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SPASM Design Architects Design a Contemporary Home in Ahmedabad, India
DIYA is a private home located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It was designed by SPASM Design Architects in 2016. DIYA by SPASM Design Architects: “Ahmedabad, is predominantly dry through the year, though it does rain occasionally during monsoon months, from late June to August. The clients a young couple with a daughter of 9 and their parents, contacted us for a family home. Pre-existing trees, and a large lawn, prompted..
House Daasdonklaan / zone zuid architecten
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- Architects: zone zuid architecten
- Location: The Netherlands, Roosendaal, Netherlands
- Area: 429.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Courtesy of zone zuid architecten
- Main Contracter: Bouwgroep middenbrabant
- Electricity: Jos van Dijk electo
- Furniture: Piet Jan Dekkers
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From the architect. Dutch design office zone zuid architecten recently completed a new home in one of the suburbs of Roosendaal. The 225 sq m house is designed as a deconstruction of a traditional Dutch house silhouette, several floors for living with a gable roof.
Diagram
The main goal was to create a strong relation between the interior and the exterior of the plot. For example the house is placed on a raised terrace. This terrace becomes part of the living space but also the other way around. The volumes are then shifted relative to each other and are abstracting the silhouette.
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Floor Plan
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In addition, the outdoor relationship is enforced by the glass wedge that splits the volume into two, this creates light and space deep into the home. But also the bay windows contribute to a optimal penetration of the surrounding area, they come out of the façade literally.
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The house contains next to the living room and kitchen, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a game room, two storage rooms a partly covered sun terrace and the swimming pool. All of these spaces are connected to each other by a strong pattern of lines materialized wood, concrete, plaster and glass.
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Zone zuid architecten designed the house, but also the matching furniture is the work of the architect. So for example the kitchen is extra narrow which comes out on the bay window in the front volume. The kitchen is made of a combination of wood, steel and concrete and floats above the floor, exactly like the house floating above ground level.
João Mendes Ribeiro Creates a Minimalist Extension for a Home in Chamusca, Portugal
House in Chamusca Da Beira is a project completed by João Mendes Ribeiro in 2015. The home is located in Chamusca, Portugal. House in Chamusca Da Beira by João Mendes Ribeiro: “The project for the House in Chamusca da Beira consists in the requalification of a small built aggregate in a rural estate and on its enlargement with the construction from scratch of a new small building, directly articulated with..
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Overpass on the Loing / DVVD Engineers Architects Designers
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- Architects: DVVD Engineers Architects Designers
- Location: 77250 Moret-sur-Loing, France
- Area: 76 mts long
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: D.Rousselot – DVVD
- Contracting Authority: Inter-municipal Syndicate of Boundary Developers
- Team: Paula Castro, Céline Cerisier, Vincent Dominguez, Toma Dryjski, Bertrand Potel, Louis Ratajczak, Daniel Vaniche
- Project Manager: Carlota Guillen
- Contractors: Segex
- Metallic Carpentry: Viry
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From the architect. At the con uence of the Loing and the Seine, the overpass constructed by the DVVD architecture, design and engineering agency blends perfectly with its remarkable setting in the heart of Seine-et-Marne, a favourite site for walkers in the Ile-de-France. This panorama inspired numerous studies, sketches and paintings by the famous impressionist artist Alfred Sisley in the late 19th century. !00 years later, the spirit of creativity is still at large here, as evinced by the clean- cut metal arch, 67 metres in length, which connects the municipalities of Saint-Mammès and Veneux-les- Sablons.
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First conceived early in the 20th century, the installation of an overpass has been much discussed since, with a fear in many quarters of the consequent spoiling of the site. It was by the particular consideration of this mandatory respect for the existing setting that the DVVD agency was able to win the competition organized in 2010 by the Inter-municipal Syndicate of Boundary Developers [Syndicat Intercommunal des Maisons du Bornage]. Given a free choice of location, the architects sited their project at the margins of the Seine, at a location where the Loing is relatively broad, and where the banks are free of road tra c and urban development. This siting also allows the lines of force delivered by the landscape to be exploited, and to enjoy the fruits of reciprocal enhancement.
