Epsilon Euskadi is a Motor Racing Innovation and Technology Research Centre that integrates three activities: 1) Design: R&D&I and production of state-of-the-art racing cars; 2) Racing team management: team competitors in the Le Mans 24 Hours, World Series by Renault, Formula Renault 3.5, Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Megane, Karting; and aiming for the 2011 Formula 1; 3) Advanced education:offering a Master’s Degree in Motorsport Engineering.
Project: Epsilon Euskadi Center for Race Car Design and Manufacture
Location: Alava Technology Park, Miñano, Vitoria – Gasteiz
Client: Epsilon Euskadi and Alava Technology Park
Architect Design: Javier Pérez Uribarri of ACXT Architects
Project Manager: Gorka Viguri Roa
ACXT Project Team: Oscar Ferreira da Costa, Beatriz Pagoaga, Marc Rips, Daniela Bustamante, Ricardo Moutinho, Xabier Aparicio, Ana Esteruelas, Juan Dávila
The idea of the DomoLab emerged in 2007, following the first Batimat trade fair where eleven companies of the Saint-Gobain group were together on the same stand. It springs from a shared wish of the marketing and research department : to use the diversity of skills and the jobs complementarity in order to create a permanent dynamics of innovation for the Group’s
strategy.
Located at the University of British Columbia, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) is an internationally recognized research institution whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of sustainable building and urban development practices. Housing inhabitants from private, public, and non-government organization sectors, the 5,675-square-metre ‘living lab’ maximizes passive environmental strategies and demand reduction; put sustainable systems on display; and achieves net-positive energy, net-zero water, and net-zero carbon in construction and operations. More than a building, CIRS is a research tool that demonstrates the possibilities in sustainable design, serving as a catalyst for change.
PANalytical is the market leader in analysis systems for x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and x-ray diffraction (XRD). To further enhance its leading position in x-ray systems and tubes, a new production facility for x-ray tubes has been designed in Eindhoven. The new building must not only be able to realize future growth, but must also further increase operational efficiency.
The SALT research center was envisioned as a public tool and a vehicle to research, exchange, engage, and create content. The uniqueness of the historic building and the spatial volume of the Avlu was something to behold and therefore our design approach pursued both in a dialogue. Underpinning the material and formal choices of the design is the building’s eclecticism style of the late 19th Century, the other designer’s approaches to create the building’s contemporary character, and to co-locate with the Beyoglu building. ‘Socially engaging’ to the diversity of potential users and visitors was the spatial organization brief given in by the user group.
View of mini cinema exterior (Images Courtesy Refik Anadol)
AutoCAD 2011 LT: General design coordination
Sketch-up basic: Geometric massing studies + coordination
LocAware: Sound sampling — a custom software to sample sound color and movement that we designed in 2006 with IKON
Rhino: for mini cinema 1:1 virtual mock-up
Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop: Fabric design + rare book text graphic
Microsoft PPT: for user group workshops
Article source: ICD / ITKE University of Stuttgart
In summer 2011 the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), together with students at the University of Stuttgart have realized a temporary, bionic research pavilion made of wood at the intersection of teaching and research. The project explores the architectural transfer of biological principles of the sea urchin’s plate skeleton morphology by means of novel computer-based design and simulation methods, along with computer-controlled manufacturing methods for its building implementation. A particular innovation consists in the possibility of effectively extending the recognized bionic principles and related performance to a range of different geometries through computational processes, which is demonstrated by the fact that the complex morphology of the pavilion could be built exclusively with extremely thin sheets of plywood (6.5 mm).
Material: 275 m² Birch plywood 6,5mm Sheet thickness
Software used: McNeel Rhinoceros and the plugins Grasshopper and Kangaroo. Also used AnSys for FEA tests, QDesign RoboMove for simulating and Kuka KRC2 for operating the manufacturing process.
The University of Nicosia decided to accommodate the Architecture Department- ARC Architecture Research Center in an existing shoe factory of the adjacent Engomi industrial area. The choice was part of the strategy of the University to expand the campus in the neighboring industrial zone, a vital decision for the regeneration of the area!
The needs of the architecture department, the restrictions of the existing concrete structure and the low budget defined the approach of the design, which was thoroughly filtered by the weight of the responsibility for the identity of the “Architecture Research Center”: this is the sixth year that the Architecture Programme has been running in the Architecture Department of the University of Nicosia and it already claims to be very of high quality, very Progressive, Experimental with critical thinking approach.
LYCS Architecture wins an invited competition for a 32,000 sqm testing and assessment research center in the city of Shenzhen. It is a mixed-use building including offices, residential and commercial. The project conceptually begins with the traditional Chinese urban design idea of a “miniature city” and divides the site into 10 equal volumes. Then the volumes are aligned corresponding to the scattered programs across the landscape.
Existing contours and infrastructure act as the primary form generator for a new research building at RWTH University – producing a structure which works in symbiosis with the man-made and natural elements that surround it. A structure which harnesses regenerative energy techniques to produce more power than it consumes.
The Prince Naif Centre for Health Science Research is a new building designed for the largest university in Saudi Arabia, King Saud University, situated in the capital of Riyadh. The new Centre of 23,800 m2 comprises world-class research facilities, including facilities for research in cancer, molecular biology, genetics, infectious diseases and several other medical disciplines.
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