© Adrià Goula

• Architects: El Equipo Creativo
• Location: 08039 Barcelona, Spain
• Author Architects: Oliver Franz Schmidt, Natali Canas del Pozo, Lucas Echeveste Lacy
• Photographs: Adrià Goula

• Collaborators: Néstor Veloso, Anna Martínez, Cristòfol Tauler, Anna Serra, Savina Radeva, Cristina Huguet
• Lighting Design: ARTEC3
• Contractor: OHL
• Interior Design: Vintage Concept
• Installation Engineer: IMPLANTA Arquitectura
• Client: Marina Port Vell, Salamanca Group

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From the architect. Located at the water’s edge in the Barcelona Port, the interior recreates a wave about to break, embracing the costumers in a marine atmosphere full of reflections and shades.

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Briefing and Concept

We were asked to create a space where you could savour some cocktails in an elegant atmosphere while enjoying the virtues of its location by the water’s edge at the OneOcean Club Port Vell yacht area in Barcelona. The building hosting the Blue Wave Cocktail bar has a particular morphology: a long tube form, with its longest facade facing the water, covered with a white lattice enclosure that creates a play of light and shadow at dawn.

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The Cocktail Bar

The design of the cocktail interior is conceived as a wave. A wave before breaking creates an embracing tube that generates an aquatic, dynamic and unitary space yet filled with reflections and shades. The vertical water wall spills out, becoming something else, like sea foam. Sunset light breaks into golden pieces floating over the water.

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To recreate the wave feeling in the interior we used tiny and reflective elements. The usage of one single material on floors, walls and ceiling unifies the space and strengthens the wrapping sensation of our particular wave. Ceramic tile was the right choice for the preceding qualities and its relationship with the Mediterranean architecture. All ceramic tiles were designed specifically for the project and handmade by a local business of ceramic artisans.

Pavement

The color range goes from deep blue to white, incorporating the white concrete lattice façade of the building as a finishing of the blue space, like the foam to the wave. Golden elements recall the sun reflections on water.

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Terrace

Located at the northern part of the cocktail bar there is a wide terrace. Conceived as a Mediterranean cove, a space of transition between a vegetal, wooded zone and the sea, its stepped topography creates different spaces. A place that invites you to relax, listen to the sea and stare at the horizon.

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The wood pavement generates a topography of different levels. It creates a platform hosting the VIP zone and stands out as the back of the benches, where the Mediterranean vegetation shows and helps us draw the limit of our cove, creating a certain degree of privacy for the area .

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The lower marble tables have an irregular shape and appear like pebbles on the sand once the wave has broken.

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Space, Distribution, Materials and Details

The rectangular and long space of the cocktail bar is organized in a very clear way, with its two short opposite sides open to the entrance area and terrace, and the bar placed in a parallel way to its longest façade.

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The glazed façade allows opening and connecting the interior space to the exterior, this way adding the white lattice of the existing building as part of our wave.

The wave continues its curl through the floor, wall and ceiling and takes form through the use of reflective materials, shiny and blueish, such as ceramic tiles, marble slabs, metals and glass. These materials, organized in surfaces and panels, help us create the patchwork of support elements behind the bar, with the bottle display as one of its main features.

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The bar is part of the wave, and it is conceived as one more of the marble slabs. But in this case it is hung from the ceiling and floats gently in the middle of the space. On its opposite ends the bar turns into a table around which clients can be.

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• Architects: RAW Architecture
• Location: West Jakarta, West Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
• Architect In Charge: Realrich Sjarief
• Area: 250.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Eric Dinardi

• Project Team: Septrio Effendi, Miftahuddin Nurdayat, Rio Triwardana, Tatyana Kusumo, Jovita Lisyani Halim, Tirta Budiman, Rifandi S. Nugroho, Hendrick Tanuwidjaja, Bambang Priyono, Hawandi Wijaya
• General Contractor: Singgih Suryanto
• Supervisor In Charge : Sudjatmiko and Singgih Suryanto
• Construction Manager: Eddy Bachtiar
• Structure Engineer: Edy Sinergi
• Master Carpenter : Syarifuddin Pudin
• Mechanical And Electrical Engineer : Bambang Priyono, Andi, Karim and Hamim
• Team Leader Plan And Illustration: Miftahuddin Nurdayat ,Tatyana Kusumo
• Project Team Of Plan And Illustration : Fadiah Nurannisa, Teddie Gunawan Wijaya, Eunike Nathania, Sherika Permana, Laurencia Nathalia, RR Annisa Raras

