Talented students of design & architecture – now it’s time to think, rethink and innovate! Honour, glory and 5,000 Euros are at stake. Registration deadline for the Troldtekt Award 2016 is October 24.
For the fourth time, Troldtekt A/S is challenging young talents to suggest new ways of using the classic Danish-produced Troldtekt acoustic panels.
Troldtekt is a strong and sustainable material made from only two natural ingredients: Wood and cement. It is also a flexible product. You can cut it, paint it, print on it and much more.
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What is Troldtekt Award?
Troldtekt Award 2016 is a biennial concept competition for students of design & architecture from all over the world. Your task is to explore Troldtekt and find new uses that are not only creative but also possible to realise in practice.
The best idea is awarded 5,000 Euros!
How to participate?
Register for the Troldtekt Award now (before October 24) here at ArchDaily.
Your competition proposal must be submitted electronically no later than November 6, 2016.
A jury, comprising Troldtekt and two internationally renowned architects, will award a winner.
Now, it is up to you to think, rethink and innovate. Good luck!
From the architect. The Museum of Modern Literature is located in Marbach, on a rock plateau overlooking the Neckar River valley. As the birthplace of Friedrich Schiller, the town’s park already held the Schiller-National Museum, built in 1903, and the Archive for German Literature, built in the 1970s. Displaying artefacts from the extensive Twentieth Century collection from the Archive for German Literature, notably the original manuscripts of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ and Alfred Döblin’s ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’, the new museum also provides panoramic views across the landscape.
Embedded in the topography, the museum reveals different elevations, reacting to its immediate context. The steep slope of the site creates an intimate, shaded entrance on the brow of the hill facing the Schiller-National Museum with its forecourt and park, and a grander, more open series of tiered spaces facing the valley below. On the highest terrace the building appears as a pavilion, providing the entrance to the museum. Slender concrete supports articulate the façade and enclose the entrance. The route through the entrance pavilion and down towards the introverted exhibition galleries gradually adjusts from daylight to the arti cial light, necessary for the fragile exhibits displayed. These timber-panelled exhibition spaces are connected to naturally lit, glazed loggias, contrasting the internalised world of texts and manuscripts with the valley beyond.
The walls and ceilings are fair-faced, in-situ cast concrete. Limestone is used internally for the oors, and is also used as an aggregate in the pre-cast, sandblasted concrete elements of the façade. The use of enduring, solid materials gives the architecture a strong, physical presence and supports the notion of preserving the collection for future generations.
From the architect. The team of Carve and Omgeving (design) and Krinkels (contractor) won the international competition to design an adventurous play-scape and landmark on a ‘terril’ in Beringen, Belgium, in January 2015. The adventure mountain is part of the touristic, recreative project be-MINE, that aims to breathe new life into the monumental coalmining site in Beringen, the largest industrial-archeological site in Flanders. The former mining city asked to add new function to the 60 meter high rubble mountain, and to redevelop the old industrial buildings into a cultural hotspot where its history can be experienced in a playful way.
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The spectacular scale of this site – regarding both the height of the terril as well as its industrial heritage – is unique in the relatively flat surrounding landscape of Limburgian-Flanders. The intervention is a landmark on a large scale, but through its playable character it also reflects the small scale of a child. The values of the industrial heritage have been a continuous leading theme in the design process that resulted in an unprecedented playscape. The mining ‘terril’ has been given a new meaning, rooted in both the past and the future.
Courtesy of Carve
The design consists of three parts, that create a unity with the mountain and its past: a pole forest as a landmark, an adventurous prismatic play surface on the flank of the mountain and a coal square on the top of the ‘terril’. The spine of the ensemble is a straight stairs that provides access to all levels. At night, a light line along the stairs makes the topography of the terril visible.
All integrated playelements in both the pole forest and the prismatic playsurface have one thing in common: they challenge children physically, to play together and use their motor skills. The sensation of an increasing height and difficulty level of the ‘parcours’ – the higher you climb, the more difficult it gets – asks for collaboration and mutual encouragement, until one reaches the top. Cooperation and stimulation are therefore intrinsically connected with the play experience, as an immaterial reference to the hard physical work of the old mine-workers, who had to trust one another unconditionally.
