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• Architects: Paul de Ruiter Architects
• Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Architect In Charge: Paul de Ruiter, Noud Paes
• Area: 8400.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Tim Van de Velde

• Project Leader: Marlous Vriethoff
• Project Team: Laura van de Pol, Richard Buijs, Marieke Sijm
• Advisor Construction: Van Rossum
• Advisor Installations: VIAC
• Advisor Building Physics: LBP Sight
• Advisor Construction Costs: bbn adviseurs

• E Installations: Croon
• Wtb Installations: Wolter & Dros TBI Techniek
• Contractor: SMT Bouw
• Constructor: Palte
• Interior Architect: Paul de Ruiter Architects

• Urban Planning: Juurlink[+]Geluk, bureau JvantSpijker

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From the architect. The changing educational landscape calls for a learning environment that is continually linked to society and the world around it. That was also the brief from Erasmus University Rotterdam. They approached Paul de Ruiter Architects to design both the interior and exterior of the new university building. This was the perfect opportunity for us to design a fully integrated and sustainable building, in which the pleasant study environment indoors is linked to campus life outside.

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Students and visitors are free to walk from the adjacent plaza straight into the atrium of the building. In this lively part of the building, there are opportunities to visit the hairdresser, go shopping or share experiences and ideas with each other in one of the cafés. A large platform staircase then leads to the heart of the atrium on the first floor, where the teaching building begins.

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From commotion to calm
The interior has been designed completely to meet the needs of the various users. In order to enable the large groups of students to move freely between the entrance and their classes, the lecture rooms are located right on the first floor. Students working independently or in smaller groups can find a calm working environment via the two staircases that lead in a spiral shape to the higher floors. 

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From floor to seating with a lot of wood
The outfitting is playful and unconventional. The strip of wood separating the meeting area near the atrium from the walking routes is multifunctional. Along its length, this structure transitions from being part of the floor, to convenient seating, and even into functional work desks. Thanks to all of the wood and the bright colours encountered everywhere, the interior has a pure and warm look and feel. Of course, only natural and sustainable materials have been used here too.

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Working with sunlight
The division into stages makes the atrium become more spacious towards the top. This gives the sunlight free rein, enabling it even to reach the platform staircase at the bottom of the building. The glass top of the atrium has been designed to prevent sunlight entering directly. This enables users to gain maximum benefit from the daylight whilst keeping the temperature pleasantly cool.

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The wind comes from all directions
Our aim was to design a transparent façade that enhances the relationship between inside and out. In order to allow daylight to enter whilst preventing excessive heat from the sun, we designed special blinds. The blinds vary in depth depending on the wind direction, helping the glass to protect against direct sunlight and shade effects. 

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Natural where possible, mechanical where necessary
Our vision is: natural where possible and mechanical where necessary. With a sustainable climate control system and optimal insulation, we ensured that the university building is energy-efficient. By carefully making use of the flow of air, we have created natural ventilation for the entire building. This even applies to the daylight, making artificial lighting redundant. We also incorporated numerous sustainable technologies, including aquifer thermal energy storage in the ground and energy recycling.

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Product Description. Schüco provided the aluminium multidisciplinary façade of Polak Building. Schüco created a slender aluminium profiling, whilst maintaining both the function of the aluminium blinds to protect the glass against direct sunlight and the function of the blinds to naturally ventilate the building.

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© Geert Van Hertum

• Architects: Skilpod, UAU Collectiv
• Location: 3945 Ham, Belgium
• Architect In Charge: Massimo Pignanelli
• Area: 280.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Geert Van Hertum

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From the architect. Skilpod, founded in 2013, is a fast growing prefab construction company located in Geel, Belgium, specialized in the production of 3D prefab houses in CLT(Cross Laminated Timber).

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Skilpod offers solutions for all types of living possibilities ranging from houses of 30m² up to 150m². The focus is on small size houses (+- 50m² in one module) for social housing or group living projects. Main focus groups are single parent families, older people and first time renters/buyers. Modules can be connected or stacked on top off each other to form apartment blocks.

