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• Architects: Scenario Architecture
• Location: Evering Rd, London E5, United Kingdom
• Architect In Charge: Fanis Anastasiadis
• Area: 33.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Matt Clayton

• Structural Engineer: Solid Geometry
• Cdm Coordinator: Jackson Cole
• Party Wall: Mike Smith from Metcalfe Briggs Surveyors 
• Contractor: Spinel Contractors

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Sustainable extension to a Victorian villa.

Our clients have been living in their ground floor flat for several years, before deciding to renovate it. The existing flat had a very old glass conservatory, which was freezing cold in winter and overheated in summer. It was blocking the light to the inner sitting room and the whole space was laid out in a very dysfunctional way. 

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Ground Floor Plan After

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The flat had enormous potential being a conversion of a large Victorian villa it had grand dimensions and a very wide back façade. Initially the brief felt a contradictory. On one end our clients were after a modern open extension, which brings plenty of natural light to the living room, but at the same time, they wanted to respect the original proportions and separation of the spaces. 

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The design process and feedback from our clients together with discussion with planners on this propsal within conservation are in hackney, resulted in this unique design. A largely glazed timber (sustainably sourced) clad extension houses the kitchen and dining area and facing the garden. Further into the floor plan, the original back wall of the house remained intact with its windows and doors open, creating an internal balcony, and keeping the cosy and more private feel of the lounge.

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• Architects: archi5
• Location: Rue Jules Verne, 92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France
• Area: 10063.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Sergio Grazia

• Client: City of Châtenay Malabry
• Economist, Tce: Egis
• Environmental Engineer: Elioth
• Kitchen Engineer: Alma Consulting
• Cost: 18.700.000 € Excl. Tax.

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From the architect. The goal of this project was the profound modi cation of the school’s image. We proposed an organization based on users comfort. The children are considered as the project center by giving them a qualitative learning place. From a urban scale, la Place de l’Enfance is refurbished and become a new public space and a land- mark for the neighbourhood.

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Second Floor Plan

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The urban façade unifies all parts of the school in a coherent project. Each part (infant school, primary school, leisure center…) remains independent but reunited in a whole renewed identity. The vegetated roof in wooden structure on the first floor connects and uni es the three emergences of existing and refurbished parts. Each volume has its function : infant school on East, primary school on West, leisure centers and common parts on central zone. The roof and light façades, all in wooden structure allowed to lead works with less nuisances in different in an occupied site. The parts were pre-fabricated in workshop to be pieced together quickly and following a dry implementation.

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Ground Floor

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The building façades present high thermic efficiency, acoustic insulation and airtightness which is mandatory for a low consumption project. Our proposition, with its smooth and flexible geometry allows future evolutions of use while preserving the original concept.

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© Dirk Weiblen

• Architects: LUKSTUDIO
• Location: No. 42 Huakang Street, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China
• Design Team: Christina Luk, Alba Beroiz Blazquez, Ray Ou, Jin Hong Cai, Shanyun Huang
• Area: 250.0 m2
• Photographs: Dirk Weiblen

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Located in a residential neighborhood next to the Tianhe district in central Guangzhou, Atelier Peter Fong by Lukstudio revives an empty corner lot into both an office and a cafe. Through a series of clean white volumes, the design purifies the existing chaotic site to create a calm yet inviting atmosphere. 

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Elevation

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From the outside, a floating aluminum canopy connects the volumes together, while delineating between the old and the new. Three boxes stick out from the interior, composing a coherent façade while creating areas in-between like urban alleys that draw people in from the street. Each box contains a distinct program; café, brainstorming area, meeting room and a break-out lounge. In contrast to the pristine forms, the voids are painted gray and left with the original structural ceiling.

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© Dirk Weiblen

Following a process of meticulous spatial carving, openings and niches are shaped within the volumes. Large cut-outs connect the café to the exterior and frame the surrounding greenery. On the inside, white ceiling pockets and wooden niches create a sense of intimacy. The office entry is also carved at its edge to feature a peaceful Zen garden, which becomes a focal point and visually connects the different parts of the office together. 

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The selection of materials further enhances the pure definition of the spaces. Smooth surfaces such as white walls and terrazzo flooring dominate the main space, serving as a canvas to capture light and shadow. The brainstorming box is lined with polycarbonate panels that form a subtle visual connection between the café and the workplace.  Intimate areas are characterized by organic elements; such as continuous timber panels in the brainstorming zone and remnants of an existing brick wall in the lounge.