Courtesy of Carve
Courtesy of Carve
Together, the pole forest, the prismatic play surface and the Coal Square create a unique addition to the Masterplan Adventure Mountain, drawn by Antea Group, and are a valuable contribution to the transition of Flanders’ largest industrial heritage towards a touristic, recreative project. On the 9th of September 2016 the Adventure Mountain was festively inaugurated.
Last month we put out a call to our readers to show us where they work. It was a pleasure to receive so many submissions, each showing the particular talent and creativity–and, the incredible geographical scope–of the ArchDaily community. These are our favorites (in no particular order). Enjoy and submit your own drawing in the comments.
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Description: “This is a series of the desks I drew on, from childhood, to high school, to architecture school. Observing what changes, and what remains.” Location: Ottawa, Canada Gif submitted by Don Dimliang
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Submitted by Xiao Xiao
Description: “Pro-Form Architects‘ office is on the 7th floor, slightly higher than the roofs of ordinary residential buildings, hence the image of the whole city flows into the horizontal window of the office, juxtaposing with models, plants, led screens and colleges.” Location: Shanghai, China
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Submitted by Mickael Minghetti
Description: “For two hours a day, we let our computers cool down and meditate together – Vo Trong Nghia Architects in HCMC” Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Submitted by Seyedeh Ayeh Mirrezaei
Description: “Traditional decoration of workspace.” Location: Noshahr, Iran
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Submitted by Karim Rashid
Description: Karim’s dream office. Location: New York, NY
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Submitted by Zui Deuskar
Description: Tucked away in the tropical wilderness of the city of Goa, India, is my office. The location and the large volumes make it a challenge to work! I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to work in such an inspiring environment, a structure that truly embraces nature in all its glory! My favorite detail is of the textile fan – something that i haven’t spotted anywhere else. The giant openings invited all kinds of fauna within the structure – including kingfishers, peacocks and even cobras! It is hard to summarise this work experience in a few words, but the peace and tranquil of that space lingers on, even after one walks out of the office Location: Goa, India
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Submitted by Joey Gao
Description: I rely on my tablet quite a lot these days, for tasks ranging from conceptual design to documentation and markup, and all other things became peripheral to this portable workstation. Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Submitted by Donalgon Ye
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Submitted by Kanika Termsedcharoen
Description: Working routine of a workaholic employee Location: Bangkok, Thailand
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Submitted by Taller Independiente
Description: “An idea, the process of creation, the development of a project needs a space, associated with a place and to make it its own. Teamwork always has a common concept. The idea behind Taller Independiente is centered on creating a workspace that’s collaborative and close to the clients, in addition to a warm, comfortable atmosphere achieved with wood as the main material, used in commercial off-the-shelf dimensions, allowing a high impact and low-cost intervention that materializes the idea of common workspace and close relationship with people.” Location: Concepción, Chile
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Submitted by Dovydas Krasauskas
Description: This is my Freelance, home office that is capable of being a place for work as well as relaxation. Location: London, England
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Submitted by tongkikong
Description: A sketch of my desk after office hour. Yes, I am working late! Our office workspace is a customized 1.8m x 1.3m desk with open shelves as a partition between 2 people. This is to achieve more transparent “office partition” and to make the office environment less corporate. However you could cover it with books to avoid eye contact with your colleague. The open shelves are designed to take up to approximately 30 office binders, a calendar, a couple of books, and a pillow that was a Christmas gift. More open shelves are tucked below the table if the above-mentioned storage is still not enough. These open shelves are deep enough to store A1 drawings and binders for our on going projects. Post-it notes cover most of the space on top of the monitor, containing various notes and information from birthday wishes to the contractor’s phone number. On top of the telephone on the left side is an important list of office extension numbers in case we need to forward calls to other colleague when our admin is busy. At the other end is where we display our latest artist’s impression of our favourite on-going project. Location: Singapore
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Submitted by BRTO Studio
Location: New York, NY
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Description: Time is not an issue in an architectural office. Location: Rosà, Italy Gif submitted by Didonè Comacchio Architects
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Submitted by Tudor Adina-Mihaela
Description: My workspace on a September morning, after a week of intense work, with coffee, classical music and some inspiration. Location: Bucharest, Romania
