‘Weave Housing’ is a design proposal for an urban mixed use complex in Denver CO, with 160 apartment units, retail and parking. Inspired by a children’s potholder loom, the facade texture supports multiple interior apartment arrangements with units occupying one or two bays in width, and one or two levels in height, allowing for flexibility and plan variety. By weaving occupiable volumes across the facade, private balconies and overhangs are created, establishing zones of natural shading and meeting the desired passive energy strategy. The long dimension of each apartment unit is stretched parallel to the corridors, taking advantage of natural light and views while minimizing the depth light is asked to penetrate the space.
Located on a desolate and dusty plane near the ancient Ziggurat of UR, the Nassiriyah Truck Stop is proposed as a modern day oasis along one of Iraq’s most dangerous highways. The project is intended to become an economic seed for the local community by proving space and microfinance grants for family-owned businesses, as well as vital services and supplies for Iraq’s trucking community.
In Minas Gerais, a state located in Middle East of Brazil, COPASA – Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais, is the state owned company responsible for the water treatment and distribution to the majority of the cities. For the planning and management, the company has an Administrative District for each of the five regions in the state. The project here presented comprehends one of the administrative head-office, located in São Sebastião do Paraíso – Minas Gerais state.
The T-wall—a freestanding precast concrete panel with a footing cast into the base—is perhaps the most ubiquitous architectural element in Iraq’s security landscape. Used to create barricades around secure military zones, T-walls are scattered across the country by the millions, and as American forces draw down their forward operating bases in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of these T-walls will be either discarded or crushed. Due to their steel reinforcing, most T-walls will be banished to so-called T-wall graveyards, to be stored for an indeterminate amount of time for an undetermined purpose.
The Hungarian city of Pécs was selected as European Capital of Culture for 2010. The new Kodály Concert- and Conference Centre is one of the main projects for this event.
Winning project of the 10th Architecture Award promoted by IAB-MG (Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil – Minas Gerais) 2008, single houses category.
It is a contemporaneous house built with traditional techniques. This construction occupies the top of a hillside and is projected over an immense valley framed with a chain of mountains, a predominant relief in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. In the surroundings of Nova Lima – MG, where the construction was erected, a considerable part of the houses are influenced by the language of Portuguese colonial architecture and uses manual techniques of construction.
Located on the campus of Queensborough Community College in Queens, New York, the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archive consists of the renovation of a 6,000 square foot former print shop and loading dock in the campus Administration building, and a 2,000 square foot addition on the south edge of the site. The project provides a much needed home for the Center which was previously housed in the basement of the college library, and includes classrooms, work stations, offices, gallery spaces, and a library.
Front Entrance View
Architect: TEK Architects, PC
Project Team: Charles Thanhauser – principal in charge; Andrew Ojamaa – project director; Carolina Meller, Kotting Luo, Hsing Yuan Chen
Client: DASNY / CUNY/ QCC
QCC HRC Director: Dr. Arthur Flug
Contractor: Summit Construction
MEP Engineers: DLB Consulting, MEP, William Dunne
Structural: Dunne and Markis, PE, Harriet Markis
Landscape: Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architects
Glass Consultant: RA Heintges Architects, Daniel Vos
The goal of the project “Plaza Ecopolis” by architectural firm ecosistema urbano was to transform a faceless site in Madrid’s urban sprawl, surrounded by industry and heavy traffic transportation infrastructures, into a public space for social interaction plus provide a building for childcare and a children’s play center.
Ecopolis landscape, image by Javier de Pas
Architect: ecosistema urbano
Project: Plaza Ecópolis
Location: Plaza Ecópolis, 1 – Rivas Vaciamadrid – 28529 Madrid – Spain
David Elalouf Architect designed this sustainable development in Paris. This is the first program of social housing in sustainable development built in Paris. It includes 4 buildings with 93 Housing units, shops, and a kindergarten .
Left building view of the colored gap
Architects : David Elalouf Architecte, with Guillaume Prognon, Fabrice Jactard, Kheang Tan, Damien Caron, Wen Kee H’su
Client : Paris Habitat OPH
Location : 75, 79 Rue de la Chapelle & Impasse du Gué, Paris XVIII, France
Project area: 7260 sqm
Project Year: 2005-2008
Budget: € 11,500,000
Photographs: Stephan Lucas, David Elalouf
Software used: Autocad
Key Materials:
White Polished Concrete: Palazzo (by Morin Système),
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