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![]() © Hemant Patil From the architect. The brick house occupies a land parcel of 800 sq. on the suburban edge of Pune - with a reserve forest on the rear and a dense urban housing on the access road to the front. So, the site creates an interesting opportunity to flip a typical suburban house condition and open up the major public areas to the backyard garden looking towards the forest beyond. Instead of the mundane suburban street the strategy here is to evoke a feeling of living in a hinterland. ![]() © Hemant Patil The house is conceived as an introvert form with a solid mass of brick which stands still and bold from outside. The dynamic play of light and volumes is revealed only when one enters and walks through different spaces inside. ![]() © Hemant Patil The living with its large volume is designed as a public node surrounded by built spaces which opens up to the backyard verandah allowing a seamless view of the lawn and forest beyond. The east-west orientation of the living space welcomes the warm morning sun and some migrating birds and peacocks from the forest occasionally. The cooking, dining and sleeping areas are aligned to the south and west of the site to protect the living areas from direct heat. ![]() Exploded Axonometric Each bedroom is designed considering the intuitive usage of space with inbuilt seating and furniture to go beyond the normative idea of formal living spaces. Each bedroom has got three different types of windows, one for seating -to enjoy interior courts, another small window for cross ventilation and the third is a balcony to go out and enjoy the distant landscapes. ![]() © Hemant Patil The space is composed of all natural and earthy materials like the Black Granite floor - a reference to the monolithic basalt plinth of typical historic temples and forts in the region. The exposed brick walls constructed using Racking Monk bond - resembles the traditional Indian weaving patterns and adds a different value to the most conventional material like brick, the wood veneered ceiling which floats above the public areas with pergolas at the edges and the center of it, creating an ever changing pattern of light throughout the day, making it a unique experience to be in the space at different times of the day and finally, the grey-green cement box windows with operable louvered teak windows frame the views of the surrounding garden and distant forest. ![]() © Hemant Patil This house is an attempt to create a level of privacy within the urban environment, where the users could interact with each other and nature as playfully as possible. Keeping all the formal layers of life aside and take a pause from the busy life of the city. ![]() © Hemant Patil Product Description. The exposed brick walls constructed using Racking Monk bond resembles the traditional Indian weaving patterns which creates a play in the volumes. ![]() © Hemant Patil ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute
![]() © Pedro Pegenaute "I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object." âRoland Barthes, Mythologies ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute ![]() Diagram ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute In a city of 26 million inhabitants and 7 million vehicles, being trapped in a car in Beijing's notorious traffic is a compulsory experience in the capital city. Neri&Hu's approach to the architectural renovation and interior design of an Automobile Service Center in Beijing attempts to recapture the allure and magic that was once associated with cars. Along with a café and offices, the project as a whole is conceived as a workshop space, partly raw and partly refined, it is activated throughout with the energy and spirit of the industrial era. ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute Architecturally, the former missile manufacturing factory is largely kept intact; three of its four brick walls remain untouched. With the addition of a new steel frame structure, a third level is added to accommodate the client's capacity needs. Demonstrating a certain tectonic candor, the tripartite of elements-existing brick building, steel structural frame, and inserted white volume-are visually distinct and legible on the façade. A series of black metal frames redefines the rhythmic window openings, while mirrored glass provides textural intrigue to the mostly monochromatic base. Raw steel edged glass garage doors at each of the vehicular entries are marked with custom graphics and signage to guide visitors to distinct areas along the building's nearly 100m length. ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute ![]() Plan ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute ![]() Section ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute Sitting within the white volume of the building shell at the west end are the main function spaces-office, café, and car lift-each expressed as modularized steel and mesh boxes, a subtly refined interpretation of industrial storage facilities. Mezzanine platforms, stairs, and walkways float amidst the mysterious black cages, such that cars and people are constantly circulating about. The café and the automobile workshop together, a somewhat surreal juxtaposition of functions, begins to generate moments of spectacle. Looking back down between the structural beams, peering through the layers of mesh and mirror, there is an allusion to the back stage of a theatrical set. Patrons of the café can voyeuristically steal glimpses of the cars and mechanics, marveling at their performance while enjoying a delightful refreshment. ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute While the brutality of the concrete and steel material palette, the unadorned authenticity of the metal assemblage, are inspired directly by the industrial approach, an additional layer of luxuriously textured materials-walnut timber and brushed bronze-provides a sense of hospitality. Custom furniture and lighting pieces adopt the efficient tectonic of wood plank and tubular steel construction, but their material richness and refined detailing also harken to the quality of craftsmanship found in antique cars. With this project, Neri&Hu attempts to break through common expectations of what some might consider a vulgar typology, to inject a sense of warmth into an industrial context, and to portray the seductive side of the ubiquitous modern machine. ![]() After. Image © Pedro Pegenaute ![]() © Pedro Pegenaute To facilitate the efficiency of service in the repair shop, the strategy for the main signage reflects the bold and straightforward graphics of road signs. While the main signage is clear and direct, a second layer of signage augments the functional with the reflective. Meant to be slowly discovered, quotes are silkscreen-printed throughout the lounge and waiting area for customers to ruminate and take pause.  herzog & de meuron's elbphilharmonie furnishing resonates with the building's architecture11/28/2016 ![]() the high-end interior concept responds to the building's design aiming to leave a lasting impression without imparting the impact of the architecture. The post herzog & de meuron's elbphilharmonie furnishing resonates with the building's architecture appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. Bêka and Lemoine's Documentary Film on BIG's "8 House" To Be Screened Exclusively on ArchDaily11/28/2016 class="container-video__aspect-ratio" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MAPEioSNvDc?theme=light&showinfo=0&color=white" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> Filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, creators of the Living Architectures seminal collection of films on architecture, will screen The Infinite Happiness-shot entirely in Copenhagen's "8 House" designed by BIG-exclusively on ArchDaily from Friday, December 2 until Sunday, December 4. Marking the forthcoming release of two DVD box-sets of their entire Åuvre (which was acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2016) Bêka and Lemoine have, over the course of the Living Architectures project, developed films about and in collaboration with the likes of the Barbican in London, the Fondazione Prada, La Biennale di Venezia, Frank Gehry, Bjarke Ingels, the City of Bordeaux, the Arc en Rêve centre d'architecture, and more. Their goal in this has always been to "democratize the highbrow language of architectural criticism. [...] Free speech on the topic of architecture," Bêka has said, "is not the exclusive property of experts." Their first film, Koolhaas Houselife (2008), has come to embody this unique approach.
The pair have, in the words of Veronique Vienne, talked to "concierges, cleaning ladies, repairmen, security-system installers, and house painters" alike â "but also residents, neighbors, dog walkers, and occasional tourists." The result is a series of documentary films studying seminal buildings as seen through the eyes of everyday inhabitants, occupiers, and passers-by. "No talking heads, no voice-over, no off-camera commentaries â just the raw stuff of lives, whose relationship to the built environment is as much part of the architecture as the walls, the windows, or the roofs." ![]() © Bêka & Partners The Infinite HappinessConceived as a personal video diary, The Infinite Happiness is an architectural experience. The film takes us to the heart of one of the contemporary housing development considered to be a new model of success. Inhabiting the giant "8 House", built by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine recount their subjective experience of living inside this experiment of vertical village, named in 2011 as the world's best residential building. Just like a Lego tower, the film constructs a collection of life stories all interconnected through their personal relationships with the building. The film draws the lines of a human map which allows the viewer to discover the building through an internal and intimate point of view, while questioning the architecture's ability to create collective happiness. What are the surprising results of this new type of social model designed for the 21st Century? ![]() © Bêka & Partners ![]() © Bêka & Partners ![]() © Bêka & Partners ![]() © Bêka & Partners Screener InformationThe Infinite Happiness will available to watch on ArchDaily from Friday, December 2 (1800GMT/1300EST/0200CST) until Sunday, December 4 (0800GMT/0300EST/1600CST). Return to this article during this timeframe to be linked to the screener. The full collection of Bêka and Lemoine's films can be purchased and viewed on demand, here. ![]() © Aaron Pocock