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Submitted by Tomás Reis
Description: Broadway Malyan is an architectural practice with 16 international studios and projects in 43 countries. Lisbon studio is located in the iconic Rossio railway station, at the very heart of this hilly city. From its large windows we can look at the castle towers, the main Rossio square and its national theatre building. We get a thrill out of walking up and down the mezzanine staircase, even in the busiest days! Location: Lisbon, Portugal
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Submitted by Defry Agatha Ardianta
Description: “This is my sketch of our architecture studio at Surabaya, Indonesia. We work in small house, and the sketch refers to the workspace of our office. We believe that architecture studio will never be as clean as the other office, because design activities are so complex and dynamic. But in our hectic daily activity, we still believe that we should balancing our body & soul. That’s why we dedicate the room near the workspace as prayer room. And until today, we don’t expand the working space to that room and enjoy the jostle condition :)” Location: Surabaya, Indonesia
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Submitted by Anne Ma
Description: “I had always felt pretty spoiled during my time at YSoA, so I was rather eager to replicate my workspace at school having recently graduated and returned home. Here it is, complete with all the junk and collectibles in all its clutter glory.” Location: Toronto, Canada
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Submitted by Vaswar Mitra
Description: “As an architecture student in Bangalore, India- my workspace was my dorm room. It put an odd twist to ‘work from home’. I think the sketch also captures how we work as architects- each design is a product of hundreds of influences that come together in the strangest of ways. It was probably the most cramped place I had lived/worked in, but who says luxury helps the creative process?” Location: Bath, UK
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Submitted by Gu Jinqi
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Nicolas Ortiz
Description: “My workspace is my room. These drawings are part final graduation project, Minimal Housing-Minimal House. The drawings were done by hand on a graphic tablet in Illustrator.” Location: Granada, Spain
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Submitted by Michael Lewis
Description: “Internal hand drawn sketch of the Livraria Lello in Porto. Black ink onto cartridge paper. This is one of the most beautiful workspaces I have ever experienced. My architectural thesis was based in Porto and many hours were spent researching the city from within this beautiful library.“ Location: Bath, UK
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Submitted by Juan Diego Lopez
Description: “An entrance, an exit, a chair, a desk, books, pencil, laptop and a human; none of these can equal the empowerment of space through ideas and imagination, they can only make the desk fly, and finally, the client makes it land.” Location: Chinchina, Caldas, Colombia
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Description: “Like many design offices today, openness and natural light are the key organizing elements in my work space. I’ve come to realize that this allows for my engagement and appreciation on the many projects, activities, and subtleties going on in the office that otherwise might have gone unnoticed. This includes catching up on a soccer game that someone else is watching and/or learning about a very specific detail that someone is working through.” Location: Los Angeles, California Gif submitted by Bernardo Terán
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Submitted by Sebastian Mora
Description: “Diagram of workspace with view of nature and connected to the world.” Location: Colombia
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Submitted by Juan Carlos Figuera
Description: “Watercolor sketch of my room in student residence in Paris at 2 pm.” Location: Venezuela
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Submitted by Ignacio Mañas
Description: We’re Out: Taller de Arquitectura, an architecture and design firm that in a phase of growth, located in Bogotá Colombia. The studio is made up of architects and engineers that follow your site that helps up so much in our day-to-day work. We also realize projects that show differences through design and quality of finishes, demonstrating that at all times a good design doesn’t have to be expensive. The drawing that we’ve done mixes drawings from the team. We hope you like it.” Location: Bogotá, Colombia
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Submitted by Pablo Perezalonso
Description: Here I show my room in my house where I work using a collage. I pasted all the textures of the room and the positions in which I normally find myself when I work. Location: Mexico City, Mexico
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Submitted by Ana Luiza Maxwell Penna Lacerda
Location: Belo Horizonte, Brasil
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Submitted by Li Xiaoyong
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Submitted by Zui Deuskar
Description: “My dining table has been my study- companion for the past 15 years, even through Architecture college! Designed by my Uncle about 30 years ago, it is composed of timber (teak wood) sections that make up the framework. The finished surface is a yellow laminate – a sort of plastic sheet – that has survived all kinds of stains and abrasion with time. I give great credit to this seemingly unassuming table, placed bang in the center of my house. Because of its large size – 6 feet X 2.5 feet, it makes for a perfect dining set-up. Somehow, whoever comes to my house feels ‘settled,’ only when at this table! Of late, however, it plays the role of a Work desk full-time, and dining table part- time! Also triples up as a conference table at times. I am happy to illustrate my favorite piece of furniture – in its everyday state. It accommodates everything possible – including my pet cat!” Location: Pune, India
