Prefabricated concrete

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about prefabricated concrete

Project • By SNITKER/BORST/ARCHITECTEN/ • Apartments

De Bomentuin

The municipality of New West (a town district of Amsterdam) is already for years simultaneously on multiple locations working on a large scale renewal of the Westen Garden Cities of Amsterdam. In this framework De Bomentuin is a small scale project, that is fitted in the neighborhood with modesty and carefulness. The project is realized on the site of the Slotermeerhof, a complex of duplex apartments belonging to the residential home for the elderly, Slotermeeroord from 1963. The small dwellings were demolished in order to make place for more spacious and comfortable apartments and family houses.The direct surroundings of the complex is a very beautiful green, park-like environment. The original buildings enfolded two public green courts wi... More

Project • By acdf architecture • Hotels

Hôtel Monville

Monville – a tongue and cheek Anglophone mix-up for the French words meaning “my city” – is one of the hotel’s many subtle cues that express a contemporary flavour of Montreal. Established by the owners of Old Montreal’s Hotel Gault, and the flagship for a future collection of properties, Hotel Monville targets travellers seeking “more for less” — removing all the unnecessary items, instead providing guests with a sophisticated stay at an affordable price. ACDF Architecture set out to design a 269-room property with the local character and sophistication of Hotel Gault, but with a design aligned to Monville’s unique concept. Distinguished from the surrounding buildings by its height and its modernist tromp l’oeil design, the slender buildin... More

Project • By MMW Architects • Offices

Delta Porsgrunn

Delta Porsgrunn is a top modern, environmentally friendly office building on 5000 square meter. The office complex facilitates a coherent environment for researching, public administration and private business within the pedagogical and technological fields.The deisgn of the house is a clear signal to the users and the audience about Kjølnes ambitions as a regional meeting place for research and industry. An architecture that does not consume more than it returns - a low- energy building that shapes sustainability – and at the same time an aesthetic boldness for the campus area in Porsgrunn.SituationDelta Porsgrunn is located in the center of Kjølnes with good access opportunitets for cars, bikes and public transport. The ultimate conn... More

Project • By Bailo Rull + add arquitectura • Residential Landscape

ESPAI NATURA

The health and wellbeing of people and their surroundings are the keys to HAUS. A responsible, creative way of approaching architecture with the aim of bringing added value to standardised construction. The construction project manager Marcove and architects BAILORULL combine their experience and reliability to create HAUS, an innovative proposal that applies healthy criteria to the spaces we live in with the aim of improving the lives of people and the environment.The international architecture practice BAILORULL has created Espai Natura [Nature Space], a collective housing development comprising 16 cross-ventilated dwellings –four per floor– of approximately 140 m2, designed to improve the health of their occupants and surroundings. Locat... More

Project • By Destila Arquitectura • Private Houses

MIRADOR HOUSE

The single-family housing is located at the edge of the city urban plot of Vic, where the views of the landscape and the Montseny become an essential element of the project. Taking advantage of the topography, the house is structured in three levels; the semi-buried parking lot with direct access from the lower street, the ground floor, where the day area is located; kitchen, living room, dining room, office / room and bathroom, with pedestrian and car access from the upper passage, and the first floor, that define the night area, consisting of a double room, two singles rooms and a bathroom.The intervention strategy consists of reducing the building’s footprint to free up the plant and generate an open space where the user can enjoy the vi... More

Project • By Roman Zitnansky architecture • Offices

GAD / Office building for drilling company

GA DRILLING is a young and dynamically growing family company, that searches to achieve a creative working place for its employees in a new office building. We tried to find out the main philosophy and targets that characterize the company and translate it into an architectural response.The main idea of the whole project is to create an open and continuous common space with closed working zones attached to it. This open space is crossing the entire building in both ways: horizontally and vertically, interconnecting the interior with the exterior, physically and visually. Light passes into the depth of the tract through wall, floor and roof holes openings, illuminating completely the interior spaces. This continuity creates a sense of transp... More

Project • By Territori 24 • Secondary Schools

St. Llàtzer School-College

The new St. Llàtzer School-College is located in the suburb of the same name in Tortosa. The project resolves the major change in scale between the Tirant lo Blanc Bridge and the low buildings in the suburb. Project strategyGiven the site’s high flood risk and general humidity, the decision was taken to raise the school with respect to the terrain and use the suspended floor as the building’s ground floor.This gives the school a porch that organizes the circulation on the ground floor and provides protection from the climate. It also enhances the playgrounds through covered areas, which allow them to be used throughout the year. The project is developed from the obligatory access point on its southern boundary and is organized alo... More

