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• Architects: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten
• Location: Bregenz, Austria
• Architect In Charge: F. Kruck
• Area: 210.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Bruno Klomfar

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Located on a mountain overlooking Bregenz, Haus D′s open floorplans and generous glazing allow for magnificent views over the surrounding countryside and Lake Constance. The home is stratified into 3 stories, with the Entrée and utilities located on the first floor, guest and children′s rooms on the second, and Master bedroom and an open layout kitchen+dining+living room on the third. In order to strengthen the connection to the natural environment, the third floor also boasts a patio which wraps around the entirety of the building. 

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Floor Plan 01

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The geometric form of the home, combined with the architect′s decision to construct with concrete and wood, create a powerful building that seems to blend into the surrounding landscape. Furthermore, the attention to detail highlights the craftsmanship for which this region of Austria has become famous. 

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• Architects: Emre Arolat Architects
• Location: Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey
• Architect In Charge: Emre Arolat
• Area: 31850.0 m2
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Thomas Mayer            

• Client: Alsar Maslak Real Estate
• Structural Projects: Altıneller Engineering
• Mechanical Projects: Tanrıover Engineering
• Electrical Projects: Aykar Engineering
• Fire Safety Consultant: Abdurrahman Kılıc
• Facade Engineering Consultant: CWG (Salih Sekban)
• Security Consultant: ICTS
• Sustainability Consultant (Fort He Leed Certificate): Altensis

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The project for the office building to be situated on the Mecidiyekoy-Maslak axis, where Turkey’s foreign capital takes its most visible form, was conditioned by the tension between density of its environ and the tightness of the project site. It was the client’s wish that the building would be a prestigious building, just like all the other surrounding buildings which only meant to be prominent, having been developed with no certain rule, plan or order.

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Apart from the other projects along the Buyukdere Avenue, which is the main business district of Istanbul, Maslak No.1 Office Tower was designed to enrich the quality of the typical office space by vertical gardens. In order to accomplish that, a rational office block which was planned over a 8.25 x 8.25 m grid, enveloped with a free formed glazing system was designed. The envelope, acting as a secondary facade in south and west direction is detached from the building up to 17 meters, let vertical gardens in 20 meters high. The space in-between two facades was considered as a buffer zone both for the acoustical and the climatic sense. The simple reinforced concrete office building with a basic, operable aluminum framing and glazing system helped in ease of construction and decrease in budget compared to similar investments, being free of direct wind load and sun rays. The envelope in steel structure, while creating the climatic control, provides the building with the prestige, identity and peculiarity  through the crowd of alike structures that is a part of the client’s brief.

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Ground Plan

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The curvilinear plan of the facade formed by the 150 x 200 cm rectangular modules was designed regarding the perception from the highway. These glass panels are arranged in the texture of fish-scale letting air flow through and they have a translucent film layer over it. The opacity of the film layer diverse, up to the orientation of the curvilinear facade; on southern facade a less transparent pattern was chosen; however in north, almost a transparent film was used which are designed according to environmental control issues. 

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The office buildings at this district are planned and are being managed as private gated communities, independently secured and controlled. No free access or passage is allowed even at the communal ground levels, that prevents any possible interaction with the street and neighboring alike complexes. As a matter of creating porosity on the urban level, a considerable part of the ground floor, together with the buffer zone and the outside terrace at Maslak No:1 Tower is kept except the secured, private areas of the building, that welcomes public freely with a hope that future developments or refurbishments at the region may carry on this attitude to empower the urban life throughout the district. 

Concept Project presented at the beginning of 2009 was developed with all parties and local authorities until 2012. As opposed to many other projects in Turkey, the construction started then with all documents ready and completed in 2014 through a well-organized and controlled process. 

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Sustainability Statement

Maslak No.1 is certified with LEED Gold and is considered among the high-qualified and highly-demanded office buildings of the district, in spite of notably simple choice of materials compared to the counterparts in the market, inhabiting national and international significant companies such as Deloitte as the main tenant.

