ArchShowcase Archive for 2013Lift for New Museum Spring Gala by SnarkitectureWednesday, October 30th, 2013Article source: Snarkitecture An installation for the New Museum Gala, Lift is a floating landscape that is both architectural and performative. An array of forty-five white inflatable spheres, each controlled by an individual performer, establishes a grid to engage the massive architectural scale of the room.
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House in Shinoharadai, Kanagawa, Japan by Tai and AssociatesWednesday, October 30th, 2013Article source: Tai and Associates The site is situated on a small hill in Yokohama. A new program, composed of two-family residence and office, is applied to the building, while paying attention to preserve the family’s history and memories attached to the land. The building is divided in different volumes according to the scale of the surrounding residences. The podium is constructed of concrete retaining walls, the main volume, which is regarded as piano nobile, is made of concrete using wood panel formwork with tongue-and-groove joints, and the white volume contains office. The form of each volume expresses a different function inside.  Image Courtesy © Seiichi Ohsawa
Art Stable by OLSON KUNDIG ARCHITECTSWednesday, October 30th, 2013Article source: OLSON KUNDIG ARCHITECTS An urban infill project in Seattle’s rapidly developing South Lake Union neighborhood, Art Stable is built on the site of a former horse stable. The seven-story mixed-use building carries its working history into the future with highly adaptable live/work units.  Image Courtesy © Benjamin Benschneider
Makura Teppan House in Mexico City by ROZILLIO ARQUITECTOSWednesday, October 30th, 2013Article source: ROZILLIO ARQUITECTOS When we called for this project we met a local who had previously been a seafood restaurant which had nothing to rescue, so we decided to demolish all that was on it to clean completely and leave a completely clean box and based to that from scratch and begin to identify the problems and provide solutions.  Image Courtesy © Lalo Ochoa
Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law in Brisbane, Australia by ArchitectusWednesday, October 30th, 2013Article source: Architectus The Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law have opened to much acclaim. The building is a radical departure from traditional court design. It exhibits a high degree of transparency and lightness appropriate to the expression of contemporary justice and to its sub-tropical locale.  Image Courtesy © Architectus
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M-B.L.D in Fukuoka, Japan by Architect Show Co.,LtdWednesday, October 30th, 2013Article source: Architect Show Co., Ltd Located in Fukuoka City Vice city center, this Building is apartments for rent for single people. Currently, there is no personality in architecture itself rental apartments, it is often thought to be a uniform design. As opposed to design the architecture design uniform so far, I have the concept that you plan to have a personality in architecture itself, combines livability and design, the “architecture the sole.  Image Courtesy © Toshihisa Ishii
THE HUG – Otaniemi Central Campus of AAl to University by MenoMenoPiu ArchitectsTuesday, October 29th, 2013Article source: MenoMenoPiu Architects The project is a contemporary evolution of the classic courtyard tipology, unfolding the four sides of the courtyard along the axis of the main road,creating a central urban square facing south for both students and citizens. The four sides go up from east to west according to the heights of the surrounding buildings. It allows to keep the view of the main Alvar Aalto building and creating a main access.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects
The former carriageable roads are processed in the main pedestrian and cycle paths, keeping the total permeability of the site in the main points of access. The creation of two different external levels that takes shape from theterrain, has enabled the customization of two different open spaces.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects The Lower square at 0.00 represents “THE HUG”, the most dynamic front, south faced, the New Centrality of the Alvar Aalto Campus. In this space of social interaction all the public university activities and the commercial/gastronomic frontare concentrated. The north side of “THE HUG”, which is less enlightened, becomes the Media Lume of the campus with the presence of two theatres and one exterior stage.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects The Upper square at +5.00 is the quieter front of the project thought as a green open space with big terraces.The goal is to keep low in front the Alvar Aalto’s building. The program is developed in a linear way on the site. Placing on the south-east the commercial front and on the north-west the university activities. Following the logics of the planning, the program turns into a curve that ends on the VTT Building and generates the large central space,”THE HUG”. This approach creates an interactive environment for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, releasing and lengthening the visual outlook.