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• Architects: Malcolm Davis Architecture
• Location: Healdsburg, CA, United States
• Area: 5499.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Joe Fletcher

• Landscape Architect: Cary Bush of Merge Studio
• Contractor: Simon Fairweather & Associates

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From the architect. Malcolm Davis Architecture built an incredible contextual indoor/outdoor living space. This off the grid home sits on a stunning 165-wooded acre property in a valley west of Healdsburg. Previously working with the Baird family for their first home in the Bay Area, Malcolm Davis already understood the family and their design aesthetic.

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The home, similar to their very own family campground, is outfitted for the family yearning to unplug from their fast-paced lives and connect to the outdoors. The property has two main structures – a car and barn equipment shed and a main structure, which has three primary enclosed multi-function spaces on opposite ends of the central south-facing porch. These spaces can be used for sleeping, practicing yoga and games. The backyard has an 82-foot long solar-heated swimming pool, a concrete outdoor fireplace used for grilling and cooking and a partially screened outdoor shower, which also functions as their primary shower. In addition, the backyard is the families playground which includes a tree house, rope swing, archery area and two large grass areas flank the east and west end of property for outdoor activities.

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“Camp Baird” is a fully functional, efficient and sustainable compound. The three enclosed rooms can be fully heated by Rais wood stoves while the kitchen is heavily insulated to stay cool on hot summer days. The galvanized metal roofs reduce heat build up and the metal cladding and hardwood Ipe decks in this Wildland Urban Interface zone minimize fire threat. The landscape, done by Cary Bush of Merge Studio, is filled with drought tolerant native species with a row of trees at the parking area to provide future shade for visiting cars. In addition, a snake fence – a 30″ tall metal wall – keeps the immediate compound free from critters.

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Product Description: The buildings are clad in CorTen metal on the walls and galvanized metal roofs. The CorTen allows the simple shed structures to blend into the landscape. The galvanized metal roofs reduce heat build up. The metal cladding and hardwood Ipe decks in this Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) zone minimize fire threat.

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• Architects: (se)arch architekten
• Location: Tübingen, Germany
• Area: 1970.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Zooey Braun

• Structure : merz kley partner ZT GmbH
• Construction Site Area: 980 m2

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The intercultural education center is located in an attractive urban location not far from the historical district of Tübingen. The direct proximity to the riverside as well as the view of the castle are characteristic of the particular situation of the property. Inspired by the pavilion structure of the surrounding existing buildings, an ensemble of two differently sized buildings emerged: the two-storey primary school and the smaller, one-storey children‘s home. Both houses were designed on a square floor plan with a pyramid roof and are connected via a common, covered entrance area. 

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The two pavilion-like solitaires create a high permeability in the outer space due to their open arrangement. The result is a “school landscape” through which the important paths and perspectives are preserved as far as possible. Due to the location and topography of the property, the striking roof surfaces can be experienced as a fifth façade. Splitting the entire cubature into two smaller buildings creates a child-friendly scale that supports the desired clear orientation. 

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Site Plan

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Children can enter the school and the children‘s house through the shared, weather protected access. Together with the switchable multifunctional areas, the cafeteria and the seating sections, here you will find space to interact and to meet. On the ground floor of the children‘s house, a multi-purpose room and the administration is located at the entrance, the group rooms open to the landscape tot he East. The primary school welcomes the students on the ground floor with more public spaces such as cafeteria, communal area and library. 

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Floor Plan

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Floor Plan

Characteristic of the atmosphere in the interior spaces of both buildings is the large, square skylight in the roof, which functions as a large „light shower“ providing plenty of natural daylight in the center of the buildings. In order to open up this open learning lands- cape filled with zenital light with the seat step, the classrooms and classrooms, which can be used in a variety of ways, are located on the upper floor of the school.

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Around this, filled with zenital light, open learning landscape the classrooms are situated. This zone is multiple usable and connected to the open staircase with seating steps. 

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Both houses have a façade of cedar-wood shingles, which by their small size and warm material language strengthen the scale and atmosphere of the ensemble. Both the children‘s house and the school are built in timber construction, only reinforced concrete has been used for the floor and floor ceilings. All materials were tested and carefully selected for their pollutants and primary energy requirements. 

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Despite the high energetic demands of a passive house, which has already been formula- ted in the competition, the technology appears as an unpretentious and integrative part of the house: the two solitaires offer quiet, concentrated spaces, which give the children a high degree of identification. 