![]() © Aaron Pocock This project by Warc Studio architects is for low budget alterations and additions to a detached 1960's house in the Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh, Australia. The site has a gentle slope to the rear and an Eastern aspect. The project brief required the provision of new rear living spaces as well as some internal modifications & rectification work to the existing residence. ![]() © Aaron Pocock ![]() Floor Plan ![]() © Aaron Pocock The design program was driven by resource efficiency which was essential to delivering both economic and sustainable objectives. ![]() © Aaron Pocock The form of the additions draws reference from the seemingly ubiquitous lean-to mono pitch roof form structures prevalent at the rear of 1950 - 1960's houses throughout the area. In this instance, two mono pitch roof forms with differing gradients were juxtaposed to form new living areas that span across the rear of the house and open to the garden. The resulting roof form provides a compact building envelope: the surface area of the additions are around 12% less than if a flat roof / flat ceiling solution had been employed with the same built volume. This in turn translates to increased efficiency of the thermal envelope and reduced capital material consumption. Passive solar radiation is managed by strategically placed openings as well as an automated operable roof window at the ceiling apex which enables any hot air to quickly dissipate. A structural system of laminated timber fins simultaneously provides structure, finished surface and sun shading to substantial glazing areas facing the garden as the sun transitions Northward. The laminated timber fins are constructed from arsenic free H3 treated laminated radiate pine â a highly sustainable resource sourced from plantations within 4 hours drive of the site. Other than staining, no additional lining, substrate or embellishment of the fins was required. Minimal steel was required. The roof was lined with white steel sheet lining that minimizes heat gain in summer. ![]() © Aaron Pocock Within the existing house, the congested planning was modified to create a defined central passage that services a series of refurbished spaces including a laundry, study, bath room and ensuite bath room. Spatial interconnectivity is facilitated through a plywood âchuteâ that connects and delineates the original house from the new additions as well as a sliding panel that connects the new living areas to the study. ![]() © Aaron Pocock The finished project successfully met tight budget restrictions while exceeding statutory sustainability requirements. ![]() Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Public Design Commission have announced the winners of their 2016 Awards for Excellence in Design. Established in 1983, the award has been bestowed annually to projects from the city's five boroughs that âexemplify how innovative and thoughtful design can provide New Yorkers with the best possible public spaces and services and engender a sense of civic pride.â Both built and unbuilt projects are considered for the award. Previous winners have included Studio Gang's Fire Rescue 2 (2015), the Louis Kahn-designed Four Freedoms Park (2014), and Steven Holl's Hunters Point Library (2011).
âThese thoughtful and innovative designs support the de Blasio Administration's commitment to providing quality, equitable, and resilient public spaces to all New Yorkers. By utilizing good design principles, these projects will provide the public with increased access to the waterfront, open spaces and parks; improved places for play and community gatherings; and inspiring artworks,â said Public Design Commission President and co-founding principal of Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects Signe Nielsen. Added Public Design Commission Executive Director Justin Moore: "Part of what makes our city great is the quality of our public realm and the creativity and ingenuity found in our design community and city agencies. These award-winning projects range from new technologies to improved neighborhood parks and public artwork. They show that design excellence is an important part of New York's leadership in promoting innovation, sustainability, and equity in cities." Excellence in Design Winners![]() 40th Police Precinct / BIG + Starr Whitehouse. Image Courtesy of BIG 40th Police Precinct / BIG + Starr Whitehouse Located in the South Bronx, this new station house reinforces a commitment to serving the surrounding communities of Port Morris, Melrose, and Mott Haven while meeting the complex programmatic requirements of the New York City Police Department. The building's unique form comprises stacked volumes that spiral around a central atrium, visually connecting interior spaces and bringing in daylight from a rooftop clerestory. The facade alternates between solid perimeter walls and glazed reentrant corners, providing security while also affording light and views. ![]() Waterfront Nature Walk / George Trakas + Quennell Rothschild & Partners. Image Courtesy of George Trakas and Quennell Rothschild & Partners Waterfront Nature Walk / George Trakas + Quennell Rothschild & Partners  George Trakas' Waterfront Nature Walk is located along Newtown Creek and Whale Creek, adjacent to the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in Greenpoint. Envisioned as a critical component of the awarded master plan for the Department of Environmental Protection's plant, the Waterfront Nature Walk revives a long-inaccessible industrial shoreline for public use as a waterfront promenade and kayak