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The Muiderbos is located on the southern edge of the Duin district in Almere. In this watery forest area, thirty homes are being built on free plots that are grouped into 'laren', natural open spaces in the forest. Kreekbos House is located at the end of a laar. The house is embraced on three sides by woodland and a winding creek. The ambition is to merge the house with its surroundings. Scagliola Brakkee The house is designed as a rough wooden sculpture in the woods from which large windows, terraces and entrance areas have been carved. An irregular rhythm of grayed wooden slats forms the skin of the house. The forest side of the house is maximally oriented to the surrounding nature through large horizontal and vertical windows. Th... More

 Somewhere between the daily madness of real estate sharks, major investors, and gentrification, a popular alternative model has developed in Berlin over the past decades – the building group (Baugruppe). The D2 building group, consisting of fifteen families, was fortunate enough to secure one of the last vacant plots in a central location in Neukölln. The design task for IFUB* was to create a building that is well-integrated into the city, ecological, yet modern and friendly, with lots of greenery and shared spaces in the courtyard and on the rooftop. Thomas Straub Building groups are a very popular form of creating new housing in Berlin. Multiple parties come together, pool their interests and finances, and jointly b... More

In Blumberg, a town in south-western Germany on the edge of the Black Forest, the municipality is modernising, reorganising, and expanding the town’s school campus. This will create a cohesive educational hub that unifies various school functions. The project prioritises flexibility, sustainability, and spatial organisation to build a school campus that fosters a creative learning environment and supports generations to come. Designed by German architectural studio Spiecker Sautter Lauer, the first phase of the project includes a new three-storey building. This building houses a three-form elementary school, a special education and counselling centre, and a cafeteria for the entire campus. Nina Baisch Nina Baisch   C... More

Le campus de Live Oak Bank à Wilmington, en Caroline du Nord, célèbre son site serein et boisé tout en répondant à l'objectif de la société de créer le meilleur environnement de travail possible pour ses employés. Les bâtiments s'inspirent d'une palette de matériaux commune composée de cyprès, de verre et d'acier pour s'intégrer à l'environnement naturel tout en créant une esthétique moderne.  Le premier bâtiment du campus est ancré par un salon central surplombant la cour centrale et la terrasse ; les ailes de bureaux élancées de deux étages créent un sentiment de transpa... More

The project, which won the architectural project competition for the Ted Ankara College Campus with a capacity of 6000 students in 1998, was implemented in 2005 and educational activities have begun. Conceptualized and designed by Semra Uygur and Özcan Uygur, this campus is a city simulation accomplished adopting the principle that education should create its own urban life even if it is in an area remote from the city. As a result of this design principle, TED Ankara College Campus operates as an actual city with the daily circulation routes designed considering the diversity of common indoor-outdoor areas, functional arrangement, meeting of various users, and the requirements emerged within the process. deniz uygur cemal emde... More

This project sits in the Church Road Conservation Area in Crystal Palace, South London and consists of a complete refurbishment of a beautiful, historic five-bedroom house and a rear extension.  Unlike with many other projects, the brief here was not to create more area but to enable the clients to fall in love with their home of 27 years again and to make better use of the existing space. This has been achieved by cutting down on circulation area, refurbishing existing bathrooms and moving some into new locations and by providing a more functional and generous kitchen with a new dining area that looks out onto the garden. Further to that we have also created a proper home office, in order to finally provide a nice, tranquil environme... More

The Project is located in Ares, a coast town that belongs to A Coruña. It is about reforming an isolated single-family house, with a very characteristic slate roof.  The plot is elongated, with a steep slope that descends into the sea.  Different platforms are generated in which the house and the pool are located.  In the lower area is an auxiliary building. The entrance to the house is produced by the north area of the plot.  It seeks to unify the house employing two materials that dialogue with existing ones, the wood and, the black aluminium, both indoors and outdoors. The ground floor is reformed, forming a large wooden plinth.  On this floor the old gallery opens with large windows to enhance the spe... More

This is a chapel and christian cultural center at Doshisha University in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Japan. University hopes this facilities become symbol of Doshisha University insisting "Basic moral education by Christianity" and is handed down for 100 years, 200 years at Kyotanabe campus. We hope student at kyotanabe campus feel to study at Christial university by watching and using these facilities.We also hope these buildings will be told in graduates in memories. Silent ForestThese facilities are proposed as reincarnation of Kyotanabe forest.Myriad of colums covering building surface create sunlight filtering down through the coloums. The light has different expression depending on season and time.  Chapel space helps that people meet w... More