Spacious Compact Bungalow is a private home located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was designed by INTERLINK DESIGN SOLUTIONS. Spacious Compact Bungalow by INTERLINK DESIGN SOLUTIONS: “This bungalow located at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. he designed and built this 7,000 square feet residence from ground up. Built on a comparatively small plot of land-about 5,200 square feet, James maximized space by designing a rather squarish structure with usable space spread across..
Paulo Kobylka designs furniture using brightly painted industrial mesh
KiwiStudio Designs a Private Family Residence in Bucharest, Romania
Apartmen Z is a private home located in Bucharest, Romania. Completed in 2016, it was designed by KiwiStudio. Apartment Z by KiwiStudio: “Apartment Z. is a residential project designed by KiwiStudio in 2016. The apartment is located in Bucharest, Romania, and consists of 3 bedrooms, a large living room with a dining, a small kitchen and two bathrooms. Our main goal was to provide a space that was comfortable, cosy..
The Rosenberg Golan and Ricky Home / SO Architecture
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- Architects: SO Architecture
- Location: Yehiam, Israel
- Design: Shachar Lulav, Oded Rosenkier
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Shai Epstein
- Planning Team: Oded Rosenkier, Shachar Lulav, Alejandro Feinerman
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From the architect. The Rosenberg Ricky & Golan home in Kibbutz Yehiam was designed in natural woodlands in a young residential neighborhood which is being built on the outskirts of town. The House was built on a sloping topography across the field..
Plan
The formal concept of the plan was the creation of two boxes located opposite to each other. One box is placed on the ground and the other raised in the air on a thin steel columns on one part and on the other part on a stone foundation. The floor of the ground floor is in unified level and the house is partly dugged into the mountain. The space created between the ground and the floating white box, is glazed and used in public areas of the house- kitchen, living room and dining area.
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The volume built on the ground, covered with stone similar in color to the local stone. In this area are designed the children’s bedrooms, safe room, and various service rooms. The dining area was located in a place that connect the small patio and the main space which includes the living room and kitchen. The outside area in the east side of the house, continues the public space that includes an outdoor kitchen, terraced seating area and a dining table. constant eye contact between inside and outside is maintained thanks to the use of wide glazing systems and installing hidden shading systems. The separation between the volumes and the insertion of natural light deep into the house, emphasizes the distinction between private and public and allow insertion of light deep into the house, which is wide in proportion.
Plan
Doubled and framed space escort the visitor which going up the steel stairs to the second floor while above glanced a piece of sky from the length Skylight window. The second floor overlooking the view and includes a wide master bedroom with an open porch, similar in size to the master bedroom , and above the porch a defined and enclosed pergola in roof prism. The terrace protected and allows privacy to the residents from their neighbours, while opening a framed and directed look to the far view of “Ein Yaakov”. At the back of the master bedroom glazed shower with unrestricted bath tab installed on the background of exposed concrete boards . On this floor also a sewing studio of the owner , that works in fashion design.
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Inside the house, length , width and opened views are created from the front door to the landscape, in the opposite direction from the patio, which is located in the covered in stone volume toward the outdoor kitchen.
Diagram
The design allows constant invasion of the greenery and the view to the inside of the house, while maintaining privacy to the tenants from the neighbours in the neighbourhood.
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Highlights from London Design Festival 2016 feature on our latest Pinterest board
From Benjamin Hubert’s V&A installation featuring rippling steel to an exhibition full of crystal-shaped resin sculpted by scent, we’ve pinned all the highlights from this year’s London Design Festival to a new Pinterest board.
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The Stepped Roof / Had Architects
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- Architects: Had Architects
- Location: Chengdu, China.
- Architect In Charge: Zhou Yonggang
- Structural Consultant: Chen Wei
- Area: 360.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2014
- Photographs: Arch-exist Photography & Wuyu Visual
The project is located in the financial center. The designer intends to create a natural, warm, relaxed and uncindtrained office space among the concrete and glass-curtainwall building. The original space floor height is 5.4 meters, so the designer decides to implant a wooden cabin to divide the original space into two floors: the upperfloor would be mini office area and the art sharing area, the lower floor would be open office area. the designer work on the function complexity,the layout fluxility and the ductility of the space.
