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- Family House in Kaunas / Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners
- PIZZA 22 Restaurant / Architecture bureau DA
- Hangzhou Dowell · Life Style Center / Shanghai Tianhua Architecture Planning & Engineering
- The Obsolete House - Omah Amoh / Gayuh Budi Utomo
- Dos Maderos House / Jaime Rendon Arquitectos
- Safdie Architects' Changi Airport Finds Beauty in a Challenging Typology
- Semaphore: an Ecological Utopia Proposed by Vincent Callebaut
- Material and Immaterial Poetry: The Work of Lina Bo Bardi
- AXEL Hotel Madrid / El Equipo Creativo
- “Hidden Cross” Residence / Ntovros Vasileios Architects
| Family House in Kaunas / Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners Posted: 05 Jan 2019 06:00 PM PST  © Leonas Garbačiauskas
 © Leonas Garbačiauskas Text description provided by the architects. A stylish three bedroom house in the unique location on the shore of Lampėdis quarry. The plot chosen by the customers is clearly oriented to the water body and a horn distinctly emerging on the shoreline. It is for this reason that the landscaping solutions of the plot are ascetic; the spacious open courtyard emphasizes the opening view to the water body.  © Leonas Garbačiauskas The concept of the building was based on the principle of screen architecture. The graceful cornices on the main façade create the depth impression, turning a simple shape into an intriguing and interesting object. This exceptional detail creates a clean and minimalist silhouette of the facade, in framing a huge, solid glass facade. The tapering cornice cut thins out the structures and gives sharpness to the volume. According to the architect, cornices are like a horse's blinders, directing the glance in the main centrepiece – to Lampėdis quarry but also closing the view from the surrounding buildings. It is not just a beautiful architectural detail but also a functional solution. Cornices extremely smartly and stylishly separate the living spaces from neighbouring plots and at the same time protect the glass facade from environmental effects: sunlight, precipitation, and serve as a sun canopy on the first floor terrace.  © Leonas Garbačiauskas The building volume looks aesthetic and clean. It consists of three segments: the main rectangle on the first floor and two different rectangular volumes on the second. The main bedroom is rather pronounced on the facade. It is counter weighted by the library. These elements reduce the volume scale and create the dynamics in the facade line. Copper tin was used for the finish of the facade.  © Leonas Garbačiauskas Architectural solutions create an interesting scenario between the exterior and interior of the dwelling house. As seen from the courtyard, graceful cornices focus on the glazed facade and the open interior of the house. Conversely, the interior of the house emphasizes the panorama that opens. Looking through the windows, it seems like there are no other buildings around, just the water in front.  1st floor plan  2nd floor plan The architect says that the concept of the building depended on functional needs. The customers have a unique occupation - they breed dogs. Therefore, they wanted to have the entire block on the first floor for keeping dogs. This design solution is also reflected in the volume. The first floor area is significantly higher than the second. The dynamics in the interior spaces is created by the open lobby in the centre of the building, linked to the library on the second floor. There is also a spacious and bright living area. Huge showcase windows allow to admire the landscape of the Lampėdis quarry, and bring in a lot of natural light. Because of the privacy feeling created by the cornices on the façade, all living spaces are open and without curtains. The concept of openness is also maintained in the main bedroom offering even more expressive view of Lampėdis quarry. By analogy to the façade, the minimalist aesthetics is kept clean throughout the interior.  © Leonas Garbačiauskas Here we indeed can feel the connection between human life, the surrounding nature and architecture.  © Leonas Garbačiauskas  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| PIZZA 22 Restaurant / Architecture bureau DA Posted: 05 Jan 2019 03:00 PM PST  © Sergey Melnikov
 © Sergey Melnikov Text description provided by the architects. Complex geometry and longstanding history of the premises have become the key starting points in space planning decision during the development of the design for pizzeria Pizza 22. Pizza 22 is located in the historical center of Moscow, in the premises of former salt storage. At the same time, with only one-third of the premises located on the ground floor, the main part thereof is located below the ground level - in the former salterns.  © Sergey Melnikov  Floor Plans  © Sergey Melnikov We retained and emphasized the authenticity of the premises having made it a kind of shell for the modern elements locked inside. All pieces of furniture, lamps and decorative components are made according to our sketches. The most challenging task was to create colorful and attractive planting in the semi-basement of the premises - at the level of - 6.5 meters.  © Sergey Melnikov To make our guests feel in these rooms as comfortable as on the ground floor, we housed an open kitchen in the lowest room, arranged lots of tubs with trees, which create the being-at-the-ground-level effect, and also used an installation of a bright art object in the form of red staircase, which became the central element of the room. The ultimate interior is light, minimalistic and not overloaded with details.  © Sergey Melnikov  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hangzhou Dowell · Life Style Center / Shanghai Tianhua Architecture Planning & Engineering Posted: 05 Jan 2019 01:00 PM PST  © Jianghe Zeng
