Trespa
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Project • By ATKA arquitectos • Private Houses
Casa Bonjardim
A depth of field of 20 meters between two walls. A lot with a reduced width. Time, with its careless passage, eventually drag that place into a weak or even precarious state. A visibly ruined rear wall was dismounted and structural parts of wood were removed, both deformed by the same (passage of) time.Starting from the supporting side walls, the original system of forces was restored using a light steel structure, which provided an alternative to accommodate a simple single housing program by applying a sequence of overlapping discontinuous floors.A black painted triangular mass block, at the entrance of the house, filters the light that still trespasses the front door. From there, the spaces don't delimit clear boundaries between them but... More
Project • By Flores & Prats Architects • Chapels
The Morning Chapel
An island.To be on an island and then inside a garden, allows a state of being where one's mind can drift to a peaceful place of reflection. The garden in San Giorgio has a fan structure of walks, starting from Palladio's Cloister towards the Lagoon. The Morning Chapel is along one of these long paths, and sits right before this walking line meets the water.The forest.The chapel is presented as a wall parallel to the path. This wall has a door, offering the option to step aside from the common route and move into the forest, abandoning the known destiny offered by these lineal paths in favour of the unknown, at risk of disorientation. The chapel becomes a door to the forest, to the grander entity to which it belongs: a natural dome made out... More
Project • By Abramson Architects • Private Houses
Glenhaven Residence
With a gallery-worthy view of the Santa Monica Bay, the Glenhaven Residence was designed to showcase the majesty of the outside world. Bright white interior spaces are punctuated with dark exterior materials to mimic a framed work of art, with nature and the bustling city below as the subject. The owners are empty-nesters who were ready for a downsized home that defined the more mature pace of their current lifestyle. No longer in need of massive spaces and countless rooms, the couple bought a classic and relatively small ranch-style house with a glamorous view of Los Angeles. The existing structure was stripped down to the studs, so it could be rebuilt with crisp lines and modern figurations. From the front entranc... More
Project • By rdlp arquitectos • Offices
Torre San Pedro
Located in the center of San Pedro Garza García, Monterrey the project comes in mutual agreement by the public and private sector that seek for a mixed use office building to be a potential urban detonator of the area. The client’s request was to create a “pilot” project with a retail ground level that instigated the economic activities and triggered the revitalization of the neighboring urban areas. Despite the slow development on the center of San Pedro, the project surged as a trigger for future urban projects and contributes to the streets-cape beautification along the area. The project’s design had to serve as a transition to the pedestrian, provide large and shaded sidewalks with inviting streetscape that would transform the loca... More
Project • By rdlp arquitectos • Hotels
Cacao Hotel Boutique / Live Aqua Resort
Located in the heart of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, a 3,200m2 plot of land neighbors the busiest and most important touristic avenue in the city known as the 5th Avenue, a 5 km long pedestrian-oriented street filled with vitality and 24 hour activities. Existing since the early 1980’s flea market type stalls and local restaurants, bars and stores have grasped both international and national attention. Because of the intensity and vibrancy of the area, the client’s request was to maintain the synergy and a relationship with the street without losing the tranquility and privacy of the hotel guests. Cacao Hotel Boutique had to integrate correctly to the street to maintain the vitality of the area and trigger future developments... More
Project • By FKL architects • Private Houses
A-house
This house, a home for a family of five is an exploration of the possibilities of integrating environmental concerns at a fundamental level within a contemporary idiom. The site was chosen for its proximity to schools, local shops, recycling facilities and work, allowing a daily life independent of the car or public transport. Located on a mews lane in Rathmines it is sufficiently large to support a family over a lifetime. The former back garden of a two storey over garden level Victorian terraced house, it is accessed from a lane to the south with the garden to the north.Concerns of establishing a relationship with the garden and maximising daylight penetration in a North facing building where East & West facades are blank, dictated th... More
Project • By chartier-corbasson architectes • Apartments
Haussmann stories
At 85 Championnet there was an empty plot of land, with a plan that was too convoluted to be constructed in a classic way, like the rest of the street, built in the Haussmann era. The rue Championnet is indeed occupied by a long ribbon of Haussmannian facades all more or less identical.
The building takes place, leaving empty spaces that, in response to the adjoining courses, create views.
The vertical flows are concentrated in a minimum space, glazed and allow a light supply to the landings. The dwelling plans are optimized to minimize traffic and provide the most spacious, available stays.
On the facade the building deforms and swells as if to occupy the maximum, to make the space more profitable, to offer the largest possible dwel... More
Project • By the next ENTERprise Architects • Sculptures
AUDIOLOUNGE
For the exhibition “Trespassing – Contours of Spatial Action”, the audio object was developed as communication form for ten audio interviews functioning without headphones. Users are drawn to listen and attend. Holes that seem infinitely deep invite people to creep inside and lose themselves in sound. A space takes shape that has no intention of offering any accustomed orientation. Inside the exhibition the Audiolounge is perceived as murmuring object. On approaching closer, different sound tracks become clearly recognisable as they stream out of the openings. As soon as someone leans into a hole, visual contact to the surroundings is blocked and replaced by the surrounding noises of the interview.
tnE Architects ZT GmbH – harnoncourt |... More
Hyper-modern homes with a hint of the Middle Ages
The new housing development at Hoogdalem in Gorinchem, the Netherlands, lives and breathes respect for the past. And that is not without influence from the strict planning regulations. Yet, three hyper-modern homes are real exceptions. Although, architect Dick van den Dool does not disrespect history in the slightest way.
