Project Name: House 388
Architecture Office: TAM – Guillermo Elgart
Website: instagram.com/tam.arquitectura
Contact email: tallerarquitecturamardelplata@gmail.com
Office Country: Argentina
Awards: CAPBA Award –
Category 1: Individual Housing between medians – Year 2022
Construction completion year: 2018
Constructed area: 296 m²
Location: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires.
1 Memory
A horizontal plane suspended on a natural sloping ground. These two elements delimit the void to be worked on. Within this contained space, loose volumes are organized that delimit the different functions of living.
THE LAND
The land is located in a circular cul de sac, so it is a portion of a circle of 1350 meters with a steep slope that rises towards the bottom.
In the front a small square. Towards the end, a large green space that opens to the north.
2. Development
SUBJECT: The richest matter is the surrounding green space. The goal is to catch it. The great horizontal plane extends, captures the exterior and makes it its own. Under the large roof and with the function of protecting yourself from the street, there is a closed stone plinth that contains the SUM. On the plinth and under the roof, an open plan with the social functions that dominate the street due to the unevenness and go directly back to the park level. On the other hand, the bedroom sector partially covers the cars, shelters under the large roof and also overlooks the street.
In cut, the spaces are concatenated and related, achieving constant diagonals that break the box. From the bedrooms you have a visual domain of the sum that is two levels below and 20 meters away.
Empty and full are trapped by the black plane. To this is added a figure (green terrace) that is nailed to the carpentry of the living-dining room and due to its inclination it protects privacy and directs the gaze to the sky.
INVESTIGATION
Floor plan, suspended ceiling plan and thus the generation of a space where the functions move freely within it. To be, to circulate Inside Outside.
The line that defines inside and outside moves freely under him.
Work with constant space leaks and in all directions as you walk under a large canopy.
Investigating the multiplicity of spatial situations was the premise of this work.
Connecting with nature is the beginning of this work. Create your own space, protected, deprived of the visual continuity of private neighborhoods.
The house is developed in half levels linked by a system of ramps, which is first outside and then continues inside. The first section conforms to the natural terrain and reaches the point of entry or social plant. From here you can continue with the ramp that leads to the bedroom sector.
The most sought after relationship is the spatial one. The omnipresent cover links all the spaces and orders them. They are all under it. Those of being and those of circular. The ramps walk under it and leave us in the different places that look at each other. The look wanders through different levels and always observes the green that gives meaning to the adopted typology.
As the tallest building in China Shanghai Tower, designed by Gensler, has had an immediate and profound impact on the country’s perceptions of how a skyscraper can contribute to a city, a country, and a culture. Not only does it rise over Shanghai as a new symbol for its modern emergence on the global stage, but also points the way forward for technical innovation accomplished within the parameters of a Chinese cultural identity. Powerful in form yet delicate in appearance, Shanghai Tower would be a graceful addition to any skyline, but its function, identify, and symbolism are firmly rooted in the needs of its specific site.
The Infinity Centre, the new campus for Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School senior students, is derived from the initial idea that the library is central to the school. The building reflects the ethos of the school in delivering spaces for heightened educational outcomes with an image that strongly reflects its identity. At a practical level, the Infinity Centre provides all the structured areas required of such a facility: arts, sciences, mathematics, languages, a library, a formal lecture theatre, administration and staff facilities. Beyond this, the building is developed as an abstraction of the infinity symbol; an emblem that appears on the school’s logo. The symbol represents the school’s approach to continued learning, as well as the interconnectedness of activities within its organisation. Importantly, the key quality of the symbol is its connectivity; a recognisable topology that allows its meaning to withstand formal deformation. At the centre of the infinity plan, where all the wings cross over, is the library: it is itself an infinite resource, a place to which one continually arrives and returns. Concepts of fluidity and connectivity are evident in the building’s exterior form. Clad in gloss-black-and-silver-banded brickwork, the Infinity Centre rises like a medieval walled city. Sweeping ‘gateways’ maintain the continuity of this form and provide access into the school’s sheltered inner courtyards; one for formal and the other for informal gathering. The consistency of this external architectural treatment is in direct contrast to the richly expressive variety of internal spaces. Internal materials and colours provide the discipline-precincts with identity and diversity within the continuous form of the building. The coexistence of these contrasts is emblematic of the school’s pedagogical approach. With the Infinity Centre, PEGS has a tangible manifestation of their unique identity in which structure and individuality work in concert and optimism is the product.
