Cyn Cyn - Sara Gangemi

May 24, 2015, 11:38 am

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Cyn Cyn è un innesto di un habitat produttivo in un luogo pubblico, un modello funzionale di paesaggio trasformato in uno spazio ricreativo. Trae ispirazione dalle qualità ambientali ed ecologiche di un paesaggio agricolo e utilizza la forza di un elemento artificiale per trasformarlo in uno luogo aperto e fruibile. L’installazione è una sezione immaginaria di territorio, progettata perché appaia simile a un brano di un campo agricolo nella stagione estiva e lo inserisce come elemento estraneo in un contesto urbano. La geometria elementare del suo impianto narra il rapporto di complicità tra la morfologia del luogo e la geometria delle coltivazioni e delle sistemazioni agricole che tradizionalmente segnano il territorio italiano. Un elemento ovale si appoggia sui gradini del MAXXI e introduce il visitatore a questo nuovo frammento di natura. Come una potente strip lineare, innesca spazi artificiali e naturali e accoglie una sequenza programmatica di attività, dove le persone saranno esortate ad immaginare nuove coreografia di paesaggio.

L’installazione è uno spazio da percorrere o dove riposarsi e giocare. L’andamento curvo genera uno spazio fluido e dinamico che restituisce in forma stilizzata il carattere del paesaggio. Passeggiando ci si trova continuamente in un contesto continuamente mutevole, inducendo i suoi fruitori a disporsi continuamente in maniera differente. La passerella è un piano che digrada lentamente, uno spazio immersivo nella prima parte, fino ad arrivare al punto più alto dal quale è possibile osservare dall’alto il suolo.

Render by Beniamino Petroselli, Massimiliano Savino. Published on May 24, 2015.

Chi entra nel cortile del museo incontra un orizzonte inusuale, costituito da una coltivazione di Cynara scolymus, Cynara cardunculus var. altilis e Foeniculum vulgare. Dagli edifici circostanti e dalle gallerie del museo che si affacciano su questo spazio aperto si svela una grande texture agricola all’interno della quale si muovono le persone. Durante l’arco della giornata si offrono spazi per il gioco, il relax e luoghi all’ombra nella radura, nella stanza d’acqua e nel primo spazio frontale a raso. Durante la sera l’elemento ligneo può accogliere eventi musicali, conferenze, proiezioni, etc. grazie ad un palco vero e proprio e la passerella può trasformarsi in uno spazio coreografico per spettacoli di danza. Lo spaventapasseri che emerge tra le piante si aggiunge come elemento scenico e funge da fuoco spaziale in secondo piano a tutto il sistema.

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Appartamento R - Enrico Galeazzi

May 24, 2015, 1:26 pm

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Una parete in legno separa la zona giorno da camera da letto e bagni. La parete è stata realizzata e rivestita a mano dall’architetto e il proprietaio dell’appartamento, su una struttura in cartongesso e legno sono stati applicati listelli di rovere spessi 2mm. Le finestre triangolari garantiscono una comunicazione visiva diretta tra le stanze dell’appartamento, andando a creare scorci mai indiscreti.

Enrico Ferdenzi. Published on May 24, 2015.

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Giardino Igrofilo - Sara Gangemi, Mariachiara Piraccini

May 24, 2015, 2:50 pm

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Il Festival Comodamente è un laboratorio urbano che rilancia per tre giorni un quartiere storico ma attualmente semi-disabitato della città attraverso nuove forme di sperimentazione culturale. Analogamente, il giardino effimero ha per obiettivo quello di svelare un luogo marginale a coloro che ne usufruiscono inconsapevolmente nello loro pratiche quotidiane e di innescare un nuovo processo di cura e trasformazione.

Il giardino evoca la memoria ecologica del fiume attraverso tracce minerarie e vegetali, suoli con diverse texture, piante graminacee e da ombra, e crea un luogo di rifugio e pausa con sedute mobili e una linea di neon rosso. È stato realizzato grazie alla sinergia tra alcune aziende locali e il Comune e costruito dagli abitanti stessi ed alcuni volontari del Festival.

