• Architects: Mitsuori Architects
• Location: Portsea VIC 3944, Australia
• Architect In Charge: Matthew Murfett, Melissa Lim
• Area: 158.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Michael Kai Photography

• Builder: Malford Constructions
• Structural Engineer: Structural Works
• Landscape Designer: Ben Scott Garden Design
• Land Surveyor: Peninsula Survey Group
• Building Surveyor: Reddo

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Site Plan

From the architect. This sleep out is located within the grounds of a family beach retreat in a secluded coastal setting. The brief called for a family guest house to acocmodate the owner’s children and grand children. Architecturally the new building was required to sit sympathetically within the native landscape whilst being architecturally distinct from the main house. 

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The design concept proposes a building that becomes a landscape wall element. A simple rectilinear form conceals living spaces, bedrooms and a roof deck set over 5 split levels. Weathered grey timber cladding, operable louvred screens and climbing vines create a textural backdrop to the existing tennis court and entry driveway.

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The challenge of siting a new guest house on this property was heightened as sits position was strictly governed by the exsiting tennis court, vehicle access way, front and side setbacks.  The building also needed to be well away from the main house and sit comfortably within the existing landscape.  The available site area of approx  100 sqm needed to accomodate a communal family house comprising three bedrooms, two bathrooms, living area, storage room and roof deck. This project allowed us to explore how a new residential building may be added to existing sites without compromising the character of the existing building, quality of space, environment and relationship to existing building.

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As part of ArchDaily’s coverage of the 2016 Venice Biennale, we are presenting a series of articles written by the curators of the exhibitions and installations on show.

Against the tide presents the efforts of a generation of young architects who have conceived, designed, and constructed works of architecture, while also arranging their financial and contractual aspects as part of the requirements for their professional degree in architecture. All they have in common is that they belong to the Central Valley of Chile, where they have returned following their academic training to contribute to their communities, creating architectural projects which connect to a set of places where the region’s campesinos and their families can live and work.

These architectural projects have been erected with minimal resources, with the residues of agricultural processes and with readily available local materials, contributing value and inserting the territory into a global context through a regional ―but not a costumbrist― approach.

© Andrea Avezzù / Cortesía de La Biennale di Venezia

Out of this rural landscape and environment, in a state of constant transformation due to agricultural activity and urban development, there emerges a series of pavilions, rest stops, viewpoints, lunch shelters, and squares, or simply places for shade and social encounter, ephemeral or permanent, explicit or abstract.

© Andrea Avezzù / Cortesía de La Biennale di Venezia

Against the tide speaks of a contrary direction that things can take. This exhibition moves against the current of those urban battles ―perhaps more global in scope― waged to improve the quality of our built environment. It puts the accent rather on the customs and landscapes of the rural world, fields and forests, helping through architecture to improve the everyday quality of life of its people.

© Andrea Avezzù / Cortesía de La Biennale di Venezia

Curators: Juan Román, José Luis Uribe

Commissioner: Cristóbal Molina (National Council of Culture and the Arts of Chile)
Exhibitors: Felipe Aranda, Ximena Cáceres, Claudio Castillo, Ximena Céspedes, Gabriel Garrido, Carolina Guerra, Juan Francisco Inostroza, Yasna Monsalve, Felipe Muñoz, Daniel Prieto, Javier Rodríguez, Jonnattan Silva, Carolina Solís, Tanya Vera, Cesar Verdugo

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Beatriz Colomina, professor of architecture at Princeton University, gave an interview to Architect Magazine on the current exhibition of her thesis, “Playboy Architecture 1953-1979”, at the Elmhurst Museum in Chicago. Her provocative interest on the correlation between Playboy and architecture, began nearly thirty years ago with her exploration on the role of gender in architecture by Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier. From there, she began to see numerous parallels between Playboy and the design world. 

Since the beginning of production of Playboy, the magazine has featured works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Bucky Fuller, and Mies van der Rohe, to name a few. “Going through them (Playboy magazines), we realized what no one seems to have realized before, that they were full of architecture and design from the very beginning,” Colomina told Architect Magazine. Her research speculates how Playboy was able to present architecture in such a way that it actually, in turn, influenced modern design.

Check out the interview by Architect Magazine, here.

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• Architects: Drozdov&Partners
• Location: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
• Area: 823.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Andrey Avdeenko

• Architects: Sergey Vlasov, Oleg Drozdov, Vyacheslav Zhemir, Ekaterina Yolkina, Sergey Kostyanoy, Aleksander Pominchuk, Timofey Ulanchenko

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From the architect. The house is located on a clearing inside an oak-tree forest that is homogenous in its structure. Much in the same way as flat steppe, the homogenous dendrology of the forest is far from being a simple setting for developing a scenario. Therefore, as long as we define the forest as an “occupied” place, we introduce the empty space of the peristyle as an “antithesis” to it.

© Andrey Avdeenko

Under the influence of some centrifugal force, all the elements of the estate are exposed to the forest with their outer contour. The inner courtyard unites and brings together all the functional volumes of the house (living room, kitchen, utility rooms, gym). Typologically, the house is close to the traditional farmstead in the Carpathians.

