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House PIBO / OYO Architects

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Architects: OYO Architects
Location: Maldegem, Belgium
Area: 175.0 sqm
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Thomas De Bruyne

This family house designed by OYO is the result of a close collaboration between client and architect. OYO was given carte blanche, which opened the possibility to focus on an ecological and compact building from the start. Unlike most single family houses in Belgium OYO started with the idea of positioning the living rooms on top of the bedrooms. In a house composed with split-levels it was important to establish cross relations between the spaces and natural lighting conditions throughout all spaces.

The house is defined by the continuation of the soil, creating one continuous lifted green roof. The only exception: two popping volumes created on the green surface. One defines the entrance, the other brings light deep into the dining room. The window is dimensioned regarding the light conditions but carefully positioned so the inhabitants maintain privacy towards the street. The use of wood and warm materials was an inspired decision to create a Scandinavian-like interior ambiance. The balance of light and material-use like stone, wood and white surfaces are the defining elements that bring everything together.

From the design phase to the construction of the house, OYO’s main objective was to selectively use every material to its highest potency. A concrete base was used to carry a light timber frame, which was prepared in a local warehouse and mounted together on site. A rubber roofing membrane was wrapped around the house to protect the interior from changing weather conditions working as one facade element. This unorthodox technique allows the rubber to change appearance as the day passes, the season changes and the weather fluctuates. Through the seasons there are different plants flowering on top. Since the roof of the house actually continues into the ground level, a singular green roof is conceived so that both facade and roof will vary in color all the time.

The fireplace can be used both indoors and outdoors. In summer it is used as a BBQ and people dine under the covered terrace. The terrace is a continuous wooden deck connecting the living rooms and kitchen with the exterior spaces. On the wooden deck we also find a small swimming pond. When the sun is out, it casts a playful reflection on the ceilings in the interior of the house.

This house has an excellent low energy performance because of the insulation pack between the timber frames and the thermal capacity created by the green roof. Something you might not notice when you approach the house are the solar panels laying on top of the volumes from the entrance and dining area, all facing South. This adds up to the energy demands of the residents and contributes to the sustainable ambition the clients had from the beginning when dreaming about their new home.

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120-Division School / WAU Design

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Architects: WAU Design
Location: Xingxiang, Shanxi, China
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: MA Minghua – ZHAN Changheng

Structural Engineers: Tsinghua-Yuan Ltd.
Client: Bureau of Education & Sports in Xingxiang

From the architect. The 120-division School, designed by WAU Design, is completed recently. The school including 72 classrooms, teacher’s office, library, lecture hall and sports center is located in the new developing area of Xingxian, ShanXi province.

Our vision for the design is to create an image of range upon range of mountains just like the natural environment the site has. The building raises up from the ground floor to the roof top, this makes the slope roof to be a extension and development of the ground floor landscape. The roof with a high accessibility creates a playful outdoor space for children having different kinds of activities. An interesting mix of landscape and building makes different space experiences for the students. The intersection parts of different roofs form the public lobby with patios around, this not only blurs the distinction between interior and exterior but also organically connect different programs such as classrooms, office, library, etc.

The building has roofs with various inclination, we make the lower part to be public terrace for the upper level. In addition, such kind of roofing reflects the cave dwellings in Shanxi, extending the historical context of the site.

In the energy conservation, the design responds to local climate. The shape of the building takes full consideration of wind to have good ventilation. In addition, patios not only create the Greenhouse Effect, but also act as rainwater collectors to improve the microenvironment. The most important, concrete masonry backup , brick veneer, together with air space in between, formed the “Respirable Wall”, which helps to improve thermal and insulating performance and reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling.

After all this design conveys the regeneration of traditional architecture, creates a brand new atmosphere of teaching building, and enhances the students’ perception experience of space.

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Joy City ‘Woo Space’ / hyperSity office

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Architects: hyperSity office
Location: Beijing, China
Design Team: Yang Shi, Guoling Zhang
Area: 2600.0 sqm
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Courtesy of hyperSity office

From the architect. Joy City ‘Woo Space’ is an innovative co-working space designed for entrepreneurs. It is located in a business park for creative industries, which was transformed from a granary warehouse in Chaoyang District, Beijing.