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Main volumetric composition of the project depends on a simple reinforced concrete office block and a porous envelope that controls  the general climate of the building. While letting air flow through the glass panels arranged as fish-scale, the envelope filters direct effects of the climate. The in-between buffer zone, provided the design of the office framing dependent on most simplest parameters technically; low wind loads and least amount of uv control. The envelope also provided acoustic comfort, made natural ventilation possible at suitable seasons by operable windows which also decreases the sense of working in a plaza effect on employees. The existence and density of the dots on the film coating on these glass panels are designed parametrically according to the movement of the sun in order to decrease solar gain and to provide shade control while at the same time letting panoramas at eye level. 

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General office planning strategy takes into account the issues of flexibility and adaptability, designed in the scope of shell and core design. The carpark levels, lobby space and circulation core together with minimum amount of common restrooms were completed with simple finishes of optimum budgets. Large amount of exposed concrete and use of partial suspended ceiling elements, together with a simple local stone on the floor are the main materials used. The rest of the office floors were finished as a simple naked grid structure, to be equipped with raised floor and dry wall structures. Concrete surfaces were finished in a quality that once again encourages the tenant to keep it as exposed or with partial ceiling elements.  

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The building has maximum energy efficient design based on the latest technology in building materials, illumination and mechanical  systems. The 3D Variable Refrigerant Volume (VRV) system and heat recoverable HVAC Units help it to reach high efficiency level, aiming to reach an energy saving level of 40% compared to buildings with similar features. The building is equipped with maximum cooling / heating and story based control with three tube VRV system and reinforced fresh air with recycling fresh air units. Regenerative elevators produce their own electricity, water efficient appliances and fixtures are installed, energy saving is provided by the use of LED and T5 lighting fixtures, 

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The location of the site had benefits of highway access for material supply during construction as well as its close proximity to public transport; bus and metro that are a few minutes walk away. Finally, the project tries to create an urban porosity on the ground level, as described in the project description text, as opposed to the rest of the district that would behave as seeds for a future consideration of urban access and communal use throughout the neighborhood. 

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© Kenichi Suzuki

© Kenichi Suzuki

These days, we are losing focus of our main theme. Perhaps we need to include the surrounding margins when we address the meanings of virtualized space.

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“…If our experience of reality is to maintain its consistency, the positive field of reality has to be “sutured” with a supplement which the subject (mis)perceives as a positive entity but is effectively a “negative magnitude.”
– Slavoj Zizek

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The sire is only a few minutes walk from the Ohori Park, where the outer moat of the Fukuoka Castle used to stand during the 1600s. Today, the area has become community park with a perimeter of about 2km, enjoyed by locals as a place for talking, running, and cycling. The park is also a cultural region containing an art museum, Noh theater, gallery, and restaurant.

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Following this context, the first floor and courtyard were designed as a gallery the embraces the concept of “beautiful cars as a lifestyle.” The house centers around the courtyard that features a selection o attractive trees such as oak, maple, katsura, and ash, and is designed so that it is disconnected from the outside world. The floor and wall surfaces that face the courtyard, however, have different angles in various places to transform and spread light. Various spaces surround the courtyard in a U-shape throughout the three levels, each offering a view of the inside that can be seen from the different zones.

The surrounding environment is monotonous with clustering mid-rise structures, and the project has no distant views. The design emphatically focuses n defining the house as a distinctive couple cut off from the ordinary foreground, and to explicitly yet reasonably screen its environment.

While functional, both interior ad exterior spaces of ANGLE contain fluctuation and variations in many places. Volumes eoxand, contract, and continue, and the project becomes unified, through the use of material and texture . The couple, the children, and the grandmother. Each member of the family enjoys life ; according to their own taste and style.

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• Architects: Architecture Studio YEIN
• Location: 1839-3 Gyo 1(il)-dong, Gangneung, Gangwon-do, South Korea
• Architect In Charge: Yesun Choi
• Design Team: Myungsun Lee, Hanhee Park, Jeongmee Kim
• Area: 966.17 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Yoon, Joonhwan

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“Spring! It’s spring!”

This was what we hoped at the beginning of this project the first visitors of the boutique hotel BomBom would call it. (‘Bom’ is the English transliteration of a Korean word which means the season of ‘spring.’)

