![]() Cac Bratke
![]() Cac Bratke From the architect. This building functions as a complement to a residence and is located on the same lot, in an area directly behind the main house its facade looks out onto a different street and it possesses an independent entrance. ![]() Cac Bratke The arrangement is simple: individual studies, a rehearsal room, a recording studio, a scullery, and bathrooms, as well as the addition of this new outbuilding to the existing house, comprised of offices and a sauna which opens out onto the garden located between the buildings. ![]() Ground Floor Plan ![]() Section A ![]() Upper Floor Plan In observance of property setback laws, the building is located as close to the street as possible, while still providing a large garden area between buildings. ![]() Cac Bratke ![]() Cac Bratke A catwalk connects the buildings' second stories to each other: the recording studio connects to the office located in the new outbuilding. The top stories are comprised of a roof garden and an observatory. ![]() Cac Bratke The structure is made of concrete, using prefabricated slab arrangements and ceramic block masonry; door and window frames are made of painted aluminum and the flooring varies between polished concrete and wood. Monochromatic paint. ![]() Cac Bratke
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![]() Julien Kerdraon
![]() Julien Kerdraon From the architect. Facing north south, with a triangular form, the land is of a small size (785m2), which is why the house plan is part of the administrative limits of the parcel's removal. With its endemic plants - a vast majority of pines and agaves - its low walls made of stones and its extraordinary Mediterranean view, this protected place doesn't have sanitation or possibilities of access to the construction site. Inhabited by Mediterranean culture and grecque mythology, Christophe Migozzi revisits the primitive atmosphere of the cottage by reinterpreting a contemporary version of "Ulysse's vessel that surfs on a slope like a crab trawler." ![]() Julien Kerdraon Piously respecting abrupt slopes and the very protected nature of this site, architects are looking to keep the land the way it is and are designing a house on stilts. In order to completely stay away from hurting the land in any way by intrusive construction, they are reducing the leveling work to them only stilts, indispensable to the elevation of the habitat without hurting the natural land. The cut-down trees are replaced with new varieties (fig trees, eucalyptus trees, viburnum, opuntia, phormium...) so as to densify the land's natural limits. ![]() Julien Kerdraon Considering the weak coefficient of the ground's occupation, construction favors the SHOB (215m2) and not the SHON (107m2) with the help of exterior space - passageway, patio - which will prolong the built-in volume. ![]() Julien Kerdraon Whoever says "cottage" and "vessel", says timber, material which possesses every required quality, from lightness to strength. The structure of the house is in laminated douglas wood whilst the cover is made of larch brackets vertically placed. Another way to reinvent the arbor and, with the help of the growing flora, to merge house and land together. ![]() Julien Kerdraon ![]() Upper Floor Plan ![]() Julien Kerdraon The house itself has two levels: on the garden level, a bathroom, and two rooms: on the ground level, a kitchen and a living room that ends outside. The interiors are covered by shinoki ash panels. ![]() Julien Kerdraon ![]() Shigeru Ban designed housing on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka, following the destruction caused by a 2004 tsunami. Image Dominic Sansoni Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Banhas signed an agreement with UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency tasked with guiding sustainable development, to design up to 20,000 new homes for refugees in Kenya's Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement. Currently home to more than 37,000 refugees, the settlement is quickly outgrowing its original capacity of 45,000 over 17,000 have arrived this year alone, with numbers expected to continue to increase. The key thing will be to design and construct shelter where no or little technical supervision is required, and use materials that are locally available and eco-friendly. It's important that the houses can be easily maintained by inhabitants. Ban will draw from a wealth of experience designing humanitarian architecture, including more than a dozen displacement-related shelter projects around the world in countries including Rwanda, Italy, and Nepal, using unconventional building materials like cardboard and paper tubes. At a recent visit to the Kalobeyei Settlement, he also explained the importance of drawing from local construction traditions to provide familiar living spaces that are tailored to their environment. The shelter designs have to comply with the national regulations for housing while responding in a responsible manner to local climatic conditions and challenges, providing replicable sustainable solutions to shelter. Yuka Terada, UN-HABITAT Project Coordinator, agreed. UN-HABITAT's approaches are strongly participatory and the relevant county officers as well as the representatives from refugee and host community will have an input in the design process. Designs will be tested first on 20 prototype shelters. If successful, they will then be gradually rolled out to replace existing structures, many of which have already begun to wear out. You can learn more about the project at the UN Refugee Agency website, here.