launch. ![]() Van Name Van Pelt Plaza/Richmond Terrace Wetlands / Department of Parks & Recreation In-House Design. Image Courtesy of NYC Parks Van Name Van Pelt Plaza/Richmond Terrace Wetlands / Department of Parks & Recreation In-House Design Nestled between the edge of a residential neighborhood and the working industrial waterfront of Staten Island's north shore, this deteriorated site will be transformed into an attractive community asset with a pier that provides expansive views to the Kill van Kull and the Bayonne Bridge. ![]() Luminescence / Nobuho Nagasawa + Thomas Balsley Associates + Weiss/Manfredi Architects. Image Courtesy of Nobuho Nagasawa, Thomas Balsley, Weiss/Manfredi Luminescence / Nobuho Nagasawa + Thomas Balsley Associates + Weiss/Manfredi Architects Set within the curved landscape of the Hunters Point South Peninsula lawn along the East River, these seven sculptures are both beautiful and educational. A phosphorescent material integrated into the surface of each domed shape absorbs sunlight during the day and illuminates the phases of the moon at night with a soft blue glow. Placed at an overlook, the sculptures offer visitors the opportunity to contemplate the many influences of the moon - from its mystical and poetic powers to its physical gravitational pull on the river's tidal rhythm. ![]() Dock 72 / S9 Architecture + MPFP. Image Courtesy of S9 Architecture and MPFP Dock 72 / S9 Architecture + MPFP Dock 72 embraces rapidly emerging technological and creative industries in Brooklyn with a work environment that encourages and enables hundreds of new and maturing creative startups to flourish. The building's design celebrates the maritime and industrial history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard while providing 21st-century shared work spaces that allow tenants to contribute to the Yard's renewed life as a growing industrial hub. ![]() The High Line Park Passage and Spur / James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf. Image Courtesy of James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf The High Line Park Passage and Spur / James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Piet Oudolf The last segments of the High Line to open to the public, the Passage and Spur will become the northern gateway to this internationally loved elevated promenade. The Passage weaves through Hudson Yards' south tower, which cantilevers 60 feet above the High Line. To celebrate this cathedral-like space, the design remains open and minimal, with seating along the north edge and planting, social spaces, and balconies at the southern edge. ![]() Snug Harbor Cultural Center Music Hall Addition / Studio Joseph + SCAPE/Landscape Architecture. Image Courtesy of Studio Joseph and SCAPE Snug Harbor Cultural Center Music Hall Addition / Studio Joseph + SCAPE/Landscape Architecture This understated yet elegant addition will provide critical support spaces for the Snug Harbor Music Hall, which was completed in 1892 and is the second oldest theater in New York City. The new structure is nested carefully between two of the original pilasters on the east facade of the historic building. Modest in scale, with one floor below grade, the design achieves a sense of presence through formal expression - deep overhangs at the entrances recall the portico of the Music Hall - and materials such as white board-formed textured concrete, glass, and steel. ![]() SoHo Square / Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects. Image Courtesy of Mathews Nielsen SoHo Square / Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects The renovation of this under-utilized open space will establish a distinct gateway to the thriving hub of Hudson Square. The design derives its patterns and materiality from the area's history as a printing district, while providing a variety of pathways, gathering areas, and seating to allow for diverse contemporary use of the site. ![]() Anti-idling Ambulance Pedestals / Ignacio Ciocchini + MOVE Systems. Image Courtesy of Ignacio Ciocchini and MOVE Systems Anti-idling Ambulance Pedestals / Ignacio Ciocchini + MOVE Systems Aligning with the sustainable goals of OneNYC, these anti-idling pedestals will reduce ambulance vehicle emissions without disrupting the Fire Department's critical emergency operations. By plugging in to these curbside pedestals, EMTs can safely shut off their engines while keeping their communication systems live and temperature-sensitive medicines refrigerated. ![]() LinkNYC / CityBridge. Image Courtesy of CityBridge LinkNYC / CityBridge LinkNYC is a new telecommunications network replacing old payphones with Links that benefit the public - especially those of limited means - by offering free services such as high-speed Wi-Fi, mobile device charging, and a custom-built tablet that enables free telephone calls within the United States and provides access to City information and services in addition to wayfinding. Special Recognition Award![]() Parks Without Borders / Department of Parks & Recreation. Image Courtesy of NYC Parks Parks Without Borders / Department of Parks & Recreation Rooted in the idea that the design of the public realm - streets, sidewalks, and open spaces - should be cohesive and integrated, Parks Without Borders aims to improve the interface between New York City parks and their surrounding neighborhoods. As part of OneNYC, this initiative aims to make parks more