Terraced
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Project • By Architectkidd • Offices
Concrete Showroom
The Seara Sports showroom in Bangkok, Thailand is defined by cast-in-place concrete, expansive interior spaces and uniquely shaped terraced slabs.
The building makes sculptural use of cast concrete. Raw and expressive, concrete slabs extend outward to form horizontal bands. Deep floor plates convey a sense of permanence, while softened edges and rounded corners temper the overall mass. Concrete materials are left unfinished, exposing the ceilings to reveal diagonal band beams of varying sizes and directions — visual patterns that express the different structural loads and wide-column spans of each floor.
Architectkidd
Architectkidd
Architectkidd
Architectkidd
The showroom is set back, creating overhangs and balco... More
Project • By Ikeda Yukie Ono Toshiharu Architects • Private Houses
terraced house
On a sloped plot of land in Yokohama, houses tower over the retaining wall on southern edge. On the eastern edge, a house juts against the site. In the winter, there is little sunlight, especially on the ground floor. Therefore, we designed a house that maximized the comfort of each season by setting the sunniest second floor as the "winter living room" and part of the cool shadowy first floor as the "summer living room".
koichi Torimura
koichi Torimura
Facing the southeast, which has the most sunshine, we arranged three floors that rise like terraces toward the light. It is in this direction that we placed the “winter living room” to take advantage of this most effective light. The living room reflects our comp... More
News • News • 20 Aug 2020
Zaha Hadid Architects designs wavy football stadium for Xi’an with terraced facade
The new Xi’an International Football Centre designed by Zaha Hadid Architects will seat 60,000 spectators for national and international matches as well as domestic league games, youth training academies, entertainment performances and cultural events.
The stadium will be located in Xi’an's Fengdong New District within the orthogonal urban grid of Fengdong’s business district. A series of shaded south-facing garden terraces will also serve spectators visiting the stadium during football matches, cultural events and performances.
Zaha Hadid Architects applied sweeping lines along the facade to protect the stadium from northerly winds. The fluid form of the roof shelters the saddle-shaped seating bowl that maximi... More