Exterior view of East Side

• Architects: Atelier Zhouling
• Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China,
• Design Studio: School of Architecture And Urban Planning, Nanjing University /Atelier Zhouling, Nanjing Changjiang Metropolitan Design CO. Ltd
• Principal Architect: ZHOU Ling
• Design Team: WU Shijia, YANG Hai, Wang Sujing，ZOU Feng, ZHANG Ru，Li Hongrui, Chen Tingting
• Area: 4279.6 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: HOU Bowen

Exterior view of East Side

Site Plan

This is a kindergarten located on a slope, facing the Daishan Primary School in the north and city roads in the east. The site has a large elevation and a limited area.

Perspective view of South-East Corner

Perspective Section

To make full use of land, the architects use terraces to set back the upper part of building, offering more outdoor playing fields and sufficient sunshine for each class at the same time.

Inner courtyards in the middle provide abundant sunlight for Administration and services are on the north side of first floor. On the aspect of landscape design, every class has a green space for children to play with.

Interior Courtyard View of Daishan Kindergarden

The initial attempt is to try to reduce the volume of the building, we hope to make the volume of kindergarten as low as possible, looking like two-layer or even one layer. We make use of terrain about entrance area, people enter from the west into the entrance hall on the second floor. After that they can go above or below, the shortest distance from the ground. In this way it looks to be two layers from point of view on the ground.

we then set back volume of the entrance floor, allowing the second floor box to float in the air, further breaking down the volume and making the building look like only one floor. The purpose of the series of treatment is to weaken the building volume, increase the intimacy, to reduce the oppression to children.

Elevation and Section

Perspective view of South-East Corner

Detail

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• Architects: Design Buro Architects
• Location: Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh 457001, India
• Architect In Charge: Navendu Shrivastava
• Area: 746.0 m2
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Aman Sonel

• Structural Consultants: Design Buro Architects

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From the architect. From making huts of two fold paper in childhood to buildings in the public realm, architecture has been always been all around us in one form or another. The Apex is an approach to residential architecture from basics to the modern. The triangular form with the conventional notion of a home in the country has been converted into an elegant structure that houses the living spaces within.

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Elevation

The residence is spread on a single floor with just the basic functional spaces for a nuclear family with an approach to keep them connected with just a minimal corridor. The plan spreads from an open plan living cum dining area opening to the swimming pool on one side and to a corridor on the opposite that connects to the bedrooms on one end and spaces for guests on the other. 

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The house has been designed around the basic passive principles of climate control. The maximum heat gain occurs via the roof; hence the slabs are protected from direct sunlight via an air ventilated cavity formed with a layer of cement sheet board covered with Shingles supported on a steel frame. The cavity helps achieve a significant drop in the temperature between the inside and the outside. 

Section

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The ventilation system is in accordance to the large volumes inside the rooms. The exhaust fan below the ridge of the structure proves out to be a great solution as per the stack effect, providing an escape to the hot air that rises up initiating a fresh air flow inside through the windows below.

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The concerned factor of security and clear vision at the same time has been solved with dividing the windows in two types. Firstly, the double layered toughened glass sliding windows for clear visions making the exterior landscape a part the interior and secondly, the louvers with mosquito nets, enabling user to control the flow of fresh air by adjusting the louvers. They also ensure safety at the same time.

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Presence of the swimming pool on the south west side, moisturizes the prevailing winds; the large openings on the south in the living area and narrow openings on the north in the corridor, creates an airy cross ventilation system in accordance to the funnel effect and keeps the large living and dining space cool and ventilated all round the day.

