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St. Thomas More Catholic Church / Renzo Zecchetto Architects
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- Architects: Renzo Zecchetto Architects
- Location: Oceanside, CA, United States
- Architect In Charge: Renzo Zecchetto
- Design Team: Alex Garcia, Rob Rombold, Minya Radenkovich, Michael Stebbins, Taylor Hsiao, Sebastiano Zecchetto
- Area: 22000.0 ft2
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Darren Bradley, Taylor Hsiao
- Client: Catholic Diocese of San Diego
- Structural Engineer: Miyamoto International
- Civil Engineer: Buccola Engineering
- Mep Engineering: MA Engineers
- Electrical Engineer: Kruse Associates
- Contractor: T.B. Penick & Sons
- Landscape Architect: Greg Hebert
- Liturgical Consultant: Robert Habiger
- Tapestry: John Nava
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The church for 1,100 people is part of a three phase project for a Catholic parish in Oceanside, with which the firm has worked for over twenty years. Located on a hillside at the intersection of Melrose Road and Cannon Drive, the parish grounds also include a 4,000 square foot community hall, administrative offices, and surrounding garden courts.
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The church is built on the highest elevation of the site, with a 60 foot bell tower lending visibility and definition from afar. The solid volumes flanking the bell tower oppose harsh Western sun with staggered walls and clerestories that filter light softly into the interior.
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Site Plan
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Inside, the design of the sanctuary celebrates the congregation itself as the center of liturgy. Pews made of cherry wood from the Pacific Northwest are arranged in a semicircular layout to encourage interaction and visibility among parishioners. Overhead, cherry ceiling louvers envelope the congregation and choir, providing a sense of warmth and unity.
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At the altar, angled walls of cross-cut Chilean travertine and raw concrete deliver diffuse light onto the sanctuary’s focal point—the crucified corpus. The bronze sculpture was created by artist Lynn Kircher; the cross frame by Renzo Zecchetto Architects.
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The building takes advantage of natural sea breezes for cooling. An underfloor plenum supplies conditioned air through the perforated supports of the pews.
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The eastern elevation is defined by transparency and openness: the narthex is here reimagined as a curtain wall and overhang that welcomes parishoners directly from the courtyard and gardens.
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The glazed courtyard doors further increase accessibility and visual connection to the rest of the campus and its outdoor spaces which, thanks to the temperate Southern California climate, provide year-round places for contemplation and repose.
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http://www.archdaily.com/799055/st-thomas-more-catholic-church-renzo-zecchetto-architects
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Jean Nouvel Tapped to Contribute Planning Concepts for Massachusetts Town
Jean Nouvel visiting the Mohawk Theater, with the scale model of the Empire State Building under construction for the forthcoming Extreme Model Railroad and contemporary Architecture Museum in Heritage Park. Image Courtesy of North Adams Office of the Mayor
Jean Nouvel is engaged in talks to provide master planning concepts for the town of North Adams, Massachusetts, home to the renowned art institution MASS MoCA and a few miles from the Tadao Ando-designed Clark Art Institute. Initial discussions have included preliminary design proposals for three buildings in the city center along Heritage Park and on Main Street.
The new plan would be tasked with contributing to the economic revitalization of the city’s downtown, and would need to respond to the MASS MoCA campus, itself master planned with consult from Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, David Childs and Simeon Bruner of Bruner/Cott & Associates.
Jean Nouvel taking a tour of MASS MoCA with Director Joseph Thompson. Image Courtesy of North Adams Office of the Mayor
“The concept of a cultural corridor in northwest Massachusetts is unique,” said Nouvel in a statement. “The existing institutions are phenomenal. The combination of elements that exists here is like no other that know of. The landscape, the topography, the colors, and the collision of Main Street, the overpass, and the railroad lends itself to an extraordinary and precise intervention or series of interventions that would preserve the scale of the city, and build on the concentration of cultural resources in the region.”
Also planned for the area is the new Global Contemporary Art Museum, designed by Gluckman Tang and founded by former Guggenheim Foundation Director Thomas Krens.
Left to Right (Jean Nouvel, Nicolai Ouroussoff (former chief Architecture critic of the New York Times) and Richard Alcombright, Mayor of North Adams. Image Courtesy of North Adams Office of the Mayor
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- Architects: AHAKNAP, SAAHA
- Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Architect In Charge: Kenan Brčkalija, Adnan Harambašić
- Area: 10800.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Anida Krečo
- Project Team: Amer Sadiković, Merdžana Mujkanović, Asmir Šabić, Hana Kevilj
- General Contractor: Butmir Ltd
- Client: Compact Invest Ltd
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From the architect. Wave Housing is situated in Otes, the suburban neighbourhood of Sarajevo, with the river and mountains as its close and distant surroundings. In order to extend the interior space of the apartment towards outside and the views, the wave-like structure is added to the regulated building volume from 2nd floor upwards. In this way, each unit is given a lavish and unique outdoor area/terrace, making it a defining architectural element of the project. While the inner facade of the building is clad in warm wooden ribs, outside is kept simple in white plaster with metal screens providing additional visibility protections to the apartment terraces.
Diagram
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Product Description: Local materials Facade: Composite wooden vertical panels 4x4cm made from local spruce and fir tree. Panels are placed vertically at intervals of 1 cm and skirting laths 4×7 cm with vertical reveal façade openings and the thermal insulation boards of rock wool 12 cm thick laminated with black fibreglass mat. Glass: Triple pane glass units – combination of 4.2.2 + 16 Argon +6 Low E Safety network on the balconies: Galvanized iron profiles painted in white colour with all necessary preparation work. The network consists of squares derived from iron sheet 40×4 mm external size of 114×114 mm with all the peaks associated with cross stitch of iron with a diameter of 8 mm. Hresa stone: local stone quarried from the surrounding hills highly resistant to cold and heat. Used for lining the main staircases and entrance hall.
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http://www.archdaily.com/798571/wave-housing-ahaknap-plus-saaha
