Article source: Maristela Faccioli architecture and Mori Studio
We were asked to design the Social Headquarters of a condominium recently installed in São José dos Campos – Brazil, in an expansion of the city called Urbanova. This region is distinguished by large areas with remnants of the previous occupation – agricultural properties – in addition to having new access roads and a preserved native forest adjacent to the site of project implementation.
Intended to be a business headquarters, this office space looks for a privileged location in the first expansion of the city of Valencia, taking from the situation the representative character that it should have.
The project assumes the spatial conception of a single area of confluence in which the activity of different companies is accommodated, promoting the enrichment of interdisciplinary interaction. A continuous space that takes place along the nineteenth-century façade, is modulated by the transversal layout of workplaces at the rhythm that marks the opening of holes and the structure. The dialogue between the pre-existing historical envelope and an interior of contemporary conceptualization is established on the basis of parameters of progressive formal purification and neutral materialization, enhanced by an indirect illumination that highlights the classic moulding of the facade facing.
Architects in Charge: Carlos Gallardo Llopis, Javier Gallardo Llopis, José Luis Gallardo Blanquer
Architects: Fernando Usó Martín, María Mequita Vidal, Raúl Sol Jódar, Alba Luengo Moreno, Sergio Noverges Bellmunt, Noelia Marzo García, Clara Martí Solsona, Santiago Sánchez Bonache.
Located on a prominent site in Kuwait City, the 300-metre-high headquarters tower for the National Bank of Kuwait will have a distinctive presence among the high-rise buildings of Sharq, the city’s growing financial district. The design combines structural innovation with a highly efficient passive form, shielding the offices from the extremes of Kuwait’s climate, where temperatures average 40 degrees in the summer months.
INFI is a software company that has developed algorithms that enable precise decoding of user behavior and streamlining decision-making processes. The algorithms combine AI with life sciences, resulting in an understanding of each individual’s thinking and thinking patterns through automatic and very fast processes.
INFI is unique in that it analyses each user’s behavioral pattern individually and not statistically, reflecting the specific user’s behavior accurately in the digital world.
Lumine Co., Ltd. is an operator of commercial facilities in and around the Tokyo area, targeting women in their 20s and 30s. We conducted a large-scale renovation of their offices, the first in 20 years, with the objectives of promoting communication between departments and with the shop floor, creating an environment where staff can express themselves flexibly and focus on creative work, and building on reforms of working practices to improve operational efficiency.
As soon as your eyes are open, your sensory organs get in touch with the light. In the morning, the light enters inside when you open the curtain, and this is the moment when you become excited. Biology has explicated that a sense of excitement can trigger the release of dopamine, and an enough amount of dopamine in the workplace could enable people to pleasantly finish their day’s work.
Article source: BETA office for architecture and the city
Boat Hangar is a contemporary utilitarian building, both subtly referencing and sharply contrasting the rich context of the historic NDSM shipyard.
BETA was charged with designing a utilitarian structure on one of the few remaining plots on the NDSM heritage site. It is used for storage, seasonal maintenance and the construction of new yachts. In addition the building offers office space and is occasionally in use for location theatre and other cultural events at the NDSM shipyard. The challenge was to find a suitable architectural language which would do justice to brief and context whilst fitting in a competitive budget.
The homeowners of a lower Queen Anne home had a uniquely sloped lot featuring various levels providing enough space for a 4,350 square foot house and a large back yard. They approached the Seattle based design-build team at Collaborative Companies to create a layout that took advantage of the incredible city views.
Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe, has transformed its traditional office model to an open, transparent and activity based workplace. Swiss architecture and design studio Evolution Design was responsible for the design and the development of the new workplace concept over four floors in its central Moscow headquarters.
The newly designed workspace was just announced winner of the ‘Best Agile Office’ in the Best Office Awards 2018 and also received the Grand Prix Award 2018 for the best office out of 120 projects.
The BLOX project, home of the Danish Architecture Center (DAC), contains exhibition spaces, offices and co-working spaces, a café, a bookstore, a fitness centre, a restaurant, twenty-two apartments and an underground automated public carpark, but it is not the acrobatic mixing of uses that defines this project; its ultimate achievement is in ‘discovering’ its own site.
The Old Brewery site, split into two by one of Copenhagen’s main ring roads, didn’t really register as a building site until the design of the new DAC identified it as such. Straddling the road, making public connections both above and below, BLOX connects the parliament district with the harbour front and brings culture to the water’s edge. A space for cars becomes a space for people; a space to pass through becomes a space to reside.
Photograph by Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti, Courtesy of OMA
Team: Federico D’Angelo, Fred Awty, Soren Thiesen, Will Hartzog, Dennis Rasmussen, with Nina Grex, Lea Olsson, Brigitta Lenz , Anna Grajper, Chong Ying Pai, Cristina Martin de Juan, Saskia Simon, Mateusz Kiercz
Schematic Design (Project Proposal)
Team: Koen Stockbroekx, Federico D’Angelo, Paul Allen, Sebastian Arenram, Fai Au, Alessandro De Santis, Daniel Dobson, Katharina Ehrenklau, Clarisa Garcia Fresco, Waqas Jawaid, Gustavo Paternina, Parizad Pezeshkpour, Jad Semaan, Soren Thiesen, Bas van der Togt, Katrien van Dijk, Pero Vukovic, Joe Wu, Jung-Won Yoon, Haohao Zhu, Didzis Jaunzems
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