SRDP-IWMC HA TINH Office - H&P Architects

January 13, 2015, 1:56 am

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Located at the heart of Ha Tinh city and on a street with many governmental offices, the Coordination Committee SRDP-IWMC Ha Tinh Office is the headquarter of the SRDP project (IFAD organization) and IWMC project (ODA funded by Belgian government). The total cost is limited and the existing office furniture should be reused as much as possible.

Photo: Nguyen Tien Thanh. Published on January 13, 2015.

Climate change is a remarkable issue and has affected comprehensively on the Ha Tinh’s urban and rural areas. Moreover, the rapid urbanization has been making the rural area imbalanced. The agricultural land has been reduced, which seriously impacts on the stable lifestyle of the local community.

Photo: Nguyen Tien Thanh. Published on January 13, 2015.

The project’s design concept is a synthesis of Sedentary Cultivation and Settlement aiming to three objectives: Iconic imagery + Low cost + Quick construction.

Photo: Nguyen Tien Thanh. Published on January 13, 2015.

The three-storey building block is placed to East-West direction. The two upper floors are covered by a lattice structure full of plants and crops which we call the Vertical Field. The structure which is comprised of 400mmx400mm concrete blocks stacked vertically embraces the entire inside work space. The irrigation system is integrated inbetween the blocks’ joints, minimizing the negative impact of the local urban and climatic problems such as noise, air pollution, overheat and typhoon. At the same time this agriculture-friendly working environment creates a different experience for the users who can plant vegetable by themselves.

Photo: Nguyen Tien Thanh. Published on January 13, 2015.

The project is an idea of improving usage of vegetable in urban context and still meets energy demand in the future. The synthesis between agriculture and architecture is the foundation for sustainable development.
Note: + SRDP (Sustainable Rural Development for the Poor Project in Ha Tinh)
+ IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development)
+ IWMC (Project integrated water resource management and urban planning related to climate change in Ha Tinh province)

Photo: Nguyen Tien Thanh. Published on January 13, 2015.

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Showroom Montenapoleno - Bacs Architettura, Mauro Accardi, Silvia Buccheri

January 13, 2015, 2:09 am

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Nel cuore del quadrilatero della moda milanese, per un’azienda multi-brand di abbigliamento, un nuovo concept show-room. Leitmotiv di fondo: l’ambiente casa. Casa intesa come luogo dove abitare e far crescere i nuovi talenti della moda e del design. Il sistema espositivo è pensato con elementi facilmente spostabili per garantire la maggiore flessibilità possibile, il ferro naturale dona all’ambiente un aspetto rigoroso ed elegante. Gli arredi vintage recuperati ad hoc creano una dialettica ideale tra diverse epoche, tra la contemporaneità dei prodotti e il contesto storico dello spazio espositivo.

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From office to home b&b - JAM ARCHITECTURE

January 13, 2015, 2:21 am

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Il progetto prevede il cambio di destinazione d’uso di un appartamento di 120 mq, collocato ad un piano alto a 300 metri dal Duomo e dalla Torre Velasca, da ufficio a residenza, con un taglio adatto per affitti temporanei o b&b. La cucina a muro, in acciaio e legno “a casetta” e con banco a isola, è collocata in continuità con il soggiorno, verso la piazza. I servizi (cucina, wc, lavanderia) si accorpano attorno al blocco ascensori del condominio. Al posto del precedente corridoio di distribuzione è stato creato un bagno areato, al cui interno sono presenti inserti di pietre delle cave delle Cervaiole di Seravezza; a muro un volto in chiaro scuro tratto dalle Odalische di Ingres; un secondo bagno finestrato presenta una ampia doccia con seduta per abluzioni in coppia. Le tre camere doppie, di cui una con cabina armadio, incorniciate dai nuovi serramenti dal taglio modernista, si ridimensionano per la quiete psicologica e notturna dei futuri ospiti. Un nuovo disimpegno, dotato di armadio a muro, nasconde un angolo lavanderia con lavatrice, stenditoio e ripostiglio. Rifacimento completo di tutti gli impianti termo idraulici, elettrici e illuminanti, impianto di condizionamento canalizzato, serramenti esterni ed interni, pavimentazioni. Progetto, direzione lavori, impresa edile, forniture arredi fissi e luci. Mobili e corredo per viaggiatori curati dalla committenza per un target medio alto, con rimandi tra passato, presente e praticità.

