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- Markets: Examples in Plan and Section
- The Dune Cabin / Murman Arkitekter
- A Square in Summer / PROMONTORIO
- Wellness Am Holand / firm architekten
- Saadat Abad Residential Building / Mohsen Kazemianfard - fundamental approach architects
- Publik Office in SAIGON / Sanuki Daisuke architects
- First Sight Bookstore of Pingjiang Wonder / Shanghai Tianhua Architectural Design
- House of Light & Wind / Ray Architecture Viet Nam
- UnitedDATA Wuhan Office / PMT Partners
- MoMA Announces Five Finalists for 2019 PS1 Young Architects Program
- Incineration Center of Domestic Waste Comprehensive Treatment Plant at Chaoyang District / Atelier Li Xinggang
- Mirasal Residential / Balzar Arquitectos + Julia Alcocer
- Pomarino House / Sommet
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Chair to Come Back in Production
- Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Romilly / Stéphane Fernandez - SARL atelier fernandez&serres
- Jury Announced for 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
- EH House / Estudio GMARQ
- Is Clean Water a Challenge for Architects? Dutch Studio Ooze is Betting On it
- New Renderings Revealed for BIG's King Street West in Toronto
- Alba’s Play / ANA ROCHA architecture
| Markets: Examples in Plan and Section Posted: 05 Dec 2018 08:00 PM PST  © Fabián Dejtiar Throughout history, markets have played an essential role in the exchange of foods, books, spices, everyday items, and even ideas. From Mexican Tianguis to North African Souks, they have played an essential element in the configuration of urban spaces. We've selected 20 markets and their plan and section to inspire your next project. Dadad Market / Bangkok Tokyo Architecture + OPH Cortesía de OPH09  via Bangkok Tokyo Architecture + OPH  via Bangkok Tokyo Architecture + OPH Flores 26 Market / Obraestudio © Daniel Segura  via Obraestudio  via Obraestudio Östermalm Temporary Market Hall / Tengbom © Felix Gerlach  via Tengbom  via Tengbom Atarazanas Municipal Market Restoration Project / Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos via Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos  via Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos  via Aranguren & Gallegos Arquitectos Sant Antoni Sunday Market / Ravetllat Ribas Arquitectos © Adrià Goula  via Ravetllat Ribas Arquitectos Baltic Station Market / KOKO architects © Tõnu Tunnel  via KOKO architects Rubí Municipal Market and Public Space Building / MiAS Arquitectes © Adrià Goula  via MiAS Arquitectes  via MiAS Arquitectes Mercado Roma / Rojkind Arquitectos + Cadena y Asociados © Jaime Navarro  via Rojkind Arquitectos + Cadena y Asociados  via Rojkind Arquitectos + Cadena y Asociados Barceloneta Market / MiAS Arquitectes © Adrià Goula  via MiAS Arquitectes  via MiAS Arquitectes Ninot Market Refurbishment / Mateo Arquitectura © Adrià Goula  via Mateo Arquitectura  via Mateo Arquitectura Torrent Market and Civil Center / Vázquez Consuegra © Mariela Apollonio  via Vázquez Consuegra  via Vázquez Consuegra Abrantes Municipal Market / ARX Portugal © Fernando Guerra | FG+SG  via ARX Portugal  via ARX Portugal Original Life Market / LATITUDE © Shannon Fagan  via LATITUDE  via LATITUDE World of Food / Harvey Otten + Ted Schulten © Luuk Kramer  via Harvey Otten + Ted Schulten  via Harvey Otten + Ted Schulten Cachan Covered Market / Croixmariebourdon Architectures © Luc Boegly  via Croixmariebourdon Architectures  via Croixmariebourdon Architectures Quiroga Municipal Market Reform / OLAestudio © Héctor Santos Díaz  via OLAestudio  via OLAestudio Taipei Flower Wholesale Market, Taiwan International Flower Trade Center Small Site For Plant Market. / H.P. Chueh Architects & Planners © Jane Kung  via H.P. Chueh Architects & Planners  via H.P. Chueh Architects & Planners Markthal Rotterdam / MVRDV © Nico Saieh  via MVRDV  via MVRDV BARNONE / debartolo architects © Jason Roehner  via debartolo architects The Forks Market Food Hall / Number TEN Architectural Group © Mike Pratt  via Number TEN Architectural Group  via Number TEN Architectural Group  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Dune Cabin / Murman Arkitekter Posted: 05 Dec 2018 07:00 PM PST  © Åke E:son Lindman
 © Åke E:son Lindman Text description provided by the architects. The building is located near Sjaustru fishing village on the east coast of Gotland. The holiday home sits among maritime forest with thin vegetation cover towards the Baltic sea and direct access to the local beach. The client had a strong vision on what they wanted to achieve as a family holiday home in Gotland and was fully engaged in the design process. A process that started 15 years ago when they bought a small beach cabin on this exclusive site.  © Åke E:son Lindman They spent those years absorbing the site and took as much advantage of it as possible. Their first thought was to renovate the existing building but finally, they chose to demolish it to make way for this new build. The form is a contemporary reinterpretation of the "Gotland bulhus" with vertical timber bearing posts and beams visible both in the exterior and interior.  © Åke E:son Lindman The spatial organization of the 147 m² floor plan is formed around a central open lounge space that replaces the small courtyard of the old beach house with large skylights and ceiling to floor sliding doors opening out onto the patio. Adjoining this space are two bunk rooms and a master bedroom with sauna. The house comfortably sleeps, 10 people. The open space connects with a central fireplace, entrance hall, a raised cozy sofa corner connected with the living space with open walls and an open kitchen area, all with views towards the sea.  © Åke E:son Lindman  Floor Plan  © Åke E:son Lindman The interior open lounge space is clad with Corten steel with full height plywood sliding doors to the bunk rooms. Walls and ceilings are covered in rough sawn pine cladding. The floor is polished concrete and all in-situ furnishing is solid pine. Velfac glass panels are recessed into the floor to allow seamless transition between inside and out. Externally the building is clad in Corten steel plates between the exposed timber post and beam construction. The lapped timber roof is detailed with hot-dip galvanized metal facing and rainwater drainage. The exterior concrete patio connects to the adjoining sand dune meadow.  © Åke E:son Lindman  Detail  © Åke E:son Lindman  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| A Square in Summer / PROMONTORIO Posted: 05 Dec 2018 06:00 PM PST  © Francisco Nogueira