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects The basement of the building is a vibrant glazed space, conceived like a green house, whereon the east side is concentrated a large retail front, such as grocery shop, copy shop, material shop, book shop, galleries and restaurants, and on the west side all the common activities of the university campus, such as exhibition spaces, lounge point, interactive and audiovisual areas, administrations,stages (Media Lume).  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects This mix will guarantee a continuous daily life of this place, making it an attractive center either for its users orfor those of the nearby universities. In fact the project’s purpose is to provide a clever urban link between all the activities already existing and those that will be realized.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects On this common basement three boxesare settled. The lower one, that is in visual relation with the Alvar Aalto building, hosts all dining activities with their beautiful terraces on both sides. The other two boxes represent all the university program (Media, Architecture,Design and Art, VTT extension).  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects The university boxes work like a covered courtyard providing external views on campus and at the same time give more intimate interior views. The possibility to share the spaces between the various faculties makes possible the interaction between the different disciplines. The development of the internal program is based on the principle of the mixing and sharing of activities, believing that this system could be a fruitful way to break down the usual concept of a university campus.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects The VTT expansion has been considered as an integrant part of the project being one of the sides that embraces this new centrality, in fact the highest box relies on the corner building, connecting it to the whole system and bringing into it new cultural energy. The Shading envelope provides a climate control depending on the exposition, concentrating glazed surfaces on the south-west to accumulate heat during daylight hours and more opaque surfaces on the north side to eliminate the heat loss.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects The roofs play a key role in the project as generators of life, interactions and energy. The lowest roof is totally merged with the ground, being a beautiful terrace and a set back with the Aalto building. The second and the third roof are two powerful terraces serving the university spaces where in summer period students can enjoy the beautiful views on the bay. Those two roof decks could be imagined also as exhibition spaces for the artistic production of the campus. The Highest roof is equipped with wind turbines that guarantee the production of the energy for the new building and the surroundings.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects All the design choices are directed in the way of durable development through the use of high performance materials, capable of limiting consumption, natural ventilation, natural management of humidity inside, rainwater recovery and the use of renewable energy such as geothermal energy. The rectangle is the neutral form par excellence, because its corners balance the two opposing forces of the line: the vertical and horizontal”.  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects  Image Courtesy © MenoMenoPiu Architects
PEDROSO HOUSE in Buenos Aires, Argentina by BAK ArquitectosTuesday, October 29th, 2013Article source: BAK Arquitectos This work is the result of a process that began in 2004 with the construction of a summer house in the forest of Mar Azul in order to take advantage of this intervention opportunity in a site of significant landscape values to propose design alternatives that take under consideration the protection of the natural environment as an unavoidable premise.  Image Courtesy © Gustavo Sosa Pinilla
Pablo Neruda Elementary School in Alcorcón (Madrid), Spain by Rueda Pizarro ArquitectosTuesday, October 29th, 2013Article source: Rueda Pizarro Arquitectos Inspired in the duality between the world of adults and the world of children described in the work of Lewis Carroll, the project proposes transferring Alice ‘s universe to the primary school; a world full of sensations, experiences, games, scales and colors where both coexist.  Image Courtesy © Miguel de Guzmán
Entourage by Latitude StudioTuesday, October 29th, 2013Article source: Latitude Studio The accommodation of this 200m2-place into an art-gallery-lounge bar gives opportunity to explore different ways of displaying art inside a place which is traditionally conceived as a chill-out space. The gallery is organized as three-concatenated spaces: the “Light Fall Room”, the “Mirror Room” and the “Dada Room”. The white walls of the Light Fall Room display a so-called “untouched nature”: the only piece of art which cannot be purchased.  Image Courtesy © Latitude Studio
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