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The After Belonging Agency, the curatorial team behind the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale (OAT), have revealed sixteen speakers who will present at the event’s central conference at the Oslo Opera House this coming September. Atelier Bow-Wow, Snøhetta alongside a number of other academics, practitioners and decision-makers will come together to “address architecture’s relation to current pressing questions such as refugeeism, migration and homelessness, new mediated forms of domesticity and foreignness, environmental displacements, tourism, and the technologies and economies of sharing.”
The conference intends to discuss architecture’s role in the contemporary reconfiguration of belonging, and how this process has transformed the notion of residence. “What are the spatial, technical, and sociopolitical consequences of this transformation?”
Speakers will include:
The OAT 2016 Conference, After Belonging, will be held at the Oslo Opera House on September 9, 2016 between 0900 and 1600. You can find out more and register, here.
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Sandhill Crane is a private residence designed by Garrison Hullinger Interior Design. It is located in Portland, Oregon, USA. Photos by: Blackstone Edge
Zaha Hadid Architects has begun construction on the NürnbergMesse Hall 3C for international exhibition and congress company NürnbergMesse, in Nuremberg, Germany. The design for Hall 3C is a continuation of the design principles from Hall 3A, which was built by Zaha Hadid Architects in 2014.
As a part of the NürnbergMesse exhibition company, Hall 3A connects existing hexagonal grid halls from the 1970s to the rectangular halls at Grosse Strasse. Hall 3C will be modeled in a similar fashion, featuring a trapezoid-shaped and spaning 10,000 square meters.
The inclined roof of the new Hall will drop from 20 to 13 meters in height to provide acoustic benefits, as well as reductions in energy consumption and emissions.
3,000 square meters of glazed façades will enable light to travel deep into the Hall.
Currently, pictures painted by students from local elementary schools on the theme of “Nuremberg—my city” are displayed along the 300 meter fence surrounding Hall 3C’s construction site, in a display of the strong social and economic links with the exhibition center in Nuremberg, which supports around 15,000 full-time jobs per year.
70 million Euros were invested in NürnbergMesse Hall 3C, and it is expected to be completed at the end of 2018.
Learn more about the basis for the project—Hall 3A—here.
News via Zaha Hadid Architects.
From the architect. The project of this house is located in a plot with an exagerated slope. For a proper use of all the plot it was decided to locate the house approximately in the middle of the available land, so the side towards Segaria Street in “Urbanización l’Aspre” picks up the main access, garage, swimming pool and basically the representative part of the house, while in the southern part of the house plot services program is resolved.
The section is projected so that the ground floor coincides with the living area and in the first floor it is located the night area of the house; the high ceiling on the entrance, upon which rests the study room, expands and distributes from the central nucleus the different parts of the program.
The main piece, looking for framing the landscape of the sea, extends itself towards the facade in a pronounced cantilever which shows the slope of the plot and defines, by its shadows, the parking area. The night piece at the end of the plot contains the sleeping area situated in the east side of the piece in purpose to keep the privacy of the people who is living there, and the study room in the west side, from which they can acces to the lower floor cover.
The irregularity of the plants comes from the adaptation of two original prisms to attemp to preserve part of the existing vegetation, incorporating it to the project. This irregular shape favors views between different parts of the home that incorporate the landscape of the valley of Girona river, contextualizing the contrast with the enviroment. The way to design the house with beam-wall of reinforced concrete, and its malleability, ease of execution and rigidity, allows us to reach a 9,5m cantilever and helps to understand the volumes of the house in its most expressive way.
About the treatment of the exterior areas, it tries to maintain the image of the agricultural terraces, now disused, which mark out the area of the plot and make it descend by the northern slope of the mountain. For the location of the swimming pool and to form its “beach”, is widened on of these terraced fields until build the main outdoor stay of the house, an area that sequence the pedestrian and vehicular acces and it also enjoys the spectacular views of the living/dining room, due to the altitude.
The main facades of the house are oriented to the valley and the west facade frames, on first floor, the views to the “Castellet”, an historical reference for the people in Orba; the rest facades are intended to, with a simple composition, satisfy the relations beetween the rooms and the enviroment, providing ventilation and natural lighting throughout the house.
The idea of architecture expressed in this project, not only diverge from the buildings of its enviroment regards to their constructive solution, but the architectural language is necessarily remote from the one which is generally used in all the urbanization.
It’s a modern project that fowards regarding organization, shape, structure, construction and language to the identification of the requirements of the customer in a unitary way.
T House is a private home located in Ha Noi, Vietnam. Completed in 2015, it was designed by ABS Corporation. T House by ABS Corporation: “This project is located in a neighborhood which is comprehensively planned with the strict regulation about the exterior. For this reason, the architecture of the outer is carefully considered to moderately adjust in a way to balance with the surroundings. In contrary, the inner space..
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Atelier PRO architects have been selected to create the interior design for the new Town Hall Quarter in Deventer. The Deventer municipality has opted for flexibility, sustainability, cooperation and interaction as the major basic principles for this interior.
The Town Hall Quarter is situated between the Grote Kerkhof, Polstraat, Burseplein and Assenstraat. The plan partly entails new build (about 19,500 m² Gross Floor Area (GFA)) and partly renovation, restoration and preservation of existing national monuments (about 4,500 m² GFA). The striking new build part, according to the design by Neutelings Riedijk architects, respectfully conforms to the existing historic buildings. The municipality aims to set a good example in the field of sustainable building and realized a building with a BREEAM-score excellent.
Democracy and public administration
In Deventer, democracy and public administration have been connected to this wonderful site for centuries. The new building signifies a huge quality improvement, not only for the municipal organization, but also for the inner city quality of this location. With this Town Hall Quarter, the municipality unites its own organization at the Grote Kerkhof, and in addition creates a central meeting point. The public spaces are therefore equipped to make them suitable for exhibitions, debates and symposiums. The interior design plays a leading role in this concept.
Activity-based working places
In this new office environment, the municipality has chosen for a flexible office arrangement in the interior. This working place concept that is related to activities, contributes to a new way of working in which innovative, participative and result-oriented working forms central stage. The staff members can work in a flexible way and without fixed places and times. In the atelier PRO architects’ design, orientation has been linked with interior specials which form recognizable meeting places. Following the historic buildings, the use of colours are a reflection of 17th century pigments which came to light after researching old paint layers, such as ultramarine blue, indigo, umber, madder and lead-tin yellow.
Peace of mind
Moreover, atelier PRO has developed ‘The New Waiting’ concept and introduced this in the public hall. The comfort of the interior reveals itself in accordance with the waiting time, so that a waiting place can be chosen that suits the serenity level. Practical furniture for visitors who are in hurry, and a softer interior for quiet places where people have to stay longer. Thus the functional arrangement of the public hall is related to the various activities, for which perceptibility, clear organization and obvious waiting time indications are of major importance. Hence, the interior design supports the operational management and high level of service and hospitality of the municipality of Deventer.
Fingerprint
Visual artist Loes ten Anscher developed aluminum window frames out of the fingerprints belonging to hundreds of Deventer inhabitants. Their thumb, finger or even their toe got an eternal place in the new building. In total 2300 Deventen citizens were invited to hand in their fingerprint. All fingerprint scans were turned into a fingerprint clay mold. In the foundry the clay molds turned into sand molds, that were filled with fluid aluminum. After the aluminum being cooled the window frame was finished.
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