 © Francisco Nogueira Text description provided by the architects. To commemorate the 25 th birthday of Vittorio Gregotti’s Belem Cultural Centre, —Lisbon’s main art centre—, Promontorio Architects were invited to create an architecture installation built out of piled-up blocks of recycled cork agglomerate that also functions as an outdoor cinema during the city’s warm nights.  © Francisco Nogueira  Floor plan  © Francisco Nogueira The project is devised as a combination of two open-air spaces defined by an incomplete double colonnade, evocative of a ruined structure which stands at the junction of the cultural centre’s main square. Two spaces of ‘dwelling’ open to different appropriations, one of which is an outdoor cinema. The project evokes both a poetic ideal and the irrevocable condition of the passage of time in architecture; an installation whose presence in space is intended to let visitors playfully meander through this promenade as an engaging architectural experience.  © Francisco Nogueira The project also celebrates the aesthetic singularity of this agglomerate, 100% recyclable and produced from the bark of Queues suber, a species familiar to the Portuguese, but very rare and special in other places in the world.  © Eduardo Montenegro  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Wellness Am Holand / firm architekten Posted: 05 Dec 2018 05:00 PM PST  © Adolf Bereuter
 © Adolf Bereuter Text description provided by the architects. The wellness area had to be doubled in size and include a variety of indoor and outdoor attractions, triumphing in an infinite outdoor pool. The area of the former spa got completely converted into a relaxation room. The aim was to create a silent space, with a spectacular view into the surrounding mountain landscape of the Austrian Alps. The floor is of rough-cut oak and the ceiling of loden textile panels.  © Adolf Bereuter  Site Plan and Section  © Adolf Bereuter The walls are covered with Swiss pine and loden textiles. The main building got extended and includes the spa area. The Easter outdoor area offers a Kneipp water-treading basin, a rain shower, and a cold-water basin. The western outdoor area comes up with the infinity pool. The spatial idea of the extension is to lengthen the main building without influencing the outer appearance.  © Adolf Bereuter  Elevations and Sections  © Adolf Bereuter From the inside, the building surprises with a core of dark leveled walls, including the showers, a sauna, the fireplace and two infrared chairs. The dark floor is made of bitumen terrazzo with small aluminum sprinkles. One can circulate around the core on varying levels and views to the outdoors. It is a calming walk with noises of splashing water and sizzling fire. Considering that only 24 guests share this spacious and manifold wellness area, it becomes a truly unique choice for a hotel.  © Adolf Bereuter  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Saadat Abad Residential Building / Mohsen Kazemianfard - fundamental approach architects Posted: 05 Dec 2018 04:00 PM PST  © Parham Taghioff
 © Parham Taghioff Text description provided by the architects. A built structure of a seven-store apartment which two floors of them are under the ground was given to us to be designed. In that phase, we had to design the plans and also a façade which could create a strong connection between the interior and exterior spaces. Having interior spaces with an open view in spite of reaching an adequate privacy was required by our client. Thus, this issue played a crucial role in the designing process of the façade.  © Parham Taghioff  Floor Plans  © Parham Taghioff Expanded border, Reproduction of space  © Parham Taghioff  Design Priocess Diagram  © Parham Taghioff In this project by turning brick skins towards the nearby crossing, a soft space took place between the glass and the brick skins that can be called the expanded border. The created space between the skins which is reachable from the inside leads the inhabitants to a sufficient view and also tries to catch the exterior atmosphere and add it to the interior space.  © Parham Taghioff Rotation of brick surfaces opens a view to the empty urban space that is made via nearby crossing and because of the long distance between the building and the apartment blocks near the crossing, besides experiencing an open view, the privacy of the interior spaces is preserved. As mentioned, the dividing border between inside and outside is defined by the space. The idea of changing the border from a solid definite wall to a soft and fluid space is a crucial issue in this project.  Section A practical Brick Skin  © Parham Taghioff  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Publik Office in SAIGON / Sanuki Daisuke architects Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:00 PM PST  © Hiroyuki Oki
 © Hiroyuki Oki Text description provided by the architects. The site is located in the district 3 of Ho Chi Minh and is a co-working space project to be built in the center of Ho Chi Minh. It is assumed that young creators living in Ho Chi Minh City, venture companies and local corporate starters of overseas companies are used, and each floor of 5 stories has different space. This is a renovation project, and the original building was an old building built in the 1990s, and it was repeatedly increased and remodeled so as not to keep the original shape. Furthermore, since the site does not face the main street and the visibility is bad, how to design the facade was a big point of  © Hiroyuki Oki ZIGZAG Mirror – Responding façade with surrounding environment  © Hiroyuki Oki Fluctuations of large trees on the front of the site, buildings around the site, moving skies and clouds are reflected as stripes shape, and its appearance varies depending on people's point of view. This co-working space named Publik(c) Office was intended not to serve as a closed building, but to give an intense existence being opened to the city by the response with the surroundings. _Final-s.jpg?1544030248 "Concept sketch") Concept sketch The stainless sheet is made by welding mountain-shaped pieces of different angles on the back side. By changing the ratio of piece types in each layer, they are designed to reflect different landscapes. In addition, the green of the installed planter controls direct sunlight from the west side, and the depth decreases with the upper side, so you can see trees colored with natural light from anywhere from inside.  © Hiroyuki Oki Simple and Various Workspace with Natural light  © Hiroyuki Oki The GF is a lounge workspace with a cafe, the first floor is an open desk type work space with impressive tubular lights, the second floor is a booth type work space separated by movable partitions, and the 3rd floor is a free address type work space that can move the desk freely, integrated with the outdoor terrace which also serves as a seminar room. Users can spontaneously discover their own concentrating space and choose their own comfortable places themselves. We carefully designed to eliminate excessive decoration as much as possible and use Vietnamese local materials such as different color terrazzo, wood, cement, etc., to make a difference in each layer depending on how to use them.  Section / Elevation By this simple proposal, the green of the facade of each layer are emphasized. We tried to design an open tropical office space with natural light. As in the title Publik(c) Office, we proposed an open and natural office that incorporates natural light greenery as much as possible. Thanks to this simple and diverse space, we hope that creators and entrepreneurs working in Vietnam will be the place to pick up each place, gather and disseminate information of their works.  © Hiroyuki Oki  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| First Sight Bookstore of Pingjiang Wonder / Shanghai Tianhua Architectural Design Posted: 05 Dec 2018 01:00 PM PST  The Curtain Wall Reflecting the Sunlight. Image © Jianghe Zeng
 Exterior. Image © Jianghe Zeng THE NEGATION OF NEGATION  The very first building of the whole city complex. Image Courtesy of Shanghai Tianhua Architectural Design Co., Ltd The building sits in the core area of the flourishing new town of Pingjiang, Suzhou. For the city, the building will be an exclusive experience center and a remarkable bookstore. But to the architects, being both a splendid city landmark and modest humanistic site has characterized the building to be the carrier of conflicts and contradictions.  A Piece of Delicately-Cut Crystal. Image © Jianghe Zeng HIGHLIGHT AND HIDE  The lower part of the transparent building. Image © Jianghe Zeng As the first building amid the city complex turned from obsolete houses and farmlands, we expect it to stand out in the mess and pioneer in the new town. After the completion of the entire city complex project, we hope it can remain culturally unique and serve for the local community. But how to define it properly? An icy cluster of metal or a soothing piece of jade?  Interior. Image © Jianghe Zeng Rounds of negations directed us to shape it like a delicately-cut crystal, which is solid, soothing and strong. Dividing the building horizontally into 2 parts, we faceted the upper part and battered the sliced facades by a vertical angle of 4-6 degrees toward the sky, while we make the lower part open and transparent and fit it into human scale for better integration into the streets. Thus, both parts can naturally merge into the different stages of development of the new town.  Interior. Image © Jianghe Zeng EFFICIENT AND EXQUISITE  Analysis diagram Although modernistic aesthetics favors complete glass curtain walls, wouldn't it be a lot more breathtaking if tints and shades of light flow above the surface of the building? The Rose Cut, one of the diamond faceting method in the Renaissance, inspired the combinations of inlaid triangles. The apexes of each triangle glass are tilted in with a specific angle, forming the slight ups and downs on the exterior and reflecting the daily and seasonal variations of the sunlight.  First Sight Bookstore of Pingjiang Wonder_Exterior. Image © Jianghe Zeng However, challenges arose during the construction of this specially designed curtain wall, for example, the stress problem of the apexes that increases the fragility of the glass, and the flattening of the large glass panels sized 5m*1.8m. After systematic research and close collaboration, the unique diamond-like exterior took shape eventually.  Daily and Seasonal Reflection of the Sunlight. Image Courtesy of Shanghai Tianhua Architectural Design Co., Ltd  Analysis diagram of light and shadow EPILOGUE  Exterior. Image © Jianghe Zeng  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| House of Light & Wind / Ray Architecture Viet Nam Posted: 05 Dec 2018 12:00 PM PST .jpg?1543967911 "© Hoang Le") © Hoang Le
.jpg?1543969877 "© Hoang Le") © Hoang Le Text description provided by the architects. Located in a new urban area on the Hoa Phong extended road, Viet tri City, Phu Tho province, the building with front side to the Southeast, adjacent to the 45 meters width road and the back side is North West, closed with internal road 12.5meters. Therefore, three sides of the house would be subjected to thermal effects from early morning to late afternoon and solutions for heat insulation, natural ventilation, energy savings need to be answered perfectly in concept design. .jpg?1543968560 "© Hoang Le") © Hoang Le .jpg?1543968938 "© Hoang Le") © Hoang Le Based on the land shape which length up to nearly 40meters, the master plan has designated with allocated function volumes, connecting by vertical and horizontal routes which running along the land depth. Thus, these volumes will be randomly enjoyed the void space filled with light, natural ventilation and green trees. .jpg?1543967956 "© Hoang Le") © Hoang Le For ground floor, material used for inner and outer is the combination of natural slate stone wall, 450mm thickness. This wall not only creates a solidify image for the building but also an effective insulation wall and the glass folding door is maximum opened for the owner when needed, connecting functional volumes into a large space. .jpg?1543969416 "Diagram 02") Diagram 02 .jpg?1543969672 "Diagram 03") Diagram 03 As the height of the house increased, the wider of console is made. This solution creates shelter to prevent glass doors system from direct sunlight. Wooden louver performs as a shield from the sunlight and block the direct view from outside (large widen road, adjacent house etc) into private living space. The house will fully opens but achieve necessary close. .jpg?1543969828 "© Hoang Le") © Hoang Le The entire roof of the house is flat roof, there is a small area above the vertical grid for technical system and most of the roof area is designed as garden roof and fresh vegetable planted area. This layers perform as a heat insulation panel to the lower rooms. Gutter roof will collect all water to the tank below and combine with grey water of Koi pond then reuse to watering the house garden. .jpg?1543968426 "© Hoang Le") © Hoang Le  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| UnitedDATA Wuhan Office / PMT Partners Posted: 05 Dec 2018 11:00 AM PST  © Zhe Zheng
