Ryder Architecture have revealed their design for the new headquarters of online bingo and gaming giant, tombola. Sitting adjacent to the company’s current headquarters at Wylam Wharf, Sunderland, the new design playfully references the historic warehouse surroundings with a brick, glass and steel material palette. The fully-glazed eastern facade is bordered by a solid brick extrusion, mimicking the roof profile of the warehouses in the historic area. The new building is set to house all of tombola‘s operations and regional staff, bringing activity to the quayside suburb.
As Europe’s biggest online bingo company, tombola are one of the largest employers of game and web developers in the Sunderland region. The new HQ will house 310 of their employees who are currently scattered across the existing headquarters and other office spaces nearby. The 7620 square meter building will form a “campus” for tombola, with a large public forecourt to the east creating a social meeting place for employees and the general public.
The design has been led by the user experience. We have created a great working environment that reflects the culture of tombola and the importance they place on their people. It also creates a strong visual presence to complement and echo the rich industrial heritage of the area. We’ve worked closely together to create a campus environment on the site. The design incorporates a transparent east façade which reinforces the building’s connection with the riverside and adjacent Rose Line building, and a ground floor dedicated to social and support accommodation including a bistro, gym and a large central atrium. – Ronnie Graham, Design Lead at Ryder Architecture
The link between the new building and the shipbuilding heritage is established visually through the triple-pitched roof, which references the long storage sheds which once lined the harbor. The original industry of the area has been superseded by commercial development, leaving only two heritage warehouses. One of these is the Rose Line building – the current headquarters of tombola – and with the glazed facade a visual connection is maintained between the two.
The design was won by Ryder through a design competition and is currently going through planning. If successful, the headquarters could be completed as early as September 2017.
A local dairy farmer, located close to Leipzig, wanted to enlarge his living space as the family ex-pected further offspring.
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We established the extension as a one- story pavilion. Large openings enable the view into the garden. Depending on the weather the windows can be completely slided aside. Thus the spatial limits are set aside, interior and exterior converge.
The smoothly formed concrete facade of the cube contrasts the existing timber paneled house. The conjunction between existing building and extension was drafted as a „glass joint“ to detach the new building with a light gesture.
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On the contrary the interior provides a warm and cozy atmosphere. Therefore walls, floor and ceiling were furnished with an oak facing.
The team of CIRCOLO-A + LINEARAMA has won first prize in the AAA-Architetti Cercasi 2015 competition with its design, EPICICLO. As a mixed-use building, EPICICLO will feature apartments, alternative residences like student and social housing, common spaces, as well as both public and semi-private outdoor spaces.
The design is shaped after a ring so that it is open to the outside and comfortable on the inside. The design takes into account the relationship between public and private, not only creating a gradient from outside to inside but also varying public and private spaces within the building. Similarly, open and closed spaces are alternated, to create “spots of community life and moments of privacy.”
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The project is based on the idea of public space and “introduces the idea of ‘discovery beyond the corner,’ according to which everyone can experience a micro-world populated by children and young people, teachers and students, sportsmen, artists and craftsmen, professionals and retirees” explains the architect.
With no main “front” to the building, the project offers 360-degree views of the external park, as well as access to the internal, more private green space.
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EPICICLO additionally centers on the concept of modularity, in order to create a mixed dimension and foster the interaction of residents both indoors and outdoors.
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Outside, the project features a natural hilly landscape, as well as a system of wooden walkways, rest areas, and water tanks. These water tanks contribute to the sustainability of the project by collecting rainwater to be reused for irrigation and household appliances, it performs phytoremediation, which reduces pollutants in the water.
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Courtesy of CIRCOLO-A + LINEARAMA
Sustainability is further improved through winter gardens in each home, which work as solar greenhouses and naturally regulate climate, reducing the need for air conditioning systems.
The damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 can never be forgotten, but 10 years after the rebuilding of New Orleans started in 2006, a new architecture has emerged with cutting-edge designs being widely celebrated in the media. The Make It Right foundation (founded after the disaster to help with structural recovery) commissioned first-class architects such as Morphosis, Shigeru Ban, and David Adjaye to design safe and sustainable houses for New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. But Richard Campanella and Cassidy Rosen worry that this vision is detached from reality.
In their article for Places Journal, the two scholars report that contemporary and modernist houses only account for 5% of the post-Katrina cityscape. After studying a sample of 500 houses with both Google street view and study visits, they observed a revival of historical facades with a specific homage to the iconography of Old New Orleans. However interestingly, the use of historical architectural elements is limited to facades—all materials, technology, interiors, and infrastructure reflect 21st-century codes and domestic needs.
This interest for the architecture of the past is quite new, argue Campanella and Rosen. New Orleans citizens are known for their progressive thinking in architecture, especially during the post-war years, when Curtis and Davis Architects, Charles Colbert and Edward Durell Stone constructed locally. In Campanella and Rosen’s opinion, “the retro revival is mostly a response to the recent past—to difficult decades of contraction and decline,” that began prior to Katrina, but were intensified after the disaster.
Read the entire article, “14 to 1: Post-Katrina Architecture by the Numbers,” here.
The design looks to work with the existing urban grain of the Town of Roscommon in order to create a coherent vision for the public realm.
The principle institutions of Roscommon Town, -Church and Court- historically somewhat dislocated from the town centre, are located in pocket of land that sits to the west of Market Square.
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It is this quarter, once a precinct of the C19th criminal justice system with its court building and walled enclosure of the County Goal, that the new civic offices are located.
The Gaol was demolished in the Mid 20th Century, apart from some boundary walls, while the Courthouse was extended in the 1960’s with an unsympathetic concrete annex to provide accommodation for the county council. It was onto this context that the new civic offices was to be overlaid.
The project consists of some 6600m2 of office accommodation, laboratories, canteen and Council Chamber for the Council within a single building together with a series of discrete interventions within the greater context of the town so as to form a coherent urban proposal.
The building proper is composed of interlocking volumes constructed amid the traces of the C19th Gaol to create a variety of external spaces – a series of woodland gardens, a forecourt and a covered ‘walk’ sheltered by the cantilevered structure of the offices above.
A linear concourse provides the principle public space and primary horizontal circulation for the project linking the office ‘fingers’ with the Council Chamber suite.
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From this space, visitors can enjoy views into adjacent wild gardens while transacting their business. A series of dramatic light shafts cut through the concrete structure and lined with fritted glass provide further daylight and glimpses to the offices above.
The council chamber, an independent suite with its own entrance located at the head of the scheme, is designed as a grand public room for council functions and civic gatherings. A corner window affords panoramic views of the county with its rolling landscape beyond – an appropriate backdrop for civic exchange.
As part of a coherent urban proposal, the project proposes the re-instatement of the original form of the Richard Morrison-designed C19th Courthouse, by removing a 1960’s annex and restoring the southwestern façade which now addresses the new civic offices.
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The creation of a new town car park as part of the greater project afforded us the opportunity to create a new pedestrian route through backlands so as to link the town centre to the new civic offices. Stone boundary walls were restored, pebble paving with granite sets were laid down to delineate a route, and a concrete pavilion constructed to create a gateway from the car park to the civic precinct of Court and Civic Offices.
Robust fair-faced concrete walls wrap and fold to support upper floors of white render complimented by Carrara marble which in turn provides an honorific expression to the building. Window ‘boxes’ of oak and LVL form linear strips with deep reveals that modulate daylight to offices.
This palate extends to the interior where floors are of polished concrete and white marble, walls are of fair-faced concrete and fritted glass and joinery is of White Maple.
The project uses simple technologies and strategies to achieve an A3 energy rating and a BREEAM Excellent certification.
