Project2 years ago
The Container (for Kochi Muziris Biennale 2023) by Samira Rathod Design Atelier is an architectural project that focuses on sustainability, recycling materials and resources. The project is built on dual narratives – one of the debris from ruthless demolition, and another of the poetics of construction – an honest admission of materials and methods of making buildings which often remain hidden under its skin, unknown.
Project2 years ago
Casa dos anos 40 by Frari – architecture network is an architectural restoration project that intervenes discreetly, without disturbing the original design. The design was respected, but the intervention is denoted in the chromatic option, where the colors by compartment were abandoned, giving way to a total white, which unifies, softens and assumes a contemporary language.
Project2 years ago
Saransh’s KSH House is a residential project centred around a courtyard that serves as the main attraction for all of the spaces. Two L-shaped masses that are connected to one another by small bridges form the house’s detailed volume, resulting in a loop. This house’s focal point features a metal grid that changes the atmosphere by serving as a transitional element between the spaces formed by the two masses.
Project2 years ago
Nha Be House by Tropical Space aims to separate individual needs and facilitate family interaction by incorporating a central void. External and internal approaches are included in the project’s design. With views to the outside, the exterior approach preserves interior individuality while shielding the interior from the sun’s harsh rays. To provide occupants with positive feelings, vitality, and comfort by exposure to nature, all interior spaces have access to both indoor and outdoor gardens.
Project2 years ago
Rcubo Arquitectura’s Tatakua House is an example of a project that combines urban and rural elements to create a unique landscape in the southern Global area. The project explores various locally and naturally available materials that support the site’s structural integrity and climate. Waste is kept to a minimum by using uniform materials for floors, walls, and ceilings—bricks, cement, earth, and a single kind of wood.
Practice2 years ago
Rcubo Arquitectura is a practice that aims to create architecture that adheres to the principles of collaborative ethics and sustainability. They believe in a tactile architecture that generates its own atmospheres, enhancing the experience of inhabiting spaces. Their projects aim to minimize the elements of a design, using the least amount of material possible, thereby reducing waste and, consequently, carbon consumption.
Academic Project2 years ago
‘Al Sweimeh Development Project – The Forgotten Village’ is an architecture thesis by Lara samara and Nancy al-akhras from Department of Architectural Engineering – Hashemite University, that seeks to tackle the issue of marginalisation in Sweimeh, Jordan, through community development. The aim of the project is to create a place that values the local skills of the Sweimeh people and encourages them to invest in the development of the area through food production cycles.
Project2 years ago
Yunjian Gallery by DCDSAA Architecture Office and Yodogawa Architects is an adaptive reuse project of a creative restaurant as a part of an urban renewal. The design responds strategically to the operator’s explicit demands and the natural attributes of the site. In interpreting the endogenous dynamics of the spirit of the place, the designers do not stick to the old ways and use the original materials, but edit, integrate, preserve and intervene in the scale and space, materials and atmosphere.
Project2 years ago
Sauna Kolo by Avanto Architects and Hiroko Mori is a modern interpretation of a traditional log sauna. It represents both the timeless qualities and the contemporary concept of wellbeing. The space is created simply by laying massive 150×150 mm timber logs on top of each other and joining them with wooden pegs so that the temporary structure is easy to dismantle and re-erect.
Project2 years ago
‘Small House in San Ber’ by Equipo de Arquitectura reduces architecture to its most basic components in a clear and effective manner. The served and servant spaces are separated into two sectors of the project. The aim to create a synthesis of a reflective process on resource management and result maximisation is reflected in the project’s scale, component ratios, and material selection.
Compilation2 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Đạo Mẫu Museum | ARB Architects. Along with this, the weekly highlight contains a few of the best projects, published throughout the week. These selected projects represent the best content curated and shared by the team at ArchiDiaries.
Project2 years ago
Nisarga Art Hub, designed by Wallmakers, is a residential architecture project featuring traditional Kerala roofs, crowding the horizon around it. Despite being excellent temperature regulators and insulators, traditional roofs are becoming less common in contemporary architecture because of how unpleasant and uncomfortable they make spaces for the dark. Thus the concept of piercing the roof to make room for light-streaming skylights emerged.
Selected Academic Projects
Project2 years ago
Butterfly House designed by Alexis Dornier is an architectural experiment that features a four-bedroom off-the-ground structure on stilts. A circle encircling a cross serves as the house’s plan figure. The cross is the primary component of the building, while the circle is the secondary element. Programs like the atelier, sound studio, pool, and back of the house are contained in this circle.