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Submitted by Vaswar Mitra
Description: “It is the people, really, that make the ‘workspace’ a ‘workplace’. This is a sketch of my old office in India with the variety of energetic personalities that made architecture happen. Design comes out of wisdom, dialogue…and last-minute panic! We also had one of those old ammonia-printing machines.“ Location: Bath, UK
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Submitted by Daguan Studio
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Submitted by Dennis Mukuba
Description: “Bay 7 of Planning Systems Services studio. Medium Artline Pen 0.4 Time 40 minutes” Location: Nairobi, Kenya
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Submitted by Louise Angelina
Description: “My workspace is pretty small, since i shared my living spaces with my sister. We split our table, mine is the one next to the window. The drafting table could barely fit into anywhere, hence putting it right behind my study table is the only choice. The drawers next to it serves as a place to put drawing tools and books. Behind the drafting table is our beds.” Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
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Submitted by Michele Mangiavacca
Description: “AAMM Atelier d’Architecture Michele Mangiavacca is a small architectural firm located in the basement of a building that is a hundred meters from Florence Cathedral.” Location: Firenze, Italia
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Submitted by Rossano A. Pisuena
Description: “Godwin Austen Johnson Architecture Dubai, United Arab Emirates 14 September 2016
‘Still busy at GAJ-Interior Design studio after an EID Holiday’.
Real time sketch using fine line unipen marker on 300 gsm. acid free watercolor paper. It took me a total of 3 hours to sketch & watercolor my workplace.” Location: Dubai, UAE
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Submitted by Luying Guo
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Submitted by Jorge Puente
Description: “Drawing in black ink of our first studio on Calle Barquillo 11, in the center of Madrid. The letters on the chairs are for Borja González-Finta, Jorge Puente, founders de Bespoke Office and Luis Gnecco, our first collaborator. Location: Madrid, Spain
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Submitted by Pimnara Thunyathada
Submitted by Pimnara Thunyathada
Description: “Anatomy of my own signature table in Thailand when I was a bachelor degree architect student. Anatomy of my table tops and how it is super useful for variety of applications. Overall idea and design of my self-designed architect table. Amazingly, it shortens time spent on model making by a half!” Location: Bangkok, Thailand
From the architect. Before having the new look as you’re seeing, K. House is a 50sqm 4th-grade house with a wooden mezzanine. The house is located in an existing residential area of Thu Duc District, a suburb of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Homeowner – a friend of mine decided to buy this house because she like the quiet alley and the building has many sides openning.
If re-building, the building will lose 1/3 of the site under the extending plan of the Government. Therefore, we choose to renovate the building and keep all the surrounding wall. K. House was born to become the nest of the three brothers and sisters in a family which belong to 8X and 9X generation. They are young people following the mobilism. They choose Saigon to study, work and settle for a long-term. Each one has different hobbies and demands for their living spaces.
The plan to design and construct were going so fast because my friend had a lot of understanding of the interior and architecture design. We wanted a cost-saving simple house, but having many amenities and reflecting the personality of the owners. We keep the old frame and use prefabricated steel frame for the bearing structure in order to save cost and shorten the construction time. The ecological onduline roofing is used as a cover outer the two layers of wall and is the variation of the folding windows.
We also created an open space to help K. House to be spacious and airy. The ground floor is full of light with 4 tall windows, the stairs are combined with the large skylight. All the bedrooms have at least two windows that welcome natural light and wind. It is interesting that the house has many secret flexible doorways helping open to amazing new spaces. A storage area and restroom are located below the stairs. The main bedroom can open to the garden, the skylight, and the 5-star standard bathroom. We use the available materials as finishing materials cum covering such as grinding stone, bamboo pole … to save cost and make K. House more closely and serene.
The homeowners love the simplicity and elegance. We use the natural sunlight (filled in all the rooms during the daytime), pure white “soft” furniture and grinding stone, a rustic bamboo poles and oak furniture – all are made manually. The only highlight is the red background running throughout all the rooms, subtle improvisation. We use spot lighting at night with the maximum consideration to bring to the house a lot of emotions. All the elegance, emotion and personality of K. house is a part of our senses about the owner’s style. We just try to show this in our design. Maybe you should come, experience and enjoy at K. House.