Much has been achieved over the past two decades to transform the Sydney Park site from its former post-industrial history and waste disposal, into 44 hectares of parkland and a vital asset for the growing communities of Sydney’s southern suburbs. This project forms City of Sydney’s largest environmental project to date, built in partnership with the Australian Government through the National Urban Water and Desalination Plan. It is an integral component of Sustainable Sydney 2030; targeting 10% of water demand to be met through local water capture and re-use in the park. The City seized a once in a lifetime opportunity to use what was essentially an infrastructure project to breathe new life into the park – as a vibrant recreation and environmental asset for Sydney. The City engaged a design team led by landscape architects Turf Design Studio and Environmental Partnership who orchestrated an intense and multi-disciplinary collaboration intersecting design, art, science and ecology – in a ‘roundtable’ of creatives shared between water experts Alluvium, artists Turpin + Crawford Studio, ecologists Dragonfly Environmental, engineers Partridge and the City’s own Landscape Architects. The result is an interwoven series of community infrastructures and ‘made’ systems – water re-use, recreation, biodiversity and habitat all integrated within the physical fabric of Sydney Park. The bio-retention wetlands not only capture and clean the equivalent measure of 340 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth per annum, but will successfully improve local water quality, habitat and reduce potable water consumption in the area. Sydney Park now offers an enhanced recreational experience to the Sydney community, going beyond the picturesque; creating instead a revitalised, multi- faceted waterscape that celebrates the connection between people and place.
In addition to the Architects of the Year, many other projects were awarded titles of Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention across 41 categories. Projects were evaluated based on characteristics of form, function and innovation. A selection of winners include:
Platinum: Hospitality Interior Design – Antonio Di Oronzo with Times Square Diner
Gold: Green Architecture – Dan Kaplan, FAIA, LEED AP with Allianz Tower
Silver: Institutional Architecture – Mecanoo architecten/Sasaki Associates with Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building
Bronze: Garden Landscape Architecture – Mary Barensfeld with Hilgard Garden
The winners were selected by a panel of esteemed experts including Troy C. Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives at the Guggenheim Foundation and Museum; Peggy Deamer, Professor of Architecture at Yale University; Ben Van Berkel, Principal of UNStudio and Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Alan Ricks and Michael Murphy, Founders of Mass Design Group; and many more. View the full list of jurors here.
The three Architects of the Year will receive an AAP Trophy on October 25 at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City.
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Washington, D.C. – January 9, 2015 – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2015 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. Selected from roughly 500 submissions, 23 recipients located throughout the world will be honored at the AIA 2015 National Convention and Design Exposition in Atlanta.
2015 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture
The 2015 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture jury includes: Calvin Lewis, FAIA (Chair), Iowa State University; Ray Calabro, FAIA, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; Nicole Gerou, AIAS Student Representative, Lawrence Technological University; Ana Guerra, Assoc. AIA, Jacobs; Sherri Gutierrez, AIA, Arquitectonica; Jill Lerner, FAIA, Kohn Pedersen Fox; James McDonald, AIA, A&E Architects; Waller McGuire, Executive Director, St. Louis Public Library and Angela O’Byrne, FAIA, Perez.
The historic YMCA (1926) had been a focus of African-American life in the era of segregation but had fallen into severe disrepair. The design re-establishes the building’s role as a community focus, restores principal spaces for youth training programs, brings existing living quarters in compliance with contemporary standards and adds new housing units. Inventive integration of new building systems released the existing rooftop for outdoor social space that connects and anchors old and new. The new addition is thin and cross-ventilated. It is shaded to the south by a vertical photovoltaic panel array and wrapped to the north with lightweight perforated metal screens that contrast with the heft of the original masonry building.
The campus of Rice University is a continuously studied and managed “canvas” that represents an intensive ongoing collaboration between architects, planners, and administrators. Its park-like environment—with live oaks, lawns, walkways, arcades, courtyards, and buildings—comprises a clear and timeless vision. The Brockman Hall for Physics needed to fit within this distinctive setting, to gather together a faculty of physicists and engineers working in as many as five separate buildings, and to house highly sophisticated research facilities carefully isolated from the noise, vibrations, and temperature fluctuations that could destroy experiments.
California Memorial Stadium & Simpson Training Center; Berkeley, California HNTB Architecture; Associate Architect: STUDIOS Architecture
The historic stadium is one of the most beloved and iconic structures on the UC Berkeley campus. The key goals for this project were to restore the stadium’s historic and civic prominence, integrate modern training and amenity spaces, and address severe seismic concerns. By setting the new athlete training facility into the landscape, a new grand 2-acre public plaza for the stadium was created on the roof. A new press box/club crowns the historic wall; its truss-like design acts as a counterpoint to the historic facade.
Cambridge Public Library; Cambridge, Massachusetts William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.; Associate Architect: Ann Beha Architects
The Cambridge Public Library has become the civic “Town Common” for a city that celebrates and welcomes its highly diverse community (with over 50 languages spoken in its schools). With its all-glass double-skin curtain wall front facade, the library opens seamlessly out to a major public park. This double-skin curtain wall uses fixed and adjustable technologies to ensure that daylight is infused throughout the interiors and to maximize thermal comfort for the most active patron spaces looking out to the park.