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© Dirk Weiblen

Combining artisanal café culture with a collaborative co-working space, Atelier Peter Fong adapts a contemporary social model to a local Chinese neighborhood. The complete transformation of a forgotten site into a destination demonstrates how architectural interventions can activate the streetscape and enhance nearby communities.

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Plan

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© Fernando Gomulya

• Architects: Atelier Cosmas Gozali
• Location: North Jakarta, North Jakarta City, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
• Architect In Charge: Cosmas D. Gozali
• Architect Team: Raymond Djohan, Setya Kurniawan, Rudy Hermanto, Jonathan Chen
• Area: 406.0 m2
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Fernando Gomulya

• Site Area: 240 sqm

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From the architect. The Residence that located in Sunter area take a concept of resort that combined with modern geometric shapes but still regarding aspects of the locality.

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With a limited size of the site, the Architect tried to bring a Courtyard concept into the house as a central mass of the building, so the courtyard become a source of light and natural air circulation. Every room in this house have an orientation to the courtyard, so the house become more healthy and energy saving. Furthermore the concept resort is also felt in the foyer area where we’ve been “entered” into the house, but still seem to be outdoors because of the courtyard / open space that creating the impression of there is no boundary between outer space and the inside space. The Architects also applied a sloping roof in this house and used a local material likes exposed karawang stone that intended to bring a locality of Indonesia in this house.

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The Religious side of home owner also inspired the Architects to translate that essence into the design in more modern context. The shape of triangle that resemble of a Chapel combined with box shape create a contemporary looks that makes this residence unique among its surrounding. Another interesting design is how to process the facade of the building by combining massive and transparent form that obtain from arrangement of the hollow steel to give a modern looks.

Section

The Facade of the building is dominated by the white color to give a simple and clean looks also to create a spacious effect. The used of white color also because it produces a soothing atmosphere not only to the owner but also the surrounding.

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Ground Floor Plan

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Just like the exterior, the interior of the residence also features an abstract white color is combined with a touch of natural colors likes brown wood color and terracotta to create a resort looks alike but displayed in more contemporary ambiance. The interior is designed to be simple with the used of built-in furniture to give the impression of compact and integrated with the building. This can be seen on the floor of the reading room where the owners desire to have a reading room accommodated in the form of a built bookcase and attic area which also used as a reading lounge.

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Interior and landscape area designed connected with the architectural design concept that brings contemporary tropical shades. Landscape design is more simple and modest like dry garden that mixed with some easy maintenance trees so that more clean and give a modern looks.

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View from west. Image © Yinhui Wang

• Architects: FMD Architects
• Location: Shanghai , China
• Architect In Charge: Jianfeng Wang
• Design Team: Nico Willy Leferink ,Haoda Wang, Zhenhua Cao, Sunny Xie , Zhipeng Zhen
• Area: 685.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Yinhui Wang

• Model: Bing Gong, Hailiang Shen
• Interior: SUPERCLOUD STUDIO

Corridor in 3rd floor. Image © Yinhui Wang

Project is located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China. It’s a showroom and management office for the entire industrial office park. 

View from south. Image © Yinhui Wang

We design the building as a piece of paper floating above the water ,only touching the ground in two points.

Entrance view. Image © Yinhui Wang

The building has a simple structure system :

A: 900mm high concrete base, which can protect the wood from the rain and water. 
B: wood bent structure with 3.6 meters distance.
C: two way folded roof with skylight. 

Structure system

The wood columns take the vertical load, and a solid concrete core takes the horizontal load. The core is operated as a precise machine: carve the solid volume by the circulation, function and the view.

Office interiors. Image © Yinhui Wang

We also combine the different functions with the concrete baseaccording to the locations: can be a showcase, cabinet, coffee bar or even a sofa lounge.  

Stairs. Image © Yinhui Wang

Solid Core Diagram

Stairs in the solid core. Image © Yinhui Wang

In two corners where the roof goes to the ground there is double height space. We put Electric skylight above ,whichallows light into these spaces and also improve the ventilation.

Sky light. Image © Yinhui Wang

The whole building is a wood pavilion with a clear logic, thus we treat the interior design in a simple way: expose the original concrete, wood, steel materials and the joint as much as possible. Only hide the lights and equipments. 