 © Zhe Zheng Text description provided by the architects. The concept of time travel is the behavior of people using space, a linear relationship between space and time from the beginning to the end, and an action leading to the future. Standing in the long and narrow space in the face of the original status, an idea of designing an office with new identity instead of traditional offices arises spontaneously. This space should have a strong directivity with simple lines pointing to a vanishing point, through which, giving the users the feeling of crossing the veil of time instead of just an office position.  © Zhe Zheng  © Zhe Zheng This is a corridor of the future: cloud computing, IOT, big data, artificial intelligence which these keywords that closely associate with UnitedDATA, will bring significant changes to the next generation. As one of the three major Network Sevice Base Station Operators in China, UnitedDATA supports a beautiful and fascinating prospect for the future. This office is not only a supporting office for Wuhan base station in central China but also its declaration of the future.  © Zhe Zheng The concept of "corridor of the future" is interpreted through two vertical intersecting axes — entrance hall, front desk reception area, leisure bar area, NOC monitoring display area, open office area and private office area. Spatial privacy on the main shaft gradually improves, with multiple functions of display, activity, and office. NOC, as the intersection of "indoors and outdoors," is connected with the auxiliary axis space leading to the outdoor landscape platform and the staff resting area.  Analysis Diagram  Analysis Diagram NOC monitors the display area as the meeting point of the axis and is also a vital display node for the entire space. With radar-arranged 16 displays, the monitoring staff will be able to view all kinds of information in the nearest tens of thousands of square meters of service base stations in real time. At the same time, this form of body shape is wrapped in a transparent glass case as an essential customer display window.  © Zhe Zheng The open office area is the site where staff concentrates their work. The desks correspond to the ceiling. The section of the ceiling gradually narrows into a light body which is also the reflector of the light strips. The large area of diffuse reflection gives the entire space a soothing light environment which avoids the eye fatigue caused by the staff working under direct light for a long time.  © Zhe Zheng  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| MoMA Announces Five Finalists for 2019 PS1 Young Architects Program Posted: 05 Dec 2018 09:35 AM PST  Courtesy of Pedro & Juana The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA P.S.1 have announced the five finalists of their 2019 Young Architects Program (YAP). The competition was founded to offer emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design a temporary, outdoor installation within the walls of the P.S.1 courtyard for MoMA's annual summer "Warm-Up" series. Architects are challenged to develop creative designs that provide shade, seating and water, while working within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling.  Courtesy of Matter Design The finalists include:
The five firms were selected following a nomination process that asked deans of architecture schools and editors of architectural publications to submit names of firms comprised of students, recent graduates, or established architects experimenting with new styles or techniques. To choose an architectural office or studio for the Young Architects Program, over 100 nominators from the US, Canada, and Mexico are asked to nominate one office for consideration.  Courtesy of TO  Courtesy of Oana Stanescu Last year, Dream the Combine's "Hide & Seek" featured a landscape of kinetic, responsive elements that connect the courtyards of the MoMA PS1 site to its surrounding streets. Other previous winners include Jenny Sabin Studio for their light catching installation, "Lumen." (2017), Escobedo Soliz Studio's Weaving the Courtyard (2016), Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation's COSMO (2015), The Living / David Benjamin's Hy-Fi (2014), CODA / Caroline O'Donnell's Party Wall (2013), HWKN's Wendy (2012), Interboro Parners' Holding Pattern (2011), SO-IL's Pole Dance (2010), MOS' Afterparty (2009) and Work AC's Public Farm 1 (2008).  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2018 09:00 AM PST .jpg?1543761372 "Factory south elevation. Image © Guangyuan Zhang") Factory south elevation. Image © Guangyuan Zhang