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• Architects: Admun studio
• Location: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
• Architect In Charge: Shobeir Mousavi , Amirreza Fazel , Mehdi Kolahi
• Area: 200.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Parham Taghioff , Mehdi Kolahi

• Design Team : Masoud Almasi _ Zohreh Baghejari _ Niusha Ghasem _ Ramtin Haghnazar _Marjan Rafighi _ Bita Latifi _ Roshanak Fathi
• Client : esmaeel heidari

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Diagram

From the architect. Due to the increase in capital in Tehran (the capital of Iran), most interior projects are a product of demolition of the existing buildings and their replacement with a brand new design which has caused negative impacts on the environment, during the past years. On the other hand, the considered location for this project was rented for a limited time, therefore, minimizing the negative effects of demolition through keeping the existing walls, choosing wood and iron as the materials with the potential to return to the life cycle, designing details capable of being easily assembled and disassembled with the potential to be repeated in the future branches to avoid budget and recourse waste are considered the main issues in interior design of this restaurant.

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Section

From old days, Iranians have lived in spaces with separated private and public boundaries which limited access to the private spaces. So, Iranians have a memory from the past in their subconscious that increases their tendency for using quiet and peaceful spaces likewise the old ones. Therefore, what is considered most in this project is designing a new transparent surface in response to the various social and cultural needs of the users (customers and staff), hence the entrance with a high ceiling was considered as the start point of circulation so that continuity of this hollow space arises the observers’ curiosity and attracts them into the space breaking its inactivity and bringing movement and dynamism into it.

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The new surface is created adjacent to this hollow space. The access corridors are designed in a way that they do not interrupt the created private boundaries adding a new identity to the space while keeping it integrated.

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• Architects: M3 Architecture
• Location: Barcaldine QLD 4725, Australia
• Architect In Charge: M3 Architecture
• Area: 465.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Christopher Frederick Jones

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From the architect. This project transforms an iconic outback Queensland pub into stage 1 of a cultural and tourism hub. The building contains an information centre, history room, a commercial tenancy, and sets out the shell for an art gallery.

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The pub, which was built in 1910, closed down a number of years ago and was purchased by the Barcaldine Regional Council in 2011. The Council’s vision was for a distinctive contemporary statement on a prominent corner in the main street. As Council’s architects, we proposed an outcome that would communicate this vision as well as celebrate the existing building.

Our design focuses on a series of new layered experiences. The project is a respectful, contemporary version of the single skin built form and allows the town to both retain, and build on, its history.

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The original perimeter verandah, more than 100 years old, was structurally unsafe and needed to be rebuilt. This gave us the opportunity to look at appropriate (contemporary) forms of protection and layering for the existing single skin walls.

The nature of single-skinned construction allows us to see and understand the layers of a building – the load bearing structure, the bracing, the cladding and the ornament.

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The building opens up to reveal the extent of layering at all scales; the street, the verandah, the wall and its frame, ornament and the interior room, the wrapping verandah and screens, and finally the landscape beyond. Balustrades are expressed cross braced timber frames, which mimic the structure and layering of the existing walls and reference the cross braced road train carriages that pass by. The verandah posts, balustrades, rain and shade screens, external ornament and stairs layer over each other to protect the single-skinned walls.

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Translucent twin-wall cladding, transparent polycarbonate linings, and powder coated SS screening all add new layers to the building. The result reframes the building in bold abstracted gables, and elongated verandah forms.

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A new weathered western steel screen combines the pattern of the existing wall framing and bracing with the original verandah lattice screen and the ornament of the interior door lights. The screen, in the colour of the local soil, fluctuates between acting as a wall, a form of lattice and an experience of suspended landscape. Appropriate for a single-skinned building in a town known as an outback oasis.

The project was designed in association with Brian Hooper Architect, and is 300m from the national award-winning Tree of Knowledge project (also designed by m3architecture in association with Brian Hooper Architect in 2009). 

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In our global society, the movement of humans from one country to another has had extraordinary impact, changing our perceptions through the the exchange of ideas and introduction of new cultures. This can be seen in the adoption of traditional architectural techniques in contemporary architecture, as well as in the dissemination of contrasting architectural philosophies such as the International Style and Critical Regionalism.

Now, in this new interactive map produced by Max Galka of Metrocosm, these movements have been tracked in a eye-catching, easy-to-read infographic.

