Exposed concrete

The Hansen Road Residence was designed to maximize its footprint through the use of vertical space.  From the outside, the home is an anonymous, austere, monumental concrete facade anchored deep into the hillside on a waterfront property.  Much of the home is hidden behind the two-story concrete face.  Upon entering, an entirely different experience is revealed on the inside: warm, light, and open.   The back facade of the home is comprised mostly of glazing, illuminating the interior with natural light and offering spectacular views of the Olympic Mountains and the water.  The main living area opens out onto a large deck that cantilevers from the home’s structure, providing a seamless connection from inside... More

‘Casa Trevo’ or ‘Trefoil House’ is a two-storey residence, located south of Lisbon, Portugal. The site’s close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean provides pleasant breezes and plenty of sunshine, across all seasons. The project sits in a forest of pine trees, rising tall above a sandy terrain.   Inside, the rooms are organized around three outdoor patios, circular in shape. They function as extensions of the interior spaces as well as being light wells and large openings for the living quarters below and sleeping rooms above. The nine-meter high patios also perform as main structural voids in the form of three hollowed and semi-open columns. Together, they support a series of floor slabs ascending at diffe... More

The site is known as the birthplace of Somei-Yoshino cherry tree, and is located in a dense residential neighborhood in SomeiKomagome, Tokyo. While yearning for the open spaces, the owner wanted a house providing privacy from neighbors. Combining such contradictory directions would be a big challenge.   The house is flanked by houses and buildings on both sides but, fortunately, two open spaces in front of and behind the property allow the creation of a vista in this crowded place, and which made us think that whether it was possible to incorporate this house into such built-up area? Half of the house is shown from the open space and the other half is stacked by closed spaces. Considering the symmetry, the southern elevation was... More

The residence lies on the newly developed Sindhu Bhawan road in the city of Ahmedabad. The project was dropped midway by the previous consultant because of the client's dissatisfaction. The house was to be built for a family of four. There has been a try to demonstrate a geometry on the building.The building is a composition of different volumes one over another. There are three cuboids each placed on X, Y and Z axis coming together placed one over another. The ground floor has two cuboids one horizontally placed on the site forming the main entrance and the cuboid perpendicular to it takes you to the kitchen and opens up to the main garden on the back of the plot. Caption Caption The overall colour scheme is kept grey with textu... More

Hofman Dujardin and Schipper Bosch transform factory hall into dynamic office A former nylon factory is completely transformed into a unique office. A new framework of steel platforms is hung from the existing concrete structure. Vision and design complement each other in this co-creation of HofmanDujardin and Schipper Bosch, situated on the cleantech campus Industriepark Kleefse Waard in Arnhem, Netherlands. The plan builds upon existing qualities and combines extra floor space with a clear routing, transforming KB building into a dynamic office space. Matthijs van Roon In the former production hall, huge industrial boilers were placed on a heavy raised floor. After removal of the boilers, an almost sacred beauty of the space was re... More

Phoenix Wharf, the Bristol-based interior design and branding agency specialising in hospitality and retail, has announced the completion of a new scheme for innovative bakery business The Bristol Loaf, who, together with other local artisanal partners, has launched a new community foodie hub in Bedminster, in the south of the city. The Bristol Loaf was initially set up in 2017 by entrepreneur Gary Derham, whose background includes working for local hospitality operator The Assemblies.  The Bristol Loaf ‘s first outlet was a single-unit bakery and café in the Redfield area, before expanding into a second unit and becoming a successful, high-end, artisanal bakery products supplier to many other local businesses, with a ret... More

LOM architecture and design transformed a former office basement car park and storage facility in North London into a new workspace for tech developers known as The Bunker.   The 620sqm space was stripped back to the building’s 1980s concrete slab and its façade infills removed to create a new fenestration that floods it with natural light. Exposed concrete and brickwork provide an industrial backdrop to the space that is livened up with bold graphics, plants and warm, neutral furnishings.   There are a variety of workstations for staff to choose from including traditional desks, open workbenches and partially enclosed seating. A former loading bay now accommodates a meeting area. Its original egg crate concrete c... More

The village of Zeneggen is idyllic, at over 1450 meters in the middle of the Valais Alps. Typical Swiss chalets, constructed in knitted construction, some with over a hundred years of history, characterize the village and, apparently arbitrarily, combine to form a tranquil neighborhood with small squares and high-quality views.   The building's historic chalet lies in the middle of this microcosm and has been rebuilt several times over the years. In the course of the renovation, the focus was on the one hand on respectful handling of the historical building substance, but also on an effective combination with contemporary architectural language.   In this way, it was possible to combine new and old components effectively into... More

A house idealized as a weekend house by nature for a writer and a plastic artist, with the possibility of  becoming a  permanent home. Also can accomodate well the adults son and daughter with children when the family gathers.   Erected in a slightly undulated terrain, atypical for the region, with the generous area of 14.366,93m2, with existing plateaus and a lake, the program included an arts studio for the owner, wich was built over an existing concrete foundation measuring 30,00mx6,50m, reminescences of an old barm, in the lower part of the lot.   The main house was placed over an existing plateau in the highest point of the lot, over a slight promontory, to take the best views to the woods and the mountains, and... More

The warehouse buildings of Clifton Hill are derived from an industrial heritage that housed the workers and craftsmen of the era. Their use of solid materials and punched windows creates a robustness and singularity of form. In many instances, these historic two and three storey warehouses (many of which have been converted to residential use) sit adjacent to contemporary apartment buildings and Victorian and Edwardian-era single storey dwellings, stablishing complex, and sometimes awkward interfaces. This project is located at a prominent interface between ‘warehouse’ and ‘residential’ architecture. As such, it mediates at both an urban, massing scale, and at a finer, tactile scale so as to reinforce and strengthen... More

The home is often a simple box that is simply and naturally inhabited. This is an act that involves two seemingly contradictory but indispensable hypostases: to be inside, to be outside or rather, to be neither outside nor inside. In the house, however, there are thresholds that mark the passage from onespace to another, there are passages that facilitate or limit the access, features like different materials, light that falls differently, shadows, details. All these features give quality and particularity to the place. The living-room located on the ground floor, runs linearly from the access, open and bright. Each space of the house is marked by the materiality of the ceiling. The spaces are open to each other, remaining uncompartmented.... More

One of the main goals in designing the complex as a social hub is the human interactions and celebrating the artistic and cultural events. The intent is to create a cultural gathering place that can facilitate communication between the whole part of society which led to more citizens’-cultural conversation.  The lobby is the connecting element of the halls serving as the focal point of the complex.  It has the ability to play variety of roles, including concerts, artistic and cultural events. The multifunctionality of this large space has been enhanced by adding two elements which are a bridge and a communal seating. The proposed bridge not only balance the scale of the space but also perform as a spine which various space... More

The house was designed for 4 possibilities of expansion, the need to propose changes that guarantee adaptability and the possibility of them being made by the occupier with complete independence was one of the premises. This is a house that includes photographic studio, with extensions that adapt to public uses such as workshops and expo.   In a first initial stage, a minimum domestic space is proposed, the remaining extensions remain latent in the resolution of the structure, both from a technical and spatial point of view.   Research on small suburban houses   The houses are located on the outskirts of the town center. The land occupation strategy focuses on the disposal of reduced surfaces on a more extensive modular... More