ArchShowcase Archive for 2012Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago by HouseHausFriday, December 28th, 2012Article source: HouseHaus The existing urban context of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital complex consists of an accumulation of single standing buildings. Bertrand Goldberg’s innovative design of the Prentice Women’s Hospital stands as the most expressive solitary object within this context.  Image Courtesy HouseHaus
Dihedral House in Boulder, CO by Arch11Tuesday, December 25th, 2012Article source: Arch11 Design strategy: This modern house designed by Arch11 is a place where the domestic life of a young family weaves with the values of two professional athletes and the outdoors. Where this distinction may separate those roles, lines in this structure seeks to bind and integrate. Anchored on a downtown corner site, this Boulder, Colo. home has an all glass living room and Site-cast, board-formed concrete walls. The latter both moors the building to its site and provides thermal mass to control temperature swings. The house is organized around crossing dihedral lines–one phenomenal and one tectonic—that shear the interior volumes.  Image Courtesy Raul Garcia
Housing in Taipei, Taiwan by Chin ArchitectsTuesday, December 25th, 2012Article source: Chin Architects At Kuo Yang Tien Mu, which is located at an important urban junction, I attempt to transform the building envelope that protects the residents’ private lives into a meaningful public city façade. The architecture is to initiate an intriguing dialogue with the disordered built environment through a unique yet contemporary gesture. The design wishes to break away from the typical mundane and repetitive urban residential housing, and express a vibrant city life specific to Taipei City instead.  Image Courtesy Chin Architects
Souvenir Shop in Vinnytsa, Ukraine ZA ArchitectsSaturday, December 22nd, 2012Article source: ZA Architects
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Slip House in London, England by Carl Turner ArchitectsSaturday, December 22nd, 2012Article source: Carl Turner Architects Occupying one of four plots forming a gap in a typical Brixton terrace, Slip House constitutes a new prototype for adaptable terraced housing. Three simple ‘slipped’ orthogonal box forms break up the bulk of the building and give it it’s striking sculptural quality. The top floor is clad in milky, translucent glass planks, which continue past the roof deck to create a high level ‘sky garden’. Designed to Code for Sustainable Homes Level 5, it features ‘energy piles’ utilising a solar assisted ground source heat pump creating a thermal store beneath the building. PV’s, a wildflower roof, rain water harvesting, reduced water consumption, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery within an airtight envelope with massive levels of insulation make this one of the most energy efficient houses built in the UK. A prototype brownfield development offering dense, flexible, urban living – the house is a vehicle for in-house research into sustainable design, seamlessly integrating the often conflicting aesthetic requirements of architecture and alternative low energy systems. We are working to develop this model for multiple developments and as affordable housing.  Image Courtesy Carl Turner Architects
Reader’s House in Madrid, Spain by Ensamble StudioSaturday, December 22nd, 2012Article source: Ensamble Studio Madrid’s Old Slaughterhouse is becoming an important Center for Contemporary Creation in Madrid, organizing architecture competitions that can give rise to proposals that will recover its 148 300 m2 to house creative processes, artistic training and participatory dialogue between the arts.  Image Courtesy Ensamble Studio
Red House in Trofarello, Italy by Raimondo GuidacciFriday, December 21st, 2012Article source: Raimondo Guidacci project involves the renovation of a small house located on a rectangular lot at the foot of the hill that rises to Trofarello Pecetto. It was to create a small extension of the existing house redesigning reports. special relationship of trust and cooperation established with the clients, two young bold and brave, made it possible to obtain results in the radical transformation of the old building into a new architectural object is recognizable by the public gardens of the surrounding houses.  Image Courtesy © Beppe Garden
Summer House in Kiev, Ukraine by ZA ArchitectsFriday, December 21st, 2012Article source: ZA Architects Commissioned by Baum construction company, the project aims to design a standard summer cottage, suitable for small-scale construction, supposedly, in Kyiv region. The design of the cottage reflects some of the most striking features of this type of houses in Ukraine, such as the necessity of home burglary protection, negligent attitude to or sheer absence of landscaping, the very fact that the house is almost never used in other seasons rather than in summer.  Image Courtesy ZA Architects
Chen Minshuku in Tainan,Taiwan by TSDesignFriday, December 21st, 2012Article source: TSDesign TSDesign group tried to reverse house’s axis by using old red-brick、old wood beam and modern materials, to match nearby human characters. Architecture style, materials, historical memory which form Tainan’s local architectural characters.  Night view : Image Courtesy Tsai Tsung-Sheng
THE CLOUD in Madrid, Spain by Ensamble StudioFriday, December 21st, 2012Article source: Ensamble Studio The Cloud is a dense space built with a very light material, it is 98% air. Based on 7 modules of identical massive volume: 2.4 x 6 x 2.4 m., each of them is shaped differently to generate a unique space, thus getting: the stage, the patio, the step, the circus, the cinema, the assembly and the scale. 7 spaces as the 7 notes that compose the musical scale, which combined together produce very different sets of sounds, multiple scenes that accommodate simultaneously reading, playing, rest or conversation activities.  Image Courtesy Ensamble Studio
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