Temporary

Enfield Council and Jan Kattein Architects have transformed a set of derelict garages in Angel Edmonton into warm, generous, affordable spaces for community and young enterprise. Jack Hobhouse Jack Hobhouse Upper Edmonton residents currently experience incomes among the lowest 10% in England, exacerbated by a poor living environment and high barriers to education, training and employment. In time, major developments nearby in Tottenham and Meridian Water will bring new opportunities. Jack Hobhouse In the interim, Enfield Council commissioned JKA to develop temporary interventions to immediately address the community’s urgent challenges while building long-term resilience. Jack Hobhouse Supported by the Mayor&rsq... More

In between is a place for encounters, conversations, reflections and exchange of thoughts. The installation designed for Sprinx Technologies revisits the company's communication codes, organizing the visit through a sequence of thematic environments suspended between physical and digital. Caption Caption The various exhibition displays that populate the space are arranged on a cement platform, slightly detached from the ground and in turn resting on a black mirror slab. The suspended platform is the architectural element that marks the entrance to the installation, an ephemeral threshold through which the visit begins. Caption Caption Inside, the use of dichroic surfaces, mirrors and wireframe structures invites explo... More

Tasked by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Planning Department to design new prototypes of spaces and activities on Market Street, to be displayed for three days during the Market Street Prototyping Festival, we created a space of respite on the busy sidewalk. sonoGROTTO is an experiment in using affordable, ubiquitous, and recyclable materials to create new, human-scaled spaces along the cavernous and over-scaled corridor of Market Street.It is composed of 235 cardboard tubes fastened together. The tubes were packed, trimmed to fit within a 10-foot cube, and carved to create seats, windows, and an oculus to view the sky above. The curved cuts on the linear tubes evoke stalactites and stalagmites, framing the sky while... More

New construction for the temporary courthouse Amsterdam, jointly designed by cepezed & cepezedinterior. Together with the existing towers E and F, the new construction of approximately 5.400 m2 will be part of the temporary courthouse on the grounds of the current Parnascomplex along the Parnassusweg. Here, the larger part of the jurisdiction will take place during the five years that a new permanent housing will be developed on the same parcel. For both the temporary and the permanent new construction, the existing complex will partially be demolished. Within the construction, quintessential processes of the courthouse will have their course. Consequently, the demands are high. For example, the interim-character of the building may not de... More

The audio specialist Sennheiser continues its listening experience campaign with an exclusive pop-up store in the hip downtown neighborhood SoHo. For five months, New Yorkers can literally immerse in the future of audio: entering the store via the “Sound Tunnel’’, step by step the sounds of the city outside attenuate and the sense of hearing is heightened. The sound experience is complemented visually: in an introduction to the world of Sennheiser, the tunnel leads the visitor into an area with large-format photos illustrating the history of the Sennheiser company. On 250 square meters, the premium manufacturer’s extensive selection of headphones, microphones and audio solutions for the business world are presented. Just like its precursor... More

The London Shooting Venue will accommodate the events in 10, 25 and 50 m Sport Shooting at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the southeast London district of Woolwich. The first Gold Medal of the London Olympic Games will be awarded at the venue for Women’s 10 m Air Pistol on the 28th July 2012. After the event the three temporary and mobile buildings will be dismantled and it is planned to rebuild them in Glasgow for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Shooting is a sport in which the results and progress of the competition are hardly visible to the eye of the spectator. The design of the shooting venue was driven by the desire to evoke an experience of flow and precision inherent in the shooting sport through the dynamically curving sp... More

It is a project of pavilion has been developed and submitted to the competition "Barcelona Temporary Pavilion" in 2015 , conducted by the "AWR award" Competitions organizes international contests in architecture, interior design, industrial design and urban planning, Rome. "Barcelona Temporary Pavilion" - Santa María. This name was of a ship - Karakka, which was the flagship of the first expedition of Christopher Columbus. The expedition was discovered in South America. On this ship, Columbus returned from his first voyage to America, and I visited the Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand II in Barcelona. Since this area is a monument to Columbus and the building of the old port, it would be appropriate to complete the composition of the pa... More

The pavilion was the winning entry to an international design competition held by the Architectural Association school to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Design Research Lab. The structure, located in Bedford Square in London, was an experimental design research project that was also open for use by the general public. It’s visually striking presence invites inspection from a distance and more closely reveals the merging of many discrete flat concrete and steel elements into a single continuous curved form with a thickened ground that accommodates multiple different uses and modes of occupation. As users moved around the pavilion, its appearance varies from opaque to transparent, producing a complex moiré that filtered the views... More

Winning Space of the Interieur Awards 2014 - built at the Biennale Interieur 17/24 october 2014, Kortrijk, Belgium. DRIED CHAT ROOM It’s a contemporary attitude towards our heritage New contemporary social attitudes retaliate ancient manners of cooking and conserving food. We live in a dizzy, restlessness world with a huge virtual reality factor which coexist with a new need of savouring scents and tasting flavours. Primitive and natural processes of preparing and preserving food like smoked and salted fish or meat, dried fruits and vegetables, use minimum resources for best result. It’s a necessary contemporary attitude with heritage. Moreover, this kind of food is commonly used by travellers, explorers and nomad people, expression... More

A Mobile Italian Garden transforms the terrace at Alexandra Palace into a welcoming area with exceptional views over the city. Drawing inspiration from the architecture of the palace, the proposal breaks the monumental proportions of the main building to meet visitors with a more intimate scale on their first encounter with Alexandra Palace. The theatricality of the terraced view is accentuated by the enclosed viewing amphitheater to contemplate the surrounding landscape: bringing to stage the gardens and the city of London in the background. Besides ‘theatricalizing” the views, the design organises the area of the terrace into a landscape of scattered objects that can be rearranged geometrically resembling the formal garden, between... More

Dover Street Market is a multilevel fashion retail and concept store created by Rei Kawakubo of Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons. September 2014 marked its 10th birthday. West Architecture collaborated with Dover Street Market to deliver their concept for an installation celebrating the next ten years of the store. Constructed from plywood and scaffolding, it was positioned in front of the store’s front facade on Dover Street in Mayfair. The installation was procured and constructed within six weeks of receiving the final sketches from Comme des Garçons in Japan, and installed without any disruption to the normal operation of the store. More

The Pavilion that represents Mexico City on the Culture Fair 2014, addresses the migrations that have influenced the development of Mexico City. The architectonical expression of these migration flows is represented through a large boardwalk that brings visitors up to a balcony overlooking the main square (Zocalo) and that comes down again to stage a symbolical arrival to the center of the city. This game of straight and curved ramps, balconies and walkways, wraps around an equilateral triangle that houses a small exhibition curated by Alberto Odériz. As a reference to the ships that brought the first migrants to Mexico, the whole pavilion is made out of wood. The column-less interior space is covered by a large roof composed out of sm... More