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Caressing both banks, the overpass unfurls freely, on the left bank towards the Veneux-les-Sablons tow path, and on the right bank towards the car park of the Saint-Mammès market. Its arched form is more clearly suggestive of a water crossing than a girder or trellis structure, while establishing a strong visual link between the two towns. The structure is supported on foundations which are independent of the banks, which themselves are reinforced over a length of 10 – 15 metres: on the Saint-Mammès side, the existing quayside, of cement construction but a ected by cracks, has been consolidated by the installation of a beam; on the Veneux-les-Sablons side, a bundled structure of willows and timber piles, combined with geotextiles, improves the mechanical strength of the bank, hitherto comprised of back ll covered with herbaceous vegetation and a few woody plants. The symmetrical design of this structure is comprised of two slender load-bearing arches, with a deck suspended from reinforcements which are supported by the arches. Manufactured and painted at the Viry workshops in Remiremont (Vosges), the latter were transported in three sections respectively and welded in situ. The curvature in elevation is matched by the curvature of the decking plane: the decking is expanded in the central section to form a panoramic viewpoint over the river. Over and above its function as a crossing, the overpass serves as a landmark, a destination for walkers and an exceptional observation point.
Section
The overpass is distinguished by the restraint and elegance of its geometry, which render it virtually transparent in the landscape, without impairing the impression of freedom and exposure to the sky which are symbolic of the con uence of the Loing and the Seine. This sensation is attributable to the lightweight pro le of its superstructure, constructed of high- performance steel, for the optimization of structural behaviour. The arches are designed in rectangular sections, reconstituted by welding, constant in the area above the decking and of variable inertia in the lower sections, aring to form a bedding structure at ground level. The reinforcements which support the decking are also reconstituted by welding in a variable inertia arrangement, and are suspended from the arches.
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The overall form of the structure is resistant to bending, but also to torsional loading associated with winds or the application of imbalanced dynamic loads to the decking. Dictated by the proximity of the naval shipyard, the air draft has been extended up to 6 metres, reducing the visual impact of the structure while enhancing the dynamism of its design. Broadly-spaced cradles (at intervals of 5.40 metres) are suspended below the arches, and carry H-section girders for the formation of the decking structure. In the interests of convenience, natural water drainage and anti-slip properties, the latter is formed of rot-proof timber planks in a crosswise arrangement. The architects from DVVD summarize the design as follows: “In spirit, the project as a whole is distinguished by details, which we have endeavoured to keep clean and simple, allowing the intent of the project to take precedence ”.
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Piloni Architecture Designs a Private Residence in São Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil
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Residential Pavilion / Abraham John Architects
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- Architects: Abraham John Architects
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Team: Abraham John, Alan Abraham, Anca Florescu, Niranjan Fulsundar, Prachi Donde, Neha Gupta
- Area: 350.0 ft2
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Alan Abraham
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The Pavilion was built on an existing underground water tank that dictated the foot print of the structure. Glass became the primary material for construction as the Pavilion was sited amidst lush tropical greenery. Glass not only formed the walls but also the roof in the form of a strategically placed skylight opening up to the view of a large jackfruit tree above blurring the boundaries between the inside and the outside.
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Diagram
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The structural members were mainly the wooden door frame acting as columns and wooden rafters supporting the roof that were left exposed to the interior. An existing stone compound wall formed the fourth edge of the Pavilion accentuating its natural material palette.
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The architecture of the Pavilion is a minimalist expression of structure, space and materiality.
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JI-SHI Urban Harvest / Atelier I-N-D-J
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- Architects: Atelier I-N-D-J
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Design Team: Ian Douglas-Jones, Calvin Zhou, Lynn Xu, YimingYang
- Area: 446.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Seth Powers
- Contractor: Talent Construction – Jason Guo
- Project Management: Experience G – BianRen, YeMao
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The restaurant sits in the outskirts of Shanghai in the newly formed Disney town, with views from within over a large lake.
Plan
Occupying a concrete framed building the design seeks to occupy this banal framework; exposing slabs, columns and ductwork whilst shrouding the honest backdrop in certain areas with planes of plaster and ply.
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A central white ceiling plane organises the dining space dividing between inward facing with restaurant views and outward with views towards the lake outside. The inner adopts a language of dark leather and dark tables offsetting against the white ceiling plane. Whilst the outward has deep red warm leather with carefully exposed and neatly finished ductwork above.
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The white ceiling plane curves to wall at the far end of the restaurant space, with a gradient white paint that blends ply and plaster together.
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A private dining room is fully enclosed with this method, with incisions in the form to create door and window openings that ignore the rigor of radial ribs that give the room form.
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Diagram
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Lighting fixtures were developed especially for the project; a carefully balanced height adjustable pulley light; cast concrete counterweight, cast resin drop pendant with a brass cowl diffused COB LED within.
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