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Olivier GUYOT, architecte - Olivier GUYOT

May 25, 2015, 12:39 am

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SITUATION– Cet appartement d’une surface de 30m² est situé au Nord-Est du 11ème arrondissement de Paris, entre le métro Père Lachaise et Philippe Auguste. Ce logement est destinéà un jeune couple parisien désirant habiter dans un logement ordonné, hiérarchisé et d’utilisation fonctionnelle. Inhabité durant quatre ans, son état pour le moins vétuste implique une restructuration complète.

AGENCEMENT– La surface de l’appartement permet l’aménagement d’un séjour avec cuisine ouverte, d’une chambre et d’une salle de bain en une organisation simple et rationnelle. Les surfaces sont réajustées de manière cohérente : un espace jour de 12m², un espace nuit de 11m² (9m2 utiles + 6m3 de rangement), une salle de bain de 3,5m² et une petite entrée d’1,5m². Chaque pièce bénéficie d’une fenêtre de belle dimension orientée plein Sud. Le séjour s’articule autour de la bibliothèque: canapé, fauteuils, table basse et petite commode sont à proximité des 6 tablettes superposées permettant le rangement des livres. Le salon est lumineux, il fait face à la fenêtre, devant laquelle est implanté un grand plan de travail. La cuisine est ouverte sur le séjour. Le plan de travail intègre en partie basse le frigo, de grands placards de rangements avec tiroirs à l’anglaise ainsi que le four. En partie haute, des tablettes permettent un usage quotidien de la petite vaisselle et de la machine à café rapide et facile. La surface libre de travail est optimisée à 3M, avec à chaque extrémité l’évier, puis les plaques de cuisson. Les crédences en miroir reflètent les murs blancs du séjour. Dans la chambre, un grand meuble de rangement file sur l’intégralité du mur Ouest. Des tiroirs sont intégrés en parties basses. En partie haute, de profonds placards offrent un vaste volume de rangement. Dans la salle de bain la surface est partitionnée en quatre zones : une douche à l’italienne, un espace lavabo, les WC suspendus et le lave-linge. L’ensemble du volume est traité comme un seul et même espace uniforme. La douche est cloisonnée avec une simple paroi en verre sans porte; la mosaïque employée est la même pour le sol et les murs jusqu’au plafond.

COÛT ET TRAVAUX– Le coût des travaux est de 30 000 Euros, travaux et équipement ménager compris. Le chantier a été réalisé par une entreprise générale du bâtiment, hors lot menuiserie, traité en corps d’état séparé. L’ensemble des travaux est réalisé en sept semaines.

MATÉRIAUX – Seulement trois matériaux prédominants sont choisis afin de garantir une lisibilité simple et optimale de l’ensemble de l’espace et des volumes. Dans l’appartement, le sol, les plinthes et le plan de travail sont en chêne clair, le mobilier en medium laqué blanc, et des miroirs habillent quelques parois sélectionnées. Le lieu reste sobre avec des finitions élégantes.

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paizi 38 - REMIX STUDIO

May 25, 2015, 12:51 am

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Paizi 38 installation for the 2013 Beijing Design Week is essentially a preliminary act since the space is meant to become a new boutique hotel in the months to come. The hotel will be grafted into the existing building through precise insertions and punctual modifications; actions that informed our controlled demolition.

detail of the twisting cables

The structural survey and the analysis of the existing spaces, organized in an extensive linear sequence – a quite unique feature for such building typology in this area of Beijing – were the premises of our temporary installation.

axonometric view

An elevated wooden path, framed by twisting groups of elastic strings, guides the visitors along the derelict building to a pop-up restaurant, where the Beijing Design Week hosted the opening and closing dinner. Through the perforation of the existing walls and structures, we revealed the stratified history of the interior spaces and highlight the character of the future hotel.

plan and elevation

The system of new portals is a succession of points of view that, previewing the new hotel internal circulation, forces the visitors into an unexpected journey, challenging his imagination and forcing him to redefine the meaning of “exploration”. The string tunnel ends in a large double-height room and branches out in a three-line lighting feature, marking and defining visually the sitting areas of the temporary restaurant.

