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Maximum Garden House by Formwerkz Architects

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:56:35 +0000

Maximum Garden House was made by Formwerkz. The design maximizes the area for garden, that usually doesn’t have enough area to be built.
From the architects:

One questions the sense of “landed-ness” in a typically maxed-out envelope of a semi-detached typology. What is usually left over after the building footprint is no more than a slender planting strip on the ground. Hence, one prime motivation of this house was to seek out more garden spaces/surfaces in an attempt to redress this imbalance while we fulfill the client’s brief.

The Picturesque Landscape
The vertical wall planting set within a niche along the front boundary wall and the Burle Marx inspired shrubbery on the car-porch roof, reclaim surfaces otherwise normally neglected as canvasses for beautification.

The Planter Screen
Enclosing part of the building façade on the upper floor is a layer of planting system we devised to behave more like a curtain wall. Its primary function is to perform as a privacy screen and to keep the rain out. We were particularly thrilled with this detail as it approximates to an organic envelope. The curtain of plants coincides building performance with man’s affinity for nature.

The Sloping Roof
The sloping roof deck is derived from the staggered section of the house and retained a continuous flow from the indoor.

We were nostalgic with the idea of getting up on the roof, itself. The sloping roof-scape reminds us of an undulating terrain. We imagined the inclined plane to be more conducive to sit or lie down and have a conversation while looking out in the same direction, sharing the same moment, like one do in a park.

Formwerkz Architects

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Palmyra House by Studio Mumbai Architects

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:09:42 +0000

Studio Mumbai Architects have designed the Palmyra house in Nandgaon, Maharashtra, India.Constructed entirely from locally sourced and sustainably harvested palmyra, the home is sited on a working coconut plantation in the West Indian coastal town of Alibaug.

This two-storey timber house, built as a weekend retreat, lies in the shade of an extensive coconut grove on coastal agricultural land facing the sea, near the fishing village of Nandgaon, south of Mumbai. The functions of the house are placed within two oblong masses slightly offset from one another, whose facades are predominantly characterised by louvres made from the trunks of the local Palmyra palm. The structure is made of ain wood; local basalt was used to make boundary walls, plinths and paving.

Plaster finishes were pigmented with sand from the site. The development of the design and detail, which resulted from collaboration between the architect and the craftsmen, took on tested techniques, both local and foreign, and raised them to a finer construction resolution.

The house is well-adapted to its environment: the louvres on the elevations enable passive cooling, as does the extensive shade provided by the coconut trees above; water for the house is harvested from three on-site wells, filtered and stored at the top of a water tower and fed by gravity to the house. The result of these measures is a quietly compelling project that is fully integrated into its landscape.

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evansHOUSE by bittonidesignstudio

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:07:22 +0000

bittonidesignstudio have completed the evansHOUSE, located in the Crestwood Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.
This small modernist community, which is part of greater Los Angeles has now become an architecturally controlled neighbourhood that was originally planned by architects A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith. This particular project is a remodel and addition to an existing 1957 Benton + Park home which is situated high above the city with views of the entire LA basin. The project was framed around taking something ‘modern’ and making it more contemporary.

The existing spatial condition of the house was clearly divided between public(lower level) and private(upper level) as well as fixed within a completely horizontal orientation. The major move was to carve out a double high space above the kitchen in order to animate the section vertically and allow for more social interaction. While the idea of indoor/outdoor living is typically taken for granted in Southern California, the altitude of the site allowed for an atmospheric connection rather than a connection to the landscape. As the clouds change color and are in constant motion along the coastline, the house and its materials were thought of as a canvas to be manipulated by the sky.

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Pearl River Necklace, Project by NL Architects

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:54:49 +0000

Dutch NL Architects have designed a conceptual bridge for the Hong Kong border, featuring roads that would loop over each other to allow for the fact that traffic must drive on the left in Hong Kong but on the right in China.
The idea to construct the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities as “a new Landmark to reflect Hong Kong as a vibrant global and metropolitan city” is an inspiring endeavor.

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Car Park Plaza Cánovas, Spain by Teresa Sapey Estudio de Arquitectura

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:34:15 +0000

This very original car park based Plaza Canovas, Spain has been designed by Teresa Sapey Estudio de Arquitectura.

Utilitarian spaces, such as car parks, present architects with a unique opportunity to bring beauty and harmony to the everyday functional spaces that are normally ignored by great design minds.

Via [abitare]

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Multi Storey Building in Amman Jordan by Studio Kois Associated Architects

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:22:09 +0000

The “Multi Storey Building” project by Studio Kois Associated Architects is to design a multistorey building which comprises of offices and lofts and is located in the centre of Jordan’s capital. The design process begun with the, study of Amman’s urban environment, it’s organizational principles and the study of the typology of the structures located in the neighbouring area. This analysis and the study of Jordanian architecture, informed the volumetric investigation which started with a plain parallelepiped, parallel to the building plot’s shape and attached to the adjoining buildings.

Consecutively, the lower edges are drawn towards the street grid, while the volume is detached from the inner boundaries of the site. The elaboration on the volume’s skin, as the final border with the city and the one that determinately conveys meanings and symbolisms to the contemporary city, is what will form the connection with the specific location. For this reason, various patterns observed in traditional Jordanian architecture were studied, along with the various methods of their scheme reproduction.

The pattern that was finally selected to be processed was eventually projected onto the primary volume’s faces, and in the end expressing the forces that act upon it. The primitive box, the one that will accommodate the building’s functions, is enclosed in this veil, which also defines the extent of the city’s flow into the building, allowing a gradual interplay between indoors and outdoors, differing from floor to floor, in accordance to the needs of the equivalent level.

