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Saengthai Rubber Headquarter / Atelier of Architects
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- Architects: Atelier of Architects
- Location: Samut Prakan, Thailand
- Area: 2200.0 ft2
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Anake Senadee, Salyawate P
From the architect. Saengthai Rubber Headquarter is situated in the front of a half century factory compound on Poochaosamingprai Road, the historical industrial development area of Bangkok. The Headquarter will be the first move for their organization’s reengineering. It is the expressive gesture for their visionary business plan and also the portal gateway to district.
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The requirement listed for 5 storey structure. Fully occupied as work space for main businesses and jointed companies. The given form initially started with the composition of two boxes wrapped with black concrete frame, then intersected to separately form spaces for each organization. The central area is where the vertical circulation is located. We lifted the rear box up to create the terrace for president office on the 4th floor. Then bended the front box to create the car drop off in front, and continue the form to the 5th floor to be the shrine hall.
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From the center, it seems like a common concrete column structure with the flat slab concrete floor. The distribution of the load transfer to the façade. Where lattice pattern forms as a super truss made of steel section, bringing the weight all down to the ground. It is our first attempt to use the integration of structural frame, both concrete and steel. With the large reflecting pond, the structure seems to be floating. The triangle pattern from the façade has become the principle detail that applies throughout the project, from the glazed facade to further details including the lighting fixture and fence design.
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While exterior is painted in black, all of the interior element is painted in white, giving the clarity and futuristic appearance to the inhabitants. The interior space is an interplay of double height work floor and over hanging meeting room that has panoramic view to the north and south, giving the visual clarity and openness to working atmosphere. The bended floor becomes seating steps for casual meeting arousing the sharing culture.
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The composition of two boxes, lifted and bended can also be interpreted as a metaphor to the core business as it express the major quality of the rubber, the elasticity.
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Being together with the 50 years old Banyan and Bodhi tree, they are speaking of the heritage, they have been through while look toward the future with the fresh vision of new generation.
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Belgian holiday house by GAFPA takes its cues from Japanese architecture
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Hola Design Create a Clean and Elegant Private Residence in Poland
Minimalist Muranow is a private residence designed by Hola Design. The 650-square-foot home is located in Poland. Minimalist Muranow by Hola Design: “It is almost two-hundred-meter (six-hundred-and-fifty-foot) apartment in the heart of capital city, designed to the needs of young, dynamic people. Apartment with clearly separated zones, with spacious daily part in a characteristic way divided with structural element of the building. Required dividing element was used to create a..
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Gaze / APOLLO Architects
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- Architects: APOLLO Architects
- Location: Obu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
- Architect In Charge: Satoshi Kurosaki / APOLLO Architects & Associates
- Area: 82.73 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Masao Nishikawa
- Structural Engineer : Nomura Structure (Nomura Motoi)
- Mechanical Engineer : Naoki Matsumoto
- Lighting Design : SIRIUS LIGHTING OFFICE
- Structure: Timber
- Total Floor Area : 125.29 m2
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From the architect. This residential project located in Obu city, Aichi prefecture, serves also as a gallery space for the contemporary art collection of the client. This building consists of a hybrid structure, with a podium on the 1st floor level composed of reinforced concrete and glazing, and wooden boxes configured in two floor levels and placed on top of the podium. Floor area becomes larger as it goes up in higher levels. With the box on the 1st floor level in glazing, and the other boxes for 2nd and 3rd floor levels in galvanized steel siding representing different color from the 1st level, the building provides a distinct character from its proportion with a sense of floating in the space.
The 2nd floor level is cantilevered, in order to provide a garage space in pilotis style for two cars on the 1st floor level. The 1st floor podium is fully glazed on the street side for giving good visibility of the gallery. The floor level of the gallery space is lowered as a semi-underground sunken space to be magnetic, while a concrete partition provided inside of the space blocks the direct daylight, allowing visitors to the gallery appreciate art pieces via reflected light on the ceiling.
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A staircase is provided for approaching to the entrance dedicated to the residence part. Direct access is provided to the 2nd floor level with gathered private spaces and water section, and to the 3rd floor level with a family room. Those spaces are lit by daylight from the top light above the staircases and the balcony, adding gentle atmosphere to the spaces.
