architecture
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Firodiya Center for Inspiration / Studio A dvaita
© Rasika Badave
- Architects: Studio A dvaita
- Location: Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
- Architects In Charge: Prasad Badave, Rasika Badave
- Design Team: Prasad Badave, Rasika Badave, Rajiv Gujar, Anil Gavande, Ashok Akolkar, Sanjay Kharat, Balasaheb Walhekar
- Area: 3500.0 ft2
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Rasika Badave
© Rasika Badave
From the architect. The challenge was to create an administrative office space & informative gallery for visitors, shielded visually and acoustically from industrial environment. The form is evolved with existing kitchenette, geodesic dome which was built 15 years before, with new components as amorphous interlinked units, on basis of pragmatic needs and environmental aspect of site by providing shield from heat and glare externally.
© Rasika Badave
This project aims to create highly sustainable campus through application of various strategies. First by reduction of waste generation by recycling and / or salvaging at least 50% of material. 90% use of building material and products available locally. Minimizing lighting loads by using natural light obtained through skylights & north light and using efficient led lamps. The informal enclosure around the geodesic dome is created by placing criss cross walls to create outdoor exhibition space. These walls are placed in such a way that throughout the day outdoor gallery can be used.
Diagram
The indoor gallery block is placed tilted to existing block to create small court inbetween which will protect the internal spaces from dust, wind and harsh sun.
© Rasika Badave
The dramatic internal volume is modulated with natural illumination. White walls lit with natural light, brown kotah stone for flooring and over detailed interiors are avoided to bring simple dignity of silent architecture. Coloured rough textured plaster is provided for external surfaces which add charm to exterior spaces.
Sketch
The fenestration requires for respective function are designed to minimize the heat gain & maximizes suffused day lighting. Large openable perforated sheet doors offer a sweeping view of adjacent court with plantation and colorful walls from all work areas.
© Rasika Badave
A powerful architecture, playing with the contrast between inside and outside, achieves the dignity essential to visitor center. Thermal considerations informed the design, including the orientation, window shading and natural ventilation. Low, massive and with varying volumes, the architecture is boldly contemporary but inspired by its context. Exterior walls are painted in coloured rough texture, blending with the landscape and surrounding. In dramatic contrast, interiors are painted in immaculate white with natural light. Where the choice of material, color and texture draws attention as a modest, inexpensive yet fresh and authentic architectural example
Model
Cannon Design Releases Plans for Mixed-Use Cancer Hospital in Brazil
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Cannon Design has unveiled its proposal for a mixed-use Cancer Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Originally envisioned as a “private hospital serving patients that can afford a high quality of health care,” the project transformed into a partnership between the public and private sector after preliminary feasibility studies determined the price of the site to be prohibitively high.
Thus, the project expanded to become a mixed-use complex with ownership shared between socially minded city government and private investors.
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The facility will include a cancer hospital, public parking, housing for low-income families, shops, gardens, and recreation, as well as an adult education center to provide training for hospital staff.
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The cost of land and availability of suitable sites in the city demand a dense, vertically-organized complex. The building section shows how living quarters and public amenities are woven into the structure, never interfering with the hospital operations. Formally the center resembles the character of the city which is defined by the favelas perched on the hills, overlooking the city skyscrapers beneath explained the architects.
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Construction for the center is currently on hold due to “economic conditions in Brazil,” but has not been canceled.
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News via Cannon Design.
San Antonio Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Wins Global Award for Excellence
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Seattle-based firm LMN Architects have won an Urban Land Institute (ULI) Global Award for Excellence for its Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio, Texas.
“Designed by LMN Architects in partnership with executive architects Marmon Mok Architecture, the $150 million expansion and renovation project embrace the multi-faceted cultural identity of the city with a distinctive tapestry of form, materiality, light, and landscape” stated Mark Reddington, FAIA, lead designer and partner at LMN Architects.
Completed in 2014, the project incorporates a metallic veil that wraps program elements in programmable LED lighting, in order to create a variable play of light on the city’s skyline.
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We drew inspiration for the architectural form and detailing from the Spanish Colonial style of the original 1926 Municipal Auditorium, as well as San Antonio’s rich vernacular of color, pattern, and public celebrations, said Mark Reddington, FAIA, lead designer and partner at LMN Architects.
© Andy Crawford
© Andy Crawford
The renovation additionally retained the Municipal Auditorium’s historic façade, while weaving a new 183,000-square-foot facility into the framework of the existing public space, including a 1,768-seat performance hall and a 231-seat flat floor studio theater.
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© Mark Menjivar
The jury for the Award noted that “the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts brings a world-class, dynamic performance venue and gathering place to San Antonio while creating a vibrant connection between the city’s main cultural venue and the famed River Walk.”
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© Mark Menjivar
The project is also the recipient of a 2016 Honor Award and a Mayor’s Choice Award from the San Antonio Chapter of the AIA, a 2016 AIA Washington Council Civic Design Awards, Award of Merit, and a 2012 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award.
Learn more about the project here.
News via LMN Architects.
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