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Located at the corner of the Street at Villa Meruya residential precinct, The guild shows its introvert side with the solid and high border wall, the solid fence without a gap to peek. As if to withdraw from the noisy Jakarta city and build its own sanctuary, the guild is solid from the outside but open on the inside. 

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The Building consists of one master bedroom, living room, studio a place to work , a library, one open courtyard and a kitchen. The entrance is introduced by concrete, steel, glass and polycarbonate sheet. The access from public and private is separated by open air corridor. The access to the House and the Studio are separated by 2 x 2 m foyer. 

Ground Floor Plan

The bedroom is located on the 1st floor while the other program is located on the ground floor. The circulation is interlocked to give ease access for the owner to access the studio below.  Living room and also the dining room with total area of 35 sqm located on ground floor, while the more private family rooms are located on the first floor and limited by the void of stairs to separate family area and the studio. 

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Hot west – east tropical sunlight is blocked by placing solid wall and bathroom while the facade is open to the north-south orientation. Several pyramids shaped form is also introduced to allow sunlight coming to the middle of the building and allowing fresh air circulation through the small gaps in between glass and concrete.

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The building system uses an automatic watering system that applies zero greywater runoff and zero storm water runoff. It means the whole water is collected to the retention basin with 8 m3 capacity and 2.75 x 3 m of catchment basin with 1,5 m of depth that also contribute the catchment to the neighbor.

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The studio is consist of 6 x 6 m square shape, a small void. The small void has a tapered skylight made of concrete with several small gaps to provide light and air circulation. The library named Omah which is open at the weekend has  the size of 3,4 x 12,3 m. It is sunken at perimeter area, half below the height of 0:00 meters considering public access and the needs that require a condition to keep books from the sun and constant temperature with  the minimum possible to use the air conditioner. At the heart of the house  is a courtyard with a fish pond with a background of the 3.5 m radius circle window with 3.50 m looking through the family room. The Guild is one example of project which exercise the modification of form and program with interlocked circulation  in the tropical climate of Jakarta, Indonesia.

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© Yong-joon Choi

• Architects: Betwin Space Design
• Location: South Korea
• Design Directors: Jung-gon Kim, Hwan-woo Oh
• Design Team: Sun Kim, Hye-jin Yang, Su-in Lee, Dae-hyun Lee
• Client : KGC
• Area: 220.9 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Yong-joon Choi

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“Two years for gathering energy of the earth with the sounds of water, wind and human footstep, and six years for looking after ginseng. Six-year-old Red Ginseng nourished by the devotion of KGC (Korea Ginseng Corporation) for eight years. ”Opened on the first floor of KT&G (Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation) Tower last August, Café Sapoon Sapoon expresses the advertising copy of Cheong-Kwan-Jang implicatively. Sapoon Sapoon is a compound word of Saponin, main ingredient of red ginseng, and Spoon, a tool to deliver taste and nutriment of food. As Sapoon also means ‘a figure of light and careful step’ and ‘light and refreshing state of body and mind’ in pure Korean word, people can feel refreshing scenery with light beverage. 

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Sapoon Sapoon is a casual space created by KGC in order to be free from the perception, ‘Red ginseng is nothing but health functional food’, while keeping credibility of company and its quality-first spirit. Betwin Space Design grafted traditional ideology of Cheong-Kwan-Jang on this café modernly. They applied two elements, ‘Nature’ and ‘Lab’ to the space for delivering the products produced obstinately for a long time to young customers intimately. They obtained the motif from the scenery of ginseng field. All the natural elements composing the field such as wooden structure for screening sunlight, shading curtain, wind, and hilly spot become design elements of Sapoon Sapoon. Sculpture on the ceiling which overwhelms the space secretly symbolizes the wooden structure to control the quantity of sunlight. Fabric which surrounds the repetitive sculptures is a metaphor of shading curtain, which penetrates the light while fluttering naturally in the wind. And they created various shapes of seats, reflecting customers’ extensive needs for seat. 

