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A Hutong Home Renovation / CAA

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Architects: CAA
Location: Beijing, China
Architect In Charge: Liu Haowei
Area: 90.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Huo Cheng

The project is situated at the main house in Qingping Hutong, Beijing; known locally as a da-za-yuan, which translates as “big messy courtyard shared by several houses”. The owner’s parents both live in the property, suffer from Alzheimer disease, which their mother being wheelchair bound. This meant that keeping the traditional Chinese courtyard house, exploring the concept of co-living between the young and elderly, and designing a comfortable home, all within a limited living space was the main objective. The project answers the questions which China has in accommodating an increasingly aging population.

The plan was to construct an additional steel roof at the base whilst keeping the hutongs original wooden structure – with the new steel structure expanding the living space by allowing for a second floor. The architects resolved common poor lighting conditions found in traditional hutongs by increasing the size of the windows on the facade, incorporating louvers into staircases, and implementing a playful circular sky light into the kitchen. These design features not only add character to the new home, but allows for light to pour into the interior spaces from all angles.

Vibrant plants and greenery flow up from the courtyard floor in a “Z” like manner, and onto the kitchen rooftop that surrounds the skylight. The head of CAA, Liu Haowei describes this feature as “Old Beijing walking in the sky”

The result is a project that follows CAA’s core values; embracing the constrains of unique sites, and elegantly balancing between historic preservation and modern living. The Qingping Hutong House integrates light, openness and contemporary style into a limited space, creating a new hutong lifestyle for all.

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Ambrose Treacy College Middle School Precinct / Fulton Trotter Architects

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Architects: Fulton Trotter Architects
Location: Twigg St, Indooroopilly QLD 4068, Australia
Area: 2100.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Alicia Taylor Photography

Contractor: Herron Coorey
Landscape: Jeremy Ferrier Landscape Architects
Structural: Bligh Tanner
Hydraulic: MRP
Electrical /Mechanical: Ashburner Francis
Heritage: Ivan McDonald Architects
Quantity: Johnson & Cummings
Civil: bligh Tanner (DA), Cardno (Documentation)
Original Architect: Charles Fulton 1938
Interior Designer: Fulton Trotter Architects
Town Planner: reel Planning
Traffic Engineer: Pekol Traffic + Transport
Cost: $7.6m AUD (excluding road works)

From the architect. Fulton Trotter Architects has recently completed three new buildings as part of Ambrose Treacy College’s ongoing masterplan.
The masterplan is a response to the school’s continued transition, from St Joseph’s Nudgee Junior College – a junior school of years 4-7; to Ambrose Treacy College – a combined junior, middle and senior school of years 4-12.

Fulton Trotter Architects’ have designed the school’s masterplan to create a cohesive campus, yet with a distinct quality for each of the junior, middle and senior school precincts.

Accommodating 18 new learning spaces and ancillary spaces for years 9-10, the latest stage includes three new buildings:
• Callan Building, containing three general learning areas.
• Kilkenny Building, including specialist science, industrial arts and music facilities.
• Westcourt Building, housing two temporary general learning areas, a library, canteen and covered lunch area, as well as career and counsellor support services.

Situated on a stunning 40-hectare campus overlooking the Brisbane River, the new buildings are designed maximize the connection and views to the river, whilst maximizing natural light and ventilation.

The buildings are sensitively woven around a number of significant trees on site, embracing these as a focal point. As a consequence, special roof and gutter systems were designed to reduce leaf litter to overcome a major problem of the site.

The external facades of banded brickwork feature ‘box’ and the ‘arc’ forms, acknowledging the Edmund Rice Building – the school’s original, heritage listed, modernist brick building. Designed in the 1930’s by Fulton Trotter Architects’ founding partner, Charles Fulton, the Edmund Rice Building remains the focal point of the college campus.

The brickwork is complemented by an unashamed use of colour to excite the exterior facades. Colour and texture is continued internally, to create a bold and playful learning environment. The palate matures with the transition of precincts, from the junior to middle to senior classrooms.

The project also includes significant civil works, including interim upgrades to adjacent intersections; 95 new car parking bays and a new student drop off.

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Grimshaw Designs Masterplan and Start-up Incubator in Bristol

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Working with developer Skanska, Grimshaw has designed a master plan for Bristol Temple Square in Bristol, England, that will contain a new start-up incubator and co-working space known as Engine Shed 02. The development will serve as an activated public area linking the Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station and the city center.

The masterplan unlocks a previously isolated site adjacent to the Temple Circus roundabout by creating a new walkway, the Brunel Mile, which prioritizes pedestrian and cyclist circulation through the area. A new public square along the path will also contribute to reinvigorating the neighborhood.