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Masterplan riuso Mazzoleni - Bacs Architettura, Mauro Accardi, Silvia Buccheri

January 13, 2015, 2:24 am

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L’area Mazzoleni si configura come un lotto intercluso accessibile esclusivamente dal versante nord, il progetto mira a restituire alla collettività la fruizione del lotto. Il tema del riuso viene esplorato attraverso il recupero delle preesistenze, mantenendo i quattro fabbricati industriali di impronta razionalista ed integrandoli con le nuove volumetrie realizzate.

La nuova piazza che si affaccia sulla via Marconi si costituisce come porta di accesso all’area, qui due nuove torri residenziali segnalano con forza il ruolo urbano del nuovo polo Mazzoleni. In tutto l’intervento lo spazio aperto ha un ruolo fondamentale – pubblico e privato, di pietra e di erba, piano e a balze digradanti, vuoto o disegnato – esso è il luogo dove andare per vivere occasioni ed eventi culturali e per socializzare.

Il sistema di piazze viene contaminato dal parco, concentrato nell’area sudoccidentale in direzione del fiume Serio e in vicinanza alle rogge. Centro del ritrovato rapporto con il fiume, il Museo del Parco del fiume Serio, all’interno dell’ex centrale termica, si configura come un nuovo motore ambientale grazie a un sistema di pannelli fotovoltaici e turbine eoliche in copertura.

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SUPERNOVA - Tomas Ghisellini Architetti

January 13, 2015, 2:26 am

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A sensitive architectural body absorbs, shuffles and reinterprets some of the characters more intimately tied to the collective image of the city of Bressanone: its beautiful secret courts, arcades and mysterious crossing loggias, the preciousness and the refinement of urban details, the syncopated profiles of architectural scenes, the warmth evoked by the gilded surfaces that cover all the most important symbols of the community.

The new music school in Bressanone is a landscape within the landscape, a kind of environmental extension halfway between city and mountains. Not an insurmountable margin, not a definitive limit or an object in itself concluded or self-referential, but a penetrable body, diaphanous and transparent, inhabiting the urban space and, at the same time, the extraordinary natural context. The new architectural presence is a continuous but porous body: balconies, porches, patios, terraces, overhangs and suspended volumes capture natural light and spectacular panoramic views, creating spaces for which air quality is called to be a decisive added value.

A thin crystal basement, covered with glass panels at different percentages of translucency, gets in touch with the urban ground. This glossy “pillow”, that multiplies the space of the square in an attractive and evanescent double reflection, embraces a half-open court where the piazza itself seems to expand as a fluid substance. Here, an unexpected and surprising open-air room the visitor realizes on two levels once reached, gives access to the school being however a place for representation, meeting, waiting, contemplation, rest.

The crystal basement, which includes at the ground floor the main common areas for the band and students in addition to administrative offices, ideally extends into underground volumes. These ones are partially exposed at the lower level of the court where a second patio, more intimate and concluded, sets up a kind of secret cloister and an intriguing outdoor foyer which can be used in summer the get into the theater directly from the piazza. The lower patio, where a tree is planted as a symbol of growth and cultural roots, will also serve as a safe room for escape in case of emergency.

A long protected “porch of light”, inside the crystal base as well, draws an unconventional place of transition between the new square and the underground parking and commercial spaces. The non-rectilinear path of the porch leads to a sequence of architectural episodes: the volumes of public toilets, the access to the commercial heated gallery, the balcony overlooking the patio of the tree, the half-open passage to the court of the school, the connection (by elevator) to the higher level of the park and the arrival to the piazza walking through a 8-meter high city gate.