The original space was a single-story red brick warehouse, in net height of 6.7 meters and ridge height of 9.2 meters, which sized in 1000 square meters ground floor area. The client expected the renovated space with multiple functions, such as independent and co-working space, event space, café, theater and gym.

To provide office and communal area of 600 people, multi-level interlayer system is applied in the projects to make the space expanding to 2,600 square meters. Overall, the space was divided into three major levels with fifteen different elevated heights, so that each working team can have their own sphere with privacy and independency, while wide view is also offered. Full height recreational areas create relaxing atmosphere in the office. Meanwhile, spaces of temprorary use such as conference rooms, pantries and chat rooms are purposely designed in the height of 2.3 meter. With the series of contrasted floor heights, they dynamically formed interesting spatial experiences.

The main building entrance forms a welcoming gesture by a unique folded metal plate to connect the exterior and interior space. Moreover, it also shapes an area of triangle small courtyard in front of the coffee bar. In a similar approach, another courtyard is enclosed. Together with rooftop outdoor terrace above the boiler house, vibrant leisure facilities are created for both staffs and guests.

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Bisma Eight / FUUR Associates

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Architects: FUUR Associates
Location: Ubud, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia
Area: 4127.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Breton Brut

Local Submission Architect: ARTE Architect & Associates

Bisma Eight was conceived as a 38 room building with a series of interconnected communal areas, which connect the journey of the guests with a strong connection to the surrounding landscape and views, all carefully curated for maximum visual impact.

Materials and Details provide a contrast to the modernistic brutalist structure. Stone tiles and Masonry available from locally sourced suppliers are reinterpreted in an interesting manner, For instance, the boundary wall terracotta bricks are also used for the interior café walls and stairwell, hence creating a slight ambiguity between the exterior and interior.

Locally crafted doors were also juxtaposed against modern fair faced stucco walls, giving hints of an eccentric folk palette with bold colors coming through the final build.

Architecturally, in order to fit the rooms into the long narrow site , a forested alleyway had to be carved out in between the two blocks of accommodation, leading into a plateau where the pool and poolside bar capture the panoramic view of the valley below . The remaining 18 rooms were tucked below the pool level , each room with a distinctive view of the canyon and privacy.

Spatially compact, it tries to redefine what a hotel provides for the modern holidaymaker – a cool bar , a café for reading working , a pool with a view , a small dining hall and a compact gym – the essentials of the city nomad.
However, the spaces are arranged in such a way that each space feels like an escape from the other spaces, and relate to the site in its own intimate way.

Sourcing of local crafted materials also gives the surfaces a meaning and dimension, so to speak – one that creates the cultural moment for the project, a moment between the traditional and rawness of the construction.

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Woods Bagot Melbourne Studio / Woods Bagot

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Architects: Woods Bagot
Location: 498 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Area: 2000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Peter Bennetts

Design Leader: Bruno Mendes
Team: Tom Nelson, Bret Simmonds, Richard Galloway, Christopher Free, Sarah Ball

From the architect. Is there a project that is more demanding than designing your own office? Having a group of architects and interior designers pulling in different directions for design supremacy was always going to be a challenge.

To avoid such a situation, the Melbourne studio embarked on a consultative workplace strategy to gather feedback from all staff who would be using the space. The feedback indicated an overarching desire to work collaboratively but also to enable social gatherings. While this set the planning principles for the fit-out, what was still missing was a conceptual vision for the project.

It was at this point the design team considered the simple and inspirational cookbook by Ferran Adria, The Family Meal. Inspired by the dishes eaten everyday by the staff at the legendary El Bulli restaurant, the book focuses on the most important time of the day – when the chefs come together to socialise, share ideas and collaborate.

Woods Bagot Principal and design leader Bruno Mendes said the project deployed a sense of domesticity and familiarity.
“The simple notion of coming together to share an experience drove our design concept to develop a central heart for the studio. We wanted to celebrate and foster the studio’s collective, collegiate spirit.”

Based on the notion of gathering, the various formal and informal spaces within the studio were formed around a large central space at the core of the floorplate. Stitching together a variety of informal and formal workspaces, it also forms the main assembly space functioning as an open auditorium by connecting the two levels of the studio while providing a platform for invited speakers, movie nights and dancing on Friday nights. Its connection to the main staff lunch area and through to workspaces was critical to reinforce the social and collaborative agenda.

