Meeting with a client who asks to design an extention of 100m2 to an existing building of 15000m2 in the form of a bridge, is rather exceptional.
Consequently, we understood the nature of the task to be the creation of a real connection between the two buildings, which implicates much more than the simple creation of a physical connection or the creation of additional square metres. The theme of “connection” will inspire the design in all its aspects. The two most important aspects hereby are the structure and the organization.
Gastronomic LAB – A series of chambers infused by a varying gastronomical experiences – display of produce, court to enjoy, and laboratory. The later one composed of a hot and cold sections complemented by the cold pressed juice section. Smells, colors, taste and nature will intervene to create one single space that can be fragmented into self sufficient parts but at the same time work as a whole. A laboratory that studies, preserves and maintains the natural active ingredients, minerals, flavors and aromas in food.
BioPartner Accelerator & Incubator are two buildings that were developed within a Design & Build construction for BioPartner Center Leiden by Dura Vermeer Bouw in partnership with JHK Architecten.
Together the buildings provide 11,500 m² of office and laboratory space for starting or restarting entrepreneurs in the bio-technology industry. Flexible work areas have been realized that offer space and opportunities to companies involved in research into medicines and vaccines. BioPartner Center Leiden Nederland is the largest centre for starters in the life sciences in the Netherlands.
Phase 2 of the renovation of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Laboratory (MMPL) – originally built in 1955 as a living memorial to honor the men and women of the University of Michigan community who lost their lives in World War II service – is now complete. In addition to a renovation of the existing building’s second level as research laboratories, Phase 2 also included the design and construction of a new building addition that houses the University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI).
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Given the nature of today’s work processes, how can the workplace better support the employee and the company’s image? How can the workplace support all of the different activities involved with knowledge work – things like collaboration, creativity, innovation, deep thinking and mentorship? These are the questions this project tries to answer.
Recently the building process has been started for the new smart grid research laboratory and education centre “energyville” for the Catholic University of Leuven at the campus in Genk-Waterschei. The building has a size of 15.000m2 and is set-up as a generous and super flexible structure based on C2C principles. The new building will be Flanders’ most sustainable building in terms of energy-use, is CO-2 neutral and will achieve a BREEAM Excellent label.
The intervention in the former building of the GNR (military police) brings together all the concept of dynamism of Braga European Youth Capital 2012. The project uses the concept of occupation as motif. The occupation by man and nature. It explores the boundary between an abandoned existing structure and a new invasor construction who takes over the space. A space in constant regeneration, rather than a final object.
Team: José Manuel Carvalho Araújo, Joel Moniz, Pedro Mendes, Filipa Casaca, André Torres, Leandro Silva, Ana Vilar, Sandra Ferreira, José João Santos, Carlos Vinagre
Two boxes in the air and a structure as architecture: The technology Park of Vitoria colonizes a little bit of nature. The quality of the site and its steepness make us question where to build. Two boxes made from air rise above the slope. The structure become architecture carries on its shoulders these boxes, showing a new plane. This new place is signed by the novelty of the time of this research center. We investigate new ways of entering new places. Our place appears on a new level, determined by a four-legged and colorful structure. Two hollow boxes of concrete inhabit this new place on the structure. The whole complex in a permanent flight reveals a new gravity.
Building Company: CONSTRUCCIONES HIERRO LOPEZ DE ARBINA SA.
Project Architects: JAVIER PÉREZ HERRERAS, Fco. JAVIER QUINTANA DE UÑA, EDURNE PÉREZ DÍAZ DE ARCAYA, XABIER ILUNDAIN MADURGA, LEIRE ZALDUA AMUNDARAIN, DAVID SANTAMARIA OZCOIDI, LAURA ELVIRA TEJEDOR
Construction manager: JAVIER PÉREZ HERRERAS, Fco. JAVIER QUINTANA DE UÑA, EDURNE PÉREZ DÍAZ DE ARCAYA
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