House Extension in Nantes is a project completed by Mabire Reich Architects in 2015. The home is located in Nantes, France. House Extension in Nantes by Mabire Reich Architects: “Extending a house means reducing the exterior space of a plot. The theme of the project that we developed for the “landscape house” is the restitution of an exterior space. The site of the project is located in Nantes (France), in..
The “Courée” Housing / de Alzua+
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- Architects: de Alzua+
- Location: 59200 Tourcoing, France
- Architect In Charge: de Alzua+
- Design Team: Alexandre Culot
- Area: 2660.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Vandekherkov, de Alzua+
- Engineering Office : BETC
- Environmental Approach: Low Consumption Building
- Client: SIA Habitat
- Cost : 4.15 M Euros
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From the architect. The project is a reinterpretation of a housing called «courée». This is a typical form of courtyard workers housing, often built in the industrial districts of the North of France during the nineteenth century. The program aims to develop a modern approach of this theme. It focuses on a specific contemporary issue which is to limit expansion of the cities and therefore to enhance urban centers. The challenge mainly focuses on opening up that kind of habitat in order to offer a collective life in a space outside of the city.
The interior collective space is punctuated with daylight and views of the surrounding garden. The vistas open up the apartments.
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A gateway game is serving the various residential buildings and leads the alleyway. Planters with diverse plant species improve the quality of life of this alley, thus creating a dynamic around the community.
Plan
Two typologies are available: a standard collective building giving on the street two refined blocks of courtyard housing. The street-front building lines up with surrounding houses. Two volumes emerge and make the courtyard visible from the street. A cantilever volume on the rooftop emphasizes the architecture from the street.
The courtyard buildings offer crossing houses with high opacity on the alleyway and large windows overlooking the surrounding landscape.
Spain’s “radical” post-crisis architecture features on Dezeen’s new Pinterest board
The Golden Lion-winning Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale showcased the new “radical” architecture built in Spain after the economic crisis in 2008, so we’ve put together a new Pinterest board highlighting the best examples from the pages of Dezeen.
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House in Midorigaoka / Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates
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- Architects: Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates
- Location: Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- Architect In Charge: Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates
- Area: 60.36 sqm
- Project Year: 2013
- Photographs: Tomohiro Sakashita
- Site Area: 199.17 ㎡
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Floor Plan
From the architect. This is the residence for family of three, built in a quiet residential neighborhood. In search of a perfect setting ti lead a fulfilling life, the client found a triple tiered, nine-by-twenty two meters plot of land with a tuck under garage. From the very beginning of the project, I envisioned a house with a south-north opening with outdoor spaces: one above the garage, and another on the deepest top tier of the site, where the client wished to create a vegetable garden.
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We designated the center area of the middle tier flu the main living space, which became the first floor living and dining room. The entire house is designed so that the spatial volume of the indoor and outdoor areas flow continuously. Since the living room is sometime used by the client’s wife to teach yoga classes, it was necessary to design a room that could be separated from the rest of the house. This is the reason for placing the central stairwell and the adjacent storage with family traffic as the house core, where they are also directly connected to the entrance.
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Section
The closet space between the bedrooms can be seen above the double height living room, and is designed with a continuous curve that simultaneously serves as a partition and a link that connects living room through the void. The wall that separates the living room and the stairwell is designed so that, through the upper glass floor, the presence go people can be indirectly shared on both sides of the wall and through the floors. In a such compact house, creating relationships between the different rooms proved to be a effective in producing a bright and generous spatial volume that continues smoothly without any visual hindrance.
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Alphaville’s Hikone Studio Apartments are housed in an angular concrete block
Kyoto studio Alphaville has squeezed an angular concrete apartment building onto a small plot in the Japanese city of Hikone (+ slideshow). (more…)
Now Your Cat Can Also Feel Like a World Traveler With These Architectural Landmarks
Cat owners can now offer their cats a range of architectural landmarks to inhabit. The design studio, “Poopycat” has released a series of cardboard cat homes, modeled after iconic architectural landmarks. The series includes the Taj Mahal, the White House, the Eiffel Tower, as well as more monumental works like the Sphinx and a Mayan pyramid.
Courtesy of Poopy Cat
Clearly designers have a love for pet-friendly architecture; “Poopycat” shelters, furniture like LYCS’s modular CATable 2.0 as well as these dog houses demonstrate this.
See all the shelters on Poopy Cat.
Czech and Slovak Pavilion explores whether Soviet architecture is worth saving
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a bright red model of the Slovak National Gallery forms the centrepiece of the Czech and Slovak Pavilion, which questions whether the countries’ Soviet architecture should be saved or demolished. (more…)
Temporary Pavilions with View to Zaragoza / Magén Arquitectos
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- Architects: Magén Arquitectos
- Location: Casco Antiguo, Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- Author Architect : Magén Arquitectos, Rebeca Tristán
- Contractor: Demebesa Infraestructuras SL
- Area: 242.65 sqm
- Project Year: 2014
- Photographs: Simon García
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It’s been almost a century since Le Corbusier, published in the 20s his “Theory of the roof-garden,” seed of the fifth of his five points for a new architecture, which addresses the use of the terrace. Although we can think that climbing up the roof is an ancient impulse of human and technical progress of constructive solutions, today roofs of our cities are underused.
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The project “living-roof”-(re) activate the roofs proposes an exploration of the possibilities of use of contemporary urban roofs, transforming them -through its use- in an architectural space to be lived and used as support activities associated with their condition of elevated plane over the cityscape.
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The origin of the investigation was the roof of Ebro Environmental Center, also in Zaragoza, exploring the possibilities of a public facility as urban space, viewpoint, energy collector, green area, and even as urban garden.
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With this experience, the new project is focused on private landscapes, boosting facilities and activities in the field of domesticity, which also reflected the momentum in other sectors, such as hotel, to opportunities to use roofs.
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The pavilions overlooking Zaragoza tend to be a prototype of a portable and removable modular installation, that transforms an old tiled terrace in a supporting system of outdoor activities, making the cityscape in the background of the new uses. The arrangement of the L-pavilions -linked by a longitudinal pergola – set the limits of space, along with the landscaping in the remaining two sides of the perimeter of the roof.
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The used materials allow a quick assembly in two weeks and enhance the dissolution of boundaries between inside and outside, especially in the case of sliding and stacking joinery, which transform the pavilions in outdoor porches. The dual orientation of the pavilions enhance cross ventilation, power attractive views over the historic town while gardening on the opposite side, as a vegetal lattice, limits visions towards the residential fabric of the environment.
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AD Interviews: Golden Lion Winners Iñaqui Carnicero & Carlos Quintáns / 2016 Venice Biennale
At the opening of the 2016 Venice Biennale, ArchDaily and PLANE—SITE had the unique opportunity to interview Carlos Quintáns & Iñaqui Carnicero and ask them about “UNFINISHED“—an exhibition that uncovers design strategies that take an optimistic view of the built environment. This idea of exhibiting architecture that revels in the patina acquired through the passage of time and that shows how architects have learned from Spain’s recent economic crisis earned the Pavilion the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. The jury cited Quintáns & Carnicero’s “concisely curated selection of emerging architects whose work shows how creativity and commitment can transcend material constraints.”
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