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• Architects: Architecture Paradigm
• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Design Team: Vimal Jain, Sandeep J, Manoj Ladhad, Prajwal Krishna, Anupama Prasad, Sudeep Bhoopalam
• Area: 10625.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Anand Jaju

• Structural Engineers: Base Consultants, Bangalore
• Civil Contractors: Enkon Engineering, Bangalore
• Landscape Consultants: Dhruva Landscape Architects, Bangalore

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From the architect. The site for the house is located on the fringe of a fast developing area of Bangalore, which has a rocky hillock as the backdrop. Located on a T junction in a gated community the site steps up away from the road towards west in three levels. These three levels became the basis for establishing the house and its connection to the ground. A house is often a complex assemblage of disparate functions and desires; Collective vs individual, public vs private, formal vs informal, immediacy vs slowness, largeness vs intimate. The house for a soon to be retired doctor sought to embrace this complexity. Programmatically, three bars were conceived to hold public, semi-public and private spaces arranged around a large courtyard. Circulation spine meanders around the courtyard offering connect to the outside.

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Section 1

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The courtyard itself is a marvelous device that blends disparate entities into a coherent whole. It mediates between the uncontrollable nature and the stable built form and adds another layer to the binary distinction of in or out. In this house, three layers of open spaces provide three different zones; front yard for transition, courtyard for congregation and backyard for retreat. Openings, windows and slits are carefully choreographed to provide connect to these open spaces. These connections from inside to outside circumvents the serial nature of circulation space along a path and blurs the boundary between set programmatic spaces.

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Ground Floor Plan

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The overall built form is wrapped by a series of facets that unites the three programmatic bars and suggests comforting togetherness and ceaseless continuity perhaps evocative of the multiple horizons the initial stepped site offered. The facets negotiate between the ‘hard’ rocks and the ‘soft’ landscape and establish an in-between condition much like the courtyard around which it wraps.

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Following an unofficial update in August 2016, Apple’s Campus 2 is entering the final stages of construction. A new drone video, captured by aerial videographer Matthew Roberts earlier this month, shows the ‘Research and Development’ facility nearing full completion and capped by a vast roof plant, the ‘tantau roof’ on the security kiosk in place, and an epic effort in landscaping taking place both within the “spaceship’s” courtyard and across the company’s enormous property. Only one crane now remains on site and the solar installations appear to be around 60% complete, suggesting that the scheduled 2017 move-in date remains on track.

In addition to the film, a large collection of photographs have been shared by French blog MacGeneration showing the construction process in closer detail. According to the site, these images were first distributed to Apple employees and show a consistent material palette of stainless steel, marble and large glazing panels. Certain elements, such as the security kiosk roof, are reported to be fabricated using a carbon fiber composite.

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You can learn more about the project, here.

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“Sense of Motion,” NSK Ltd‘s stunning new exhibition at the Omotesando Spiral, celebrates the prominent manufacturers’ 100th anniversary — with lots of color. Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux uses “color mixing” to illustrate the movements of colors.  

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“When condensing the simple movements in a single space and overlap with colors, it becomes a mind-blowing installation that releases large energy” – Emmanuelle Moureaux. 

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Using the form of the Spiral slope, Moureaux transforms the space into a vibrant shimmering of colors in flower motifs. Visitors are allowed to stand in the middle of the installation, while the range of colors surround them. Using 25,200 flower motifs arranged in a 3-D grid, NSK allows their guests to truly immerse themselves in the exhibition.  

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