wire configuration tests

construction phases

elevated wooden path

twisting cables creating a tunnel

threads details

walking through the tunnel by night

dining area

Beijing Design Week opening dinner

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AWR AWARD COMPETITION - Fabrizio Batoni, Linda Vanni, Patrizia Pruneti, Caterina Impieri, Marco Mei

May 25, 2015, 1:55 am

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In the city of New York, in the district of Chelsea, the success of the requalification of the High Line, not more obstacle but occasion of development, have suggested the planning of the vertical farm in the urban environment as a new way to conceive the agriculture dictated from the requirement to satisfy the new needs of the man and the environment. The country life is brought inside the city, in the district, where more families cultivate the same land, breed animals and eat what they produce, not wasting and anything recycling. Today it is possible also without having much availability of ground, using the innovative techniques of agriculture hydroponics and aeroponic The farm has been designed as a place and a parking space, which runs from the path of the High Line to create environments to live, produce, recreation, save energy, surprise and welcome the local residents. The concept consists of paths from High Line branch enter the area and lead us to discovery of “other places” where we can discover a new sustainable way of life, a new relationship between people and nature, to generate a virtuous circuit, to create new conditions for socialization and to live in healthy way. Thinking to a new ecological urbanistic development, some gems bind to the paths and develop vertically and all activities of the farm focus in them, promoting energetic efficiency using renewable energy sources. We wanted to design vertical and horizontal connections to involve all levels in the operation of the form and keep alive the system.

The building includes: Farm: 1650 sqm (41%) Hydroponics and aeroponica agriculture, fish farming, breeding poultry, green houses and fruit trees, educational workshops, spaces for food processing. Residences: 1600 sqm (39%) Apartments from mq. 60, mq. 80, mq. 180 duplex apartments, all equipped with spaces and innovative and sustainable technologies to cultivate private vegetable gardens. Commercial spaces: 650 sqm (15%) Direct sale products of the farm to km. 0, bio restaurant and comfort points. Services: 206 (5%) Equipped spaces for the sport, for playing and culture. Project’s description: Quota 0.00 It’s characterized by the interaction between the district and the farm, through the routes, services and activities of selling products to 0 km. Quota + 10.00 At this quota, joining to high line, the square outlines , where the path starts inside the farm. In the square are included in traditional greenhouses controlled microclimate to learn about the cycle of seasonal production of the fruit trees. Quota + 15.00 Entrance farm, educational farm, entrance apartments. Quota +19.00/23.00 Hydroponics, fish farming, farm workshops, apartments. Quota +27.00 Spaces for the socialization , collective private vegetable gardens, laboratories for processing agricultural products. Quota +31.00 Classrooms, cultural and exhibition spaces, apartments. Quota +35.00Bio Restaurant with panoramic terrace and apartments. Quota +39.00 Green roof gardens with condominium private vegetable gardens, residences and technological systems. Quota +43.00/47.00 Apartments and technological systems.

Apartments and technological systems. To conserve ground, water and reduce emissions of CO2 is used a system of innovative agricultural production as hydroponics and aeroponics which don’t need land use, reducing water consumption and pesticide use. The ground is replaced by an inert substrate, expanded clay, perlite, vermiculite, coir, rockwool, and the plants are watered with a nutrient solution composed of water and natural compounds needed to make all the elements for growth and production. The design follows a sustainable and ecological approach, applying innovative construction technologies to make the building independent from the energy point of view. The use of wind turbines, solar panels, natural ventilation chimneys, glazing systems that can capture solar energy and adjust the temperature and the light inside the rooms, make the artifact innovative both for comfort and for environmental sustainability of space. The building is designed with natural materials, such as wood and innovative as the EFTE, fully recyclable materials and reusable. The water supply will be provided by rainwater harvesting systems that will be suitably treated, distributed, recovered and disposed of after use.

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Gisors Louise Michel and Louis Aragon high schools - Archi5

May 25, 2015, 2:15 am

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The purpose here is to give a high school consistent with the city of Gisors. An institution rooted in a city of human scale and rich historical references. A city which kept his medieval past and his contemporary rural environment.

Historically the two high schools are adjacent, now closely linked by the administration and running, it is time to unite Louise Michel and Louis Aragon high schools.