The design solution to the site’s inherent dilemmas was to wrap a subterranean museum around a dry dock like a doughnut, where the hole was the dry dock itself and the centerpiece of the museum’s collection. Three two-level bridges span the dry dock, serving as shortcuts to various sections of the museum. All floors slope gently, so that a visitor continually descends further below the water’s edge to learn about Danish maritime lore. The civil engineering and construction work for the museum were among the most complicated ever undertaken in Denmark.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice; New York City Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Located in Manhattan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s new building provides all the functions of a traditional college campus within the confines of a single city block. SOM’s 625,000-square-foot addition doubles the size of the college’s existing facilities by adding classrooms, laboratories, auditoriums, faculty offices, and social spaces. These functions are arranged within a new 14-story tower and four-story podium topped with an expansive landscaped terrace that serves as an elevated campus commons. A 500-foot-long cascade runs the length of the podium and functions as the social spine of the campus. SOM’s design places a premium on communal and interactive space so that students may enjoy the experiences of a traditional college setting.
Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Challenging the established model of laboratory buildings, the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology is organized around an ascending spiral that hybridizes the tradition of the campus quadrangle with the public promenade. The Center for Nanotechnology twists its laboratories around a central campus green, opening the sciences to the University of Pennsylvania’s landscape while providing a suite of public spaces within the building for cross-disciplinary collaboration amongst scientists. Here, multiple types—courtyard, laboratory loft, ascending gallery—each with their own distinct histories, are grafted together to create a new, but recognizable hybrid.
LeFrak Center at Lakeside Prospect Park; Brooklyn, New York Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
This project restored 26 acres of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 19th century and added a new 75,000-square-foot, year-round skating and recreational facility. In the winter, the facility’s two rinks are open for ice skating, and in the summer one rink converts to roller skating and the other to a large water-play fountain. Clad in rough-hewn gray granite, the new LeFrak Center appears to be large stone retaining walls set in the landscape. Much of the structure is tucked into the land. The L-shaped plan consists of the east and north block, both one-story structures with roof terraces connected by a bridge.
Sant Lespwa, Center of Hope; Outside of Hinche, Haiti Rothschild Doyno Collaborative
The Center of Hope, commissioned by World Vision, is located in a rural region in Haiti and provides support, education, and skill building opportunities. The design process involved the entire community from children to elders. Construction included on-the-job skills training for over 100 residents. The courtyard scheme and breezeway capture prevailing winds while opening expansive views to the mountains beyond. Careful planning for natural ventilation, daylighting, water collection, sewage treatment, and electricity generation resulted in a completely self-sufficient building. The participatory and empathetic process created an uplifting environment that inspires hope.
United States Courthouse, Salt Lake City, Utah Thomas Phifer and Partners; Naylor Wentworth Lund Architects
The design of the new United States Courthouse in Salt Lake City emanates from a search for a strong, iconic, transparent, and metaphorically egalitarian form to symbolize the American judiciary system. The primary nature of the courthouse’s cubic mass projects grounded dignity, immovable order, and an equal face to all sides. The 400,000-square-foot, 10-story courthouse resides on a landscaped terrace that spans an entire city block, uniting the new and existing federal courthouses as a public-access amenity while fulfilling a required federal security setback from the street.
Wild Turkey Bourbon Visitor Center; Lawrenceburg, Kentucky De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop
Located on a bluff overlooking the Kentucky River, the visitor center is the newest component of recent additions and expansions to the Wild Turkey Distillery Complex, one of seven original member distilleries of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. The 9,140-square-foot facility houses interactive exhibits, a gift shop, event venues, a tasting room, and ancillary support spaces. Utilizing a simple barn silhouette (an interpretation of Kentucky tobacco barns common to the area), the building, clad in a custom chevron pattern of stained wood siding, presents a clear and recognizable marker in the landscape.
2015 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture
The 2015AIA Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture jury includes: Rick Kremer, FAIA (Chair), Architect Rick Kremer, FAIA; Matt Murphy, AIA, RMTA; Luke Ogrydziak, AIA, Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects; Susan Elizabeth Seifert, AIA, seifertmurphy and Steven Shapiro, Hon. AIA, Clark Construction.
Arent Fox; Washington, D.C. STUDIOS Architecture
Key elements of this office building include a formal reception space with a physical and visual connection to the building lobby, a conference center, an auditorium with tiered seating, break-out areas for receptions, and slab openings on typical office floors for visual connection to other floors. The building has two primary street-facing sides and two sides that face an alley. To create parity between the two, the design places key elements on the alley side of the building to draw people from the front to the back for collaboration and support functions. Glass was used to shape offices and conference rooms and to blur the line between circulation and enclosed spaces.
The Barbarian Group; New York City Clive Wilkinson Architects; Design Republic Partners Architects LLP
The offices for digital marketing firm The Barbarian Group were designed with connectivity, accessibility, and collaboration in mind. Simplifying the basic needs of the conventional office to their core, an endless table was envisioned that connects all employees at a single surface. The table, dubbed “the Superdesk,” rises and falls throughout the space, lifting over pathways and creating work and meeting grottos beneath its arches. Its plywood underside is made of 870 unique laser-cut panels, and its top surface is a light-reflecting pearlescent white with a clear epoxy coating.