As laid on the evanescent crystal pillow, the architectural body hosting the educational spaces of the music school assumes a radically diverse formal and material attitude. A skin of bronze-oxidized aluminum thin elements surrounds an L-shape folded three-dimensional object placed along north and west borders of the building site. The composition this way prepares a great iridescent and mysterious architectural “scene” that opens the square to the mountains profile, leading people’s sight to incredible panoramic views and building a silent dialogue with the metal body of the Vertikale climbing club.

Behind the golden membrane made of thick vertical elements, similar to a giant and fascinating musical stave, lies a dynamic weaving of protected openings the eye perceives at daytime as a rich subplot of lights and darks, at night as a cloud of changing glare and luminescence. The new music school, dressed in gold and light, will become an icon for the city, a contemporary image collective identity will be clinging around.

The building has a strong, unusual and compelling character for Bressanone. Is is thought as a brand new precious and shining jewel.

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Maison "terrier" - Bernard Quirot architecte + associés

January 13, 2015, 2:33 am

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Cette maison est située sur le même terrain que la maison “longue vue” construite dix ans auparavant. Cette dernière a été rachetée pour être transformée en bureau et ses nouveaux acquéreurs nous ont confié la réalisation de leur habitation en contrebas.

Nous avons donc repris la même thématique d’intégration paysagère que pour la maison précédente, mais avec la volonté de créer un contraste fort entre les ambiances du lieu où l’on travaille et de celui où l’on habite.  La maison “longue vue” s’élevait sur des pilotis pour saisir des vues lointaines et laissait filer le terrain naturel sous sa longue horizontale; elle était légère, bardée de bois, semblant presque flotter au dessus du sol. La nouvelle maison est au contraire trapue, partiellement enfouie sous le terrain, recouverte par la prairie et construite dans un béton brut dont la rusticité vient appuyer ce caractère presque « tellurique ».

Ainsi, ses nouveaux occupants iront travailler dans les arbres mais habiteront une sorte de “terrier”. Vue depuis le Nord et depuis la maison existante, l’importante construction est en partie dissimulée sous la prairie alors qu’elle s’achève au Sud par une terrasse en promontoire sur le paysage. L’espace intérieure des pièces principales est d’un seul tenant, traversant du Nord au Sud et éclairé au centre, au droit de la cheminée, par un lanterneau qui capte l’ensoleillement de l’Est et de l’Ouest.

Les matériaux employés en façades et à l’intérieur sont exclusivement le béton brut et le bois, l’isolant étant positionné entre deux murs en béton coulés par hauteur d’environ 40 cm. Ce mode de coulage du béton par strate, imprime sur toutes les parois la trace du travail quotidien des ouvriers et la tectonique primitive du mode constructif.

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E/C House - SAMI - arquitectos

January 13, 2015, 2:33 am

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Nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2015

A ruin was the starting point for the design of a holiday house in the island of Pico. The project came from the will to maintain a ruin and thinking of a house that would value it, a house that could be modelled to it and take advantage at the same time, offering the most diverse and complex possibilities of living than the former typology.

Photo: Paulo Catrica. Published on January 13, 2015.

Since the building is approached at the level of the covering, because of the slope of the land, we designed all the covering of the project as if they were decks, allowing to be used as sitting places or for contemplation.

Photo: Paulo Catrica. Published on January 13, 2015.

The house, modelled inside the walls of stone, was designed with generous openings, for light to come inside and to contemplation of the landscape. These openings are sometimes lined up, and sometimes not, with the former openings of the ruin, creating new frames and relations with the original limits of the house.

Photo: Paulo Catrica. Published on January 13, 2015.

The project is a movement between a limit line, in stone, and the intervention volumes that are led by that same line, but sometimes flow independently or extend, whenever the necessity of space or of a view is needed.

Photo: Paulo Catrica. Published on January 13, 2015.

