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Project • By Jim Caumeron Design • Memorial spaces
Exalt
Waiting for Memory (Funerary Architecture)
What if a building compels you to look up?
Funerary architecture has always been about grieving for the departed. Our gesture is often to imagine their earthly body six feet beneath the ground. But when the studio was commissioned while the future occupant is still alive, we began to see death differently—not as an ending, but as an anticipation of spiritual transcendence.
This attitude inspired us to make the building an act, ritual and experience of exaltation: an architecture that turns the gaze upward.
Bien Alvarez
Bien Alvarez
Bien Alvarez
The mausoleum was developed within the strict height limitations of a memorial park. Rather than treating the restriction as a limi... More
Amadeus Manila
Amadeus, a leading travel technology company, engaged ID21 with the design of their new office in the bustling centre of Bonifacio Global City in Manila. This new office would bring together Amadeus and their subsidiary company, Navitaire, under one roof to build one community. The two companies occupy two different floors and have separate receptions for visitors but shared amenities for employees. It was important for the design of the new office to allow for different modes of working, through the creation of various spaces that were conducive for productivity.
ID21
ID21
All the walls of the office have been built on a curve or angle to mimic the shapes prescribed by Amadeus’s brand guidelines. With no sharp corners, the... More
Project • By dito architects and interiors • Private Houses
House at Tanguile Street
The site of the house is Located in 180 square meter lot with 30% slope at a gated community in Quezon City, Philippines, a modern house that looked like a stack of white, charcoal gray, and wooden boxes capped of with a gambrel roof. The exterior white walls of the house created a stark contrast with the dark colored paint & wooden walls. The roof fascia and the eaves were in the shade of charcoal gray almost black. The mix of verticals in the form of walls, columns and windows had been balanced of with the horizontal elements of the wood cladding and the carefully placed horizontal slit windows. The main door, visible from the road, made of horizontal panels, with a solid vertical panel on the opening side accentuated simply by... More