Monumental in gesture and application, timber was the material of choice. Defining each of the key spaces within the studio, the timber weaves itself into natural steel plates which are used as transitional elements to define the various level changes. The physical result is a studio which is more akin to the nuances of ‘living’ as opposed to ‘working’.

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Transborder Studio Wins Competition to Renovate Oslo Dairy Factory into New Agricultural District

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Oslo-based Transborder Studio have won a competition for the development of new “Agricultural District” surrounding a former dairy factory in East Oslo. Selected from 5 proposals from invited architect teams, the winning design, entitled “Follow the Milk,” strives to develop the district into a place where “ agriculture has a new relevance related to urban food culture, bioproducts and the agricultural sector’s role in a sustainable future.”

Located next to Bjørvika, the Oslo Central Station, the historical old town and the multicultural Grønland neighborhood, the neighborhood of Lanbrukskvartalet is centered around the historic dairy factory, which was constructed in 1912.

Transborder Studio’s plan will renovate the factory into a mixed-use facility containing program elements such as a food market and microbrewery. A mix of existing and new surrounding buildings (including one cheese-inspired building) have been arranged based on an analysis of the logistic pathways of the existing factory, and will also contribute to the agricultural block with green roofs and beehives for producing honey.

“Landbrukskvartalets existing design is about logistics; Milk in and dairy products out,” the architects explain. “Transborder’s concept starts with following the milk through the facility, letting the flow of the milk define the design decisions. This results in a porous city block with several openings to the surroundings, a cluster of urban spaces with strong identity and a clear communication of the industrial heritage.”

The masterplan will double the total area of the quarter from 30,000 to 60,000 square meters, including 30 percent housing, which will amount to about 200 new units.

The architects hope the design will allow the neighborhood to become “a reinterpretation of the site’s historic relationship between the city and the productive farmlands.” After winning the competition, Transborder Studio has now been commissioned to further develop the winning scheme.

News via Transborder Studio, Landbrukskvartalet, and Aftonposten.

Architects: Transborder Studio
Location: Schweigaards gate 34, 0191 Oslo, Norway
Competition Team: Øystein Rø, Espen Røyseland, Håvard Skarstein, Fredrikke Frølich, Søren Olav Saanum Bessesen, Margrete Bjone Engelien
Project Team: Håvard Skarstein (project architect), Øystein Rø, Espen Røyseland, Fredrikke Frølich, Gauthier Durey, Søren Olav Saanum Bessesen
Collaborators: Geir Nummedal (Landscape architecture, Asplan Viak)
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Courtesy of Transborder Studio

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LS House / Gastón Sironi

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Architect: Gastón Sironi Gastón Sironi
Location: Mendiolaza, Córdoba, Argentina
Construction Administration: Gastón Sironi Gastón Sironi
Area: 149.0 sqm
Year Of Project: 2015
Photographies: Gonzalo Viramonte

Site Area: 1242 sqm

PROJECT
As a result to the sites unique characteristics, the architectural concept arises from the indoor-outdoor interaction for this single family home that is set with open views in a complex topography.

The design is a synthesis of spaces joint through patios emphasizing the connectivity with the outdoor space. The complexity of heights gets resolved by locating the garage below the main volume to compensate the grading. This main volume houses the public area, 2 main areas that are connected through an entry patio and takes advantage of the main views and orientations. The private area and future expansions follow the same design logic of connections with the outdoor space. Through this open spaces, every room gets northern light.

SUSTAINABILITY
The suitable orientation of the house is not the only aspect considered for good temperature conditioning. A mixed construction system including concrete, metal framing hardware and 6 cm polyurethane foam rubber with air chamber; also aid to the conditioning of the place. Awnings and sliding vertical sunshades generate a microclimate that retains the heat or cold air. Rainwater is collected through a series of gutters and stored to be reused for landscape.

MATERIALS
The intention was to utilize low maintenance materials that would also have a lower impact to the site. Exposed concrete and oxidized metals are the main actors, with their unique characteristics of changing textures and coloring through time.