The previous running was complex. The multiplicity of access and the lack of links between the buildings were dividing the high schools. We choosed a clear design allowing an easy orientation for the users and facilitating exchange between the two high schools. The new united high school is on both sides of the Old Eragny street.

A large plaza allows arriving and access for the 1500 students and professors in total safety. The bridge building gives access to the Louise Michel high school playground from the Louis Aragon main playground. It creates a link contributing to the unity of the whole site.

By his situation and his unifying function, the bridge building becomes the sign, the emblem of the new high school. It is also his focal point. It houses the spaces dedicated to students (school life, home, study rooms…), they are directly related to the two playgrounds. Professor’s spaces are located close to the administrative parts of the two high schools.

The Louis Aragon high school hall is designed as the new central point of the new high schools. It is in the same time place for meetings and the nerve center of circulation of the entire site. It distributes access to all points of high schools : bridge building, classroom, playground, library, multipurpose room and students housings.

Client : Haute Normandie District Program : Rehabilitation and extension of the high schools. Restaurant, student housings, sports hall. Environmental specifications : Low consumption building B Class Adress : Gisors, France Surface : 19 150 m2 refurbished. 6 400 m2 of new buildings Cost : 24 451 497 € Excl. Tax. Timetable : Competition prize winner july 2010 – Completion 2015 Photographs : Sergio Grazia Economist, engineer, structure, fluid, acoustic deisgner : Egis Centre ouest Kitchen engineer : BBN Conseils

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Convento - [A+M]² Architects

May 25, 2015, 2:39 am

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Il recupero del palazzo in canal grande a Venezia, uno dei primi grandi progetti dello studio, si presenta come serie illimitata di stratificazioni/superfetazioni che nel corso degli anni hanno reso illeggibile la conformazione della fabbrica. Il grande lavoro di analisi storica alla base del progetto ha permesso la totale comprensione dello spazio. L’intervento dunque si sviluppa in due fasi, la prima di pulitura, restituzione degli strumenti di lettura e conservazione secondo tecniche tradizionali degli elementi costituenti la fabbrica; la seconda di inserimento della funzione richiesta (di stampo alberghiero) e cucitura dell’abito. Come in altri progetti tutti i singoli elementi sono realizzati su disegno. Porte, infissi, scala, ascensore e arredi costituiscono l’unica via per la ricerca dell’etereo, che lo studio persegue. La naturale prosecuzione dell’antico, tono su tono senza alcuna necessità di prevalere su di esso.

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Beautour - Guinée*Potin architectes

May 25, 2015, 2:47 am

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Centre de découverte, de culture scientifique et de recherche sur l’environnement et la biodiversité

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toormix workshop - vora arquitectura

May 25, 2015, 2:52 am

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A ground floor space facing the street, a former shop. It is very small, 18m2. All the surfaces are paneled with plasterboard (walls, ceilings, …) and the original floor covered with phenolic parquet.

We were asked to design a multipurpose room for a team of graphic designers. A parallel world to their daily workplace. A workshop to invent, with multiple formats. Occasionally a showroom for presentations and exhibitions. Possibility to be a showcase.

For its regular use it was necessary to define two environments: a working area with a large table and an informal relax and reading area. These two areas have to work as one for specific uses: exhibitions, presentations, etc.

A unique space, two atmospheres. A small stage and two different ceiling heights to define them. The stage serves as storage underneath. The relax area is defined by a wall-cabinet, a door used as a support to exhibit magazines (which closes the storage room and the toilet) and a corner with cushions and swings. The working area is defined by three large boards attached to the wall which can be unfolded to generate three attached tables. Combinations of these boards in horizontal and vertical position determinate different uses for working, showcase, etc… Trestles and desk lamps are held behind the boards on the wall. The boards have two sides of different materiality: natural wood, white painting and blackboard for different uses. The opposite wall is partially coated by painted cork. A line of indirect lighting towards the ceiling illuminates the entire space. A curtain rod covers the light armature and incorporates a guide to hang up paintings. This allows the wall to be used for temporary exhibitions.

It is a low-cost refurbishment. Packaging plywood panels, raw walls, painted pavement … and a realization that is closer to DIY than a conventional work.

