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• Architects: Paulo Ambrosoni
• Location: Salto, Uruguay
• Area: 255.0 m2
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Paulo Ambrosoni

• Construction Management: Lucía Preve
• Structure: José Burren
• Structural Advice: Enrique Peirano
• Construction: López, Freitas, Araujo Construcciones

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From the architect. The project is an urban housing for a family with three girls in Salto, a city located on the eastern bank of the Uruguay River.

The construction of 255 square meters on two levels is located on the obligatory frontal limit of 3 meters from the street, leaving free the largest patio area for the North sun.

The land where the housing is implanted has a public pedestrian passage to the west, on this side the land narrows with a curve in the middle of its depth. This singularity is solved by the garage and a storage room, thus regularizing the patio.

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The Constructive System

The project is defined from the choice of the construction system.

The city of Salto has an interesting history of works of architecture in brick seen of great quality. Since the 1970s, Eladio Dieste’s buildings, among others, have masterfully used the structural and formal qualities of brick.

Scheme Structure

The provision of specialized workmanship and first quality raw material allowed using the constructive system of load bearing wall of exposed brick and concrete slabs in an effective way.

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Formal Structure

The brick walls in English rig are arranged orthogonally and without voids. In the open spaces are located the openings from floor to ceiling.

The four bedrooms with dressing rooms upstairs are used to modulate the structure. In ground floor the living room, dining room and kitchen are articulated in a free light of 5.70 meters.

Lower Floor

Upper Floor

The shape responds to the constructive system with continuous walls. The textures of the external partitions are achieved with protruding bricks and open joints to ventilate the chambers of ventilated facades.

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Bioclimatic Considerations

The climate in the city of Salto is very humid all year round, with very high temperatures in summer and low in winter.

The mass of the brick walls provides insulation and thermal inertia to regulate the great variations of temperature during the year.

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The house is closed to the south and to the street, opens to the north and the patio where eaves are used to protect against the strong summer sun and allow the entrance of solar radiation in winter.

Longitudinal Section

It also regulates humidity and heat through cross ventilation in all spaces, using banners on the doors and making in summer the fresh air of the south façade in shade runs through the house.

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Courtesy of State of New York

New York City’s busiest airport is about to receive a major overhaul.

Proposed by New York governor Andrew Cuomo, the plan calls for a $10 million renovation to New York City’s busiest airport, transforming the facility into a “a unified, interconnected, world-class’ complex.”

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The proposals would improve circulation throughout the airport by creating a unified terminal that would connect existing newer wings with newly relocated branches. Roadways leading to the complex would also be widened and redesigned into a continuous ring road for better vehicular access, and expanded taxiways would allow for quicker passenger turnover. Additionally, parking areas would be reorganized into clearly demarcated short-term and long-term lots.

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“Our vision plan calls for the creation of a unified, interconnected airport that changes the passenger experience and makes the airport much easier to access and navigate,” said Cuomo in a statement.

“We are New York, and we remember the bravado that built this State in the first place, and that is the attitude that will take JFK and turn it into the 21st century airport that we deserve.”

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Within the terminal, new fine dining venues, duty-free and retail shopping areas, and conference room facilities would improve traveller’s comfortability and experience.

Improvements would also be made to security technologies, including video monitoring and facial recognition software, which are designed to speed up the process for passengers.

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If implemented, these changes would help to accommodate for a continually growing passenger base, expected to reach 75 million people per year by 2030 and 100 million by 2050. At its current growth rate, the existing airport will reach full capacity in the next 10 to 15 years.

Initial estimates for the project measure in at approximately $10 billion, $7 Billion of which would come in the form of Private Sector Investment. Initial renderings were produced coinciding with the announcement, but an architect has not yet been chosen for the project.

For more information on the proposal, click here.

News via State of New York.

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© José Hevia

• Architects: Sio2 Arch
• Location: 07710 Sant Lluís, Illes Balears, España
• Architects In Charge: Lluís Ortega, Xavier Osarte, Esther Segura
• Area: 193.2 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: José Hevia

• Architects Associates: F451; Santi Ibarra, Toni Montes
• Quantity Surveyor: Francesc Crespí
• Structure: GMK ASS
• Construction: Conrado y Asociados

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This house belongs to a set of projects developed by Sio2 that reformulates the type of the single-family house through the integration with the landscape. In these works, we experimented with roofs as organizing systems avoiding the traditional role of facades as compositional mechanisms

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Floor Plan

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In this iteration, the house is articulated as a landscape extension of an existing topography. The volume is placed in such a way that the roof becomes an artificial terrain. The form of this surface responds to the negotiation between topographic relations, construction technology constraints, raining water collection, and different spatial needs of parts of the interior. The architecture projects polygonal geometry to the exterior, tensing the landscape, and smooths the interior, naturalizing the domestic. 