Beats By Dre; Culver City, California Bestor Architecture
The Beats By Dre campus was designed to reflect the diverse and innovative work undertaken in the music and technological fields. The main building is carved by a, two-story lobby that forms an axis and two courtyards to orient the work spaces. Courtyards connect to the varied working environments and include offices, open workstations, flexible work zones, and interactive conference rooms. The office plan encourages interaction and contact across departments by establishing a variety of calculated environments that exist within the larger workspace: peaceful, activated, elegant or minimal.
The work of a local Arkansas basket maker, Leon Niehues, known for his sculpturally ribbed baskets made from young white oak trees from the Ozarks, provided the design inspiration for the museum store, located at the heart of the Moshe Safdie, FAIA, designed museum (2011) in Bentonville, Arkansas. A series of 224 parallel ribs, made of locally harvested cherry plywood, were digitally fabricated directly from the firm’s Building Information Modeling delivery process. Beginning at the top of the exterior glass wall, the ribs extend across the ceiling and down the long rear wall of the store.
Illinois State Capitol West Wing Restoration; Springfield, Illinois Vinci Hamp Architects
The West Wing of the Illinois State Capitol is the second phase of a comprehensive renovation program of this 293,000-square-foot National Historic Landmark. Designed by French émigré architect Alfred Piquenard between 1868 and 1888, the Capitol represents the apogee of Second Empire design in Illinois. Over the years inappropriate changes were made through insensitive modifications and fires. The project mandate was to restore the exuberant architecture of the West Wing’s four floors and basement, while simultaneously making necessary life safety, accessibility, security and energy efficient mechanical, electrical, & plumbing system upgrades.
The Louisiana State Museum merges historical and sports collections, elevating the experience for both. Set in the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase on the banks of the Cane River Lake, the quiet yet innovative design reinterprets the geometry of the nearby plantation houses and the topography of the riverfront; between past and future. Spaces flow together to accommodate exhibits, education, event and support functions. The hand-folded copper container contrasts with the digitally carved cast-stone entry and foyer within, highlighting the dialogue between the manmade and the natural.
The 9/11 Memorial Museum is built upon the foundations of the Twin Towers, 70 feet below street level. Visitors reach the museum via a gently sloped descent, a journey providing time and space for reflection and remembrance. Iconic features of the site, such as the surviving Slurry Wall, are progressively revealed. This quiet procession allows visitors to connect to their own memories of 9/11 as part of the experience. Located at the site of the event, the museum provides an opportunity to link the act of memorialization with the stories, artifacts and history of that day.
The Newport Beach Civic Center and Park creates a center for civic life in this Southern California beachside community. Nestled within a new 17-acre park, the City Hall is designed for clarity and openness. A long, thin building supporting a rhythmic, wave-shaped roof provides a light and airy interior, complemented by connections to outdoor program elements, a maritime palette, and commanding views of the Pacific Ocean. The project’s form and expression are generated by place and sustainability, as well as the City’s democratic values of transparency and collaboration.
2015 Institute Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design
The jury for the 2015 Institute Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design includes: Frank Fuller, FAIA, (Chair), Field Paoli; Karl Grice, AIA, Grice Group; Anne-Marie Lubenau, AIA, Bruner Foundation; Klaus Philipsen, FAIA, ArchPlan and Adam Thies, AICP, Director of the Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development.
Beijing Tianqiao (Sky Bridge) Performing Arts District Master Plan; Beijing, China Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Old Tianqiao was once a bustling hub of cultural activities and folk arts traditions ranging from storytelling, variety shows, acrobatics, and operas. The project intends to reestablish the cultural heart of the capital with a collection of modern and traditional performance venues that respect the city’s sensitive, World Heritage context. An integrated design process across many disciplines laid out a series of environmental goals, including reintroducing the historic farm fabric, developing a storm water filtration system, reducing waste by using existing materials, and reducing automobile dependence and carbon footprint by creating walkable neighborhoods around three new subway stations.
The BIG U; New York City BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group
The BIG U is a 10-mile protective ribbon around lower Manhattan that addresses vulnerabilities exposed by Superstorm Sandy (2012). The BIG U consists of three components: BIG Bench, Battery Berm, and Bridging Berm. BIG Bench is a continuous protective element adapted to the local context that mediates new and existing infrastructure. The Battery Berm weaves an elevated path through the park, enhancing the public realm while protecting the Financial District and critical transportation infrastructure. This signature building features a “reverse aquarium” that enables visitors to observe tidal variations and sea level rise. The Bridging Berm rises 14 feet by the highways, connecting the coast and communities with greenways.
Government Center Garage Redevelopment; Boston CBT Architects
The redevelopment of the Government Center Garage project is an example of undoing the ills of the 1960’s urban renewal in Boston that critically separated six thriving neighborhoods. The plan unlocks neighborhood connections, reopens urban vistas, and creates engaging public spaces by strategically removing a portion of the garage while preserving the remaining structure through creative phasing to provide for a sustainable and economically feasible redevelopment. The project introduces 3 million square-feet of housing dominant mixed-use program to downtown, creating a dynamic 24-hour neighborhood as a model for sustainable, transit-oriented development. The project also sets up a new position for urban design in Boston by shaping the urban form to respond to acute desire lines of a pre-grid city and promoting slender building typologies.
