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• Architects: Z4Z4 AAA
• Location: Calle Jimena Menéndez Pidal, 22, 28023 Madrid, Madrid, Spain
• Project Author: Rafael Beneytez Duran (Z4Z4)
• Area: 512.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photography: ImagenSubliminal

• Project Management Architects: Rafael Beneytez, Víctor Cano, Ophelia Mantz
• Project Team: Rafael Beneytez,Víctor Cano, Ophelia Mantz,Borja Iglesias, Elena Oña.
• Structure: Juan Carlos Arroyo, Ignacio García (Calter) + Rafael Beneytez, Víctor Cano (z4z4)
• Modular System: Guillermo Martínez, Luis Martín (Eurobox) + Rafael Beneytez, Víctor Cano (z4z4)
• Landscape: Martín Toimil (Land30)
• Light Design: Ilumisa + Rafael Beneytez, Víctor Cano (z4z4)
• Facilities: Carolo Garrote (Proyecta!)
• Bioclimatic Project: Ophelia Mantz, Elena Oña
• Contractor: Mario Navarro, Santiago Ibañez (Ars Tectónica)
• Surveyor: Alfonso del Castillo

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From the architect. A family is looking for a new home able to represent their trips around the globe, their desire to live in a garden and to embody the cinematic diversity of domestic life. The result is the design of two different houses on the same plot.

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he Tobogan House is a generic three-storey house on a southern slope. The project juxtaposes two houses and a void that houses a car park, an entrance and two staircases, working as a thermal regulator and constructing a tracking shot between a garden, a folie and a picturesque grotto while crossing through the lounge, sauna-fitness center, bar, dining room and kitchen. 

Model

One of the houses is organized to inhabit the soil with its habits and routines. The other was made light-heartedly, emancipated from the ground, in the air, is flying at a double height over the garden. Both are totally different each other in materiality, shape and weight. The most important spatial interest of the complex is the heterogeneous, ambiguous and membranous space that appears between the two houses.

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The scenic load of this space is achieved through the exposure of domestic life circulating between floors. The ground floor is contained between two long concrete walls. These walls cut into the soil to accommodate two ‘ conventional and modern’  volumes, connected by a corridor surrounding the empty greenhouse-stage. In the South there is a garden for “the Good Life”, to the North lurks the “Grotesque Garden”— in the middle is the promising double height greenhouse.

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Over this green sequence along the plot, a smooth surface, based at ground level, lets Nature to cross over the slab and the car to pass through one side to the other over the dining-kitchen area. The upper
floor is formed by wrapping three empty cylinders with corrugated iron, curtains, air and mirrors. Inside the cylinders inhabit the “super-interior”, offering total privacy to 9 rooms padded with wood, cotton, linen and silk, surrounded by “souvenirs”.

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Mecanoo has unveiled plans for the Namdaemun Office Building in Seoul. The tower takes its name from the Namdaemun Market, the oldest and largest market in South Korea, which is next to the ancient southern gate of the city. Opened as a government managed marketplace in 1414, the market is now an important 24-hour destination for trade and tourism. The slim 14-story, 5,900 square meter (65,000 square foot) building rests on a corner opposite the commercial activities of the market.

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The design of the tower is informed by its historic location and desire create a contemporary office building that merges the past with the present. To integrate into this context, the facade is a reinterpretation of windows found on traditional Korean houses. The external framing is not meant to be merely decorative, but, say the architects, “to continuously [create] different atmospheres, filtering incoming light and making shadows across the interior spaces.” The building’s monochromatic coloration is a counterbalance to the colorful and frenzied atmosphere of the market and its nonstop activity. While during the day the facade reflects sunlight, at night the building glows from within revealing the patterning of its facade.

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Namdaemun Office Building is on schedule to be completed before the end of 2016.

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• Architects: Antonini + Darmon Architectes
• Location: Belleville, 75020 Paris, France
• Team: Claire Archimbaud; worksite: Daliana Vasilache & Francesca Pesce
• Area: 2700.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Luc Boegly, Julien Lanoo

• Contractor: Antonini-Darmon
• Client: SIEMP
• Construction Company: CBM Batiment
• Cost: 4,7 M € HT

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The project is located on a long, narrow strip of land partially occupied by a five-story building, in the traditionally working-class Belleville district of Paris. A significant piece of the neighborhood’s heritage and the site’s unifying building, it has been rehabilitated and its base hollowed out to allow passage.