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Weston Williamson + Partners Win Competition to Design “Science City” in Egypt

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Weston Williamson + Partners has won an international competition for a 125,000 square meter “Science City” along the western edge of Cairo, Egypt, beating out entries from Ngiom Partnership and Zaha Hadid Architects. The project will be built from the ground up in the desert surrounding the city, and will serve as a 21st century science museum and new national institute for scientific innovation. The competition called for an integrated master plan and conceptual design that express “a particular vision of the quest for knowledge and the pursuit of science.”

The jury selected the winning design for its overall comprehensiveness and identity, as well as its ability to be intelligently constructed in phases.

“This project was the one that best responded to the challenges of the brief. The design is subtle but rich. It involves various levels of planning,” said the jury in a statement. “It displays a blending of aspects of several of the “types” that were so visible: the circle, the striation, the berm (or dune), the legible apparatus of sustainable performance, the complex of courtyards, the oasis, etc. But the overall impact is one of a unified composition of great elegance and finesse.”

Continue reading for more on Weston Williamson’s design and to see images from all of the winning entries.

Winner: Weston Williamson + Partners

From the jury: The project feels very much of its place and has the potential to be quite beautiful and to produce a rich series of working, display, and learning environments. The basic scheme and concept of the architectural design (the parti) was impressive, the organization sound, the phasing logical, the environmental performance promising, and the image very strong but without needless grandiosity.

Though organized in a circular form, the project can be accomplished in three stages, with the staging starting from the central section and growing as wings. Thus it provides a design solution to the phasing problem which the jury considered a rational and workable idea.

The Project enjoys a multitude of umbrella-like circular canopies of various sizes, supported by single columns, providing a symbolic “column-scape” and an upper terrace elegantly shadowed by artificial clouds. They also provide opportunities for water harvesting and solar energy collection.

2nd Prize: Ngiom Partnership

3rd Prize: Zaha Hadid Architects

4th Prize: Gansam Architects

Honorable Mention: Tsampikos Petras & Georgios Chousos

Honorable Mention: Joaquim Caetano de Lima Filho, Daniel Henrique Ribeiro, Giliarde Silva & Guilherme Oliveira

Honorable Mention: Francisco Jorquera

Honorable Mention: Whitespace Architects

Judged by a panel of world-leading academics and science entrepreneurs, the open-call, one-stage competition was organized by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, who will now work with Weston Williamson + Partners to develop the details of the project and set a schedule for realization.

News via Weston Williamson + Partners, Bibalex.

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Shoshone Residence / Carney Logan Burke Architects

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Architects: Carney Logan Burke Architects
Location: United States, Wilson, WY, USA
Architect In Charge: Eric Logan
Area: 4500.0 ft2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Audrey Hall

Project Manager: Bryan James
Associate: Jen Mei
Architectural Interns: Jake Ostlind, Jaye Wadlington, Monica DeGraffenreid
Contractor: Dembergh Construction

From the architect. This 4,500-square foot residence is located near Jackson Hole, Wyoming in a neighborhood with flat, open, grassy sites with expansive views of Glory Peak and the Teton Mountain Range. Taking advantage of adjacency to 120-acres of open space to the south and the dramatic mountains to the west and north, the house is site responsive with simple and modest forms that blend with the landscape.

The clients, a family of four, part-time residents from New York City, wanted a contemporary house, but not urban contemporary – a mountain home, but not a log cabin. They desired generous spaces while maintaining an intimate feel. The team responded by creating a functional and efficient living environment that is broken into two zones to maximize both family interaction and personal privacy, and to encourage flow to the outdoors. A glass-walled, covered “bridge” connects the public and private areas of the home. The two wings embrace a south-facing courtyard. In addition a west-facing terrace captures panoramic view of the Tetons and provides access to the pond.

Inside a simple, yet refined materials palette is resolved in wood, steel, stone and glass. The kitchen anchors the public space with a wood-burning pizza oven, wrapped in steel panels. At all elevations, floor to ceiling window openings establish a connection to the outdoors. Teak creates a sophisticated master bathroom that is modern without being sterile. The main staircase is clad in white oak resulting in a sculptural element without being visually overcomplicated.

Outside, deep overhangs with a thin profile protect the building from harsh weather. The exterior is clad in cedar siding, which dissolves into screens to create pattern and depth at the building entry points. Bonderized steel panels are used to articulate additions and subtractions to the building form.