Maksim Sodomovsky of iVision3D has created a virtual tour of the Dominion Office Building, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, in Moscow, Russia. Completed in 2015, the project is among the new infrastructure being built to support the growing creative and IT industries in the southeast of the city. The design is organized as a series of stacked plates, connected with curving elements and surrounding a central atrium exposed to natural light.
Six exemplary projects have been announced as winners of the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Presented once every three years, the award was established by the Aga Khan in 1977 to “identify and encourage building concepts that successfully addressed the needs and aspirations of communities in which Muslims have a significant presence.” To be considered for the award, projects must exhibit not only architectural excellence, but also the ability to improve users overall quality of life.
The Award’s “Master Jury” is appointed by a steering committee chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan (the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims), who together establish the eligibility criteria for project submissions and provide thematic direction in response to “emerging priorities and issues” that relate to the architectural sphere.
Part of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which also engages in a series of programs related to the revitalization of historic Islamic cities from India and Syria to Pakistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Award also supports a major online resource on architecture in Muslim societies. This archive—ArchNet—collaborates with the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to “improve the teaching” of Islamic art, architecture, urbanism and visual culture while “[increasing] the visibility of Islamic cultural heritage in the modern Muslim world.” Their primary aim is to advance the practice, analysis, and understanding of Islamic architecture as both a discipline, and a cultural force.
A refuge for spirituality in urban Dhaka, selected for its beautiful use of natural light.
An adherence to the essential – both in the definition of the space and the means of construction – was crucial in formulating the design of Bait ur Rouf Mosque. With land donated by her grandmother and modest funds raised by the local community, the architect has created an elemental place for meditation and prayer.
There are two structural systems in place – the load-bearing brick walls that define the outer perimeter and the smaller spaces, and the reinforced-concrete frame that spans the column-free prayer hall. The brick walls exploit the depth between the outer square and the inner cylinder, allowing http://ift.tt/1T1hbtX for buttressing in the interstitial space. This in turn makes it possible for panels between the load-bearing structure to have a jali of brick, leaving out alternate bricks and rotating them. In the prayer hall itself a simple vertical gap in the brick denotes the direction of the qibla, but the recess is splayed so that worshippers are not distracted by sight lines onto the busy street. What they see instead is sunlight bouncing off the wall behind. Awash with light, open to the elements, the mosque ‘breathes’
Jury comments: “In a transitional area caught between urban hyper-density and rural proximity, the terracotta mosque is an exquisitely proportioned building that is both elegant and eternal. Funded primarily by community donors, the mosque design challenges the status quo and understands that a space for prayer should elevate the spirit. The mosque does so through the creation of an interior space that is rich with light and shadow, but at the same time possesses a robust simplicity that allows for deep reflection and contemplation in prayer.”
A community centre which makes a virtue of an area susceptible to flooding in rural Bangladesh.
The centre is a training facility for the NGO Friendship, which works with communities living in the rural flatlands of northern Bangladesh. In this region permanent buildings are conventionally raised 2.4m off the ground, to mitigate flooding, but the budget did not allow that here. Instead, an earthen embankment was built around the site, with stairs leading down into the building from open ends. Adopting the vocabulary of a walled town, the programme is organised around a series of pavilions that look inwards onto courtyards and reflecting pools. Because of the embankment wall, there is no horizontal light, so in essence the centre is top-lit. This connection, between an architecture of the land and the light coming down from above, makes for a very elemental building.
Jury comments: “The integrative design approach is registered in every aspect of the project, and at every scale. The imbrication of outdoor and indoor spaces, together with the treatment of the roofscape, make this an unusual and innovative building. With its spaces sunk into the ground and the vegetation growing on its roofs, the compound blends beautifully into the natural surroundings. Its relationship to the landscape and to history and archaeology is remarkable in every way.”
A children’s library selected for its embodiment of contemporary life in the traditional courtyard residences of Beijing’s Hutongs.
