Cross-ventilation
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about cross-ventilation
News • News • 15 Sep 2024
Wooden pavilion in Versailles integrates compellingly into its urban forest context
The existing building of the National Office of Forests of Versailles (l'Office National des Forêts de Versailles) is situated in the urban landscape as a point of entry to the state-owned forest. Designed by Delalande Tabourin, a new simple pavilion serving as an extension to the existing building compellingly integrates into the urban forest context via its form and materiality while expressing the different activities of the ONF.
© Maxime Delvaux
The pavilion provides new working spaces that meet the client's functional requirements while approaching the workplace as a singular spatial and landscape experience. The architects explain that the pavilion is designed to attract the curiosity of visitors, whether they are... More
News • News • 6 Apr 2023
Anthracite House by K2LD Architects offers a sensitive response to the Indonesian climate
Located on a residential street in Indonesia, Anthracite House by Singapore-based firm K2LD Architects responds to the client's desire for a calming and restoring abode where they can enjoy the tropical weather while benefitting from natural daylight and cross-ventilation.
Melanie Tanusetiawan
From the street, the house appears as a singular metallic volume floating over the land. The site's shape allows for two longitudinal bars to be designed across the site, connected by a linkway and sculptural staircase. Beyond the façade and 6-meter high boundary walls clad with vegetation, The lawn at the ground storey opens up to a water courtyard at the basement level. The sound of water falling from the ground level to... More
News • News • 20 Mar 2023
Ambitious Nanhai Guicheng Jingui High School maintains and simple rhythmic architecture of order and poetry
As part of a larger urban planning project to provide improved and increased infrastructure to the growing urban centre of Foshan, Guicheng, China, the new Nanhai Guicheng Jingui High School by Atelier cnS is a 90,000 square meter campus designed to meet the needs of 3,000 teachers and students. As an ordering principle, the architecture features pure forms for the large-span spaces, including the swimming centre's concrete arches and the gymnasium's repetitive X-shaped columns. The result is a simple rhythmic architecture of order and poetry.
Siming Wu
Located on a site that provides direct connections to the city centre via two main roads, the school complex includes teaching spaces, accommodation, administration buildings, audi... More
Project • By Jackson Clements Burrows Architects • Churches
Canterbury Baptist Church
Located on a prominent corner opposite Canterbury Gardens, the Canterbury Baptist Church has been serving the community since 1891.
To support ongoing environmental and economic sustainability, an opportunity was identified to enhance the site through high quality, considered apartments and additional facilities for the Church congregation and local community. The proposed multipurpose hall is designed to reference the existing architecture of the Church, designed by prominent architect Keith Reid in 1962.
Strategically replacing a number of separate buildings and spaces surrounding the Church itself, the architectural form and materiality directly relate to the neighbourhood context of established residential streets. The development c... More
News • News • 8 Jun 2022
Sanjay Puri Architects innovate a self-sufficient housing project in a remote area of India
Part of a 36-acre masterplan, Shree Town by Sanjay Puri Architects is a self-sufficient housing project in the Raipur, Chhattisgarh region of India developed to house personnel of a regional cement plant. The project is situated 3 km from the closest small city and in an open landscape area.
Drawing from the organic housing layouts of historic Indian cities and villages, the project responds sustainably to climate while incorporating colour and cultural responses.
Mr. Dinesh Mehta
Central to the scheme is a large, open landscaped park around which studio apartments, smaller & larger apartments, and a school and club are located.
Mr. Dinesh Mehta
The project includes a mid-rise building with 72 studio apart... More
News • News • 18 Feb 2022
House by Romero de la Mora Architecture cancels boundaries between interior and exterior
Cancelling boundaries between interior and exterior, Casa Romero by Romero de la Mora Architecture is inserted into nature, opening from end to end in a continuous flow of space that links to the Mexican Bajio beyond.
Rafael Gamo
Furthering its connection to the environmental surroundings, the house is oriented to take the best advantage of the Mexican Bajío climate with cross-ventilation and lighting concepts carefully considered.
Rafael Gamo
Throughout, the house makes use of materials that are local, simple, and offer good thermal properties. Examples include reinforced concrete, cement-sand block, pinewood and blacksmithing. A special element, the dining room table, was cast on-site.
Rafael Gamo
The... More
News • News • 18 Feb 2022
Cornellà de Llobregat social housing in Barcelona becomes the largest wooden-structured residential building in Spain
On a site formerly occupied by the iconic Pisa cinema in the Barcelona municipality of Cornellà de Llobregat, this freestanding residential building by Peris+Toral Arquitectes comprises 85 social dwellings within five wood-framed floors supported by a reinforced concrete structure at ground floor. The project is the largest wooden-structured residential building in Spain and includes a total of 8,300 m2 of zero KM wood from the forests of the Basque Country.
José Hevia
In addition to the utilisation of wood as the primary construction material, a key design strategy of the multi-family concept was a layout of spaces which, by eliminating both private and communal passages and proposing instead ‘communicating rooms&... More
News • News • 20 Dec 2021
Brooks + Scarpa’s Magnolia Hill presents a model for more compact, responsible living in Los Angeles
On the site of a former gas station in Los Angeles, Magnolia Hill is a 19-unit mixed-use multi-family building comprising three storeys of flats and a double-height mezzanine loft apartments. Designed by Brooks + Scarpa, the project is a model for more compact, responsible living.
