Project2 years ago
Rose Garden Boutique Hotel, an old building reimagined by JSPA Design, is settled perpendicularly to the existing farm to create a dialogue between the two buildings, while a terrace and a swimming pool is connecting the two entities together. The architecture of the project works with the archetypal form of the house: a unique volume covered with a pitched roof of traditional tiles. This volume is then perturbed by the addition of four prominent steel boxes.
Project2 years ago
Children’s Sanatorium with Speleotherapy, designed by Adam Rujbr Architects, is inspired by the archetype of the house from a child’s drawing, multiplied into four functionally distinct parts that draw nature and daylight into the building. The two-storey medical complex in white refers to the colour of the limestone, which is typical of the region. The strictly rectangular layout of the complex is deliberately softened by circular elements, partly with the practical aim of eliminating injuries from sharp corners.
Practice2 years ago
Adam Rujbr Architects, an architectural practice based in the Czech Republic, works on low-carbon, environmentally friendly buildings with minimal operating costs, harmoniously integrated into the wider whole with an emphasis on the public realm. The firm focuses on 3D modeling using the BIM method, follows the latest trends in the world of architecture and design and travels for inspiration.
Compilation2 years ago
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week –Café House | Tetro Arquitetura. 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
Harris Residence, designed by Studio Acis, takes inspiration from the functions and elements of the ‘naalu-kettu’ (Traditional architecture of Kerala). The design attempts to create an opportunity for the users to communicate and rejuvenate their personal connection with nature. The designed Residence is a culmination of traditional concepts with a modern outlook.
Project2 years ago
Warm Nest, designed by Ark-shelter and ARCHEKTA, is a safe space for patients dealing with challenging diagnoses who need a lot of mental well-being and calmness. The whole process of construction uses a modular concept from Ark-shelters. The overall movement in the building oscillates between two translucent atriums, which were created by omitting the internal modules of the twelve-position grid.
Practice2 years ago
ARCHEKTA, an Architectural practice based in Slovensko, focuses on balance between art, architecture and construction. ARCHEKTA tries to design and build good architecture in the context of Slovensko.
Practice2 years ago
Ark-shelter, an Architectural practice based in the Netherlands, focuses on minimalist space shelter, a quiet place to reconnect with and appreciate nature. The firm empowers a healthier built environment by restoring the natural biorhythms of mankind.
Project2 years ago
Tan90°, a Cafe & Bar interior by AD ARCHITECTURE, creates a complicated spatial realm full of visual variations. The entire space is internally free and can function in different scenarios. The sense of fluidity in the space creates a dialogue with people and forms a dynamic scene. The form of the space is full of imagination: it can be a cave, a space capsule, or a neuron. It can flexibly switch between the leisure of a cafe during the day and the excitement of a whiskey bar at night.
Project2 years ago
Colorful Mosaics House, designed by Manoj Patel Design Studio, uses simpler geometric forms and robust massing that has evolved into subtle, striking surfaces with detailed patterns and textures. The home is oriented as per daily functions with a variety of double height living and dining attached with a garden, kitchen and master bedroom for elderly parents on the ground. The interiors of the dwelling feature use of light coral pink walls and a complimenting shade of yellow inspired by the concept of surprising color graphics.
Project2 years ago
House in Zinseki, an old house reimagined by Reiichi Ikeda Design, is a single family dwelling built in the concept of Igura-zukuri style, a traditional Japanese architectural style of the Kamo region in Hiroshima. The house, following Igura-zukuri style, has four rooms arranged in squares partitioned by sliding screen doors, and an entrance and bath near the earthen floor on the southeast side.
Project2 years ago
Casa Suki, designed by Obra Arquitetos, has the design concept of simplicity and intimacy as their characteristics. The transparent facade of the house divides two types of materiality that transmit different aspects for privacy and climate comfort. The home contrasts the black exterior with the light coloured interior of the white walls.
Selected Academic Projects
Project2 years ago
The House in Mishref, designed by Studio Toggle, has an introverted composition of two separate living units grouped around an internal courtyard, making the house an interpretation of the traditional courtyard house of Kuwait. A clean and serene façade to the street has a rhythmic arrangement of louvered windows across the façade that softens the volume by lending it a sense of lightness.