 Looking at the building from the southeast side of the base. Image © Guangyuan Zhang Text description provided by the architects. The incineration center of Domestic Waste Comprehensive Treatment Plant in Chaoyang District, Beijing was first designed in April 2011, and it was completed and put into use in October 2016. Located in Gao'antun Village, Jinzhan Town, Chaoyang District, Beijing, it is a modern large-scale waste incineration center with international advanced equipment and technology. .jpg?1543761391 "Main entrance of the factory. Image © Guangyuan Zhang") Main entrance of the factory. Image © Guangyuan Zhang Garbage is an inevitable product of people's urban life, and the garbage treatment center has also become an important municipal public facility in the city. The main plant of the incineration center is the building bulk and core building with the largest volume and height in the plant area.  Looking at the factory from the southwest side of the base. Image © Guangyuan Zhang  East elevation. Image © Guangyuan Zhang Through the integrated design of the internal process and the external enclosure system, the building volume meets the requirements of the equipment process for space, thus making the building express the process flow and spatial characteristics of garbage transportation, storage, incineration, purification, and power generation as a whole.  Part of the south elevation of the office building. Image © Guangyuan Zhang  Looking out from the east side of the building to the chimney. Image © Guangyuan Zhang Besides, under the premise of ensuring the process requirements and usage function, it emphasizes the integrity of the building volume and the strength and scale of the industrial building. The façade building materials that reflect the characteristics of industrial buildings are used to create a simple, simple, efficient, unobtrusive appearance that reveals the building's unique architectural image. .jpg?1543761291 "Factory freight corridor. Image © Guangyuan Zhang") Factory freight corridor. Image © Guangyuan Zhang Based on the basic form of "square", the volume of the building is refined at the corners of the building, the main entrance and exit, and the roof. The incineration center also has social service functions for display and education. A vivid, safe, clean and comprehensive educational exhibition corridor and a garbage disposal visit corridor are set up in the interior space of the factory.  Purification workshop interior. Image © Guangyuan Zhang The visit and display areas are separated from the internal production area with interfering with each other. Besides, emphasis is placed on the façade of office, visit, display and educational spaces. .jpg?1543761544 "Freight corridor. Image © Guangyuan Zhang") Freight corridor. Image © Guangyuan Zhang  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Mirasal Residential / Balzar Arquitectos + Julia Alcocer Posted: 05 Dec 2018 08:00 AM PST  © Mariela Apollonio
 © Mariela Apollonio Text description provided by the architects. Torrevieja is a seaside town located south of Alicante, known for its major tourism attraction. Its surroundings have a high landscape and ecological value on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the form of Las Lagunas de La Mata y Torrevieja Natural Park.  © Mariela Apollonio Distant views towards this natural park with mesmerizing light pink hue of the salt lagoon, a recently constructed urbanization in which there are no neighboring buildings yet, striking topography and a complete triangular block form the context in which Balzar Arquitectos and Julia Alcocer have designed the Mirasal residential complex.  Model 07 The project resolves the placement on the lot by conforming to its perimeter, creating a large interior garden. The building seeks to harmonize with the topography, mimicking the levels of the natural terrain. It is architecture which aims to express itself as a whole, whose plasticity is a result of its horizontal proportions and white materials.  © Mariela Apollonio  © Mariela Apollonio The building is currently under construction, with an estimated end date for the first phase of construction in early 2019. Recently, two show homes have been finished and equipped in order to commercialize the complex.  © Mariela Apollonio  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2018 06:00 AM PST  © Leonardo Finotti
 © Leonardo Finotti Text description provided by the architects. The Pomarino house stands in a corner that meets the two principal streets that organize the gated community in which it is located. This “L” shaped house opens itself to its neighbors in order to take advantage of the views in every possible angle. Since privacy wasn´t an issue for the house´s owners, we decided to locate the swimming pool in the most visible corner, in order to expose the house´s design and open it to its surroundings.  © Leonardo Finotti  1st floor plan  © Leonardo Finotti The house takes advantage of the terrain´s natural slope and locates itself on top of the hill. This way it manages to hide the underground on the slope, making the garage and service areas invisible to the public.  Axonometric The house is composed of two main volumes that sit on top of the hill and overlap on top of each other, responding to the lot´s neighbors. The space generated under the top volume creates a gallery that connects the house with the swimming pool and also functions as the house´s main access. This distribution hall connects the gallery with the kitchen, living room and service kitchen, which are all arranged under a free plan organization. An independent volume that sits behind the gallery hosts the service areas: laundry room, bathroom and sauna.  © Leonardo Finotti  Section 01  © Leonardo Finotti The top level hosts 4 bedrooms, and a family room. All bedrooms have access to a roof terrace and are able to enjoy the views of the surroundings. In this house we decided to use floor to ceiling glass windows in order to maximize the views and emphasize the connection to the exterior. In the living room, having both sides enclosed by glass walls allows people to have open views of the exterior and to have a natural flow between inside and outside.  © Leonardo Finotti  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Chair to Come Back in Production Posted: 05 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST  Taliesin 1 Chair. Image © Cassina Italian furniture brand Cassina has reissued an iconic piece of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed furniture, the Taliesin 1 chair. The chair was designed by Lloyd Wright in 1949 for the Garden Room in Taliesin West. The iconic chair didn't enter mass production until the late 1980s, but was discontinued in 1990 as it was seen as "too avant-garde." The Taliesin 1 is constructed from a single piece of folded plywood, and will release in its original beech plywood with a cherry wood veneer.  