Adaptive
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Project • By PAO Architects • Apartments
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Live in wood project was designed and developed by PAO architects as a concept of prefabricated houses. As small living spaces whether it's cabins, summer houses or permanent living place for people who looking for privacy or compact house, young families, senior people, student housing, camping houses and etc.
The idea of this concept was to create relatively cheap living solution for small land plots. Architecture represents scandinavian minimalism, as the primary idea was cabins for Norwegian mountain. Houses are planned with huge attention to rationality. The biggest benefits of this designs is a modern and contemporary design, with orientation to relatively small budgets, fast construction, adaptive to different sites and the most im... More
Project • By Studio Gang • Masterplans
Northerly Island
Northerly Island transforms a man-made peninsula on Chicago’s lakefront into a 91- acre living ecosystem, a public park only twenty-first century knowledge could build.
The design embraces the island’s artificiality and uses the occasion to construct a topography and landscape that will encourage wildlife to occupy it—over time, creating an amplified, biodiverse ecology whose various habitats and architectural features offer people multiple ways to engage directly with nature without leaving the city.
Studio Gang’s design for Northerly Island was developed as part of a comprehensive framework plan in collaboration with the US Army Corp of Engineers and JJR Smith Group. The framework plan envisions a series of environmental enhancement... More
Project • By Archi-Tectonics • Offices
Brewster Carriage House
CHALLENGEA historic landmark, The Brewster Carriage House stands at the intersection of three of New York’s oldest and most diverse neighborhoods. The building was gut renovated to house lofts on the upper floors and retail & restaurant on the lower. A completely new steel stair and elevator core was added to accomodate the program and create unexpected V-shaped hallways with private entries on the upper floors. Interiors were outfitted with reclaimed wood salvaged from the existing beams of the building, and contrasted with modern European kitchen and baths. Archi-Tectonics introduced a seamless transition from residence to roof terrace by adding crystalline glass stair bulkheads for the two penthouses, ending up on the green roo... More