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The Great Court at the British Museum - Foster + Partners

May 25, 2015, 2:55 am

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The courtyard at the centre of the British Museum was one of London’s long-lost spaces. Originally a garden, soon after its completion in the mid-nineteenth century it was filled by the round Reading Room and its associated bookstacks. Without this space the Museum was like a city without a park. This project is about its reinvention.

With over five million visitors annually, the British Museum is as popular as the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, in the absence of a centralised circulation system it was congested and difficult to navigate. The departure of the British Library was the catalyst for removing the bookstacks and recapturing the courtyard as a new public focus. The Great Court is entered from the Museum’s principal level and connects all the surrounding galleries. Within the space there are information points, a bookshop and café. At its heart is the magnificent volume of the Reading Room, now an information centre and library of world cultures, which for the first time in its history is open to all. Broad staircases encircling the Reading Room lead to a temporary exhibitions gallery and a restaurant terrace. Beneath the courtyard are the Sainsbury African Galleries, an education centre and facilities for schoolchildren.

The glazed canopy that makes all this possible is a fusion of state-of-the-art engineering and economy of form. Its unique geometry is designed to span the irregular gap between the drum of the Reading Room and the courtyard facades, and forms both the primary structure and the framing for the glazing, which is designed to reduce solar gain. As a cultural square, the Court also resonates beyond the confines of the museum, forming a new link in the pedestrian route from the British Library to Covent Garden, the river and the South Bank. To complement this artery, the Museum’s forecourt was restored to form a new civic space. Together with the Great Court, it is a major new amenity for London.

Structural Engineers: Buro Happold
Mechanical & Electrical Engineers: Buro Happold
Planning Supervisor: Buro Happold
Fire Engineering: FEDRA
Quantity Surveyors: Northcroft Nicholson
Acoustic Engineering: Sandy Brown Associates
Lighting Design: Claude Engle
Façade Engineering: Emmer Pfenninger
Audio Visual: Mark Johnson Consultants
Historic Building Advisor: Giles Quarme Associates, Caroe and Partners, Ian Bristow
Planning Department: London Borough of Camden
Construction Manager: MACE Ltd

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Présidence de l'Université UPEC - Créteil - Flint Architectes

May 25, 2015, 3:02 am

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Présidence de l’UniversitéUPEC– Créteil

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Mercé's apartment - vora arquitectura

May 25, 2015, 3:21 am

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Se trata de un encargo de reforma de una vivienda que tenía una distribución a revisar y unas características que lo hacían especial. Se trata de una remonta de finales de los años 60 en Vilafranca del Penedès, el primer proyecto como arquitecta de Roser Amadó. Un dúplex de 120 m2 por planta, con una volumetría escalonada y simétrica. El proyecto de Roser Amadó continuaba la simetría del edificio inferior en su volumetría, aunque sólo parcialmente en su interior.

Se trataba de convertir la planta superior en una vivienda independiente, con una intervención mínima y de bajo coste. La reforma fue necesariamente parcial, pues. En una lectura del proyecto original vimos la posibilidad de llevar hacia el interior la simetría que se expresaba en el exterior. Así, abrimos un espacio central distribuidor, a modo de gran vestíbulo polivalente, al que abriran todas las estancias.

Nos seduce la idea de ser “continuadores” de un proyecto ajeno. A nivel estilístico, la preexistencia tiene un valor. Un proyecto hecho con “cariño” y buenos trabajos de oficios. Nuestra intervención es sutil. No queremos perder la perspectiva del valor de la preexistencia y sus elementos definidores, lo que la hace especial y singular. Se trata de recolocar elementos de lo existente, puertas, tapajuntas y rodapiés, que definen el espíritu de los espacios, en un nuevo orden interior. Son elementos de madera noble y trabajada, en este momento hacemos arqueología de la construcción. Los elementos que aparecen nuevos (puertas más anchas y algún tramo de rodapié) los trabajamos con la misma geometría pero con maderas más económicas, que acabaremos pintadas de blanco, evidenciando el proceso de transformación.

original plan

new plan

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House on a Dune - Chad Oppenheim

May 25, 2015, 3:37 am

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Visionary architect Chad Oppenheim recently completed “House on a Dune,” a minimalistic, elegant and comfortable beach house that blends into its breathtaking surroundings in Harbour Island, Bahamas. The spectacular 3,000-square-foot waterfront private residence was designed to reconnect its inhabitants with nature, encouraging a greater consciousness of the elements and their manifestations.

