Gamuda House is a private home located in Hanoi, Vietnam. Completed in 2015, it was designed by ihouse Architecture and Construction. Gamuda House by ihouse Architecture and Construction: “The house has a standard size of 12.5m x 5.5m (41ft x 18 ft) for the construction area, with spacious front yard, airy backyard and is located at the southern gateway of Hanoi, inside the beautiful compound of the new residential precinct..
House MR / 236 Arquitectos
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- Architects: 236 Arquitectos
- Location: Enxomil, 4410 Arcozelo, Portugal
- Architect In Charge: Sebastiao Moreira
- Design Team: Pedro Fael, Miguel Brochado, Miguel Serodio
- Area: 1500.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Joao Morgado
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From the architect. The plot has about 1500.00m2, oriented South West, surrounded by densely wooded gardens, in a transitional environment between rurality and urbanity.
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The elevation of the land and the neighboring land runs a great risk of flooding.
This has resulted in the need to raise the construction and establish a relationship between the inside and the outside guaranteeing on the one hand a continuity of uses, and the other secures a housing character construction.
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Conceptually, we tried to develop the idea of a volume that resulted from the addition of several independent casings.
Each of these enclosures (living space) was treated individually, according to their characteristics and needs, particularly as concerns the orientation, openings and proportions.
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Its layout took into account a functional program and distribution pointing to the placement of the reserved areas in the 1st Floor and social areas on Level 0.
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Plan 1
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The additions of these different spaces and the juxtaposition of the two floors resulted in the image of the house.
The repetition of the ‘window’ element sought to unify and bring coherence to the white volume, carved and landed in the garden.
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Fragments of Metropolis: Documenting the Expressionist Heritage of the Rhine-Ruhr Region
European Expressionism in architecture has, until now, suffered from neglect. Following a successful campaign for the first volume in a planned seven-part series which focused on Berlin, a new version of the Fragments of Metropolis series—which covers with the Rhein-Ruhr region of Europe—will document 155 buildings from Bochum, Bottrop, Dortmund, Duisburg to Düsseldorf, Cologne, Münster and Oberhausen. This latest volume is currently being crowdfunded.
Map of Europe. Image Courtesy of Christoph Rauhut, Niels Lehmann
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“The enthusiasm for the expressionist metropolis—an architecture of complexity, verticality and theatricality—in the 1920s also included the urban landscape of Rhine-Ruhr. More than the familiar view of the industrial heritage of that time, these surviving fragments bear witness to an unconditional will to form of and a rich, skilful handling of form, colour, material and light.” According to the creators, the Fragments of Metropolis series is “the first complete compilation of the expressionist architecture movement.” It is the cumulative work of twenty-five architects and designers who have gathered information, drawings and contemporary photographs of more than 1,200 buildings.
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Gelsenkirchen, Hans-Sachs-Haus, Alfred Fischer, 1924–27. Image © Niels Lehmann
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Düsseldorf, Wilhelm-Marx-Haus, Wilhelm Kreis, 1921–24. Image © Niels Lehmann
Düsseldorf, Wilhelm-Marx-Haus, Wilhelm Kreis, 1921–24. Image © Niels Lehmann
Köln, St. Engelbert, Dominikus Böhm, 1930–32. Image © Niels Lehmann
Köln, St. Engelbert, Dominikus Böhm, 1930–32. Image © Niels Lehmann
Düsseldorf Rheinhalle, 1925-26, Wilhelm Kreis. Image © Niels Lehmann
Düsseldorf Rheinhalle, 1925-26, Wilhelm Kreis. Image © Niels Lehmann
Oberhausen, Kaufhaus Tietz Bert-Brecht-Haus, Otto Scheib, 1925–28. Image © Niels Lehmann
Oberhausen, Kaufhaus Tietz Bert-Brecht-Haus, Otto Scheib, 1925–28. Image © Niels Lehmann
Fiction Factory builds prototype for “groundbreaking” cardboard house
Amsterdam collective Fiction Factory has developed a modular building system of cardboard components, which can be assembled in just one day to form houses or offices (+ slideshow). (more…)
Kinderkrippe Nursery School / KRAUS SCHÖNBERG ARCHITEKTEN
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- Architects: KRAUS SCHÖNBERG ARCHITEKTEN
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Area: 420.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Hagen Stier
- Main Contractor: Bauwerft
- Façade: Martin T. Lacher Glasermeiste
- Structure: Cornelius Back
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The nursery on Hamburg’s northeast side occupies a large site where the children can play amid mature trees. The relationship to nature is an important part of the school’s pedagogic concept.
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The building integrates in the small-scale fabric of neighboring sin¬gle-family homes: the build¬ing mass has been apportioned in smaller subunits which are linked by open courtyards.
Plan
Each of the classrooms has an adjoining quiet room and lavatory. Classrooms, kitchen and the auxiliary spaces are grouped around a shared space for active play. At the centre of the nursery is an atrium that brings daylight into the interiors. The surrounding corridor– reminiscent of a clois¬ter – is used for circulation, interaction and links all programmatic functions. It is spatially and acoustically uncoupled by means of a floor-to-ceiling porous wall that is infilled with wood or glass.
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Different functions – such as children’s cubbyholes, seating nooks, shelving space – are integrated in these walls. Because the latter is transparent, staff members can keep an eye on the goings on in the house. Glue-lam beams are visible throughout the building. The roof structure of the central zone consists of primary and secondary beams that are supported by eight solid-timber columns.
