© Joao Morgado

• Architects: 236 Arquitectos
• Location: Enxomil, 4410 Arcozelo, Portugal
• Architect In Charge: Sebastiao Moreira
• Design Team: Pedro Fael, Miguel Brochado, Miguel Serodio
• Area: 1500.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Joao Morgado

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From the architect. The plot has about 1500.00m2, oriented South West, surrounded by densely wooded gardens, in a transitional environment between rurality and urbanity.

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The elevation of the land and the neighboring land runs a great risk of flooding.

This has resulted in the need to raise the construction and establish a relationship between the inside and the outside guaranteeing on the one hand a continuity of uses, and the other secures a housing character construction.

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Conceptually, we tried to develop the idea of a volume that resulted from the addition of several independent casings.
Each of these enclosures (living space) was treated individually, according to their characteristics and needs, particularly as concerns the orientation, openings and proportions.

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Its layout took into account a functional program and distribution pointing to the placement of the reserved areas in the 1st Floor and social areas on Level 0.

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Plan 1

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The additions of these different spaces and the juxtaposition of the two floors resulted in the image of the house.
The repetition of the ‘window’ element sought to unify and bring coherence to the white volume, carved and landed in the garden.

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European Expressionism in architecture has, until now, suffered from neglect. Following a successful campaign for the first volume in a planned seven-part series which focused on Berlin, a new version of the Fragments of Metropolis series—which covers with the Rhein-Ruhr region of Europe—will document 155 buildings from Bochum, Bottrop, Dortmund, Duisburg to Düsseldorf, Cologne, Münster and Oberhausen. This latest volume is currently being crowdfunded.

Map of Europe. Image Courtesy of Christoph Rauhut, Niels Lehmann

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“The enthusiasm for the expressionist metropolis—an architecture of complexity, verticality and theatricality—in the 1920s also included the urban landscape of Rhine-Ruhr. More than the familiar view of the industrial heritage of that time, these surviving fragments bear witness to an unconditional will to form of and a rich, skilful handling of form, colour, material and light.” According to the creators, the Fragments of Metropolis series is “the first complete compilation of the expressionist architecture movement.” It is the cumulative work of twenty-five architects and designers who have gathered information, drawings and contemporary photographs of more than 1,200 buildings.

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Gelsenkirchen, Hans-Sachs-Haus, Alfred Fischer, 1924–27. Image © Niels Lehmann

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Düsseldorf, Wilhelm-Marx-Haus, Wilhelm Kreis, 1921–24. Image © Niels Lehmann

Düsseldorf, Wilhelm-Marx-Haus, Wilhelm Kreis, 1921–24. Image © Niels Lehmann

Köln, St. Engelbert, Dominikus Böhm, 1930–32. Image © Niels Lehmann

Köln, St. Engelbert, Dominikus Böhm, 1930–32. Image © Niels Lehmann

Düsseldorf Rheinhalle, 1925-26, Wilhelm Kreis. Image © Niels Lehmann

Düsseldorf Rheinhalle, 1925-26, Wilhelm Kreis. Image © Niels Lehmann

Oberhausen, Kaufhaus Tietz Bert-Brecht-Haus, Otto Scheib, 1925–28. Image © Niels Lehmann

Oberhausen, Kaufhaus Tietz Bert-Brecht-Haus, Otto Scheib, 1925–28. Image © Niels Lehmann

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© Hagen Stier

• Architects: KRAUS SCHÖNBERG ARCHITEKTEN
• Location: Hamburg, Germany
• Area: 420.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Hagen Stier

• Main Contractor: Bauwerft
• Façade: Martin T. Lacher Glasermeiste
• Structure: Cornelius Back

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 The nursery on Hamburg’s northeast side occupies a large site where the children can play amid mature trees. The relationship to nature is an important part of the school’s pedagogic concept.

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The building integrates in the small-scale fabric of neighboring sin¬gle-family homes: the build¬ing mass has been apportioned in smaller subunits which are linked by open courtyards.

