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Project • By Barberio Colella Architetti • Urban Green Spaces
Urban Dunes
Urban Dunes is a project which envisions a futurable solution to reduce the heat island effect for an extreme climate such as Abu Dhabi’s, where the harsh conditions felt across significant months of the year reduce the feasibility of normal external activities. The Italian design firm Barberio Colella Architects with architect Angelo Figliola have elaborated on a design proposal that started from the deep awareness of the climatic context of Abu Dhabi's and Emirates’ traditional architecture, such as elegant vaulted spaces, vernacular shading devices, and cold-water basins. The main architectural idea behind the project is to ideally lift up a thick layer of sand in order to create an urban “oasis”, which mixes pass... More
Project • By Storaket Architectural Studio • Offices
Techno City Yerevan
The competition for the design concept of Techno City Yerevan organized by the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, required a campus design that would allow for phasal expansion of the campus in different periods of the life of the Techno City. Building upon this concept, we designed a campus that was based on the game of tetris. This concept allows for continuous expansion of the campus by adding more office buildings. The design is separated into a Main Hub and a section dedicated to small office buildings this is how the campus is similar in design to the tetris game.The main hub is a stretched building with a long corridor symbolizing the “main street”. Different offices, collaborative spaces, and green spaces stretch throughout the main s... More