P + S Estudio de Arquitectura explores processes of indeterminacy, uncertainty and spontaneous appropriation, applied to the practice of architecture and urban planning. The Studio’s approach involves a deep concern for detail, the physical understanding of the material, the cultural and vernacular character of the place, as well the complex dynamics of social behavior in urban and architectural spaces.
Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Cao Xanh House | HGAA. 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.
Lake House, designed by mf+arquitetos, brings very pure lines throughout its extension, a direct connection with nature and the views, authentic materials, brutality, and softness allowing the sensations to be fully felt and appreciated with the proximity of a lake. The Interior of the house has a welcoming composition of natural materials, wherein the furniture textures, such as leather and linen are in contrast with stone floors and walls, concrete ceiling, and wooden panels.
Art Sauna, designed by Mendoza Partida & BAX studio, has a built form that integrates with the journey of the visitor and the terrain, making it part of the landscape. The design of Art Sauna is subtle, intimate and domestic in scale, joins the site and blends in with the scenario of dialogue between art, nature and architecture, accommodating the sauna culture of Finland.
BAX studio is an international Barcelona-based practice that brings a reflective nature to architecture and centers its design process on finding, for each project, an idea that serves as a catalyst for solutions that are at once unique and effective.
Mendoza Partida is an international architecture practice based in Barcelona that uses experimentation, investigation and innovative solutions based on common sense and consistency to give their architecture a precise balance of geometry, material and emotion. The firm also focuses on questioning and interpreting a wide variety of contexts and situations, together with a constant search for new ways approaching architecture.
Shivangi Shah is founder of Hive Home, a light design studio based in Mumbai. Hive Home combines the authenticity of glass craft with innovative technologies and creative craftsmanship to offer bespoke lighting solutions in a manner that lighting design becomes an integral part of the overall design experience. Find an exclusive insight into the journey, working and trajectories of Hive Home presented in this article.
Long Goy, designed by Sher Maker, is a street fashion house that developed its form using a modern fashion sense, indicating courage to always experiment the new things for designing and creating. The entire building and internal spaces are made up of materials such as steel structures and glass openings that allow natural light to enter in a primary area of the building.
EDGE Suedkreuz, designed by Tchoban Voss Architekten, is a seven-story office complex consisting of two buildings, The Carré and The ‘Solitaire’ building, having a flexible modular plan on all levels and facade that can be adapted to individual requirements with an extensive deconstruction concept. The office areas as well as the associated ancillary and circulation areas are barrier-free, and all outdoor areas are also designed to be accessible.
Tchoban Voss Architekten design, is an architectural practice that offers architecturally and functionally sustainable solutions for a wide variety of building tasks in Germany and abroad. The firm’s focus includes the planning of hotels, commercial centres, office complexes and industrial facilities, leisure, educational and social facilities, as well as conservations and revitalisations in listed buildings.
Blue Bottle Zhang Yuan Cafe, designed by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office, is a primitive shelter, symbolizing a return to the origin of architecture, is erected in the center of the space, where the coffee is prepared and served and forms the visual and circulatory focal point of the project. The approach of Adaptive reuse features a selection of repurposed traditional old facades & furniture, on which the traces of time bestow a sense of warmth and familiarity, merging old and new interior architecture.
Casa Ayaka, designed by Taller 5 Arquitectos, is a residence having a volume of greater visual and aesthetic weight, which begins its speech and outline as an element providing shade in the main access, forming a container for the social area and private areas, with open space serves as a visual background finish. The application of concrete seeks to give a modular texture from strips of unbrushed wood, seeking to accentuate the authenticity of the material and enhance the minimalistic architectural language of the structure.
Brethren Church Christian Community Centre, designed by QARTA Architektura, contains spiritual programmes with leisure activities for children and adults with a garden pavilion, nooks and pergolas. Single story building mass, having a skylight as a source of the basilical illumination, is placed on the axis of the entrance and forms a characteristic element of the external and internal perception of the building.
Ground Floor Office, designed by Takayuki Kuzushima and Associates, creates an atmosphere where people can be divided softly like a cafe and naturally stopped like a park. The business area of the office comprises a palette of soil and concrete flooring, with curved folded iron plate tables and pressed flowers frame to give the end user a different experience.
Green mine in Khouribga, designed by AWM Architectes Urbanistes, is a media library anchored through an earth-colored corten steel base, accommodating two levitating white volumes symbolizing cultural elevation and knowledge. Designed volumes are animated by a few openings, drawing in calligraphy patterns that respond to the path of the sun by protecting the building from direct sunlight, while bringing diffused light from the North toward the primary areas.
AWM Architectes Urbanistes is a firm that is actively involved in various fields of intervention in architectural and urban planning. The firm stands out for its experience and desire to innovate in architectural projects, urban studies, programming, feasibility studies, analysis and control, costs, interior architecture and landscaping.
Thai CC Tower Park, designed by Studio NDT, is a garden that became a verdant focal point, providing a positive stimulation to the mind by functioning as a visual retreat for those who work or live nearby and commuters aboard the Skytrain. The minimalistic design approach of Feng Shui used for the shape of water was symbolized as raindrops on the surface of calm waters through Circular ripples, consisting of manicured shrubs, sculptural trees, and concrete curbs flowing throughout the garden.
Kalavoor House, designed by Poet Studio, is a Residence that reflects and reinterprets the resider’s values and memories of the ancestral home, celebrating and enhancing the key experiences while updating the home as a contemporary designed abode. The changing volumes in the spaces till the tiled roof, give a sense of lightness and a hint of the past, which is rendered in an earthy palette of exposed brick walls and wood application.
Palette of Earth Tones, or P.O.E.T studio, is an architectural practice in Kerala that celebrates the colours, textures and materials of nature. Poet studio expressed the design in the respect of its environment and its users, combining materials, styles and technology to create functional and aesthetic solutions.
House in Massís del Garraf, designed by Slow Studio, achieves a single-family shelter with zero energy consumption and a healthy interior environment through bioclimatic strategies. The spaces of this passive house are organised around a bioclimatic atrium, a central double-height space that accumulates heat from the south and that allows tempering of the rooms in the north zone and generates crossed ventilation for better climate comfort.
Lyon Part-Dieu, refurbished by MVRDV, rearranges existing internal programs, adds more space, replaces a redundant car park, inserts large windows, refreshes the characteristic old concrete façade, and adds an expansive rooftop park connected to the city by monumental stairs. The design also replicated the extensions, with a modern twist to reveal large windows, reinforcing the building’s openness, and creating a physical and symbolic gesture for Lyon Part-Dieu.
Office for Jainam Engicon Pvt. Ltd., designed by i-con Architects & Urban Planners, focuses on the innovative interior design approach with co-working spaces appealing to several delicate balancing acts for introverts and extroverts. The use of color schemes as a psychological effect in contemporary working spaces is a key concern for design solutions.
Reforma de vivienda en Gracia, restored by Parramon + Tahull arquitectes, focuses on bringing Natural light into all the spaces, including the bathroom. The design is an example of natural material usage and climate responsive built interior like water radiators in winter for cross ventilation and active cooling for the summer and in-between seasons.
Sacred Leaves Pavilion, designed by Atelier Daniel Florez, is a Timber and Bamboo structure that tries to create its own ecosystem through dialogue and respect for the existing environment. The pavilion is designed to be removable, transportable and recyclable in order to be committed to the principles of a circular economy.