Model

Bird's view. Image © Yinhui Wang

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© Eiji Tomita

• Architects: Yoshiaki Yamashita Architect & Associates
• Location: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
• Architect In Charge: Yoshiaki Yamashita
• Design Team: Yoshiaki Yamashita, Kento Morita
• Area: 55.7 m2
• Photographs: Eiji Tomita

• Structural Engineer: Yoshiki Mondo
• Constructor: Egawa Kenchiku
• Site Area: 66.06 m2

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This house is in Osaka city, the back of the Karahori shopping district. This site of the only 66 square meters is located in the place where entered 30m the alley from the road.

Alley width is about 2m.

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Site is a corner lot in contact with the crank. On the south side of the site, there is stone wall exceeds the height 4m and 2 or 3-story house has been built on it. Also other three sides of the site has surrounded by a three-story building.

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Standing on the site, I felt like being in the bottom of a well. First, I tried to capture the stone walls in the house.

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But it was rejected to the client. Because they’re not good at small animals and insects. So, direction of the design was headed to the Urban Housing that is completely contained inside.

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But I wanted to be left a little relationship with the surroundings. I was allowed to extend the alley in this house and placed glass-walled entrance, glass-walled light garden and glass-walled sanitary space ahead of the approach (the wall mirror has emphasized the depth).

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They upon entering the low-ceilinged entrance, then high ceilings and spacious space will greet them.

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There is no window in the two sides facing the street.(see the appearance)

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Private space spacious has adopted the light from three light yard provided inside of the outer wall.

Sections

Although especially large fixed window is facing the service Terrace, I chose the abstract light (rather than show a embodying, such as the laundry) by paste the Japanese paper in the window over the entire surface.

In the night, the silhouette of bamboo planted outside is reflected on this screen.

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There is a square window on top of the light garden next the entrance, also this window is affixed Japanese paper to hide the outside view. The traditional materials of Japan “Japanese paper” has created an abstract and modern space.  As not “Shoji Joinery” but “Shoji Screen”

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© Jared Fowler

• Architects: Teeland Architects
• Location: Noosa, QLD, Australia
• Architect In Charge: David Teeland, Jong Sook Kim
• Area: 400.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Jared Fowler

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Our clients purchased a late 1970’s modernist brick beach house in Noosa, Australia for a subtropical retreat from the cool Victorian climate. The house was located on a wonderful site that backed onto the Noosa National Park and surfing beaches. The existing dark brown brick residence, although well constructed at the time, had visually dated quite badly and did not take best advantage of the amazing site that backed onto a subtropical rainforest. The owners brief was to modernise the house while retaining as much of the existing building structure as possible.

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One of the challenges with the existing house is that it did not take full advantage of the fantastic location backing onto the national park. The rear of the house was largely a solid brick wall looking onto this beautiful view. We proposed carving out a series of new openings in the rear wall so that bedrooms and bathrooms would look out onto this very private serene landscape. Originally, the house was quite dark internally so we pushed a series of timber lined light wells up through the roof. This allowed natural light to flow in from a high level, as well from the new openings in the brick walls.

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Upper Level Plan

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The other significant challenge to modernise the existing house was how to transform the front street elevation. The original house had an unflattering rough dark brown brick facade with two equally brown garage doors. A separate consideration was that the street elevation faced east and hot morning sun would blast in through the kitchen and dining windows in summer. Our approach was to render the brick in a natural cement finish and design a beautiful timber screen that sat in front of the original facade. This light weight hardwood structure resulted in a refined modern elevation to the street, while also providing sun protection and privacy for the internal spaces.One of the most unique and delightful design elements of the new house is the semi outdoor bathrooms that look out onto the national park. The original house had an aged light brown plastic shower unit that sat on the back deck, where you could shower outside looking into the forest. The owners loved this feature, so we designed the new bathrooms as hardwood boxes with copper fittings that are largely open onto the private subtropical rainforest.

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Product Description. Our clients purchased a late 1970’s modernist brick beach house in Noosa, Australia for a subtropical retreat from the cool Victorian climate. The house was located on a wonderful site that backed onto the Noosa National Park and surfing beaches. The existing dark brown brick residence, although well constructed at the time, had visually dated quite badly and did not take best advantage of the amazing site that backed onto a subtropical rainforest. The owners brief was to modernise the house while retaining as much of the existing building structure as possible.

