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• Architects: Losada García
• Location: 10335 Peraleda de la Mata, Cáceres, Spain
• Architect In Charge: Losada-Amor, Alberto García Jiménez
• Area: 330.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
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• Collaborators: Adriana Quesada
• Builder: Domus fortis
• Pictures: Javier Lairado Arte-On
• Budget: 196.020 euros + VAT
• Ratio: 594 € /m2

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From the architect. Peraleda House is a comprehensive rebuild, keeping part of the original walls of the existing house and the yard, located in a small and historic town in Cáceres. The project aims to think about how to revive an existing house into a contemporary home in a classic urban area setting with restrictive rules. 

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Diagram

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To do that, two distinct elements are combined. On the one hand, a stone element as the ordinances dictate that lays the base of the house span the entrance and give access to the home through metal doors. On the other hand, a sinuous line crosses the night areas and the pool and forms the inner courtyard.

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This duality provides two types of facades: an introverted one with metallic and flared openings respond to those of a church across the street; and the other one is extroverted with large openings that let in light through the courtyard.

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Model

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Strategies:

1. Access to the House through the hallway that the stone masonry conforms to.

2. Introverted-facades avoiding the views of neighbors and outgoing-facade that illuminates the interior.

3. Enter from the hallway through metal doors to the daily areas. 

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• Architects: Architects 49
• Location: Phuket, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket 83000, Thailand
• Architect In Charge: Architects 49
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Chaovarith Poonphol

• Lighting Designer : 49 Lighting Design Consultants Limited
• Structural Engineer : Branch Associates Limited
• System Engineer : Geo design & engineering consultant
• Contractor : CareCon Construction

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Floor Plan

“Beyond the Jatumharachiga heaven settled is the highest land of heaven known as “The Tavatimsa Heaven”. This heavenly land covers a large area of 20,480,000 square kilometer, and surrounding it stands a long continuous glass wall that stretches into the sky. The place consists of thousand doors, each leading to a prestigious castle situated on the top. As the door slide apart an elegant flow of melody resonates throughout the place. A distance away, located is a pool of crystal clear water overflowing onto the ornamental stones bounding the pool. Garden benches provide a comfortable area for angels to enjoy their time and fulfil their pleasures. The most prominent and eye-catching castle of the Tavatimsa heaven is

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known as Paichayon Maha Prasat Comprising of a series of 7 glass wall reaching into atmosphere, and along with the series of enclosing glass walls nothing is comparable to the beauty of this place.”

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Elevations

The Buddhist belief1 stated in the passage above leads to a concept that determines the planning and forms of the buildings of Presidential Suite. Supplementary to the presence of the old building, elements such as engraved walls are integrated into the design. Besides casting various stimulating lights and shadows during the course of a day these pattern-engraved walls also control the direction of circulation, and, at the same time, deliver an intriguing approach to the entrance. 

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Accompanied by the sparkling white pool, as rays of the sun sleep through the clear sheet of water, its colors merge with the emerald skin of the ocean in the foreground. Preserving the existing structure of a traditional Thai roof, meticulous alterations were made to the original building where the color white and glass walls are incorporated to achieve a light, airy atmosphere as though the buildings are hovering above heaven.

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• Architects: Hitotomori/Tomoko
• Location: Matsubara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
• Area: 78.7 sqm
• Photographs: Youhei Sasakura

• Team: Yoshiaki Nagasaka, Hane-Kenchiku-Koubou, Masuo Shiojiri
• Constructor: Hane-Kenchiku-Koubou

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From the architect. A house for four people that was built on a mini-development site. To ensure privacy, a fence runs along the boundary line of the property and the street. The fence is designed as the facade of the house. 

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Morning light is filtered through a large square of frosted glass within the fence to fall on the dining room table.  Light also passes  between the top of the fence and the eaves of the house and is diffused by the leaves of the trees along the fence creating an effect one would not expect from the relative dreary surrounding environment.  Because of the placement of a veranda in the back garden, light is able to enter from the space between the neighbouring building and the Fence House; the light seemingly sublimates off the brass door of a Buddhist home alter. 

