The unsuitable proportion obtained by using the square shape of its 18x18m area with a maximum height of 28 m determined the search for a solution that would counteract this. The use of the building structure itself, making it visible in its perimeter elements in addition to the stairway and elevator box, provided the solution for this vertical direction through the execution of a high blade set, with perfect articulation between the structural component and the architectural design
The ambitious Désiré Colombe project by the architecture firm Leibar & Seigneurin completes a major project undertaken by the city of Nantes, jointly sponsored by Nantes Métropole Aménagement and ADI. This development has brought back to life an emblematic legacy of the built center of Nantes and an abandoned landscape, including the particularly noteworthy former Bourse and the Salons Mauduit, on a surface area of approximately one hectare (2.47 acres). It brings together public and private uses with dwellings, meeting spaces, a nursery and a public garden.
Hyderabad is one of the fastest growing cities in India. The old city is space stagnant and the development is rapidly moving towards and happening around the new city, which has the space to absorb it. The soaring land prices around here are a direct result of this. The site is located in a relatively new, but dense layout right in the heart of the new development fast engulfing the city. It is enveloped by an existing residential tower and a soon to be built tower on the south and east. The north and west are flanked by roads which are the only breathable facades. Poorly thought out planning laws make this layout a cluster of close proximity buildings with the only relief facing the road. Typical area hungry builders’ plans dominate the surrounding built environment; with unusable balconies (often turning into utility storage areas) looking into each other with no privacy or view.
The Belvedere tower’s innovative form, is both informed and defined by the constraints of it’s site, it’s design began with rigorous analysis of these urban surrounding.
Located in the town of Hilversum the building’s site sits in an area of nondescript, four-storey, post-war housing, In the eighties six additional, modernist towers were constructed to the south of this area. The tower’s site marks the culmination of this series and sits on a prominent bend in the Oosterengweg bypass, a major thoroughfare through the small town. Due to the tower’s prominent position the municipality desired a building that would be sculptural in form and architecturally iconic. This exposed location also meant the proposed building would be visible from all sides and it therefore became important to design a building with a clear and logical symmetry.
MAD reveals its first residential project to be constructed in Europe. Located in Clichy-Batignolles, a newly developed neighborhood in Paris, UNIC is next to Martin Luther King Park and the currently-under construction courthouse designed by Renzo Piano. MAD won the project through an international design competition in collaboration with local French architects Accueil – Biecher Architectes.
“We worked closely with the local government, city planners and local architects in a series of workshops to ensure UNIC is a creative and iconic residential project united with the community,” revealed MAD’s founder & principal partner Ma Yansong.
Location: Clichy-Batignolles, neighborhood in Paris, France
Directors: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano
Design Team: Zhao Wei, Flora Lee, Wu Kaicong, Daniel Gillen, Jiang Bin, Andrea D’ Antrassi, Tristan Brasseur, Juan Valeros, Gustavo Alfred van Staveren, Xin Dogterom, Juan Pablo, Cesar d Pena Del Rey, Natalia Giacomino
Creating individuality and neighbourhood despite size, and singularity despite standards.
The former Northern Railway site is one of Vienna’s most central redensification areas where a quarter is just under construction that is planned to accommodate 20,000 residents and working people. Wohnen am Park was one of the pioneers of this development with a privileged location directly bordering the quarter’s park. It is connected to the centre by the underground railway U1 and boasts the nearby Danube Island as a local recreation area.
Here the omnipresent pressure of housing standardisation was playfully mastered. The canon of this building comprises just three basic apartment types: single-aspect apartments facing the park, maisonette apartments with a void facing the Vorgartenstraße, and dual-aspect apartments at the end of each corridor. Following simple grammatical rules, they produce a similar overall façade, yet do not look the same anywhere. Interdependency of joint decisions produces an organismic whole – a well-founded order. If one thing changes, everything has to change. Standards create singularity and build a place’s identity, thus clearly refuting the notion of the neutral.
Located along the East Coast Road by the sea side, the beach house functions as a haven from the bustle of city life.
The building explores the notion of objects in a landscape. A strong sense of landscape prevails both within and outside the house. “To bring out and make apparent the invisible logic of nature, one must oppose it with the logic of architecture”.
A conscious decision was made to build on just 1/3rd of the site area; the remaining was used to blur the line between built and unbuilt, carving out spaces for recreation and leisure in the outdoors.
Villa Didaar is located in an area where the Caspian Sea and the green mountains of Northern Alborz meet. As requested by the client, the main objectives of the architect were creating a fluid and transparent connection between the sea view and the green landscape around, as well as interconnecting the interiors while having separate and defined spaces for a large family to rest and feel cozy, plus an immediate connection with the environment outside.
Therefore, the large Villa has been designed in three separate sequences, which slide on each other in a free and independent way, while keeping the unity of the entire building as a whole: “Ground floor” (including the swimming pool, saunas, sport area), “The middle floors” (including family spaces, family and guest bedrooms and living rooms in two floors), and the “upper floor” (consisting of the guests’ separate suites and a common sitting area) which gives a wide view over the surrounding landscape.
Article source: Martin Mostböck & Pesendorfer | Machalek Architects
The Living Garden project is a residential and apartment house (with commercial use) in the Aspern Seestadt, one of the largest urban development projects in Europe. It is located in the north-eastern part of Vienna. This new district is very well connected to the railway stations, airports and historical centers of the Twin Cities Vienna and Bratislava.
The project Living Garden (J3B) is designed as a green, sustainable building. A central idea of the project is to bring nature as deeply as possible into the city and offer the inhabitants and residents a green lung. In addition to the pleasant climate (oxygen, shading, wind protection), the building is also to be a green building for the residents and the surrounding neighbourhood.
the apartment house proposed here lays in one of the representative areas of bucharest, in an area where “the built” is mostly residential and where the two lakes in the neighbourhood lead you towards a possible romantic atmosphere. the importance of the location makes necessary to approach the proposal from the perspective of a possible urban object “landmark”. in a residential theme context the materiality of the façade received a special meaning starting with the concept. thus, the texture coated on wood has the role of creating a sensation of “home”. the volumetry introduces the concept of prismatic compositional hybrid having the role of sugesting the multitude of intimate spaces as being “little houses” belonging to a “mother-house”. the general sensation created by the proposed concept bringing states of: relaxation, intimacy, integrating the perspectives of natural landscape, safety and mental comfort, could create the assumptions of a possible “home”.
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