The barns orientation is northwest, however the living areas and courtyard face northeast. The new pivot door and the majority of the glazed opening are located on the northeast elevation allowing light and warm to penetrate the living spaces. The thermal mass of the nominally 400mm of the sandstone and brick cavity walls moderate the temperature during both summer and winter. Solid manually operable ventilation panels and a mezzanine skylight, allow for passive cross ventilation is summer and a small wood stove heats the barn in winter.
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The original barn was constructed of sandstone and brick with a lime render internally and externally, the ad hoc mixture of brick and stone suggest the barn was thrown together out of available materials at the time. The original floor is red brick, the stalls are timber boards with steel fixing and the roof is timber construction with timber shingles over (see internally).
We added a floating, Tasmania Oak, timber floor, a new galvanized corrugated iron roof and glazed the original opening. Internally we tried to keep the plasterboard to a minimum (only lining 3 walls in total), instead opting for Tasmania Oak timber boards and tiles in the bathroom. We arranged the spaces to be divided by joinery rather the walls; we have used Tasmanian Oak veneer and tiles in the kitchen and white 2 pac in the mezzanine bedroom
The majority of the existing flooring was left unfinished; the new Tasmanian Oak flooring was finish with a waterborne two component top cost called Traffic HD by Bona. The large concrete threshold space has been left unfinished.
Bespoke Tasmanian Oak frames with Viridian EVantage double glazed panels with low e coating, – colour clear. Ventilation panels within windows are marine plywood with Feast Watson Decking oil coating.
The heating and cooling strategy is relatively low tech. in summer the thick sandstone walls provide thermal mass and the deep window reveals protect against the summer sun, at night we purge the space by opening the mezzanine level skylights and ventilation panels. The deciduous plane tree located in the courtyard also shads the building against throughout summer and lets light through in winter.
Woods Bagot has released the plans for Glenelg Jetty, a redeveloped gateway and new tourist destination in South Australia. The 15-meter-wide by 400-meter-long public jetty project was born out of a study to help revitalize Glenelg and the City of Holdfast and is hoped to attract new visitors, including visiting cruise ship passengers.
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A large public event space will be located at the entrance of the jetty, and an enclosed pavilion space will be at the jetty’s end. The project additionally includes a boutique hotel, a center for marine excellence, and terminals for catamaran ferries, private luxury yachts, and seaplanes.
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The hotel will be elevated over the jetty, providing continuous shelter along the length of the jetty and framing the reinstated sea baths below.
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Courtesy of Woods Bagot
Courtesy of Woods Bagot
Woods Bagot had a bold new vision for Glenelg that builds on the ideas of the past, as well as creating a new future, said director Thomas Masullo. The jetty will provide a renewed focus for Glenelg and the state and more importantly become a strong piece of social infrastructure to connect with the community.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has reported that the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) was positive in June for the fifth consecutive month. The June ABI score was 52.6, down from 53.1 the previous month, but still reflects an increase in design services, as any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings. The new projects inquiry index was 58.6, down from 60.1 the previous month.
“Demand for residential projects has surged this year, greatly exceeding the pace set in 2015. This suggests strong future growth for housing in the coming year,” said AIA Chief Economist, Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, PhD. “While we expect to see a momentum continue for the overall design and construction industry in the months ahead, the fact that the value of design contracts dipped into negative territory in June for the first time in more than two years is something of a concern.”
As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lead time between architecture billings and construction spending. Regional and sector categories are calculated as a 3-month moving average, whereas the index and inquiries are monthly numbers. Any score above 50 reflects an increase in design services.
The project concerns the renovation of an apartment located inside a former school of music in a XIX century building in the historic center of Siena.
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The Nineteenth century municipal property Palazzo has been divided into apartments and auctioned. The apartment cuts are very nice and allow interesting joints that became a wealth for the project.
The apartment is located on the first floor and develops on two levels around a courtyard. One of the main objectives of this project was to emphasize the presence of the double level by putting in visual communication the two floors with a gallery in the center of the living area that enhances the considerable height of the undivided environment.
The apartment presents on the lower floor, living area, dining room and kitchen with two bedrooms and a bathroom and on the upper floor a gallery which leads to an environment loft with open views on the rest of the house. The living area at the entrance and the gallery and the loft upstairs incorporate an internal courtyard on which many windows of the apartment open. This environment becomes a secondary light source for the apartment and create interesting unexpected visuals.
The project is based on the building central wall that crosses the environment from north to south and it’s a lime-colored paste plaster pulled to iron, the wall comes up till the roof with framing in view free from false ceilings that had hidden it for about 200 years. The warping beams and terra cotta tiles in was lime treated too.
All the other walls are of white plaster. The floors of the lower ground are made with a warm gray materic resin and bathrooms floors and coverings are made of the same finishing. The upper ground floor is made with a natural oak parquet. The internal staircase that connects the two levels of the apartment is in plate t crude iron natural wax treated, with the parapet in stretched metal mesh. Some parts of the apartment are made of suspended ceillng with lateral channels to accommodate the led lighting for a wall-washer effect . Three black industrial bell lamps descend from the ceiling on the dining table, the rest of the lighting system is made with led lighting fixture with direct and indirect light.