Taliesin 1 Chair. Image © Cassina To mark the launch, Cassina has unveiled a limited-edition series of the Taliesin 1. This run of 450 chairs features three color options — burgundy, dark blue and "petrol green" — all of which are matt lacquered and upholstered in short-hair leather. The Taliesin 1 has a complex geometrical structure that ensures the stability of the chair. Constructed from a single piece of folded plywood, it is frequently called 'Origami' because of the way it recalls this Japanese art.  Taliesin 1 Chair. Image © Cassina Completely manufactured in Cassina's carpentry workshop, the armchair combines hand-craftsmanship with the most advanced wood processing technologies. The project has been further developed thanks to the study of original drawings and the research and reconstruction work carried out by Cassina for the first re-edition under the guidance of Professor Filippo Alison. Compared with the first edition various additional elements, such as the front feet, have been eliminated in order to place greater emphasis on its folds, and the armchair is even more comfortable thanks to its thicker padding and more reclined backrest.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Romilly / Stéphane Fernandez - SARL atelier fernandez&serres Posted: 05 Dec 2018 04:00 AM PST  © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S)
 © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S) Text description provided by the architects. The work of the material expresses itself through the unchanging program of our society: "the school". This project speaks to memory and past and futurs souvenirs. It speaks to the hilly landscape of Cannes and to the Mediterranean Sea.  © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S)  Sketch  © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S) Here the sun and the stone become measurable physical colors. They reveal a richness and a sensuality witch the children witness. The slope is an essential element of the school's inscription in the landscape and the History. By a simple game of cuttings - embankments, the school poses itself gently on the ground. The view is released from the courses on the Great Landscape.  © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S) Light is omnipresent; powerful, sparkling, and glowing.  © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S)  Ground floor plan  © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S) The soft and soothing light emanating from sheds expresses a wealth of emotions and sensations favoring the learning of children. The work of indirect light traversed by the yellow color makes it conducive to a peaceful apprenticeship. Each classroom draws both a protective and open place to the world.  First floor plan  © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S)  Detail Travertine stone, rough sawn, bears the weight of a past history. Concretion, creases, digging, shells and crystals appear as a testimony of Time passing. Through its variations of textures, colors, dimensions, abrasions, the travertine stone emphasizes the timeless relationship to the site and to the Men.  © Stéphane Aboudaram / WE ARE CONTENT(S)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jury Announced for 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:00 AM PST  Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, Dhaka, Bangladesh / Marina Tabassum Architects. Image The Aga Khan Award for Architecture has announced the master jury for the 2017-2019 award cycle. The jury, a diverse and global group comprising architects, academics, and theorists, will select the recipients of the award, each of whom will, in turn, receive a USD $I million prize for their winning work.  Hufton + Crow. ImageIssam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs / Zaha Hadid Architects The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is unique in the crowded field of architectural awards in that it recognizes all parties involved in the conception, design, and realization of a project. Founded in 1977 by Aga Khan IV, it aims specifically to highlight projects of relevance or significance to primarily Islamic societies. This focus may seem paradoxically broad, but is geared toward elevating projects that not only adeptly meet their functional requirements but "stimulate and respond to cultural aspirations." Projects that inventively make use of local materials and/or appropriate technologies are given particular attention in the hopes that they inspire equally creative efforts elsewhere. The jury members responsible for selecting the upcoming cycle of shortlisted and winning projects include, alphabetically by last name:
 The award is given in three-year cycles, allowing time for the rigorous on-site reviews by experts in architecture, engineering, and conservation, that the award has become known for. This upcoming cycle will span 2017 - 2019. The winners of the 2014-2016 cycle were:
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| Posted: 05 Dec 2018 02:00 AM PST  © Alejandro Peral
 © Alejandro Peral Text description provided by the architects. This is a permanent home for a young couple that doesn’t plan on having children, at least in the medium term. So the program escapes the usual projects of closed neighborhoods.  © Alejandro Peral On the other hand, the land has the front facing north, so public rooms that turn to the garden do not receive direct sunlight. To respond to these constraints, the main rooms become passing through rooms north-south direction, working visual barriers to achieving privacy where necessary.  Lower Floor Plan  Upper Floor Plan In the case of the dining room, a garden with plants designed, whose volume fulfills that same function. Upstairs, the suite opens to a patio that guarantees the entrance of the sun but cuts the visuals from the street.  © Alejandro Peral  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Is Clean Water a Challenge for Architects? Dutch Studio Ooze is Betting On it Posted: 05 Dec 2018 01:30 AM PST  © Roman Mensing On a small strip of land between the Emscher River and the Rhine Herne Canal in Germany sits a rest stop whose colorful appearance belies its radical purpose. The structure's artful design consists of pipes leading from two toilets and the Emscher (the most polluted river in Germany) that converge at a small community garden and drinking fountain. The garden is, in fact, a manmade wetland that collects, treats, and cleans the effluence from the toilets and river—making it drinkable.