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The layout try to present more complexities of the space. The first floor is mostly office area and a small kitchen. The large meeting room is close to the small kitchen, so the meeting area can be quickly turned into a small dinning area, increasing the activity of the studio. The reading area is near the discussion area, providing convenient information access,also an area to relax and communicate. Stairs combining the reception area can enrich the entrance space and express the link between space and circulation.
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The spatial relation is the focus of the design,the 2nd floor has 2 patios on it, to improve the space perception of 1st floor. The large patio is covered with wooden roof. By the multiple linear beams, supplemented with lighting, the main space get a certain sense of ceremony. The corresponding position under the roof can be use as an exhibition space. there’s aback-step processing to expand the space of the 2nd floor, form a “stepped-roof” to sit and to place objects,give the space the functions of salon, games, and movie watching. Above the reading area is the small “patio”,connecting to the large “patio” by a skywalk which providing special angles to watch the roof truss and the office area. Also the people on the skywalk become a scenery for the people below, enhancing interactivity of those spaces.
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A precast concrete staircase connects the two floors formed by Z-shaped units fastening with each other. It is a good structure solution and contribute tube spaces can place decorations.
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The natual colors of materials applys including wood, concrete and white painting. To break the oppression Finger-jointed wood board is appled. concrete is used on the ground and stairs, so 2 floors can have a relation in common material.The white painting is used to make the room brighter. Such processing in coordinating with wooden furniture, make wood-colored “stepped roof” more natural.
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Model
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Modus Studio turns old workshop into Manzeum guesthouse with steel extension
Take a Tour Inside Shanghai’s Cultural Hotspot
Take a walk through the Hub Performance and Exhibition Center, designed by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, in the dynamic Hongqiao District of Shanghai, China. The video, produced with Pedro Pegenaute, showcases the Center’s nature-inspired interior, featuring dramatic lighting and views framed by walnut- and oak-covered aluminum branches recalling forest canopies.
The interior concept draws inspiration from landscape, said architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, creating a retreat from the heavily built context and visual overload of contemporary culture.
The Performance and Exhibition Center is the centerpiece of the Hub, a mixed-use commercial development planned to span 250,000 square meters. Directly connected to the Hongqiao Transportation Hub, the Center is the new epicenter of art and culture of Shanghai’s expansion.
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Sam Jacob Studio “Resurrects” Unrealized Adolf Loos Mausoleum in London Cemetery
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Sam Jacob Studio has created a replica of Adolf Loos’ unrealized 1921 mausoleum in Highgate Cemetary, London, which is home to the graves of Karl Marx and Malcolm McLaren, amongst other notable figures.
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Commissioned by the Architecture Foundation, the project—entitled A Very Small Part of Architecture—“resurrects” the Austrian Modernist architect’s radically simple mausoleum design for art historian Max Dvorák.
The project is recreated at a 1:1 scale using a lightweight timber frame and scaffold net, creating “a ghostly reenactment of an unrealized architectural idea.”
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The title of the project is taken from Loos’ 1910 essay Architecture, in which he asserts that “only a very small part of architecture belongs to the realm of art: the tomb and the monument.”
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Built within Highgate Cemetery, amongst the many monuments and memorials to the dead, A Very Small Part Of Architecture makes a different kind of memorial. Not one dedicated to a person, an event or a moment in time, not designed to remember the past but instead to imagine other possibilities, altered presents and alternative futures.
Learn more about the project here.
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5 Initiatives That Show the Rise of Open Source Architecture
In architecture, perhaps the most remarkable change heralded by the 20th was the radical rethinking of housing provision which it brought, driven by a worldwide population explosion and the devastation of two world wars. Of course, Modernism’s reappraisal of the design and construction of housing was one part of this trajectory, but still Modernism was underpinned by a traditional process, needing clients, designers and contractors. Arguably more radical were a small number of fringe developments, such as mail-order houses in the US and Walter Segal’s DIY home designs in the UK. These initiatives sought to turn the traditional construction process on its head, empowering people to construct their own homes by providing materials and designs as cheaply as possible.