Target Field Station; Minneapolis Perkins Eastman
Target Field Station, opened in May 2014, is a distinctive transit station located in the heart of Minneapolis’ revitalized North Loop neighborhood. The project links the street fabric of the existing neighborhood with Target Field Stadium Promenade and to the larger downtown core beyond. The station seamlessly links parking, light rail, regional rail, bus and bicycle modes of transit – while always privileging ease of pedestrian access. It also provides of a series of interconnected public open spaces, including an amphitheater and a ‘Great Lawn’ as additional amenities for public use. By combining sustainable design, carefully crafted public space, landscape elements, public art, and private development, Target Field Station sets the bar for how modern cities leverage transit design to create iconic cultural centers.
About The American Institute of Architects
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On behalf of LEAF International, the official LEAF Judging panel are delighted to announce the 2014 winners. All winning projects demonstrate buildings that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community.
LEAF International would like to thank all those who entered the Awards and all those who joined us in celebrating on Friday 10th October at the Swissotel, Düsseldorf/Neuss, Germany. We look forward to seeing you all again next year.
We would like to say a special thank you to all of our judges and to Alan Crawford for presenting the Awards.
The judging panel consisted of:
Carlo Castelli (AECOM)
Alan Crawford (Crawford Partnership)
Firas Hnoosh (BDP)
Entered by thousands of designers and operators involved in UK and global hospitality
Over 2500 entries in five years from the UK and 70 other countries
Associated with leading design personalities such as Zaha Hadid, Foster & Partners (entrants),
Tony Chambers (Wallpaper editor), Alberto Alessi and Karim Rashid (Judges)
London awards ceremony renowned for its creativity
World Media partners (Time Out, Design Bureau, Indesign etc.)
Book about the awards by TASCHEN, is being published this Autumn
About the Awards
The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, now in its fifth year, is one of the most innovative and prestigious events in the hospitality and design world.
Judged by the biggest personalities in the world of design, hospitality and lifestyle; the Awards this year attracted 670 projects from across the globe.
The Winners were announced at the Farmiloe Building in London on the evening of the 12th September 2013.
Judges
Anne Kyyrö Quinn / Architectural Textile designer, Anne Kyyrö Quinn
Casper Vissers / Founder and CEO, Moooi
Chris Bangle / Managing Director
Chris Bourn / International Editor, Time Out
Chris Webb / Senior Director, Interior Design Europe, Hilton
David Kester / Director, Thames & Hudson
Dominic Harris / Founder, Cinimod Studio
Giles Coren / Restaurant Critic, The Times
Janet Wardley / Head of Visual Display, Harvey Nichols
Ken Freivokh / Partner, Ken Freivokh Design
Maxim Velcovsky / Art Director, Lasvit
Mourad Mazouz / Restauranteur, Sketch
Nika Zupanc / Designer
Richard Vines / Chief Food Critic, Bloomberg News
Ross Urwin / Creative Director Home and Lifestyle, Lane Crawford
Sandy Suffield / Creative Director, Wolff Olins
Sebastian Mariscal / Design Principal, Sebastian Mariscal Studio
Stephen Alden / Chief Executive Officer, Maybourne Hotel Group
Tamara Lohan / Founder and CTO, Mr & Mrs Smith
Tom Aikens / Chef, Restauranteur
Yenn Wong / Owner, JIA Boutique Hotels
Best Restaurant Höst (Denmark) / Norm Architects
Winner Best Bar: Atrium Champagne Bar (London) / Foster and Partners
Best Bar Atrium Champagne Bar (London) / Foster and Partners
Winner Best Restaurant: Höst (Denmark) / Norm Architects
UK Winners
Standalone bar or club
The Lost & Found / Kai Design
The Lost & Found / Kai Design
The Lost & Found / Kai Design
The Lost & Found / Kai Design
The Lost & Found / Kai Design
The Lost & Found / Kai Design
The Lost & Found / Kai Design
London Bar
The Roxy / Design LSM
The Roxy / Design LSM
The Roxy / Design LSM
The Roxy / Design LSM
The Roxy / Design LSM
The Roxy / Design LSM
London Restaurant
Tramshed / Waugh Thistleton
Tramshed / Waugh Thistleton
Tramshed / Waugh Thistleton
Tramshed / Waugh Thistleton
Tramshed / Waugh Thistleton
Tramshed / Waugh Thistleton
Tramshed / Waugh Thistleton
Restaurant or bar in a heritage building
Apero / Dexter Moren Associates
Projects showcase excellence in sustainable design principles and reduced energy consumption
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2013 National Convention and Design Exposition in Denver.