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4 Projects Named as Finalists for the 2016 Finlandia Prize

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The Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) have announced a shortlist of 4 projects in contention for the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2016. Now in its third year, the prize continues with the goal to “increase public awareness of high quality Finnish architecture and [to highlight] its benefits for our well-being.”

Following the tradition of the award, while the shortlist was selected by a panel of architects, the final winning project will be chosen by a non-architect. This year, former Prime Minister of Finland Paavo Lipponen will have the honor of picking the winner.

Find out more about the 4 projects after the break.

Lappeenranta City Theatre / ALA Architects

The Lappeenranta City Theatre is housed, unusually for a theatre, within a new extension of a shopping mall. The Pre-Selection Jury finds that the concept in which a large public building is housed within a commercial building ultimately creates an intriguing setting for a new type of theatre building to emerge. The foyer of the theatre opens up towards the high central hall of the mall. The public spaces are furnished with dark monochrome and metallic surfaces providing a convincing contrast to the abundance of colour and information stimuli of the shopping mall. Built on one level, the theatre centres around a tight group of large hall spaces. Its elegant simplicity raises the ambiance above and beyond the ordinary. Completed in 2015, the theatre was designed by ALA Architects (architects Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki, Janne Teräsvirta and Samuli Woolston).

Löyly / Avanto Architects

Löyly was erected in Helsinki’s Hernesaari district this year. According to the Pre-Selection Jury, few buildings in Helsinki that are open to the public make such full use of their location by the sea as Löyly does. The horizon is visible from almost all indoor spaces and the views can also be taken in from the roof. The building is a mound clad in wooden lamellas that beautifully reflect the light thanks to their triangular profile. The wood used on the elevation will acquire a grey patina over time, so that, from a distance, it will look like one of the bare granite rocks emblematic of the Helsinki coastline. The slats provide discrete privacy to those using the saunas, while allowing a sea view from inside. The building was designed by Avanto Architects (architects Ville Hara, Anu Puustinen, Antti Westerlund and Hiroko Mori; architect students Laura Nenonen and Xiaowen Xu).

Rovaniemi Sports Arena, Railo / APRT Architects

The spectator stand of the Rovaniemi Sports Arena, Railo, and the boulder-shaped residential and office buildings, once completed, will form a crevasse-like roadway winding between them. The building is located within the so-called “Reindeer Antler” town plan designed by Alvar Aalto, near the town centre of Rovaniemi. The stand has a very different look depending on the direction from which it is viewed. When seen directly from the front, from the other side of the pitch, the structure looks like a lean and lightweight canopy supported by columns. The best view of the spectator stand is from a distance: a large-scale, statuesque sports arena. According to the Pre-Selection Jury, the new sports arena and multipurpose building add a contemporary edge to the city’s high-quality architecture. Railo was designed by APRT Architects (architects Aaro Artto, Teemu Palo, Yrjö Rossi, Hannu Tikka and Jussi Vakkilainen).

Suvela Chapel / OOPEAA

The Suvela Chapel creates a natural highpoint within its surroundings. Some of the spaces are used by the City of Espoo residents’ park. The building also houses some facilities serving the residents’ park, making it a natural meeting point for people of all ages. The building forms clear delineation for traffic routes around it and the yard area it encloses. The copper clad building extends from the ground over the roof and belfry, resulting in a sculptural impression. The interior of the main hall is powerful in its simplicity. Completed in 2016, the chapel was designed by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture (architects Anssi Lassila, Iida Hedberg, Juha Pakkala, Teemu Hirvilammi, Jussi-Pekka Vesala, Hanna-Kaarina Heikkilä, Anis Souissi and Miguel Silva).

This year’s jury was comprised of Jury Chair Pirjo Sanaksenaho, Sari Nieminen, Eero Lundén and Janne Pihlajaniemi. Together they selected the four projects, each which serve in their own way as a “living room” for local residents.

“The shortlisted new builds represent buildings of widely differing functions and geographic locations,” says Sanaksenaho. “What they have in common is that they all form a space for the public to spend time in – a church space, a sports venue, a cultural space and leisure time space. In each of these buildings, architecture has been used to give them interest and personality within their respective environments.”

The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony in Helsinki on October 13, 2016. Learn more about the Finlandia Prize and the shortlisted projects, here.

News via SAFA.

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