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Palexpo Vision “20XX” / group8

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Architects: group8
Location: Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
Area: 102000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: David Gagnebin-de bons

From the architect. Three decades after the completion of its construction, the building covering an area of 102’000 m2 needed to be adapted to the new standards governing events and congresses. The main changes are intended to render the whole complex more flexible and give it a more attractive image. The project Vision 20XX is a concept which aims to give each space in the building its own specificity within the mega structure of Palexpo.

A new throughway ensures clear directions for the public; spatial continuity is guaranteed by a translucent, red, longitudinal wall, punctuated by rectangular signposts designating the entrances to the major function areas.

The renovation of Congress Centre 1 has made it possible to individualize and give more flexibility to the use of each hall, the ceilings of which are based on a meshed network generated by Voronoï’s theorem, and also to redefine the foyer and the means of access by a “kinetic piece of furniture”.

Congress Centre 2, which is situated beneath Hall 2, comprises eight new conference rooms made flexible by the provision of sliding walls.

The existing restaurant has been renovated by repositioning the different functions and reclassifying the spaces in specific fashion.

Located beneath Hall 2, the new kitchen of the centre has an area of 2’400 m2. It is at the centre of gravity of the whole complex and directly connected to all areas.

The extension of Hall 6 has been carried out by closing off an area of an additional 6’000 m2 under a cantilever. The corrugated, perforated metal facade is a prolongation of the existing facades, and constitutes an adaptation on the large scale of the motorway and the airport.

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Matterbetter Announces Winners of Syria: Post-War Housing Competition

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Competition platform matterbetter has announced the winners of its Syria: Post-War Housing Competition for architectural students and professionals. The competition, initiated earlier this year, called for solutions to the housing scarcity crisis in Syria, “which will affect the country as more and more cities of the war-torn country will be freed and refugees will start to come back.”

With refugee camps around Europe and other countries in generally poor conditions, and Syrian towns in ruins, one solution to the housing crisis becomes the creation of living conditions that are attractive for once-displaced Syrians to return. The competition asked for a new housing concept that would be able to permanently accommodate people in need of a new home and new life in Syria.

Out of 245 submissions, matterbetter selected three winners, each of which was awarded a cash prize, there were also nine honorable mentions.

The winners of the Syria: Post-War Housing Competition are:

First Place: Endless Future Project /Marta Gayoso, Alfredo De Luca, Elena Guidetti, Giulia Gorgo; Spain and Italy

Second Place: Spring From Debris /Laura Serrano Romero, Marina Sánchez Guzmán, Martti Antonio Oliva Koskela, Emin Bekmezci; Spain and Turkey

Third Place: Back Home. Shards of Memories / Valerio Croci, Vincenzo Demasi, Fabrizio Esposito, Roberta D’Agrosa, Costanza Galli; Italy

Honorable Mention: House100 / Nemanja Mitrović, Đina Prnjat; Montenegro

Honorable Mention: Cultivated Legacy / Hugo Lebrunet, Clément Loyer, Ulysse Zehnlé; France

Honorable Mention: Extended Citadel / Giacomo Caputo; Italy

Honorable Mention: Top-Down Regeneration / Aleksandar Stanicic, Andrea Jelic; Italy

Honorable Mention: Phoenix / Petar Tomas, Tijana Perović, Jelica Babić; Montenegro

Honorable Mention: Typical Block/Lemon / Gordana Vujovic , Elzana Husovic, Nina Culafic; Montenegro

Honorable Mention: El Pati / Lukas Fertig, Matthias Knab; Spain and Germany

Honorable Mention: Therapeutic Decay / Hancheng Chen, Hsing-O Chiang; Taiwan

Honorable Mention: Gabion Block / Aleksandr Kelkh, Dmitrii Kupressov, Tatiana Kan, Vladimir Sorokin; Russia

Learn more about the winners here.

News via matterbetter.