The scheme also calls for the renovation of the Grade II listed and long derelict George and Railway Hotel, transforming the building into a new office and co-working space with a modern 6-story addition. The adaptable, column-free building would contain over 43,000 square feet of floor space that could be configured to meet the needs of a variety of tenants, from start-ups to larger businesses.

“Lower levels are designed to emulate a ‘shed’ through the use of profiled metal cladding and external structural steel elements. Responding to its context, the home for Engine Shed 02 celebrates the engineering legacy of Victorian architecture with its lower floors referencing features of the adjacent hotel, and its relatable scale ensures the scheme sits in harmony with its neighbour,” explain the architects in a press release.

The upper levels of the building will contrast with its industrial base, using patterned glass and screening elements to create a light-filled interior appropriate for businesses or studios.

“The building for Engine Shed 02 and wider master plan for Bristol Temple Square are ambitious projects in an exciting new development,” said Grimshaw Principal Andrew Byrne.

“We relish the chance to provide considered architecture for a world renowned start-up incubator, and look forward to setting the benchmark for developments of this kind as Bristol continues its drive to be a leading tech and business hub.”

Planning applications for Engine Shed 02 have been submitted to the Bristol City Council following public consultation earlier this month. A full timetable for the project has yet to be revealed.

News via Grimshaw.

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Icaraí Apartment / CIAA

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Architects: CIAA
Localization: Av. Jorn. Alberto Francisco Torres, 75 – Icaraí, Niterói – RJ, Brasil
Architects In Charge: Thiago Almeida, Priscila Bellas, Lucas Ramos
Area: 80.0 m2
Year Project: 2016
Photography : Thiago Almeida

Project Team: Thiago Almeida, Priscila Bellas, Lucas Ramos , Lucas Coelho Netto

CI-AA practice made strategic interventions into this apartment interior to give the home a “young and dynamic character”.

The Rio de Janeiro-based studio took advantage of the existent narrowness condition and explore it through its renovation of Apartment in Niterói.

The original apartment configuration was quite clear: a long wall separating the sector of the rooms, from the social part and the kitchen. Our proposal for the renovation came from a basic premise: to explore the longitudinal axis of the apartment by creating a sequence of environments that allow us to subvert the original wall and to optimize spaces. The apartment issues prompted the project to focus on the following principles:

-Spatial and functional readaptation in order to optimize spaces;

-Program organization and distribution through a linear logic that promotes clear distinction between social areas [balcony, living room, dinning room, kitchen] from private areas [bedrooms, wc];

-Concentration of infrastructures, equipment and storage into functional shelf, in order to free up space;

-Selection of materials that reinforce the natural light of the overall spaces through the extensive use of white color in articulation with the color panels delimitating the different uses;

ELEMENTOS DO ESPAÇO

To maximize the functionality of the space a multifunctional shelf-wall was created inside the apartment. This intervention has the ability to define the spaces and to propose a new articulation of the two areas identified here – intimate and social. Thus, the intervention consists of the insertion of a large linear equipment that can completely transform the transition between the spaces. This transition before rigid and restrictive has become fluid and changeable, comprised of color panels and moving furniture allowing the integration of all spaces. In addition, the multifunctional shelf works also as the infrastructure to the extent that serves as support for technical installations – electrical, data, illumination, and hydraulic. The design and performance of this equipment has been carefully crafted, demanding production drawings of all its components, which were then assembled as a set of modules inside the apartment.

The linear intervention was thought to create a unique living space, the large functional shelf, with its 11.8 meters long,(which concentrate equipment, bookshelf, storage, cooking area etc.) works simultaneously as a design piece and as an operating interior infrastructure to support the diverse and multiple actions of the social space. Mutable in its usage conditions, it allows various interactions and different hierarchies between spaces.

Panels that open to reveal the WC and close to privatize the rooms, panels that open while cooking and close when the kitchen becomes an workspace, furniture that move to maximize social funcionality spaces according to the different moments.

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Kengo Kuma’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium Begins Construction

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Construction has begun on Kengo Kuma’s design for the Tokyo 2020 National Olympic Stadium, a year after the scheme was selected to replace the original stadium design by Zaha Hadid Architects and three and a half years before the event’s opening ceremony on July 24, 2020.

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The three-tiered, 80,000-seat wooden lattice stadium is estimated to cost $1.5 billion USD, more than the project’s original $850 million budget but significantly less than the $2.1 billion estimated for ZHA’s design prior to its scrapping.

The stadium will be located on the site of Kenzo Tange’s 1964 Tokyo Olympic Stadium, which was demolished last year to make way for the new structure. After ZHA’s scheme was criticized for being out of scale, the redesign takes a lower profile with a sunken playing surface and a lightweight timber lattice structure inspired by Japanese temple architecture.