 Courtesy of Ooze The 2010 project, known as Between the Waters, was one of the earliest projects of Rotterdam-based Ooze Architecture and its two founders Eva Pfannes and Sylvain Hartenberg. Ooze is focused on one very specific goal: finding solutions to the world's clean water crisis through observing, imitating, and socially normalizing naturally-occurring water purification processes. "The solutions are already there, they've always been there, ingrained in nature," says Hartenberg. "We just use these ideas the environment has presented to us all along, and modify them to make systems that are efficient, low-tech, and easily maintained." The constructed wetland—the filtration system on display at Between the Waters—exemplifies the kind of system that Ooze uses often. This artificially-created landscape operates like a sieve by using sediment and vegetation break down toxic substances. But unlike a naturally-occurring wetland, these landscapes use specific sediments and plants that optimize conditions for desirable microorganisms (and deter bugs and odorous bacteria). But it's not a cure-all for the world's clean water shortage: Different landscapes and climates require different solutions. Moreover, Pfannes and Hartenberg know that many clients and communities will doubt their proposals. "We wanted to have smaller-scale examples we could point to when bidding for a project or approaching a municipality," says Pfannes. "They can always be scaled up depending on population." That scaling up has manifested itself in several projects since Between the Waters, including a 2012 project in which the duo introduced their work to members of the Rio de Janeiro government as a way to solve the city's ongoing struggle for clean water in its slum-like unplanned settlements, known as favelas. "They were extremely interested in the work we were doing, but they had absolutely no money to make it happen," says Hartenberg "So basically they said, 'If you can find the money we will support you in this radical idea.'"  Courtesy of Ooze And so the architects set off to find funding and realize their prototypes. They spent the project's first two years speaking with activists, inhabitants, community leaders, and ecologists to better understand the issues plaguing the area. "We let people explain all their problems around water themselves, so that became the documentary [film], and based on that, we gave our solutions to the neighborhoods and presented to the funders [in Europe]," says Pfannes. The solution, named Água Carioca, was essentially a larger version of Between the Waters spread over a single site in a Rio de Janeiro favela. Due to the city's nearby protected rain forests, transporting waste outside the city was out of the question. "We had to solve the problem right where it was, and right where the water was being consumed," says Pfannes. This is where the constructed wetland came into play: The wetland requires approximately five square feet to filter one person's waste per day. And with pools of wastewater already occupying a great deal of space within the favelas, Pfannes and Hartenberg knew they had room to operate. Ooze's prototype would filter the effluence of around 150 people per day (that's roughly 646 gallons) sourced from the favela's polluted streams and ponds. Ooze received a $30,000 grant from the LafargeHolcim foundation to build the first prototype in Rio at a school. The design was realized, but further plans to serve the entire municipal district have been put on hold because of political roadblocks. Shortly thereafter, Hartenberg and Pfannes were approached by the municipality of Chennai, India. They had learned of Ooze's work and were interested in strategizing against flooding and drought. Due to an intensely wet two-month rainy season, an incomplete underground drainage system, and lack of surface permeability (Chennai is densely built), the city suffers from chronic extreme flooding—deluges that leave pools of toxic, undrinkable water everywhere. The ensuing dry season brings acutes droughts.The solution, named Água Carioca, was essentially a larger version of Between the Waters spread over a single site in a Rio de Janeiro favela. Due to the city's nearby protected rain forests, transporting waste outside the city was out of the question. "We had to solve the problem right where it was, and right where the water was being consumed," says Pfannes.  © Raul Correa Smith This is where the constructed wetland came into play: The wetland requires approximately five square feet to filter one person's waste per day. And with pools of wastewater already occupying a great deal of space within the favelas, Pfannes and Hartenberg knew they had room to operate. Ooze's prototype would filter the effluence of around 150 people per day (that's roughly 646 gallons) sourced from the favela's polluted streams and ponds. Ooze received a $30,000 grant from the LafargeHolcim foundation to build the first prototype in Rio at a school. The design was realized, but further plans to serve the entire municipal district have been put on hold because of political roadblocks. Shortly thereafter, Hartenberg and Pfannes were approached by the municipality of Chennai, India. They had learned of Ooze's work and were interested in strategizing against flooding and drought. Due to an intensely wet two-month rainy season, an incomplete underground drainage system, and lack of surface permeability (Chennai is densely built), the city suffers from chronic extreme flooding—deluges that leave pools of toxic, undrinkable water everywhere. The ensuing dry season brings acute droughts.  