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I-CAT Offices and Warehouse / Earthworld Architects & Interiors

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Architects: Earthworld Architects & Interiors
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Area: 1949.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: DOOK Photography

Collaborators: DFL Engineering / JC van der Linde & Venter

From the architect. The Client’s brief was to create a flagship building based on ecological sustainable principles which would showcase their philosophy toward the natural environment. Thus, the design response was a building that would be sustainable on all three levels; ecological, socially and economical. Understanding that these three pillars of sustainability influences one another, the objective was to find a balance.

Passive systems like orientation, shading, natural ventilation and lighting were carefully considered to create a good static basis. These systems would ensure a broader comfort zone for users. The building was orientated directly north and a courtyard was created on the southern side of the building. The northern overhang allows for winter heat gain and summer shading, while the southern façade allows for ample natural light.

Dynamic systems were built around the passive basis to further broaden the comfort zone of users on exceptional days. A grid tied photo-voltaic system was designed to deal with the day to day energy demand of the building and also to absorb the mechanical ventilation energy demand used occasionally. Rainwater from the roofs is collected and stored in a large underground water tank buried in the courtyard. Municipal water is also stored in the tank from where it is taken to a small water filter station located in the warehouse.

The building was also designed to keep maintenance to a minimum, materials were kept as natural as possible for this reason. A monolithic face brick wall creates a bold street façade which is broken up with a punched steel window frame and also by special bricks that create an integrated woven fabric to specific areas. A horizontal concrete box frames the glazing on the northern façade which acts as a light shelf, also protruding to inward to act as desk shelving. A timber pole and thermo-treated pergola structure floats above the southern courtyard which consists of grass blocks, planted areas, timber decks and a linear koi pond. Fever trees are planted in the courtyard and will in time grow through the pergola structure. A spiral staircase extends from here to the roof garden which gives an aerial overview of the pergola and courtyard.

The intention with I-CAT’s new office interior was to not conform to the conventional approach of interior design but to assure that the spaces resonate with the same principals of the envelope. Questioning the predictable use of partitioning was the main objective. Instead of regular drywalls, plywood partitioning has been designed.

All the furniture and finishes have been well-considered and evaluated according to a sustainability rating. Materials were kept as natural as possible, without any superficial finishing and coverings which, together with the ample natural lighting, results in an interior that is beautifully light, simple and honest.

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Crushpro / FORM

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Architects: FORM
Location: Moscow, Russia
Area: 290.0 sqm
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Ilya Ivanov

Design Team: Olga Treiwas, Vera Odyn, Polina Dudkina, Polina Litvinenko

From the architect. The school offers courses to children aged 6 to 14 years, focusing on professions which are growing in demand, but are not yet commonly found in school curriculums. These include robotics, visual communication, animation and 3D graphics.

This electronically focused programme determined the aesthetic approach to the project.

The aim was to create an energetic environment with a strong identity, which motivates students to explore and invent. Bold blocks of colour are juxtaposed with simple furniture elements, considering void and mass as an evolving volumetric composition.

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Base – Center For Culture And Creativity / Onsite Studio

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Architects: Onsite Studio
Location: Via Bergognone, 34, 20144 Milano, Italy
Architect In Charge: Giancarlo Floridi, Angelo Lunati
Design Team: Tommaso Brambati (project leader), Sebastian Sanchez, Pietro Manazza, Filippo Fagioli, Lorenza Odorizzi, Simone Marmori, Chiara Molinari, Andrea Morstabilini, Michele Miserotti, Julyia Yarosh, Octavian Catlabuga, Andrea Fossati, Jacopo Lamura, Nikolas Jelenkovic, Anna Savoia, Silvia Moretti, Carlotta Torsiglieri
Area: 8000.0 sqm
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Giovanna Silva , Anders Sune Berg

Mechanical Engineering: Deerns Italia S.p.A.
Structural Engineering: Redesco s.r.l.
Fire Prevention: Luca Colombo
Energetic Sustainability: Alberto Buogo

From the architect. The project inside the former Ansaldo complex comes to terms with a large “open” building, not blocked in a single form, but designed to serve the flexibility of the various programs and activities it contains, hosting multiple scenarios.

The attempt is to create a theatrical palimpsest in which activities, people and their processes can move. In this sense, the project has the goal of making the building radically public in character, above all in its spatial conception.