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Backbone of the complex, the internal street is the structuring element that irrigates the project. It becomes a semi-private common space for all the housing units, where interaction and socializing take place. Aligned with the central passage, the new building “pierces” the existing building. 

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This effect is accentuated by the treatment of the facades: the five “small” houses and the existing building, given a matte white plaster finish, come to rest on a base covered with shiny white enamel bricks, a reminder of the neighborhood’s past. Paved with Parisian paving stones, the little street becomes a pathway for strolling, with vegetation planted along the new buildings and the adjoining wall. These features define the passage route and clearly identify access points.

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LEGO® today unveiled “Big Ben” as the company’s newest kit in its Creator series. Aimed at adult LEGO® fans (meaning 16 and older) the 4,163 piece design pays tribute to the engineering and architecture of the 19th century Gothic Revival clock tower adjoining the Palace of Westminster and Elizabeth Tower. Highlighting the set’s complexity, LEGO® has outlined the its unique features, including “detailed facade with statues, shields and windows, and a clock tower with 4 adjustable clock dials and a removable roof allowing access to the belfry, plus buildable exterior elements including a sidewalk, lawn and a tree depicting the building’s location.” Big Ben measures over 23 inches (60 centimeters) tall and will be available to purchase on July 1, 2016.

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• Architects: Nicolás Campodonico
• Location: La Playosa, Córdoba, Argentina
• Architect Collaborators: Martin Lavayén, Soledad Cugno, Virginia Theilig, Gabriel Stivala, Tomás Balparda, Pablo Taberna, Gastón Kibysz
• Area: 92.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Courtesy of Nicolás Campodónico

• Liturgical Advice: Don Ambrogio Malacarne, Arq. Roberto Paoli, Arq. Gustavo Carabajal
• Structural Advice: Ing. Carlos Geremía
• Construction: Arq. Jerónimo Silva
• Video Editing: Fernando Romero de Toma
• Site Area: 10.000 m2

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Located in the Pampa plains, in the east of the province of Cordoba, Saint Bernard´s Chapel (the local patron saint) rises in a small grove, originally occupied by a rural house and its yards, both dismantled in order to reuse their materials, especially its one-hundred-year-old bricks. The site does not have electricity or any other utilities; nature imposes its own conditions. 

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   In the limit between the trees and the open country, the chapel´s volume opens up towards the sun, capturing the natural light of the sunset in the interior. Outside, a vertical and a horizontal poles are placed separately and projected towards the interior. As a result, every day all year round, the shadow of these, slides along the curved interior, finishing its tour overlapping with each other. 

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   Currently we all know Jesus Christ only carried the transverse pole on his back on his way to Gólgotha. The crucifixion is conceptually completed with the reunion of both poles, recreating the cross. Every day, the shadows of the poles make their way separately, just as in the “Via Crusis”, to finally meet and recreate the cross, not a symbolic cross but a ritual one, where the Passion happens again every day thanks to the sun, acquiring a cosmic dimension. 

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Housing blocks come in all different shapes, sizes and layouts. So searching for the precedent that matches every category you desire can sometimes be a tedious process of clicking in and out of an unorganized list. Enter the Collective Housing Atlas, an online library of housing projects that is organized into categories.

Users can search within the categories of block typology, tower block typology or typology of dwelling, and then refine their search by selecting from subcategories such as shape, depth and circulation. With a click of a button, you can create lists including all U-shaped buildings, building with courtyard orientation or buildings featuring two-story units. Once you find a project that suits your needs, all of that project’s categories are displayed, making bouncing around between different categories with an end result in mind a simple task.

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Some categories remain empty for now, but Collective Housing Atlas’ database is continuing to grow as they pursue their mission “not to highlight new architectural works, but [to make accessible] a list of previously selected buildings in a fast and visual way.”

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Visit Collective Housing Atlas here.

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