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© Geert Van Hertum

The #150 – zero energy Skilpod is one of the larger models Skilpod produces. The design is done by UAU Collectiv who composed the complete Skilpod style. It is completely build up in the factories in Geel, Belgium and transported in 3 pieces to it’s final location. 

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Skilpod installed the house about 3 months after receiving the building permit. The actual building period took about 4 weeks to complete the house.

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Skilpod modules are insulated up to passive standards with a special new system from Rockwool, called Redair (high density Rockwool), especially designed for CLT. Skilpod used an open and ventilated façade system with FSC labeled Padouk (tropical hardwood), a very durable material said to last longer than stone facades.

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The massive wood construction is ideal to keep the warmth out in summer, the rockwool to keep the warmth in, in winter.

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The foundations/cellar are made from concrete. They started foundation work at the same time as they started producing the modules, everything started simultaneously and thus optimizing production times.

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The backside of the house is completely faced south, so in order to keep the summer sun out they used a special new type of glass with solar filter to keep the sun out, but not the light (AGC’s Stopray). This way sunscreens where not necessary.

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The house is heated with floor heating with an air to water electrical heat pump from Mitsubishi (Ecodan) which also covers hot water. The ventilation system is also from Mitsubishi (Lossnay), and has a heat recovery system (system D). Due to high airtightness and insulation values the house could have been heated with an electrical heater of about 1 kw.  In combination with solar panels the house will be energy neutral.

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Because the living area is about 3m higher than the street level the inhabitants have a great view on the ranch, fields and forest across the plot, but also view from the street is blocked due to fact that the living area is on the first floor. In the back the garden is at the same level as the interior floor.

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The garden is also completed with large prefab concrete elements in the same philosophy as the house was build, with special attention to fast installation and low maintenance.

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One of the main features of the interior are the curtains, which run completely around the living area. When opened, a large living space is created with wide views on the garden and area around the house, but when closed they are separating living/dining/playing room in different cozy areas. For instance, when the children make a mess in the playing room they just close the curtains and the mess is gone for the evening…

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Product Description: The structure of the modules is completely made of CLT or Cross Laminated Timber. The largest boards that were used have dimensions of 12m by 4m and 14cm in thickness. They were transported from Germany with police escort. 

We used different types of thickness in order off length of the span of the roof, walls and floor, ranging from 100mm (5 layers) to 140mm (7 layers)

The main reasons to use CLT are the following:

• Strength during transport and lifting 
• Airtightness: CLT is from a thickness of 10cm considered to be airtight (N50 of the house is 0,55)
• Insulating values of wood (no cold bridges)
• Internal moist regulation
• Fire resistance
• Wood consumes CO2, it doesn’t produce it

Because the floors are included in the modules and the special shape of the modules we can make bigger spans than comparable structures made in classical building construction.

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Pedestrians, the most vulnerable users of road space, will now be more visible to drivers in the Netherlands with the inauguration of a new luminous pedestrian crossing this past November in Brummen, west of Amsterdam.

Designed by the Dutch firm Lighted Zebra Crossing, and installed free of charge for the municipality, this crossing makes pedestrians more visible at night or during bad weather. Each of the lines has two plates of lights that at night remain illuminated at all times and not only when there are people on them.

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The placement of the lights assures less distraction to the motorist than light pillars as it helps drivers keep their visual attention on the road. 

Trial tests were performed for 12 months, however the idea was born years ago with the intention of making the roads safer for pedestrians. According to company director Henk Peters, the crossings that should be given priority for potential installation are the so-called “risk zones” that correspond to schools, hospitals, and sectors with a large population of elderly people.

The design of the crossing is intended for two types of roadways, using either pavers or asphalt. In the case of the first, the lights are protected by a steel structure, while in the second, they can be installed directly on the road surface.

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• Architects: Rodrigo Kirck Arquitetura
• Location: R. Tubarão, 182 – Fazenda, Itajaí – SC, 88301-470, Brasil
• Area: 135.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Alexandre Zelinski

• Team: Rodrigo Kirck, Syndi Bastos, Bruno Bianchini

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The project Container, located in the port city of Itajaí (SC) aims to intervene on a conceptual model, interact with sustainability issues, propose an industrialized modular construction and at the same time make possible, through architecture and creativity, the approximation with the Nature and art. 

