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• Architects: SeARCH
• Location: The Netherlands 1546 Jisp, Netherlands
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Courtesy of SeARCH

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From the architect. How do you enlarge a farmhouse that has low eaves on three sides and one high side with barn doors? Typical North-Holland farmhouses, the ‘Stolp’, have a clear, strong shape. A modern extension easily demystifies this characteristic.

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The traditional Stolp has a core, the ‘square’ comprising a hayloft over the full height. Around it are the living quarters of the farmer and the barn which is in open communication with the square. Hay and house enjoy the warmth of the cows.

Floor Plan

The new extension ‘skews’ the slanted roof up from the square and protrudes over the old brick facades. On two sides this creates a zone of 5 to 7 meters wide where the new living room, kitchen and two bedrooms are located.

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The old Stolp contains the other bedrooms, study and all service areas.The living room, with a sloping concrete floor down to polder level, has 32 meters length of panoramic views over the beautiful Wormer and Jisperveld while the rooms in the existing dome have a more introversive, oak interior.

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The old and mostly rotten, boards on the east facade were replaced by a single ‘patchwork’ of different kinds of treated wood according to Japanese Shou Sugi Ban technique, created by ‘Zwarthout’.

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• Architects: Takuma Sugi , Nanako Hirai , Ben Nitta
• Location: Waseda University, West Waseda Campus
• Area: 30.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Courtesy of Ben Nitta

• Project Participants: 2nd grade students, Art and Architecture School of Waseda University
• Dimensions: 5.46m x 5.46m x 2.73m

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From the architect. This plywood pavilion was designed and built for the 2015 Science and Engineering Festival at Waseda University. As it was to be built in the campus’ central courtyard and displayed to the public, it was imperative that the design not impede the flow of pedestrians. Tight limits to the available budget and manpower necessitated that the design make efficient use of materials and allow for quick assembly. Furthermore, the design was to embody the festival’s annual theme: “Spread Out! The Ring of Science and Engineering”. The design we arrived upon managed to meet these requirements, in the form of a grid of plywood panels in the shape of a cubic volume with the four sides spherically hollowed out.

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The design process made full use of 3D CAD. This enabled us to work out the design down to the fine details, simulate the process of assembly, and quickly reflect any design improvements to be shared with the rest of the team. On the other hand, the actual fabrication was done the old-fashioned way: by hand using paper stencils and jigsaws.

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Diagram

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While the completed pavilion was on display to the public for a mere two days, it received an overwhelmingly possitive response. Visitors would gleefully wander in and about the structure, snapping photos from various angles. They also made good use of the similarly designed tables and stools strewn about. The dappled shadows cast as sunlight fell through the grid brings to mind light filtering through tree leaves, while the rhythmic pattern of consecutive rings gave visitors a peculiar uplifting feeling. All in all, the project was a tremendous success, and became a great experience for everybody involved.

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© Hieu Tam & Huynh Dung

• Architects: Chon.a
• Location: Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam
• Area: 280.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Hieu Tam & Huynh Dung

• Architect In Charge: Nguyen Cong Toan
• Associates Architects: Vu Bao Ngoc, Le Minh Duc
• Structural Engineer: Dang Son, Nguyen Dung

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From the architect. Starting a new day with a cup of coffee in  small house, it is  a habit that never give up every morning of young couple.

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The first morning coffee, they talk about their life, work, children, the hard time for beginning their career in a narrow house, their hobbies and love nature of every member in their family.

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The second morning coffee, they talk about the land that they will be built for their new house. The land is located in the center market in the city, it operates  from early morning till late at night.

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The third  morning coffee, they talk about their house in the future, they like taking care of  birds and fishes, their kids like keeping some lovely dogs, the wife likes cooking and making flowers vase, they love gardens, vegetables and plants. They hope to have a quite place near by the noise market. They don’t need any special things, they just hope every material for building is the most popular, the simplest for building up and the cost is  as cheap as possible.