The architectural interventions combine this goal with conservation of the extraordinary existing spatial qualities, the fascinating atmosphere and the tone set by the materials, proportions, spans and strong industrial character. The project is thus conceived as a dialogue between different objects, with their shapes and materials, and between various events and activities.

The focus of the intervention concentrates on the relationship between the large formerly industrial spaces (empty, as if waiting for something) and a series of volumes of different sizes that contain the service elements. These are carefully arrayed in the space to create a sort of city, a micro-urban setting composed of city-like spaces with large and small plazas and streets, reinforcing the idea of urban civilization contained in the Manifesto of the activities.

The new volumes take the form of small buildings, where their facades and roofs indicate the different functions.

In the tension between new volumes and existing spaces, the project attempts to produce opposition but also a complementary rapport, distance but also dialogue, proportion but also unpredictability.

The design makes use of a limited range of materials, thus generating an almost blurred backdrop against which the installations, micro-architectures, cultural events and – above all – people stand out as the protagonists.

The result is a painstaking arrangement of remarkable features that bring character to the space, making it welcoming while allowing the attention to focus on the contents and activities.

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Kradoan House / Thiti Ophatsodsai

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Architects: Thiti Ophatsodsai
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Area: 250.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Krisada Boonchaleow

Named “Kradoan house”, this residence was designed to offer “Serenity with Nature in Urban lifestyle”.

Located in urban area of Bangkok, three-stories L- Shape house have been placed at the corner of the 200 sq.m. land area, to embrace 9 meters height “Kradoan Tree” (Thai name of Tummy-wood, Careya arborea Roxb.) which is the main focal point of every area in this house.

Full height windows was introduce to all the main living area and bedrooms to create connection between indoor and outdoor space, while kitchen and bathrooms was located at the back side (South and West) of the house. South and west elevation were designed as solid double layer brick wall with small windows to minimize heat transfer from direct sunlight.

Combined the main living room and dining area with full height window at both side to invite natural light and ventilation to the space. Also facing the garden, these area are ideally suited gathering area for friends and family.

Double height space light well at entrance area create vertical visual connection between 1st floor to Master bedroom at 2nd floor, also bring natural light from above to dining area. Master bedroom at 2nd floor with 3.30 m. height frameless glazed walls are angled to take in the best views of the Kradoan tree.

Extra size Master bathroom also integrated with small green area with natural light and ventilation while still keep privacy when open the full height window. Blooming Orange Jessamine fragrance in the morning make this room to be another area to spend relaxing time.

In order to create relax feeling at home, all the interior design concept was to keep everything simple and easy for maintenance. While Exterior appearance look modern, furniture selection and interior finishing attempt to bring natural touch and cozy feeling to the space, such as real teak dining table, leather covered sofa, timber flooring, wood veneer cabinet, etc.

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Eurogida Factory Administrative Building / Öney Architecture

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Architects: Öney Architecture
Location: Kemalpaşa, 35730 Kemalpaşa/İzmir, Turkey
Area: 4400.0 sqm
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Ali Kabas Photography

From the architect. The project site is located in Kemalpasa district of the city Izmir, Turkey. Izmir is a city on the Aegean coast, South-East of Turkey and Kemalpasa district is located on a valley reached from the main city through the highway. The project site is an organized industrial area of 72 acres of land surrounded by agricultural terrain except the Eastside that is parallel to one of the large streams of the area.

During the design process the main two determinants were the climate conditions and the different user’s programmatic needs. Therefore, the interior organization and the general form of the multifunctional administrative facility program is governed by these two.

The total complex is consisted of an integrated canned pickle factory production and storage site and a multifunctional administrative facility. On the site layout, the area bordering the South where the multifunctional administrative is designated. The complex is separated by a main axis where the supplies are brought-in creating two diverse circulation paths; vehicle and pedestrian.

The project site was enlarged and re-designed to involve the main entrance of the facility, the security building, the parking lot, the product acceptance area, and the multifunctional facility in order to maximize the functional efficiency between the two. The etudes regarding the working process of the complex’s production site demonstrates high noise levels and visual disturbance. The circulation axis of the vehicles and the users were separated from each other; vehicles passing through the entry gate and circulating in front of the building entry to reach the unloading area, and the pedestrians are identified through the security booth before reaching the multifunctional administrative facility. The exterior landscape design serves guiding of both the pedestrian path and the vehicle path.