Shallow plan depth combined with natural ventilation, exposed concrete structure and the careful control of insolation assist in creating a well-lit, well-tempered working environment.
Pliskin Architecture has been awarded as a finalist in the competition for the Mevaseret Music School, in Mevaseret Zion, Israel. The firm’s proposal centers on the site’s existing topography, as well as the idea of public space through the elevation of the classroom programs to the upper level, and the creation of a continuous open space at street level.
The new public space at the street level leads visitors to a partially covered plaza, which will act as the main access point for the various functions of the conservatory. A café will be located adjacent to the plaza, where visitors can be partially exposed to the school’s activity via the building’s massing.
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The design additionally features an auditorium, which is nestled into the hillside, facing southeast in the direction of a prominent, undeveloped ravine, which will act as a backdrop for performances. This view is further enhanced by the placement of backstage and support spaces underneath the seating, rather than in plain view. Furthermore, the backstage space is directly accessible from the parking lot and loading dock, allowing for the arrival of artists and instruments out of sight of the audience.
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Courtesy of Pliskin Architecture
The architect explains that “the auditorium adapts acoustically to different music types using motorized acoustic roller shades that accommodate different reverb times by changing the ratio of reflective and absorptive surfaces.”
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Courtesy of Pliskin Architecture
Similar shades are also utilized in the dance hall, orchestra room, and choir room, all of which are located at the lower level.
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Courtesy of Pliskin Architecture
The elevated classroom level is clad with a slotted stone enclosure that allows filtered light to enter the spaces, balancing natural light with privacy needs, and offering a contemporary interpretation of the traditional stone cladding that is unique to this area. Several of the private study spaces face the entrance plaza below, providing students with the option of raising the shades to create a visual connection with visitors and expose the variety of learning opportunities that the conservatory provides. Another unique experience is provided in the rock rooms – a motorized skylight allows the room’s roof to fully open, creating an open-air-patio rehearsal space when the weather allows it.
From the architect. Haldane Martin Iconic Design has designed a brewery and restaurant interior for Mad Giant beer that plays with scale referencing oversized metal toy construction kits. The result is a creative and welcoming industrial space that brings to life the DIY ethos of the renegade South African craft beer, while contributing to the urban regeneration of inner-city Johannesburg.
Mad Giant craft beer is a South African beer made by chemical engineer Eben Uys, still in his early thirties, a man with a passion for experimenting with science and flavour who is not afraid of big ideas. Mad Giant represents “the small guy brave enough to dream big and do something crazy,” in the words of its founder. Its mindset is renegade, propellerhead and somewhat madcap.
The brewery and restaurant in downtown Johannesburg was designed to embody the Mad Giant ideology and to create a space where beer drinkers can experience the free-spirited, adventurous philosophy of the brand, while experiencing a celebration of flavour and uninhibited creativity in a vibrant environment.
The restaurant inside the brewery, Urbanologi, gives an avant garde twist to Asian street food. Chef Angelo Scirocco (Test Kitchen, Chef’s Warehouse) calls his menu ‘urban garde’, and the unexpected combination of umami flavours and craft beer set it apart. Fresh natural ingredients, attention to detail in cooking and plating, and an experimental and constantly evolving menu reinforce the connection between Urbanologi’s cuisine and Mad Giant’s beer.
The interior concept draws on the mad, DIY mindset of Mad Giant and plays with scale to emphasise the giant behind the brand. Emerging as the perfect brand mascot, a giant yeti forms a centrepiece installation. This also translates onto the new brand identity of the beer bottle labels and other graphic design elements.
Standing from floor to ceiling behind the front bar facing the entrance of the brewery, the 7-metre-tall icon is made from laser-cut yellow zinc-passivated steel, riveted to a mild steel framework. It is spot lit from the ceiling, making it radiate from every angle of the space. At its base is the bar display with a large circular bar counter and branded Mad Giant beer taps in front of it.