Oppenheim Architecture+Design, Matthew Bannister/DBOX, Karen Fuchs. Published on May 25, 2015.

In a time when architecture has become fixated with computer generated forms and over-the-top modern design, House on a Dune is elegant in its simplicity – designed to heighten ones experience of the beautiful island nature that surrounds the home and made to inspire and maximize pleasurable moments. It embodies a less invasive, primitive architecture of simplistic form utilizing ecologically sensitive materials and methodologies within the overall design. The elemental and livable architecture, free of clutter and unnecessary detail, allows for a more powerful and dramatic connection to place and time.

Inspired by the work of conceptual artist James Turrell, retractable glass walls on the East and West sides of the living area frame views of ocean, jungle and sky, while allowing for light and air to flow through the home to create optimal comfort. The central space of the house is essentially an open breezeway, allowing visual and pedestrian connectivity across the site. Within this pavilion space, there is the living and dining areas that open onto large verandahs well protected from the elements by the deep overhangs of the gabled roof. A kitchen and four bedrooms are simply arranged around the central space.

The materials for the home were selected for their distinctive sincerity, environmental sensitivity, and a resonance with the vernacular. Materials included concrete blocks, recycled cedar, reused ipe, and milk paint.

The sliding doors are made of impact-resistant glass as well as a palm frond roof made of cedar shakes similar to the architectural styles of many of the homes on the island over the last several hundred years. The home also holds many technological tricks that hide any visible light fixtures, outlets, air-conditioners or anything that is too modern age.

This private residence establishes a delicate, meditative space that ushers a transition from lush tropic landscape to wide languorous ocean.

House on a Dune represents Chad Oppenheim’s signature style, which is to create socially and environmentally conscious architecture. Whether it’s a single-family home or large-scale urban project, hotel or resort, Oppenheim transforms the prosaic into the poetic – eliciting a site’s inherent power through passion and sensitivity towards man and nature.

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fidel and anna's apartment - vora arquitectura

May 25, 2015, 3:58 am

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L’apartament està situat en un edifici entre mitgeres dels anys 60-70, en la última planta, sota terrat, i disposa de terrassa en el cantó de l’interior d’illa. Està orientat a est i a oest per ambdues façanes, i a sud per la mitgera, que queda al descobert.

La reforma té com a objectius millorar una distribució clarament deficient i desequilibrada entre espais comuns i privats, a més de millorar-ne les seves condicions de confort, tant tèrmic com de distribució de la llum natural. L’apartament, sota terrat, estava bastant mal aïllat i per tant era molt calorós a l’estiu i fred a l’hivern. Així, s’ha creat un nou embolcall interior (parets i sostre), aïllat del perímetre definit pels tancaments existents, tot creant una nova espaialitat interior donada per la variació de la separació entre embolcall i perímetre.

La nova distribució inverteix l’anterior, donant un protagonisme nou a la terrassa i als espais comuns, que s’obriren a aquesta i obtenen una posició central. Al seu voltant es situen tots els espais de servei o privats (cuina, lavabos, habitacions). Aquesta disposició permet regularitzar la forma dels espais comuns, molt necessari tenint en compte l’esbiaix que té l’edifici. Aquesta regularització també passa per la col•locació de mobles empotrats que absorbeixen aquest esbiaix.

La distinció entre espais comuns i espais privats parteix d’una concepció sensorial i abstracta. S’ha treballat a partir de la idea d’excavació. L’espai comú com a negatiu, com a buidat, i l’espai privat i de servei com a ple. Els espais comuns són autònoms però tractats de la mateixa manera. S’entenen com si fossin a l’aire lliure, al descobert. Paraments blancs per obtenir espais lluminosos, i sostre alt, el màxim possible. Els espais de servei i habitacions, en contrast, es tracten com a espais excavats. El sostre més baix i colors. A nivell sensorial el contrast es condensa en la zona d’entrada des de l’espai comú, baixant el sostre al mínim un cop passat el llindar de la porta.