The COTE Top Ten Green Projects program, now in its 17th year, is the profession’s best known recognition program for sustainable design excellence. The program celebrates projects that are the result of a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems and technology. They make a positive contribution to their communities, improve comfort for building occupants and reduce environmental impacts through strategies such as reuse of existing structures, connection to transit systems, low-impact and regenerative site development, energy and water conservation, use of sustainable or renewable construction materials, and design that improves indoor air quality.
The 2013 COTE Top Ten Green Projects jury includes: Fiona Cousins, PE, Arup; Lance Hosey, AIA, RTKL; Keelan Kaiser, AIA, Judson University; Sheila Kennedy, AIA, Kennedy & Violich Architecture Ltd.; Rod Kruse, FAIA, BNIM Architects and Gail Vittori, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems.
The descriptions below give a brief summary of the projects. You can learn more about these projects by clicking on the name of the project/firm name. If you are interested in obtaining high resolution images, please contact Matt Tinder at mtinder@aia.org.
At 1008 square foot, this production house is less than half the size of the median house. “Rightsizing” reduced material and operational loads and costs, and shifted funds to quality design and construction, passive strategies and high-efficiency systems. The dormer and skylight are placed so daylight is reflected and diffused. No-VOC paint color is warm white with a punch of red-orange hidden within the swing space to produce a warm glow from reflected light. Low-E glass and translucent blinds provide further control over heat, glare and privacy. All interior rooms are daylit throughout the day. Electric lighting is integrated with cabinetry and includes low-energy LEDs.
The design response was to tune the design to capitalize on the favorable environmental features, while moderating or eliminating the undesirable ones. This led to a building envelope that uses thermal mass to buffer temperature changes, minimizes solar gain, and naturally ventilates. Water scarcity is managed through a comprehensive strategy of conservation and reuse, including on-site waste water recycling. A vegetated roof, an unusual feature in this dry climate, absorbs and evaporates rain that falls on that portion of the building, with overflow directed to the courtyard retention basins.
Charles David Keeling Apartments by KieranTimberlake
This project cleans up a brown-field site that was difficult to develop. The continental climate provides large swings in temperature and humidity which necessitated passive strategies such as: southern facing windows with sun screens that maximize insolation of the sun during cooler months and operable windows that let cool fresh air into the building, allowing the users to effectively “turn off” the heating and cooling systems during swing months. To gain the most efficiency from the HVAC systems, the project utilizes a geo-thermal system, drilled directly below the building, which stabilizes the temperature of the conditioned water used to heat and cool the spaces.
Clock Shadow Building by Continuum Architects + Planners
Current energy models predict the building to operate at a “net zero capable” Energy Use Intensity (EUI) of 20.3 kBtu/SF/year, performing 40 percent better than ASHRAE 2007. The building will earn an ENERGY STAR Score of 100 and comply with 2030 Challenge goals. The project is one of the first in the region to use structural piles for geothermal heating and cooling, as well as a phase change thermal storage tank. Two new products, chilled sails and open office lighting, were developed and manufactured specifically for this project to help achieve aggressive energy targets. To optimize the use of the available reclaimed timbers, the team designed, tested, and constructed the first wood composite beam system in the U.S.
Federal Center South Building 1202 by ZGF Architects LLP
Around 95 percent of spaces are daylit and naturally ventilated. Night time operation of the cooling tower and an underground water tank provide active thermal storage, for daytime cooling. The design of the building envelope includes air tightness detailing and the use of fire treated wood stud framing to minimize thermal bridging. To provide an excellent thermal envelope, walls were constructed with 2×8 and 2×10 wood studs (rather than conventional steel studs) to minimize thermal bridging and provide ample insulation. This building is designed to achieve an EUI of 6.74 kbtu/sf/yr including the energy generated by the PV array, and to use less than half as much energy as California’s strict energy code.
The roof area has a cool roof surface and is devoted to both a solar water panels and photovoltaic panels. Ground floor spaces benefit from the full height storefront system that similarly provides ample daylight and transparency to the outdoors. These windows are also thermally broken and have high performance glass. The windows are shaded in summer by either exterior sunshades or an overhang from the second floor. With no mechanical air conditioning, cooling is achieved by a low volume ventilation system augmented by ceiling fans in each habitable room. The site has a 94 walkability rating, an 82 transit rating and an 86 bike friendly rating from walkscore.com.
Merritt Crossing Senior Apts by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
This 67,000 square foot LEED Gold warehouse includes passive solutions including open breezeways, which were carefully oriented to prevailing summer breezes and supplemented with large ceiling fans. Large light monitors oriented to the north provide natural daylight to the breezeways, while the south wall of the cupola is open to allow hot air to escape as it rises. 100% of the rainwater captured from roofs coupled with recycled water, is used to irrigate the landscaping on site, eliminating the need for potable irrigation water. Highly efficient ductless minisplit systems were installed to condition indoor spaces. These systems can serve multiple zones using only one outdoor unit, and allows individual control of the air conditioning in each room.
