This was an international design competition that me and my partner(Justin Strosnider) participated in during the fall of 2011 and spring of 2012. we are both 18 years of age and pursuing a career in architecture.The design work took a total of six months and was the most extensive and challenging design we had ever done. The main goal of the design was sustainability. The building is a mixed use building that offeres retail, office, as well as residential space.
House situated on a plot of the second coastline of Majorca. Much of the sun was hidden without sea view, by the interposition of an old and broken down apartment block, except for a small portion facing the sea torrent desenbocaba forming a small beach. They pose a patio attached to a wall that cuts across almost all of its own, leaving hidden the apartment block and opening the rest of the house to the stream and beach.
The site is located at a point between the square and the church of a small village in the Po Valley. The new building develops around a small inner courtyard. The front facing the street has no openings apart from the main entrance. Four metres high, it underlines the idea of the threshold conceived as an element of transit and delimitation that separates an outer world, without rules or qualities, from a controlled artificial one.
Tabanlıoğlu Architects was established by Arch. Murat Tabanlıoğlu in collaboration with Dr. Hayati Tabanlıoğlu in 1990; Arch. Melkan Gürsel Tabanlıoğlu joined the group in 1995. Employing more then 80 architects and 20 administrative staff members, Tabanlioglu head office is located in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Project consists of five floors and a parking in the basement, with a total of 7 apartments in there, divided in 4 flats and 3 duplex with views to the main avenue.
The entrance to the building is through the reception area, where the waiting room, principal ladders, elevators, and the basement access.
Software used: The building was designed initially by hand, then the development was in CAD software and some 3d visualization software. AutoCAD and 3dMax.
This year has been an exciting year for WZMH Architects. The firm has secured a number of new projects and won awards for its latest work. However, 2011 is also special because it marks the fiftieth anniversary of WZMH and as such the firm has taken the opportunity to publish a book and launch a new website to mark the occasion.
WZMH Architects 50 The First Fifty Years book
Awards
Bay Adelaide Centre:
2012 OAA Design Excellence Award
Durham Consolidated Courthouse:
Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships – Silver Award, 2012
CUI Brownie Awards – Category 3 – Financing, Risk Management and Partnerships, 2012
RAIC CaGBC Green Building Award of Excellence, 2011
World Architecture Festival Shortlist Finalist, 2011
The initial approach was to single out and magnify the experience of walking from the roadside down to the seaside at this very special place. Therefore a main concern was to slow down this movement and make the path itself a means of refocusing the experiential mode: a measured, restrained approach that creates awareness.
Roof substitution from brick walls every 60 cm to wooden beams supported just at the lower ends so taking advantage of the free space for using it as part of the house and for maintaining the new solar panel system implemented to reduce hitting consumes.
Conceived for Paris Habitat – OPH, the 45-apartment housing project on rue Riquet in the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a follow-up to an award obtained in 2007. The 8-story street-side building is located on a parcel in the midst of a densely populated neighborhood, very close to avenue de Flandre.
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