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Project • By Parasite Studio • Private Houses
Home for a cinematographer
The project proposes the arrangement of a home for a client who works in television. So, at his desire, the directions of vision and the open perspectives, by arranging and placing the furniture elements, become a priority. The arrangement attempts to use open perceptual angles as you go through the space. The route from day to night is designed to become an important theme of the interior design.The home cinema`s space is the one around which all the project is orgnaised. On the ground floor, it is thought to work together with the kitchen space and the library. This living space is linked through a sculptural stair to the top-level dormitory. The theme of directions and perspectives are also followed in the night zone through the calculat... More
Project • By Arkham Projects • Apartments
SONATA
Sonata, as in music, is a compositional procedure that uses two contrasting themes, complexity in its unity and simplicity in its repetition.
Sonata is a quest, a constant quest to offer a unique product within a market full with similar options in size, program and price.
The client asked for the project to be “different”, but economically accessible, in which "nothing felt extra"; any material or element that he felt didn’t have a functional purpose, was going to be removed at the time of construction. With a main façade facing south, in Yucatan, we knew that the protection from the sun was a must, however, a skin or lattice was no longer an option if we wanted to achieve what the client requested;... More
Project • By Grow Arquitectos • Offices
Town Square Metepec
Town Square Metepec stands as a new urban complex located in the heart of one of the cities with the greatest economic and demographic growth in the State of Mexico. The project presents a complete of offer of goods and services that integrates the community satisfying its daily and lifestyle needs. The broad experience of Elkus Manfredi Architects and Grow Arquitectos in this kind of projects resulted in a design that revolves around a grand central park that distributes several pedestrian paths that give access to the different areas of the shopping center. Emulating a contemporary villa, this small urbanization links all the exterior with the interior activities reaching the perfect interaction between the user and all the complex s... More
Project • By 1leapingfrog Studio • Housing
Casa M
Located along the East Coast Road by the sea side, the beach house functions as a haven from the bustle of city life.The building explores the notion of objects in a landscape. A strong sense of landscape prevails both within and outside the house. “To bring out and make apparent the invisible logic of nature, one must oppose it with the logic of architecture”. A conscious decision was made to build on just 1/3rd of the site area, the remaining was used to blur the line between built and un-built, carving out spaces for recreation and leisure in the outdoors.The building responds sensitively to local climate by harnessing the prevalent North East sea breeze through careful planning.The house is a composition of 3 juxtaposed objects: Th... More
Project • By Christian de Portzamparc • Cultural Centres
Suzhou Cultural Center
The Suzhou Cultural Center is part of a series of emblematic projects initiated by the city through the Wujiang Lakefront Masterplan. On the shores of Lake Tai, Christian de Portzamparc discovered the deserted plain in 2013, while appreciating the plan of the future city. It was then built so quickly, we were he was amazed at each visit. It is already alive like a real Manhattan of towers ordered according to a grid of streets and avenues bordering a central pedestrian axis heading towards the lake. It was clear that the meeting of this pedestrian axis and the great lake would be an exceptional place, and it was on this site, on either side of the axis, that the cultural center was to be implanted during the architecture competition.
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Project • By Bailo Rull + add arquitectura • Residential Landscape
ESPAI NATURA
The health and wellbeing of people and their surroundings are the keys to HAUS. A responsible, creative way of approaching architecture with the aim of bringing added value to standardised construction. The construction project manager Marcove and architects BAILORULL combine their experience and reliability to create HAUS, an innovative proposal that applies healthy criteria to the spaces we live in with the aim of improving the lives of people and the environment.The international architecture practice BAILORULL has created Espai Natura [Nature Space], a collective housing development comprising 16 cross-ventilated dwellings –four per floor– of approximately 140 m2, designed to improve the health of their occupants and surroundings. Locat... More
Project • By NAT OFFICE - christian gasparini architect • Private Houses
HHCR | househut
A country house is anchored to the horizon line, where the bank of the Tresinaro torrent stands as background and scene of the environmental field. The house reinterprets an historical countryside typology space named porta morta in contemporary terms, defining a hollow space that becomes the fulcrum of architecture.Two side wings help to ground the house in the plot: they slide on each other by a transparent double height passing through which links and connects the spaces of the bedrooms / studio on the first floor through an hanging balcony.The porch as a solar diaphragm and jasmine canopy configures the open-air extension of the living room, while the first floor rooms extend the house towards the landscape.&nbs... More
Project • By archimania • Churches
Redeemer Presbyterian Church