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HKS Architects has been selected to design a new Major League Baseball stadium for the Texas Rangers, to be built in Arlington, Texas. As part of a new multipurpose sports and entertainment venue, the stadium will feature a retractable roof for climate control and shelter during the hot Texan summers.

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“For us, the new Texas Rangers Ballpark development is very special. It carries its own rich identity based on a combination of tradition, heritage, character and ambition that will ultimately represent itself as the premier destination in North Texas,” explained HKS’ Bryan Trubey, executive vice president and principal designer on the project. “We are delighted to be part of this exciting new development that will impact not only the Texas Rangers and their fans, but the city of Arlington and the entire region for many years to come.”

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The stadium will replace the existing Globe Life Park in Arlington, which opened in 1994 and on which HKS served as architect of record.

The new venue will be integrated into the surrounding Texas Live! Development, a mixed-use entertainment district containing dining, entertainment, hotel and convention center facilities.

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Estimated costs for the project clock in at $1 billion, and will be funded via a 50-50 public-private partnership. Construction is expected to begin later this year, with an opening date set in time for the start of the 2020 Major League Baseball season.

News via HKS, NBC DFW.

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• Architects: Michael Green Architecture
• Location: Minneapolis, MN, United States
• Architect In Charge: Michael Green, Candice Nichol
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Ema Peter

• Architect Of Record: DLR Group
• Structural Engineer Of Record: MKA (Magnusson Klemencic Associates)
• Civil: Loucks Associates
• Landscape: DF/Damon Farber Landscape Architects
• Mechanical: Dunham
• Contractor: Kraus-Anderson Construction Company
• Timber Design Assist + Build: StructureCraft Builders

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From the architect. When Hines approached MGA with this exciting project they envisioned T3 as a unique model of new-office building; an opportunity to offer a modern interpretation of the robust character of historic wood, brick, stone, and steel buildings with the additional benefits of state of the art amenities, environmental performance, and technical capability.

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The project is an investment in both the past and future of Minneapolis and in the Warehouse District’s rich history. The design objective for T3 was to build on the character of the past with a modern perspective. As businesses look to new competitive models for attracting staff, the goal for T3 was to provide a warm and inviting environment that would attract and retain employers and employees.

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T3, which stands for ‘Timber, Technology, Transit’, offers 224,000 square feet of office and retail space. Over 3,600 cubic meters of exposed mass timber columns, beams, and floor slabs recall the heavy timber construction of the building’s predecessors. T3’s modern technological approach uses engineered wood components (chiefly glulam and nail laminated timber) for the roof, floors, columns and beams, and furniture. A significant amount of the lumber used to fabricate the NLT comes from trees killed by the mountain pine beetle. These modern materials bring the warmth and beauty of wood to the interior, and promote a healthy indoor environment for occupants.

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As a result of its wood structure, T3 was erected at a speed exceeding conventional steel-framed or concrete buildings. In less than 10 weeks, 180,000 square feet of timber framing went up, averaging 30,000 square feet of floor area installed per week. It is also lighter than comparable steel or concrete structures, reducing the depth and extent of excavation and foundations. Additionally, the embodied carbon in the building’s wood structural system is lower than that found in conventional buildings found throughout most of downtown Minneapolis and the North Loop.

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The building’s aesthetic success can also be attributed to the mass timber construction. Candice Nichol, MGA Associate and T3 Project Lead, says “the texture of the exposed NLT is quite beautiful. The small imperfections in the lumber and slight variation in color of the mountain pine beetle wood only add to the warmth and character of the new space.”  Extensive exterior glazing at every level as well as views into the ground level social workspace with wood furniture, booths, and a feature stair, allow the public to experience the building.

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The use of wood is celebrated throughout the building. “The entire timber structure of T3 was intentionally left exposed and illuminated with interior lighting directed up to the ceiling,” Nichol says. At night, “the illuminated wood will glow through the exterior openings.”

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T3 is currently the largest completed mass timber building in the U.S. With changing building codes throughout North America, tall wood buildings will become more common. A pioneer in this building type, T3 has broken new ground and is perhaps a prototype for future commercial mass timber buildings.

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Product Description. Nail-laminated assemblies have been used for more than a century, particularly in warehouses where solid, sturdy floors were required. It is now being recognized again as a valid alternative to concrete slab and steel in commercial and institutional buildings, and residential buildings in which it is often exposed to create a unique aesthetic. 

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