The inner border, the back planes neighbouring with the adjacent building plots, is covered with a layer of low planting, responding to the green border encountered between the neighbouring building blocks. It is in this way that this relieving green breath creates a special environment for the building, forming the background of the architectural synthesis and cumulates towards its intended clearly recognizable identity.

The main vertical and horizontal circulation to the upper floors (offices, apartments) is situated on the space created by the detachment of the building from its site’s boundaries. In this way the circulation is accomplished outside the main core of the building and allows the visitor to entry the enclosure only through small openings, gradually revealing the interior spaces.

The layering of the spaces follows the required sequence and reflects the gradual accession of the social privacy. The stores, as the most public part of the program, are situated on the ground and the first floor. The connection between the two floors is established through a single route beginning from the main entrance and resulting at the second floor, symbolizing the incoming of the city into the building. The organization of the commercial units mimics the structure of the traditional bazaar. We consider the bazaar as an paradigm structure of the merchandising local practice, which comprises a vibrant hub for social interaction.

The core element of the bazaar, the spinal of its structure, the main route that fuels the stores, is interpreted here with this very path, with the commercial units being organized around it. As far as the offices are concerned, the main goal during the design was to achieve maximum organizational flexibility for the user. Considering a single desk as the primary unit, and a library stack as the secondary element that acts as a dividing boundary between two desks, various geometries were studied, resulting deriving from various combinations of the congregation of the units. The benefit of this organizational method is that each working team will be free to customize the working space according to its number of members and their requirements. The top of the building is houses the apartments’ floor residential level, where two single family flats are indicated.

Kois Associated Architects

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SolPix LED Media-Wall by Simone Giostra and Partners

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:53:32 +0000

The giant media-wall called SolPix created by SPG Architects is the largest prototype of its kind. Embedded with LED lights and a photo-voltaic array, it combines energy efficient lighting, solar power and bling, and it can also function as a set of heavy blinds: each piece shifts according to the focus of sunlight.

Monitoring its own energy performance, SolPix is self aware. The LED display flashes graphics with energy collection and consumption. Its designers hope architects will make use of SolPix for large-scale building facades in the future.

[Simone Giostra and Partners]
via [inhabitat] & [fastcompany]

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The Last Resort Concept by RAFAA Architecture & Design

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 13:19:58 +0000

The architects describe the Last Resort concept as a ‘floating mobile architecture’. The design recently won a competition, and with funding underway the team expects to begin fabrication on these sleek water homes by the end of the year.

According to RAFAA, the conceptual requirements of being in motion and the desire to simultaneously feel at home are contradictory in nature. This difficulty is resolved by a new typology that will deal with usability, space and technology.

The two-level structure is about five meters wide and 15 meters long. Sleeping bunks, technical equipment and hatches are built into the lower deck. The design recently won a competition, and with funding underway the team expects to begin fabrication on these sleek water homes by the end of the year.
The floating home is about 5 meters wide and 15 meters long with two levels. Sleeping bunks, mechanical equipment and hatches are on the lower level and the upper level contains living space, a kitchen, a bathroom and two bedrooms.

In total there are six beds and a sliding panel helps close off the rooms for more privacy. Vertical blinds on the facade act as shading devices for the interior as well as a privacy system. Stairs lead up to the roof, which serves as an extra deck, and roof-integrated solar panels generate electricity for the two electric engines that propel the home.

The horizontal, undulated shape of the waterfront is inspiration for the design of the project. Furthermore, it serves as means for orientation for the residents. The landscape can be understood as an extension of the living room. Therefore, an unobstructed view of the landscape enhances the spatial quality of the design.
The Last Resort

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Ark House by Axis Mundi

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:02:08 +0000

New Yorker architects from Axis Mundi created this sustainable citadel in the Montana plains called Ark House. They filled the request to design a home for a 100 acre site in Madison Valley, that feels contemporary while still related to the ancient landscape.

The Ark House has a very provocative residential design, including a 4,800 sq ft deck and 5400 sq ft three story interior. As you enter, a vast covered space like an open barn leads you to a staircase and then a bridge crossing over a pond. After what, the living space comes into view.

Residents must cross to the main house in the other end of the long narrow building, either by ascending to a platform out over both sides of the house or via a bridge passing over a three-storey atrium below.

Living areas and bedrooms in the four-storey home each look out over the mountainside at one end, and into the atrium at the other. Architect also conceived the house with a near zero energy profile with a high performance envelope, a ground source heat pump and solar electric panels built into the roof system.

[axismundi]
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Alila Villas Uluwatu, by Woha Architects

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:28:55 +0000

Luxury and ecology in Bali: the perfect mix of Alila Villas Uluwatu, a sustainable resort on the southern coast.

The villas perched atop gorgeous cliffs were designed and constructed according to a strict Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) framework.

High up on the southern coastline of Bali’s Bukit Peninsula, the resort is not far from the area’s famous surf break. The spa resort expertly creates a modern yet unimposing locale that melts within its natural surroundings.

Singapore-based architects Woha is a company known for its sustainable housing projects. It created the Balinese-inspired villas with open-air structures. Guests can adjust the flow of winds and breezes by sliding glass doors. Airy wooden cabanas and relaxation pavilions spray out over the Indian Ocean and look alike cubic Bauhaus nests.

Outside, an on-site nursery of indigenous plants help to sustain local bird and animal populations. Other measures include the use of local construction materials such as teak, lava rock and bamboo. Water conservation is achieved through the use of salt water pools and gray water systems helping to recycle laundry, dishwashing and bathing water for landscape irrigation.

[woha]
[mr and mrs smith]
[alilahotels]
via [coolhunting]

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