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Floor Plans
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The interior finish and furniture of the family room is intentionally given monotonous colors with the utmost simplicity, allowing this space to be converted from the living space into alternative gallery space in the future to exhibit the art collection of the client. It will be a viewing room, for living together with art without loosing sense of privacy, by making good use of inner balcony and other elements for fully reducing openings of the building directly connecting to the outside.
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Yeongdo Haedoji Village Sight Tree / ADDarchi Architects Group
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- Architects: ADDarchi Architects Group
- Location: 468-502, Cheonghak-dong, Yeongdo-gu, Busan, South Korea
- Design Team: Yoo Sang-hun, Kang Seo-hyun, Kwon Jin-ju, Choe Hee-jeong
- Area: 190.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Yoon Joon-hwan
- Structural Engineering: SeMyeong Structural Engineering, JoEun Engineering, Dream Engineering Group
- Construction Team: TaeRim Construction
- Structure: RC
- Site Area: 190m²
- Building Area: 37.62m²
- Gross Floor Area: 58.35m²
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Located aside atop the Bongnaesan Hill, Yeongdo, Busan, this village was named the ‘Haedoji Village’ (Sunrise Village) on which the refugees gathering here after the Korean War imposed the hopeful meaning: ‘Let’s also be well-off.’ This is one of the backward residential areas on a typical hillside roadway proper to Busan, which has such inadequate conditions as the difficult access to the upland and the increase of vacant or deserted housing.
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However, so strong was the will of residents to construct the village community and promote the resident-led urban regeneration that the budget was raised to the public invitation of their ideas as well as that the constructions of the Bongnaesan Dulle-gil Trail course were promoted amongst which the ‘Bongnaesan Dulle-gil Viewing Lounge’ was placed thanks to its advantageous location optimal for viewing the Busan North Port.
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The Huimang (Hope) Village formed on top of the Mt. Bongnae, Yeongdo, is situated on a north-faced slope and made up of spontaneous alleyways so as to enable automobile access only from the northern low entrance. The site is at the intersection of the central alleyway in the village with its uppermost Bongnaesan Dulle-gil Trail: here, one can see all the panorama of Busan, ranging from Daecheong-dong and the Hillside Road in Choryang to the region around the North Port, the North Port Bridge, and the Oryukdo Island.
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Usually, the northern low roadway through which local residents approach the village serves as the main entrance, but this site where the central village alleyway intersects with the Dulle-gil Trail, I thought, has an advantage of providing another new entrance to the village that enables contact with outsiders who use the Trail.
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Located at the village entrance are the traditional totem poles (Jangseung) and Dangsan Trees which have been used from old days as the leisurely place central to the village, signifying its guardian and marking the border. Likewise, we represented the lush image of leisure that tree branches create by intermingling in harmony. The skip-floors based on the difference of elevation (about 2m) between the site and the Trail accommodate various programs and enable the multi-level perspectives from which one can take a rest viewing excellent landscape, in order to make a new iconic building of the village that has the image of a ‘sight tree.‘
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In order not to give a sense of visual pressure to those who climb from the central village alleyway, the building was placed aback on the site so as to be recognized with the front yard. The lower part was made into a piloti so as to enable natural use of the front yard. Classified as a natural green zone by the building code, the site must fulfill the functional needs within the building area sized 37 sq. m. For this matter, we designed toilet at the remaining space under the entrance staircase running from the Trail, while on the remaining 2nd floor space other than the staircase, designing three-dimensional spaces like multi-level hideouts running from the front open space to the back kitchen and to the circular staircase.
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The interior floor-to-ceiling windows, the horizontal and vertical windows, and the three-dimensional frames wrapping up the outdoor stairs and the rooftop observatory are the most important architectural devices in this project. These devices serve as the fields of social exchange that naturally circulate movements into the building at the interface between the village alleyway and the Trail. The scene of the stairway in which movements smoothly become multi-level circulations and reach the rooftop observatory was to signify the unique local characteristic of this area by mimicking the landscape of the Hillside Road created in negotiations between topography and landscape.
Staggered and stacked blocks define rooms in Porto residence by 236 Arquitectos
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