Project • By RHDHV (Royal Haskoning DHV) • Car Parks

Underground Parking Katwijk aan Zee

A 1,200 m long sand dune tops the dike, creating a height of between 10 to 11 m above mean sea level for the new coastal protection system in Katwijk aan Zee. The dune has been planted with marram grass and includes paths, a boardwalk, and benches so that visitors can stroll along its crest or to the sea, depending on their wishes. The dike is covered with sand for protection purposes, but also to maintain the natural look of the dunes and the beach. The project made accessibility between the beach and the municipality a priority. But the sand dune conceals more than just the municipality's coastal protection. A 30 m wide, 500 m long parking garage is also located within the dune, extending parallel to—and inland from—the reinforced di... More

Project • By OYAPOCK architectes • Bars

Bar da Laje

This music venue, bar, and restaurant in Rio, at the Favela do Vidigal, one of the postcards of the city is a founding project for our architecture office and an atypical project for more than one reason. Perched at the summit of the favela, the project was confronted with a difficult access as a construction site but benefitted from incredible views over Rio. This extension-renovation of the existing building made us rethink the traditional role played by architects.Actually, the project was built through the coordination between different players: the client and his economic restraints - the revenues of the venue allowed him to gradually continue the renovation, therefore, we were confronted with an unstable budget and a work developed in... More

Project • By Arqtipo • Apartments

GU 2787

Situation It is building with six housing units, in a small lot of 8.66 x 16m, located in the Agronomía neighbourhood. Is located in an atypical block, in front of the Beiro Station of the tracks of the Urquiza Railcar, has the limitations of a low residential zone, which has the possibility of built the entire site. Federico Kulekdjian The building completes the maximum buildable volume, forming a perforated box, generating patios or terraces towards the perimeter of the facade, rebuilding its outer envelope through a skin of prefabricated concrete blocks, that mitigate the noises and allows to regulate the gradients privacy, luminosity and opacity in relation to the exterior. Federico Kulekdjian Configuration The prog... More

Project • By Dom Arquitectura • Private Houses

House in Tarragona

Tarragona’s historical stone construction tradition, as well as the image of the Roman city walls, made us decide to treat the house’s ground floor as a dry stone plinth emerging from the ground.The pine forest where the land is located creates a series of vertical and repetitive shadowy traces of trunks, branches and leaves. The light that sifts through the forest generates pleasant atmospheres of lights and shadows. The first floor’s white volume, as a purer and lighter piece, rests on the stone base. Like a white ribbon, it seems to break up softly on the south facade as voids, terraces, white lattices and pergolas appear. These elements filter the light, more geometrically, but generating similar atmospheres as those of the natural envi... More

Project • By Barthélémy Griño architectes • Airports

Radar Tower

Sited on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique, the radar tower will be one of the first projects for the large-scale science cluster currently being developed on the Saclay plateau. Over 60 m high, the tower will provide more reliable air traffic control on the approach to Orly Airport, a busy flight path. Rising above other buildings on the plateau and the tree tops of the neighbouring forest, the tower is also set to become a landmark indicating and orientating this new area of development.The tower is a 13.4 m diameter cylindrical trunk, inside which all the required technical equipment can be housed. The only protrusion is the radome that tops the edifice. This simplicity of form is reinforced by the choice of only one material, pale g... More

Project • By AER • Exhibition Centres

Refurbishment of the Confectionery Factory Facades

The main production building of the Kiev confectionery factory has been growing and changing for more than a hundred years. It survived changes in its function and in various production technologies. Today it is entering a new phase of development - production workshops give way to offices for company employees and various public functions. The factory fence was moved further and a park for entertainment and recreation is being set up.Ideologically the project of restoration adheres to the Venice Charter. This means that each of the periods of life of the building is important, and no fake reproduction of elements that no longer exist is acceptable.The entire building was covered in a paint layer which hid the differences between its variou... More

Project • By ERRE arquitectura • Offices

Marina de Empresas

Marina de Empresas is located at the port of Valencia, Marina Real Juan Carlos I. More precisely, in the old bases built for the participating teams of the America’s Cup in 2003. The project is an urban regeneration exercise where 3 of the old bases were transformed. To that end, we introduced the "soul" of the buildings: a circulation piece at the south, with sea views, which works as a great balcony to the Mediterranean and connects two of the three volumes. Due to its proximity to the sea, the main design factor was the use of durable materials resistant to environmental aggressiveness: FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastic). It is an innovative architectural material but has traditionally been used for the construction of buoys and boats. We ga... More

Project • By Kod Arkitekter • Apartments

Rosteriet

Rosteriet is large apartment building with a variety of housing sizes, apartment types and business premises, located in Liljeholmen, Stockholm, Sweden. A central idea behind the design was to make sure that the building corresponds with the site and optimizes its qualities in the best way possible. To achieve this, the building is divided into three intertwined volumes, and its different functions have been strategically placed based on where they are needed the most: shops add activity to the city street, a café in the corner of the building creates a spot for social interactions and meetings. The large preschool on the ground floor faces the adjacent park, adding life and movement to the area and providing great opportunities for familie... More