Pearl BreweryFull Goods Warehouse by Lake Flato Architects
The building is designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification and will exceed California’s recently-instituted Title 24 requirements for energy efficiency in new office buildings by 55% according to SFPUC estimates. The building will produce up to 7% of its own power needs from renewable photovoltaic and wind sources; will provide $118 million in energy cost savings over 75 years; and will require 45% less energy to illuminate the interior through daylight-harvesting and advanced lighting design, compared to typical Class A office buildings. The SFPUC consumes 60% less water than similarly sized buildings and is one of the first buildings in the nation with on-site treatment of gray and black water.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters by KMD Architects
As an educational facility whose curriculum directly impacts the natural environment, the building overtly exposes sustainable systems and materials. 73% of the site is devoted to pervious materials and landscaping, reducing site detention requirements. An extensive green roof with native plants covers 22% of the roof, reducing storm water rates and filtering impurities. Storm water is directed from the roof to three scuppers and into above ground cylinders filled with rocks for filtering. Storm water eventually makes its way to a French drain system of underground water storage pipes for retention.The site lighting is minimal, and all fixtures are equipped with full cut-off optics.
Swenson Civil Engineering Building by Ross-Barney Architects
This sound passive design strategy combined with a very tight perimeter building envelope and other active sustainable features such as the 12kw solar system make this home a zero energy consumption home. It produces 100% of its energy needs and since completion, has never received an electric bill. The design maximizes the opportunities of the mild, marine climate with a passive cooling strategy using cross-ventilation and a thermal chimney. A large cantilevered roof overhang shades all the bedrooms from direct sunlight while providing ample natural light and ventilation. The project also has green roofs, its own storm water retention system and retains 95% of roof storm water on site.
Yin Yang House by Brooks-Scarpa Architects
About The American Institute of Architects
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Mandaworks and Hosper Sweden have been awarded third prize in the open international architectural competition in Mikkeli,
Finland. From 107 proposals submitted last October, Mandaworks and Hosper Sweden were one of five teams selected to
continue work in the second stage. On April 25, 2013 the results were announced. Winners of the contest were Arkkitehtitoimisto AJAK Oy. Mandaworks and Hosper received € 30,000 for the third prize.
Organizer: Mikkeli Municipality, Finland Association of Architects
Purpose: The purpose of the contest was to find a model for how Mikkeli can densify around and best utilize the lakefront in an ecologically sensitive way.
Software used: Autocad and Adobe Creative suite, 3d modeling was done in sketch up
Forrec is proud to announce that three members of its team received Awards of Excellence in the 28th annual Architecture in Perspective competition, held by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, in Oakland California on February 23. The official announcement has just been released.
The winning entries were created by members of three Forrec Studios:
Steve Thorington, Creative Studio: This digital aeria Iillustration of Thanh Xuan Park in Hanoi, Vietnam, shows the three-storey sunken courtyard, whose central pool is connected to the lake on the left, by a cascading watercourse. The bright sunlight and the rich greens, blues and earth tones create a clear sense of the excitement of the scheme and humid subtropical warmth of this thousand-year-old city.
Thorington : Image courtesy Forrec Studios
Jan Jurgensen, Landscape Studio: This self-commissioned ink and pencil crayon drawing gives an enigmatic eye-level impression of what Toronto’s University Avenue might feel like with a central median of birch trees in place of the scattered garden that currently exists.
Jurgensen : Image courtesy Forrec Studios
Danny Drapiza, Architectural Studio: The Power long City Plaza (Xiamen, China) sectional elevation has been delineated and textured using an old-fashioned draughting pen. The appeal of the drawing lies as much in the intricate hand-rendered textures as in the exotic architecture and dramatic landscape that is being portrayed. Many of Forrec’s clients appreciate the ability of pen-and-ink drawings to convey the tactile qualities of a proposed environment.
Drapazia : Image courtesy Forrec Studios
The American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of the art, science and profession of architectural illustration. The Architecture in Perspective competition and exhibition – open to submissions from professional illustrators, architects and designers from around the world – has one major objective: to recognize and disseminate excellence in the art of architectural illustration.
Since the 2011 edition, we have implemented the realization a FAV’s Pavilion. This pavilion allows the reception and the diffusion of public informations about the festival. It is also the starting point of the course of the festival, a meeting place and forum for all visitors. Taking place strategically in the heart of the city, for the 8th Edition two pavilions will be made. The first will be in the usual courtyard of the CCIT Montpellier, Hotel Saint Come and the second will be in front of the new Office of Tourism in the city of La Grande Motte.
For the year 2013, we wanted to entrust the realization of two buildings with two young architects graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier and settled in the Languedoc Roussillon.
Indeed, Robin Juzon will realize the Pavilion in Montpellier and David Hamerman will realize the pavilion in La Grande Motte.
Montpellier Pavilion by Robin JUZON Architect
Juzon Robin is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM) in 2008. Since he joined the agency Olivier Mouton, architect engineer of Nîmes, which, among other work for the enhancement of local heritage.