The hutongs of Beijing are fast disappearing. The residential compounds, with their layering of spaces and multiple courtyards, are often viewed as messy and insalubrious – almost as slums. If they find a place in the modern city, it is often in sanitised form, as a tourist attraction, filled with boutiques. The attempt to find a new use for this traditional building form – one that would benefit the local community – motivated this proposal for a space that would serve both the pupils from the nearby primary school and the hutong’s remaining, mostly elderly, residents. Besides a children’s library and exhibition space, the centre hosts a local handicrafts studio and classes in painting and dance.
Jury comments: “The hutong provides an example of how the adaptive re-use of an older building can become the basis for a new form of micro-urbanism that constructs productive reciprocities between the private and the public. This is an approach that can be potentially replicated in other locations and within a diversity of communities.”
A public space promoting integration across lines of ethnicity, religion and culture.
Superkilen is a kilometre-long urban park located in Nørrebro, a diverse and socially challenged neighbourhood of Copenhagen. Designed by architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, artists Superflex and landscape architects TOPOTEK 1 in collaboration with the local – predominantly Muslim – community, the park takes the historical themes of the universal garden and the amusement park and translates them into a contemporary urban setting. With a healthy dose of irreverence, it sheds light on the positive dimensions of cultural diversity and invites people – young and old – to play.
Jury comments: “Living with people who differ – racially, ethnically, religiously or economically – is the most urgent challenge facing contemporary civil society. At a time of growing global uncertainty and insecurity, it has become fashionable to talk in terms of ‘worlds’ – the third world, the Islamic world, the Arab world – as though these occupy a parallel universe, disconnected from the rest and subject to different rules. Superkilen, a new urban park in one of Copenhagen’s most diverse and socially challenged neighbourhoods, emphatically rejects this view with a powerful mixture of humour, history and hubris.”
A multi-level bridge spanning a busy motorway has created a dynamic new urban space.
Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge spans a busy highway to connect two parks in a city with a very dense urban fabric and mostly utilitarian architecture. More than a point of connection between two discrete green zones, the bridge is a popular gathering place for the people of Tehran, offering numerous seating areas over its three levels and restaurants at either end. Like many such green spaces within urban areas, it has come to serve as a locus of identity for the city and its inhabitants.
Jury comments: “The apparent reinterpretation of the original brief, which called for a straightforward connection between two parks, has transformed a ‘bridge’ into a ‘destination’. Inviting people to congregate, interact and appreciate the vista in every direction, the bridge has become a promenade and one of the most successful public spaces in modern Tehran.”
A new building for the American University of Beirut’s campus, radical in composition but respectful of its traditional context.
The Issam Fares Institute – a research centre for public policy and international affairs – has a combined surface area of 3,000m2, divided into six floors. Its facilities include research spaces and administration offices, seminar and workshop rooms, an auditorium, reading room, recreational lounge and roof terrace.
Responding to the givens of the site, the architects significantly reduced the building’s footprint by cantilevering a large part of the structure over the entrance courtyard – a move that also draws the space of the adjacent Green Oval towards the base of the new building. The existing landscape is preserved, including all of the old trees, which form a kind of datum line determining the height of the institute, as is evident from a look at the south facade. Further connections with the landscape are established by the roof terrace, with its expansive views, and by the circulation ramp that snakes smoothly through the trees to the southern entrance on the second floor.
Jury comments: “The building makes a courageous – and at the same time fully respectful – contribution to the multilayered physical environment of this historic and rooted university campus. With its simple, exposed concrete surface and strong volumetric presence, it is an elegant yet unique solution to a complex and special context.”
The shortlist and winning projects were selected by a master jury comprised of the following members:
Suad Amiry, Founder, Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah
Emre Arolat, Founder, EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, Istanbul
Akeel Bilgrami, Sydney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York
The Award is also governed by a Steering Committee chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan. While the Steering Committee can suggest areas of interest, it has no bearing on the final selections of the independent Master Jury. The steering committee includes:
David Adjaye, founder and principal architect of Adjaye Associates, which has offices in London, New York and Accra
Mohammad al-Asad, the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Built Environment in Amman, Jordan
Francesco Bandarin, Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO, Paris, France
Hanif Kara, a practicing structural engineer and Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University
Kamil Merican, founding partner of GDP Architects Malaysia
Azim Nanji, currently Special Advisor to the Provost at the Aga Khan University and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Centre for Pluralism in Ottawa
Brigitte Shim, a principal in the Toronto-based design firm Shim-Sutcliffe Architects and Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto
Yu Kongjian, founder and dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape and the Changjiang Chair Professor of Design, at Peking University
The 2016 awards ceremony was held at the Al Jahili Fort, a World Heritage Site in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi. A monograph of the 2016 Award will be published by Lars Müller Publishers in November 2016 and will include descriptions and illustrations of the six winning projects. For more information, please see: http://ift.tt/29ubIQv
For more information on the award and this year’s winners, visit the award website, here.