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Section

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Light streams down through skylights, diffusing off the white wall of the stairs and provides a sense of modulation.  The shadows normally made by the low stair height of 2.06 meters are deepened by the effect from the skylights.  It is the modulation of light and shadow and the way breezes pass through the house which gives the Fence House its individual character and makes for a rich living environment.  The hand made timber framed construction and highly detail oriented carpentry, gives this building sitting on a mini-development sight an appearance of true beauty.    

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• Architects: Sonny Sutanto Architects
• Location: Jakarta, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
• Architect In Charge: Sonny Sutanto, Mira Susanty
• Area: 800.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Courtesy of Sonny Sutanto Architects

• Building Type: Architecture Office (for 30 people)
• Structural Design: Silvanus Liman
• Constructor: Heron Hubert
• Site Area: 320 sqm

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SSA new office is four times larger compared to the previous office which took place on Sonny Sutanto’s house, for almost thirteen years. For the new office, there are several tendency to bring the old office ambience, for example the working space’s comfortable scale and memories. The old office’s space is also used as a reference because there is a certain desire to reuse the old furnitures.

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Programmatically, there are three main masses with the space in between as transition. In those rigid office programs, Sonny creates sequence, start from creating a feel of entering the building, controlling perspectives through the corridor which shows the back courtyard, and controlling the geometry of defined spaces which accomodate certain activities. The back neighbour wall is covered by a layer of wall with strong geometry, to avoid unwanted view.

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The first floor is used as public area. First floor contains receptionist area, meeting room, material sample area, model making workshop, dining area, pantry, and a courtyard. The courtyard can be used for public lecture which occasionally held. The second floor is used as private working area for architects and principal, with administration room, a gallery, and a library as the supporting programs, surrounding the main stair to create continuity. The third floor is also used as private working area for drafter and intership, with toilets and janitor as the supporting program. The third and fourth floor in the back of the building is used for service area.

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There are several elements to create a playful ambience in this office, for example the railing section mimicking Sonny’s signature, “THE BOSS” lettering in principal’s office, fish ponds and aquariums, and some handmade wall decoration from mozaics.

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• Architects: Lin Kaixin Design Co., Ltd.
• Location: Fuzhou, Fujian, China
• Presiding Designer: Lin Kaixin
• Participating Designer: Chen Qiang
• Area: 330.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Wu Yongchang

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From the architect. Unlike the general SPA salon, it does not open for business, but provides an opportunity to life-loving people to experience “another” place. In space creation, it focuses on the richness and layering of forms as well as the tacit degree with the project temperament. The pavilion attaches importance to the interspersed and staggered layout aesthetics. Bridge and water is used to connect the space of the reception hall and lounge by bridge and water, corridor is used to connect the space of lounge and physiotherapy area; and transparent sliding door is used to connect the space of bathing zone and massage zone. The overall spatial structure planning makes full use of “winding path”, an oriental garden way to express the cultural and spirit pattern between landscape, object and people. 

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The case design does not regard the building as an isolated “object”, nor deliberately pursue symbolic and visual needs, but attaches great attention to the coordination between internal space and external environment. It does not only keep the true state in terms of material, but also seeks to return to nature in the tone to form an overall beauty of composition. Both sides of the artificial bridge between the reception area and lounge area were originally two walls, which limited the stretch of space. Later, the walls were replaced by grilles, from which the external landscape was visible. In addition, soft light and internal shadow was used to create a kind of warm and relaxing ambience. A pond was dug on both sides to sublime the theme of “SPA space” in the glittering waves. 

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Set to a soundtrack suitable for the most climactic moment of an episode of Game of Thrones, this drone footage from filmmaking duo BigFly takes viewers inside the St. Louis Church in Paimboeuf, France. As it carefully navigates around the church’s arches and pendentives, the drone captures the space in a distinctly golden light, giving viewers up-close looks at the bold colors and flamboyant ornamentation for which the neo-Byzantine style is recognized.

The video takes its name, “Byzantine,” from the church’s distinctive architecture style, though having been completed in 1913, the design actually belongs to the Byzantine Revival period that took place in the late 19th century, long after the fall of the Byzantine Empire.

Designed in 1877 by brothers Lucien and Ludovic Douillard, the Saint Louis Church is one of the few examples of Byzantine Revival architecture in northwestern France. It was designated as a French National Heritage site in 2006.

To see more of BigFly’s work, visit their website here. H/T The Creators Project/Vice

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