This project, a Victorian terraced house in Islington, comprises of a side and roof extension, as well as extensive internal refurbishment. Featuring open-plan kitchen, dining and living areas on the ground and lower-ground floors, Elfort Road House has been transformed from dark and cluttered into light and spacious.
Our clients, a young family of three, required a larger property with extensive space. The brief was to create a light, airy, family-friendly environment: an abode featuring sophisticated simplicity, clever uses of space, an open-plan feel for entertaining, contemporary touches, yet with a respect for the original period style and featuring high-quality, timeless design.
Hotel and Restaurant in the ancient Montalván Pottery Factory.
The Montalván Pottery Factory finished its production as a ceramic’s factory in 2012. After its closure and new acquisition, it has been transformed for a new use: Hotel and Restaurant.
Article source: luisa bebiano | architect + Atelier do Corvo
The building of Coimbra's Old Ceramics is located on the protection limit of the classification of the Rua da Sofia and Alta in the city of Coimbra (Portugal), included in the classified list of World Cultural Heritage sites of Unesco.
Located in the lower part of the city, in a medieval yard that has mutated over time, the site is in an old alluvium zone, an area affected by regular floods. The surrounding territory was, until the mid-XX century, due to the geological and moisture characteristics, suitable for the manufacture of clay, the raw material of handmade ceramics.
The project consisted of updating and adapting an existing building to the present, to new materials, to new ways of life.
The existing building is the result of the sum of two houses between a rammed earth party walls. They are buildings that respond to the typology in La Plana de Lleida area featuring a rectangular plot that is around 5 meters wide and 15‐30 meters in length.
The main approach of the project was to empty the existing building in a selective way in order to attain the project aims and provide for the functional needs of the clients.
Renovation and extension of a stately row house in Overveen, The Netherlands. The house is located in a dune area and therefore the ground level is higher at the front than at the rear.
The inside of the house was already taken care of in the 70s and stripped of all period features. The ground floor serves as a living area and was a large narrow space. A spiral staircase with a balustrade made of marine rope led to the basement that consisted of a series of small rooms including a small kitchen. The first and second floors consist of bedrooms and a family bathroom.
This job had a unique beginning, in 2014 WOWOWA produced a series of renovation tip YouTube videos celebrating some of Melbourne’s featurist houses Robin Boyd famously identified in the Australian ugliness. Often, colloquial vernacular nicknames were given to distinct housing styles, early Victorian pattern brick facades, like this project's were coined ‘Tiger Prawn’s’. These clients came to WOWOWA proclaiming they have a Tiger Prawn house and were eager to honour the glory of their Victorian terrace frontage with a new addition out back. Another key feature was the distinct Fitzroy North site was the carpark and laneway adjoining the back of the property, the back was publicly viewed and so from the outset we treated the back not only as a back but also a front. Reminiscent of ‘Janus’ the Roman god of beginnings, transitions, time and duality – depicted with two faces, so he could look to the future and to the past. WOWOWA thought this duality of past and present, front and back was an excellent driver for a narrative rich project.
The project is based on the offices refurbishment for a consultant company in Petrer (Alicante, Spain) with an area of 141m2.
The design is created through a distribution based on visual and spatial communication, thus developing two spaces with different use and characteristics. The first is a diaphanous and open space for general consultations where we find the areas of waiting room, reception, workstations and storage. The second consists of three closed wooden cubes for more specific and personal advice, consisting of two offices and a meeting room. These three cubes visually communicate with the opposite area through large glass panels that allow sunlight to arrive to all work rooms. Inside the interstices that generate the cubes we find a toilet and an auxiliary office.
Located in Jiading District of Shanghai along Jinghu Highway, the project is a renovation and regeneration of a series of decommissioned industrial factories and annexes from the 1990's. The design adopts the idea of “unglazed fragments of porcelain” to generate the formal language of the façade intervention as well as the interior spaces. Preserving the structure and the relationship with the site, the design brings a creative atmosphere and new types of programs by adding steel structures within the original industrial spaces. The large volume of enclosed and deep factory spaces is opened up by a newly inserted landscape corridor with a glass canopy to connect the front and back sides of the site, maximizing the usage of interior spaces for people and businesses.
Client: Shanghai Shenyao Art and Culture Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xinao Industrial Co., Ltd.
Design Team: Wang Jue, Chen Zhuoran, Chen Han, Zhu Chenghao, Hu Qiming, Wen Tianqi, Sylvia Zhou, Xuan Jiali, Ma Teng, Wang Jun, Zhou Zhe, Yang Yimeng, Lin Can, He Yuqing
Papalote was remodeled in a total way, this expansion includes new interior and exterior exhibition areas, a new store, and a new food court area, a new multiple use room, a new parking and service building, and a general improvement of its offices.
Papalote’s integral renovation contemplated the efficient use of natural resources, adapting the spaces to use natural light and ventilation, adding intellingent lighting (LED), and a water treatment plant to recycle water. This will translate into an earning of nearly 25% of its energy consumption, and up to 90% in its water consumption.
Photography: JAIME NAVARRO, MARÍA DOLORES ROBLES MARTÍNEZ G
Renders: LEGORRETA®, DECC
Client: PapaloteChildren’s Museum, Mexico City’s Government
Structural Design: Izquierdo Ingenieros y Asociados S.C.
LEGORRETA® Team: Víctor Legorreta, Miguel Almaraz, Adriana Ciklik, Carlos Vargas, Miguel Alatriste, Berenice Corona, Daniel Reyes, Ana Paola Espinosa, María Beckmann, Koji Makita, Héctor Guillén, Fredy López, Oswaldo Anaya, and Joel Rojas.
Atelier A has transformed an old residence to a rustic split-level café.
Located near Gulou (the Drum Tower) in central Beijing, the renovated café Oh! retains the historic style of its original building and is modified with modern materials for functional and aesthetic purposes.
The hybrid design philosophy is best embodied in its façade, with half decorated with traditional Chinese grey bricks and wood, and the other half, an ice-cream hut, with light green terrazzo. Such contrast is harmonized under the same tiled roof and wood beam, refreshing but not obtrusive in the surrounding historic quarter.
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