Vancouver-based Leckie Studio Architecture + Design has founded the Backcountry Hut Company to bring affordable recreation structures to outdoor enthusiasts. Inspired by IKEA’s philosophy of providing superior design at a moderate price point, the prefabricated hut prototype aims to embody the company’s four cornerstones: function, quality, sustainability, and value.
The hut system is designed for adaptability, and can be constructed on any backcountry site accessible by truck or helicopter. The engineered wooden post-and-beam frame can be assembled in the tradition of community barn raising. Prefabricated wall and roof panels are small enough to be lifted with a pulley and winch. The hut can then be finished with a simple nail-on window system and customizable interior fit-outs and exterior finishes. The modular structure is also customizable by combining 10-foot units.
Though originally intended for backcountry use, the hut is flexible enough to be used on both rural and urban sites. The shell can be furnished to accommodate full-time habitation, similar to a tiny house.
From the architect. We expanded a traditional shingled cottage home by marrying a new addition and a renovation project together. The design reorients the house to the garden, an existing swimming pool, and the bucolic views of the neighboring farm in order to reinforce the relationships between outdoor activities and the surrounding landscape.
The living area, dining area and kitchen were moved from the old cottage into the new addition to establish clear connections to the garden and pool. The addition creates a new main entrance to the house, drawing guests directly into the most socially vibrant part of the home.
The first floor of the cottage was renovated and converted into a family room, home office and guest bedroom suite. The upper floor was renovated to provide larger bedrooms, a shared bathroom, and a sitting area that overlooks the neighboring farm.
Courtesy of Desai Chia Architecture
Courtesy of Desai Chia Architecture
Our concept for the addition included a bold interpretation of vernacular forms and materials. The new addition offers an expressive counterpoint to the old cottage; its form is defined by a powerful, undulating, vaulted ceiling of structural framing that celebrates the living areas. The architectural language of the original cottage was refined and simplified with a new palette of details and lighting concepts to enhance the flow of light and space.
The clients are thrilled with the design and also the fact that the renovation/addition approach reduced their construction time frame, kept costs down, and met their sustainability goals of reducing demolition waste.
Since 2009, Mario Carvajal has captured amazing panoramic photographs from his hometown in Colombia as well as top destination spots around the globe. He has climbed the Empire State Building in New York and Colpatria Tower in Bogota, Colombia. Carvajal has captured the geographical beauty of Iceland as well as the intensity of Paris at night.
As Carvajal mentioned in an interview with ArchDaily, images in 360 degrees “allow the viewer to dive into an attractive and interesting ‘virtual world’ to experience immersive sensations”. Of course, with the new surge in popularity these types of pictures have experienced with the hardware becoming more readily available and these images being shared more and more every day through Facebook, Carvajal’s work reaches new levels, allowing thousands of people to see the world from above.
Below, we invite you to see his best shots of iconic buildings and landscapes around the world. For a complete experience, we recommend using Google Cardboard.
Carvajal suggests that the impact of 360-degree photography “is becoming more and more important thanks to the hardware that is becoming part of people’s everyday lives. Hardware such as virtual reality glasses, cell phone incorporating a gyroscope, tablets … but also to new cameras that allow virtual reality with little effort, capturing scenes spherically. For example, Ricoh Theta, the Samsung Gear 360, the Nikon KeyMission, among others.”
When asked about his favorite shot, Carvajal explains:
It’s so hard and I don’t know how to choose between the photo that I titled “The last view of King Kong,” which represents the final view that King Kong had from the Empire State Building in New York, or the photograph of Caño Cristales, my favorite place in Colombia, where a river of colors, especially red can be seen. I do not know! I’ll take both!
Sig Nordal 