Furnishings are partially of recovery partially on design.
The Miami office of Perkins+Will has unveiled the designs for 1212 Lincoln Road, a five-story mixed-use structure at the corner of Alton Road and the internationally renowned Lincoln Road Mall in Miami Beach.
The complex, which will span 140,000 square feet excluding parking, will feature 100 boutique hotel units, a European-style market, high-end retail space, as well as 450 parking spaces. The Market portion of the complex will contain fresh produce, as well as a variety of exotic eateries.
Conceived as a glass prism with distinctly positioned glass façades, the Hotel will “anchor this most important of intersections, becoming both a marker for the entry to Miami Beach through Alton Road, but also a termination for the newly designed Lincoln Road” explained the architects.
Additionally, the project is currently aiming for LEED Gold certification.
The design of the project aims to “continue the sophisticated contemporary design palette that characterizes Lincoln Road,” such as Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road, which is located across the street.
1212 Lincoln Road has won unanimous approval from the City of Miami Beach’s Design Review Board and is due for completion in 2017.
From the architect. Located in a residential area of rugged terrain on the outskirts of the city of Cordoba, the house is designed from the possibilities and limitations that this new suburban area provides. The land, whose condition was critical in the design strategy, has a square 20×20 and a significant proportion of outstanding land, placing the access road at its lowest level.
The strategy consists of the colonization of the entire land occupation optimizing it. This is embodied with a housing in the form of “L” that adapts to the topography arranging its program in stages. These internal terraces are projected leak to the outside while the sloping roof accompanies the natural slope. It is a project that opens into him looking for the best guidance, views and privacy to the immediate environment, protecting if necessary, with mobile panels. On the other hand it has a very closed perimeter openings exclusively for thermal issues.
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The construction is very simple, typical of a project with resources of state credits, where the masonry of concrete blocks and metal covered with wooden ceiling resolved the materialization of the house austere and simple, and all unified under the color white.
So you’re convinced that BIM will be a good addition to your firm. Unlike more conventional CAD, BIM is composed of intelligent 3D models which make critical design and construction processes such as coordination, communication, and collaboration much easier and faster. However, for these reasons BIM is also seen by many as a more complicated software with a steep learning curve, with the potential to take a large chunk out of a firm’s operating budget during the transition period. So how do you actually transition an entire firm’s process to BIM? Here are ten steps to guide you on your way.
1. Get to know BIM
Before making the big transition to BIM, it’s important to understand how the switch will affect the way your team works. Try to designate 1 or 2 people to investigate any changes which need to happen in order to accommodate the new workflow. A common example of just such a change is that design details often have to be worked out much earlier in BIM than in the 2D world; this is the type of adjustment that will require a change in mentality from your employees, and which your early testers will be able to alert you of.
2. Get The Whole Team on Board
It is important to get the entire staff invested in making the full transition. One way to achieve this is to stress the benefits of BIM for the firm and the clients rather than talking too much about industry changes which “require” the use of BIM on projects. A compelling future vision is more exciting and leaders within your firm should take the initiative to influence the entire team—the message should be: “we are moving to BIM because it’s critical to our future” and not that “we are just trying out BIM to see if it works for us.”
Many different software programs offer BIM capabilities – which one is right for your firm?. Image Courtesy of Trimble
Compared to workflows in standard CAD, BIM is a more collaborative process that relies on intelligent 3D models. A new suite of software will be necessary to create the models and it’s important to consider the operating requirements of these programs. It might therefore be necessary to upgrade to more current hardware with sufficient processing power. If this is the case, it’s best to assume even further software upgrades down the line and opt for hardware that is a step above “sufficient” to current BIM requirements.
4. Develop a Plan
After these preparatory steps, it’s good to plan the remainder of the process accordingly. Like a building project, the transition to a new workflow also needs to be planned in detail to avoid disruption and to ensure proper execution. In this change management plan, it’s important to take note of which team members need training and when they’ll get it. Most importantly, there must be space in this plan for issues and questions from your staff; organizational change happens much faster and more successfully when you help staff adopt new ways of working.
5. Begin with a Pilot Project
For most firms, it makes more sense to begin with one project to act as a pilot rather than immediately using BIM on every project. It’s best to begin staff training with just a pilot team who will take on this project and go through the “growing pains” of the transition. From this experience, the pilot project will inform best practices in adopting BIM for incoming projects, and the pilot team will lead the encouragement of the entire team’s transition.
Early on, it's important to document processes so that you can establish standards for your firm. Image Courtesy of Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign
6. Document Preferred Processes
It might be tempting to enforce standards at the beginning of the transition, but often these could slow the team down, and the output may not be best suited for your firm’s needs. It’s better to begin with an open process. As one team takes on the pilot program, have them document their preferred methods of working. This stage will reveal the firm’s preferred outputs and how BIM can be used to support these outputs. Documenting the process will help the entire team to develop efficient standards in the future.