Plan

Each of the classrooms has an adjoining quiet room and lavatory. Classrooms, kitchen and the auxiliary spaces are grouped around a shared space for active play. At the centre of the nursery is an atrium that brings daylight into the interiors. The surrounding corridor– reminiscent of a clois¬ter – is used for circulation, interaction and links all programmatic functions. It is spatially and acoustically uncoupled by means of a floor-to-ceiling porous wall that is infilled with wood or glass.

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Different functions – such as children’s cubbyholes, seating nooks, shelving space – are integrated in these walls. Because the latter is transparent, staff members can keep an eye on the goings on in the house. Glue-lam beams are visible throughout the building. The roof structure of the central zone consists of primary and secondary beams that are supported by eight solid-timber columns.

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The cantilevering edges of the roof take the form of upstand beams allowing for a column free glazed façade. Rough-sawn, un-edged larch boarding forms the cladding; the appearance of the various uneven edges blends in with the natural setting. The alternating arrangement of the terraces contributes further to melding the building with its lush surroundings.

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• Architects: rouby hemmerlé architectes
• Location: 07430 Saint-Clair, France
• Area: 191.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Courtesy of rouby hemmerlé architectes

From the architect. The land is located in a small hilly town in ArdËche, France. The main intention is to merge the house in the titled landscape. The long structure inserts into the topography.

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In the living spaces the views of the orchards and the Hills are unobstructed.

The basement level is organized in order to limit excavation.

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At the ground floor there is the main living space, where there are the kitchen, the living room and  the bedroom. 

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The cantilevered space has two bedrooms and another bathroom and overhangs the Terrace.

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The structure is made of wood frame with a concrete base. The lights entries are facing the South in order to enjoy passive inputs. 

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Floor Plans

The thermal performance (wall, floor and triple glazing) coupled with double-flow ventilation and geothermal solutions are implemented to achieve the objectives of a passive construction.

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© Hey! Cheese

• Architects: LCGA Design
• Location: Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan
• Design Team: Gina Chiu & Circle Huang
• Area: 38.8 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Hey! Cheese

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From the architect. In a downtown alley full of pedestrians, a beige gray workshop is composed and included in the daytime. As the night falls, the workshop becomes a white bright stage amidst the quiet dim streets. With a flow of rays and lights created by the revolving door, the workshop emits the nighttime proactive vitality in contrast to the daytime subtle calm.

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A small interior chamber in a downtown alley is a stage of fine design in a horizontal open elevation.

With a start of a large terrace and a central revolving door in charge of spatial expansion and coherence, a continuity consisting of sun & air and visual banquet & imagination is presented, which not only amplifies but also manages a flowing sense of space. 

Floor Plan

A revolving door makes an interior cabinet a visual focus and also divides the chamber into the meeting and task zones, which manages the multilayer effect in the holistic design. A private task zone is located behind a semi-open meeting district following an outdoor terrace.

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A metal cabinet as a visual core designed by a compact linear design idea meets all essential interior demands, including the visual arrays in the public room and the bar and storage need in the task zone. 

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A random cutting means applies to visual confinement and a fixed framework applies to presentation of varied scenery, which renders the flowing rays and acts within a framework and creates see-through and visual shelter forming an open intimate interior atmosphere.

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© Linqxiao Zhang

• Architects: Arup Associates
• Location: Fushun Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China
• Area: 16.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Linqxiao Zhang

• Design Team: Leonard Milford, Daren Ren, Wonder Wu
• Collaborators: Arup Structures; Gary Dodds, Calum Perey
• Volume: 4m*4m*3m

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From the architect. The Urbanism & Architecture Biennale brief called for an urban intervention concerned with Re-Use and Re-Thinking; a gathering space in which the local community of Shanghai’s Siping District could congregate within, play amongst and ultimately as we considered it, could alter. The site context and street scene within local districts of Shanghai is rife with activity, presence, familiarity and flexibility. Disused doorways, alleys and pavements become commandeered for purposes such as cooking, ballroom dancing, cycle repair, chess, and barbers shops. 