In the 21st century, the spirit of these fringe movements is alive and well, but the parameters have changed somewhat: with a rise in individualism, and new technologies sparking the “maker movement,” the focus has shifted away from providing people with the materials to construct a fixed design, and towards improving access to intellectual property, allowing more people to take advantage of cheap and effective designs. The past decade has seen a number of initiatives aimed at spreading open source architectural design–read on to find out about five of them.
ELEMENTAL Releases Social Housing Designs into the Public Domain
The 4 designs which ELEMENTAL released to the public in 2016
When he was awarded the Pritzker Prize earlier this year, Alejandro Aravena was praised by the jury for his part in the construction of over 2,500 units of social housing. However, for Aravena this number was clearly not enough to solve the housing crises taking place worldwide, and he used the platform of the award ceremony to announce that his firm ELEMENTAL was releasing four of its signature “half a house” designs to the public via its website, allowing people to use and adapt their ideas for other contexts around the world. This unprecedented move for a Pritzker Laureate undoubtedly raised the profile of open source architecture.
Cameron Sinclair’s Open Architecture Network
Design for a Sustainable Portable Classroom originally shared on the Open Architecture Network. Image © Drexel University Design Charrette <a href='http://ift.tt/2di93Z5 Wikimedia</a> licensed under <a href='http://ift.tt/2cVj3fA BY 3.0</a>
After winning the prestigious TED Prize in 2006, Cameron Sinclair, of Architecture for Humanity fame, got the chance to realize his wish of an online network for humanitarian architecture, where those involved in bringing architecture to the world’s most disadvantaged communities would be able to share their work, strategies and designs. The initiative was the first major attempt to bring open source principles to architectural design, and while the idea unfortunately didn’t gain the momentum required to sustain itself after Sinclair moved on to other ideas–the website is now defunct–the initiative was unquestionably a huge, high profile step forward for open source architecture which inspired many to follow in Sinclair’s footsteps.
WikiHouse
A 2-story WikiHouse design constructed in 2014 for the London Design Festival. Image © Margaux Carron http://ift.tt/1wZJEcG
The concept behind WikiHouse taps in deeply to the recent advances made in digital manufacture. Using a construction system that requires only a CNC machine and timber sheets such as plywood or OSB, buildings can be constructed by just about anybody. With this construction system, WikiHouse pairs a website on which users can share and adapt designs for a variety of purposes. Since it was founded, the concept of WikiHouse has expanded, with co-founder Alistair Parvin taking to the TED stage to explain how the concept could become a “Wikipedia for stuff,” offering blueprints for everything from off-grid energy solutions right down to a mallet constructed from plywood to build WikiHouse structures.
Paperhouses
Tatiana Bilbao S.C.'s design for Paperhouses, The Module House. Image Courtesy of Paperhouses
While many developments in open source architecture have focused on designs for people at the low end of the economic spectrum, Paperhouses focuses on a slightly different mission. Central to its mission is bringing world-class design to middle-class people who would otherwise probably end up with mediocre houses. In a result that would surprise some, Paperhouses has found a number of internationally-renowned architects willing to release their work via the platform; as founder Joana Pacheco has said, while some architects consider their designs as irreproducible works of art, there are many others who “embrace this idea of the participation of the people, of a collaboration between user and architect that can bring about different and interesting results.”
Bricksource
Sstudiomm's parametric patterned brick facade, which inspired their open source initiative. Image Courtesy of Sstudiomm
But the greatest sign of the rise of open source architecture will not be in a small number of high-profile programs, but in a groundswell of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of grassroots operations, of architects sharing their work simply for the benefit of humanity. Such is the case with Sstudiomm. After designing a low-tech way to construct a parametric patterned brick facade in Iran, they initially released the templates they used to create that facade to the public. Now, recognizing that their simple parametric process could be used to create all manner of other patterns, they have released details of the design process and founded a blog known as Bricksource, where they hope other like-minded designers will share variations on their original design. Announced without the fanfare of a Pritzker Prize ceremony or a TED Talk, this low-key approach to sharing design ideas may be where the future of open source architecture.