Gross Area: 214,00m2
Dates: Project: 2005-2007
Completion: 2010-2013

Credits
Team
Bruna Silva, João do Vale Martins, Andreia Luís, Inês Martins, Rita Maria Pinto
Trainee: Daniel Mentech
Structural Engineering: Eng. Ricardo Ferro Antunes e Eng. Francisco Mendonça Santos
Water and Sanitation: Eng. Paulo Jorge Almeida Oliveira
Electrical Engineering: Eng. Hugo Mendonça
Construction Company: José Artur Cruz Leal – Unipessoal, Lda
Furniture: SAMI with Loja Nord

Photo: Paulo Catrica. Published on January 13, 2015.

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Exhibition Pavillion at Al Fateh Fort - Roberto Cacciapuoti , Plan Architecture and Design

January 13, 2015, 3:51 am

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The permanent exhibition at the Shaikh Salman Bin Ahmed Al Fateh Fort is housed in a free-standing glass pavilion in the eastern courtyard of the historic fort. The pavilion has been designed in a contemporary way, in stark contrast to the historic fort, which is reflected by the glass panels of the pavilion. The project also includes a coffee shop with a terrace overlooking the Wadi Al Hunayniyah as well as a small gift shop.The exhibition counts the history of the Al-Khalifa family through its customs, objects and traditions and is mainly composed of interactive audio-visual exhibits.

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Visitors Center at Bu Maher Fort - Roberto Cacciapuoti , Plan Architecture and Design

January 13, 2015, 4:19 am

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Bu Maher Fort is located in the south of the city of Muharraq, and was first built during the Portuguese occupation of Bahrain. Renovation works on the fort commenced in the 1970’s, during which only some of it was rebuilt. The fort represents the first step on Pearling Trail, which the Ministry of Culture succeeded in inscribing as a World Heritage Site in 2012. A dedicated visitor center was established next to the fort which houses an illustrated map of the Pearling Trail and models of the sites that can be found along the way. The Bu Maher Fort visitor center aims to introduce the public to the architectural character that went hand in hand with the traditional pearling trade, as well as highlighting its surrounding environment both within Bahrain and beyond, and building an understanding of the social components of that era. Moreover, the Ministry of Culture offers daily trips by sea from the Bahrain National Museum to the Bu Maher Fort shore. These trips help shed light on part of the story of Bahrain’s traditional pearl divers and sailors, and enable people to re-live some of their experiences and sea expeditions, especially as the Bu Maher Fort and its coastline was the spot from which pearling dhows departed and returned many months later.

In 2010, excavation works carried work at the site uncovered its original foundations and dimensions.

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Ecole et périscolaire à Pesmes - Bernard Quirot architecte + associés

January 13, 2015, 5:08 am

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Le projet de restructuration du Groupe Scolaire de Pesmes concerne un site exceptionnel en bordure des remparts et sur le domaine de l’ancien château dont l’origine remonte au Xème siècle. L’école du village est installée sur ce site depuis très longtemps et elle bénéficie d’un très beau point de vue sur la campagne environnante avec une cour de récréation qui se situe au point de basculement de la topographie entre plateau et vallée de l’Ognon : nul doute que le génie du lieu imprime durablement les enfants qui y effectuent leur scolarité.

Nous avons d’abord cherché par des démolitions à renforcer la lecture de l’ancien dispositif monumental constitué des deux pavillons symétriques encadrant l’accès au château, dispositif rendu peu lisible par de nombreuses adjonctions. Les travaux ont ensuite consistéà :

- Réaménager et réorganiser les espaces de récréation.  - Réhabiliter les bâtiments existants.  - Construire un nouveau préau et un nouveau bâtiment pour l’accueil périscolaire

L’architecture du préau se caractérise par une succession de portiques dont la couverture et les façades laissent passer la lumière ce qui en diminue l’impact. Le bâtiment dédiéà l’accueil périscolaire se caractérise lui aussi par la répétivité de ses travées constructives qui, du côté Nord, enserre une galerie couverte qui relie la rue du Donjon (accès à la « ville basse ») et la nouvelle entrée de l’école située sur l’esplanade de l’ancien château. Il est couvert d’une toiture en petites tuiles plates.