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The 6-metre-diameter cast concrete bar counters take the form of a giant bottle cap beneath the giant yeti. There are another three simpler concrete bars at the back of the brewery in the tasting pods.
All the furniture in the brewery is bespoke and includes a range of original pieces by Haldane Martin made from custom-made scaled up Meccano, like giant toys turned into furnishings, to bring the brand vision to life. Giant murals with a playful, childlike aesthetic adorn the walls, enhancing the effect of a child’s big dreams brought to life.
The restaurant and brewery’s seating formations are diverse and varied, allowing for versatile social engagement. Outdoor tables and benches in the sun are suited for casual groups of friends or families sitting together. Inside, long beer-hall tables with sandblasted, black-stained table tops and swivel bar stools facilitate social interaction among large groups and strangers, encouraging flexible and spontaneous movement and conversation. Beyond that, four-seater tables are perfect for couples or small groups coming for a meal. At the back of the restaurant banquet seating areas and two-seater tables alongside beer tasting pods look onto the beer tanks for a more intimate seating formation and personalized beer-tasting experience.
The floors are spectacular, combining different materials in ways that reiterate the trope of blown-up toy building blocks. The dining area floor is made from recycled Rhodesian teak parquet, laid in a herringbone formation. At the front of the brewery the herringbone fragments into pixelated pieces, merging into stained concrete with floating pieces of wood creating playful patterns. In the bottle store the wooden flooring pixelates into honeycomb-shaped black and white tiles.
The walls along the length of the brewery feature grey-scale murals by graffiti artist Nomad. There are four portraits, one of a hooded woman, another a child in a bear onesie (his ‘mad giant’ suit) and the third of two children’s faces wearing goggles. Hexagon tiles feature on the walls of the bathrooms and kitchen.
An 80-year-old shed that has been refurbished, the building’s roof was replaced in renovations and left with exposed steel trusses painted with burnt red undercoat. The building itself used to be an old elevator factory in Johannesburg’s industrial hey-day and stood empty for years before the Mad Giant renovation. The transformation speaks to the upsurgence in movement back into South Africa’s financial capital’s inner city, with a revival of interest in the downtown area’s creative regeneration.
Bespoke lighting was designed for the space by Haldane Martin including large black feature pendant lights with gold interiors hanging from upscale red Meccano above the kitchen pass, and beer hall chandeliers with a contemporary twist in the dining area, made from circular wheel-shaped Meccano with LED Edison lightbulbs.
The outdoor tables and benches are created using custom-made scaled up Meccano pieces, inspired by the modular designs from the famous construction toy company. This construction technique also appears in the feature pendant lights that light up the kitchen pass, the LED Edison beer hall chandeliers in the dining area and in the table bases.
The banquet seating made from distressed leather is completely unique to Mad Giant. The formation is inspired by traditional diner seats, with a ribbed back that references the iconic Haldane Martin Songololo Sofa. The standout feature of the seats are their draped unfinished back and sides, creating a beautiful effect of hanging leather.
The dining chairs have rebar arms and legs, metal back and legs sprayed bright red with a Mad Giant emblem laser-cut into the back, with seats and seatbacks upholstered in distressed leather with red stitching.
The bathroom has massive I-beams painted bright red converted into basins. The hexagonal pattern of the bottle store floor tiles is continued in the bathroom’s scaled-down honeycomb wall tiles, as well as in the kitchen where larger black hexagonal tiles are emphasised with bright red tile grout. These elements continue the theme of building blocks while also alluding to the periodic table, to reinforce the mad scientist character behind the brand.
The interior was worked on from concept to installation between the Johannesburg venue and Cape Town, where the Haldane Martin design team is based. The process went smoothly and the client and designer are both incredibly happy with the final product. As the doors open to the public so interest is piquing in this completely unique, innovative space that caters to a wide audience of beer, food and design lovers alike.