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OMA has released images of their masterplan for Feyenoord City, Rotterdam, after the plan was approved by city’s mayor and alderman. Developed for the Feyenoord football club, the project will consist of a redeveloped mixed-use district centered around a new 63,000 seat stadium for the team located along the Maas River.

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The stadium will serve as the starting point for business development in the area, linking to the rest of the Rotterdam-Zuid district through a walkway and generous public space. A new active artery, called “The Strip,” will connect the new arena with Feyenoord’s current stadium, De Kuip, whose history will be preserved by its conversion into apartments, commercial space, an athletics sports center and a public square.

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Stadium – Varkenoordseviaduct. Image © OMA

The renovated “Kuip Park” will contain more than 89,000 square meters (958,000 square feet) of green space for sport and leisure activities, as well as 700 residential units.

View – Kuip North. Image © OMA

In total, the masterplan will add 180,000 square meters (1,938,000 square feet) of housing in a variety of typologies; 64,000 square meters (689,000 square feet) of retail and commercial space, including a cinema, restaurants and shopping; and 83,000 square meters (893,000 square feet) of various public program elements including a “sports experience” and urban sports fields. 

Feyenoord City Bird's-Eye View. Image © OMA

Model photos (New Stadium). Image © OMA

“With the development of Feyenoord City, OMA contributes to the next phase of development for the city of Rotterdam, our home town. We help to connect parts of the city that were isolated and difficult to reach; we designed a piece of city around the Feyenoord football club and its new stadium, which will connect people through sport and community,” said David Gianotten, partner-in-charge at OMA.

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“With this design, OMA fulfills our strong desire to develop a sport city that is unique in the Netherlands and northern Europe.”

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• Architects: Wülser Bechtel Architekten
• Location: Zürich, Switzerland
• Architects In Charge: Stefan Wülser, Nicolaj Bechtel, Daniel Klinger (PL)
• Area: 85.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Stefan Wülser

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From the architect. Tranquility and movement

We’ve been working on a art-inspired hairdressers salon interior on one of the most busy streets of Zurich. The brief said that their ambitious clients should forget about their jobs and problems once they get their hair done. It’s a highly personal and very demanding service and the atmosphere is a huge part of the experience. 

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There was obviously a huge difference in mood from the hectic and noisy street outside to the laidback music and the repetitive sound of high quality scissors inside. It seems that time passes in different tempi. 

Plan

The quick pace of the outside can be considered distracting for what the hairdressor wants to achieve but at the same time we don’t want to neglect the surrounding since we were interested in a very specific solution. We developed a pattern that is both – unhasty and intricate at the same time. It remains interesting since it changes it appearence depending on the perspective of it’s observer. It’s the result of an elaborate series of prototypes done with a local carpenter and inspired by contemporary graphic art (like the beautiful painting by Emilie Ding) or classic modern stage designs (like Roman Clemens’ work).

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Spatial Installation

The delicate wood interior was partly prefabricated using CAAD and CAM technologies but also involved a lot of handcraft. We managed to develop some refined and invisible longitudinal connections between pieces of 3mm MDF wood. Everything had to be as thin and precise as possible to not spoil the perspective effect. It took a lot of testing and developing before everything was assembled within 6 days of work. It’s more of an installation then a classic architecural approach but we believe the precision and the site-specific approach creates something very timeless here.

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As a customer you spend between 1 and 3 hours in the . You move slowly inside the patterns space – so it unfolds it’s rich variations when you change direction of view. As a cardriver or pedestrian you see the ceiling kind of „transform“ while you move by rather quickly because you change the angle of view more drastically. 

Diagram

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Diagram

Since this geometric perception phenomena is the dominating spatial idea – all the other elements of the salon are stripped to their very functional minimum. The lights and the plugs hang from the ceiling. Black wires not touching neither floor nor ceiling. Nothing comes out of walls since we wanted this temporary – artgallery like space. We also designed a specific series of mirrors for the salon which always comes in symmetrical pairs. While there is the mirror on the frontside – the back serves as a table to place magazines and drinks. The existing column in the back of the space is thicker then it should be from a structural point of view. But it gives weight and centres to the whole space – it is a welcoming disturbance to all the repeating parts and emphasizes the thinness of the wooden ceiling and walls.

