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Farm Facilities in Eskişehir is designed for managing and accommodating for a big ranch. An Administration building and a Accommodation building is serving for owners and workers in the most appropriate way.Administration building is providing laboratories, a meeting room and working spaces for veterinaries, agriculturalists and administrative staff.Accommodation building designed for all kinds of employees and guests. It includes bedrooms, a dining hall and a big gathering hall for celebrations and conversations. More

The Owners are from Costa Rica. After the second meeting, their second child was born. At the third meeting, their house was filled with family and friends, a common occurrence in their home. The suburban box did not at all fit their lifestyle. It was closed, dark, and divided into very small rooms. They said that there was not one space in which they felt comfortable. They wanted a house of openness and light, where their children could be free to explore and play independently, still within view of their parents. The solution was to create a courtyard house, with large sliding glass doors to bring the inside out and outside in. The existing house was completely opened up, and a cathedral ceiling created in the living room. Programmaticall... More

Porsche Pavilion at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg Architecture, landscape design and exhibition concept A few weeks ago the Dr .Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG celebrated the opening of their Porsche Pavilion at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg in the presence of 200 guests of honor. For the first time since its opening in 2000, the theme park receives another building structure in the form of the new Porsche Pavilion, which expresses the importance of Porsche within the Volkswagen Group family. ‘The building is unique and its construction is extraordinary. This pavilion also has a symbolic and historical dimension, as it hints at the common roots through which Porsche and Volkswagen have been connected from the very beginning and will conti... More

In the Dutch community of Maasniel, the nature of a tree is the inspiration behind Architectenbureau Coppen’s school extension project comprising four new classrooms as well as a new library, outdoor theater and central space for meeting and open learning. The symbolism of a tree is used to organize new uses and new ways of teaching within an existing traditional corridor-style school. In the words of architect Hans Coppen, “Teaching is no longer about telling children facts. It is about sharing ideas to foster enthusiasm for a new world, not the world we think we know. People gather under a tree. The new central area here is like a tree as it offers a place for gathering, for sharing stories and ideas.” Just as the canopy of a tree o... More

Project. Camden Markets carnival atmosphere famously attracts people from all walks of life and is popular with Goths and Punks who live and work alongside the more traditional antiques and clothing traders. Up to 150,000 visitors are attracted to this ancient and historic market area which is situated just away from the centre of London and is now home to many new nightclubs and restaurants. Due to increased visitor numbers the area has attracted substantial development funding and a sympathetic facelift is taking place. In an area where the unusual and bizarre is common place, it takes something visually striking to attract the passersby’s attention. This new canopy signposts the entrance to one of the newer restaurants which has opened... More

"Metropol Parasol”, the Redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacíon in Seville, designed by J.MAYER.H architects, becomes the new icon for Seville, – a place of identification and to articulate Seville’s role as one of the world’s most fascinating cultural destinations. “Metropol Parasol” explores the potential of the Plaza de la Encarnacion to become the new contemporary urban centre. Its role as a unique urban space within the dense fabric of the medieval inner city of Seville allows for a great variety of activities such as memory, leisure and commerce. A highly developed infrastructure helps to activate the square, making it an attractive destination for tourists and locals alike. The “... More

West Fest Pavilion, Wettswil am Albis, Switzerland, 2009 Temporary wooden structure The West Fest Pavilion was conceived as a temporary spatial structure with an integrated bar for a major public event hosted by the Canton Zurich. The wooden structure consists of 16 contorted elements made from 372 slats. The entire construction is the structural support, the roof and the skin of the building at the same time. The elements were constructed by a digitally controlled robot that cut and precisely placed the robot according to an algorithmic pattern. Each of the elements is individually rotated, producing a progression of subtly varied spaces. The logic of the openings and curvatures as well as the aesthetic details follow the constructiv... More