Pioneering new flavours and iconic design, Mad Giant celebrates a brave creative spirit that speaks to the urban regeneration burgeoning in Johannesburg’s inner-city. It is a space that highlights the transformation of an area once lost to detriment, which is once again being revived to its former glory.
From the architect. Modern architecture of light and monumental at the same time , the interior is comfortable and technologically advanced.. Space was created for man and man complements the space. this Modern interpretation of the architecture of the 60 years including all advanced technologies of our time.
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The work of the modern architect is to conceal all technologies and functions , create the background and the comfort to the person. correctly dilute flows . To give the possibility of transformation of space, different life scene, transparent , flowing space with change of function and the possibility of isolation. .This is the next level of life and designing such a space requires the solution of many problems.
– If your architecture causes emotions, then you are a good architect. For me neopotism and modernism – the main areas. In the interior it is hard minimalism, despite the fact that all these styles are combined with comfort and warmth. To create your own style in architecture is the highest point of development of the architect.
– Only natural materials – wood TEAK and OAK, stone, CONCRETE and 500 M glass as a unifying space with nature, the white nail Polish as a background for a person. These materials are created simple forms, monumental and light at the same time.
Technology is advancing, the architecture uses innovation, allowing to design on a whole new level. At the same time there are samples in the design, which for a hundred years, but they remain in the trend. Another example: recently in the interiors is practiced rough stone and raw barn Board. On the one hand, this is a new trend, on the other, the wood and stone materials that have always been. Throughout the history of mankind is the main building materials, everything else is a compromise.
To create interesting interior to find the optimal combination of technologies, materials, shapes, colors and functions. And whatever this interior, private or public, regardless of the purpose it is important feeling of warmth, comfort and coziness. Otherwise people will not want to be in it. With many styles and trends in architecture of the time shows errors, but in any case, a good interior is timeless, it is relevant in any era. The interior is where you want to be, the interior emotions and at the same time it is only the background for a person.
The interior can be out of style. And than it is easier, the more chances to live longer. it will always remain modern, in this case had to persuade themselves , because the interior which is architect… And it wasn’t hard. or to put it simply didn’t have time… big load is not allowed to pay and possibly elements of allegory and innuendo make this place so what it is, is still more interesting is the project that come…
The layout is linear, the discrete and flow into each other, walls of tempered glass, with the possibility of isolation curtains. Aluminum rails make it very easy to slide textiles, additionally, the blinds really improve the graph spectral mixing pressure and frequency in Pascals (PA) and decibels (dB) is twice as low as the rustle of the trees (low frequency) is below 20 dB… Toughened glass 12 mm, with sound insulation index Rw(C; Ctr) = 40 (-2; -5) has a very acceptable performance for residential spaces For low-frequency noise: the sound insulation index Rw + Ctr 40 – 5 = 35 dB For high frequency noise: the sound insulation index Rw + C 40 – 2 = 38 dB. Used for mounting aluminum profile of special construction. It is filled with sound-absorbing materials that propagate sound energy throughout the structure. Modern technology has leveled the glass partition properties insulation with a brick wall.
Also tonirovanie from parts made by cabinets and shelves.screens. Liquid polymer flooring white is the only background heating, as Underfloor heating dogreat premises in cold period in the range from -15 ° C along with radicioni and the climate system.
Living room with modular sofa 100% natural Linen were made to designs by ARCH.625 possible transformation for watching TV , perhaps a penalty for evening tea, possible sleeping place, a possible spontaneous transformation, the more we change the composition. the less tired of the layout and space. 2 sides of the living room is panoramic Windows, and 2 other storage. The entire wall is the kitchen with front facades in white Matt lacquer with the system TIP-ON, full extension mechanism , the height of the kitchen 3100мм and front width 8 m – 13 cabinets by 0.6 m .located behind the front of the sink 1200mm two refrigerators , a dishwasher for low basement kitchen use model -Balancing hinges Hinges with a displaced center of rotation, a washing machine and dryer. on the facade of the only Oven with microwave function, MIELE. .Over the front diode lights., a window island with hob. The center of the composition: table ETHNICRAFT Slice 3200х1100 mm array of teak without any coating. Belgium.
