relation with the landscape and sunlight.  © Da Cruz Photo  Sections  © Da Cruz Photo The ground floor is composed by the social areas, where the kitchen and living space are connected fiscally and visually throughout the large glass windows to the main terrace next to the swimming overflow pool. There’s also a more private area orientated to west contemplating a bedroom with private bathroom and a multifunctional room.  © Da Cruz Photo The light and sculptural metal stairway connects the ground floor to the private program of the first floor, contemplating a master ensuite bedroom with bathroom and a guest ensuite bedroom, both with private terraces balanced into south/west and north/west with country, sea and mountain sunrise and sunset views.  © Da Cruz Photo Two platforms that merge with the natural slope of the plot, following the alignments and the irregular morphology of the house based the main concept to design the front south terrace and pool area. The first platform is at the ground floor level, next to the main terrace orientated to the sunset position. A second platform on a lower level integrates the collector tank for the overflow pool’s system and sets the connection between the first platform (higher) and the garden zones.  © Da Cruz Photo An organic Mediterranean dry garden concept with reduced maintenance (low water consumption), that respects the original slope of the plot where low vegetation is surrounded by white gravel trills and some olive and fruit trees are involved by pine bark. The minimal, low maintenance concept with Portuguese inspiration, using local materials is also present on the exterior circulations and main entrance access where coble stone flooring was used to define the paths. .jpg?1543932249 "Cortesia de STUDIOARTE") Cortesia de STUDIOARTE In general, the house is developed in between ‘two worlds’, on the ‘first world’ in the north zone (entrance) the house is behind privacy plans (wings) which define its mystic effect and privacy control on the transition to the ‘second world’, completely dynamic, open, fluid and constantly in contact with the lounge zones (terraces/pool) and natural surroundings (Mediterranean dry garden concept and country/sea horizon views).  © Da Cruz Photo A casa divide-se assim entre ‘dois mundos’. Um ‘primeiro mundo’ mais opaco e secreto, a norte (entrada), onde se desenvolve a descoberta dos espaços pelos planos que os rodeiam, como muros de um labirinto; e um ‘segundo mundo’, dinâmico, aberto, fluído e em constante comunicação com as zonas exteriores (terraços e piscina) e a sua envolvente (jardim e paisagem natural).  © Da Cruz Photo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| WORKac Selected to Design the New Beirut Museum of Art Posted: 20 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST  BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art. Image Courtesy of WORKac Architect Amale Andraos and her firm WORKac have been selected to design BeMA, the new Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon. Centrally located in the heart of Beirut, the project will be positioned on a site that once marked the dividing line in the Lebanese civil war. The museum's permanent collection will include modern and contemporary artworks from Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the wider region. The new project will feature 70 balconies arrayed as a vertical promenade that blends indoor and outdoor spaces to create an open museum for the city.  BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art. Image Courtesy of WORKac The 12,000-square-meter museum will feature 2,700-square-meters of dedicated exhibition space and a six-story promenade that wraps around the façade of the building. WORKac's innovative design for an "open museum" alludes to its geographical heritage by utilizing the ubiquitous Mediterranean balcony to transform the museum's walls into hybrid indoor-outdoor spaces where art spills out of the main building and engages with diverse audiences through a gradient of public spaces. Creating a vertical promenade that winds around the cube-like building to the rooftop terrace and café, the design provides BeMA with a new type of flexible exhibition and programming space. The museum's thickened envelope offers mutable galleries, community rooms and urban gardens suitable for new commissions, artists' projections and installations.  BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art. Image Courtesy of WORKac By blurring the lines between the interior and the exterior, the porous façade of WORKac's design dissolves the traditionally closed, white cube gallery model and invites the public to engage directly with the work, creating new and varied possibilities for encounters and dialogue with the art as well as amongst its visitors. Situated on a plot of land owned by Université Saint-Joseph (USJ), the Museum responds to the needs of the community with accessible spaces designed to accommodate educational programs and public events, landscaped terraces for intimate gatherings, a library, a black box performance space, a café and a rooftop restaurant from which to view the city.  BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art Amale Andraos, architect and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), spoke of the design, "I am honored to have the opportunity to realize our design for the Beirut Museum of Art, an institution dedicated to the Lebanese artistic culture. As an architect, and as a Lebanese person, Beirut is a city that has always inspired me, filled my imagination and remains close to my heart. Through it, I have reexamined the legacy of the 'Arab City' as an intellectual, artistic and progressive project. I hope that our design demonstrates an alternate possibility for the future of cities, as it reveals the cultural possibilities of integrating art, architecture and landscape within a dense urban setting and as a means to re-imagine how we can live, learn and share together." The project represents an alignment of WORKac's decades-long practice, which aims to situate architecture at the intersection of its urban, cultural and environmental context to foster encounters and construct new kinds relationships, with BeMA's core philosophy of working in collaborative partnership with cultural institutions across Lebanon. This priority for dialogue continues throughout the building, as staggered galleries create open sightlines that juxtapose BeMA's permanent collection of modernist work alongside temporary contemporary exhibitions and public art installed on the façade. The design also features natural ventilation in the expansive open lobby, passive and active solar shading on the façade, a rainwater collection and usage system that directly connects to a green roof for the lower level.  BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art. Image Courtesy of WORKac Joe Saddi, Executive President of the Board of Trustees of BeMA explained that, "The Beirut Museum of Art is committed to showcasing and supporting Lebanese artists, architects and creatives – and we are delighted to have an architect of Amale Andraos' caliber design our new building. This appointment is an essential step to keep this significant cultural project on track and we see it as a vote of confidence in the larger cultural mission of Lebanon. BeMA aims to be a culturally inclusive institution, committed to nurture future talents and help build a strong civil society, and are confident that WORKac's open design will facilitate a meaningful creative experience towards the realization of that mission." The new project design is announced two years after a global juried architecture competition that drew applicants from Lebanese and Lebanese diaspora designers. The jury originally selected HW Architecture as winner of the competition and recognized WORKac with an honorary mention. No agreement could be reached over the course of the last two years between BeMA and HW Architecture due to differences that became irreconcilable. In the coming months the museum will announce further details about its collections, programming, and collaboration with local and international cultural and artistic institutions. A Search Committee will shortly be appointed to initiate the recruitment of a museum director and other key positions. BeMA is scheduled to open in 2023.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 04:00 AM PST  © Eric Petschek
 © Eric Petschek Text description provided by the architects. A dark and divided interior in West Chelsea, Manhattan, was transformed into a bright, loft-like space by architects Daniel Rauchwerger and Noam Dvir (BoND). The apartment, which the architecture duo acquired in spring 2017 occupies the third floor of a small 1910 apartment building.  © Eric Petschek Measuring 11.5 by 50 feet total (520 sf), the apartment's layout is typical to many prewar apartments in New York. Similar to the "Railroad Apartment," it takes the shape of a long and narrow rectangle that draws light from the building's front and rear sides. In its original layout, prior to BoND's intervention, the apartment was divided into three distinct sections: a living room, a bedroom, and a closed-off corridor connecting the two - which housed the kitchen and the bathroom. The architects removed these partitions to create one continuous space, celebrating the apartment's elongated proportions and maximizing the illusion of depth. The forced perspective is further enhance by a series of inset lighting fixtures that extend linearly from the kitchen into the bedroom, and a wood floor pattern which highlights the length rather the width of the space. The renovation created a clear distinction between the western wall - along which the apartment's utilities, services and hardware are located - and the eastern wall, which was left blank to provide room for art display.  Materials Axon The renovation makes use of custom design details combined with off-the-shelf products. The fireplace, for example, is an original (and functioning) fixture of the apartment. Its brick core is wrapped by a cut-and-folded sheet made of stainless steel, which BoND commissioned at a local workshop in Chinatown, giving the room a contemporary edge. The metallic effect is echoed by use of a lighting fixture made of brass, which hangs above the dining table. The kitchen features "hacked" IKEA cabinets combined with integrated appliances and a custom marble slab.  © Eric Petschek Other projects by BoND - an office for architecture and media - include a seminal exhibition about the architecture and history of national libraries, and residential and retail projects in New York.  © Eric Petschek  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| InVision Launches Free Study Abroad Program for Designers Posted: 20 Dec 2018 03:00 AM PST  © flickr user gordon-s, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 For architects with travel-related New Year resolutions, software company InVision has launched a free "Design Exchange" program for professional designers eager to see the world on a budget. The "Design Exchange" program is open to any senior designer with over 6 years of professional experience and offers one-week-long, organized exchanges during every quarter of 2019. Destinations already announced include Sydney (Spring 2019), Copenhagen (Summer 2019), and Singapore (Winter 2020).  BLOX Copenhagen by Ellen van Loon of OMA. Image © BLOX / Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST The program seeks to place "special emphasis on designers from design-driven organizations" who are "passionate about the intersection of design and culture." InVision will cover all costs associated with the trip, including flights, accommodation, meals and all experiences. Having sent five designers from Google, Airbnb, Pinterest, Indeed, and Automatic on an exploratory trip to Munich at the end of 2018, InVision have committed to repeating the event with designers from organizations around the world throughout 2019. While on the trip, participants will engage with a site-specific itinerary designed to make connections with international colleagues, and broaden architectural and creative outlooks through exchanging ideas. The prototype Munich trip, for example, included "a visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art, curated dinners with local designers, tours of IBM Watson IoT and Kaiser X Labs, [and] a typography walking tour of the city."  WOHA's Oasia Hotel Downtown Singapore . Image © Infinitude via AGROB BUCHTAL
Interested designers can find out more information, and apply for the program, via the official website here. Also check out our previous article on the top 7 travel grants available for young architects. News via: InVision  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tlaxco Artisans Market / Vrtical Posted: 20 Dec 2018 02:00 AM PST  © Rafael Gamo
 © Enrique Márquez Text description provided by the architects. The project arises from the Municipal Urban Development Plan (PMDU) developed by our office, in which it was agreed in a participatory manner that the first project of the newly named Magic Town would have to be a trigger for local economies and the art of Tlaxco. This has a decentralized management model, in which each of the commercial premises is for artisans from different towns of the municipality.  © Enrique Márquez The market recovered the side walls and foundations of a disused building, and consists of two naves and a front corridor. The upper nave houses fourteen venues, the smaller nave has a space to give workshops to tourists and students, and each space is linked to a patio in case it is necessary to extend activities abroad. The walker consists of a series of arches and a rectangular frame as a dialogue between a contemporary and vernacular language, the space serves as a meeting point.  © Rafael Gamo  Isometric  © Rafael Gamo The construction system consists of load-bearing walls and open-beams based on laminated pine wood. At the same time there are two domes in the long direction of the naves, these allow natural light, and this is later bounced in a parasols recharged in the diagonals of wooden frames, the idea is to have a natural and clear lighting throughout the entire market, besides presenting an iconic element that generated appropriation and pride to the inhabitants.  © Rafael Gamo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The 2019 Design Indaba Festival in Cape Town Celebrates Design, Culture, and Creativity Posted: 20 Dec 2018 01:30 AM PST  Courtesy of Design Indaba Known for hosting the "best creative conference in the world," the Design Indaba Festival brings together internationally-acclaimed architects, designers, emerging talents, critics, and art enthusiasts all under one roof to discuss the importance of making the world a better place through design. Over the last two decades, the annual conference has centered on "design activism," with a focus on online design publications. The multi-sensory event will take place in the heart of Cape Town from 27 February to 01 March 2019 in the Artscape Theater Center. The theater has been a pioneer in artistic expression and display for more than four decades, providing a platform of world-class productions and innovative sets.  Courtesy of Design Indaba