© Design Works and Construction Works of Taisei Corporation, Azusa Sekkei Co., Ltd. and Kengo Kuma and Associates JV／Courtesy of JSC / via Architecture of the Games

You can read through the project’s full saga, here, and check out new renderings of the project released by the Japan Sports Council, here.

News via The Guardian, Architect’s Journal.

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56 Apartments in Nantes / PHD Architectes

December 14, 2016signordalLeave a comment

Architects: Philippe Dubus Architectes
Location: Nantes, France
Architect In Charge: Philippe Dubus
Technical Engineers: SIBAT
Area: 7200.0 m2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Michel Denancé, Sergio Grazia

From the architect. This project starts from the center and is one of the most multi-purposed buildings the agency has ever undertaken: 56 apartments, a nursery school, a center for social reintegration and offices. It is in Nantes (western France), right in the middle of the historical old town, not far from the Beaux-Art museum. This very urbanized installation surrounds and highlights a wooded garden that has been preciously preserved.

The facilities are on the ground floor, and the entirely windowed outer walls are drawn with great precision along the street. They blend into the landscape in the depth of the inner garden and progressively embed into the slope to lodge their garden-roofs in the shade of the cedar trees. The tiered façades of the apartments stretch along the street. The building is split by two wide breaches along its top to provide neighbors with views of the inner landscape and residents triple exposures, extended by the angled loggias that overlook the street or garden. As well as views of the Saint-Clément church steeple and the nearby Jardin des Plantes. The contemporary architectural language is intentional with all of the outer walls decorated in horizontal metallic cladding and bands, between which are inserted shutters, louvers and stainless-steel panels with curtain-like folds. The garden at the building’s center illustrates another conception of town-center density that is both generous and landscaped.

Product Description. The contemporary architectural language is intentional: buildings are insulated by the exterior, all of the outer walls decorated in horizontal metallic cladding, sometimes in lacquered sheet metal, sometimes pleated in mirror stainless-steel, ensuring the facades durability, between which are inserted shutters, louvers and stainless-steel panels with curtain-like folds. Each element is set on a 1m wide and 2.20m high framework, wedged between the horizontal bands that ensure the C + D regulatory.

These panels are complemented by sliding doors for loggias and accordion shutters, also in mirror stainless steel, in line with the glazed chassis of the rooms, and living rooms not protected by balconies.

These devices ensure the building thermal performance and allow everyone to control light and views, to preserve comfort and privacy.

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The Best Architecture of 2016

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As 2016 comes to a close, we want to extend our sincerest thanks for your continued support during this past year; it has been our most inspiring and successful yet as we continue to connect to architects all over the world.

On behalf of the entire ArchDaily team, we are very excited to share a special feature – 2016’s most visited projects and articles. This selection features the most relevant and noteworthy content created and shared over the past 12 months.

Here’s to a wonderful, architecture-filled 2017!

See ArchDaily’s Best of 2016 >>

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Raised Gardens of Sants in Barcelona / Sergi Godia + Ana Molino architects

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Architects: Sergi Godia, Ana Molino architects
Location: Barcelona Sants, Carrer del Rector Triadó, 75, 08014 Barcelona, Spain
Architects In Charge: Sergi Godia, Ana Molino arquitectos, Esteyco Ingeniería
Area: 48400.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Adrià Goula

Direction: BIMSA Barcelona Infraestructures Municipals SA
Project Direction: Sergi Godia, Ana Molino arquitectos, GPO Ingeniería
Constructor: COMSA, OHL
Promoter: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona – BIMSA Barcelona Infraestructures, Municipals SA, Ministerio de Fomento – ADIF, Transportes, Metropolitanos de Barcelona – GISA

From the architect. Throughout the past century, the line of train and metro tracks through the district of Sants (Barcelona) has been an open wound in its urban fabric, dividing the district into two virtually unconnected parts along an 800-metre section, from Plaza de Sants to calle Riera Blanca, creating the resulting urban dysfunctions in terms of acoustic pollution and deterioration of the surroundings.

In the year 2002 the city’s administration decided to start up an urban renewal project for the Sants railway corridor. Having ruled out the option of putting it underground, it was decided to confine it inside a lightweight, transparent box for a good part of the section, with the roof being turned into an 800-metre-long raised and landscaped boulevard which would later be extended along the neighbouring municipalities as far as Cornellá, giving rise to a 5-km-long “green corridor”.

The structure that holds up the building/container is comprised of prefab concrete parts in a sequence on a diagonal which adopts the shape of a great Warren beam evoking the old railway bridges, leaving large empty triangles that lend themselves to glazing them over to allow a view of the train passing through the city, reducing its acoustic impact to a minimum. Not fully glazing the building allowed three great green inclines to be built which rise from the lowest levels right up to roof level. These embankments “anchor” the building into its setting allow the roof vegetation to spill down to the lateral streets and support pedestrian ramps that provide a “natural” access to the roof.