Another part of the apartment has a bedroom with a large panoramic Windows of 8 meters on the perimeter , shelves and island bed of Oak, with glass back design ARCH.625 . the materials and forms of course repeat living-room with white as the background , the glass on the one hand the connection with the exterior and on the other hand the connection with the bath and then to a common room, a tree, where the oak plays the role of accent and all the rest of the background .Glass bathroom overlooks the side of the bedroom and is also very bright and open, in General, it is part of the bedroom. If you need privacy, then you can close the curtains and lock the door…..
Lighting MINIMAL 20 PRODUCT LINE of the company XAL , , 6000 Kelvin white neutral. aluminum profile 15 mm RALL 9006 and white diffuser. Lines are divided into groups and zones of the perimeter and vertical lighting on the columns and walls. despite the fact that the light is located only on the perimeter quite a lot of areas we have reached the figures of 450-500 Lux in the living room and the kitchen, while the norm SNiP OK LK 250 and 400 in the bedrooms and the bathroom. All light control via radio channel from different points of the apartment, in addition, all luminaires are dimmable. additionally all rooms are equipped with motion sensors and lamps, 5 W’s necessary for a comfortable life after all, glass transmits light and all the scenes and move the need to plan, perhaps this is the most difficult part of the transparent design of modern living spaces.
A small boutique hotel as a part of urban pedestrian city …Its started from a closed competition. The clients brief were simple, because of the site location is in the heart of the city, and near the batu cityhall (alun-alun batu), they wants to have a hotel that can be unique and can reflect of the location. They want a simple budget hotel but can easy remembered for the city…
Located at 700 to 1,700 metre above sea level, the temperature in Batu City of East Java range between 17 oC to 27 oC. Humidity that is approximately at 77-86%, coupled with wind velocity at 6.06 km/h have made the city experience a very little difference in terms of weather in dry and rainy season. Batu and the surrounding area became a perfect place for relaxing and tourism, supported by the soothing climate, mountainous topography, and natural beauty of the place.
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This hotel was designed with site respect approach. The natural potentials were maximised through the application of passive cooling, especially in ground floor lobby and hotel rooms. Building masses are porous, employing window openings in different wall side to enable cross ventilation. (However, during operational time, recently the hotel management decided to add air conditioning unit in each room as an optional feature).
Instead of one big massive and bulky building block that sits in the middle of the site, this hotel building comes in several smaller masses, allowing them to look slimmer, creating different sequences and more spatial experiences as in a kampung, the indigenous settlement. The block of masses also draw on imaginations of temples, an intuitive experiment.
This idea is reinforced by utilizing ramps for vertical circulation as a replacement to stairs and elevators. Ramp is considerably accommodating to disabled, children, luggage trolley, and also will enrich the spatial experience of the guests.
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The building sets back (16 m) away from the street, the front area contributes to urban space and blends in with the pedestrian way to perform the nodes of the pedestrian city. The open space is used as commercial area with wide walkways, sitting and outdoor dining area. This space is restricted for motor vehicle, but accessible for everyone in addition to hotel guests. This area also acts as transitional space and as buffer from the heavy traffic in front.
Unlike the common hotel typology where the rooms were lined in a train-like layout resulting in poor natural lighting and ventilation especially in the room’s toilet, this hotel applied a different strategy. It applies ‘coupled’ concept; each two rooms form a mass so that every room (especially the bathroom), benefits from the gap in between the masses, gets good daylight and outdoor fresh air. All corridors are open at the end, creating an airy feels and more breathing space.
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There are no sophisticated technology. They are all use conventional method. All the material are locally produced. Especially for all the brick finishing, they were built manurally on site. Start from mixing, colouring, printing, until drying. A Homemade brick, using the surrounding local materials.
