Casa di Luce is a residential project completed by Morrison Dilworth + Walls. The home is located in Dallas, Texas, USA. Casa di Luce by Morrison Dilworth + Walls: “Casa di Luce, as christened by its owners is a single-family house located in Dallas and comprising 3,226 air-conditioned square feet on two levels. The house is constructed on an irregularly-shaped 8,075 square-foot site with significant variations in topography. The size..
Belgian Pavilion to Present Craftsmanship and “Bravura” at 2016 Venice Biennale
"Untitled" – Fictions, 2007. Image © Filip Dujardin
A practice of architects, an interior architecture firm, and an architectural photographer will together be presenting the Belgian contribution to the 2016 Venice Biennale. Architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, interdoorzon interieurarchitecten and Filip Dujardin—self-styled as the Bravoure (Bravura) team—will explore “what craftsmanship can mean during a period of economic scarcity” as, according to the curatorial team, “dealing with scarcity demands a high level of precision.”
Commissioned by the Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi), which coordinates the Belgian entry to the Venice Biennale every four years on a rotating basis with the French community, the show will exhibit fragments of thirteen representative projects from thirteen Flemish architects by means of 1:1 replicas. According to De Vylder, “the fragment is exhibited as it really is. At the same time, it is cut out of its context, which ultimately gives it a new dimension.”
Memorial I. Image © Filip Dujardin
The practices which have contributed to the show include: De Smet Vermeulen architecten, Philippe Vander Maren – Richard Venlet, Wim Goes Architectuur, architecten Els Claessens en Tania Vandenbussche, Eagles of Architecture, Jo Van Den Berghe – architect, BURO II & ARCHI+I, Robbrecht en Daem architecten i.s.m. Arch & Teco, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Laura Muyldermans + Atelier Starzak Strebicki, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Stéphane Beel Architects and Architectenbureau Bart Dehaene – Sileghem & Partners in collaboration with Ante Timmermans.
"BRAVOURE" Team. Image © Filip Dujardin
Tetsuo Yamaji builds “a non-mass-produced house with mass-produced components”
JKMM Office / JKMM Architects
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- Architects: JKMM Architects
- Location: Helsinki, Finland
- Area: 1007.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Marc Goodwin
- Client: Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Tarja Koskela (real estate manager), Tuomas Vaarasalo (construction manager)
- Head Design: JKMM Architects, Samuli Miettinen, SAFA architect
- Architect Design Team: Kristian Forsberg (project architect), Rami Lehtimäki (project architect for interior design), Elina Niemi and Noora Lehtimäki (interior architects)
- Contractor: Consti Korjausurakointi Oy, Jussi Penttilä (site engineer), Suvi Lepola (site supervisor)
- Structural Engineering: Finmap Consulting Oy, Anssi Kolehmainen
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When JKMM Architects was founded in 1998, its office was located in Kamp, Helsinki. At the end of 2007, the office moved to Lapinrinne 3, an office building designed by Raoul Lehman in 1978. JKMM operated from the third floor of this building for over seven years. As the office grew, the decision was made to expand the facilities to the top three floors of the same real estate. The designing of the new office space started in spring 2014. The office moved to the new premises in April 2015.
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The main idea of the new office was to combine three floors into one space with two straight staircases. The stair opening unites the floors visually and functionally, as well as creates an important meeting space in the middle of the office. Now the essence of the work environment is openness and it supports a sense of community. All of the fixed workstations are located in the open office space. Ancillary spaces and conference rooms have been separated from the multi space office environment by sound proofed glass walls and sliding glass doors. The door frames are made from Finnish pine. The calm and modern architecture creates a comfortable working environment. On the lowest floor, the office space expands outwards as a roof terrace, which has a view of the Helsinki city center.
Plan 2
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Plan 3
Openings in the intermediate floor panels have been reinforced with carbon fiber composite. The intermediate floor panels have been straightened and coated with a cement coating that has been dyed through. The handrails of the stairs and the openings are made from glass. The acoustically treated papier-mâché surface has been smoothed. General lighting is provided by profile lights, which are fixed to the ceiling. The art work painted on the floors and ceilings in the office space is designed by graphic artist Aimo Katajamäki. The actual painting was done by the office’s own employees. All work stations have ergonomic, height adjustable electric work tables in the new office. The furniture in the office space is made from Finnish wood and handcrafted in Finland. The furniture designed by the office was crafted by Nikari, AKSI and Saaren puusepät.
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Junsekino Architect and Design Creates a Spacious Contemporary Home in Thailand
Baan Bang Saray is a residential project completed by Junsekino Architect and Design. Completed in 2015, the home is located in Sattahip District, Chon Buri, Thailand. Baan Bang Saray by Junsekino Architect and Design: “Baan Bang Sa Ray is a vacation house located in Chonburi province, which is 2 hours away from Bangkok by car. This house is planned to be a resident for the family to spend the hiatus..