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The project has two monolithic warehouse volumes, each using two overlapping containers, by a zenith opening system that “distances” the volumes and houses the vertical circulations. This system is designed to reduce the use of artificial lighting. On the containers are installed two large garden roofs that fulfill several functions: reduce the impact of solar radiation, capture rainwater for reuse and be a reservoir of rainwater, reducing the impact on the public collection system. They also propose to neighbors as an “urban gentleness”, bringing colors and visual comfort to the residents of the neighboring buildings. 

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Container is a laboratory, so to speak. In this space full of meanings, were shared memories with a team of architects and add experiences with other creative professionals in design, photography and art through a Coworking. The result of this account is a true multiplication of inspirations translated into projects. Everything in the Container has a raison d’être, from the logo that mentions the architect’s indigenous origin, the affective ties that he maintains with the city of Itajaí and its connection with the naval industry, represented by the Container itself.

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In the interior design, everything is very simple and at the same time of great refinement. Warmth, thermal comfort, visual and integration are priorities that receive special treatment through decoration. Luminaires with their own design, functional parts, recycled materials, colors in harmony and art, a lot of art printed in all environments. No paintings, the paintings are eternalized on the walls and doors, each work integrates the scenario that leaves no doubts: Container is a creative office and from it come different projects, out of the common place, where being is more important than having.

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Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects

A panel of judges including Mayor Henrik Hvidesten has chosen Gottlieb Paludan Architects’ proposal as the winning entry for a new pavilion to be completed in Ringsted Square, Denmark in 2018.

There is so much history in and around Ringsted Square, said Hvidesten. I am therefore delighted that the winning project gives us a pavilion that will not just integrate with the overall architecture of the square; it will also forge a link with history, retain a clear view of St. Bendt’s Church, and provide a new focal point of the square and its many functions, which will appeal to both young and old.

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Indeed, according to the architects, one of the most important challenges embedded within this competition was conceptualizing a design that both accommodates a modern sensibility and honors the architectural tradition of Ringsted’s city center. The pavilion is therefore conceived as an expressive and distinct character whose structure and texture is reminiscent of the town hall’s pergola.

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The elongated structure simultaneously separates and connects, designating adjacent spaces for the town square and church lawn with individual material qualities. The square’s hard surfaces sips into the pavilion; this continuity is reinforced by a visual connection between the square and the church that results from the orientation of the pavilion’s bronze-coated siding panels.

News via: Gottlieb Paludan Architects

• Architects: Gottlieb Paludan Architects
• Location: Ringstedvej, Denmark
• Project Year: 2018
• Photographs: Courtesy of Gottlieb Paludan Architects

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• Architects: Marcel Lok Architect
• Location: Amsterdam,The Netherlands
• Developer/Contractor: Vink Bouw
• Structural Engineers: Fore
• Area: 7130.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Luuk Kramer

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Buiksloterham (BSH) is part of a former industrial area located on the Northern bank of the IJ-river in Amsterdam and is now being developed into a metropolitan, sustainable working and living area that houses more than 4.000 homes. Project Docklands was the winning entry for plot 12 of a competition on sustainability in Buiksloterham in 2010, in which the municipality has selected our team on the best energy and sustainability concept.

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The L-shaped complex consists of a slender tower containing nine storeys with a total of thirty-two apartments and a two-storey base, with thirteen business units and parking on the ground floor and twelve compact studios on the first floor. On top of the parking garage a collective roof garden is located together with the entrances of the studios.

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The roof of the tower is provided with a communal roof terrace with thornless honeylocust trees (Gleditsia triacanthos Inermis), a symbolic reference to the 13th century Torre Guinigi Lucca. All apartments also feature a large private outdoor space through a loggia or terrace.