Their agency is trying to take the time to deal with projects in every detail to produce quality architecture that is aligned with the values they carry. Dual jurisdiction architect engineer offers them greater freedom and autonomy in real projects they undertake. In 2007 as part of his studies, Robin met Gilles Perraudin, architect, with whom he reinforces his taste for Simple Architecture.
The same year, he participated in the contest CIMBETON, for which he was awarded the engineering. Me his travels influence his daily work, notably in Japan, where he discovered a refined and minimalist architecture featuring raw materials. The realization of the pavilion give to him the opportunity to express the architecture of simplicity with which he is still sensitive.
Image courtesy Robin JUZON Architect
La Grande Motte Pavilion by David Hamerman Architect
David Hamerman graduated as a DPLG architect in 2000 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM) and has a postgraduate DEA degree in landscape architecture from the Institut d’Architecture de Genève in Switzerland (2002).
Different journeys and destinations confronted him with other points of view and references, and he worked as an architect and landscape architect in Geneva and New York. In 2005 he founded the workshop Architectures&Paysages in Montpellier.
The ambition of A&P lies primarily in the realization of projects that tend to reconcile two conceptual platforms, being architecture and landscape. Sun, shadow, light, materiality and the relationship inside/outside are the first stimuli that allow him to elaborate every new design-question. Since 2009, he teaches studio at the ENSAM.
The high-calibre international jury has conferred and the finalists have been selected. Now the public is invited to cast their vote for the People’s Choice. All 46 finalists are available for online viewing and voters are selecting their favourites in each of the 14 categories. The winners, including the People’s Choice, will be revealed on June 13, in Toronto, Canada.
The winning designs will be featured in AZURE Magazine’s Annual Awards Issue, on newsstands mid-June. This issue will be packed with the best in furniture, lighting, architecture, interiors and landscapes from around the world. Also included are visionary concepts, striking temporary spaces and extraordinary student work.
Toronto’s historic Evergreen Brick Works is the venue for the 2013 AZ Awards Gala Celebration. On June 13, top players in Canada’s architectural and design community will rub shoulders with other finalists from across the globe at a reception and awards ceremony where our host, award-winning actor Arsinée Khanjian will present the trophies.
The 2013 AZ Awards jury includes: Shirley Blumberg of KPMB Architects (Toronto), designer Todd Bracher of Todd Bracher Studio (New York), furniture manufacturer Giulio Cappellini of Cappellini (Milan), Todd Saunders of Saunders Architecture (Bergen, Norway), Ken Smith of Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect (New York) and interior designer George Yabu of Yabu Pushelberg (Toronto).
Aim pendants by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec Flos
Aim pendants by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec Flos
Aria carpet collection by Amala Carpets Amala Carpets
Aria carpet collection by Amala Carpets Amala Carpets
Barclays Center Arena by SHoP Architects
Barclays Center Arena by SHoP Architects
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion by El Dorado
Boulevard Brewing Company Cellar 1 Expansion by El Dorado
Casa Alta II by AS D Asociacion de Diseno
Casa Alta II by AS D Asociacion de Diseno
Chillida carpet collection by Nani Marquina Nanimarquina
Chillida carpet collection by Nani Marquina Nanimarquina
Cristal public facility by Sitbon Architectes
Cristal public facility by Sitbon Architectes
D House by Lode Architecture
D House by Lode Architecture
DR700 retrofit bulb by David O’Driscoll Brightgreen
DR700 retrofit bulb by David O’Driscoll Brightgreen
Ebell Loft by Hong Kong Stunt Team
Ebell Loft by Hong Kong Stunt Team
Echo Ridge Duplexes by El Dorado
Echo Ridge Duplexes by El Dorado
Elevator B bee habitat by Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Daniel Nead, Scott Selin, Lisa Stern (University at Buffalo, USA)
Elevator B bee habitat by Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Daniel Nead, Scott Selin, Lisa Stern (University at Buffalo, USA)
Enclave case goods collection by Figure3 Teknion
Enclave case goods collection by Figure3 Teknion
Essentials kitchen tools by Daniel Kowal-Andersen (Kolding School of Design, Denmark)
Essentials kitchen tools by Daniel Kowal-Andersen (Kolding School of Design, Denmark)
Food and Energy public facility by Arina Agieieva, Dmytro Zhuikov (Dessau Institute of Architecture, Germany)
Food and Energy public facility by Arina Agieieva, Dmytro Zhuikov (Dessau Institute of Architecture, Germany)
Gwangju Urban Folly by NADAAA
Gwangju Urban Folly by NADAAA
HafenCity University Subway Station by Pfarre Lighting Design, Raupach Architekten, Design Stauss Grillmeier
HafenCity University Subway Station by Pfarre Lighting Design, Raupach Architekten, Design Stauss Grillmeier
Hariri Memorial Garden by Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture
Hariri Memorial Garden by Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture
Hygge House by Plain Projects, UrbanInk, PIKE Projects
Hygge House by Plain Projects, UrbanInk, PIKE Projects
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