The Dining Womb was created for the 2010 DIFFA (Design Industry Foundation Fighting Aids) fundraiser whose simple brief was to create tables for dining, which were viewed and used by patrons during the event. Typically dominated by interior designers who create decorative and theatrical table tops, we wanted to get beyond the superfluous, and focus on the critical elements necessary for a great dining experience; namely intimacy, intrigue and sensuality. As architects, we wanted to create something that was rigorous and functional, with a strong conceptual, structured form. Our brief required us to seat twenty individuals.
Lighting Advisor: Scott Dumas, David Scott Lighting
Software used: Rhino 5.0, 64-bit for the 3D work and the Maxwell Render plug-in for rendering. The workflow includes photoshop, Illustrator, and Vectorworks as well.
This 3,330 SF weekend getaway provides a private refuge for a NYC couple. The house sits on 5 semi-private acres. Its pavilion-like form nestles into a rise in the landscape allowing for the 2-story bedroom zone to seamlessly link with the main living areas, which contain living, dining, and kitchen functions. A dining terrace and a private master bedroom suite garden are defined as exterior rooms by concrete half walls that are extensions of the main house form. The gestural roofline slopes upward from the closed front facade to the more open rear facade and provides a sense of soaring relief as the occupant moves from the entry court to the expansive views beyond.
Rear façade from pool (Images Courtesy Tim Street-Porter)
Article source: NISHIDA Osamu+NAKAGAWA Erika – ON design partners
Yokohama apartment is a residential complex consisting of semi public courtyard canopied by four one-room units for young artists. The semi public courtyard is a place for exhibition and work. The site is a hilly area with narrow roads where small wooden houses cluster.
This project is a narrow house of width 3.6-meters, depth 11.7-meters. Because width is very narrow, to make felt the extension of the space in what way is point of this project. Because securing privacy was valued, the window was not able to be set fruitlessly, therefore, by installing the courtyard, it made felt the extension of the space and achieved a good balance between getting daylight and securing privacy.
This project is a new library for one of the distinguished art universities in Japan. It involves designing a new library building and refurbishing the existing building into an art gallery, which will ultimately create a new integration of the Library and the Art Gallery.
The Creemore Farm is a renovation and extension to a turn of the century farmhouse north of Toronto near Creemore, Ontario. The project involved the removal of an existing addition and the creation of an entirely new, two-storey tower form built on, and cantilevering off of the existing foundations.
Image Courtesy Matthew Hartney/PLANT, Peter Legris
Neither purely transparent water nor visibly colored water; colored water in the strict sense of the term, which nevertheless has no color that can be perceived by human vision; neither 0 nor 100; somewhere between 0.1 and 1, and infinitesimally close to zero—our design policy may be described as such.
House located on the west edge of the plains. In this district, Mt. Yahiko and Mt. Kakuda above sea level about 600m as regional landmarks stand between plains and the Sea of Japan. The client’s hope for the house was that, from the window, the client saw two mountains that used to seeing from the childhood.
View in the night. In the dark town that is lack of the vigor, this house seems a light house (Images Courtesy Future-scape Architects)
There is in quiet area through noisy surroundings-shimokitazawa. The client is creative director of advertising. He always considers about design, therefore we were required of audacious design with finespun.
There is a narrow road, and old buildings are concentrated in this area. So we began to design a better idea was to enhance the interior space rather than outer space. Client requests, and the first floor space that can be a family gathering, it was a private space with second floor third floor.
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