The building’s roof dominates the surrounding streets in heights of between 4 and 12 metres and in consequence its gardens have been turned into a vantage point over the city. They start with a great umbraculum acting as a gateway into the gardens, which are structured along two linear routes: one in the north side of the roof, with a great deal of shade provided by the trees, and another one on the south side, which is permanently in sunlight. The intermediate space between the two routes is configured as the backbone of the gardens, based on the configuration of a complex artificial topography with high density of trees and rich plantings of shrubs and ground cover, chosen according to a highly selective colour palette. The elevations present in the topography, reinforced by the density and the strategic position of the tree groves, favour the creation of spaces in which the passers-by lose the feeling of being in a city and are immersed in a natural environment.

The most widely used types of trees are Tipuanas, Sophoras, Koelreuterias and Malus ‘Evereste’, characterised by their yellow and white flowers. The shrubs and ground cover have been distributed around the lawns, with Bulbine, red salvia, wild roses and Hedera Helix in the sunniest parts and Hedera Helix, Vinca, Gaura and Lantana in the more shaded areas.

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UNStudio + MDT-tex Erect Biomimetic Pavilion at the Amsterdam Light Festival

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UNStudio and textile manufacturer MDT-tex have completed the Eye_Beacon Pavilion for the Amsterdam Light Festival. Serving as a ticketing and information booth for event goers, the pavilion’s design draws inspiration from the festival’s 2017 theme of biomimicry, specifically the bioluminescent organisms of the deep sea world.

“Similar to deep sea creatures that use bioluminescence to signal, attract and inform, the Eye_Beacon uses choreographed light sequences to alert visitors to its dual function as both a sculpture and an information point for the festival,” said UNStudio’s Ben van Berkel.

“Along with the effect of the pavilion partially overhanging the Amstel River, the twist that connects the two halves of the structure emphasizes the crossing point between the land and water routes of the festival.”

Located along the western bank of the Amstel River by the ‘Blauwbrug’ bridge, the structure acts as the connecting point between the festival’s ‘Watercolour’ canal route and ‘Illuminade’ land installations.

The pavilion design consists of two cube forms connected by twisting surfaces, parametrically modeled to optimize the efficiency of fabrication and installation. The result is a system of 250 panels of unique dimensions constructed from tensile textile modules developed in partnership with MDT-tex.

The panels are overlapped to reveal glimpses of the interior and to display focused LED projections, giving the pavilion a constantly changing composition of light and color.

“The collaboration between UNStudio and MDT-tex, combined with the expertise that MDT-tex has built-up over the years, led to the development of new forms that required innovative and advanced textile engineering. The evolution of the form-finding and technical translation to contemporary future orientated sustainable materials marks the ‘twist’ within this outstanding partnership,” said Markus Müller-Feist, Managing Director / Owner MDT-tex.

Inspired by Ben van Berkel’s dual function concept, the MDT-tex system has also been designed for use in future projects, including functions as lighting and water harvesting systems.

You can see more installations from the Amsterdam Light Festival, here.

Additional Credits:

Lighting Supply and Installation: Zumtobel
Lighting Content Consultant: Florian Licht, Licht & Soehne

News via UNStudio.

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Casa Cabo de Vila / spaceworkers

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Architects: spaceworkers
Location: Bitarães, 4580, Portugal
Architects In Charge: Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis
Project Team: 2015
Area: 340.0 m2
Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Furniture: Bairro Design
Financial Director: Carla Duarte – CFO
Engineering : Ana&Pedro

From the architect. Cabo de vila is a house for a young couple that wanted a house that doesn’t look like a regular house. When we first meet the place for the house, the approach to the location give us the central mote for the project. We wanted a shape that can fill the void left by the valley and at the same time we wanted this new shape to embrace and reflects the surrounding green areas giving its users a special perspective on the landscape.

The proposed volume materializes its shape through two concrete slabs with its concave sides, allowing a light glass and wood wall to unroll between them, which in a positive and negative game let the interior of the house communicate with the exterior.

Inside, the house reflects the way of living of his owners. The central courtyard welcomes anyone who enters the house and organizes all the common spaces around it like a no end space. Here, there are no barriers between the different spaces, only an organic geometry that establishes hierarchies between them and that allows mutual visual contact. The private spaces of the house are hidden behind a curtain wall that surrounds the courtyard as well as the garage and the service areas. Like in the common areas the main bedroom is a fluid space without doors, where the hierarchy of the relations between the closet the bathroom and the sleeping area shapes the space.

With raw materials inside and outside, the house establish a perfect connection with the surroundings ready to grow hold with the nature.

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