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Project • By Barberio Colella Architetti • Urban Green Spaces
Urban Dunes
In Abu Dhabi, extreme temperatures render outdoor public spaces unusable for much of the year. The city’s Department of Transport launched the Cool Abu Dhabi Challenge, a global competition to design urban roofs capable of mitigating the heat island effect. Barberio Colella Architetti, in collaboration with Angelo Figliola, responded with Urban Dunes: a project that does not add technology to the urban space, but rediscovers the principles of traditional architecture from the Arab world and reinvents them through digital fabrication.
The underlying idea is straightforward: to lift, as it were, a thick layer of sand to create artificial dunes beneath which an urban oasis takes shape. The roof is a complex vault — arches, central... 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