#designforwellbeing
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Project • By Zminkowska De Boise Architects • Private Houses
Claire & Andrew’s home
In the quiet streets surrounding London’s Alexandra Palace, Zminkowska De Boise Architects has transformed a modest Edwardian mid-terrace through a carefully considered 16 sqm rear extension and wider reworking of the family home. Designed around the daily lives of Claire and Andrew and their two young sons, the project uses colour, exposed structure, natural materials and improved visual connections to turn a previously cramped and disconnected ground floor into a generous, light-filled sequence of spaces.
Martina Ferrera
Claire and Andrew bought the house in 2018 and lived in it largely unchanged for five years before beginning the project. That period gave the family a detailed understanding of how the existing spaces worked... More
Project • By WY-TO • Masterplans
The Living Campus
A Nature-based Approach to Campus Masterplanning.
Amidst the natural greenery atop hilly terrain sits a campus that has consistently evolved and expanded with time. The analysed urban typology presented a Branch-like Growth with both high and low-density clusters and Hard boundaries from the 3 expressways and a road. As such, programmes within are developed in a Mixed Fine Grain manner.
The vision for The Living Campus masterplan thus revitalises through the inherited asset, The Ridge. Accordingly, the introduction of 5 x 15-minute villages charts a cohesive journey, unifying faculties on either side. Programmes within each village are guided by the ideal anatomy of a village. In doing so, placemaking strategies are... More