Le bois a été choisi comme système constructif des nouveaux bâtiments (douglas) mais aussi pour les aménagements intérieurs des bâtiments réhabilités (parquets et plafonds en chêne). Ce choix d’un unique matériau permet une lecture claire de l’intervention contemporaine en regard des bâtiments anciens. Le sol des espaces extérieurs est constitué de grandes dalles en béton sablé, séparées par des joints engazonnés, et ponctuées d’arbres, de bancs et d’une fontaine.

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Centers of Gravity - Architensions

January 13, 2015, 1:51 pm

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The vision for the FotoMuzeum Budapest and Hungarian Museum of Architecture emerges from the idea of highlighting the entry gate to the Varosliget Park, framing the monument to the 1956 Hungarian revolution.

Summer Aerial View

The urban strategy creates a morphology of a continuous but porous boundary that redefines the site with a prominent entrance to one of the city’s greatest green spaces, and also activates the surroundings functionally and visually, even at night, as the museums glow like lanterns which illuminate the plaza and the park behind.

Section Perspective

Both museums are inscribed in a pure rectangular geometry suspended on the ground floor by a fluid concrete structure, and are clad in frosted cast glass. At park level the two museums lobbies face each other and they open to the monument plaza, providing an inviting transparency that draws visitors to events and activities.

Hungarian Museum of Architecture Lobby

The façades are composed by modular cast glass panels with a saw tooth section, measuring 3 by 1.80 meters. The prismatic section of the panels respond to the different angles of the sun, diffusing natural light into the public and circulation areas of the museums, but not interfering with the exhibition galleries which have a controlled artificial lighting system.

Hungarian Museum of Architecture Vertical Circulation

The overall architectural scheme derives from the specificity of the museums collections, defining a varied yet organic narrative of experience, guiding the visitors through the entire space and different exhibitions.

FotoMuzeum Budapest Lobby

The experience of the fotomuzeum galleries is cinematic, composed by partial and framed perspectives, much like the medium of photography and film. The visitors navigate through an alternating rhythm of voids filled with natural light, and then through continuous sloping opaque volumes, where the actual exhibitions take place. The exhibition experience intertwines with elevated green plazas at different levels making the museum an extension of the park. From the prismatic façade the exhibition volumes cantilever out, creating public observation terraces and lounges, framing different views of the city, like the viewfinders and apertures of a camera.

FotoMuzeum Budapest Third Floor Garden View

In the Hungarian Museum of Architecture the type of experience can be defined as a series of volumes where time and space collapse, compressing vast areas and eras of architectural knowledge into composed and articulated boxes. The visitors are guided through singular and punctuated exhibition containers that create well defined tectonic boundaries for each type of architectural exhibition.

Elevations

The perimeters of these exhibition boxes create openings on the roof that allow controlled sunlight inside the study and archive areas where the natural illumination is much needed. For specific occasions and exhibitions, filtered and attenuated light can penetrate inside the exhibition volumes by the use of an operable roof envelope, further adding to the dynamic and temporal quality of the museum form and experience.

Diagram

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Bridged Living Space - Teruki Takayoshi

January 13, 2015, 6:17 pm

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Located in a quiet space near a local primary school, the concept for this dwelling started with a dual yard layout, the front for guest parking and an aesthetically prioritised garden at the rear. To effectively use the large amount of outdoor space, we divided the land into two areas, a western garden facing the road and a southern garden which has good sun coverage. The bridged living space serves as a suspended partition between both areas, while also functioning as a carport. Connecting both gardens allows for optimal utilisation, such as camping in the backyard while using the bridged living space as a roof for a barbeque, or accommodating the cards of guests. We designed the interior according to the wishes of the occupants, who are both engaged professionally and wanted a design which minimised housework. As a result, the house features a central stair room, in which all rooms are easily accessible and results in the block based façade. The design also facilitates sun access to every room and effective ventilation. Each room also has visual access to the garden, allowing the occupants to feel the changes of each season.

Photo by Kei Sugino. Published on January 14, 2015.

Photo by Kei Sugino.. Published on January 14, 2015.

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GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI Proposal - anthony thevenon

January 13, 2015, 9:23 pm

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DYNAMIC INTERFACE FOR HELSINKI