Courtesy of The Hindu Times, via Metropolis Magazine Once again, the architects turned to the natural environment for their solution. Through conversations with long-term residents and experts, and analyzing the region's current and historic landscape, the Hartenberg and Pfannes learned of a water management strategy implemented by the Mughals in the 17th and 18th century, who dug thousands of ditches that slowly allow rainwater to permeate the earth and restore the city's aquifers. From there, the purified water could be pumped with wells. "With urbanization, this system was forgotten," says Pfannes. "They built over the lakes and diverted the water where it is basically lost forever; again, we have moved away from the systems nature has provided to us." Ooze's final proposal for Chennai consisted of similar catchment pools throughout the city. True to form, constructed wetlands also make an appearance in the plan: In several places, they would assist in the filtration process. The project, aptly named City of 1,000 Tanks, will take an incremental approach to implementation. "People need to get used to the idea of their water being filtered out in the open," says Hartenberg. It is currently being tested on scales ranging from 8,000 to 400,000 residents throughout the city.  Courtesy of Ooze Most recently, the duo were invited by the Brooklyn design center A/D/O to develop and present a solution for New York's wastewater challenges. The metropolis has a combined sewer-rainwater draining system that's frequently overwhelmed by rain, leading to discharges of mixed stormwater and sewage into the East River and other natural water bodies. Ooze's Every Other Street proposal recommends turning thousands of city streets into porous surfaces that absorbs rainwater, thereby reducing overflows and the city's dependence on hard infrastructure. Although the wide-spread realization of Every Other Street is far-fetched, the project highlights how a return to nature could benefit highly-planned New York the same way it has aided Rio de Janeiro and Chennai. "By just bringing New York and New Yorkers a little closer to nature through the redesign of their streets, we have the power to prevent pollution, and impart an improved lifestyle all at once," says Hartenberg. "It's just about listening to what nature wants."  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| New Renderings Revealed for BIG's King Street West in Toronto Posted: 05 Dec 2018 01:00 AM PST  KING Toronto. Image Courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group Bjarke Ingels Group has revealed new images for their King Street West condo community in Toronto. The development was formed as sets of pixels extruded upwards to create space for housing, retail and boutique offices. The concept was made to avoid the footprints of heritage buildings that already exist on site. The latest renderings revealed both interior and exterior images of the striking new development.  KING Toronto. Image Courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group King Street West is set in a transitional area of Toronto. Located at the meeting point of three 20th century neighborhood parks, BIG, Westbank and Allied Properties REIT proposed a mixed use development with a public plaza that will create a new center for the community while connecting the various pedestrian pathways that crisscross the area. The building is organized as a traditional perimeter block with a public plaza in the center. Surrounding the plaza, King Street West rises as sets of pixels, each pixel set at the size of a room; rotated 45 degrees from the street grid to increase exposure to light and air.  KING Toronto. Image Courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group  KING Toronto. Image Courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group  KING Toronto. Image Courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group The project features a distinct undulating façade to create additional green space. "With King Street West, we wanted to find an alternative to the tower and podium you see a lot of in Toronto and revisit some of Safdie's revolutionary ideas, but rather than a utopian experiment on an island, have it nested into the heart of the city. It would be strange if one of the most diverse cities in the world had the most homogenous architecture." Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Alba’s Play / ANA ROCHA architecture Posted: 05 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  © Christiane Wirth
 © Christiane Wirth  © Christiane Wirth Text description provided by the architects. Designers Carvalho & Bernau bought from the municipality two old classrooms in a former school building. The renovated complex, with 11 apartments, consists on a hybrid combination of buildings from the beginning of the 20th century and from the 1980s. The municipality has carried out the renovation of the exterior themselves. The transformed dwelling, with high rooms that can be reached via a communal corridor, had to accommodate three bedrooms, living area and play space for Alba, who had just turned one year.  Proposed - Ground floor plan  Proposed - Elevated Areas Light and view-lines as design-method:  © Christiane Wirth  © Christiane Wirth Sustainability:  © Christiane Wirth Contrast between old and new:  © Christiane Wirth Internal windows:  © Christiane Wirth  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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