Tara Wujcik
A perforated aluminium façade creates the effect of an ever-changing screen that sparkles in the sun and then glows at night. The perforated nature of the façade also serves to enhance privacy, while still allowing for views outwards, good quality natural light and the site’s prevailing winds. Perforated aluminium is also used strategically on screens to the east, west, and north-facing walls, lending the exterior a... More
News • News • 3 Nov 2021
Environmentally conscious Penedés home by nook architects embraces the earthiness of a small Spanish village
Surrounded by forests, fields and vineyards in the Penedés region of Spain, this house by nook architects is located in a small town that has recently seen new life and population growth thanks to the alternative education projects of its schools. Seeking out this education alternative for their children, the owners chose to relocate to the village with the vision of a low environmental impact wooden home in mind.
Del Rio Bani
Prioritising quality of space over built area, the owners bought two plots originally intended for terraced housing with the idea of constructing a single home with three façade, larger interior space, and more distance from neighbours.
Del Rio Bani
In total the house is made up o... More
News • News • 26 Oct 2021
NeuronaLab restore a Spanish farmhouse with careful consideration of existing materials and an infusion of cork insulation
Featuring a trapezoidal plan, Masía en Santa Eulalia de Ronçana by NeuronaLab is a restoration of a rural farmhouse outside Barcelona. Retaining the original character of the region, many materials were reused, including those from demolition works.
Del Rio Bani
The project’s starting point was a re-consolidation of the envelope, improving the performance of the building’s shell with projected cork insulation. An in-depth study of sunlight, natural cross-ventilation and the use of well water with a filter system was also carried out to ensure optimal design.
Del Rio Bani
The existing house previously accommodated horse stables or chicken coops. As such, the relatively small spaces were poorly connected... More
News • News • 13 Oct 2021
Nature, Nurture, Future: Republic of Singapore Self-Built Pavilion by WOHA
With a theme of ‘Nature, Nurture, Future,’ the Singapore Self-Built Pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai is a seamless example of co-existence between nature and building. Designed by WOHA, the pavilion building prototype increases biodiversity, offers habitat for animals, and plays a role in fighting climate change with elements such as solar heat reduction, C02 and NOX sequestration, and reduction of other polluting elements.
Singapore Pavilion, Expo 2020 Dubai
Fueled by solar energy along with solar desalination systems, the building incorporates passive strategies such as cross-ventilation and solar control, maintained a net-zero energy footprint for the duration of the Expo.
Singapore Pavilion, Expo... More
News • News • 30 Aug 2021
Thai Red Cross Foundation Children’s Home showcases principles of self-sustaining architecture
Located in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, this foster care village for children was funded by the Thai Red Cross Children’s Home and designed by Plan Architect with principles of self-sustaining architecture, passive design strategies in particular, at the core of the project. In total seven buildings comprise the development, each dedicated to a discrete use. The seven buildings are the Director’s House, Lecturer House, Trainee Dormitory, Children’s House, Training Hall, Canteen, and Service Building.
Ketsiree Wongwan
The buildings are carefully oriented on the site in an overlapping composition to provide shade to their neighbouring building while also allowing for cross-ventilation. Located behind the building clu... More
News • News • 29 Aug 2021
Child Care Center by Equipo de Arquitectura develops courtyard typology into a sensitive, introspective space for early childhood learning
The Child Care Center in Villeta, Paraguay by Equipo de Arquitectura is an introspective, inward-looking construction and an incubator of the very life that takes place there. On the outside, earth volumes hide and protect the interior. On the inside, quite the opposite occurs.
Federico Cairoli
The Center comprises 4 larges spaces: two classrooms, which are further subdivided into two classrooms each, a dining room and an administrative area. Each space opens directly to a central open courtyard, visually communicate with the environment, eliminating the concept of the classroom as a closed space.
Federico Cairoli
This central courtyard, which functions as the children's play area, is a focal point of the ensemble. It is a meeti... More
News • News • 2 Aug 2021
Atelier Li Xiaodong completes the open and interactive Shenzhen College of International Education (SCIE)
In the sub-tropical city centre of Shenzhen, the Shenzhen College of International Education (SCIE) by Atelier Li Xiaodong is designed to accommodate over 2000 students and 200 teachers. With a site area of approximately 20,000 m2 and a required floor area of over 100,000 m2, a plot ratio approaching almost five posed a great challenge for the architects in terms of providing enough sports facilities within the tight campus while at the same time allowing for cross-ventilation and an open feeling.
UK Studio
Due to space constraints, the sports program was divided into sixteen different units which are incorporated into the building complex on a variety of different levels, adding flexibility, playfulness, interaction, efficiency... More
News • News • 29 Jul 2021
Le Cabanon by Studio Rick Joy sits in material harmony with its Turks and Caicos island surroundings
Located on the Turks and Caicos Islands, this three-bedroom family retreat by Studio Rick Joy is surrounded by rich native vegetation and the daily winds of Chalk Sound National Park. Perched on a site comprising 21,000 square feet of porous iron shore rock with views over white sand and bright turquoise water, the home is constructed with exposed cast-in-place white concrete walls and warm-coloured mahogany hardwood doors, windows, and ceilings.
Joe Fletcher
Elevated on a platform that is on the same horizontal plane throughout, the program of the house is separated into two distinct volumes: an elongated bar to the west which houses private areas, and a standalone Pavilion which is open to the water and views.
Joe Fle... More