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Courtesy of González Hinz Zabala

The first piece of the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau will be set into place this weekend as part of the “Bauhaus Building 90th Anniversary” event, one year after Barcelona architects González Hinz Zabala were selected as the winners of a fierce international competition for the commission.

González Hinz Zabala’s open concept, “Black Box” design was originally selected as a joint 1st place winner with a proposal from New York architects Young & Ayata in September of last year, and then awarded the commission for the final design in December following further fine tuning of the design.

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“We succeeded, in collaboration with the architects, to further densify the museum concept in the process. The approach by González Hinz Zabala – to envision the Bauhaus Museum Dessau as an interplay between a hermetic spatial structure and an open-plan ground floor – now appears even more convincing. Also because the complex was given more of an aesthetic workshop character in this planning effort,” said Claudia Perren, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation director.

“This does not only correspond to the Bauhaus idea but also reflects the professional identity of the young generation of architects: Away from representational towards and interacting edifice with much room for experiments. I am positive that the Bauhaus Museum Dessau will become a very vibrant and open place.”

The design is envisioned as a dual structure system – on the second floor a “Black Box” gallery will house the program elements of “collection, custody and care,” with an airtight spatial structure to present the collection. Its counterpart on the ground floor is a flexible “open stage” space that will allow a variety of stagings and events to connect to the surrounding park and open space.

“All in all, it was a very dense iterative planning process that has yielded very convincing results. We optimised the volume of the building, including planning of usable areas, developed a convincing air-conditioning solution in interaction with the glass façade and matched interior materials to the museum program and function,” said Frank Assmann, head of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Construction Department.

The Bauhaus Museum Dessau is scheduled to be completed in time for 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus foundation in 2019. Upon completion, it house the huge collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, whose 40,000 exhibits make it the second-largest Bauhaus Collection in the world.

Project Credits

Client: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau – Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the city of Dessau-Roßlau
Location: Dessau, Germany
Gross Floor Area: 5.513 m²
Architects: Addenda (GONZALEZ HINZ ZABALA SLP): Roberto González, Anne K. Hinz, Cecilia Rodriguez, Arnau Sastre, José Zabala
Local architect: BAL Bauplanungs und Steuerungs GmbH: Stefano Magistretti
Landscape architects: Roser Vives de Delàs, Patricia Pérez Rumpler 

News via Bauhaus Museum Dessau.

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• Architects: aflalo/gasperini arquitetos
• Location: Santana de Parnaíba – Polvilho, Santana de Parnaíba – SP, Brazil
• Area: 28567.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Ana Mello

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From the architect. An elementary and high school for pupils aged between 2 and 17, the construction houses adjoining collective spaces featuring partial isolation between the three different school levels: Infant, Junior and Senior. A backbone

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creates connectivity between all spaces, with the three scholastic levels, the spaces of common use – dining hall, game courts, theater, football field, arts complex – and the socialising areas scattered throughout the large garden that separates the blocks from the classrooms.

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Site Plan

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The volumes’ dynamic installation allowed the privacy of each age group’s playground, and at the same time favored a permeability between them through the woods. The project design is formed by the balanced disposition of occupied spaces and the empty spaces formed between them. The volumetry’s inclined planes create shading over the classroom terraces, on the facades of the various spaces and on the access passageways which are open and integrated with the green areas.

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Courtesy of Sterling Global

Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Australian firm Architectus’ 70-story mixed-use tower, 383 La Trobe Street, will be the newest addition to the Melbourne skyline, after its approval by the Victoria Department of Planning.

Upon completion, the building will be Nouvel’s first project in Melbourne and second in Australia following One Central Park in Sydney, which was named the  Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Best Tall Building Worldwide in 2014.

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The 242 meter (827 foot) tower will feature a gridded facade with varying fenestration on each elevation – including the signature south facade, which has been inspired a curtain in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hillside Theatre at Taliesin.

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Inside, the tower will contain 488 apartment units and a 196-room hotel organized around four sky gardens. Approximately one third of the 2,850 square meter site will be designated for public space, containing galleries, restaurants, a bar, retail spaces and an internal arcade for digital art installations.

In addition, a book exchange library run in partnership with Victoria University will allow visitors and residents to borrow and donate books.

News via ArchitectureAU + Urban Melbourne.

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