© Andrey Avdeenko

Plan

The forest manifests itself in two images. On the one hand, it is the forest which approaches the house, and on the other hand – it is the paradoxical perception of the forest from within the peristyle. This perception is further emphasized by the vertical apertures of the gallery that echo the tree trunks.

© Andrey Avdeenko

Following the principle of the Medici palace in Florence, there is a direct correlation between the rank of the premises and their physical parameters, such as area and height. All the premises are arranged as a flexible sequence of interflowing spaces, starting from the parking space and going as far as the open terrace with a swimming pool. The peristyle fits into this chain of premises and acts as an important intermediary between them, articulating all the major directions. The rhythmic colonnade of the peristyle enters the house enhancing the feeling of transit movement. The same principle is maintained on a lower scale due to partition walls, furniture and other elements.

© Andrey Avdeenko

The landscape shows two opposite tendencies: emphasizing the natural surroundings and introducing utterly man-made agricultural elements.

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© Felix Gerlach

• Architects: Tengbom
• Location: Stockholm, Sweden
• Team: Mark Humphreys, Johan Cederlöf and Karin Löfgren
• Client: Stockholm City Real Estate Department
• Area: 1970.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Felix Gerlach

© Felix Gerlach

Plan

Östermalm’s Square was home to a thriving market trade until the municipality banned the sale of fresh produce outdoors in order to reduce health risks. In 1888 market trade moved in to the newly completed Market Hall on an adjacent site and the square lost its original function. With the erection of a temporary Market Hall directly on the square we are able to contemplate an alternative urban reality that could have been the result of a decision to retain the market’s central location in this busy thorough fare.

© Felix Gerlach

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The old Market Hall is in desperate need of modernizing and during the period of its refurbishment (also carried out by Tenbom) there was a need to find a temporary home for the market’s traders in the local area, to retain their clientele. In lack of suitable spaces, the municipality decided on a temporary solution smack bang on Östermalm’s Square. In order to be able to house all the traders and the associated functions the building had to occupy the entire open area of the square (1970 sqm).

© Felix Gerlach

It’s quite a remarkable and historic situation which we’re proud and happy to be part of.
From Stockholm city’s perspective it was important to turn the temporary loss of urban space into a positive addition to the urban fabric. We did this by applying considerable care to the design of the building. It required a sense of quality suitable to the local context and the historic Market Hall while using light weight, cost efficient and sustainable materials befitting the temporary nature of the building.

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The temporary building’s facade consists of a lower band clad in vertical untreated pine battens of varying size mounted on plywood sheets. In the South West corner of the building and along the Eastern facade the wooden wall gives way to glazing, providing views into the Market Hall and views out for restaurant diners. The upper section of the façade is completely clad in a modular system of translucent multiwall polycarbonate sheeting, providing daylight during daytime and lights up during nighttime. The large scale structure is designed and built with a modular mounting system of steel brackets that enables quick erection and dismantling with the possibility for subsequent reuse and an alternative function at another location.

© Felix Gerlach

Plan

Market stalls, restaurants and storage are located on the ground floor; while kitchens and technical installations are located on the two mezzanines that stretch along the Northern and Southern facades. The market stalls are situated along wide, straight thoroughfares and the main entrance faces that of the old market hall on the edge of the square. With an entrance strategically located on each of the building’s four facades, the existing flow of pedestrian traffic is able continue across the square through the Market Hall during opening hours.

© Felix Gerlach

The goal has been to create an attractive temporary addition to the heart of Östermalm that has a positive effect on its surroundings day and night. A transient event in Stockholm’s urban history that will generate a strong flow of visitors to Östermalm and build upon the internationally renowned reputation of the historic Market Hall.

© Felix Gerlach

Longer opening hours in the temporary hall has brought the area new life during evenings, as well as a new clientele, without excluding or losing the patrons. A local newspaper recently reported that business actually is going better in the temporary hall, compared to the old. As architect’s we’re proud and happy to be able to show how good architecture pays off, both to the city, it’s inhabitants and to the market’s traders.   

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• Architects: de Alzua+
• Location: 59200 Tourcoing, France
• Architect In Charge: de Alzua+
• Design Team: Alexandre Culot
• Area: 2660.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Vandekherkov, de Alzua+

• Engineering Office : BETC
• Environmental Approach: Low Consumption Building
• Client: SIA Habitat
• Cost : 4.15 M Euros

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From the architect. The project is a reinterpretation of a housing called «courée». This is a typical form of courtyard workers housing, often built in the industrial districts of the North of France during the nineteenth century. The program aims to develop a modern approach of this theme. It focuses on a specific contemporary issue which is to limit expansion of the cities and therefore to enhance urban centers. The challenge mainly focuses on opening up that kind of habitat in order to offer a collective life in a space outside of the city.

The interior collective space is punctuated with daylight and views of the surrounding garden. The vistas open up the apartments. 

© Vandekherkov

A gateway game is serving the various residential buildings and leads the alleyway. Planters with diverse plant species improve the quality of life of this alley, thus creating a dynamic around the community.