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Floor Plan

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It also applied the element of ‘earth’ through the design method to put wood on concrete or to compose diverse levels. Outdoor terrace has chairs and backs formed only by level difference, which is extended to inside organically. Along table in the middle expresses the feeling of earth only with the matter property of concrete, and plants are placed on it here and there. Lower part of front bar patternizes the figure of spreading ginseng roots in three dimensions, a sculpture behind the bar displays professionalism and credibility with piping equipment for Cold Brew and materials reminding of laboratory.

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© Christopher Alexander

• Architects: Rara Architecture
• Location: Clifton Hill VIC 3068, Australia
• Architect In Charge: Wesley Spencer
• Area: 208.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Christopher Alexander , Alison McWhirter Photography

• Structural Engineer : John Kyrgios Building Surveyor – AABP
• Land Survey : Brian Watson Energy Rating – BEAC
• Soil Report : Indepth Geotech Builder –Precision Building Solutions Styling – Mila Jarvis

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From the architect. Our mission was to reinstate the old home’s glory through highlighting it’s simplistic characteristics and its overall form. We stripped it right back to a neutral state. The height of the rear addition had the potential to dwarf the original heritage home, so, sympathetically, we mimicked the roof angle, but didn’t hide it. Nothing about the addition is ‘trying to hide’ anything. The old building transitions smoothly to the new, visually and emotionally, both internally and externally – the old floorboards transition to a new polished concrete slab, the old weatherboards transition to a perforated brick wall (outlining the central Zen garden) and then again to a solid brick wall. The addition, which can

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be enjoyed from the rear lanes and from within the property stands proud, like the existing Edwardian; it stands high, and strong without any exaggeration or excess, it is brutal, minimal and statuesque: a monolith.

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Our client hired us knowing the value an architect can add to the quality of their space. Bianca pushed us really hard to getting an exceptional work of architecture and not something easy they could ‘pull off’ as owner builders. This licensed us to explore some challenging design ideas that were pushed around in council for a while and was quite challenging structurally.

Ground Floor Plan

The result is outstanding. It’s a humble house, with a simple and modest extension that meets the highest standards – everything is considered. With a variety of different spaces to enjoy and storage for everything. No one would guess there were two toddlers living in the space.

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The front half is a fully refurbished double fronted weatherboard Edwardian with a calm grey palette that really celebrates the old. The new mimics the striking form of the Edwardian, while employing the use of modern materials built to last. The design intent is to make the space feel endless and not confined; to be able to see right through the house, regardless of where you are. The new open plan living and dining areas boast ample space for entertaining by eliminating the island bench. The client wanted to pack away the amenities behind a wall; so we gave her exactly that.

1st Floor Plan

Upstairs, we managed to avoid frosted windows by dropping fixed windows to the floor (more interactive for the children), while having the openable windows above 1.7m. The raked cathedral ceilings make the space feel larger than it is in the playroom/study area.

The site is less than 300sqm, making it difficult to design a functional 3 bedroom family home with enough subsidiary space for each family member that meets today’s market expectations. So we decided to forget about the market’s expectations and make a truly beautiful space that did all of those things simply and perfectly and suited for a family.

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The result is a space that feels like it’s floating. Externally, the facade dons only a slim line window ribboning the bottom leaving a brilliantly blank monolithic wall looming over the back yard. 

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Product Description. We choose to use Cemintel Barestone for the 1st floor extension cladding as we wanted something substantial while also low maintenance and cost effective. We love that it’s lightweight, comes in large sheets and is easy to install. The finish of the compressed fiber cement panels has an impressive concrete feel to it and is crisp and elegant making the overhanging extension look proud and monolithic, which the project was named after.