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The project is built with specially produced industrial red-brown bricks, to refer to the former rough character of this former industrial area. The bricks are traditionally processed on site in a modular bond. The brickwork module size of three stacked bricks has determined the size of the whole building in three dimensions and manifests itself as an all-enveloping skin of the volume. The ‘grid’ of the elevations are provided with titanium coloured aluminium window frames with outward-opening windows. The loggia’s of the tower have large sliding windows and removable glass panels on the outside, which makes the balconies usable as an additional outdoor room during both winter and summer.

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Docklands makes use of an energetic building concept, with innovative ways of climate control. The air-conditioning is collectively controlled wherein the supply air is drawn in through ground tubes, through which the ventilation air is preheated in the winter and cooled in the summer. In addition, the building has its own geothermal heat sources and heat pumps. Thus the complex is not connected to the city’s heating network, but is self-sufficient through a building-related collective thermal storage system. The roof of the lower part is largely equipped with solar and photovoltaic panels. 

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Product Description. The project is built with specially produced industrial red-brown bricks. The bricks are traditionally processed on site in a modular bond. The brickwork module size of three stacked bricks has determined the size of the whole building in three dimensions and manifests itself as an all-enveloping skin of the volume. The ‘grid’ of the elevations are provided with aluminium window frames with outward-opening windows.

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PIARENA has won the Archchel-2020 competition to create a Congress Hall for BRICS and SCO events in central Chelyabinsk, Russia along the Miass River. Separated into two parts by the river, the site will additionally host business meetings, public events, and exhibitions.

In order to emphasize the curve of the river, the new congress hall building will be a solid volume spanning across the river, rectangular in footprint, but curved in a sail shape above.

Rising up to 61 and 150 meters, the building is hoped to become a new urban landmark, as well as a pedestrian crossing over the river.

Courtesy of PIARENA

Courtesy of PIARENA

A common atrium will connect various portions of the building, including a 3150-person concert hall, hotel, office complex, exhibition hall, and media center.

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Each functional zone of the building features its own entrance area and vertical transport, “in order to improve flux distribution, loading, and emergency evacuation.”

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Courtesy of PIARENA

Outside the building, a parametric grid pattern of parallelograms will govern the placement of green areas, water surfaces, plantings, cladding, and street furniture.

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“Re-Constructivist Architecture,” an exhibition now on show at the Ierimonti Gallery in New York, features the work of thirteen emerging architecture firms alongside the work of Coop Himmelb(l)au, Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi. The title of the exhibition is a play on words, referring to the De-Constructivist exhibition of 1988 at the Museum of Modern Art that destabilized a certain kind of relationship with design theory.

This reconstruction is primarily of language. The architects draw from archives—mental, digital or printed on paper—distant from the typical parametric and highly schematic rationales that characterized the last thirty years of design in architecture. Within the theoretical system that drives architectural composition, these archives inevitably become homages, references, and quotes.

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© AM3

Even if it is diverse, this referential landscape maintains very distinctive traits. Renovated links to a series of iconic and communicative architectures, often narrated with a concise and simple lexicon, emerge from this landscape. The architectures are created with radical and sometimes ironic premises that set a distance from narcissistic blobs. In contrast, a strong passion for theoretical investigation becomes fundamental again.

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The group of architects from the thirteen firms, all born in the eighties, share not only common suggestive visions but also the challenges of growing in a scenario where the role of the architect is constantly evolving and redefining itself. Some of them are strongly connected with their cities, whereas others have a broader network. Some of them are highly active on social media and the web, whereas others are making a new use of printed media.

© Warehouse of Architecture and Research

© Warehouse of Architecture and Research

It is not a coincidence that the exhibition is a spinoff of a series of lectures called “Generazione: a call from Rome.” From September 2016 to June 2017 the group of architects presented (and will present) their work at the Casa dell’Architettura, in Rome. Each of the offices, along with sharing their professional experience, were asked to elaborate a project for a House in the Roman Countryside; a design exercise meant as a typological investigation, or, more generally, as a meditation on the autonomy of the discipline of architecture.