 © Jianghe Zeng Text description provided by the architects. Dowell Future Impression is located in the west of Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park, facing Wuchang Wetland Park while sitting mountains.  © A.GUANG The life style center is the epitome of Future Impression Estate more than an ordinary sales center. It is initially used as the sales center but later added an underground Our Space, a ground floor lobby and an upstairs light meal space. The original intention is abandoning excessive modifier, that is what you see is what you get. The multifunction help to establish great vision of Future Impression.  © Jianghe Zeng  © A.GUANG The design concept comes from architects' understanding of the relationship among architecture, water-mirror and landscape. Therefore, taking the inspiration of "Look up at a peak with awe to enjoy elegant scenery, look down to a stream with appreciate to admire wide universe," the innovative façade approach is encouraged by the natural beauty of lakes and mountains, in other words "View a mountain at a distance, touch its meaning within heart." To achieve that, the way home is designed to cross water. The mirror-like water works as cornerstone, which breeds the whole building.  © Jianghe Zeng Walking into the lobby, the enclosed curve of the stairway roots in Mobius Band. Pure space is given forceful artistic atmosphere.  © Lingjun Meng Transparency and piercing sets space boundaries in the underground Our Space to create a complete interlaced spatial system. Meanwhile, wood and concrete is combined with plants and books, aiming to transfer dynamic spaces to static spaces.  © A.GUANG The upstairs cinema's steps are as curved as contour lines, turning sunbeams piercing through tiles suspended in the wind into checkered light and shade on the ground. In this way, the architectural form is combined with inner spaces. Sit inside idly and look up into wooded mountains, it's exciting that the boundary between exterior and interior is blurred by transparent glasses, bringing in surrounding scenery, which creates an illusion reality like reaching the peak as well as viewing a picture. The interaction of inner soft lights and outer glistening waves reflects the charm of faraway mountains and nearby water, representing the soul of Yuhang civilization.  Underground space. Image © Xiang Cheng  Structure analysis  © Jianghe Zeng The basic element of facades is "Tile" representing Jiangnan. Driven by traditional method "Perfect the form with inner meaning", Corrugated parametric design is applied to crescent-shaped pendants and slim stainless upstands suspending on facades, to landscape the building. Within vernal sunlight, hook-like glazed tiles appears to be delicate mutton-fat jade, drawing out a picturesque Jiangnan impression with misty rain.  © A.GUANG  © Jianghe Zeng  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The Obsolete House - Omah Amoh / Gayuh Budi Utomo Posted: 05 Jan 2019 11:00 AM PST  © Mansyur Hasan
 © Mansyur Hasan Text description provided by the architects. In Javanese, amoh means obsolete, or broken. So, Omah Amoh means an outdated or damaged house. This is not the actual condition of the house but a parody of architecture to bring us back to basics. This is not only a basic physical architecture but more as an important sense in it. From there, new possibilities that had never been thought of before were created.  © Mansyur Hasan This house comes from scrap materials, architect not only practice in designing, but also in design and build. He has scrap building materials (which were not used in the project) that he collected in the warehouse. From these materials, they become "creations" to "created" Omah Amoh. As if to reverse the form follows function of dogma into a function follows form. The materials turn out to be a surprise: unplanned but it had tremendous impact.  Section A-A The Javanese base and island houses are communal houses, the rooms are known as public rooms, a gathering place for many people. Built to be more communal than individualistic. Almost all rooms inside can be used as a place to have conversations, discussions, meetings, work on something, craft, or just drink coffee together.  © Mansyur Hasan Here, the architect is experimenting with old doors. The door was stripped into a basic character as a "board", so it could be recreated to be anything. This can remain as a door, or be recreated as a table, window and many others. Its conventional function as a door is broken and has a new function that can be said to be a little "subversive".  © Mansyur Hasan Besides that, he also thought about the sense of space basically. This is quite experimental. It starts from a conventional room that has to provide enough space for people to move around, so there is a minimalist area that matches the minimum movement standards of people. At the end of his reflection, he found space without spaces, when the front window on the upper floor could be turned into a seat. Interesting space experiments in the midst of limited space in our urban homes today.  Section B-B The Obsolete House or Omah Amoh in Javanese language, is a conventional "unplanned, but can alter our architectural sense-and-thought" house. By thinking and feeling essentially and out of the box, ultimately he discovers the creativity strength of the materials, from local wisdom and the spaces that are created inside.  © Mansyur Hasan  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Dos Maderos House / Jaime Rendon Arquitectos Posted: 05 Jan 2019 05:00 AM PST  © Sergio Gomez