The administrative personnel level is directly linked with the factory building and the social facility while the entry level is designated for the general personnel. In regard of this agenda, the meeting rooms and other common spaces are programmed on the ground level. Through these design decisions, the building is designed one level below the underground in total as four levels. The project is designed as an introverted structure. This emphasized through the centralizing of the atrium which is both a dividing and connecting element of multiple programs which are common spaces including meeting rooms and conference hall on the basement, administrative offices and recreational areas on the first and second level, head offices, private meeting rooms and accommodation rooms on the third level.

The internal spaces are flexible; the diversely programmed rooms are separated with demountable partitions which allows for future growth and change in the program needs. All the program volumes link and open to the central atrium. Atrium space reaches until the ground level is used by multiple groups becoming both a socializing and relaxing space. It is also visible from all floors and isolates the staff from the industrial area. The vertical circulation, including the stairs and the elevator at the end of the atrium, is designed to have maximum transparency. During the use of the elevators, they are visible from all levels.

The climate conditions are significant due to the effects of the surrounding geography; mountains on the North, East and West. The prevailing wind is in South-West direction, the temperatures are very moderate reaching high levels of heat frequently around the year with low percentage of rainfall, creating arid conditions.

There are two barriers formed on the North-South axis of the building. The first, concave concrete form of the entry facade welcomes all the users serving as a barrier protect the building and the terrace garden behind from excessive heat and sun light. The second linear wall barrier protects and controls the allowed sun light and heat to the atrium. The climate conditions also governs the solid and void relationship internally and externally; the East facade openings bridging out to the exterior landscape allows sun light inside the structure and the West impermeable facade cools and filters light streams creating shading. The skin is not only an element of enclosure but also the main structure of the building, constructed from casted concrete, it allows for the building to be durably maintained, age sustaining, endure seismic movements from earthquakes and creates an effortless esthetic appearance meeting the texture of the surrounding nature.

The automation system in the sun panels on the atrium top allows for natural light and air ventilation maximizing the efficiency of energy use. During the construction phase, it is given big thought to prioritize to work with local manufacturers, builders, and workers to minimize the waste, maximize efficiency and construction duration. The waste water produced from the factory facility and the rain water collected naturally using the slope of the land is recycled and re-used in irrigating the surrounding landscape. The use of vibrant colors on the facades serves as a reflector to control heat emission and sunlight stream.

The overall look of the multifunctional administrative building of Euro Gıda reflects the corporate robust identity of the company by warmly welcoming variety of users and clients unifying the user personnel through creating user friendly and sociable spaces, and finally carrying the external nature to the interior forming a unique design of an exceptional feel good working space.

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Escu House / Bijl Architecture

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Architects: Bijl Architecture
Location: Belrose Ct, Bankstown NSW 2200, Australia
Design Team: Melonie Bayl-Smith (Director), Vanessa Tang Lee (Interior Designer)
Area: 697.0 sqm
Photographs: Katherine Lu

Builder: Wilkinstruct
Engineers: Cantilever Consulting Engineers
Gfa (Total House – Excluding Garage As Is Normal) : 152 sqm
Gfa (Just The Altered Portion Of The House): 85 sqm

From the architect. Escu House in Sydney’s Belrose presents an open, inviting and contemporary architecture that is intelligent yet simple, and confident yet subtle. Through a program of spatial rearrangement and a layering of joinery and finished elements, Bijl Architecture has completely transformed this 1960s light-coloured brick dwelling into a light-filled, highly functional home that is also warm and welcoming.

At the front of the house, an existing verandah has been replaced with an extended front living space, protected from the street by a vertical slatted timber element that acts as part privacy screen and part floor-to-ceiling balustrade. Wrapping the room, this façade treatment lets northern light into the front of the house and allows the windows to be opened wide while retaining a buffer from the street – Escu means ‘shield’ in old French.

