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Project • By LACROIX CHESSEX • Student Housing
022_IHEID Student House, Geneva
Situated at the entrance to Geneva, parallel with the railway lines, the Student House for IHEID (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) appears to hover in the air like a stack of enclosed platforms that rise up in a staccato and diminuendo way.
Radek Brunecky
Radek Brunecky
The building takes the form of a slim, lightly curving block that follows the trajectory of the railway lines. The alternating angles of the end facades reflect this curvature, as does the very slight fold on the lakeside that integrates this large volume into the urban context.
Radek Brunecky
Radek Brunecky
On its peripheries, the building has private balconies on the east side and wide external walkways on the west. Due to... More
Project • By Mateo Arquitectura • Universities
ESMA École Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques
The ESMA (École Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques) stands on the site of a former army barracks, specifically on the parade ground.
Marie-Caroline Lucat
Military buildings to be reused and new buildings that will shape a new neighbourhood surround us. We outline the parade ground, respecting the great trees around its edges and defining an open communal courtyard. The volume, though rigid, seeks to adapt to the place.
Marie-Caroline Lucat
The brief is complex and highly attractive; a small condensed city: a large inner plaza, a restaurant, a large technical space: the film set, lecture rooms and academic spaces along with dwellings, sports facilities, etc. A small city with academic, leisure and residential... More