 © Sergio Gomez Text description provided by the architects. The conditions of location of the lot allowed us to propose the project with an anonymous and sculptural aspect from the access road of the subdivision towards the house; This condition gave us the possibility of discovering the interior space through the route of the project with the different visuals towards the valley of the Villeta river.  © Sergio Gomez We decided to design the project in four volumes; two of them (social area and alcoves) integrated by a large pergola in metallic structure generating shade in the main space of contemplation of the landscape. The other two volumes adjacent to the social area house the project's stables and the butler's house.  © Sergio Gomez  First floor plan  © Sergio Gomez The permeability of the visuals, the contiguity in the interior spaces, the constant search for shade, the total absence of glass elements, the cross ventilation, and the implementation of ancestral textures (ceiling in “matamba” and the reticulated wooden screens) were values and constant concerns in the architectural approach and throughout the design process of the project.  © Sergio Gomez  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Safdie Architects' Changi Airport Finds Beauty in a Challenging Typology Posted: 05 Jan 2019 04:30 AM PST  © Safdie Architects Airport architecture is a complex typology in which to innovate. Restrictive technical, security, and circulatory requirements force designs along limited (and precedented) paths; little budget is left over to create space for respite, let alone beauty. Which makes the central space of Safdie Architect's design for Singapore's Changi Airport all the more unusual. Jewel Changi Airport reinvents the public concourse not just as an in-between space for travelers, but as a major public attraction. Public transit form the city passes through the city and the large garden and shopping space within the central dome establishes it as a node for public gathering. In the future, an event space on the north side of the park will host public events for up to 1000 people.  © Safdie Architects The structure, a torus-shaped glass dome, houses a lushly planted forest that climbs up the sides of the glass structure. The garden will include meandering walking trails, seating areas, and even a number of artificial waterfalls. An oculus at the center of the space, named the Rain Vortex, will allow water to cascade into the center of the space. Upon the building's completion, it will be the tallest interior waterfall in the world. Rainwater that falls into the fountain will be pumped through the waterfall and used throughout the airport for building services and landscape irrigation systems. The oculus and flowing water also act as a passive cooling system.  © Safdie Architects Visitors to the Forest Valley will also enjoy five levels of shopping space on either side of the garden. Vertical valleys slice through the commercial space, allowing both access between the two zones and bringing light to the lower levels. The building is currently under construction and is expected to reach completion in 2019. .jpg?1546710149 "© Safdie Architects") © Safdie Architects  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Semaphore: an Ecological Utopia Proposed by Vincent Callebaut Posted: 05 Jan 2019 03:00 AM PST  Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures In a design proposal for Soprema's new company headquarters in Strasbourg, France, Vincent Callebaut Architectures envisions an 8,225 square-meter ecological utopia. The building, called Semaphore, is described in the program as a "green flex office for nomad co-workers" and is dedicated to urban agriculture and employee well-being. An eco-futuristic building, Semaphore is inspired by biomimicry and intended as a poetic landmark, as well as aiming to serve as a showcase for Soprema's entire range of insulation, waterproofing, and greening products. The design is an ecological prototype of the green city of the future, working to achieve a symbiosis between humans and nature.  Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures At the metaphorical heart of the design is the skeleton of a mammoth, symbolic to Soprema, ensconced in glass at the very top of the building. From its home 24 meters up in the sky, the mammoth is visible from the surrounding area and placed precisely at the crossroads of two organizational axes, overlooking the company.  Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures On the building's interior, flexibility and adaptability are the focus. Designed to fit the company's organizational structure, all employees in the same department will be able to work together on the same floor, but within a flexible, or nomadic, office layout without assigned offices or desks. Cocooning spaces are integrated throughout the plan, however, to allow for privacy or concentration when needed. The vertical circulation is designed to be naturally lit and ventilated, with recreational and relaxation areas grouped around it to accommodate employees' natural movement patterns.  Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures Striving for integration with nature at every opportunity, the building takes advantage of its location on the water with a planned new marina and large, green, cascading terraces inspired by terraced rice fields where company employees can enjoy the sunshine and south-facing views. Also to the benefit of the employees, the building's green space includes urban vegetable gardens, greenhouses, and orchards. Eventually, all paths among and within the terraces converge on the agora, the epicenter of the project with access to all of the building's common areas.  Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures Beyond a surface "greening" of the building, Semaphore incorporates multiple innovations to offset its energy consumption and carbon production. The design of Semaphore includes 10,000 plants, shrubs, and trees native to the Strasbourg region which will absorb carbon while producing oxygen. The dense vegetation will also serve to combat the urban heat island effect while recovering rainwater and recycling greywater. The building design utilizes passive design strategies as well as an active solar photovoltaic and thermal roof, vertical wind farm, and mini-biomass plant. The building materials themselves will be considered from a cradle-to-cradle perspective and chosen to optimize the quality of the indoor air.  Courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures An ambitious, optimistic view to the future, the design uses the building as a tool to showcase Soprema's products, remove pollution from air and rainwater, and teach employees about urban agriculture. Semaphore prioritizes the human experience without compromising the environment. News via: Vincent Callebaut Architectures  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Material and Immaterial Poetry: The Work of Lina Bo Bardi Posted: 05 Jan 2019 01:30 AM PST  Facade - Valéria Cirell House. Image © Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi. Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi is one of the most important figures of Brazilian design. Her ability to blend architecture, politics and popular culture made her an icon throughout the country and world, while her relentlessness to break from traditionalisms made Brazil the ideal location for her work. Bo Bardi's architecture incorporates both materiality and culture. In addition to the concrete and solidified elements, she designed pieces based on cultural factors and intense political discussions. She wished to break the barriers between intellectuals and everyday people.  Solhar do Unhão. Image © Manuel Sá Her first constructed work, the Glass House, was designed in 1948 for her and her husband. It sits on a hilltop in the Morumbi neighborhood and demonstrates her admiration for nature that has marked her entire career. Reinforced by slender pillars with large glass windows along the facade, the residence floats over the surrounding vegetation. Bo Bardi also designed some of the furniture, interiors, and even door knobs.  MASP. Image © FLAGRANTE A few years later, she was invited to design the Chame-Chame House in 1958. During this period, she divided her professional career between São Paulo and Salvador. The rounded volumes of the Chame-Chame House alleviated the problematic corner street with recesses and retaining walls. The outer walls incrusted in pebbles and various plant species draw in the viewer. The house appears and extends out at every angle. Of Bo Bardi’s works designed in Brazil, SESC Pompéia perhaps best exemplifies her style. Elements such as the floor design, amphitheater, and verticalization of the multi-sports courts highlight a spectacular urbanity.  Valéria Cirell House. Image © Pedro Vannucchi To paraphrase Olívia de Oliveira, space conforms as a "passage," [1] demonstrating its urban intention for the place. It also acts as a spatial recovery, poetically summarizing that there are other ways to approach urban problems, in search of solutions that are more realistic. When she designed the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), the architect "organized the building in two parts, one totally elevated, aerial, crystalline, and another half-buried, surrounded by gardens and vegetation," [2] creating a relationship between the building and the city. Thus, the transparency of the building allows for a view of the great valley: the appropriation of public space, the liberation of sight, and therefore the creation of a "silent interval."[3]  Sesc Pompéia. Image © Nelson Kon Bo Bardi also designed furniture, objects, clothes, sets, and paintings highlighting her restless and multifaceted personality. Her character is mirrored in all her works. Each quite different from the other, yet guided by their surroundings, denoting her respect for the natural environment. The architect's portfolio also features graphic design, including magazines, posters, and exhibition materials.  Sketch - Bowl Chair. Image © Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi.  Bowl Chair. Image © Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi. Bo Bardi’s legacy remains relevant to this day, from her writings to illustrations, and architectural works to objects.  MASP. Image © FLAGRANTE  Teatro Oficina. Image © Nelson Kon Notes [1] (OLIVEIRA, 2006, p.201) Bibliographic References OLIVEIRA; Olivia de. Lina Bo Bardi – Sutis substâncias da Arquitetura. São Paulo: Romano Guerra, 2006.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| AXEL Hotel Madrid / El Equipo Creativo Posted: 05 Jan 2019 01:00 AM PST  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo
 vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo Text description provided by the architects. In the heart of “El Barrio de las Letras”, the design overlaps various references forming an explosive and complex tandem. The objective was to create a hotel where one could breath a free and fun atmosphere with a disruptive touch, which would invite different types of public to enjoy the public areas of the hotel.  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo INTRODUCTION TO HOTEL AXEL MADRID  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo Another starting point is the palatial 19th Century building in which the hotel is located, where its noble rooms still conserve elements of great patrimonial interest, lavishly decorated ceilings, intense colors on the walls and baroque decorative details. And finally, closing this strange tandem is the explosive philosophy behind the AXEL Hotel chain, whose hotels are designed for the LGBTQ community creating free spaces where sexual diversity is welcome and promoted and where diversion is a priority.  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo CONCEPT The principal objective was to create a hotel which exuded an atmosphere of liberty and diversion with a certain disruptive touch which invited a varied clientele to enter the public areas of the hotel to enjoy the gastronomic offer. In order to achieve this atmosphere, the most important strategy in the design is the use of color, an element which accompanies us throughout all the areas of the hotel and which is applied with different character and material nature in each zone.  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo THE COMMON AREAS La introducción de textos, palabras y frases en forma de luminosos y neones hace referencia al pasado literario del Barrio de las Letras, pero con mensajes y guiños más populares. Es precisamente en el patio de luces del edificio donde estas “literaturas populares” toman mayor protagonismo y suben por el patio como eco de las voces teatrales de las “Corralas de comedias” del Siglo de Oro.  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo NOBLE ROOMS  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo SUITES  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo THE NEW ROOMS The design mixes visual references to the esthetic of the bull fight and the “mantilla” with a sexy touch. Two large curtains are the outstanding decorative elements, one fuchsia, the color of the bullfighter’s cape, and the other of a translucent black texture like a “mantilla”. Together they surround the bed and allow the room to be transformed according to the time of day or, why not, the mood. A neon light with clear or suggestive messages regarding popular culture completes this playful setting.  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo For those who are looking for a place to rest, thanks to its elegant intense blue and noble woods, the room offers a quiet and peaceful respite from the noisy “Literary Neighborhood”.  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo F&B AREAS OF THE HOTEL Hidden in the underground of Hotel Axel, in a provocative and secret location, we find Bala Perdida (Lost Bullet) Club, where the mix of clandestine atmosphere, cocktail offer and music invite the public to enjoy the space. You can find more information in the Press Presentation “Bala Perdida Club”.  vía Courtesy of El Equipo Creativo  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| “Hidden Cross” Residence / Ntovros Vasileios Architects Posted: 04 Jan 2019 09:00 PM PST  © Dimitris Sotiropoulos
 © Dimitris Sotiropoulos Text description provided by the architects. The plot of land is located on the edge of a small hill, in a suburb of Chalkida overlooking the sea. The characteristics of the location and slope of the plot, along with the existence of a main road on the north side, led to the creation of a relatively compact and impenetrable volume from the north. Oppositely on the south side there are the main openings connecting the interior with the yard, semi-covered spaces and balconies.  © Dimitris Sotiropoulos  Section A  © Dimitris Sotiropoulos Internally, the composition is structured around a vertical and horizontal axis in the space, where in their intersection they form a visible cross in the living space. The vertical axis distinguishes the areas of movement (staircase, lift) from the operating areas (kitchen, dining room, bedrooms, wc), while the horizontal axis separates the public spaces from the more private ones.  © Dimitris Sotiropoulos  First floor plan  © Dimitris Sotiropoulos > Bioclimatic approach  © Dimitris Sotiropoulos > Light  © Dimitris Sotiropoulos  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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