Design full of historical references
To say the least, it takes quite a dose of courage to challenge the strict aesthetic quality plan with this contemporary design. And yet the architect had a convincing story because his design refers in many ways to the rich history of the ‘Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie’ (a military defence line that marked the administrative and economic heart of the Netherlands)’. Architect Dick van... More
Project • By RENSON • Private Houses
Holiday feeling in your own back yard
A holiday feeling in your own back yard. That’s what the owners envisaged when they moved to the beautiful hills of Henegouwen. The result is a unique garden concept with a water table and pool house and an integrated bladed roof as irrefutable eye-catchers.
View of the water and the hills
The owners of this house in Henegouwen really like modern. That’s quite obvious due to the materials which are atypical for the region, such as the pale and dark bricks, the large windows and the clean-cut slated roof. This modern style also extends through to the garden. The view plays a vital role both indoors and outdoors. The terrain is situated on a hilltop and provides a fantastic view of the valley below. So the residents also want to get the u... More
Project • By Abbink X De Haas architectures • Restaurants
The Golden House
The relatively new centre of the town of Houten is undergoing a metamorphosis. As part of this process we have proposed the construction of a pavilion on the main market square of the city. The square is bordered by houses of relatively low quality and the pavilion should be regarded, almost literally, as a precious stone or a jewel, a new rich focal point, embedded into the surface of the square.
The program consists of a bar, a restaurant and meeting rooms divided between three levels and inter-connected by spatial voids. The building design has been integrated with the nearby terrace and bridge. It is conceived as a solid sculptural golden mass, crafted by hundreds of different triangular facets.
client: Ovile B.V.
team: Micha de H... More
Project • By HARQUITECTES • Secondary Schools
REFURBISHMENT OF 906 SCHOOL
The school is located in the urban city center of Sabadell, in a corner shaped by two buildings aligned to the street. Both volumes create a wide courtyard with a sports center located in the basement.
The proposal involves only the oldest building (1959) which hosts the pre-school classrooms and few outdoor spaces.
The essential strategy consists on taking advantage of the huge potential of the original building, both the constructed surfaces as well as the useful spaces.
The main interventions are a complete indoor refurbishment and a small extension of 240m2 added to the previous 1200 m2 giving a new south facade. The design also includes two new playgrounds: one on top of the building and another one on the roof of the sports center... More
Product • By Trespa • TRESPA® METEON®
TRESPA® METEON®
Trespa® Meteon® is a decorative high-pressure compact laminate (HPL) with an integral surface manufactured using Trespa‘s unique in-house technology, Electron Beam Curing (EBC). The blend of up to 70% wood-based fibres and thermosetting resins, manufactured
under high pressures and temperatures yields a highly stable, dense panel with good strength-to-weight ratios.
Trespa® Meteon® stands out in vertical exterior wall coverings such as façade cladding, balcony panelling, sunblinds as well as horizontal exterior ceiling applications.
Trespa® Meteon® panels are perfect for use in innovative and functional ventilated façade systems. Used on its own or as a highlight in combination with other materials, Trespa® Meteon® determines the l... More
Project • By C+C04 Studio • Apartments
CONDOMINIO “P”
Condominio P is a residential building, built in an area undergoing profound urban change where the buildings built between the 1930s and the 1950s were replaced with poor-quality buildings over the last 20 years.
The design idea for the new Condominio P building derives from the synthesis of architectonic rigor and the desire for detachment from the anonymous context and from the greyness of this ex-urban area.
The partì was the search for the building’s uniqueness and the recognizability of the single unit typology as a summation of individual dwellings houses. The synthesis of this concept generated a design as a metaphorical superimposition of “containers houses”. Color is used as an “anti-grey” tool to display the single units. Thi... More
Project • By Entropal BV • Shops
Retail park De Witte Boerderij
Entropal Aluminium bouwers has accomplished the high façade and all aluminium windows- and door profiles for retail park ‘De Witte Boerderij’ (The White Farm) in Heinenoord, The Netherlands. Schüco profiles, type AWS 65 have been used.
Van Kessel Architecture, also from the Netherlands, has designed the hall and the realisation of it was done by construction company J.C.van Kessel. Both of these companies are, just like Entropal, part of the J.C. Kessel Group.
The gross floor area is 4000m2, of which the retail area is 3000m2. Stores like Nettorama, Kruidvat, Action, Sport2000 and Gall & Gall are located here. For the plating Trespa rockis used, recognizable by the orange-brown colour. Above his black ‘point-profiles’ are applied. I... More