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The flexibility of what we in the West would call ‘pop-up stores’ are common place in Shanghai and throughout Asia with urbanism here traditionally allowing local trade and community to flourish in this manner. Our intervention seeks to celebrate this important form of temporary urbanism and community spirit as a changing focal point for the local user groups and residents. 

We developed the structure as a simple repetitive cruciform module; utilsing recycled off-cuts of commercial polycarbonate sheeting and laser cutting into shape. These were lightweight yet robust enough to be taken apart and reformed in other configurations. The modules slot-connect to one another requiring no fixings, meaning that time and the ability to alter whilst constructing provided a simple means for community participation through all age groups and user types. This allows the groups to reconfigure the structure to create various forms, inverted displays, partition, maze or gallery space.

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The initial form of the intervention was set out around the chess playing habits of local senior citizens; two players around a small table gradually joined by spectators which morphs into a more organic grouping and cluster. This is presented with the appearance as a formal object set against a more carved-out and encompassing internal space.

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The combination of the bright opaque modules and the structural openings provide a sense of lightness, contrast and focus against the local context of the trees and the traditional brick, render and stone streetscape.

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© Luc Boegly

• Architects: Jacques Ferrier architecture
• Location: Montpellier, France
• Project Manager: François Marquet
• Architect Partner: A+ Architecture
• Area: 32000.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Luc Boegly

• Project Architects: Philippe Bonon, Philippe Cervantes
• Landscape: Agence TER Landscaper: Michel Hoessler
• Structure: SARL André Verdier Ingénieurs Structure Fluids: BETSO
• Economist: l’Echo
• Acoustics: AMO HQE / High Environmental Quality assistance
• Client: Bouygues Immobilier, Pragma, Urbanisme et Commerce

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La Mantilla answers the functional mix programme defined for the mixed development zone Jacques Cœur in Montpellier. With an approximately 32,000 m2 surface area, it provides shops, restaurants, housing, a student residence, offices and a public car park.

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The complex is designed as a coherent built landscape and organised around an interior garden that acts as its federating element, exemplifying the approach taken to the ongoing design of this city. Three grand staircases lead up to the 1st floor level hanging garden that provides users and residents with a pleasant social space opening onto the city. As well as the staircases, there are also a number of openings that contribute to creating a feeling of transparency and lightness.

Plan

On the southern side, Place Pablo Picasso marks the gateway to the city. Particular emphasis is placed on the verticality of the buildings, whose silhouettes rise up from the surrounding landscape, underlining this new urban identity and providing a strong signal. On the northern side giving onto the Jacques Coeur Lake, the view opens generously onto the hanging garden with its cafés and restaurants linking the public and private gardens.

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Like other projects designed by the studio, a unifying element, in this case a white mineral mantilla, is used to encompass the architectural language of La Mantilla while offering a reinterpretation of Mediterranean architecture. Its pattern takes the form of a lattice that wraps around the balconies and loggias, providing subtle tonal variations that change with the time of day.

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From an environmental point of view, the project complies with Low Energy Consumption Building standards and reflects the studio commitment to sustainable development.

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By simultaneously placing emphasis on both the use of the building and its users, the design is a highly contemporary project that avoids all fleeting architectural fashions. It is simply a building in the city, both generous and useful. 

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© Mitchell Joachim

• Architects: Terreform ONE
• Location: Navy Yard Basin, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Mitchell Joachim

• Credits: Terreform ONE, Mitchell Joachim (Principal Investigator) Maria Aiolova, Felipe Molina, Matthew Tarpley, Melanie Fessel, Jiachen Xu, Lissette Olivares, Cheto Castellano, Shandor Hassan, Christian Hamrick, Ivan Fuentealba, Sung Moon, Kamila Varela, Yucel Guven, Chloe Byrne, Miguel Lantigua-Inoa
• Sponsor: Art Works for Change

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From the architect. The continuous impact of climate dynamics, armed conflicts, non stop urbanization and economic upheavals present a distinct need for a hybrid architectural topology to deliver parallel solutions for food and shelter in each distressed region. This is a dual-purpose shelter and modular insect farm bounded into one structure. It’s intended for the impending food crisis, where people will need access to good sources of alternative protein, as raising livestock is not possible at our current rate of consumption and resource extraction. The United Nations has mandated insect sourced protein is a major component to solving global food distribution problems. This impacts the diets of all peoples across the globe.

