This project looks at what makes Boise unique and builds upon those elements to create a cultural district that promotes Boise as a place. The Boise 8th Street Cultural District design embraces sustainability as a form generator. Green roofs, downtown agriculture, solar access, and responsible water use combined to form the project. The district’s highest priority is to be of and for Boise, because there is nothing more sustainable than a beautiful, lively, city where people will want to walk, bike, create, and live.
A Cultural Centre in the heart of Custom House with links to ExCeL. The brief is to design 1 hectare of cultural facilities integrated with the existing urban fabric providing amenities for the local community and visitors. The development included a state of the art museum of local history, a sports centre and retail units.
The project provided an excellent design solution for re-modelling a largely dilapidated Victorian building located in Shoreditch by converting the residential dwelling into high end residential flats and to extend at the rear and provide a local artists society for artists and curators within the vicinity. The design for the extension included a contrasting contemporary glazed roof detailing with strong horizontal lines cutting into the verticality of the strong classical Victorian facade.
The project was to develop a sustainable solution to the existing Gateway Surgical Centre and create a new spatial plan to incorporate a new department alongside the existing one. This would enable a saving in energy consumption in line with the Trust’s energy target rates.
Mixed Use development comprising a primary school, community centre, retail and residential units. This project forms part of a new infrastructure programme in the Syhlet region of Bangladesh. The project is currently at Detailed Design stage and is on-going through funding from NWT and Local Government.
Article source: Vicente Salvador + Ignacio Vidal arquitectos
The sports facility completes a public urban block where it stands currently theHonoriGarciaHigh School, the local council sports pavilion and the local council swimming pool building. Given that the entirety of the block is publicly owned, the first thing to establish was the definition of the site to occupy. With the aim of getting a well rationalised and arranged organisation of built elements and resulting in-between spaces, it was decided to establish the length of the existing sports pavilion as the width of the site, leaving at either side pedestrian streets to access the neighbouring facilities.
Article source: Peter Stasek Architects + Loftwerk Karlsruhe
A very unusual loft is being created in the Mannheim harbor district. A very unusual loft has been created in the Mannheim harbor district. The complete ajando team will live and work there starting in January 2013. The internationally renowned architect Peter Stasek and the loftwerk architect office located in Karlsruhe are behind the corporate architecture concept of the loft. It was inspired by the quantum physics of Wheeler, the architecture of Josef M. Hoffmann and, of course, the information expertise of ajando.
A small space with just over 20m ² was the site for the deployment of this kiosk in the Casa da Música Metro Station in the city of Porto, Portugal. This project was based on the idea of “pause”. Pause between commuting routes (home-work-home, home-school-home, etc.) where one color dominates: the yellow. As in the trilogy of chromatic lights os the semaphores, symbolizes a moment of pause, is among the movement and stopping.
The project explores the creation of a noble and refined place with a strong oriental inspiration.A mixture of noble materials such as marble, wood and gilt metal combined with a palette of warm colors and textured fabrics offers a cozy and comfortable ambient.The design of the ceiling comes from a reinterpretation of an oriental motif, standardized by a module that materializes a delicate mesh strongly emphasized by indirect lighting application.
The site is located in a new residential area on northeast side of Kanmon straits. Clients are born in this area. The family has moved by job transfer frequently, but they bought this land before their retirement and decided to build a house. There is a park on south side of the site, so it gets stable sunlight and broad expanse to the park. On the other hand, they requested privacy because there is much traffic from the park and the street. In addition, the family wanted to enjoy view to KanmonBridge from and a fireworks festival at Kanmon straits the house those are local symbol.
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