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© Eduardo Sánchez

• Architects: Pablo Notari Oviedo, SUMAR urbanismo y arquitectura , CONURMA Ingenieros Consultores
• Location: Paseo John Lennon, Getafe, Madrid, Spain
• Area: 28076.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2004
• Photographs: Eduardo Sánchez

• Chief Architect: Steffen Ringler
• Project Team: Begoña Vives Vinent, Judith Krassnig, Amelia Mateos Yagüe, Augusto Signorio MacroDraftsman: José Luis Paredes Conde Bill of Quantities: Manuel Sevilla Seoane, Yolanda García Portillo Systems engineer: David Torremocha Mesto Structure engineer: Infotaller de Estructuras S.L.
• Draftsman: José Luis Paredes Conde
• Bill Of Quantities: Manuel Sevilla Seoane, Yolanda García Portillo
• Systems Engineer: David Torremocha Mesto
• Structure Engineer: Infotaller de Estructuras S.L
• Works Supervision Team: Pablo Notari Oviedo (Architect), Steffen Ringler, David Torremocha Mesto (Collaborators), Manuel Sevilla Seoane (Assistant)

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From the architect. This project was born as result of the restricted competition launched in April, 2002 by AIRBUS Spain S.L. The works began in February 2003, ending in July of 2004.

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The building is located at the entrance of the Airbus factory in Getafe´s municipality, forming its access door.

Ground Floor

The spatial solution of three blocks supported on a stone podium linked to the topography, is the fundamental element of its expression, creating a central courtyard where the main entrance is located.

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This access space is designed as a large Atrium surrounded by the glazed wings of the offices, and covered by a large canopy. The wings are connected with the rear longitudinal block by two vertical circulation cores, where also the spaces of relationship and service of each plant are located. In the rear block the closed offices are located, and the open offices are on the glazed wings.

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Type Floor

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In the access floor two patios as guiding spaces of the building are arranged, dynamic spaces both by the horizontal circulations created around them, as by the different intensities and reflections of natural light that they produce.

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This Project, highly energy efficient and sustainable, expresses the commitment of AIRBUS with the environment.

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The North longitudinal block has a metal panels façade, similar to the industrial buildings of the factory. But to the South it has a double façade composed by a skin of glass, and a second façade of horizontal metal louvers for light sun control.

Detail

Detail

The lateral wings also have double façades, in this case double glass façades with an intermediate space. These double façades are intended to prevent the greenhouse effect, which is difficult to control using louvers in the East and West orientations. This double façade forces up the hot air circulation in the inside, eliminating it quickly in summer, and allowing its reuse in winter by injecting the hot air in the air conditioning system.

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The energy-efficient system is completed with a ventilated double cover formed by metal louvers that meet three functions: the protection of the air conditioning machinery, the solar light passive control optimizing the circulation of air, and the support of the photovoltaic panels.

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San Francisco Shipyard. Image Courtesy of Adjaye Associates

Adjaye Associates has been announced as the firm that will serve as masterplan architect and creative director for the second phase of revitalization of the San Francisco Shipyard, the waterfront neighborhood located at Hunter’s Point along the San Francisco Bay.

The project, developed by FivePoint Holdings, is envisioned as a state-of-the-art commercial district containing offices, labs, research facilities and housing, and will feature a mix of reclaimed heritage buildings and new constructions. The plan will center around acres of public spaces and sports grounds.

“I’m thrilled to be partnering with FivePoint to explore ways to reinvigorate this site’s unique infrastructure for the 21st Century,” said David Adjaye, firm principal. “This is a project with incredible transformative potential; to be given the opportunity to contribute to San Francisco’s urban fabric in such a significant way is a true honor.”

“David Adjaye is one of the world’s most prolific architects. We are delighted that he is bringing his unique, creative talents and culture to help shape the physical spaces and urban form of the second phase of The San Francisco Shipyard,” said Kofi Bonner, Northern California regional president for FivePoint.

The masterplan will be developed over the next five years with a multibillion dollar investment from FivePoint. The design will draw inspiration from the Shipyard’s rural and naval origins to celebrate the layered 150-year history of the neighborhood while maximizing access to the waterfront.

The Shipyard site will serve as the anchor of a larger 760-acre urban plan that aims to add over 12,000 apartments, townhomes and condominiums to the competitive San Francisco housing market, and over 350 acres of waterfront parks, trails and restored shoreline.

You can read more about the project, here.

News via Adjaye Associates.

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