Espaço Núcleo Pulso is a body awareness and therapeutic space in the center of São Paulo. The institution is located on the last floor of a tall building, hosting different sorts of activities. The teacher and psychologist Mariana Camarote – head of Espaço Núcleo Pulso – wanted to implement different spaces for individual personal therapy and group activities, as well as corporal expression dynamics, related to Body Movement in Brazil.
The concept of the refurbishment design was to transform a typical open-space office without subdivisions and modular mineral lining with a low-ceiling challenge, into a space that could host the main hall among the rest of the program: a waiting area, a dressing room which eventually became the gateway to the main hall – a decompression and transition space –, an office for individual therapies, kitchen, two toilets and individual locker rooms.
Zahara was the headquarters of an ancient Sicilian fief of citrus, olive and almond trees on the border between the Monti Iblei and the Piana di Catania. Of a larger general project that includes the remodeling and re-functionalization of all the buildings and the closest external spaces, the sequence of interventions carried out has been concentrated on the main building.
In late 2011, we returned to Grenoble, a place of environmental experimentation with a previous project that made its mark on the ZAC de Bonne: the “Coming Out”.
This time, another challenge is tackled, the one of height – with the same desire to push the limits of ’experimentation with energy performance even further. In an attempt to resolve the issue of thermal bridges once and for all, balconies had to be eliminated.
Location: Lot CI1, secteur Cambridge ZAC Presqu’île, 38000 Grenoble, France
Photography: Luc Boegly and Sergio Grazia
Client: Cogedim
Project Management: Maison Édouard François, architect designer Aktis, architect of local operations Nicolas ingénieries, utilities and environment CTG, structure Verdier, terraces structure Editec, economics Socotec, inspection office, Health and Safety coordinator Kaema, geotechnics Sintegra, roads and utility services / external works
Cost:
€5.3m excl. VAT
€1,940 excl VAT / m² SHAB
Surface area Net floor area: 4,731 m² (5,174 y²) Inhabitable surface area: 2,730 m² (2,985 y²) – Separate terrace areas: 1,073 m² (1,173 y²)
The Red Cross Volunteer House is an extension of the national headquarters of Red Cross in Denmark in Copenhagen. The triangular building has a 850-m2 roof that acts as a large public staircase extending from the street level to the second floor of the building. The extension, which has a floorspace of 750 m2, is placed partially below ground and serves as the main entrance to both the headquarters and the volunteer centre. The Red Cross Volunteer House was designed with the ambition of creating a new meeting place for the 34,000 Red Cross volunteers as well as a new public space – an urban living room that gives something back to the city. That ambition has been realized.
Client: Danish Red Cross – The new building was made possible only with a grant of DKK 30.7 million from the private foundation A. P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formål.
Visual media are infiltrating into daily life deeply. An increasing number of people are expressing themselves through various UCC platforms such as YouTube or Africa TV as well as SNS. However, video studio is as unfamiliar as ever to the public. Opened near Gangnam Station late last April, Jam2go is complex cultural space of new concept, where anyone can produce video while seeing, listening, eating and enjoying.
This project is not just a school, but a thriving eco system where work and education flow with different stages of learning and life.
Housing a nursery, primary school, an adult education facility, and an investment company, B Campus aspires to be a learning center for all ages and stations of life. The investment firm driving the project sees personal progress as the key to a global progress.
Located in the heart of Quebec City downtown, Parka’s office can be found in the old Alfred-Eugène Marois’ shoe factory, built in 1914 and designed by René-Pamphile Lemay, architect. Like this industrial-style architecture, the concept of our office space is simple and the workstations are layed out in an open space ambience. Quiet zones and meeting rooms have been designed to provide employees a variety of environments to work, coordinate and get together.
Jungle Race is a 1,200 m2 indoor intervention designed to reactivate sparsely used areas in a shopping mall, occupying the entire 2nd floor and with special emphasis on one of the corridors without any commercial shopfronts.
Due to the lack of shopfronts, that corridor seemed like a back of house residual space with poor pedestrian circulation. The client envisioned to turn it into a family-oriented entertaining space.
The project aims to represent the character of a ritual place, through the introduction of a few elementary signs.
The space is divided into two distinct areas, the waiting area and the operating area, separated by a large door that emphasizes the theme of the threshold.
The door is partly openable to balance and partly sliding, and allows you to modulate the large room to adapt it to specific occasions.
The dwelling under refurbishment is situated in the very centre of Madrid, next to one of the most important cultural sites in the city, namely, the surroundings of the Retiro Park. It is a top storey flat with a terrace of 190 m2 of usable space. The project aims to recover the potential of the outdoor space and its natural lighting, since prior to refurbishment the dwelling was excessively partitioned and dark.
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