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Villa on The Hills is a residential project designed by iarchitects in 2016. It is located in Udine, Italy. Villa on The Hills by iarchitects: “The intervention converted the space of the residency, a seventies building distinguished by a complex geometry in a new two levels house, flood with natural light and open to the surrounding hills. One of the client’s main desires was to live the home entirely in..
Penthouse 03 was designed by Atelier Pierre Thibault in 2014. The home is located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Penthouse 03 by Atelier Pierre Thibault: “The project was to design the interior of a penthouse located in a building under construction. Only the exterior walls and the floor were built. This empty shell allowed for a great liberty in planning the interior. The exterior walls made solely of windows, the large..
From the architect. The apartment is located in the consolidated urban fabric of the city of Milan, and is on three levels, one mezzanine and a basement.
A flat portion is formed by a double-height space that accomodate the living, and appears as a privileged context.
The project introduces a large regulator element represented by the timber wall, which identifies hierarchies for both domestic and becomes an element of visual orientation within the home.
The dividing wall through the mechanism of “see through”, allows you to separate spaces and at the same time to establish the relationships between them
The walls, like feelings, can separate or join.
The floor of a portion of the ground floor is made of glass to allow the passage of solar light coming through the two large openings on the lower level
The light that passes through the floor is filtered by a light shelding timber that is configured as an element of visual filter against by the underlying space.
Many of the furnishings are all about design and develop an idea of tailoring space that escapes the approval of commercial design.
The project pursues a pleasure for detail, which is expressed in the timely design of all the elements that compose it, the pleasure for detail, for the measurement, for the authentic and light, are the themes with which the project was compared.
Tlv PH Apartment is a private residence located in the White City, in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was designed by Dori Interior Design in 2016. Photos by: Adi Cohen-Zedek
From the architect. We propose a building with a unique image for the campus. A building that breaks the existing gray monotony – referring not only about the pictorial issue of the Campus, but also about the “global crisis without end” – and that, at the same time, is able to captivate.
The search for future technology themes, was the genesis of the selected image for the building. The facade skin, happened through an architectural reinterpretation, it retracts the symbolic power of the ERI purpose.
We used as reference the titanium nanotubes. Associated with recent discoveries, the titanium nanotubes have, among others, capacities for reuse and cheap production, becoming, this way, an inspiration for an architecture that seeks sustainability as an ideal.
Nowadays, at the offices of UM (Minho University), researching processes are occurring in what concerns to materials development, one possible example is what’s happening in the civil engineering laboratory.
In order to develop common synergies, we propose the skin of the building in prefabricated elements of a cementitious matrix material.
This material reinforced with micro-fibers, has no conventional reinforcement, which could cause corrosion problems, among other features, is a very ductile material, plastic, fluid, self-compatible and allows to control the crack and therefore doesn’t crack. This skin allows the inclusion of pigmentation/oxides doesn’t need constant maintenance and lasts longer than common materials. To finish, it also allows a wide range of the architectural freedom.
From the architect. Sales pavilion, generally considered as a temporary building type, is always demolished or renovated as long as developers have achieved their commercial goals. These costly buildings therefore become huge waste of resources and energy. To minimize the unnecessary waste and keep the building for further use is our starting point. We try to introduce a community library into the building as a sustainable solution, in which not only can a library increase people flow, but also it can offer public facilities when the sales process comes to the end.
The design is inspired by a toy, building block. We build bookcases in a way as we play the building blocks. They re-define the whole space by stacking and overlapping in two atriums, from the ground to the ceiling. The gap between the “blocks” naturally becomes a path for people to go through. In the atriums, the staircases cantilevered from the “blocks” connects groundfloor and first floor with a new mezzanine corridor.
The mezzanine corridor which connects the two clusters of “blocks”, not only increases reading area but also produces a dramatic and coherent space.It is cantilevered with independent steel structures hidden in the bookcases with no column exposed. The structures will not interrupt views or activities and even be hardly noticed, which signify the corridor as a foremost feature in this project.
Sig Nordal 