To create this map, Galka tracked down immigration statistics from the UN Population Division’s estimates for Total Migrant Stock from 2010 to 2015, searching to answer the questions: “How many migrants are there? Where are they coming from? And where are they going?”

Check out the interactive map below, and visit Metrocosm for a full analysis.

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• Architects: Feldman Architecture
• Location: Healdsburg, CA 95448, United States
• Architect In Charge: Jonathan Feldman, Bridgett Shank, Kevin Barden
• Area: 2890.0 ft2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Joe Fletcher

• Contractor: Jungsten Construction
• Landscape Architect: Arterra Landscape Architects
• Structural Engineer: Strandberg Engineering

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Comprised of perpendicular bars atop a hill overlooking the village of Healdsburg, this home offers both ample social space ideal for entertaining and the privacy of a rural retreat. 

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Floor Plan

The taller section runs along the ridge of the hill and houses the home’s great room under lofty ceilings and a simple shed overhanging roof, filled with light and views let in through tall glass walls.  Four oversized glass panels open dramatically on each side, transforming the space into an outdoor pavilion whose flush concrete floors extend into a poolside patio to the north and into a terrace featuring a fire pit to the south to offer comfortable outdoor areas for both hot and cool weather.   With these doors drawn up, the site offers one sweeping, continuous view from the pool, through the great room, and down into the distant village below.

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Designed for social clients who love to entertain, the great room features a small, efficient kitchen with a larger, working kitchen ideal for caterers tucked discretely away.  The perforated panels in the room’s ceiling that absorb sound during large parties and the discrete stone strips across the floor that delineate zones within the space without visual barriers act as subtle details that add both refinement and functionality to the great room.

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From its intersection with the great room, the home’s second wing extends towards the north and becomes incrementally more private as it flows from the garage to a media room opening onto the pool to the master bedroom at its rear.  The master bed looks out through another oversized operable glass panel onto the rolling meadow beyond, establishing a visual connection with the land in the first and last moments of each day.  Just a short walk away, a guesthouse extends the wing’s path down the hill and offers an additional level of privacy.

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With dark-stained cedar siding and low stone landscape walls that anchor the building, Healdsburg 1 offer a modest and thoughtful response to both its site and the client’s needs.

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The Renlita doors are a significant architectural feature of the home.  Their size and operability become a key spatial and aesthetic component to the home allowing for large vertically stacked openings and maximized views.

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Known for its light weight and high strength properties, graphene has been promised to us as the material of the future for quite some time now. But difficulties in translating its 2D strength into 3-dimensional applications have so far held it back from common use. Now, thanks to new research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), that future may now be closer than ever before. In the school’s latest experiment, researchers have discovered how the material could be shaped into to sponge-like form to resist forces 10 times greater than steel.

The innovation comes in the object’s complex geometry. Starting with a computer model, researchers 3D printed 2 similar forms in a magenta colored polymer, one thinner object and one with thicker walls and folds.

They then subjected the two models to compression testing. Unexpectedly, the lighter object was found to be able to withstand greater pressures – this is because the thinner walls allowed the structure to deform incrementally, while the thicker walls hold a higher deformation energy capacity, which releases all at once in an explosive performance.

While not made of graphene, these models represent new ways of thinking about the material’s structure.

“You can replace the material itself with anything,” said Markus Buehler, MIT’s head of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “The geometry is the dominant factor.”

Potential uses for the structure would include coating polymer or metal particles with graphene using a heat and pressure treatment, which would leave the graphene’s lightweight, super strong structure in tact. MIT believes this material could then be applied to build anything from long-span bridges to ultra-efficient water filtration systems.

For more information on this research, click here.