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Some later morning coffees , we still keep our habits . And then we talk again about space, material, detail…

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Six months later, we drink morning coffee together again at the house which they talked. We don’t try to make anything special in this space, we just try to give all  family members live closely with nature as much as possible between noise city. To the nature speak out by Koi carp lake, garden, plants, birds singing, naughty pets, natural light and shadow, windy, the sea breathe…

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This album has been performed after the project was used for about over 18 months.

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• Interiors Designers: Reiichi Ikeda Design
• Location: 2-7-17-105, Minami-Horie, Nishi-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan 550-0015
• Interior Designer : Reiichi Ikeda, Yuma Harada
• Area: 59.4 sqm
• Project Year: 2012
• Photographs: Yoshiro Masuda

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This is an interior design for a hair salon in Osaka, Japan. The interior design was by Reiichi Ikeda of reiichi ikeda design, and the graphic design including the logo design was by Yuma Harada of UMA/design farm.

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The two companies shared the concept with each other, and comprehensively directed the hair salon together. Generally, a hair salon has a conventional traffic line of waiting, shampooing, cutting, and so on.

Plan

To specially add the uniqueness as a spice, I dotted with some visually standardized box-shaped objects such as furniture and a spot that have roles. The angle of the diagonal lines which constitute the facade and the interior visual effects follows the concept of the logo “IRO”.

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“O” in the logo “IRO” is rotated 23.43 degrees to be parallel to the axis of the earth. Even though the Japanese word “IRO” means colors in English by ordinary, we considered it as what gives us the seasonal indications with the Sun instead of as being colorful. The light streaming through the diagonal lines and its shadows are shifted from season to season.

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Additionally, the moire effect caused by the overlapping lines helps to bring out the visual movement in the design. 

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• Architects: Jarchitecture
• Location: Rhyll VIC 3923, Australia
• Architect In Charge: Jarchitecture
• Design Team: Jason Gec, Jorja Gec
• Area: 360.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Shannon McGrath

• Builder: Brent Casbolt Builders
• Engineer: Meyer Consulting
• Pool Contractor : PJ Pools
• Site Area : 805m2

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From the architect. The site is engrossed by nature and aspect, therefore the design competes by being bold, sharp and textural. This boldness and form is also an expression of the clients and their family expanding out of their current holiday house, a caravan.

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A solid black box expands out of the ground from nothing into a duality of aspect and function, picking up more materials as it expands toward French Island and Western Port Bay. The top storey acts as a self-sufficient lookout for when it is in use by a single couple, while downstairs acts as a family extension, with focus placed on play around the pool, spa, barbeque deck and cinema. Upstairs is decadent in its finishes and complex plan while downstairs is laid out and finished more simplistically; there is a play off between warm rustic materials and contemporary decadence.

Ground Floor Plan

1F Plan

The design aims to be bunkered down and of the site, then grow, expand and lift from it. The views, planning setbacks, site orientation, prevailing winds and land fall all promoted an Easterly aspect; so we acted accordingly. We then went about making the most of the less than ideal solar orientation of the house by exposing the slab to the North, blocking the Westerly winds and sun, limiting openings to the South/street and controlling the morning sun.

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The site specifics and clients brief presented a challenge for environmental design but we prevailed by including the following initiatives in the design.

• Exposed slab to collect solar energy with 15-20% recycled fly ash
• Highly durable decking material of recycled plastic and timber
• Highly insulated and durable double-glazed UPVC windows
• High grade timber cladding that will grey gracefully
• Solar heated pool
• Highly-insulated walls, floor and ceiling
• Minimal southern and western glazing
• Optimized cross ventilation

The design has a highly efficient layout and a more complex aesthetic than the inhabitants might have expected. In both ways the design breaks from their current conventions and provides a new way of being. The clients constantly say they can’t wait to get back to the house; what more could a designer want?

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