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CBS has announced they will produce a television adaptation of the 2016 book, “A Burglar’s Guide to the City,” with a storyline that centers on modern-day Robin Hoods led by a talented architect. Written by futurist Geoff Manaugh of BLDG BLOG, the book serves a blueprint to the urban fabric’s various potentials for crime. Manaugh uses architecture to study structures and their weak points that could allow for a possible break-in (i.e. elevator shafts, walls of high-rise apartments, gaps in museum surveillance).

The book even references real heists that have changed its readers’ day-to-day perspective on architecture.

“A Burglar’s Guide to the City shows that architecture is too important to leave to just the architects,” said architect Bjarke Ingels about the book.

Executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Justin Lin and Heather Kadin, and co-executive producer Paul Grellong will head the development of the series. Grellon, who wrote the script, is also well-known for Revolution and Law & Order: SVU. CBS has currently committed to producing a “put pilot” for A Burglar’s Guide to the City, which is an agreement that guarantees the network will air the show or face providing significant monetary conpensation. CBS will then review to consider adding it to their full lineup of shows.

A Burglar’s Guide to the City spent two consecutive months on the New York Times Month Bestseller list for crime. At the time of its publishing, Paola Antonelli, the Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote, “In his new book, elegant, perverse, sinuous supervillains maneuver and master the city like parkour champions. I see the TV series already.”

Her hypothesis has now become a reality.

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Neither of Richard Neutra’s Case Study Houses, post-war thought experiments commissioned by Arts & Architecture, was ever realized. In the imaginary village of these unbuilt homes, next to #6, the Omega house, stands #13, named Alpha. Archilogic’s 3D model gives us a unique chance to experience this innovative concept home.

Each of Neutra’s projects was designed for a family of five, and each reveals his psychoanalytic approach to architecture, in which the house itself is an intimate part of family relationships, as important as the personalities involved. (Neutra was personally acquainted with Freud, and a committed follower of birth trauma theorist Otto Rank.) Underlining this Freudian view, his imaginary clients are not just neighbours—they are related; Mrs Alpha being sister to Mrs Omega.

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The magazine’s introduction of the Alpha house avows: “Together these people had decided on a most favourable scheme, to settle themselves side by side”—which of course provides the architect with an excuse for designing two houses as an intimate pair, but might cause a raised eyebrow if we consider the psychological state of grown women insisting on raising their families in this twinned condition. Neutra, known to employ psychoanalytic tricks on his clients to win their commitment to his ideas, and by his own admission “quite enthusiastic in placing the accent on individuality on the consumer,” surely delighted in this fantasy.

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As with the Omega house, and appropriately for the southern California setting, the (hypothetical) brief emphasizes outdoor living, and in particular the need for the space to accommodate a large group of children—the groups from each family co-mingling and travelling around from patio to patio. Wide open sliding doors meet that need for easy traffic, this transparency contrasting with the suggestively hidden, libidinous play area provided by the lath house “overgrown with vines.”

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More innuendo comes to light with the requirement that guest accommodation should be far away from the family bedrooms and their “negligé-behavior.” They are “not prudish,” these Alphas, and indeed most families might be uncomfortable with their practical notion of having “a lavatory right in the room” of the eldest son in order, apparently, to facilitate sleepovers.

Like the Omega house, Alpha has a sloping roof, but in this case it tilts down toward the kitchen and garage—avoiding the Omega time-trap of having children stuck in low-ceilinged rooms they are sure to grow out of. Just as well, since the Alpha kids are already heading into adolescence; this does point to the impending obsolescence of the play area, but then, it is just a wide corridor after all.

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The shared features of the two houses—tilted roofs, identical fixtures, finishes and facing materials—make a statement about neighbourhood planning. These houses are not intended to stand alone, but to be part of a community (albeit perhaps less intimate than the almost incestuous Alphas and Omegas). They look outward; not just literally, thanks to the abundant glass that takes advantage of those Californian views, but figuratively, acknowledging that an individual home takes its place within a neighborhood and contributes to it. This community spirit and the indoor-outdoor lifestyle planning evinced by Neutra’s designs—both firm tenets of modern housing development—withstand examination perhaps better than the details of the bedroom arrangements.

Don’t miss Archilogic’s other models of Case Study Houses and seminal projects shared on ArchDaily—click here to see them all!

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China-based firm EID Architecture has been selected as the winner of a design competition for a mixed-use development, entitled Longfor Phase IV, in Chongqing, China. Designed as an exploration of vertical urbanism on a high-density scope, the project is composed of a “single tower and associated podium integrated as an assembled massing of stacked box-like volumes.”