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© PARA Project

This type of exercise originated in the eighties as a theoretical speculation in which the architectural project could be considered independent, as a revolutionary act itself without the need for association with political doctrines.

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This group of architects could be seen as paradigmatic, but is not exhaustive. In this developmental stage, the Movement is still defining its boundaries. However, we could start to identify its main features. We could recognize the work of recent trailblazers or even the fathers that inhabit the Pantheon of this Movement, but this is not our goal. The distinctive aspect that distinguishes the works presented here from some parallel currents is an interest in a typological point of view, freed from ideology: the objective of the research is architectural language itself—a counter-trend that tries to recover a debate lost years ago.

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RE-CONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE is an exhibition curated by Jacopo Costanzo and Giovanni Cozzani with Giulia Leone, promoted by the scientific technical committee of Casa dell’Architettura with Consulta Giovani Architetti Roma. The 13 designers on display are AM3, fala atelier, False Mirror Office, Fosbury Architecture, Adam Nathaniel Furman, jbmn, MAIO, PARA Project, Parasite 2.0, Point Supreme, Something Fantastic, UNULAUNU, and Warehouse of Architecture and Research, alongside Coop Himmelb(l)au, Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi. The exhibition is on view at Ierimonti Gallery in New York until February 10, 2017. Find out more via the link below:

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• Architects: Massimo Galeotti Architetto
• Location: 31100 Treviso, Province of Treviso, Italy
• Area: 250.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Francesco Castagna

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From the architect. Built at the beginning of the XX century, Casa San Polo is an antique rural house located at the heart of the beautiful countryside of San Polo di Piave, close to Treviso.

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The original structure was made up of three floors. The lowest two floors were habitable, whereas the attic was used as a granary. This way of using the space is a typical feature of rural dwellings of that time, characterized by a steep central staircase and a symmetric development of the rooms.

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The house, abandoned for several years, totally lacked the roofing: all the wooden parts of the floors were completely damaged and also the masonry walls were compromised.

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The design respects the original character of the structure, and the space is symmetrically developed around the main central block, composed by the staircase and the bathrooms.

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The house features a big window looking southwards to enjoy the visual beauty of the countryside, and a wooden porch has been built in front of this opening as an addition to the original structure.

A garage and storage place has been added outside the main building.

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Product Description. The initial state of abandoned of the house has involved the reconstruction of the all wooden floors, and has maintained the original brick structure. Even the downstairs floors were redone using a smooth concrete, modern material. The concrete was also used to build the new external volume for the garage.

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White is predominant in the exterior plaster and even in the interior paintings. The spaces are minimal, as the design of all the furniture for which chose the wood brushed spruce and white laminate.

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© Amit Geron

• Architects: David S. Robins, Dan Price
• Location: Herzliya, Israel
• Area: 5000.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Amit Geron

• Design Team: Einat Erez-Kobiler (Studio Head), Limor Sadka (Interiors), Nir Mornel (Architect), David S. Robins (co-designer), Dan Price (co-designer)
• Project Management: CPM Ltd
• Consultant Engineers: Eladad Bukspan Engineers Ltd (Structural Engineers), H.R.V.A.C. Consulting & Engineering Co (HVAC Consultants), Schnabel Yair Electrical Engineering Ltd (Electrical & Lighting Consultants), Sanit Consulting Engineers Ltd (Plumbing Consultants), Julie Peled Landscape Architecture (Landscape Architect), M-G Acoustical Consultants Ltd (Acoustical Consultants), Landmann Aluminum Ltd (Aluminum Window Consultants)
• Contractors: H. Meitar Contractors Ltd (General Contractors) ,Bader Aluminum Ltd (Façade Contractors), Mashav Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (HVAC Contractor, YYC Electrical Contractors (Electrical/Lighting/Telecomm Contractors), Zivbar Systems Ltd (Plumbing & Sprinkler Systems Contractors), Bazelet Engineering Ltd (Ironmongers), Toppings EM Engineering (Concrete Flooring Contractors)
• Suppliers: Absotec Ltd (Metal Ceilings/Louvers, Acoustical Foam Ceilings), Waxman Office Furniture (Seating), Pitaro Ltd (Seating, Desks and Custom Wall Coverings), Unique DM Ltd (Carpentry), Kashtan Group (Lighting Systems), Yecima Technologies Ltd (Stainless Steel Mesh), Eco Concrete Ltd (Precast Concrete Stairs & Tiles), Innovate Ltd (Acoustical Glass Partitions), Gumtechnica Ltd (Wood Flooring & Stair Edging), Ortega Ltd (Solid Surfacing), A. Ringel Doors Ltd (Steel Doors)