A young congregation purchased an abandoned building to reinvigorate it as their new home and enhance their presence and permanence within the community. Since its founding, the congregation has worshiped in a school auditorium, away from its office in a leased tenant space. The congregation purchased a small 1960’s building in Midtown that once served as a shelter for battered women. To meet their modest budget, we concentrated the budget on the worship space and the building’s exterior relationship to the street, making minimal improvements to back-of-house spaces.On the exterior, a simple treatment of paint, the addition of a weathering steel parapet and low site wall bounding a street-side outdoor gathering space, and a new large w... More
Project • By archimania • Highways
I-55 Welcome Center
The design strategy for this 1960s Tennessee replacement welcome center on I-55 was guided by a desire to bring awareness to an architecturally under-explored building type and by simple, sustainable building principles and passive energy saving techniques—selected to reduce taxpayer costs over the lifespan of the facility. The building is poised to become the State’s first net-zero energy building, upon installation of the solar arrays. With the arrays installed, the building will generate more energy than it uses over the course of a year. Sustainable design features include a high-performing building envelope, efficient building systems, and passive techniques include roof overhangs and sun shades. The site was analyzed to determine the... More
Project • By archimania • Offices
Memphis Teacher Residency
A faith-based, non-profit organization required a new space for recruitment, training and supporting teachers through an urban teacher residency graduate program. As the context for their new home, the organization decided on a recently renovated Sears distribution center that sat empty and decaying for 17 years. MTR’s new space is sited within Crosstown Concourse’s public, central atrium, another smaller, public atrium, and is also open to a private terrace with outdoor seating. A driving design challenge involved ensuring the education facility established a more public presence from the church basement where they first began in 2009.MTR’s new home is made up of three functions: offices, larger training rooms, and community areas for... More
Project • By DEOC Arquitectos • Housing
Plan B Guatemala
Plan B Guatemala was created in response to the disaster caused by the Volcán de Fuego eruption in June 2018. The ASIAPRODE Association initiated the project to construct 26 homes in order to cover the needs of the affected communities. In an open competition, DEOC Arquitectos came up with a proposal that meets the established requirements, the user’s profile, and the natural context. The project consists of a permanent housing model for the displaced families: a 86m2 house within a plot of 8m by 19m. The construction is divided into two building blocks; the social-kitchen-bathroom zone is separated from the bedrooms by an interior courtyard. Circulation is minimized in order to guarantee the best usage of the different areas. The... More
Project • By archimania • Workshops
Ballet Memphis
Ballet Memphis had outgrown its current space and wished to move from a suburban location to a performing-arts district undergoing revitalization in Memphis. The Company strives to perform an inclusive message about culture and arts and to uplift the community through transparency, connectivity, and education.The new, civic-oriented facility is an extension of the Company’s mission. With large windows and public courtyards, the building contributes to the already thriving urban district. Formerly a hotel with parking in the front, the new site design inverts the original scheme. The building is designed to engage the public in movement, culture, and connection to the community. It houses rehearsal space for the professional company, a dance... More
Project • By archimania • Hospitals
OrthoSouth
Three prominent Memphis orthopedic practices joined forces to offer a more comprehensive and integrated experience for patients. Tabor Orthopedics, Memphis Orthopedic Group, and MSK Group had a vision for a new Bartlett, TN office that would be convenient to their collective patients, with the ability to offer clinic, x-ray, physical therapy, and MRI services all under one roof.The site is located across from St. Francis Hospital, within an industrially zoned subdivision. This location met the clients’ needs for accessibility and programmatic adjacencies but was otherwise a wasteland of parking and large, undistinguished warehouse buildings. Within this suburban context, the building is sited to have an energetic presence on the street, whi... More
Project • By archimania • Private Houses
Nash Tiny House
Nash Tiny House serves as a weekend home for a couple while visiting their daughter in college. The house is located on unused family property outside of Starkville, MS, and is sited in the exact location as a fishing trailer that belonged to the client’s father. This location takes advantage of a natural clearing in the pines and offers western views of the pond. Outside of typical living spaces, the clients requested a sleeping loft and prominent porch. The design situates one continuous roof and wall plane, with a single ridge at the sleeping loft, around the volume of interior spaces. The full-length porch sits in the space created between these two elements. The plane is clad in galvanized standing-seam metal panels as a regular v... More
Project • By archimania • Student Housing
Visible Music College - Student Studios
19 more images ↓EditVisible Music College - Student StudiosStudent Studios appeal to both students and non-students alike, and are progressive in two ways: they may be converted from two students to one non-student, and are almost 10 percent smaller than the national space norm. The space standard for student housing nationally is currently 350 square feet per student, including all square feet associated with a building; a Student Studio consists of only 288 square feet.Each Student Studio has high ceilings to create a feeling of spaciousness, a Juliette balcony with an oversized operable window that engages the city, dual closets, a kitchen with full height cabinets and fold-out counter, a full bath with shower, and storage space abo... More