Fazenda Boa Vista is a private home located in Porto Feliz, Brazil. It was designed by Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados in 2015. Fazenda Boa Vista by Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados: “In line with the owners’ aspirations, a basic parameter guided the project for this farmhouse in Porto Feliz, São Paulo: to create a country home that emphasized its integration with the landscape, preferably by means of a lightweight structure, with..
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- Architects: CCHE
- Location: Château-d’Oex, Switzerland
- Area: 4018.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Rafael Rojas
- Client: Communes de Château d’Oex, Rossinière et Rougemont
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The project is part of a tenuous and varied social structure of the village. Established in continuity of the existing primary school, volumetric balance is given by the concrete base on which stands a volume of timber.
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The wooden volume forms the covered courtyard, cantilever that terminates the playground and showcases the panorama and the clearance to the mountains.
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The set, a simple structural concept forms a box resistant to wind loads and potential earthquakes. It meets prefabrication techniques needed to build an economic project, whose implementation is easy and of quick execution (12 months).
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Floor Plan 03
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The existing plant filter is maintained, forming a buffer zone between the court and the main road. Wooden panels used for interior coverings and facade participate in the warm atmosphere of the school, while meeting the villagers and mountainous character of the place.
The design and project materiality contribute to sustainable development.
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Da Chang Muslim Cultural Center / Architectural Design & Research Institute of Scut
Night view. Image © Yao Li
- Architects: Architectural Design & Research Institute of Scut
- Location: Dachang County, Hebei Province, China
- Design Team: Guo Weihong, Pan Yudan, Zheng Changbo, Li Kaixin, Chen Zong, Wang Renyu, Huang Guannan
- Principal Architect: He Jingtang
- Area: 35000.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Yao Li
- Investor: China Fortune Land Development Co., Ltd (CFLD)
- Interior Design: Architectural Design & Research Institute of Scut, City group
South Elevation. Image © Yao Li
From the architect. Cultural architectures have always been academician He Jingtang’s “specialty”.
Project Dachang National Palace is no doubt his another masterpiece. Located in Dachang Hui Autonomous County, Langfang, Hebei province, the project is supposed by the local government to be an iconic design, introducing Dachang’s particular culture and enhancing the soft power of the city. The national palace is thus endowed with multiple functions, serving not only as the recreation center of the city, but the essential cultural site for the introduction of local religion and history as well. It has undoubtedly brought lots of challenges to the designer, because of the special ethnic composition, historical context, religious belief, complex functional requirements of the site and the setting of a cultural landmark.
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In the design of the project, Academician He Jingtang has also carried out his concept of “2 Views” and “3 Characters”, with the starting point of holistic view and sustainable development concept, fully considering regionalism, cultural, and epochal character of the architecture, therefore presents us an excellent design.
South-west elevation. Image © Yao Li
Diagram: function analysis
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This is a poetic sanctuary that shows people both the brilliant Islamic culture and our vision for a better life. This is also a homelike cultural center that provides a spiritual home for local residents especially Muslims.
Arch detail. Image © Yao Li
Axonometric drawing
Night view of the arch. Image © Yao Li
Dachang County is a Muslim enclave near Beijing. To revive the Islamic culture and improve the quality of culture life, the local government developed Da Chang Muslim Cultural Center, a cultural complex integrating the functions of theatre, exhibition, convention and community center.
Detailed design. Image © Yao Li
Based on traditional mosque, the building subtly interprets the spatial structure of mosque with new materials and technologies. The surrounding arches shrink into elegant curves from the bottom up, while the cambering petal-shaped arches of the reflection in the water look even more vivid and graceful. The dome sees the translation and abstraction of Islamic symbols rather than simple mimicking. We constitute the dome with petaloid shells and creatively transform the interior space into a semi-exterior roof garden flooded with sunshine, fresh air and vegetation.
Dusk view. Image © Yao Li
Chinese designs towards the world
In recent years, Academician He Jingtang and his team have also begun stepping onto the international stage, attracting with their splendid designs more and more attention of internationally renowned architectural media, universities, and critics, and have won their great praise. On the 10th of this month, Academician He Jingtang will be invited to the Venice Architecture University to launch an exhibition with the theme of PLACE, CULTURE, TIME——He Jingtang: Design for Drastically Changing China Opening Activities ,and he will also chair the opening forum.
Bird's view. Image © Yao Li
Orizzontale Activates the Street with Wooden Intervention in the Azores Islands
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Orrizontale has constructed “Casa do Quarteirão,” a permanent wooden installation developed for Walk&Talk 2016, an annual arts festival in the Azores islands, that reclaims the physical space of the street for “convivial and collaborative use.”
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In 2011, Walk&Talk was founded to “transform the islands into a laboratory for contemporary and transdisciplinary artistic creation, producing experimental projects, in a permanent dialogue with the territory, the culture and the local community, promoting a favorable environment for sharing and co-creation.”
Collaborating with visual designer NO-ROCKET, Orrizontale builds on this mission with “Casa do Quarteirão.” Located in the O Quarteirão neighborhood near the Ponta Delgada historic city center, the project attempts to preserve and enhance an area of the city that has not been invaded by parking lots and cars.
“After a first visit in Ponta Delgada, during a public talk at MIOLO Art Gallery, we chose together with the inhabitants to work in the small Travessa da Rua d’Acoa, to materialize a common square, a place for the community,” explain the architects on their site decision.
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Orrizontale refers to the project concept as a Viviero, a collective greenhouse for the community, inspired by the intimacy of traditional Azorian residential architecture. Thus the structure features two program elements: a pavilion for the community gather and hold events (Rua Pedro Homem), and a small structure with a terrace (Rua d’ Acoa) to provide a cozy setting for taking in the area. Between these two structures, a new public square emerged.
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The project is designed to be transformable, using modular frames that can be easily reassembled into several configurations that meet the needs of a variety of activities. The structures were constructed with help from the community in just five days, using wood from the Cryptomeria japonica, an endemic conifer species that grows in the island.
For more on Walk&Talk 2016, check out the event website, here.
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Studio Ossidiana Translates Elements of Persian Gardens Into Lively Materials Exhibition
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Studio Ossidiana, founded by Alessandra Covini and Tomas Dirrix, investigates architectural materials through experimental research projects. Their recent work “Petrified Carpets” explores the “ideal garden” found in Persian carpets and will be showcased at the Dutch Design Festival of 2016 along with other exhibitions.
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“The carpet is interpreted here as a planimetric representation of a garden.”
The exhibition is essentially a collection of concrete architectural objects, which represent or resemble specific components of a Persian garden (i.e. the central fountain, the kiosk, the doorways to the garden, etc).
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Studio Ossidiana explored various strategies in casting and texturizing the concrete to form specific translations of the acclaimed gardens. Combining pigments, stones, sand and cement in different ratios suggests the multiple contours, tones, and shades of gardens.
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Each of their objects possesses a stunning expressiveness that attracts the wandering eye. Having collaborated with the high-end prefabricated concrete manufacturer, Hurks, each object was constructed to expose “lively and bright characters of its material.”
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Alongside graphic designers Team Thursday, Studio Ossidiana is currently at work on a publication about Petrified Carpets with the photos from Kyoungtae Kim. Their installation — produced for “In No Particular Order,” an exhibition curated by Agata Jaworska — was supported by the Talent Development Program of the Creative Industries Fund NL.
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