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![]() Aitor Ortiz From the architect. The planned building for the new Valenz healthcare centre in Orense will be located on a plot which is over 3,666 m2 and sits on a steep sloping area half way between the river, the main road in town in its lower section and the motorway on the upper side of the slope. ![]() Aitor Ortiz The plot is peculiar in that its longitudinal side is pronounced and it is closed off on its eastern front by an access road and a four-storey-high longitudinal block of flats, whilst on its western side, there is a large slope with a big drop, over 16-18 m. ![]() Aitor Ortiz The urban integration of the new healthcare centre intended to take this delicate situation into account. With this rationale, it sought out a correct placement that would minimize the visual and construction impact of this slope, reducing the boxing-in effect of the centre within the plot. The building would rise slightly over the ground level and would be solved by a single-storey-high body, attached to the slope, and an upper floor arranged around a central courtyard. ![]() Aitor Ortiz ![]() Aitor Ortiz From an urban point of view, the suggested solution allowed for the creation of public areas of interest and the correct functioning of the centre. An admissions square was generated which is linked to the ambulance and main entrances, as well as building-services rooms in a central location within the plot, thus minimizing distances, and a back plaza connected to the playing and waiting areas of the paediatrics department, the meeting room and other parts of the programme that might require independent access. The squares are qualified by the presence of trees, benches or stairs and mild ramps or stands on the North side of the plot, minimising the impact of the slope on that area and integrating it into a single urban proposal. ![]() Aitor Ortiz ![]() Plan During the design of the project, special attention was paid to the protection against excessive sun radiation and to achieving a correct level of lighting as well as to the boosting of the natural cross ventilation of rooms. ![]() Aitor Ortiz The programme is divided into four great areas of care plus the areas destined for the management and maintenance of the centre. The centre has 5 general medicine surgeries, 5 infirmaries, 1 matron's room, 1 health education room, 1 dentist + hygienist surgery, 1 sampling room, 1 procedures room, 1 multipurpose room, 1 women's room, 1 emergency room, 2 paediatrics surgeries, 2 paediatric infirmary rooms, a staff room, a board room and a library. ![]() Aitor Ortiz ![]() Yoon Junhwan
![]() Yoon Junhwan From the architect. Daegu Bank Project is to design the bank's second head office building in a 9,638m2 lot. Located in the city center, the site used to be the home of Daehan Textile and Cheil Industries and has gone through an extensive renewal in accordance with the district zoning plan. ![]() Yoon Junhwan ![]() Section ![]() Yoon Junhwan The bank's financial tower epitomized the capital accumulation and advanced technologies when it was built in the 1970s and 1980s, while the main head office which was designed by Junglim Architecture in 1978 is considered a pioneering project together with Industrial Bank of Korea's main head office that established the foundation of the country's modern bank architecture. ![]() Yoon Junhwan The project was designed by an unusual team that is composed of the original architect of Daegu Bank's first head office and junior designers some 50 years younger than the lead architect in an attempt to rewrite the history of bank architecture. The designers intended to convey the corporate spirit and vision of Daegu Bank. The building will rise as the Bank's new headquarters that represents the local community and promotes shared growth with it, thereby suggesting a new paradigm in the design of financial buildings. ![]() Yoon Junhwan ![]() Nico Saieh
![]() Nico Saieh From the architect. Casa Trumn is a private villa in the central coastal region of Chile, designed and built by Amsterdam-based office Studio Selva with mostly locally sourced materials. ![]() Nico Saieh ![]() Materials ![]() Nico Saieh ![]() Floor Plan ![]() Nico Saieh The villa is in fact a tailor-made surfer's holiday home, with a layout and materialisation vaguely referring to chilean farmhouses. The small floorpan of 50 m2 has been laid out in six modules: four bedrooms, one bathroom and one kitchen module. Each bedroom has an independent access to a generous roofed terrace, conceived as a shared common space; as a living room with a magnificent view of the sea. The post-and-beam wooden construction with eucalyptus screens and straw bale infill walls and clay-plaster creates an excellent indoor climate in this humid region. ![]() Nico Saieh ![]() Mrigank Sharma The geometric design of the 'Protostar Pavilion' for the launch of the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class is a morphological response associated with the iconic brand logo: a three-pointed star. The project isa removable metal pavilion, made up of a series of folded aluminum plates that besides generating a light structure, allow for a quick and easy construction. Description from the Architects.The Protostar Pavilion is in its constant state of metamorphosis and is presented in a specific instance frozen in time. The design process itself challenges the conventional thinking of materials and their properties. The process embraces high-end digital design and fabrication tools from the concept design to prototyping and fabrication stage. ![]() Mrigank Sharma During the installation process, the fabrication team utilized the ease of material and technology as an advantage in terms of assembly and structuring. The folded aluminum plates and flaps act as an integral part of the structural system and also enable several connection points for the assembly. ![]() ![]() The project is a fully deployable structure that could be dismantled and assembled rapidly within hours. One of the constraints was that it had to be self-standing without any recourse to drilling / bolting into the existing premises. ![]() The pavilion weighs only 450 kilograms, consists of 289 components, 1440 nut and bolt connections to complete the assembly. ![]() ![]() The fabrication process is inspired by world class automobile engineering of Mercedes-Benz and is truthful (devoid of any ornamentation) both in terms of its machine aesthetic, assemblage and structural performance. In addition, the design echoes the tri-axial geometry of the Mercedes Benz iconic symbol and rests precariously on 3 points defying gravity and embracing flight. ![]() Mrigank Sharma ![]() Mrigank Sharma Architects:Nudes ![]() ![]() If your hotel uses a new roof you have to read this article. http://cityhotelservice.com/signs-hotel-needs-new-roof/
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AuthorHis current project is a modern, yacht-inspired 15,000 square foot home to be built on Lido Beach, Sarasota. It will be a marvel of curvaceous, geometric precision. Mr. Stanbury is the founder of J. Stanbury Design Inc. in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Archives
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