Practice2 years ago
Alexis Dornier’s architecture formulates a design aesthetic that mediates between elements of tropical modernism and industrial architecture. This design aesthetic is realised through an iterative design process and careful selection of locally available natural materials, spatially composed to respond to the site and natural setting in which they are placed. The Studio’s projects are designed within the tropical, forested hills of Ubud, Bali’s cultural epicenter.
Article2 years ago
Planning the design of a bathroom is an integral aspect of architectural endeavors. Bathrooms serve not only as utilitarian spaces but also as sanctuaries for relaxation and self-care. In order to fashion a bathroom that seamlessly merges aesthetics with functionality, architects must take a range of pivotal considerations into account. The article elaborates on essential insights that every architect should bear in mind when tasked with crafting a bathroom design.
Academic Project2 years ago
‘Topographic Voids’ is an architecture thesis by Juan Ramirez from Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño – Universidad de los Andes, that explores verticalization in order to incorporate topographical and environmental scenes into an architectural body. The project is based on a modular structure that expands in tandem with the city’s vertical development process through a wooden structural system distinguished by three construction stages.
Project2 years ago
Happy Valley Residence by Swatt Miers Architects re-uses the footprint of a pre-existing home as the basis of the design to preserve the beautiful mature landscaping that surrounds the home on all sides. The result is a home that had a timeless quality the day it was completed, perfectly knitted to its beautiful site. The layout features a big covered lanai on the south side and an entry courtyard on the north side, forming a simple “H” shape.
Project2 years ago
Casa CMMY, designed by Estudio Galera, is a modern and warm house featuring a gable roof with fluid, warm, and spatially flexible interiors. From the outside, CMMY stands as a rigid single volume with recesses and folds. On the inside, the typology is completely decomposed to generate spaces that articulate through the air, and it is precisely this air that is in charge of linking the living spaces.
Project2 years ago
HMZ House by Lucio Muniain et al is a project that showcases ways to approach space in terms of lighting, pathways, silence, sobriety, dramatism, and many other romantic ways. The designers focus on all the spaces that nobody asks for and all the curiosities that make them interesting. More than rooms and bathrooms, a library, a dining room, a kitchen, laundry, a room—all the spaces are connected by a designed path.
Practice2 years ago
Lucio Muniain et al is an architecture and urban planning office based in Mexico, founded in 1997 by Lucio Muniain. Their work is distinguished by their interest in exploring aesthetics deeply without sacrificing functionality, thus creating timeless buildings with a particular sculptural seal. They have worked on projects of varied scale and type, from large-scale hospitals, residences, boutiques, and hotels to a taqueria of 7.5 sqm.
Academic Project2 years ago
‘Sonali Asha – Bangabandhu Jute and Textile Museum’ is an architecture thesis by Esrat Jahan Onty from Department of Architecture – BRAC University, that seeks to preserve as well as connect today’s people with the history of jute culture of Bangladesh in a contemporary and innovative way. The purpose of this project is to create a space where jute, the Golden fibre from bygone eras, can be preserved, serve as a symbol of national tradition, and encourage the new generation to cherish the culture. The proposal also intends to provide weavers with a stable platform where they can showcase their skills and make a living
Project2 years ago
Casa Olguín by Cotaparedes Arquitectos is a residence that alters the sense of space with a staggered floor plan system to maximize land coverage. In a traditional subdivision of Jalisco, where pitched roofs, tiles, and pastel colors are a mandatory requirement, the designers were limited in maintaining the purity of the forms that they initially wanted to maintain. The house balances itself between traditional elements and clean, enigmatic forms as one walks through it.
Project2 years ago
Chon Buri designed by Funs Design is a project that takes inspiration from nature and integrates the inherent natural forms into architectural design. The designers use materials that appear similar, making only minimal design enhancements, reducing the artificial decorative feel. This approach is adopted to allow the building to have a more natural and harmonious atmosphere.
Practice2 years ago
Funs Design is an interior design practice founded in 2014 in Chengdu, Sichuan, specializing in fashion dining and art hotels. Since its inception, the firm has undertaken and completed numerous outstanding interior decoration and VI (Visual Identity) design projects. The designers at Funs Design do not aspire to change the world with their designs but hope that every work they present is exceptionally beautiful.
