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The Bardill Studio building has replaced an old barn in the protected centre of the village of Scharans. Building permission was granted by the local authorities on the condition that the new building would have exactly the same volume as the old barn. The client, Linard Bardill, who lives in a house a very short walking distance away from the site, required only a single space to work in. This working space occupies less than a third of the stipulated volume. The rest of it is taken up by an atrium that is lent a monumental character by a large, round opening to the sky. It is this element that invests the building with its grandeur and clarity in contrast to the arbitrary geometry of its external appearance and the small dimensions of... Mehr

Competition and programme In 2004 the French Ministry of Culture held a competition for the MuCEM Conservation and Resources Centre, to be built on industrial wasteland on the La belle de mai site near the Saint-Charles Railway Station in Marseille. The competition winners announced in September 2004 were the architectural team of Corinne Vezzoni et associés/AURA. Designed for the storage and study of the collections, the 13,000 m2 Conservation and Resources Centre (CCR) is situated on the former 1.2 hectare Bugeaud military terrain housing the Le muy barracks. The site is located in Marseille’s La belle de mai district. It has room for a second phase extension for the reserve collections. The Centre houses all the museum’s reserve coll... Mehr

Yardhouse is a new affordable workspace building based in Sugarhouse Yard, designed and built by Assemble. It was jointly funded by Assemble and the London Legacy Development Corporation. The building is seen as a prototype for high quality new-build affordable workspace provision. It is based on utilising interim use sites as an affordable source of land alongside an economic, modular approach to construction. Given the short life-spans of these sites, the building system is designed such that it can be de-mounted and re-assembled elsewhere. Yardhouse is arranged as a simple 2 storey, 3 aisled structure occupying a square footprint of 12m x 12m with a total internal floor area of 250m2. The side aisles serve as private studio s... Mehr

The Performing Arts Centre Praça das Artes is situated in the centre of São Paulo, an area that has suffered from economic decline and urban degradation for decades. The new complex is inserted into a series of interconnected formerly underused or vacant spaces and can be accessed from three sides of the urban block. The historic building of the former Dramatic and Musical Conservatory and the façade of the Cairo Cinema have been incorporated into the complex and thus gained new significance by providing important physical and symbolic references to the past. Related to the arts of music and dance, Praça das Artes houses the Resident Performing Arts companies of the Municipal Theatre, the Municipal Music and Dance Schools, arts collectio... Mehr

Located on the hillside of Mt. Ikoma, this private residence dominates the city of Osaka. The goal of this project was to create a group of multiple spaces with different kinds of qualities. This allows the client to choose the uses of the spaces in each occasion by perceiving the change of the surrounding environment over the time. The design generation process was chosen to mediate the natural and the artificial, to maximize the use of the whole site, and to create diversity of utility and experience. First, multiple boxes scaled to meet the utilities and the priorities were placed according to the contour line. Then these boxes were deformed to respond to the views, the greenery, the activities, and the surroundings, which determined the... Mehr

The project is part of the celebration of Siam Cement Group (SCG), the biggest construction materials producer in Thailand, for the company’s 100 year anniversary. Supermachine Studio and 2 other renowned Thai architects are invited to propose a public facility which will be realized dedicating for a community in Thailand. All 3 projects are fully sponsored by SCG. The site chosen is a seaside public park built many years ago in Bangsaen, a coastal town 100 km. east of Bangkok. 3 structures are to be built in the same area; a library by DBALP, a multi-purpose pavilion by DEPT. and a playground by Supermachine Studio. The project was started by questioning performances of generic playgrounds today which are facilities for the youngsters t... Mehr

This project of an accommodation center consists in a restaurant, working space for scientific research and seventy-four. The building is part of a complex of facilities which include the oceanological research center and observatory of Banyuls-sur-Mer, in France. This observatory is located in the middle of the marine natural reserve of Cerbères-Banyuls, in the Pyrénées orientales department. Its purpose, as a European scientific research and training center, is to accommodate scientists and students from all over the world during short research and experimentation missions. The building is located on the seaside and continues along the existing topography, be it of the sky, the ground or the horizon. It reinvents the relationsh... Mehr

OBJECT The Center for Interpretation of the Battle of Atoleiros, in Fronteira, is a cultural equipment intended to raise social awareness on the several perspectives over the battle occurred on April 6th 1384, and its importance in the context of the dynastic disputes between the kingdoms of Portugal and Castela, by the end of the XIVth Century. Given the impossibility on plotting the Interpretation Centre on-site, in the battlefield area, the City Council approved its plot in the town core, on a location with high visibility and inserted in an urban park system that simulates and evokes the old battlefield. During the visit to the Interpretation Centre, visitors will experience different visual perspectives of the battle field, but als... Mehr