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TheeAe has revealed their competition entry for a new civic center in Ryde, Australia. As its name indicates, ‘Trianglemnant’ builds upon the unique triangular site area, and consists of a series of overlapping trilateral forms that shape the building and surrounding public spaces.

Trianglemnant was put forward as part of the international design competition ‘Design our Ryde’, which invited architects to present proposals for a new civic center at the gateway to the municipality.  Though the project was not one of the four shortlisted, its attempt to create a diverse public space is noteworthy.

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The building consists of ‘Stacking Loop Circulation’. The triangular planes, differing in size, create gentle slopes that allow for activities such as walking, jogging, cycling and socializing. Inside the triangle form is an open atrium for indirect sunlight and natural ventilation, reducing the heating effect from direct sunlight. Environmental considerations extend to the proposed buildings’ floor plan, with 50% of the area built underground.  

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Despite being located 12km from Sydney, the City of Ryde benefits from a largely rural environment. While the existing civic buildings – built in 1964 and 1970 – are set for demolishment, Trianglemnant attempts to “preserve the foot-prints of the current civic buildings for the new development,” as voided areas become a showcase for the public to utilize and learn about city, explain the architects in a press release.

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Trianglemnant’s design is innovative, yet embraces a conscious effort to embed the civic center within the unique character of the town, “old enough to give a familiar sentiment to residents.”

• Architects: TheeAe LTD.
• Location: Ryde NSW, Australia
• Area: 23150.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Courtesy of TheeAe LTD.

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• Architects: ACH Arquitectos
• Location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
• Design Architect: Caco Cabrera. Arquitecto
• Chief Architects: Carlos Ardanaz, Juan Carlos Cabrera, Lisandro Hernández (ACH Arquitectos)
• Area: 15100.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
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• Engineering: Sansa Ingenieros
• Building Engineer: José Vecino Morales
• Structural Engineering: Juan Rafael Pérez Cabrera (Arquiestructuras)
• Contractor: FCC (Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas)

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The building is located on the southern edge of the city, appearing as a sort of entry landmark. It has a significant volumetric presence in an environment of urban voids. The piece is conceived as the finishing part of a university complex developed in a phased implementation.

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It hosts two different uses with significant dimensional variation. One holds the departmental, administrative and support for teaching and research uses, such as departments, library, video-library and study. The other, the heavier one, hosts research laboratories of different dimensions and demands with their complementary areas of support.

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Due to economic investment issues, all this intervention had to be developed for in two different time frames.

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Thus raised, the project is solved in two different volumes connected to each other. The smaller one houses the administrative and public functions, and the larger one, research activities.

Site Plan

The initial idea is to emphasize on the obsolescence inherent to research activities and buildings, which constantly incorporates new technologies and demands. This thought draws a conceptual line which implies that versatility should be infinite. Anything can be demanded to the building. It will have to be prepared to receive any deployment or installation that is needed.

Roof Plan

We arrived to the conclusion that the façades must become the place of disembarking, either from the deck or from the basement, of any new deployment of installations. Therefore the exterior facade is justified solely from this perspective: the place where to devise future lines.

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The facade is thus proposed as two separate parallel planes one meter apart, creating a walkable and accessible space from which to handle all future services.

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The inner plane of the facade is massive, traditional, while the exterior one is a permeable, variable, heterogeneous plot, resolved with aluminium profiles arranged in two different ways, in different modular positions and in eight different shades. We use six different shades of grey, white and black as the colour scale.

The combination of shape, arrangement and colour provides the building with a changing image depending on the light, clear or cloudy sky, and orientations.

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It is like a huge permeable mesh that holds inside the almost infinite capacity for unperceived interventions. For this reason, since the beginning of the project, it bodes long service life and adaptation to future times, with the risk that this categorical definition implies.

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The volume and finish is perceived as a changing body, adapting slavishly, adjusting to the usual skies, the environment, littering and losing the dimensional power that the built mass has. That image sits in the line of timeless buildings that survive to fashions subject to variations of use.

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• Architects: Ella Sahar
• Location: Ramat Gan, Israel
• Area: 407.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Lior Avitan

• Interior Design: Ella Sahar

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Plan

A story that begins with a cube 

In the cube-shaped family home there is a striking interplay between open and closed spaces, the private and public domain, and light and darkness. The origin of this harmonious duality lies in the starting point of the planning process – the cube. Structurally, the cube is closed and confined; but when fused with other cubes, a new, dynamic shape emerges. 

The cube’s influence is first apparent in the dissonance between the two sides of the house. 

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While the façade transmits elegant restraint, the back is wide open and leads to an “L” shaped swimming pool that juxtaposes the reversed “L” shape of the house. Upon entering the house, visitors discover a central living space that extends to the back courtyard, and the feeling of restraint transforms into a warm, welcoming atmosphere. 

The interior of the house emits a sense of spaciousness due to the large open areas and high ceiling, as well as a feeling of intimacy and privacy derived from the precise distribution of space and the interplay between natural and artificial light. 

The delicate balance between the linear design and the feeling of warmth is also found in the mix of materials and colors that characterize the house – exposed concrete, gray marble, glass and Corian stone countertops blend naturally with the parquet and wood furniture, the gleam of blue-painted accessories, rugs, pictures, and sculptures. 

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The exposed concrete is one of the house’s central design elements. It accompanies the visitor from the external wall to the concrete library in the living room, up to the inner wall that extends from the floor to the ceiling. 

The concrete wall is also at the center of another exceptional design element – the unique staircase that connects the basement to the first floor. Cantilevered wooden stairs float out from the wall and the encounter imparts the staircase with a sculptural quality.    

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The topology of the land and the sun’s trajectory played an integral part in the house’s architectural design and lighting; with aim of achieving maximum use of natural light. The window, slats of the pergola at the back of the house, and the various light fixtures enable optimal control of the amount of light that filters into the house. 

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The morning light envelops the eastern sitting area at the front of the house and creates a perfect setting for the first coffee of the morning. The midday light penetrates inward through the front windows, strolls across the concrete wall and ascends the staircase. Then, as night falls and the lights are turned on, the house assumes the appearance of a jewel.   

The final result is a house defined by its dynamic qualities, which enable optimal adaptation to the character of its owners, offering them a broad range of possibilities.   

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