Project2 years ago
Piazza in a room, a gallery interior by Wutopia Lab, creates a cheerful communal place, a Shanghai café, by combining various building components into an abstract square implanted in the interior. The plan of the café is shaped like a knife-handle, where The black bar area is the handle part of the “knife handle”, and the service space takes up the main area. Furthermore, the aisle turns into an exhibition and casual seating area.
Project2 years ago
SND Concept Store, a retail interior by Various Associates, creates a pristine white stage against a pitch-black backdrop, displaying the collections of clothing like precious treasures and luring visitors to embark on an exploration. The innovative lighting system brings the black-and-white space to life through the play of light and shadows. Focused lighting accentuates the textures of the fabrics, while diffused lighting reveals the expansive nature of the space. The SND Concept Store, Shenzhen stands like a silent milestone amidst a bustling city, recounting an epic tale of sand and iron.
Project2 years ago
Sculpting Vitality, a pavilion designed by Apropos Architects, encourages the visitors to engage in some form of physical exercise, while the content compels creative engagement with spiritual and cultural values. The conceptual idea of the load-bearing structure is a regular framing system of CLT wooden panels, which form a continuous structure having a spiral exhibition ramp, divided into thirty-six segments within a single turn around the auditorium.
Practice2 years ago
Apropos Architects, an architectural practice based in the Czech Republic, focuses on creative and educational processes built on communication and trust with the client and the various professions. The firm’s goal is to create architecture and public spaces that meet current and future demands for aesthetics, functionality and sustainability.
Project2 years ago
Garden room, an extension to an old house, Designed by Objekt Architecten, has profiled aluminium cladding in a Swedish red – Faluröd – a colour that contrasts nicely with the grey cemented outer wall of the existing house. The design gives a real connection with nature, the sun and daily life through the many large windows.
Project2 years ago
China Huashang Financial Center, designed by CCD (Cheng Chung Design), has a lofty atrium in the commercial space. Centre has a “sky well” into a concrete space through tangible lines, geometry, materials, colors and light that evokes sensory experiences, emotion and imagination. The layered curvy elements in the entire atrium create fluidity, tension, fusion and freedom, endowing the space with imagination and a sense of extension.
Project2 years ago
Café House, designed by Tetro Arquitetura, is divided into two blocks under the curved slabs: the social and the intimate. The design makes connections between residents and the house through poetic language and creates symbols that refer to the culture of the place or the people who will inhabit the space.
Project2 years ago
Tea House Pavilion, designed by GRAU architects, invites people to a close experience with nature, focusing visitors’ attention on the water reservoir – views, sounds, and movements. The pavilion has a multifunctional character and, in addition to the tea ceremony, it can also function as a pleasant summer pavilion with soothing views of nature. The square-shaped floor plan of the pavilion refers to simplicity, and the use of primary elements depicts the symbol of matter and man.
Project2 years ago
Athavale’s Residence, a home interior by Chaukhat Design Studio, showcases a minimal design dwelling that evokes a sense of comfort and warmth. The interior strikes a perfect balance between functionality, modernism and comfort by embracing the philosophy of ‘less is more’ using elements like muted colours, decluttered spaces, modern furniture with white profiling over the wooden finish volumes, natural lighting & accents of green in the form of plants.
Practice2 years ago
Chaukhat Design Studio, an architecture studio based in India, works on interior and architectural projects. The firm builds a design foundation with experimentation, exploration, simplicity and elegance as pillars with functionality as a tie member. Studio also tries different styles of interior design and architecture along with material experimentation and exploration.
Academic Project2 years ago
Reconstructing Childhood – Through Learn, Play and Connecting Memories, an architectural bachelors design thesis by Ullas M from R.V. College of Architecture, Bengaluru, India, ties the neighbourhood (particularly children) with the context of Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India using Multiplicity, Excitement, Curiosity and Participatory design parameters. The ‘Nila Pali’ (Night School) program with the learnscapes also becomes a part of the centralised organisation that allows for growth and expansion for children and living communities.
