ETFE Membrane

Haishang Plaza is located in the utmost residential district of Northwest Zhengzhou city of Henan Province and is intended to be a premier shopping and entertainment destination. Requested by developer, Archimorphic applies imaginative design language to this plot, to make this architecture to be a unique landmark in the area.   The design incorporates a mixed-use program including SOHO and LOFT towers, an indoor shopping mall, and an outdoor lifestyle retail space. The commercial programs throughout the indoor and outdoor shopping areas include retail, food & beverage, entertainment (cinema, children’s play land), and cultural activities.   Stitching these programs together is a large public plaza designed to become... More

The plot is located at the intersection of Haihe River and Yongding Xinhe in Tianjin. The demonstration area is 15 kilometers away from Tianjin Station and 26 kilometers away from Tianjin Binhai Airport. The city exhibition hall is located on the southeast side of the demonstration area. The architectural landscape traces the source of the Lu River and sets sail -taking Beicang Future Port as the design core, we built the Vanke Ark of flagship class.   The lighting design takes "Rainbow Light" as the design theme, showing the emotional concept of salvation and the future.   The light lines at the entrance of the exhibition area contours the outline of the landscape, which is capable and neat, and full of modern sense. It is ma... More

The “New Entrance Re Teodorico” entrance plaza on the south side of the Veronafiere Trade Show grounds, an international leader in the agriculture and agro-food sector, hosting 45% of Italian trade shows in their two fields. More than 87% of Veronafiere’s turnover is generated by its organized exhibitions. The project is a steel roof structure, L-shape in plan, that extends over an area of 6,750 square meters. The design is based on merging the two concepts of an undulating veil and an organic surface. The wavy effect was created with high and low points in the structure, that are required for drainage. The organic shape was created by using a Voronoi pattern highlighting diversity as a visual effect. The macro modules wi... More

This is a booth space for company at Tokyo Motor Show 2011 in Tokyo Big Site.The booth is display space for new products announced by glass company which contributes to car glass.  The space shows brand image of glass maker, such as transparency, lightness and joy. Ceiling and furniture is made of ETFE membrane that is pneumatic structure based on rhombus grid.  Diffused reflection lighting is coming through 3 layered ETFE Ceiling which has holes randomly.Furniture is constructed by rhombus grid pattern made of ETFE membrane. Arrangement of the furniture is decided by people moving pattern and display method for products.  This space allowed many people coming from any direction to watch new products and get information. More

"Water & Sculpture Hill" is a museum opened in Ichihara, Chiba, Japan in 1995.This is renovation project for existing museum which is hub for culture and sightseen at lakeside. This project aims for creation of attractive architecture that opens for surrounding environment.Our method retains main structure, curved wall, colounms and floor with creating continuity of water surface outside.We use strong element " Water" to improve old spaces considering our time and site surrounding.  Water ClusterWe propose "Water Cluster" cling to branch in silent forest which is realized by ETFE membrane framing exhibition space.  Division and Continuity for ArtworkWater cluster divide and continue space functioning for individual and grou... More

This is automobile dealer along roadside in the suburbs.It includes automobile retail and office for staffs. Some glass cubes are inserted into glass facade randomly. Each cubes has each functions, such as image ad, video ad, kids space and car display space. There are car display area, reception space and office area in a big interior space. Ceiling is porous surface like a facade. Sunlight come into interior space through white fabric roof and porous ceiling to make soft atmosphere. Customer can watch cars and talk about purchasing cars in calm environment by soft lighting. Space above the ceiling produce hot air which works heating for interior in winter time and is released by pressure ventilation for inslation. Passive design is... More

The commission involved creating a covering for the central space of the recently completed library at Monterrey Tec.  The goal was to protect the space from rain, sun, and uncontrolled winds so that it could be used year-round.  The trees on the very lush campus inspired the creation of a veil simulating leaves falling on the surface via a pattern that will be screened on the ETFE.  The falling leaves were further connected to the idea of evoking Fall and the moment when the semester begins when students are positive and excited by a new beginning.  The ultralightweight structure will create new patterns as the sun moves across the surface and, in turn, provide a sense of time passing as one studies in the library. &nb... More

Second Home London Fields is located in East London, on Hackney’s neighbourhood, one of the most popular ones of the city at the moment. The old working-class neighbourhood of East End, grey and marginal, has transformed its image, becoming an alternative point for multiple trends, thanks to the hosting of young middle-class designers and artists who couldn’t afford the extremely expensive rentals of the city centre.   Second Home’s arrival to Hackney with its diversified co-working program, its free provision of multipurpose spaces, the cafe, nursery, etc., meant a new opportunity to facilitate the creation of emerging activities of the Local Community.   It was one of the project’s goal, in addition t... More

Embedded in the wavelike landscape of the Bundesgartenschau grounds, the BUGA Fibre Pavilion offers visitors an astounding architectural experience and a glimpse of future construction. It builds on many years of biomimetic research in architecture at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart.  The pavilion demonstrates how combining cutting-edge computational technologies with constructional principles found in nature enables the development of truly novel and genuinely digital building system. The pavilion’s load-bearing structure is robotically produced from advanced fibre composites only. This globally unique st... More

Zhoushan Harbour The local government of Zhou Shan (East China - an archipelago of islands) confided to Wang Shu the mission to rehabilitate the harbour and industrial area of the Lujiazhi Island into a touristic and cultural area, while protecting the quays and keeping maritime activities as memory of the industrial past of the bay. Turning this into a multinational project of innovative contemporary architecture, Wang Shu involved his 14 fellow laureate architect of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2007 to 2009. Each of the 16 projects focuses on contemporary sustainable architecture.InspirationInspiration comes from the genius loci, the path of the sun and the climate. Amongst other characteristics of the site, the activity... More

 The Lighthouse.The project brief is to design an offshore lighthouse hotel. The design criteria address renewable energy, harnessing wave energy to generate electricity by using the building's form. New building typologies should replace redundant ones, creating symbiotic relationships between various programs and supporting renewable energy by harnessing it as part of the building's infrastructure, whereby interdisciplinary research helps define sustainable appropriation.The lighthouse hotel's current location is off the coast of mainland South Korea near the island of Jeju, The site is accessible by boat through waters between 1500 ‒ 7000 ft deep. South Korea has a large number of offshore wind turbine farms, and since 2006 has inve... More

LAVA’s design of the German Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai is an ensemble of suspended cubes, a forest of steel poles, covered by a floating roof. And behind these visually exciting design elements everything from intelligent use of local climatic conditions to materials reuse to connectedness is sustainable. "The key question was how to design a temporary exhibition and event space for up to three million visitors in a desert environment that was sustainable. LAVA’s solution linked the Expo theme of connectedness, with our approach of ‘more with less’, with humans interacting with nature and technology at its heart,” said Tobias Wallisser, director of LAVA. Taufik Kenan 1. BUILDING AS EXHIBIT: SOCIAL SUSTA... More

MAD reveals its proposal for the “Southbank by Beulah” tower competition. Defying the typical glass, box-like buildings of Melbourne that appear detached from the city’s historic parks and natural local terrain, MAD’s organic design introduces a silhouette of natural forms – mountain, tree, cloud – into the dense city center, offering a distinct and iconic scheme for the skyline, that reconnects citizens with nature.Selected as the only firm from Asia by Beulah International, MAD is competing alongside BIG, Coop Himmelb(l)au, MVRDV, OMA, and UNStudio to conceive a mixed-use program of more than 220,000sqm for the heart of Melbourne – a piece of urban infrastructure that re-thinks the commercial, residential, retail, and public spaces of the... More