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Project • By ANIEA • Apartments
Reconstruction of an Old Farmstead
The Reconstruction of an Old Farmstead project reimagines a historic agricultural compound in a village in the Kashubian region of northern Poland, not far from the Baltic Sea. The intervention focuses on the reconstruction and adaptation of two buildings within a traditional rural homestead: a century-old house and its neighbouring barn.
Andrzej Niegrzybowski
Rather than replacing the ageing structures, the project retains the original spatial composition of the farmstead and reinterprets it for contemporary use. The house has been converted into two independent year-round holiday apartments, while the adjacent barn is planned to become a holiday residence in a later development phase. The architectural strategy centres on respecting... More
Project • By Ameller Dubois • Secondary Schools
Collège Claudine Hermann
Designed by Ameller Dubois, the new Claudine Hermann Secondary School (Collège Claudine Hermann) stands in the southern Paris suburb of Massy, on the Vilgénis site—formerly home to the Air France Aviation Apprenticeship Training Center. Set within 22 hectares of woodland, the school occupies a green setting that supports environmental integration.
Opened for the 2024 academic year, the school stands out for its architectural design and technical rigor. The client set ambitious targets for the 7,200-square-meter facility, aiming for RE2020 compliance at E3C1 level and Biosourced Level 3 certification.
Energy performance is optimized through a building management system (BMS) that adjusts to occupancy and outdoor conditi... More
GWG Offices Tübingen
text by David Kasparek
In the Swabian city of Tübingen, the Stuttgart-based office VON M has completed the new headquarters for the municipal housing company GWG, which is both a homogenizing urban building block and a contemporary architectural flag ship for the client.
Zooey Braun
The surroundings are heterogeneous. It takes a quarter of an hour to walk here from the train station and you find yourself between a branch of a retail group, two-storey turn-of-the-century houses with mansard roofs and three-storey post-war modernism.
Zooey Braun
Here, on Eisenbahnstrasse, GWG has set up its new company headquarters. The company builds, sells, rents and manages residential buildings. The design for the company's new flagship... More
Project • By IWI Studio (Juan Ruiz + Amelia Tapia) • Private Houses
100 years of a ¨Casa Barata¨ in Bilbao
The project works with the rehabilitation of one of the houses built in a housing cooperative under the law of Casa Baratas (cheap houses) of 1924, in Bilbao.The architects, Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia, propose a project of structural and energy efficiency improvement of the house, in addition to the reorganization of spaces according to the needs of a young family in 2023.
Aitor Estévez
BACKGROUND
Population growth, due to Industrialization at the end of the 19th century, produced in Bilbao, as in all of Vizcaya, a serious shortage of adequate housing for the working class. In response to this problem, the Casas Baratas Laws of 1911, 1921 and 1924 were approved in Spain, granting aid for the construction of workers' housing. T... More
Project • By Hutz Architects • Secondary Schools
School Extension Kloster Neuburg
The proposal for the school extension for Viticulture and Pomology in Klosterneuburg, Austria connects the old history of the institution with the tradition of viticulture. The design aims to create a contemporary landmark in the urban context, while simultaneously initiating an architectural dialogue between its existing counterparts.The building is organized in three wings, each defined by the axis of the site boundary. Parallel to the main street, the ‘public wing’ connects all publicly accessible programs; the main entrance and the shop and seminary rooms on the first floor. During public events, the open layout provides spatial flexibility, as well as additional social qualities.
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