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• Architects: Studio MK27 – Marcio Kogan, Lair Reis
• Location: Catuçaba, São Luís do Paraitinga – SP, Brazil
• Author: Marcio Kogan
• Co Author: Lair Reis
• Area: 309.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

• Project Team: Carlos Costa, Flavia Maritan, Laura Guedes, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo Pessano
• Contractor : Eight Pharcon
• Mep: Natural Works
• Landscape Design: Estelle Dugachard
• Structure And Wood Frame: Carpinteria/Alan Dias

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Laid out over the valley, at an altitude of 1,500 meters, the house has a strong relationship with the local nature, abundant throughout most of the year. That allow for autonomy in generating energy. The main premise of the project is to make energy consumption efficient while simultaneously offer comfort to the user, beginning with the simplicity of contact with the local nature.

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© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

It’s FSC wooden pre-fab structure, to the point that it  remains supported on the land through some pillars,  without directly touching the ground, responds well to the necessity of building on a rugged piece of land, far from the city and difficult access. On this, the external ground is a deck also made in certified wood and the internal floor is clay brick made from the local soil. From this same soil the house is made. 

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Plan

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The divisors of the house are wood frames with woolen insulation of PET which makes it an environmentally correct house.  Frames with double windows guarantee the comfort and ventilation.  The roof is a  wooden platform with vegetation which integrates  the house with its surroundings rue composing the area of the land shaded by it. In the vast landscape, the house create a link between that which is built and that which is natural.

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Soriano & Arquitectos Asociados (S&Aa) has unveiled its plans for ‘The Pitcher’s Mounds’ a project that received fourth place in a competition to design the Tainan Asia-Pacific International Baseball Stadiums and Training Centers in Taiwan.

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In an effort to “return to the origins” of the playing field—a horizontally-based, natural concept rather than the vertical and enclosed idea of a stadium—the design of the complex is conceptualized as an urban garden.

A sports stadium for baseball, soccer, or swimming is not a building. But a landscape instead. Hence, a set of sports stadiums is an urban park, an urban garden –  explains the architect in a media release. 

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The stadiums, training facilities, and other related programs are arranged in “a landscape of soft hills and waves,” with each program occupying its own ellipse-shaped area. These ellipses of varying sizes are arranged and layered according to three subcategories: natural landscapes, such as lakes and gardens, artificial landscapes, like stadiums, and circulation, which includes pedestrian paths and vehicle roads.

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One main pedestrian road cuts across the entire site and leads to the main stadium, which is placed on a large hill, underneath it is where players and administration spaces will be located. This hill will be created from existing soil removed from the site so that no external soil supply is necessary. Furthermore, no soil will be taken from the site, thereby creating an equilibrium of material.

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Additionally, the roof structure of the main stadium will not be one continuous or solid piece, but rather, a conglomeration of variously sized pieces resembling clouds or tree leaves, which, together, will cover all of the stands. These pieces will furthermore be translucent, so as to allow for natural lighting, and to lower electricity expenses.

News via Soriano & Arquitectos Asociados (S&Aa).

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• Architects: AZC
• Location: 122 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
• Team: Grégoire Zündel, Irina Cristea
• Area: 10544.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Sergio Grazia

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The project consists of the renovation of an existing building of 10.544m2 surface area in Boulogne Billancourt, the redesign of the facades, taking into account the overall structure, the renovation of the technical premises, and the optimization of office spaces.

Plan

The building required an architectural revival justified by the evolution of office uses as well as the energetic standards.

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The issues of energetic efficiency were subtly approached, in the facades and facilities designs, by customizing solutions rather than simply applying current regulations brutally. The entire building’s facades were wiped entirely clean of all superfluous elements. The whole structure was consolidated with the aim of obtaining good stability and a full transparency (65% in glass).

Section

The building’s new skin, is a double ventilated façade of slight thickness.
The idea of total flexibility was pursued throughout the uniform grid patterning of the facade paneling into 1.35m modules corresponding of the suspended ceilings, and through the electrical and technical “irrigation” of the offices by means of raised floors and suspended ceilings.

The building’s new image forms both out of restraint regarding the economy of means and the taking into account of the client’s expressed wishes and needs. Our proposition highlights generosity of space, light, comfort, and wellbeing. Today more than ever businesses are sensitive to the image their facades present to the world, as well as to the amount of comfort they can provide their employees.

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