Inside, the interiors are open and light, with the exterior slatted screen visible from inside the front living room where the timber combines with the outside greenery to create a sense of connection to nature. The opposite wall provides a strong contrast in dark teal, framing either side of the room, while an original David Trubridge pendant light provides another accent of timber above the dining table.

At the back of the house, a kitchen and open family room features concealed storage and built-in furniture, including a long timber joinery element along the back wall that contains seating and desk space. A fresh palette of timber and white features subtle pops of colour, such as the geometric tiles in the kitchen splashback where blue, yellow and grey create an understated decorative effect, and hooks by Design by Them in soft shades of blue, pink, black and white.

A considered approach to the allocation of space focused on the reality of the family dynamic, in addition to a balanced application of joinery and materials, has created a highly functional home that provides an oasis from the outside world for a family of four within a small, intelligent package.

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ODA Designs D.C. Development With Views into Nationals Park

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ODA New York has released plans for “West Half,” a mixed-use development for the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C., that will offer residents views into baseball games at the adjacent Nationals Park. The 11-story building will also feature two floors of retail space and community amenities as it becomes a new visual complement to the neighboring cultural landmark.

The 456,000 square foot building has been designed to prioritize the experience of the building “from the inside out,” according to Eran Chen, Founder and Executive Director of ODA New York. The form of the building slopes as it rises, allowing for a gradual transition from the streetscape, to public spaces to private apartments. The incline also provides room for a series of stepped terraces and balconies with views into the stadium – nearly 50% of the total units in the building will feature direct sightlines onto the field.

The building will also contain 61,000 square feet of retail space and public resources accessible to both residents and visitors to the stadium, allowing the building to become an extension of the entertainment district.

Residents will have access to a rooftop pool as well as a landscaped courtyard located at the center of the building’s U-shaped footprint, which also helps to provide ample natural light into each of the units. Interiors will feature contemporary, minimalistic details and tectonic finishes.

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House ARM / OOIIO Arquitectura

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© Eugenio H. Vegue & Francisco Sepúlveda

Architects: OOIIO Arquitectura
Location: 45400 Mora, Toledo, Spain
Design Team: Joaquin Millan Villamuelas, Gloria Moya Paniagua, Eugenia Peyron Enjuanes, Sergio Velandrino Poveda.
Area: 162.7 sqm
Photographs: Eugenio H. Vegue & Francisco Sepúlveda

Structure: Consultora CPE s.l.
Installations: OOIIO Arquitectura.
Technical Architect: José Tomás Fernández Dorado
Security And Health: José Tomás Fernández Dorado.

House ARM is a game of extrusions and sections, caching the natural sun light.

We understand this project as an exercise to get a good house, non expensive and functional, in a large enough plot, able to get all the client brief in only one level.

This is why we decided to build the house with structural walls, because we do not need to get too high with them, saving time and money to our client during the construction process, and thanks to their thickness, those walls will also help to contribute to save energy and improve the sustainability of the house.

This structural walls come from the extrusion of two sections, generating two long parallel pieces starting from the street façade and getting into the yard. They don´t touch each other but they are connected by some flat roofs, covering the utility spaces like the hall, the laundry or the parking.

The interior of one of the main long pieces has no walls and we will find there a large open space where the living room, the dining room and the library-studio are all the same, getting light from everywhere, the street, the skylights on the roof and the yard, but with the possibility of being divided thanks to mobile partitions. The client will be able to play with this space depending on its use.

The other long piece has inside all the bedrooms and kitchen, it holds the most intimate spaces, and it ends up on a great porch, where it merges together with the other piece and the yard, and also a pool, where for sure the client will have good moments and will enjoy the good weather that they use to have on this site during most of the year.

For a better passive energy performance, the house has ceramic ventilated double façades, with exterior isolation, also the windows are opened thinking on those places were sun doesn´t heat too much. The interior cooling and heating will be done by a special radiating floor. Both passive and active energetic systems will become this house really efficient, and our client will be saving money and energy every day, becoming a cheap house to live in, recovering soon the initial investment.

This is a really studied project. With low resources it gets great goals!.

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