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From the architect. The Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson School of Entrepreneurship at the IDC Herzliya is situated in the northeast corner of campus on a flat site in a small Mediterranean coastal city near Tel Aviv. The upper floors are open and transparent, looking directly out and over the university foliage while the lower floors relate more intimately to the scale of the immediate campus gardens. Students enter the building through an 8 meter high arcade.

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The building is home to a first-of-its-kind institution in Israel dedicated to the study and support of entrepreneurship.

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At the ground floor, a public lobby and student lounge doubles as a gallery space for exhibitions highlighting the “Startup Nation”, a term coined to describe Israel’s disproportionately high number of entrepreneurship ventures. Directly accessible from this double-height space are a 165-seat lecture hall, a refreshment kiosk, the school’s administrative offices and a glass-encased conference room for the most important meetings and presentations.

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Above the more public lower floors are 3 floors of specialized classrooms, accelerator spaces, staff offices, meeting rooms and support facilities.

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The architecture of the Adelson School of Entrepreneurship embodies the spirit of innovation and transformative thinking, central to its mission. The plan is efficient and modular with tall spaces designed to be conveniently reconfigured to support a variety of teaching environments. The building is an extended metaphor for the entrepreneurial mindset – clear, straightforward, no frills while simultaneously assertive, dynamic, passionately creative and humane.

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The design of the building promotes an idea that the school can be read as both a conceptual and literal factory for the production of creativity and collaborative pursuits. However, unlike a actual factory that deals strictly with the efficient processing of materials into useful objects, the raw materials of this school are people who want to work together collaboratively, efficiently and in a spirit of opportunity and inspiration.

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The factory is conceptual in the use of:

–The modular re-configurable 4.5 meter wide bays

-Long-span beams stretching between the east core along the building length across to the west façade that frees up the floor plan underneath

-The tall spaces that permit both the fabrication of large objects and radical changes to the floor section to permit new uses

– The encasement of all of core building systems (vertical transportation, plumbing/HVAC/electrical and communication services, restrooms, support rooms and security rooms) within a narrow volume aligning one side of the floor plan

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 The factory is literal in the use of:

-Exposed building services

-Industrial lighting systems

-Simple, durable, industrial materials including architectural birch plywood furniture, polished concrete flooring, exposed concrete beams and columns, painted steel staircases, stainless-steel mesh guardrail infills, expanded metal-mesh [XPM] dropped ceiling panels and sun shading protecting the west façade

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-Large fenestration to allow ample natural light to penetrate deep into the floorplate

The conceptual heart of the building is a continuous network of social spaces designed to encourage collaboration, networking and student-faculty interactions. These spaces are tied together by a suspended steel central staircase detailed with thin stainless steel cable mesh to maximize translucency.

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Product Description. Western Façade Shading – Italfim EXA 12 Expanded Metal Mesh [XPM]
The glazed west façade is protected with a series of vertical sun louvers that baffle the strong afternoon sun while both promoting views of the campus landscapes and allowing natural light to penetrate deep into the building. The design uses 50 identical vertical louver units made from painted steel and aluminum XPM mesh. Each unit is 16.5 meters high and 1.35 meters deep, spaced 75 cm apart. The architects strategically selected the appropriate mesh pattern and orientation thereby creating a simple smart filter for the sun light with the blades of the mesh turning slightly to the north. The mesh blocks the light coming from the southwest while permitting views straight on and to the northwest. A small amount of diffuse and reflected light still penetrates from the southwest giving the louver system a lightness and airiness.

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