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At 150 meters tall, the building will offer office space in its upper levels, and retail on its lower levels.

An “urban void” is created in the center of the project, where on lower levels, an open space acts as a “gravitational core,” around which the rest of the building organizes itself, “stimulating movement and activity through the vertical space that energizes and defines the associated programmatical components and offers a visual and spatial connection to the multi-level exterior terrain at ground level.”

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On a design level, the project draws inspiration from the nearby countryside—with its natural karst formations— as well as from the surrounding city, where vernacular dwellings cascade down steep inclines in the city’s fabric.

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“The outcome is a design that is both contextual and iconic, contextually integrated whilst unique in appearance that allows for a visual and spatial porosity and connectivity across all levels with a naturally balanced composition of stacked box-like volumes interlocked with a tower component, creating a design of understated monumentality and a harmonious contextually responsive composition,” said the architects in a press release.

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In order to connect the East and West sides, the project will feature a terraced grand stair, which will additionally create ground level entrances at multiple levels.

Furthermore, the building will include garden terraces and a green wall within its lobby, in an effort to connect the space with the natural environment around it.

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Courtesy of EID Architecture

Longfor Phase IV is currently heading into the schematic design phase, and is expected to be completed in 2019.

The project was recently awarded an AIA HK merit award for unbuilt project.

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In the latest edition of Section D, Monocle 24’s weekly review of design, architecture and craft, the team speak to Moshe Safdie – the Israeli-Canadian architect whose “signature geometric style of lavish curves and green space has made the self-styled Modernist an influential voice” in the profession. The conversation, broadcast from Safdie’s Marina Bay Sands complex in Singapore, reflects on his life and work – including Montréal’s Habitat 67.

Habitat 67 / Moshe Safdie

Habitat 67 / Moshe Safdie

Find out more about Monocle 24’s Section D here.

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• Architects: CUNS
• Location: Słowackiego, Poznań, Poland
• Architects In Charge: Michalina Majcherkiewicz Chmielowska, Jędrzej Sobkiewicz
• Area: 130.0 m2
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Hanna Długosz

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From the architect. We would like to present you the reconstruction project of the loft’s space into the private accommodation in an apartment building. The building was built in the late nineteenth century.

Floor Plan

Both district and the building itself are located in the preservation maintenance zone. The tenement is located in the compact residential of the street, it has 4 floors, a cellar and an attic.

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Such space requires an individual approach as well as the application of unusual solutions, we did not change the cubature, gross covered area, its height, length, width and the number of the stores, however we have created a new history of the place!

Section

Section

We tried to keep the effect of the maximally open space and the exposure of the important elements for us. Among them you can find the roof construction and the original height of the rooms.

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Very clearly exposed wooden roof construction gives the interior the flavor and in our opinion  – it highlights its uniqueness. By creating a new function of the loft, we felt as if it was our operating pattern; the look of the interior is dedicated by the roof construction.

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Multiple number of windows in the whole loft allows the sun a better exposure of all the rooms. Moreover, the big white planes of the walls and ceilings do brighten the space. Lighted by the skylight, the  open kitchen interior is a link between the private sphere of the owners and the living and the guest room. The large kitchen with a huge cooking island is an excellent place for cooking and spending relaxing time in the hammock.

As well as the tenements, we also love the natural materials. Here, except for the pine wood, the brick  played the major role. We used it on the knee walls, and on the whole length of the tenement’s wall, By doing it – we have emphasized the length of the apartment.  

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The living room is a separate big part of the whole open daily space. This is  place with the TV and comfortable, variable seats, located around. It is a perfect space to relax with friends

The bathroom, dedicated mainly to the guests, but used as a toilet on a daily basis, has a basin, lavatory and the shower. Another bathroom was designed in the bedroom. The idea of  an open bathtub next to the bed is the removal of all the barriers between these spaces. The bathtub is located in the bay window, with an easy access to the wardrobe located in this room. Next to it, we have additionally designed a separate box with the toilet and the shower.

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The attic’s floor is a mix of the pine wood and the very dark gres tiles with an interesting and irregular surface. We kept the interiors in the earthy tones, that together with the timeless whiteness present themselves the prettiest.

Product Description. We wanted to keep  the original character of the tenement that’s why one of the most important materials we used are definitely the original sliced bricks and also wooden floors (pine).

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