A floating twisted sail Situated between the Mediterranean Sea and themountain overlooking the City, the Léo Lagrangestadium stands on a 8 ha site, limited to cover allthe required functions, but with limitless viewsto the beautiful natural landscape of the FrenchRiviera.The Stadium is laid out perpendicularly to thehighway to enhance the remarkable perspectiveby offering a side-glance to the drivers passingalong and to create an urban landmark.The sports complex is treated as a park. It’s open to thepromenade for the neighborhood and dedicated to sportsactivities: three football/rugby pitches of national standards,all the multidisciplinary athletics and six schoolplaying fields are available to the sportsmen.This project combines the urba... More

The Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo transforms a picturesque yet unsustainable urban pond from the 19th century into an ecological habitat buzzing with life.With the design’s improvements to water quality, hydrology, landscape, accessibility, and shelter, the site is able to function as an outdoor classroom that demonstrates the coexistence of nature and city.When it was built in 1908, Lincoln Park Zoo’s South Pond reflected the Victorians’ romantic and recreational concept of nature in the city. Today the pond offers benefits that extend beyond visual spectacle. As the Nature Boardwalk, it has become a crucial, connective habitat for resident and migratory animal populations, a popular outdoor destination and learning landscape f... More

Constructive memory 1. - Basement After the excavation a 30 cm. wall of reinforced concrete is constructed. This wall defines the lower enclosure. Inside an interior pillar system in the area of the locker room. The foundation of the perimeter wall is by footings. The pillars of intermediates by isolated footings. Then construct the deck slab of the locker room. 2. - Wireframe Comprises 10 trusses of 43, 7 m long separated 5, 6m. 7 trusses are supported by two pillars with a distance of 32.6 m. The trusses have a flight of 10, 8m and a maximum depth of 3.3 m. 2 trusses have a third pillar to generate braces. 1 is cantilevered truss 3. - Closings The cover is solved by light skinned. The volume enclosure is made of pol... More

Enhancing the experience of the city does not always require projects of significant cost and time, but can often come about as the result of modest, temporary interventions and events, in key places, at chosen times. Our office is dedicated to the conception of interventions likely to appeal to city residents, transforming the way in which they view the places around them and the practices possible in their cities. Human beings carry within them nostalgia of a primordial happiness from ancient times. The notion of a return to these origins of happiness is often associated with Nature. Our intention is to encourage inhabitants to participate in fun, uncommon events taking place within the urban landscape: an inflatable bridge equipped wi... More

Party Wall, by CODA, is the 2013 winner of the Young Architects’ Program at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in New York City. Party Wall is a vertical shade that creates space by the shadow that it casts; that acts as a stage-set for a series of micro-performances, and that sheds its skin in order to accommodate those events.  The true definition of a party wall is intended: a wall shared between different users. Weaving together the “bones” and “blanks” that are the bi-product of skateboard manufacturing, Party Wall creates a porous façade that is inhabitable at a range of scales. At its feet, a series of pools is fed via a gravity-operated fountain that engages with its neighboring courtyard. Ballasted by glowing water drops, the... More

The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)library pavilion is located on a sloping lawn on the temporary Dover Campus. Accommodating three mature trees and forming a noise barrier toward the Ayer Raja Expressway in the north, the gridshell structure of the pavilionharnesses the site constraints and activates an outdoor space behind the existing library building. During the day it offers a shaded open-air place to relax, work, and mingle for students and staff of the university.At night it becomes a place for informal gatherings, evening lectures and SUTD community events. Work-desks, mobile bookshelves and wireless Internet transform it into a “third space” between the dormitory and the classroom where intellectual and social... More

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013, which will open on 8 June, will be designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the thirteenth and, at 41, youngest architect to accept the invitation to design a temporary structure for the Serpentine Gallery. The most ambitious architectural programme of its kind worldwide, the Serpentine's annual Pavilion commission is one of the most anticipated events on the cultural calendar. Past Pavilions have included designs by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei (2012), Frank Gehry (2008), the late Oscar Niemeyer (2003) and Zaha Hadid, who designed the inaugural structure in 2000. Widely acknowledged as one of the most important architects coming to prominence worldwide, Sou Fujim... More