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• Architects: Alejandro Soffia
• Location: La Reina, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
• Area: 127.0 m2
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Juan Durán Sierralta , Courtesy of Alejandro Soffia

• Constructors: Alejandro Soffia Vial, Daniel Soffia Vega

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From the architect. To structure the volume of the second floor it was considered the same strategy of the preexisting housing, supporting the roof by horizontal pieces that were supported in this last case by vertical elements. The new sawhorse respects the composition, location and orientation of the original, but replaces the wooden structure with steel tubular pillars 135 x 135 x 5 mm and double C beams 200 x 50 x 5 mm.

Exploded Axonometry

The new structure allows the support of the mezzanine and the inclined planes of the roof. It also lodges inside the staircase.

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The rest of the structure is through the walls supporting both the second and the first floor. The mezzanine is made up of SIP panels of 210 mm thickness, and the volume of the second floor, both walls and roof with panels 110 mm thick.

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The dimensions of this are determined by the unit multiplication of the width of the panels (122 cm). In this way the project is subject to both the logics of prefabrication and material optimization.

Sketch

The volume of the second floor is finished by structuring with a ring of walls in panels, the presence of a core of bathroom, and two diagonals on the only open side.

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Finally, during the process of building the system, it aroses the concern to strengthen lateral resistance. In this way appears a last constructive element, that through the stiffening of the sawhorse in its upper part, strengthens the meeting of the four main pillars

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Reviled by Parisians for its shocking inside-out appearance when it first opened in 1977, the Centre Pompidou has reached its 40th birthday, and as a gift, is set to receive to 2-year, $110 million renovation that will preserve the unique structure for years to come.

Designed by the then-unknown duo of Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers, the building was the surprise winner of a competition for a new museum and cultural center in Paris’ historic Le Marais district, standing out from the crowd via its open-plan galleries and guts-on-the-outside approach.

The renovation project will preserve that unique aesthetic, restoring the landmark facade (including HVAC elements that are no longer functioning) and replacing the building’s famous outdoor escalator, known lovingly as “the caterpillar,” at a cost of $24.5 million.  Because many of the museum’s inner workings are located on the outside, the building requires a significant amount of maintenance.

Between 1998 and 2000, the structure was closed for a $108 million dollar overhaul. This time around, the museum intends to remain open during the entire renovation period.

“It will be a sort of construction game, but our aim is to stay open,” said Serge Lasvignes, president of the Pompidou Centre. “That is the objective.”

More information on the project can be found here.

News via The Guardian.

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• Architects: Bourgeois Lechasseur Architects
• Location: Cap-aux-Meules, QC, Canada
• Architect In Charge: Bourgeois Lechasseur Architects
• Contractor: Constructions des Îles
• Area: 3300.0 m2
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Adrien Williams

Floor Plan

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From the architect. This public place is located at the heart of Cap-aux-Meules, a village in the Magdalen Islands, on the ruins of a fish processing plant that was destroyed in a fire. The purpose of this project is to grant a second life to this strategic site and create a gathering place for passersby. The Place des gens de mer is an initiative of the Municipality of Magdalen Islands aiming to pay tribute to workers at sea.

Elevation

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The Place’s various features were set up on the former plant’s foundations. The layout of the features is reminiscent of the plant’s processing chains and long sorting tables. Despite its strategic location, at the centre of the port zone, the Place’s immediate surroundings are not very welcoming. The idea was for the Place to be closed in on itself. An openwork wooden stockade surrounds the site to ensure some intimacy and guide passersby along a discovery path. The undulation represents a stormy sea. The Place features a service wing, a belvedere, a public market zone, a stage, and an agora. Protruding and oscillating wooden counters and benches represent the docks.

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The Place des gens de mer is part of a larger project: Le parcours insulaire. This public place is the first in a series of 12 panoramic sites chosen for their photogenic character and their importance to the heritage of the Îles-de-la-Madeleine. The other sites along the Parcours insulaire consist of signs, interpretation aids, and interactive terminals telling the site’s history. At this Place, a poem by a local artist takes you on the journey, while the other sites have a storyteller telling the stories of the site. Eastern cedar and marine plywood are used for their resistance in saline environments. 

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