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Detail

In an advanced economic setting, this farm can introduce a sophisticated and ultra-sanitary method of locally harvesting insects for the production of cricket flour in fine cuisine recipes. It can also serve to be a new topology for a specialty restaurant, eatery, storehouse or similar architectural program. Introducing crickets into the modern American/ European diet is not a simple task, but there is precedent. For example, a few decades ago American’s did not wish to eat raw fish. Yet positive change materialized after sushi was introduced on a culturally refined and hygienic level. The same kind of approach needs to be embedded in the cultivation of crickets to achieve the cleanliness, quality, and purity of the farm-to-table system.  Over two billion people eat insects every day; it’s time to reintroduce them into the diets of the remaining population.

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Raising cattle, pigs, and chicken for meat products all require immense amounts of fresh water. Harvesting insects for food typical takes three hundred times less water for the same amount of protein. Our project aims to maximize access to nutrient resources and to deal with and support local communities in anticipation of post-disaster scenarios. This also targets societal upgrading strategies in both developed and developing countries as the temporary shelter easily coverts to a permanent farming system/ eatery after the crisis has dissipated.

Elevation

Structurally, the shelter can be minimized into easily manufactured and replicable elements such as a simple CNC plywood archway with linked off-the-shelf plastic containers as infill surface. The current version of the structure is more customized to account for solar orientation, airflow and varied spatial programs internally. A computational model was used to parametrically align all of the individual containers to match the archway splines. Each pre-ordered container was modified to add ventilation screens, flexible insect sacks, locally controlled louvers, and permeable feeder ports with rotating locking mechanisms. The wind quill ventilation component magnifies the sound of cricket chirping in columns of vibrating air.     

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The scheme has a multipronged focus on international hunger solutions, sustainable food distribution methods and modular compact architecture. A project of this type is built for areas in calamitous need both present and future. We understand that our role in the complex system of global cooperation is to seek holistic solutions that integrate interdisciplinary knowledge and citizen participation for shelter and subsistence farming. It is essential to understand the physical, social and cultural substrate of developing territories in which food and refuge is simultaneously critical. 

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© Albert Vecerka and OMA

With the conclusion of this year’s Met Gala, on Thursday the public will have their first look at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new spring show, “Manus x Machina“. According to the museum, “[the exhibition] will explore [an] ongoing dichotomy, in which hand and machine are presented as discordant tools in the creative process, and question the relationship and distinction between haute couture and ready-to-wear.” Occurring in the museum’s Robert Lehman Wing, a 1975 expansion by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, the exhibition design has been developed by Shohei Shigematsu of OMA New York. Organized by Andrew Bolton, the Curator of The Costume Institute, the exhibition will feature over 100 samples of “haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear, dating from an 1880s Worth gown to a 2015 Chanel suit.” Read on for a small preview of the exhibition, fashion, and spectacle of Manus x Machina, on view from May 5 – August 14.  

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• Architects: Inarchitects
• Location: The Netherlands IJburg, 1087 Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Collaborators: Mark Hekkert, Jelmer Sjoerdsma, Steve Schaft
• Area: 240.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Courtesy of Inarchitects

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From the architect. Villa +, detached house, steel frame construction and wooden cladding. The villa is located in the middle of an island in the IJ lake next to Amsterdam. The living and dining area on the ground floor are surrounded by glass. The private garden and living room are located slightly deeper. The four bedrooms and study room on the first floor have shutters; the façade is therefore completely close. It is a “heavy” block on the transparent ground floor; it provides more shelter and privacy despite the transparence facades.

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Ground Floor Plan

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