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• Architects: Scott & Scott Architects
• Location: Whistler, BC V0N, Canada
• Engineers: WHM Structural Engineers
• Contractors: Cloudy Mountain Contracting
• Area: 178.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Scott and Scott Architects

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From the architect. Built as a weekend retreat for a family of snowboarders the cabin is situated on a steeply sloping rock bluff in a quiet residential area north of Whistler village. The neighbourhood is made up of similar sized A-frame and Gothic arch cabins and chalets dating from the 1970s. In contrast to the more recent larger scaled residences in the region the cabin was designed around the owners’ and architects’ desire to work with the original scale of the early structures in the area.

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Banking into the rock the 178 sq.m. cabin is entered from the lowest level which contains a gear drying room, winter and summer equipment storage, a washroom and laundry. The living area and kitchen backs into the hill and faces the view to the mountains across the valley over Green Lake. A bedroom, bunk room and guest room/ den are on the top floor with expansive outward views east and accesses a private terrace nestled into the rock bluff behind the cabin.

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The structure consists of an internally exposed frame of locally sourced douglas fir rough sawn lumber of conventional size with solid strip structural decking which sits on the concrete base anchored into the bedrock.  The lumber joinery has been designed and engineered to utilize a simple repeated lapped joint at the floor and roof connections. The lap is reversed outward to allow for window dormers at the stair, bunk room and kitchen.

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The materials are locally harvested and quarried. The exterior is clad in red cedar shakes which will weather to the tone of the surrounding rock, the interior cabinetry was site built by the carpenters with construction grade rotary cut plywood and the counters were fabricated from marble from the Hisnet Inlet quarry located on Vancouver Island.

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France-based Tetrarc Architects has revealed their design for the new Conservatory of Rennes in France. Intended to be the cornerstone of a new urban project, the fifty-meter long cubic volume is intersected by “cuts and curves that give it an elegant, sculptural presence.” This cultural facility will bring five programs under one roof, including spaces for musical activities, an auditorium, dance theaters, administration spaces, and an area for the Pont Supérieur Music Department.

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Situated on the western side of an urban development known as Zagreb Square, the contoured building aims to respond to the surrounding site context through the articulation of four independently designed wood and glass facades. In addition, the roof, referred to as the “fifth façade,” shows how the two forms of a square and sphere intersect to form a circular garden in the center.

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The auditorium, located in the center of the program is covered in a quilted canvas that serves an acoustic function. “To offer a beautiful musicality to this space, the interior design has been [a] fine acoustic study. The geometry of the panels is based on harmonic progression of diamond based pyramids,” write the architects.

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Architectural procession and sequence of movement is another prevalent theme in the proposal. Spaces wrap and circulate around one another while offering views of the exterior public spaces. Long corridors form the pathways that organize clusters of program.

The conservatory will establish itself as a cultural presence that integrates itself into the urban fabric of Rennes.

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• Architects: Moke Architecten
• Location: The Netherlands , Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Architect In Charge: Gianni Cito
• Design Team: P. de Weerd, V. Falconi, N. Leszczynska
• Area: 2000.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015

• Structural Engineer: Pieters Bouwtechniek
• Environmental Engineer: Merosch
• Quantity Surveyor: Boshuizen Bouwadvies
• Client: City of Amsterdam Noord

From the architect. Growing up in an energy neutral school with round windows.

In Banne Buiksloot in the north of Amsterdam the general building fabric consists of high apartment blocks. In contrast the public buildings do the opposite. They form a network of low buildings that seek a strong connection to the public domain. The new 2 storey primary school, designed by the architect Gianni Cito of the Amsterdam office Moke Architecten, does the same. The school stands out due to its crenelated shed roof and the tribune stairway that connects the school with the playground. The playful round windows and the red scaly façade give the building an autonomous expression that fits its public role.

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An IKC is an integral kids centre and it offers a place for kids from 0 until 12 and for their parents. Besides the school the building also accommodates a childcare centre and a parents room.

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The wide corricors with calm colours suit the educational philosophy of the Dalton school. The school strongly relies on individual initiative of its pupils. It offers a large variety of working places for individual and group work. The use of wood for the window frames between the corridor and the classrooms, the ceiling and all integrated cabinets strengthens the soft and natural expression of the interior. Both cabinets and ceiling have a noise-reducing surface.

The building is one of the first completely energy neutral schools in the Netherlands. The double prefab concrete façade in combination with high spaces and predominantly northern light, strongly reduce the warming up of the spaces during daytime. During the nights the room temperature drops in a natural way.

Therefor the building is cooled naturally, which reduces the use of energy. The shed roof is covered with 324 PV-panels.

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• Architects: de Alzua+
• Location: Rue Romy Schneider, 75018 Paris, France
• Architect In Charge: de Alzua+
• Design Team: Angélique Sternheim, Sarah Munch, Mathieu Merlier
• Area: 1300.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Sergio Grazia

• Engineering Offices : BETOM Ingénierie / Cap Terre
• Economist: JP Tohier & Associés
• Environmental Approach : HQE / Label Plan Climat
• Client: SIEMP, Paris, France
• Cost: 3.9 M Euros

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From the architect. The program, packed and complex, offers a dual programming in the same site, including a childcare centre with its staff housing and 13 students housing units.

The project must integrate different qualities: openness and privacy, daytime operation for the childcare centre, evening and night for the housing, friendliness and safety…

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The nursery is set up on the first two levels and the housing overhang on the two upper levels.

The ground floor reminds this typical base effect of the Parisian buildings. It has a texture, a particular material, made of rough bricks. Some glazed color bricks are randomly embedded at different heights dancing on the façade. Their colors discreetly recall the vocation of the building intended for children.

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In the higher levels, a wired glass skin called reglit unifies the facade. Sometimes opalescent, opaque or opened by windows, it discloses the activity taking place in the common areas of the housing units. In the evening, it shines and forms an urban window on the street while the nursery falls asleep.

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The street façade develops a large loggia on the second level. Overlooking the street, children feel protected while they are observing the surroundings from their headland and satisfying their growing curiosity. The garden is like a microcosm where every children’s living unit can focus on. The outdoor spaces allow different uses, adapted to different ages, seasons, times of day.

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In the nursery, the functional simplicity of the plan allows children and adults to locate themselves easily.

Friendly, open, functional and programmatic nesting; the new equipment reflects the values of the neighborhood and it will surely become its strong element.

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