Colour schemes are inspired from nature; of woods, stones, exposed Portland cements, which establish a compound of building and the surrounding environment. All materials (bricks, sands, natural colourings) are locally sourced and manually produced. The colour-mixing process, moulding and drying were done within the project site. Minimising footprint with less energy, less transportation cost, and less pollution. Site respect.
From the architect. A lodge designed to coexist with history and cultural heritage. IHWARUAE sits alongside the Hanyangdoseong Fortress.
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IHWARUAE is located in Ihwadong which is famous for Ihwa Mural Village, at the eastern foot of the Hanyangdoseong Fortress. It is Z-Lab’s 5th stay project. You can still find the traces of time in the shabby chic house on the hill which was built in the 1950′. With the touch of Z_Lab, the old house was reborn as a place where you can have a great party, get a sense of healing, and awaken your inspiration while enjoying the warm embrace of the fortress and the scenic views of Seoul.
IHWARUAE has a special tie with the Hanyangdoseong Fortress. With new light shed on the historical and culture value of the Hanyangdoseong Fortress as the symbol of the 600-year-old capital of the Joseon dynasty, the fortress is expected to be listed as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. Ihwa Mural Village which is at the foothills of the eastern fortress became a major tourist draw as a result of the vigorous effort made by the residents as well as the local government. The residents have been seeking ways to fully utilize the potential of the village and coexist with the historical site. With a new profit model in place, they have converted old residences into cafes, galleries and guesthouses and are offering various visitor programs including the Ihwadong Museum.
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IHWARUAE is the combination of Ihwa (Plum blossom), rue (hill) and ae (love) which means a small guesthouse on the Ihwadong hill. The Japanese Mastuya-style building was built around the 1950’s and it retained much of its 60-year-old charm. For decades, the house with 9 small rooms has accumulated the layers of time, and it was almost on the verge of collapse when it was first discovered.
The renovation plan for IHWARUAE was focused on accentuating the old charm, leaving the effect of the passage of time intact rather than making it modern and sophisticated. All the exterior and the interior walls were kept, with only the illegal addition being demolished, and the original Japanese-style roof which has been hidden underneath was carefully restored to tell the history of time.
IHWARUAE features a music shop, an open kitchen and a private living area. The 1st floor is a cafe open to the public where anyone can drop by and relax while listening to the music. At the back of the room is an open kitchen that is connected to the private living quarters, providing a perfect place for a small gathering. The 2nd floor is for urbanites who dream of a special night out. This space full of character is further accentuated with a vintage couch from the Upcycling brand Matter & Matter, and the bathroom door and the countertop made with materials salvaged from demolition.
The biggest charm of IHWARUAE is the open kitchen on the 1st floor which offers an ideal space for private parties. The open kitchen can accommodate up to 10 people. Within the inviting and attractive environment, it is so easy to throw a great party. It was largely inspired by the KINFOLK magazine and aims to offer a place of dream to people who yearn for the KINFOLK life. The private living quarters on the 2nd floor is designed to be a place for a comfortable night surrounded by Ihwadong’s authentic vibe. The entire space is filled with pleasures, from the living room overlooking the view of the city, to the terrace facing the Ihwadong alley, and to a one of a kind open-air bath.
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IHWARUAE is a secrete and unique place. The exterior stands with dignity holding the age-old charm while the interior has a variety of unexpected twists. Through the collaboration with the Pastel Music that ‘Ihwadong’ represents, the 1st floor shop serves as a place you can fully emerge the ambience of Ihwadong. The restroom is open to the general public. The 600-year-old Hanyangdoseong Fortress with great historical and cultural value and the village located alongside the wall are inseparable and are seeking ways to thrive together. IHWARUAE is not just a renovation project. It is a great example of successful coexistence; preserving the village’s history and cultural heritage while keeping the charms of the village alive by providing a unique experience with a place to stay and party.
Sig Nordal 