Plan

Two typologies are available: a standard collective building giving on the street two refined blocks of courtyard housing. The street-front building lines up with surrounding houses. Two volumes emerge and make the courtyard visible from the street. A cantilever volume on the rooftop emphasizes the architecture from the street.

The courtyard buildings offer crossing houses with high opacity on the alleyway and large windows overlooking the surrounding landscape.

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• Architects: Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates
• Location: Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
• Architect In Charge: Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates
• Area: 60.36 sqm
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Tomohiro Sakashita

• Site Area: 199.17 ㎡

© Tomohiro Sakashita

Floor Plan

From the architect. This is the residence for family of three, built in a quiet residential neighborhood. In search of a perfect setting ti lead a fulfilling life, the client found a triple tiered, nine-by-twenty two meters plot of land with a tuck under garage. From the very beginning of the project, I envisioned a house with a south-north opening with outdoor spaces: one above the garage, and another on the deepest top tier of the site, where the client wished to create a vegetable garden.

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We designated the center area  of the middle tier flu the main living space, which became the first floor living and dining room. The entire house is designed so that the spatial volume of the indoor and outdoor areas flow continuously. Since the living room is sometime used by the client’s wife to teach yoga classes, it was necessary to design a room that could be separated from the rest of the house. This is the reason for placing the central stairwell and the adjacent storage with family traffic as the house core, where they are also directly connected to the entrance.

© Tomohiro Sakashita

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The closet space between the bedrooms can be seen above the double height living room, and is designed with a continuous curve that simultaneously serves as a partition and a link that connects living room through the void. The wall that separates the living room and the stairwell is designed so that, through the upper glass floor, the presence go people can be indirectly shared on both sides of the wall and through the floors. In a such compact house, creating relationships between the different rooms proved to be a effective in producing a bright and generous spatial volume that continues smoothly without any visual hindrance.    

© Tomohiro Sakashita

© Tomohiro Sakashita

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Cat owners can now offer their cats a range of architectural landmarks to inhabit. The design studio, “Poopycat” has released a series of cardboard cat homes, modeled after iconic architectural landmarks. The series includes the Taj Mahal, the White House, the Eiffel Tower, as well as more monumental works like the Sphinx and a Mayan pyramid.

Courtesy of Poopy Cat

Clearly designers have a love for pet-friendly architecture; “Poopycat” shelters, furniture like LYCS’s modular CATable 2.0 as well as these dog houses demonstrate this.

See all the shelters on Poopy Cat.

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• Architects: Magén Arquitectos
• Location: Casco Antiguo, Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
• Author Architect : Magén Arquitectos, Rebeca Tristán
• Contractor: Demebesa Infraestructuras SL
• Area: 242.65 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Simon García

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It’s been almost a century since Le Corbusier, published in the 20s his “Theory of the roof-garden,” seed of the fifth of his five points for a new architecture, which addresses the use of the terrace. Although we can think that climbing up the roof is an ancient impulse of human and technical progress of constructive solutions, today roofs of our cities are underused.

© Simon García

The project “living-roof”-(re) activate the roofs proposes an exploration of the possibilities of use of contemporary urban roofs, transforming them -through its use- in an architectural space to be lived and used as support activities associated with their condition of elevated plane over the cityscape.

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The origin of the investigation was the roof of Ebro Environmental Center, also in Zaragoza, exploring the possibilities of a public facility as urban space, viewpoint, energy collector, green area, and even as urban garden. 

© Simon García

© Simon García

With this experience, the new project is focused on private landscapes, boosting facilities and activities in the field of domesticity, which also reflected the momentum in other sectors, such as hotel, to opportunities to use roofs.

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The pavilions overlooking Zaragoza tend to be a prototype of a portable and removable modular installation, that transforms an old tiled terrace in a supporting system of outdoor activities, making the cityscape in the background of the new uses. The arrangement of the L-pavilions -linked by a longitudinal pergola – set the limits of space, along with the landscaping in the remaining two sides of the perimeter of the roof.

© Simon García

The used materials allow a quick assembly in two weeks and enhance the dissolution of boundaries between inside and outside, especially in the case of sliding and stacking joinery, which transform the pavilions in outdoor porches. The dual orientation of the pavilions enhance cross ventilation, power attractive views over the historic town while gardening on the opposite side, as a vegetal lattice, limits visions towards the residential fabric of the environment.

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At the opening of the 2016 Venice Biennale, ArchDaily and PLANE—SITE had the unique opportunity to interview Carlos Quintáns & Iñaqui Carnicero and ask them about “UNFINISHED“—an exhibition that uncovers design strategies that take an optimistic view of the built environment. This idea of exhibiting architecture that revels in the patina acquired through the passage of time and that shows how architects have learned from Spain’s recent economic crisis earned the Pavilion the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. The jury cited Quintáns & Carnicero’s “concisely curated selection of emerging architects whose work shows how creativity and commitment can transcend material constraints.”

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Don’t miss our coverage of the 2016 Biennale and the rest of the Golden Lion winners:

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