Some people will be more excited about BIM than others—maybe they already have experience, or learned about BIM as part of their education. These people should definitely be part of your firm’s pilot team. Consider giving these team members additional training so that they can support the rest of their teammates in adopting BIM.
Training the entire firm all at once is not considered best practice, especially since the transition to BIM is best done one project at a time over the course of a year of two. In most cases, people on later projects will have forgotten much of what they learned in training by the time they have to apply it. Begin training separate teams as they are about to start a BIM project.
9. Integrate to Collaborate
The benefits of BIM are utilized best when a comprehensive model is shared between MEP consultants, engineers and other firms that are also involved in the project. A shared model accelerates the coordination process and opens the door to a new level of collaboration between teams.
One of the greatest benefits of BIM is the opportunities it offers for innovation. Image Courtesy of Daniel Gillen
10. Innovate and Expand
BIM empowers firms as it enables new visualization, coordinating and analysis capabilities. The challenge for your firm is to develop ways to capitalize on these new capabilities into value and service offerings for your clients. Communicating BIM’s advantages for clients can serve as a marketing tool, and also shows enthusiasm for BIM to those clients who increasingly see it as a mandatory requirement for their projects.
This article was sponsored by Autodesk.
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From the architect. A completely new formula of the cafe has appeared on the map of Poznan – Tymianek (ang. „Thyme”). Tymianek is a family cafe, which has been composed out of passion and love for the children. It is a place, where parents and children feel comfortable. The architects had only one purpose during the design process – to create a friendly space for children… and of course for their parents! Tymianek is a multifunctional space including cafe, shop, workshop and certainly a playground, all of this on 85m2 of area.
The central point of the place is kitchen, where meals are being prepared before parents eyes specially for their kids. Large kitchen island is in fact a combination of three different functions – place for preparing meals, small kitchen intended for childrens games and boxes filled with countless number of toys.
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The natural consequence of combining a large variety of functions was setting up the comfort zones via wooden booths and creating a relevant acoustic conditions – therefore, there is a special upholsteringon the walls, which functions as an acoustic panel.
However, the principal function of the cafe, is that children are before parents eyes during meals – gaps in the walls in the shape of houses serve this particular purpose exquisitely. They are also a perfect addition to children’s games! The interior project was designed under the watchful eye of mode:lina studio.
The Spaces has recently released a short film in which architect David Adjaye and his musician brother Peter Adjaye discuss their upcoming vinyl collaboration, which fuses music and architecture together to represent a multi-sensory experience.
From the architect. The project is very compact. It grows “in and with” the existing building. It’s objective is to emphasize the presence of the establishment as remarkable equipment in this new neighborhood that opens to the city and gives a large garden on the back of the building which makes the entire site breathe.
The intervention on the existing buildings is simple and limited, restrained and assertive. Three white abstract pavilions offer a clear interpretation of the intervention. They are placed between the wings and host living spaces. They open towards the city with a double skin façade made of clear and frosted glass. From the generous hall which we can pass through, the common spaces are accompanied by multiple patios and give a view towards the garden behind. The administration and the reception available in the day are located on the ground floor and accessible directly by a large open staircase. The rooms are organized around the big patios. It allows the ambulation and access to each level and to secured outdoor areas.
The different parts of the existing building were the purpose of a heavy restructuration divided in those following steps :
1- Demolition of all the outgrowths except the 3 north wings, which it makes room for a large garden;
2- Reinforcement of the foundations by injecting concrete grout to strengthen the buildings base;
3- Demolition of the existing vertical circulations and creation of hoppers to integrate new circulations more judiciously regarding to the new organization;
4- Surgical interventions of demolitions-reinforcements of existing work to open or widen a passage, in order to adapt the existing to the new distribution of functions. This is done frankly and clearly.
In the interior spaces, our wish to create a dialog between existing buildings and new interventions translated into fragments of stone or brick walls remaining visible and put into light. Therefore, for each crossing of existing walls, the matter is “cut” and painted in white, the existing walls of the facades in the north part of the circulation have been conserved and staged revealing the brick textures and formed concrete complements. The architectural view to add volumes sliding in the existing building’s weft or append against it allowed to keep the original readability of the building and to create a strong identity for the the Hospital Establishment for Dependent Senior Citizens (EHPAD).
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The three glazed pavilions
The realization of the three glass pavilions started by the establishment of a metallic frame, post/beam supports collaborating floor to obtain a light structure and refined in opposition with the massive brick existing building. Each pavilion conceived on two levels is realized from a “forest” of posts as thin as possible (flat steel of 20x30cm) irregularly spaced and some more important of 2.80m spread from one part to the other to balance the whole. The glass facades hang on floor ends. The south oriented facades
are conceived with a double glass “skin” allowing a natural thermal regulation of the interior common spaces, floor living rooms and dining rooms widely lightened on the city side as well as the interior patios side. Their size perfectly match in altimetaire of existing moldings and volumes.
The two volumes built on the north façades including 36 rooms on two levels in total are realized in a reinforced concrete structure following the slabs and curtain walls principle.
We have sought to establish a relation between the ancient brick heritage and a monolithic architecture composed of raw concrete blocks in the rust coloured mass.
Sig Nordal 