Volumes
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about volumes
Project • By EGM architects • Apartments
LOYD DIJKZONE
KlokGroep has commissioned 78 spacious new-build apartments on an artificial mound in the green Dike Zone along the River Waal in Nijmegen. The spacious apartments, contained in three buildings, offer space and tranquillity close to the city and panoramic views of the river and the green landscape.
Situated on a mound
The complex consists of three volumes that step up in height and increase in size, creating a sense of spaciousness and openness. Similarities in design and materials ensure that the three unite to form a close-knit ensemble. The biggest and tallest building consists of six floors and, in terms of height, appears grandly imposing beside an old orchard. The other two buildings, five and four floors in height, ar... More
Project • By Matteo Foresti • Apartments
Apt. renovation Roslagsgatan
In the heart of Stockholm, in a building from 1914, the apartment is facing the secular trees of the Norra Real College. More than a hundred years later many awkward modifications along time destroyed the beauty of this apartment.The elegant soul of this old building vanished from the now chaotic layout. The challenge is about bringing all modern uses, bathrooms, sauna, built-in kitchen, re-inventing the nobility of the architecture of that time. It obliges us to rethink deeply the layout of the apartment. Private rooms, such as bedrooms and bathrooms are preferred facing the peaceful interior courtyard of the building on its northern side. Public spaces are preferred facing the main street and the adjacent garden on the southern view... More
Project • By NAT OFFICE - christian gasparini architect • Residential Landscape
HSBC | housescape
The project tries to configure an idea of living conceived as fluid space, protected but at the same time interconnected with the surrounding landscape, able to grant privacy to the family but to project it perceptively in a wider spatiality, to connect it to the scale of the neighbourhood.The house presents itself as a diaphragm of open and closed, built and natural spaces variously interlaced. Clearly defined volumetric structures are placed into the fluid space that connects the “inside” with the “outside”, the “built” with the natural, house and landscape.The building is developed on two floors built on a single dimensional span that rules the relation of an empty and transparent space with volumes (the bedrooms – studios) that set them... More
Project • By Marc Koehler Architects • Private Houses
House in House
The commission to build the house came from a source close to home, namely Marc Koehler’s mother. The original intent for its construction was as an investment for her. However, through their intimate collaboration that is such an intrinsic part of Marc Koehler’s method of creation, his mother became so attached to the house that she decided to keep it, using it as both an office for her small business, a studio for her painting and a second home. It came to be named the ‘House in House’ by MKA, because of the separate entrance to the office space situated within the house giving a dual nature and function to the house.
The unusual exterior of the house is an indication to the unique and unexpected interior, a contemporary interpretation... More
Product • By ARKOF Labodesign • PALAFITTA
PALAFITTA
“Palafitta” is born from an image, from the memory of an architectural typology, from the idea of a simple structure proposed in an equally essential and functional element of furniture. The lines emphasize the architectural aspect of the piece, while the play of media and volumes visually reverts the roles.
The three-dimensional elements are separated from one another, such as dropped and suspended at the same time.
The image of the “Palafitta” takes on a strong connotation determined by the importance of the support that deliberately does not hide, but accentuates the original concept. The volumes reveal themselves by taking on a function and separating each other, showing the added value of the entire creation: the flexibility of the... More