Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Up to the Sea | Matharoo Associates. 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.
House 109, designed by Frari – architecture network, has the main curvilinear facade perpendicular to the layout of the road, in contrast with the surrounding context. The horizontal facade, just as the plan sets out, allows the upper body of the house to rise and stand out, which characterises structural balance and materiality mixed together to lighten up a volume with great dimensions.
An office for a diamond factory, designed by Kritnam Atelier, is a blend of rustic themes based on the idea of living with nature. The design is a manmade ‘tiny jungle’, which is adorned with an art canvas and sculpted furniture. The whole office chracterises as an executive space that gives a soothing as well as homely feel with lavish green.
Kritnam Atelier, an architectural firm based in India, is a multidisciplinary practice based in Surat that focuses on interior design, architecture, furniture design and product design.
Dwelling With Curves, designed by Alok Kothari Architects, introduces curves & rounds in the design for softening the rigidity but also aids in adding a bit of playfulness in the spaces. The walls in the entire house have been finished in white colour, thereby creating a perfect backdrop for the furniture pieces, artefacts and paintings.
The Palace of Electric Enterprises, restored by TaK Architects, is one of the largest and most important monuments of Czech interwar functionalist architecture. The idea of the restoration was to present significant premises in authentic reconstructed form and a modern, functional building, providing above-standard spaces.
TaK Architects, an architectural practice based in the Czech Republic, engages in design solutions within the context of historic and contemporary architecture, seeking a balance between historic preservation, requirements of contemporary functional construction and authentic manifestation. The main philosophy of the company is the belief that a house is a collective work, a variable of the client’s demand.
Finnish Design Shop, designed by Avanto Architects, is a large-scale building that was mainly formed according to the requirements of the automated robot warehouse. The energy needed in the building is produced by geothermal heat powered by electricity from solar panels, and the sustainability measures were taken care of in all design solutions and building works.
‘P2ciputra l The courtyard’, an old house redesigned by Dao&Ho studio, has an imaginary courtyard space as a collective space in the middle of the house. The transition from space to space is depicted by a series of layers from the courtyard to the porch and ends up in the bedroom.
Dao&Ho studio, an architectural practice based in Viet Nam, focuses on complete design and construction services.
Centro Comunitario Ciudad Vieja – an academic project by Gustavo Fuentes from Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo – UDELAR, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, proposes a community centre located at Ciudad Vieja, a historic neighbourhood in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The building was designed with modern and avant-garde architecture, with adequate green areas and sports zones. The design intervention sought to combine contemporary architecture, sustainability, and accessibility to create a pleasing and functional public space that promotes lively community participation.
Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, designed by MVRDV, is a mixture of a business campus, laboratories, a start-up innovation centre, housing, a communication centre, and amenities such as a restaurant and kindergarten, making it a destination for curious visitors to see the development of world-changing technologies. The compact form of the campus leaves a large portion of the overall site available to intensify this location’s existing natural features with a parametric landscape design.
Oporto Office, designed by Inception Architects Studio, intends to be fluid, creative and charismatic, reflecting the values and characteristics of BOLD by Devoteam. The sober base colour palette: white, black and grey, contrasts with the strong, vibrant and dynamic colours, culminating in the noble and warm wood, which reveals itself in some details of the flooring and furniture.
Blue Temple, a playground designed by Infinity, is a matrix within which the kids intuitively invent their own games and journey themselves into an infinite adventure. The entire structure is made from bamboo, and three different species were used, following the games like a bamboo jungle, fishing net, monkey bars, swings and Myanmar-style hopscotch.
Mr.Green’s Office, designed by MIA Design Studio, conceives the idea of building as an “outdoor office”, having a small bonsai garden, in a giant concrete office building block. The main materials used in the project show the authenticity of the space, from the cool tone of the metal creating a contrast, complementing the elegance and compactness.
Up to the Sea is a house, designed by Matharoo Associates, which sets in principles of traditional Indian building design that assigns fixed locations of various spaces and elements to the cardinal directions – including the entrance, water bodies, kitchen and each of the bedrooms. Fragments of the past are manifested in a stone masonry enclosure for the house, high on the roadside to form a visual and sound barrier, and open on the serene internal sides of the site. Inspired by the extinct typology of the ancient Indian step well, a long flight of steps gives access to an ever fluctuating table of water connecting all of the spaces as one rises up to the sea.
Matharoo Associates, an architectural practice based in India, focuses on architectural, interior and automobile designs.
Peter’s Home, designed by Shanmugam Associates, characterises through load bearing walls and exposed brickwork, the play of massing across the three floor levels, complementary use of material to create interest and clear demarcation of programs during the planning. The footprint was planned in a way making a clear demarcation of three zones namely public, public-private and private zones.
The Colour Burst House, designed by LIJO.RENY.architects, includes three enormous, double-height open to sky courtyards that all of the main rooms could open into, allowing the occupants to enjoy the rain, light and breeze with the changing seasons from the comfort of their rooms. The experiment in blurring of indoor and outdoor, shaded and open, and built and unbuilt begins throughout the journey of spaces and living experiences in the house.
Interstellar, designed by Sanjay Puri Architects, is a rectilinear composition interspersed with landscaped spaces to create a unique retail and office space project situated within an emerging, centrally located business district in Ahmedabad, India. The building is designed to be extremely energy efficient, with vertical sun breakers, screen walls, extensive landscaping, solar panels, and water recycling considerations.
South East University Campus, designed by Cubeinside Design Limited, is equipped with a symmetric central vertical circulation system linked with horizontal connectivity, which is fused with the central void. The central void creates and resonates the emotion with the movement of the sun and daylight, where light pours into the void and leaks through the spaces throughout the structure.
Cubeinside Design Limited, an architectural practice based in Bangladesh, believes predicament can be overcome by being coherent in design. The manifest for architectural and interior design by Cubeinside Design Limited has always been adorned with boldness and simplicity yet keeping the attention to intricate details required.
Darwin Bucky, designed by andblack design studio, is made from folded metal sheets that are bolted together to create an insulated, column free, air-conditioned space. The tectonics allows for an open floor plan while the dynamic silhouette of the space breaks the monotony, further contributing to a unique spatial experience for its occupants. Darwin Bucky redefines the practice of architecture as a product.
2box house, designed by DF Architects, combines structural and aesthetic elements to create a configuration that is dynamic and provides spaces of varying heights, dimensions, and energies. The brick wall runs tall on the eastern façade of the building, providing a needed balance to the massing while also creating a focal point for the main circulation areas in the house.