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Villa bifamiliare con piscina - Arch. Elisa Franchino, Alessandro Costa Frola

May 25, 2015, 4:03 am

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Villa bifamiliare con piscina

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sant francesc boulevard - vora arquitectura

May 25, 2015, 4:43 am

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The project of the square of the “La Salut” Market emerged from a study of the context: the topography, the architecture… but also from the memory, the collective imagery… a process of observation and analysis, which generates some abstract ideas that make a form, a distribution, some spatial relationships, a way of living and working… and bring us to the materiality of this intervention. Materiality underestood as the superimpostion of identities, underlying realities and permanent memory. Talking of the square of the La Salut Market is to speak about the market building by the architect Josep Maria Sostres, built in 1980. An autoreferential building with great plastic and intellectual power that dominates at the same time and becomes the frame of reference when describing the square from a conceptual point of view, and compositionally. It is also to speak about the neighborhood of La Salut, one of the youngest and most populated in Badalona, with a dynamic history and a social structure, which have also influenced the main decisions of the project.

Previous conditions: Before the intervention the square had a closed space configuration with access from the sides of the market building. It was divided into two parallel and stepped borders which divided two distinct areas; the border of access to the market and a higher border with benches, shrubs and street lamps. This area was closed off by a low concrete wall and a ventilation outlet for the shop units beneath the square. Treated as a space that was not relating to the perimeter streets and that remained subdivided in subspaces which didn’t allow too many uses. Very residual space.

Aim of the intervention: Giving identity to a “forgotten” space, give it presence, provide it with the required functions and reflect the complexity of the environment – these are the goals of the intervention – giving character, to make it functional and attractive. The new square establishes a dialogue with the market building.

Presence. The space of the square was conceived originally as a consequence of the differences of alignment between the market, the Marquès de Sant Mori Avenue and Quevedo Street, a residual space. It shoud be borne in mind that this was a service space without acces to the building. The subsequent interventions did not chage this secondary space character, disconnected from the adjacent spaces. A new access door to the building from this side was later opened, which through time became the main entrance. So the square had to be reformed. In spite of originally being a space without identity, the successive transformations of the neighborhood in social standard, public facilities and infrastructures have given it a new presence. The intervention is a process of “emptying” the space. Where before there was a superimposition of fixed elements (walls, street lamps, stairs, benches, shrubs…) now there is geometry, flows of people. It is a dynamic space. The trees have been restricted to the perimeter streets, outside the limits of the square. The lighting has been reduced to one column with luminaries that sits outwith the triangle. The use of urban furniture has been substituted by a fold in the ground plane that forms both a platform and a bench.

Formal simplicity (single slope). The new square responds to a great number of circulation flows. The building, with its main access to the north, generates the entry and exit on market days. The La Salut Civic Centre (on the first floor) is accessed from the ramp placed in the square. There is also the presence of the cross of two axes, the convergence of Marquès de Sant Antoni Avenue and Quevedo Street, which includes underground parking and bus stops. On the pavements, the exits of the L9 underground have recently been installed. We opted to simplify to the maximum the form of the square, reducing it to an inclined plane defined by its triangular limits. In this way the steeped platforms, the low concrete wall that closed the square and the ventilation outlet that served the underground shop units, have been removed (with the duct being relocated below the ramp). It is an isotropic space where itineraries are not prioritised and where free flow is facilitated.

Rich composition (mosaic of colors). The space responds to the different uses that can be accommodated; circulation space, encounter, meet, play… On a bigger scale it is about the confluence of two neighborhoods (La Salut and Llefià). The project also represents the social diversity of the neighborhood, whith the high immigrant population, both recent and established. From the limits of the triangular space an abstract composition is defined on the geometry, a grid above the inclined plane which reflects the complexity of the context. A composition of colors that confers character and singularity has been superimposed. To reinforce the abstract effect drainage has been solved with some slot drains integrated into the grid.

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SG House - STUDIOUNODESIGN

May 25, 2015, 5:17 am

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