32 creative-industry heavyweights, who have reshaped the world of design and broke down the boundaries of artistic expression, will provide insights and share their experiences, ideas, leadership and design strategies during the 3-day event.  Courtesy of Design Indaba The star-studded line-up includes: Ane Crabtree, costume designer of award-winning shows Westworld, Handmaid's Tale, and The Sopranos; Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and the author of Design as an Attitude and Hello World: Where Design Meets Life; Wanuri Kahiu, director of the critically-acclaimed Kenyan film Rafiki; Yuri Suzuki, sound artist, designer, and electronic musician; Kagiso Lediga, stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and director; Kiko Farkas, award-winning Brazilian graphic designer; Annabelle Selldorf, the Principal of Selldorf Architects, a 70-person architectural design practice, along with many other outstanding creative minds.  Courtesy of Design Indaba One of the most anticipated events at the Indaba Festival is the Trend Forecast Seminar presented by Li Edelkoort. The acclaimed speaker, educator, designer, and curator is the owner of Trend Union Company, a design forecast firm which provides insights on upcoming design trends to the likes of Armani, Zegna, and Prada. As for her 2020 trend forecast, Edelkoort believes that fashion will help embrace cultural connections and interiors will celebrate the dynamism of color like never before.  Courtesy of Design Indaba The festival, in collaboration with the Department of Arts and Culture, will also help expose 50 'Emerging Creatives' from South Africa, who will have an exceptional opportunity of launching their careers and learning from experts in the field. Various architecture, fashion, jewelry, interior, visual arts, and design technology projects will be exhibited at the 3-day event, providing young designers with a once-in-a-lifetime career breakthrough. Learn more about Design Indaba and ticketing details here. Follow Design Indaba's Facebook and Instagram pages for a daily dose of inspiration.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Siemens to use Expo 2020 Dubai as a Test Bed for Smart Cities Posted: 20 Dec 2018 01:00 AM PST  British Pavilion. Image © Es Devlin Tech giant Siemens is to partner with World Expo 2020 Dubai in rolling out a major smart building project, encompassing 130 structures in a digital platform to control energy efficiency, comfort, safety, and security. As reported by Arabian Business, Siemens will "digitally connect, monitor, and manage essential functions of 137 buildings across the 4.38 square kilometer site, through its cloud-based energy analytics platform, Siemens Navigator."  Sustainability Pavilion. Image © Grimshaw Using sensors, analytics, and a digital management system, data will be collected from the Expo's Thematic Districts, Thematic Pavilions, country pavilions, and Exhibition Center. The data will converge at a command and control center in each district, enabling optimum energy usage, atmospheres, and security.  UAE Pavilion. Image © Santiago Calatrava With 25 million people expected to attend the event, the smart technologies enacted by Siemens will provide feedback for the potential of data as a bedrock for the management and maintenance of future cities.  Mobility Pavilion. Image © Foster + Partners
 Dutch Pavilion. Image © V8 Architects Dubai will be the first Middle Eastern city to host a World Fair in the exhibition's 160-year history, with more than 25 million people expected to attend the Expo throughout its six-month duration from October 2020 to April 2021. The World Fair is the third largest global event after the Olympics and FIFA World Cup.  Austria Pavilion. Image © Querkraft The Expo 2020 will also feature a UK Pavilion designed by Es Devlin, a UAE Pavilion designed by Santiago Calatrava, a Luxembourg Pavilion by Metaform and The Space Factory, a Sustainability Pavilion by Grimshaw, and themed pavilions by Foster + Partners and Bjarke Ingels Group. News via: Arabian Business  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  © Gustavo Burgos
 © Gustavo Burgos “La Negra” (The Black House) is perched as an object that comes to state an approximation between an unexplored hill and a desolated beach. Its impartial nature is set right in the middle of the beginning and the end of both scenes.  © Gustavo Burgos  Axonometric  © Gustavo Burgos Its functions are elevated to a second floor, establishing a lengthwise volume regarding the skyline. The natural environment underlies the care of the occupant.  © Gustavo Burgos  Model 01  © Gustavo Burgos The inhabitant captures the different moments of the sea through routes that induce the negation and the emergence of the landscape. In this way, living is persuaded by the light that frames the times of each space.  © Gustavo Burgos  Constructive Section  © Gustavo Burgos  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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