welcoming, accessible, and active. Each design concept will begin at the park edge, with lowered fences and gates, wider and more porous entrances, and improved sightlines into the park. ![]() Community Parks Initiative / Departments of Parks & Recreation. Image Courtesy of NYC Parks Community Parks Initiative / Departments of Parks & Recreation Through the Community Parks Initiative (CPI), The Department of Parks & Recreation is strengthening New York City's network of parks and public space in historically under-served, high-poverty, densely populated and growing neighborhoods. Part of OneNYC, this multi-faceted capital program reimagines the smaller public parks that people use every day. To learn more about the award and see previous years' winners, visit the Public Design Commission's website, here. News and project descriptions via NYC Public Design Commission. Ermita del Santo Sepulcro Rehabilitation / Héctor Fernández Elorza + Manuel Fernández RamÃrez11/28/2016 ![]() © Montse Zamorano
![]() © Montse Zamorano From the architect. Jarandilla de la Vera has grown around a large granite promontory, leaving its steep western side untouched protecting the access and placing the Main Square in the slightly sloped eastern side. From this square an irregular ramp starts off in the shape of a steep ascending path parallel to the northern facade of the church, arriving at a small square defined by the entrances to both the church and the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre. ![]() © Montse Zamorano ![]() Site Plan ![]() © Montse Zamorano The rehabilitation project of the chapel has developed two strong actions. Firstly, to consolidate and assure the constructive stability of a seriously harmed building in a state of ruin and neglect. Built in the 17th century as a small chapel attached to the church, its use varied. In the 19th century it was used as a small prison and during the start of the 20th century, after its roofing came down, as a school. ![]() © Montse Zamorano ![]() © Héctor Fernández Elorza Secondly, to adequate in a flexible manner the new use proposed for this construction, given that many varied activities will be developed. ![]() © Montse Zamorano ![]() Section ![]() © Montse Zamorano With barely 100 m2 and only one access from the small square, the chapel is divided into two volumes which configure a unitary space -given their shape, size and linkage. The first and largest volume has an irregular four-sided plan and a gabled roofing with its ridge placed perpendicular to the facade. Although the second volume is smaller, it is taller. Placed in the back of the previous one, this piece used to be the apse. Thus its high ceiling topped with a semicircular dome covered by a hipped roof with a lantern that shines light inside through the center of the dome. The link between both volumes is solved by a five meters wide circular granite arch. ![]() © Montse Zamorano The developed work proposes an intervention of subtle, minimal actions on the original remains of the building. On one hand, the new structural system has been designed to supply the existing shortcomings and to get rid of the observed pathologies in the actual state of the building. This is achieved by incorporating an interior 'shell' -floor, lateral walls, and covering- made of armored concrete 25 centimeters thick. This element solves the totality of the main volume and assures the reinforcement and stability of the original perimeter walls. The remains of the shake roofing were used to create the texture of the formwork to construct the concrete shell, translating the wood texture of the old chapel to the new construction. ![]() © Montse Zamorano On the other hand, the semicircular dome´s lantern is recomposed by the insertion of a stainless steel element that reflects the light into the interior of the second volume, the former apse. This element plus the two lateral apse windows and the semicircular gap above the main entrance are the only ways to shine light into the chapel. The width of this arched main entrance enables a double door that allows a variable relationship between the exterior and the interior of the chapel along with variable illumination too. ![]() Axonometric The interior acoustic absorption has been taken into account too, in order to avoid uncomfortable sound reverberations. This is solved by covering the interior of the façade wall with solid beveled wooden pieces in line with the concrete shell that absorb and break secondary acoustic waves enhancing the interior comfort.  Lastly, the exterior appearance of the walls is very simple, made in basic stonework and lime mortar plastering. The granite flooring finish from the interior of the chapel is extended outwards to the small square, leaving uncovered the grain of the stone of the promontory, and including big chunks to configure the ledge highlighting, therefore, the former compactness and weight of this site. ![]() © Montse Zamorano Earlier this year, the Rem Koolhaas-led firm OMA launched a redesign of its website. If you haven't already popped over to see more than three decades worth of cutting-edge, provocative architecture projects, you'll have a good reason to now: downloadable excerpts from six of the office's highly acclaimed books and magazines. 1. Elements (2014)Publisher: Marsilio ![]() Elements (2014). Image via www.oma.eu Available Excerpts:
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