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The cantilevering edges of the roof take the form of upstand beams allowing for a column free glazed façade. Rough-sawn, un-edged larch boarding forms the cladding; the appearance of the various uneven edges blends in with the natural setting. The alternating arrangement of the terraces contributes further to melding the building with its lush surroundings.
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Passive House / rouby hemmerlé architectes
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- Architects: rouby hemmerlé architectes
- Location: 07430 Saint-Clair, France
- Area: 191.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2013
- Photographs: Courtesy of rouby hemmerlé architectes
From the architect. The land is located in a small hilly town in ArdËche, France. The main intention is to merge the house in the titled landscape. The long structure inserts into the topography.
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In the living spaces the views of the orchards and the Hills are unobstructed.
The basement level is organized in order to limit excavation.
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At the ground floor there is the main living space, where there are the kitchen, the living room and the bedroom.
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The cantilevered space has two bedrooms and another bathroom and overhangs the Terrace.
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The structure is made of wood frame with a concrete base. The lights entries are facing the South in order to enjoy passive inputs.
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Floor Plans
The thermal performance (wall, floor and triple glazing) coupled with double-flow ventilation and geothermal solutions are implemented to achieve the objectives of a passive construction.
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Alfredo Vanotti Creates a Home in Piateda, Italy that Seamlessly Combines Rustic with Modern
Casa VI is a private home located in Piateda, Italy. Completed in 2015, it was designed by Alfredo Vanotti. Casa VI by Alfredo Vanotti: “The building involved in the project is located in the surroundings of Sondrio on the Orobie Alps at about 3280 ft above sea level. The customer requirements were to transform the existing ruin in a building unit use a residence, which had solar radiation and lighting..
Mario Botta adds chequered pattern to architects’ Fixpencil
Swiss architect Mario Botta, whose San Francisco Museum of Modern Art building reopens next week with a Snøhetta-designed extension, has put his stamp on the iconic Fixpencil tool for architects. (more…)
LCGA Design Office / LCGA Design
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- Architects: LCGA Design
- Location: Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan
- Design Team: Gina Chiu & Circle Huang
- Area: 38.8 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Hey! Cheese
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From the architect. In a downtown alley full of pedestrians, a beige gray workshop is composed and included in the daytime. As the night falls, the workshop becomes a white bright stage amidst the quiet dim streets. With a flow of rays and lights created by the revolving door, the workshop emits the nighttime proactive vitality in contrast to the daytime subtle calm.
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A small interior chamber in a downtown alley is a stage of fine design in a horizontal open elevation.
With a start of a large terrace and a central revolving door in charge of spatial expansion and coherence, a continuity consisting of sun & air and visual banquet & imagination is presented, which not only amplifies but also manages a flowing sense of space.
Floor Plan
A revolving door makes an interior cabinet a visual focus and also divides the chamber into the meeting and task zones, which manages the multilayer effect in the holistic design. A private task zone is located behind a semi-open meeting district following an outdoor terrace.
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A metal cabinet as a visual core designed by a compact linear design idea meets all essential interior demands, including the visual arrays in the public room and the bar and storage need in the task zone.
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A random cutting means applies to visual confinement and a fixed framework applies to presentation of varied scenery, which renders the flowing rays and acts within a framework and creates see-through and visual shelter forming an open intimate interior atmosphere.
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Urban Public Spatial Installation / Arup Associates
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- Architects: Arup Associates
- Location: Fushun Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China
- Area: 16.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Linqxiao Zhang
- Design Team: Leonard Milford, Daren Ren, Wonder Wu
- Collaborators: Arup Structures; Gary Dodds, Calum Perey
- Volume: 4m*4m*3m
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From the architect. The Urbanism & Architecture Biennale brief called for an urban intervention concerned with Re-Use and Re-Thinking; a gathering space in which the local community of Shanghai’s Siping District could congregate within, play amongst and ultimately as we considered it, could alter. The site context and street scene within local districts of Shanghai is rife with activity, presence, familiarity and flexibility. Disused doorways, alleys and pavements become commandeered for purposes such as cooking, ballroom dancing, cycle repair, chess, and barbers shops.
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The flexibility of what we in the West would call ‘pop-up stores’ are common place in Shanghai and throughout Asia with urbanism here traditionally allowing local trade and community to flourish in this manner. Our intervention seeks to celebrate this important form of temporary urbanism and community spirit as a changing focal point for the local user groups and residents.
We developed the structure as a simple repetitive cruciform module; utilsing recycled off-cuts of commercial polycarbonate sheeting and laser cutting into shape. These were lightweight yet robust enough to be taken apart and reformed in other configurations. The modules slot-connect to one another requiring no fixings, meaning that time and the ability to alter whilst constructing provided a simple means for community participation through all age groups and user types. This allows the groups to reconfigure the structure to create various forms, inverted displays, partition, maze or gallery space.
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The initial form of the intervention was set out around the chess playing habits of local senior citizens; two players around a small table gradually joined by spectators which morphs into a more organic grouping and cluster. This is presented with the appearance as a formal object set against a more carved-out and encompassing internal space.
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The combination of the bright opaque modules and the structural openings provide a sense of lightness, contrast and focus against the local context of the trees and the traditional brick, render and stone streetscape.
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