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Architecture as a means of communication

People use various codes as a means of intercommunication or to embed information. The architect believes architecture can be a means of communication and the container of information.

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For travelers, the hotel is not only an accommodation but also an architectural place where they can share information. In this sense, we inserted the codes of ‘봄 (bom)’ and ‘spring’ into the facade image of the hotel. The code on the facade is not just to assume the function of architecture with simple fenestration, but also to serve as a design element that controls the neighboring detrimental scenes, thereby making the lively image of Hotel BomBom flow in and out of windows with light penetrating through them.

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BomBom as a shelter for travelers

A tourist city where the ice sports game of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will be held, Gangneung is a place that expects a new and transformative trend to be seen. The site is a part of the commercial area in Sol-ol Residential District, where accommodations and entertainment facilities are mixed up. The original site was a fallow land which seemed to wait for the buildings with similar characters to come up. This building seems to have a significance in its same functioning as accommodation but with a completely different image. We wanted to impart a sense that spring has come to everyone who sees BomBom.

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Plan (level 6)

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BomBom provides low stone fences and benches under roadside trees and the cafe on the 2nd floor where the hotel guests can have breakfast in the morning and communicating and sharing travel information in the evening. The standard rooms are on the 3rd and 4th floors, while the duplex suite rooms are on the 5th and 6th floors each of which has an exclusive terrace open to the outside in the urban center, serving as an open but also private space for rest.

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Materiality and architecture

The old bricks giving off the sense of warmth seemed to be the most appropriate for the image of BomBom. Amongst many kinds of bricks, I intended to choose the ones which express a bright sense of spring, thus using the antique bricks that can embrace the reminiscence of travelers. The brickwork was built in three ways: the stairways and the corner window at the ground-floor front were made with cavity wall masonry, so as to flow the light from inside BomBom toward the urban nightscape; the exposed antique brickwork outside the east and south balconies on the 2nd floor becomes both exterior and interior materials, serving to transfer the external image into the inside; the upper vertical mass was made with protruding brickwork in order to emphasize the sense of massing and the unique texture of bricks.

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• Architects: Wutopia Lab
• Location: Shanghai
,China
• Architect In Charge: Yu Ting, Pu Shengrui
• Photographs: Chen Yao, Su Shengliang

• Design Period: 2011

• Construction Period: 2011-2012
• Site Area: 550 m2
• Building Area Before Renovation: 450 m2

• Building Area After Renovation: 940 m2
• Height: 12m

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In 2006, house No. 1, house No. 2 and courtyard No. 3 were completed at the same time in Jiu Jian Tang, Shanghai, which were all designed by famous international architect Arata Isozaki.

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In 2011, the owners of these estates, unbeknownst to the others, invited local architect Yu Ting to transform them one by one. 

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After a long time of disuse, house No.2 would become an academy special for ancient Chinese classics, expanding from 400 to 900 sqm, as the owner’s wish. 

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After bound up the old building with bamboo curtain wall, the architect covered it with a translucent rice paper glass box to weaken the sense of volume. The side atrium, a public space lacking in old building appeared naturally in the gap between these two boxes. The 6-meter-high gate, looks like a dramatic cave made the side atrium more like a courtyard blurring the inside and outside space.

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The new-built classroom is a pure glass box. It suggests functional differences of interior by comparing to old building in symmetry to reach an accurate balance on the façade. For example, rounded and right angle; translucent and transparent, vertical and horizontal grid.

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The façade of Wu Ji is a space not a boundary. Tier upon tier, Architect used Capitalism architecture vocabulary to create Chinese mood as a result in this space. The Isozaki’s work can’t be elucidated in the Wu Ji at last. It is only a distant memory. Wu Ji is a totally new one.

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Those 3 buildings were looked on as whole but humdrum by Isozaki. As a result of different functions, they rebuilt in different methods, finally reached a balance of harmony, which we called Mutation.

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You can find more information on the other two buildings, one is ‘Kaisersaal of Longevity，Kun opera playhouse’，another is ‘painter’s Atelier’.

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