‘André Malraux’ Schools in Montpellier / Dominique Coulon & associés
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- Architects: Dominique Coulon & associés
- Location: 89 Impasse Joan Miro, 34980 Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
- Design Team: Dominique Coulon, Steve Letho Duclos
- Area: 3444.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Eugeni Pons
- Architects Assistants : Fanny Liénart, Olivier Poulat
- Construction, Site Supervision : Steve Letho Duclos, Olivier Poulat
- Structural Engineer : Batiserf Ingénierie
- Mechanical Plumbing Engineer : Solares Bauen
- Electrical Engineer : BET G.Jost
- Cost Estimator: E3 économie
- Acoustics: Euro sound project
- Landscape: Bruno Kubler
- Client: Ville de Montpellier
- Budget: 7 300 000 € H.T
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From the architect. The school unit is part of Montpellier’s dynamic for development, the aim being to connect the city with the sea. The school is set on a small triangular plot of land, in keeping with the urban policy for densifying a new residential area.
Diagram
The ground floor is taken up by the nursery school and the centre for before- and after-school activities. The primary school occupies the other two floors, with its playground on top of the nursery school. The volumes are designed as autonomous elements which appear to slide over each other, with their cantilevering providing covering for sections of the playground. Each volume is in a different colour or material. The bays have been designed according to their orientation and the level of light required.
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Ground Floor
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Transit routes receive natural lighting from the patios and tall openings. The first-floor classrooms can be accessed directly from the playground, without having to pass through the rest of the building.
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The classrooms are open at either end, and hence face both north and south. This produces ideal lighting conditions, as well as natural cooling by the passage of air through the classrooms from one end to the other.
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Janne Kyttanen extends Metsidian furniture collection created by “explosion welding”
New York 2016: Finnish designer Janne Kyttanen has continued to develop his explosion welding technique, melding volcanic stone and 3D-printed copper into two furniture pieces (+ slideshow). (more…)
Ramat Offices / Ron Fleisher Architects
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- Architects: Ron Fleisher Architects
- Location: Wadi Ara, Hadera, Israel
- Landscape Architect: Kfir Fisher
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Tal Nisim
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From the architect. Ron Fleisher architects office planned the extension of a mid 20’th century village house in Wadi-Ara at times where all the Wadi rioted during the last tension. Being the main road connecting Palestinian highly populated cities in the north of Israel, The villages surplus the Wadi and many of the old village houses are converted into businesses and office buildings.
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The original house was built in the 60’s and due to the changes in traffic and density was abounded in the beginning of the current century. The business\ industrial strip was just the right location for the new owner, a local construction firm. The location, close to many of the workers home villages, yet on one of Israel’s main roads reflects both the firm’s operational needs from one hand and the changing image of a growing global organization which defines a new status for traditional yet innovative Arab women. The objective was to combine both identities and world view.
Plan 1
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Plan 2
The old house was piled to it’s concrete frame. Then it was reinforced and treated against water damages. To its west, a new extension was added and a glass wall facing the road covered the south façade. The main way to let natural light into the building without exposing to direct southern Mediterranean sun and the 24/7 traffic, the glassed façade was covered with a white metal net, shading the building and creating a simple, geometric, clear image, facing the road, emphasizing both the local Muslim building heritage, using a mashrabia (the traditional semi-transparent screens used to keep privacy) like element, made of contemporary material.
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Bowen Place Crossing / lahznimmo architects
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- Architects: lahznimmo architects
- Location: Parkes ACT, Australia
- Landscape Architects: Spackman Mossop Michaels
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Brett Boardman
- Client: National Capital Authority
- Structural Engineer: Taylor Thomson Whitting
- Civil Engineer: Taylor Thomson Whitting
- Electrical And Lighting Consultants: Lighting, Art and Science
- Construction: Woden Contractors
- Software Used: ArchiCAD
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In 2011 lahznimmo architects won an invited competition for the design of a new pedestrian and cyclist crossing in Bowen Place, Canberra.
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Within the context of the Parliamentary Zone and the associated important heritage items, the design looks to provide a simple and elegant response. It does not seek to detract from, or compete with the existing items within the environs – enhancing existing geometries, landscape and place making opportunities.
Site Plan
The design response is fundamentally landscape driven – the new underpass is part of a continuous path that slices through the terrain on a trajectory that speaks to the existing geometries of the Bowen Place cloverleaf freeway and the views to the National Carillon. The new insertion is deliberately minimal to allow the landscape setting to take precedence.
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The path is contained by two wall types, the Deferential Wall – a taut smooth off-white pre-cast concrete that deliberately defers to the existing palette of materials and tones within the Parliamentary Zone; and the Assertive Wall – composed of a deeply profiled weathering steel that naturally ages to a rusty ochre appearance and appears to be wrinkled and compressed as it follows the tighter inside line of the path.
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